Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick
Silent Hill f's lead actor can't catch a break: As Konami announces new "casual mode," fans are naming it after Hinako's VO after she went viral for streaming the game in terror
News "Kato Kona mode is here!!!"
The new Steam Controller "puck" adapter was internally called "the chongle," says Valve employee: "I'm leaking that information come get me"
news I want to start a petition to change it back
PUBG and Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton, now an "AI first" company, asks devs to fire themselves in voluntary resignation program if they can't roll with "the era of AI transformation"
News Krafton seemingly gunning for the most hated game publisher crown
Valve wants Steam Deck 2 to "truly be a next-gen performance" machine: "We're not interested in getting to a point where it's 20 or 30 or even 50% more performance"
news "The thing we're making sure of is that it's a worthwhile enough performance upgrade to make sense as a standalone product"
New Baldur's Gate 3 mod restores some very cute dialogue between Withers and a spunky Tiefling child, and I'm gonna need Larian to tell my why it was cut
News "I'm calling you 'Bone Man'"
"We would rather cut off our own arms": Indie devs react to Arc Raiders CEO saying people should assume everyone's using generative AI these days
News "We don't use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a lot of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA."
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs want to "establish ourselves as the new kings of RPG," and the studio's future "will definitely be immersive RPGs"
News "We believe that we have our own formula here"
REPO dev semiwork is going dark for a little bit after a "crazy" October leading up to the big monster update: "We'll be back very, very soon"
News "My brain is a bit mushy"
Nintendo announces Super Mario Galaxy Movie Nintendo Direct where we'll see the sequel's first trailer
News The first Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer premieres on Wednesday
Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined aims to fix one of the only things I don't like about the original JRPG: "The amount of time it takes to get to the first battle in the game is much shorter"
News Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined shoots ever higher up my list of most anticipated games for 2026
Arc Raiders hits 700,000 peak concurrent players on all platforms, proving console players are also very much into this massively successful extraction shooter
News Right about 460,000 of those players were on Steam
25 years later, the original $36,000 Xbox prototype that was shaped like an actual X has been rebuilt, and it's fully functioning
This may be the coolest thing I've ever seen
"It's so hard to balance a game for 14 million players ok": Peak devs ask for mercy after overpowered zombies rip players apart
News "Seriously some people got so mad"
Borderlands 4's launch "was a bit softer than we would've liked" partly because of PC performance issues, Take-Two CEO says, but "we're immensely proud of Gearbox" anyway
News "While we experienced some challenges with optimization of performance on PC, Gearbox has been addressing these issues"
Don't sweat the GTA 6 delay, Take-Two CEO says GTA 5 is "still the most technologically advanced title in the marketplace" after 12 years
News "GTA 5 has been the standard-bearer, not just for the company but for the industry, for three console generations now"
"I counted every box in Baldur's Gate 3": The real Baldur's Gate 3 completionist is the person who dug through the RPG's code to find every last crate, chest, and barrel
News "If a player could encounter a box under some set of conditions, I'm counting it"
Kingdom Hearts 4 hopium is in overdrive thanks to a single image of Sora's voice actor in the studio: "YALL IS IT TIME??? IS IT FINALLY TIME????"
news Haley Joel Osment is recording... something
Lord of the Rings superfan recreates Frodo's trek to Mount Doom in the world-accurate official MMO, and you can watch the whole journey in an Andy Serkis-narrated video that's as long as all 3 films combined
news "Lord of the Rings Online is the closest one can get to experiencing Tolkien's realm the way countless works of art, games, music and entertainment have attempted over the past half-century"
GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union"
News Rockstar has been accused of union busting, but the company says the fired employees were "distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum"
After trying live service with the canceled Last of Us 2 Factions, Naughty Dog commits to making more "story-driven, character-based games"
news "That is the core of our craft, is authenticity"
Bungie had an unspoken rule for Halo cinematics: "Never make the player in the cinematic feel more 'badass' than the actual game"
news A pair of ex-Halo designers are reminiscing on the series' golden years
The best JRPGs to play in 2025
Best List From Metaphor: ReFantazio to Dragon Quest 11, these are the best JRPGs you can play today
Minecraft surprise drops a full-blown Dragon Ball Z fighting game with 1v1, 5v5, and co-op modes, voxelized Goku and buff Bulma, and skins for the main game
News Minecraft's Dragon Ball Z DLC is out now
Toby Fox is letting friends try out early versions of Deltarune chapter 5, and they sound pretty jazzed: "I am still thinking about it a lot and want to play it more"
News "It's kawaii when toby is worried about if it's good enough"
Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined makes the original JRPG's choices actually matter with a brand new possible ending "that's never been seen before in previous iterations"
News "Even players who have played previous versions of Dragon Quest VII, they'll still get to have this fresh narrative experience with Reimagined"
