Latest articles by Scott McCrae
Now that Kirby Air Riders is out, everyone is making the same joke about Nintendo immediately asking Masahiro Sakurai to work on Super Smash Bros 6: "Alright. We let you make Air Riders. You know what comes next…"
News Kid Icarus Uprising 2, obviously
Masahiro Sakurai maybe gave Kirby Air Riders players too much power as there already multiple scantily clad versions of Chef Kawasaki flooding the vehicle market
News The GameCube one is pretty cool though
10 years later, Hytale co-creator says he's "locking down the release date ASAP" for the sandbox RPG, and the base cost won't be much different to Minecraft itself
News "I’ll have a precise answer by the end of next week"
As Arc Raiders shows no signs of slowing down, developer Embark confirms it's ending support on PS4 for its previous shooter, The Finals, as it's "focusing our support on current generation hardware"
News You can still transfer your progress though
GTA 6 will launch in exactly one year, but some fans don’t believe it: "1 year from now we will be waiting for it to come out in a year"
News "The fact that the game would've originally released around this time…"
At 100+ hours, Dragon Quest 7 is an enormous JRPG, so in the Reimagined remake "a few of the stories which weren't 100% relevant to the main storyline have just been cut entirely"
News Although some new stories have been added too...
As Half-Life 3 hopefuls convince themselves that an announcement is imminent, Geoff Keighley accidentally causes chaos with a screenshot of one wishlisted Steam game
News Keighley may have tried to fake the evidence after it was pointed out
Palworld lead and Pocketpair founder says Megabonk dev is "one of the game developers I respect the most" as the solo indie creator withdraws his roguelike hit from The Game Awards
News John Megabonk is an admirable man
Valve accidentally smothers indie game with 138,000 wishlists by not telling anyone it existed, then apologizes to studio by accidentally revealing Steam Machine on the same day of promotion
News The devs hold no ill will towards Valve, it's "just bad luck and we must accept it"
Ghost of Yotei director says Sucker Punch didn't want to be violent for the sake of it in its open-world Japan epics, even if "in video games, you get a lot of pressure just to do it sometimes"
News "very early on we talked about what's the level of violence we want to go with"
As Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 surpasses Baldur's Gate 3 on Game Award nominations, Larian publishing lead says it's "intensely hopeful" to see a new IP from a fledgling team do so well
News "A message that says you don't have to be in the conversation to become the conversation."
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says the industry is "moving towards PC" even if consoles are "never going away," but still hasn't confirmed if GTA 6 is coming to PC
News He also thinks "business is moving towards open rather than closed"
Nier creator Yoko Taro says he isn't lazy like fans think, his "weird" new projects just keep getting canceled: "It never ended up seeing the light of day"
News He still got paid though so, "I personally have no issues with that,"
The Game Awards 2025 has Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as the most-nominated game in the show's history, while Arc Raiders is up for just one category
News Death Stranding 2 and Ghost of Yotei follows with 8 each
Xbox Partner Preview stream coming this week with a new look at James Bond game 007 First Light confirmed
News Reanimal and Tides of Annihilation are also confirmed to appear
After Monster Hunter Wilds' year of performance woes, Capcom says Resident Evil Requiem won't share the same fate: "At present, we do not anticipate similar risks"
News Given the RE Engine has been great for everything but open worlds, I'd believe it
The Boys-like superhero comedy Dispatch from former Telltale devs is set to hit a 3-year sales target in 3 months, to the surprise of its executive producer
News "We were confident that people would like it. I think the degree to which it would be successful is something that I certainly didn't anticipate."
Elden Ring Nightreign's The Forsaken Hollows DLC teases a boss fight against 7 enemies, and the community is living in fear: "This fight is either gonna be one of the best, or one of the worst"
News It really is FromSoft Smash Bros.
Nintendo, seemingly unfazed by how the same approach failed during the Wii U era, delivers a truly bizarre advertisement for its next big Switch 2 exclusive Kirby Air Riders
News It's no "you're a kid now, you're a squid now" that's for sure
New Capcom sci-fi gem Pragmata gets official rating alongside one of 2026's other most exciting games, leading to release date speculation: "The Game Awards date announcements?"
News Hook Romeo is a Dead Man to my veins, please
Despite fans' initial cries to "drop the price," Switch 2 "hardware was appropriately priced," actually, thinks former Nintendo icon Reggie Fils-Aimé
News He calls that the Mario Kart bundle "very smart" as it "took the edge off" its $80 price
Undertale demo is transformed in "faithful" fan-made Game Boy Color demake, and you can play it right now
News Undertale was already a love letter to SNES RPG Earthbound, but fans are going even further by porting the game to the 8-bit handheld
As Arc Raiders cuts skin prices, some players reckon Embark is still asking for too much on top of its $40 game: "This is still twice the price they showed in the beta tests"
News "They only lowered the outfits themselves by 100-200. Basically, trying to push the might as well buy the bundle mentality"
