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The Outer Worlds 2 director's stance on AI is that "Obsidian should never outsource the things that it's amazing at," like the famed RPG dev's knack for good writing
News "You don't outsource the things you're good at to AI."
Assassin's Creed Shadows lead says microtransactions pay for free updates: "It allows us to do the Isu stuff, the quest stuff, the parkour updates"
News Including the Attack on Titan crossover the internet's been clowning on
Anticipation for GTA 6 isn't enough to overshadow Rockstar Games' alleged union-busting scandal as a Scottish councillor calls for political action
News And the reinstatement of the 31 Rockstar developers
After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'"
News The rest is history
New Assassin's Creed Shadows update includes a big Odyssey Easter egg and the devs have an entire Kassandra-focused story under wraps: "We might reveal it at some point"
News "And this is not the last Isu content there will be in Assassin's Creed Shadows"
Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto redesigned Master Chief 9 times before perfecting the Xbox mascot: "It took forever, but I wasn't going to stop"
News Before landing on the design that made it into Halo: Combat Evolved
Assassin's Creed Shadows director says the RPG won't get another expansion as big as Claws of Awaji, but Ubisoft is still working on "chunkier updates" for Year 2
News "We're still working on content for post-launch and supporting it"
The Witcher 4 Ciri actor "is going to do a great job," according to Geralt actor Doug Cockle who says he has no notes for the RPG's new star
News Cockle isn't worried about Ciri's actor taking over as the star of the RPG series
Silksong devs say "it's very difficult to preserve mystery these days," and Zelda 2-era inspirations pushed them toward a world you can explore "divorced from the internet"
News Team Cherry devs grew up playing games in a pre-internet era
Former Rockstar and GTA lead Dan Houser says gaming can "either go somewhere really interesting or somewhere that gets overly focused on making money"
News "I think there's always that danger with any commercial art form"
Pocketpair dates Palworld's second collab, this time with hugely-acclaimed FPS Ultrakill, and again teases a Legendary Pal first shown off years ago for 1.0
News Coming next month
Bethesda returned to its 2006 RPG with Oblivion Remastered after deciding "what to modernize and what not to modernize," and it just "makes sense"
News "It speaks to the the sticking power of how that game is built," says Bethesda's studio director
Before Banjo-Kazooie's mascot was a bear and after he was a human, the N64 icon was actually a rabbit, according to a former Rare developer
News "We went from a boy to a rabbit for about a week"
Hollow Knight devs highlight a big difference between their sequel and most Metroidvanias: "The player's choice about where to go in Silksong is not dictated by what power-ups you currently have"
News "It's a specific kind of lock-and-key type of progression"
"If you're trying to send people to Mars, you're going to crash a bunch of rockets. We crashed a bunch of rockets": Arc Raiders devs explain how failed ideas led to one of 2025's biggest hits
News Embark Studios scrapped a lot of ideas to find the fun
After Oblivion Remastered and Hi-Fi Rush, Bethesda Game Studios director wants more shadowdrops because "we all have short attention spans now"
News "Todd Howard, the boss man, he's wanted to shadowdrop things for a long time"
Arrowhead's next game "won't be something that's too far off from" Helldivers 2, creative lead says: "We're looking to continue the legacy of what we've created"
News Johan Pilestedt wants fans to "recognize the DNA" of what came before in the studio's next game
PUBG: Black Budget is cashing in on the Arc Raiders and Escape from Tarkov extraction shooter hype, this time with a battle royale-style shrinking map
News Krafton's holding a Closed Alpha playtest next month
New card-based Vampire Survivors game is "hopefully the first in a series of spinoffs," but the roguelike's dev is also "working on something" related to a proper sequel
News "The idea is to take some of the core pillars behind the development of [Vampire Survivors] and to apply them to existing genres"
Vampire Survivors studio reveals a roguelike deckbuilder spin-off threatening all my free time in 2026: "We're milking this bunch of pixels like there's no tomorrow"
News Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors is scaring me
"I'm not going to recoup what I put into this for a long time," says returning Hytale owner, who previously said he'd offered Riot 10x what the dead Minecraft-inspired game is worth
News Simon Collins-Laflamme says fans are "underestimating" how much he put into reviving the sandbox game
Asked about a $500 Steam Machine, Valve apparently wasn't impressed: "The energy in the room wasn't great"
News The GabeCube might be "priced like a PC rather than like a console"
PUBG creator's brutal new survival game surprise drops into Steam Early Access with a roadmap promising "expanded construction," cooking, and equipment degradation
News PlayerUnknown Production's next step toward Project Artemis
