Latest articles by Scott McCrae
Minecraft is adding two new desert-based mobs in its next update: undead camels and even spookier skeletons that don't catch fire during the day
News But on the plus side, your mounts can swim now!
"A lot of companies" are interested in reviving Doom icon John Romero's new FPS that Microsoft reportedly pulled funding on: "If you move and start working with somebody else, they get $50 million for free"
News Even if it doesn't work out you have "assets that you can use to make another thing"
Nintendo icon Shigeru Miyamoto says the Mario series will still be around for its 100th anniversary "as long as we don’t forget" what the platformer is all about – "running and jumping"
News While Super Mario Bros. designer Takashi Tezuka is "always thinking" of how to keep the series fresh
Hideo Kojima says "no one ever told me" Konami turned down a Matrix game – but maybe there "could’ve been a way to make it work" despite Metal Gear Solid 2
News He was "surprised" to learn of the supposed potential Wachowski sisters collab
Amazon Games gutted amid 14,000 layoffs: work on first-party games and MMOs in particular scaled back, "casual and AI-focused games" a continued focus
News "We have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work"
If Metroid Prime 2 "is remade," series producer wants more people to play the GameCube classic's forgotten splitscreen multiplayer: "Retro finished the multiplayer mode without compromising on quality"
News "I’d be delighted for more people to have the chance to experience it"
Ex PlayStation lead was "a little concerned" when Naughty Dog first ditched Uncharted for The Last of Us: "We may be going too niche"
News Uncharted was "a summer blockbuster movie for a very broad audience"
OG Halo CE dev reacts to the remake's new sprint: "If you make a game mechanic optional you have abandoned your post, thrown up your hands and admitted you have no vision"
News "Changing a system is always a trade-off between positive and negative consequences"
Final Fantasy 7 Remake lead looked to "story-driven" PlayStation hits like God of War and The Last of Us to help shape the JRPG remake's first entry
News With The Witcher 3 inspiring the sequel's open-world
Rockstar isn't making Bully 2, so fans are taking matters into their own hands with a GTA Online-inspired mode with "minigames, free-roaming, and roleplay"
News And also a rat FPS
Battlefield 6 battle royale mode Redsec is real, totally free-to-play just like Warzone, and launching October 28: "Eyes up. Plates on"
News EA hasn't officially said "battle royale" but it matches almost every rumor about the upcoming battle royale mode perfectly
Hideo Kojima supposedly had "strong interest" in making a Matrix game adaptation after the Wachowskis asked him to, but Konami said "no"
News Kojima would have been working on Metal Gear Solid 2 at the time
Silksong voice actor behind Shakra says Team Cherry would give the same advice players shared: if something feels really hard, "maybe that's a sign" you should explore more
News Lauren Koopowitz hasn't played the Hollow Knight sequel yet, but says "don't be scared to play it"
Despite fears that Stop Killing Games' 1.4 million signatures were plagued by fakes, organizers "are confident we have surpassed the required thresholds"
News "Out of 1,448,270 signatures, 689,035 are already verified"
Duck-based extraction shooter Escape From Duckov was one of the biggest games on Steam over the weekend, beating the likes of Battlefield 6 thanks to a peak of 300,000 concurrent players
News Taking a quack at the big leagues
Pokemon Legends: Z-A beat Battlefield 6 to become the best-selling game in Europe last week, but it's still the smallest Pokemon RPG launch for 7 years
News The Nintendo Switch 2 Edition was the best-selling version in the UK
After Randy Pitchford had a game cancelled by EA, he was called by Gabe Newell out of nowhere to ask if he wanted to work on Half-Life: "I don't believe in manifestation - I believe in coincidence"
News Half-Life: Opposing Force would release nine months later
Nintendo Switch 2's game-key cards are "part of a larger trend that we can't avoid," Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says, as physical media is becoming "less and less part of the industry"
News "The user, the fans, the customers on Switch 2 very much value what's good about physical media. So, for that platform in particular, it's going to be an even slower change."
Borderlands boss Randy Pitchford says the games industry is "just getting started": "We haven't even had our Citizen Kane yet, let alone Jurassic Park or Star Wars. We're just figuring this s**t out"
News It definitely wasn't The Pre-Sequel, that's for sure
This is not a drill: the ghost of WarioWare returns in the form of this bizarre minigame free-for-all on Steam
News Buster Jam is nailing that unhinged aesthetic
Nintendo celebrates Mario's 40th anniversary not with a new 3D platformer for Switch 2, but a Thanksgiving Parade balloon one exec insists is "sure to have fans everywhere cheering 'Wahoo!'"
News Nice of the Macy's to invite us over for a parade, eh, Luigi?
MMO ends 19-year-wait for new skill with sailing finally washing ashore next month, expanding the Old School RuneScape map by 190%
News Buying Sea-f
Pokemon Legends: Z-A sells over 5.8 million copies in its first week, cementing the real-time RPG as a success even if it's still lagging behind Legends: Arceus
News Numbers only Square Enix could be disappointed with
