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The Witcher 3 performance director can't see AI fully replacing actors, especially not for games wanting to focus on a "strong story" as "It can’t replace that human spark"
News "There's too much missing which defines the nebulous 'something' that elevates an 'ok' performance to a brilliant one"
"I believe in experiencing life and art through human expression, not software": Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor calls for proper AI regulation
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"There are so many games": Legendary dev behind GTA 3, GTA 4, GTA 5 and many more says the industry needs to "get smarter" about what players want
News "These days, you have to look at your analytics. You've got to see what people want to play"
Legendary GTA 5 veteran's new open-world game is actually a "fake open world," but its central city sounds a lot like Cyberpunk 2077
News MindsEye might not have an open world, but its devs have "really tried to build on the depth" of it
Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor says CEOs "just want to save money" with AI: "It'll destroy their reputation, their company, everything"
News They "see it as an easy way to make a return on investment"
Kingmakers is a strategy game about taking on medieval armies with a gun, but its devs thought the giant mech was too much
News Bringing a giant mechanized titan to a sword fight isn't very demure
Before selling millions of copies, Vampire Survivors creator says he'd "given up on the idea of success," and he's not interested in making something just to be successful
News "I don't want to start having to look around in order to try to maintain the success"
Black Myth: Wukong empowered fellow soulslike devs to become China's first "elite" devs on par with Naughty Dog or Capcom: "The market has been validated"
“There’s definitely a great potential for us to be the very few in that elite”
Vampire Survivors creator admits his success was “lucky” amid a wave of cheap mobile knock-offs: “For everyone else, they have to stand out among the hundreds"
"Players noticed me before any vulture could notice the ascension in sales."
Doom: The Dark Ages' new cutscenes exist because of fans' unlikely obsession with the series' lore: "A Doom game that doesn’t have a story is just an arcade game”
“In so many interviews, we sit down with somebody and their first question is about the story”
As if hell and demons weren't enough, Doom: The Dark Ages went medieval so id Software "could get more dark and sinister with the tool kit"
News "You think torture devices, ropes, and chains, and spikes"
Doom: The Dark Ages features "the largest spaces we've ever made,” but id Software knows you don't want to spend 2 hours in a single level
News Game director Hugo Martin says each level aims for that "sweet spot" of one hour to complete
Doom: The Dark Ages devs looked to everything from Star Wars to Batman Year One to shape the iconic shooter's next game
News "You follow the IP development rulebook that was created by a lot of great people"
Legendary Zelda dev "wasn't too pleased" about working on A Link to the Past as it robbed his enjoyment of playing the finished game: "I still really don't want to play that game"
News Don't ask former Nintendo artist Takaya Imamura about A Link to the Past
With Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Chinese studio Leenzee aims to soar to the heights of its field
Feature Interview | Set in the Ming Dynasty, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers brings a unique feathery twist to soulslike action RPGs
Goal Oriented: How do developers invent their own sports – even when they're not too fond of the real thing?
Feature Feature | "What I've realised is that any turn-based strategy game, like a Fire Emblem or XCOM, those are basically sports games"
BioShock Infinite “may not have been the thing I wanted, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it wasn’t the thing the audience wanted”: Ken Levine guides us through his entire gameography
Feature Edge: The Collected Works | From immersive-sim innovation, through undersea peril, and onto new beginnings back out in space, Ken Levine talks through his impressive and iconic gaming portfolio in his own words
The Making of Baldur's Gate 3: "We really wanted to make it so that even if you don't know D&D or Baldur's Gate, you would still have exciting choices as a player"
Feature Feature | Edge Magazine: Larian fought with cinematics, embassies and the expectations of BioWare fans to make the RPG of the decade
