Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick
"We're all still hungover": Ghost of Yotei director says the GTA 6 delay prompted Sucker Punch to party like rockstars - "That was a great day"
News No one likes releasing around GTA 6
Nintendo legend Satoru Iwata "burst out in laughter" when he heard Animal Crossing would be translated to English: "I don't know how you're going to do this"
news Former Nintendo of America localization manager Leslie Swan admits, "it's true, just everything in that game was so specific to Japan"
No one knows how Cyberpunk 2 is going to go after Cyberpunk 2077's ending, but Keanu Reeves wants to be part of it: "I'd love to play Johnny Silverhand again"
news A famous Jurassic Park quote about could vs. should comes to mind
Ex-Nintendo developer says the company doesn't make new IP often because "there's no real need" when it's more "about creating a new way to play" instead of fussing over "the skin or wrapper"
news Ken Watanabe (not that one) says "they just pick whatever fits that new gameplay best"
REPO devs "want to be a bit more secretive" with the next big update, threatening to unleash a load of new monsters at once: "Some will be there to make your life a living hell"
News "We are focusing on quality before quantity"
Yet another JRPG behemoth is making me confront my mortality as Octopath Traveler 0 reveals 100-hour main story with 30-40% new content compared to the prequel it's remaking
News Here we go again
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare director came up with Private Military Companies because he wanted to stop making real-life countries the enemy for his own security: "I don't want to have this problem anymore"
news "I'm like, 'Do you know who the enemies are in Modern Warfare 3?'"
Eric Barone says he wants to "take a more 'creative director' role" on Stardew Valley 1.7 so that he can "focus the vast majority" of his attention on Haunted Chocolatier, but he'll eventually have to spend more time on his "1st game"
News "I need my hand to touch every piece of new content"
Rematch crossplay is delayed after devs found "a major matchmaking issue" during its "final tests" before Patch 3's launch
News "Since Crossplay is the heart of Patch 3, we've decided to delay the release while we fix it"
Elder Scrolls Online steals Halo: The Master Chief Collection's crown as the Xbox game with the highest obtainable Gamerscore thanks to the MMO's Feast of Shadows DLC
News ESO has two new achievements, pushing it past Halo: MCC as Gamerscore king
Helldivers 2 players are getting rocked by Hive Lords, but grunts are begging for Arrowhead not to nerf them: "The game was lacking a fear element"
News Freedom fighting ain't supposed to be easy
Gearbox's Randy Pitchford says everyone expects Nintendo to do something "really interesting," and sometimes you get "brilliant" things like the Wii and Switch 2, and other times you get the Wii U, which "didn't work as well"
news This is objectively true, and I also don't like it at all
Marvel Rivals season 4 launches in September with Angela, Daredevil, and a PS4 release
News This Marvel Rivals: The Heart of the Dragon trailer goes unreasonably hard
Blizzard wakes up and chooses fun: the "wacky and crazy" powers of past Diablo 4 seasons could come back as "permanent" features
News Now we're talkin'
"Mario Kart World won't have any influence" on Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, but like everyone else, Sega was "somewhat expecting a new Mario Kart to be released soon" even before its reveal
News Sonic series producer Takashi Iizuka says the Sonic Racing team was "surprised" by Mario Kart World, but also kind of not
Final Fantasy Tactics remaster makes Cloud easier to use, Square Enix promises, and even gives him the Materia Blade right off the bat, so you'll want to see the secret hiding where it was in the original RPG
News Director Kazutoyo Maehiro admits "he was pretty difficult to utilize as a character" in the original strategy RPG
Borderlands 4 endgame and post-launch roadmap revealed: You can start new characters at level 30 after beating the campaign, there are weekly challenges, and the first story pack is "cosmic horror" with "a bloodier, darker tone"
news The first few months of post-launch Borderlands 4 updates include a revamped Ultimate Vault Hunter mode, "Weekly Wildcard" missions, and much more
This Final Fantasy Tactics-inspired indie strategy RPG with anime fish and lizard people was fully funded on Kickstarter in less than a week, and after that banger of an elevator pitch, are we even surprised?
news Beaten Path looks like Final Fantasy Tactics but just extremely anime
The Sims 4's colorful competitor Paralives lets you be a passive aggressive king and give backhanded compliments or just straight up diss characters for being bad cooks or because "they have a lower paying job than you"
News Paralives' Together cards have "variants" that let you give "flirty" or "ironic" compliments
EA says "a substantial number" of Battlefield 6 beta players were running the FPS on PCs that didn't meet the minimum specs
News Suddenly my old RX 580 rig doesn't seem quite so dusty
Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Jennifer English says she's appeared in "sh*t games," too - but they're not on her CV, so good luck finding them
news It's not all Shadowhearts and Latennas for Jennifer English
The internet bullied Blizzard into reversing an Overwatch 2 change 72 hours after it released, but the studio says it's "still invested in creating new and unique features"
News Mirror matchups are back in Stadium after a massive backlash to removing them
Bloober dev says Cronos: The New Dawn is a "treat" with Resident Evil-style action and, screw it, cats as the team moves past Silent Hill 2: "No more James Sunderland, running around the place with his wooden plank"
News "What do you want? What do you like? Someone said cats? Okay, let's do cats"
Hideo Kojima only plays "maybe one game a year" because "games take a lot of time" and "what's happening outside the game world is more important to me to incorporate into my game"
news The Death Stranding 2 director says "young people are playing games a lot, and that's good," but they should also try "to feel art or see art and then digest it themselves and create new games"
