
Jordan Gerblick
After earning an English degree from ASU, I worked as a corporate copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. I got my big break here in 2019 with a freelance news gig, and I was hired on as GamesRadar's west coast Staff Writer in 2021. That means I'm responsible for managing the site's western regional executive branch, AKA my home office, and writing about whatever horror game I'm too afraid to finish.
Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick

Gearbox's Randy Pitchford says Borderlands "ushered in a whole new genre" of looter shooters, and imitators get it wrong when they "twist it too far," unlike Gearbox: "We tend to commit to the bit"
By Jordan Gerblick published
News "Borderlands is the borderland between a role-playing game and a shooter"

High on Life 2 release date set for February, but you can watch 42 minutes of gameplay right now
By Jordan Gerblick published
news Squanch Games' sequel is due out on Friday the 13th

The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin says he avoids Reddit unless it's to find a good bow for his Oblivion: Remastered archer, and honestly, hell yeah
By Jordan Gerblick published
news I'm even more excited for The Last of Us season 3 now

Dead Space creator says the devs put posters in EA toilets to fight for funding and get exec attention: "Whenever they went to the bathroom, they were seeing Dead Space"
By Jordan Gerblick published
news "That's about as indie as you can get inside a giant company, having to fight for your dollars"

Hades meets Wind Waker action-RPG sequel Moonlighter 2 gets October early access release date
By Jordan Gerblick published
news Moonlighter 2: The Endless Dungeon was originally due to release this summer on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is gracing Nintendo Switch 2 with its presence next year
By Jordan Gerblick published
News The best Indy game ever is going mobile

Jurassic World Evolution 3 is adding hot air balloons, and I can't imagine a worse place to be when my pteranodons break containment
By Jordan Gerblick last updated
news A kayak would be a pretty bad place to be too

Marvel Rivals devs are allowed to make their own original characters, NetEase threatens: "Stay tuned"
By Jordan Gerblick published
News Are there not enough Marvel characters already?

Capcom has good news and bad news: it's aware Monster Hunter Wilds kinda sucks on PC and has "a multifaceted plan" to fix it with CPU and GPU optimizations, but it's targeting "this winter"
By Jordan Gerblick published
News But, but winter is months away

Valve founder Gabe Newell is doing billionaire things again with the $300 million purchase of a ship the size of an NFL football field designed to explore the deepest parts of the ocean
By Jordan Gerblick published
News Gabe Newell's Inkfish has added the RV6000 to its fleet

After 16 years, Jason Voorhees' official comeback is either a soulless hard cider commercial or the setup for the goriest, most experimental Friday the 13th to date, and I can't decide which it is
By Jordan Gerblick published
feature Opinion | Sweet Revenge resurrects Friday the 13th in all but name, but I'm conflicted on whether that's a good thing

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"
By Jordan Gerblick published
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"
By Jordan Gerblick published
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
By Jordan Gerblick published
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
By Jordan Gerblick published
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
By Jordan Gerblick published
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
By Jordan Gerblick last updated
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
By Jordan Gerblick published
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
By Jordan Gerblick published
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
By Jordan Gerblick published
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
By Jordan Gerblick published
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"
By Jordan Gerblick published
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
By Jordan Gerblick published
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"
By Jordan Gerblick published
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"
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