Latest articles by Scott McCrae
"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
Viral co-op game of the moment hits a new all-time high on Steam after Peak update finally adds second biome to the "stupid jam game"
News There's a new peak to conquer
Marvel Rivals creative director admits there are too many DPS characters, says the team is "gradually working to solve it"
News It'll take a while though, as "the heroes we are currently deciding on are for a release slot next year"
Mario Kart 64 just got an unofficial Dreamcast port in the year of our lord 2025, which somehow feels like perfect timing after Mario Kart World
News The Dreamcast comeback is on the way, I can feel it.
Mario Kart World banana snipers beware: that MKTV helicopter watching you race can apparently obliterate your chances at winning
News Collusion at its worst
Doom designer John Romero could have been "System Shock designer John Romero," but the FPS legend got the offer to set up id Software "the week before" another offer to set up what would become Looking Glass
News He did later work with LookingGlass dev Warren Spector at Ion Storm
Hideo Kojima initially had other ideas for Death Stranding 2's peculiar mannequin Charlie, including making them an invisible man, glowing silhouette, or "a 2D anime-style figure"
News "While he has a somewhat inorganic feel, I still wanted to give him emotional depth as a character"
Hideo Kojima is making his Metal Gear spiritual successor Physint "all by myself" while Kojima Productions is busy on OD
News Physint is still "another five or six years" away according to Kojima
Battlefield 6 isn't filling servers with bots after all: during the open beta, "AI soldiers" will only appear in training grounds playlists
News Now you're thinking with portals
Battlefield 6's beta has only been running for a day, but it's already suffering from a FPS curse with cheaters breaking out the wallhacks
News Wallhack bot is the most decorated FPS player of all time at this rate
Mafia: The Old Country debuts to the second-best reviews in the series, but has been beaten in Steam player count by a version of every past entry so far
News Lots of people must be loyle to their capo
Konami quietly confirms Metal Gear Solid Delta's online Fox Hunt mode isn't actually coming until "fall 2025"
News Kept you waiting, huh?
The biggest JRPG news today somehow missed the Nintendo Indie Direct: Persona-inspired tactics RPG Demonschool is out in just a few weeks
News While most of the world missed it, at least it got 10 seconds in the Japanese stream
The PS3 store has been down for over a day, and people are worried Sony has quietly killed the last way to get Metal Gear Solid 4
News There's no way PlayStation would kill that before the Vita... right?
You can now play as Hideo Kojima, Adam Sandler, and Link in Castle Crashers as new DLC finally opens up the Steam Workshop after 17 years, with results as chaotic as you'd expect
News That's a technical foul
As Battlefield 6 beta queues surge past 200,000 players, devs promise a "substantial increase" in server capacity to reduce wait times
News "We’re putting in the work to ensure that players have the best possible experience and servers remain stable"
Kirby Air Riders should be delayed to 2026 if anything is "not going perfectly," former Nintendo marketing leads say, because it's not worth burning out Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai
News Plus Mario Kart World and Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds are pretty heavy competition
Hollow Knight Silksong won't be in the Indie World Nintendo Direct according to the YouTuber who leaked it: "Ah s**t, here we go again"
News Don't even bother getting the clown makeup ready
Metal Gear Solid 5 finally cements itself as Peace Walker 2 as a co-op mod brings back the PSP game's best feature
News Mother Base field trips are back on the itinerary
Battlefield 6 really wants Assault players to stop lone-wolfing, so they've taken the Spawn Beacon from snipers to place "greater emphasis on team play"
News It was "often being used by solo snipers to redeploy in hard-to-reach places" so Recon players did this to themselves
Oblivion Remastered joins the pantheon of Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Witcher 4 for its attention to animal anatomy: "The deer have buttholes"
News Oh deer
