Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick
Assassin's Creed 3 director says Ubisoft put "a lot of pressure" on devs to "add play time" and "bulk" out games with RPG elements "to delay resale as GameStop was the only one making any money on that transaction"
news "The cheapest and most effective way to bulk it out was to add RPG elements"
Ubisoft vets releasing free demo for Metroidvania couch co-op Revenge of the Savage Planet because "we know that money is tight," and they hope you'll say "this 4 years of effort and 30 people" that made the full game "is worth 2 lattes"
news There's also a performance mode and photo mode coming very soon
Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us 2 dev's new Japan-based studio aims to make a multiplayer game with Naughty Dog-level cinematic action and a Breaking Bad-style story, and it's already playable
news Former Naughty Dog game director Vinit Agarwal was inspired by FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki
These indie devs gave their co-op roguelite away for free for 24 hours – 2 million people claimed it, and now it's relaunched at $5 with the backing of the Deep Rock Galactic studio
news Guntouchables studio Game Swing says the game's launch "has blown all our expectations for getting the game off the ground"
They'll do anything but make Titanfall 3: Respawn adds wall-running to Apex Legends for its next limited time event
News Apex Legends' new Wildcard mode gets a touch of Titanfall
Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says his new dating sim character sounded too much like his iconic vampire voice, so he had to base his performance on a fictional sex symbol from an '80s British sitcom instead
News "We wanted to make sure that he wasn't going to fall into the Astarion trope too much"
Battlefield 6 dev says the beta's small maps are "to make sure we hit the full-octane version of Battlefield on the head" and, don't worry, "large maps exist" too
news Battlefield Studios wanted to make sure we could all see it "can handle that too"
Welp, another JRPG is coming to devour my whole entire life as Trails in the Sky remake dev says you'll need about 80 hours to beat the game – twice as much as the original game
news Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter should take about 80 hours to clear
Astarion actor Neil Newbon says method acting makes it hard to shake off characters after playing them, and still laughs a little like the Baldur's Gate 3 Vampire to this day
News "You do get a bit of a come down where you're trying to shake the character off"
We get a lot of cozy life sims, but not many of them crack Steam's top 20 best-sellers in 4 days with 95% positive reviews, and thank goodness this adorable bookshop management sim has nothing to do with a farm
news Tiny Bookshop is a big hit
The Subnautica 2 drama intensifies as Krafton accuses former Unknown Worlds leadership of pushing to release an unfinished game and secretly downloading "massive amounts of confidential information"
News Krafton says it invested $500 million "in the success of not only Subnautica 2, but also Subnautica 3, Subnautica 4, and any other future Subnautica franchise product"
Mass Effect 5 devs should use Dragon Age: The Veilguard as a "scapegoat" so they can "get what they need" from EA, says former BioWare exec
News "'We should steer away from some of these things, because look what happened'"
"We are looking over our shoulders. We are running scared": Take-Two CEO says the GTA publisher's success isn't guaranteed and "we need to innovate to make sure we continue to be a leader"
News "We know that in the next two, three, five, ten years… there is going to be an array of big new titles, and maybe even some new formats"
Take Two boss says Borderlands 4 is $70 instead of $80 because "we want to put out the best entertainment on Earth and we want to deliver more value than what we charge for"
News "I think our approach may be a little bit different"
30 years later, Doom-era FPS cult classics Heretic and Hexen get "definitive re-release" on PC and consoles complete with 2 new episodes from id and retro powerhouse Nightdive
news Heretic + Hexen is available now on Steam, PlayStation, Switch, and Xbox
Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says he "physically, mentally just shut down" while working on the RPG and "other projects simultaneously" – "I don't know what you're asking me to do"
News "We were doing crazy hours. Not abusive hours at all, we were all up for it, but it was very long hours"
Mass Effect veteran says open-world bot flop Anthem gained momentum within EA because the pitch was "what if BioWare game but it could do FIFA numbers?"
news It all makes sense now
New Warner Bros. Humble game bundle has some good superhero games, some not as good superhero games, and one of the best action horror games ever made - all for $12
news Despite being a mixed bag in terms of quality, there's no denying this is a steal
Resident Evil 1 devs were so insistent on having action mechanics like charged attacks and sidesteps that director Shinji Mikami let them do a test run, but it just made killing zombies look silly and not scary
news "The theme of this game is fear"
"It isn't Destiny. It isn't Borderlands. It isn't Mass Effect": Ex BioWare lead says Anthem's vision for "the future of storytelling" struggled to come together because it had "no one really clearly saying what it is"
news Mark Darrah opens up about why Anthem failed in a new YouTube video
Battlefield 6 recoil emerges as the FPS' first big hullabaloo thanks to a "zero recoil" gun that, according to pew pew nerds, is actually just super realistic
News The KTS100 LMG is apparently based on the real-life Ultimax-100
It's not Portal 3 but this fan-made dating sim with enough of Valve's approval for a Steam launch might be as close as it gets, and its solo dev says it's canon: "There's nothing you can do about it"
news Aperture Dating Simulator "will introduce you to a new Aperture - one that seems a lot more... normal than the original. At first"
Skyblivion is giving us a whole city that was cut from Oblivion 19 years ago and shaking up my least favorite part of the original RPG with a new Elder Scrolls Online-inspired landscape
News Fort Hutch was originally a whole city, and soon it will be in the fan-made Oblivion remake
