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After 23 years, Animal Crossing: New Horizons brings back the feature old-school Nintendo nerds like me have missed since the GameCube – retro games
By Dustin Bailey published
News NES, Famicom, Game Boy, and Super NES, and even older Nintendo relics are on the way

Nobody told Octopath Traveler 0 devs they'd make an extreme town building system, so they guessed it was a mistake before the JRPG's producer said it "absolutely" wasn't: "I thought it would be only logical"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News If you say so!

"Truly, accidental marketing at its finest": Indie dungeon RPG mistranslated as "Sh**ty Dungeon" actually got a huge boost from Japanese Steam users sharing the joke
By Scott McCrae published
News Not sure how they got that from "The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles" but I'm glad they did

Arc Raiders devs "don’t use generative AI," CCO says AI text-to-speech is used to help "make rich worlds" while keeping the studio small but "there's no end goal in replacing any actors"
By Kaan Serin published
News Arc Raiders uses AI TTS similarly to The Finals, in combination with real actors

The fate of one of the oldest living MMOs, and one of the worst microtransaction shops ever, is up for a vote
By Austin Wood last updated
News Stop Killing This Particular Game, RuneScape players plead

"I'm not sure if I should go into this": Helldivers 2 nerfs the beloved Coyote, devs say "we tried to keep it as intact as we possibly could" but didn't want one "obviously" best gun
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Arrowhead didn't want to debuff the incendiary assault rifle too much

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says "basically nothing" from the original JRPG's development survived: "We're talking about the mid '90s... There's almost no documentation left"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "Game development back then was a lot more Wild West"

Animal Crossing: New Horizons gets a $5 Switch 2 upgrade and a big free update with co-op islands and an NPC resort – 4 years after we thought Nintendo abandoned it
By Anna Koselke published
News We're so back, baby
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