Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick
PS5 exclusives: Every game released and confirmed so far
Feature Every PS5-only game you can (or will be able to) play on Sony's latest console
Former Sony exec says Nintendo can charge $80 for Switch 2 games because of its exclusives: "If it's the only place you can play Mario, then you get your wallet out"
News "And Donkey Kong and Zelda"
"I'm not sure where Diablo is going": Former Blizzard boss says Diablo 4 seasons "need to get off the cycle of shipping, spending 2 months to fix issues, then repeating"
News "Playing for a week to then 1 or 3 shot an 'uber' boss 500 times for a unique, then quitting until next season is fundamentally not fun"
"LocalThunk is really rich now": 2 weeks after winning yet another GOTY award, Balatro sends Final Fantasy 16 star to accept award in "suspiciously arousing" Jimbo attire
News "This is weird isn't it?"
Wildly successful Balatro publisher says more indie devs need funding "that isn't based on making a ridiculous amount of money back"
News Balatro recently crossed 5 million units sold
"This isn't Ubisoft": Former Nintendo PR managers say the company's mantra of "respect the value" is why Switch games "don't go on sale"
news "You're paying a Nintendo mark-up"
Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser says FromSoftware's The Duskbloods is evidence of Hidetaka Miyazaki's faith in the Switch 2 hardware
News The Switch 2-exclusive Duskbloods is Miyazaki's next game
Former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida gives the Switch 2 Direct a 7/10, and he says it would be even lower if FromSoftware didn't show up with The Duskbloods
News "I wanted to see more new game announcements"
Microsoft's AI-powered Quake 2 demo makes me sick, not just because it's wrong on every level, but because I literally felt queasy playing it
news If this is "a glimpse into next-generation AI gaming experiences," I'd hate to see the whole thing
Amid Nintendo Switch 2's $80 games controversy, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director reminds devs "you do not have to price anything according to retail norms"
news "It's a very liberating thing not having to worry about a shelf, and instead worrying about an audience you can very easily speak to"
Switch 2 is getting an even more co-op-focused spinoff of a massively popular survival space sim, but it's not replacing the original: "Astroneer will continue to live on"
news Starseeker is coming to Switch 2, Playstation, Xbox, and PC in 2026
Forget $80 games, this $10 indie RPG is being hailed as "one of the best if not the best" cosmic horror games ever, and thank Cthulhu, it only takes "10-12 hours" to beat
news Look Outside tackles cosmic horror, JRPG-style combat, and Undertale-style humor, and its 98% positive Steam reviews are calling it one of the best of all of those genres
31 years after working on the original System Shock, Arkane founder gave up on the 2023 remake because it was "too hard"
news "I got stuck in the cyberspace"
"I can promise my game will be significantly less than $80": Indie dev stunned by Kirby Air Riders Switch 2 reveal after working on their own Air Ride successor for months
news That is very unfortunate timing
Mario Kart World quietly fixes one of the series' longest-standing annoyances and I suspect I will get hit with 10% fewer red turtle shells because of it
news No more accidentally letting go of your back protection
Switch 2 analyst says the $450 price tag is "relatively reasonable" compared to the $700 PS5 Pro and $550 portable PCs
News Not to mention $2000 graphics cards
Mario Kart World gameplay showcase proves the rail-grinding mechanic is more than just a slick Tony Hawk-style gimmick: "It opens up so many possibilities"
News "You can do something different every time"
Elden Ring on Switch 2 is officially called Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition, and it comes with new weapons, armor, and horse armor (kinda)
News Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is coming to Switch 2 this year
Nintendo says the Switch 2 "isn't simply an improved Nintendo Switch, we redesigned the system from the ground up," and after 8 years, I'd sure hope so
News The Switch 2 is packed with "lots of new gameplay features"
Japan's "multi-language" Switch 2 costs 20,000 more yen, or $130 more dollars, than the Japanese-only version
news Foreigners living in Japan who want a Switch 2 in their own language will have to pay
Nintendo admits "there were times when we wished the Switch system's processor was faster" so that "developers could make any kind of game they wanted"
News The OG Switch's limited hardware sometimes meant Nintendo couldn't "provide new and unprecedented gameplay experiences"
Switch 2 will return to the golden days of the N64 with Nintendo’s first new James Bond game in over a decade
News Project 007 looks promising
The Nintendo Switch 2 era could be bittersweet, as former staff point out that 40-year veterans like Shigeru Miyamoto and Zelda and Metroid legends are nearing their retirements
news "It may not mean that the games are going to be bad, it's just going to feel different"
"Games that get 19% user score do not generally recover": Helldivers 2 CEO reflects on Arrowhead's "summer of pain" and No Man's Sky-inspired redemption arc
News Helldivers 2 was at such a low point that Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani had to tell PlayStation boss Hermen Hulst "there is nothing we can do in the short term"
