Latest articles by Scott McCrae
Pokemon's new Animal Crossing-like life sim Pokopia gets a March release date, but it looks like it might be a controversial Switch 2 Game-Key Card title
News And there's a trailer coming this Thursday!
The Last of Us lead Troy Baker says he's still butting heads with Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann on new project Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, despite not being the lead: "It's our vibe"
News Baker noted that other cast members are like, "Our mom and dad are fighting, are we still going to Disneyland?"
Ghost of Yotei hit 3.3 million sales in its first month, making it a PS5 best-seller and putting it on track to hit the 5 million sales milestone that took Tsushima 4 months
News Tsushima sold 2.4 million in three days, and 5 million in four months, so Yotei looks to be on track to be as successful as its predecessor
Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto hopes he'll stay healthy until the series' 50th anniversary in 2035 and is looking forward to seeing how the current team takes on the challenge of improving on Odyssey
News That being Super Mario Bros. 50th, Mario's debut in Donkey Kong turns 50 a few years prior
"Devastated doesn’t even begin to cover it": Warhammer MMO got obliterated by NetEase shutdown before it could be announced, and devs can’t believe "no one will get to see the amazing work" now that it’s dead
News "This is easily the most talented group I have ever worked with for such a small team."
Stellar Blade "represents more than just one successful title" says former PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida, thinks it "could inspire many other Korean developers to pursue their ambitions"
News Although I'd argue Lies of P deserves some of the credit too
After backing Arc Raiders over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for GOTY, FPS legend Shroud says there should be different categories for multiplayer and single-player
News You could argue that this stance ignores the 'Best Multiplayer Game' category
Nintendo icon Shigeru Miyamoto says while he's not as involved with making Mario games anymore, he always plays about 30 minutes during development to make sure they feel right
News That explains the stories we've heard about his playtesting methods
Pokemon Legends: Z-A's DLC is making a change to the level cap Game Freak has "never dared touch," and a VGC World Champion thinks "there's no telling how difficult the game can get" now
News As one fan puts it, it's "finally an explanation for Ash's Pikachu"
After a huge Animal Crossing: New Horizons patch was announced out of nowhere, Nintendo says it's "constantly considering" the balance of new Switch 2 games and big updates
News I'm now expecting another Mario Kart 8 update any day now
Despite shifting its "primary development focus to Nintendo Switch 2", Nintendo still plans on making games for the original Switch, and hopes fans will continue to play old ones, too
News Five more Rhythm Heaven games please
Following another GTA 6 delay, Palworld lead says "expect to see many games (especially AAA ones) swerve to avoid the 2027 awards season"
News GTA 6's current release date "puts them outside the nomination window for most games awards in 2026"
Devolver Digital tightens its grip on Rockstar, now threatening to launch a game on GTA 6's new November 2026 release date: "You can't escape us"
News Although it did also offer to publish GTA 6
Battlefield 6 lead says "stick it out" on bots, because they're essential to avoid waiting "possibly forever" to get into "the playlist of your choice in regions with low population"
News Although he says he's open to hearing it if players can point out what the "problem" is
Soon-to-be-laid-off dev tells boycott-curious players to "please buy this game" he's about to be laid off from, because it still helps the folks getting cut
News The Possessors dev says "I view video games as modern day Cathedrals"
One day after adding them, indie co-op game Peak is nerfing its new zombie enemies: "We did playtest the zombies. I guess the playtesters were just too good"
News "I FORGOT HOW TO CLIMB !!! IN OUR CLIMBING GAME !!!"
Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto says one of the reasons Pokemon Red and Green were made was because creator Satoshi Tajiri joked Mario couldn't be surpassed unless fans were sold 2 copies of a game
News And hey, that worked out pretty well for him
After sending fans into a frenzy with a GTA 6 PlayStation Store update, Rockstar has removed the GTA+ ad that had hopefuls convinced trailer 3 was imminent
News We're through the looking glass here people
Former Assassin's Creed and Far Cry lead says the Simpsons game they worked on "is underrated" and "being able to walk around a recreation of Springfield was pretty fun in of itself"
News No word on if the devs slept nude in an oxygen tent in the belief it might give them development powers
From the moment development started on Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, "the goal was to reinstate Marvel as a pillar of the fighting game community"
News Marvel Games' general manager says the team wanted to "bring out that unmistakable ArcSys identity," too
PlayStation Portal now lets you stream your own digital games to the handheld without a PS5, but you still need to have the most expensive version of PS Plus to do so
News Not exactly a plus
Obsidian wants to establish the "Obsidian RPG" with games like The Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed, not chase "what already exists" in competitors like Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077
News I hope they also establish Alpha Protocol 2
Former GTA boss Dan Houser says Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears or the Kingdom are like Alfred Hitchcock films: "They're just speaking the language of video games"
News The Rockstar co-founder calls them "these amazing things that could only be video games, they couldn't be anything else"
