Latest articles by Scott McCrae
Destiny 2 devs are "confident the servers won't crash" for its final update
News "We MUST crash the servers. One last time"
Donkey Kong 64 is finally coming to Nintendo Switch Online
News They're finally here, performing for you
Generative AI finally sends Hideo Kojima into space in new short film with Death Stranding partner Nicolas Winding Refn
News I'm afraid my goat might be washed
Dragon Quest 12 Beyond Dreams announced, replacing the previous version of the JRPG as Square Enix hits the reset button
News The Flames of Fate no more
An infamously useless Dragon Quest weapon owes its existence to a Famicom limitation, according to the series creator
News It's name contradicts its weakness, but you can thank the lack of Kanji for that
As Pokemon Winds and Waves prepares to launch next year, the whole game series has now sold over 500 million copies
News That's 26 million within the last year
Red Dead Online wasn't a "missed opportunity," Take-Two CEO insists
News "If we didn't have Grand Theft Auto here at our company, then people would just talk about the fact that we have this massive franchise in Red Dead"
007 First Light's Metacritic score might make the James Bond romp IO Interactive's highest-rated game yet
News Second best-Bond is good too, though
Persona 4 Revival and Ace Combat 8 may appear at Summer Game Fest and beyond as a ratings surface
News There's also Lego version of Cities: Skylines, which is such a perfect fit I'm shocked it doesn't already exist
Metal Gear Solid 4's Master Collection gets an impressive new showing, confirming that Solid Snake still loves his iPod
News You can still sneak about to Snatcher music
Final Fantasy Tactics beat Pokemon when the Mewgenics creators were trying to figure out its combat
News "I was still pitching it to Tommy before I left. I was trying to wrap it in a genre that I thought he would be excited about."
Zelda boss Eiji Aonuma was so impressed with Resident Evil 4 that he thought "I should have done it myself"
News "I think I can learn quite a lot from RE4."
Zelda boss became part of the series because Miyamoto saw him making his own Zelda-like SNES game
News Aonuma would debut in the series as a director on Ocarina of Time
Nier and Devil May Cry leads say "a lot of Korean developers are ahead of Japan"
News "I look forward to seeing more kindred spirits like that emerging from Korea in the years to come"
Former Nintendo of America president admits NES and SNES classics were made "to sustain our business"
News Star Fox Zero wasn't putting butts in seats apparently
Eiji Aonuma believed it was his "fault" that The Wind Waker wasn't as meaty as other Zelda games
News "Originally we were thinking about something bigger"
Devil May Cry and Bayonetta creator says he'd rather have a game cancelled than release "something subpar"
News "I never have many negative feelings about projects being cancelled partway through."
Former Dying Light lead knew Techland devs were "not afraid to do things differently" thanks to the jump button
News Hardcore parkour
Metal Gear Solid 3 cutscenes have been busted for 15 years – but the modder who noticed fixed it
News "10% higher than PS2's framing"
Forza Horizon 6 pokes Nintendo's Pokemon lawyers with a nod to "that Japanese collecting game we're not allowed to name"
News It looks like Pokemon, but due to international copyright laws, it's not
Assassin's Creed: Black Flag star thought he was auditioning for a "pirate TV show," not Ubisoft's action gem
News "They asked me for a callback, and then they leveled with me. They were like, listen: this is a videogame."
Steam canonizes the Vampire Survivors subgenre that’s spawned a million clones
News And Valve has added a Capybaras tag, more importantly
Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight's Metacritic score makes it the best-rated Lego game ever
News Before that, Lego Star Wars 2 held onto it for 16 years
