Latest articles by Scott McCrae
Nintendo confirms Kirby Air Riders is out in November, and it's only $70, leaving no question which Switch 2 racer is better
News Also City Trial is back for those of you cool enough to realize how monumental that is
Mashiro Sakurai says he's making Kirby Air Riders because, well, Nintendo asked him to while he was working on Smash Bros. DLC, ending speculation it was his own doing
News "You might be wondering why I ended up creating a new Kirby Air Ride game"
Battlefield 6 dataminers uncover launch map that's nearly four times larger than Siege of Cairo, days after beta players kept clowning on Dice for saying "large maps exist"
News Oh ye of little faith
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet may be getting replaced in VGC tournaments, but the notoriously buggy RPGs had one last, hilarious glitch left for their final World Championships
News How very The Wrestler (2008) of it
Nintendo confirms a Kirby Air Riders Nintendo Direct is coming tomorrow and it's going to have 45 minutes of new info on the Switch 2 racer
News It better show off a new City Tour mode
Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto spent an entire New Super Mario Bros. Wii test demo just sliding around with the Penguin power-up, former Nintendo marketing leads recall: "That's all he was doing"
News "He definitely experiences games in a much different way"
EA reportedly has big plans beyond Battlefield 6, wants to take on Call of Duty with a yearly release but it'll be "five or six years before we get two-in-a-row"
News "Their goal is; three studios making Battlefield on a three-year basis"
As cult classic GameCube release Chibi-Robo finally makes its way to Switch 2, co-director says he made the platformer "while imagining a 'Zelda but without the battles'"
News And you'll finally be able to play it officially without spending a ridiculous amount on a second-hand copy
Metal Gear Solid Snake actor says "there's no way" Konami can replicate Hideo Kojima's style, but don't write off another series entry yet: "Will it be the same? No; Could it be amazing? Sure"
News "When I was a kid, I loved Tim Burton's Batman, and was like, 'that's how Batman should be done.' And then Chris Nolan does Batman, and you're like, 'Oh, that's pretty badass as well.'"
Metal Gear Solid Delta producer views the remake as "both" a companion and a replacement to the OG Snake Eater, but Konami "would like to leave that decision up to the players themselves"
News Snake actor David Hayter says "I just think it's a different, upgraded version"
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 release date reportedly leaks, and it looks like the FPS is the latest to escape Microsoft's $80 price hike
News Activision is also seemingly sticking to its word to skip the Switch 2 at launch
Kirby Air Riders is still slated for 2025 on Switch 2 despite no gameplay footage, but game director Masahiro Sakurai says we'll probably see some "soon"
News I'm still not 100% convinced it's making its 2025 release date
Metal Gear Solid's OG Snake voice actor finally told himself to "stop being a baby" and play The Phantom Pain after he was recast, and now thinks it has "my favorite gameplay of the series"
News "Far as I'm concerned, all is forgiven"
After 2 years, Diablo 4 fans might finally be getting the Paladin class they've been asking for since launch
News It's Palad-in the game
Steam dropping PayPal support for all but 6 currencies is "related" to pressure from banks and card companies to remove NSFW games, Valve confirms as censorship controversy continues
News "We hope to offer PayPal as an option for these currencies in the future but the timeline is uncertain"
Ever fancied eating one of Death Stranding 2's fleshy blobs? PlayStation says go wild, here's a recipe
News You can make your own Cryptobiote
Konami confirms that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's online Fox Hunt mode won't support cross-play
News The Metal Gear Online diehard in me sheds a tear for the inevitable server drought
Borderlands 4 laughs in the face of Borderlands 3's 1 billion guns as Gearbox says there's 30 billion this time, which the devs kept track of using a Matrix-style "wall" of weapons
News Don't get too attached
Minecraft fans are convinced that Mojang has accidentally leaked its next Live event date, but don't get your hopes up – it looks like it might actually be the remains of an old typo
News Hopefully they add the Inspector Gadget collab
Ubisoft explains why Assassin's Creed Shadows ditched social stealth, but says it's likely not gone for good: "Our stealth team chose to put 100% of their energy on the moment-to-moment tactical shinobi experience"
News Smile and wave boys
"Many people are making games for money, but we make money for games": CEO says all the studio's releases were stepping stones to the "end goal" of its big kung fu action RPG
News "we put all of our money from the mobile games into Phantom Blade Zero"
We could've gotten a Banjo Kazooie cartoon in the '00s, but Xbox was breaking fans' hearts even then: "Microsoft did not see this as something that they wanted to invest in"
News At 4Kids, "The loss of the Pokémon franchise left a huge hole, and so began an initiative to develop new shows"
Viral co-op climbing game Peak gets hit with a wave of rip-offs on PS5, but this isn't the devs' first rodeo as they've been "reporting a bunch" of "AI slop things for the past year"
News Ironically, the peak of console store quality control
