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Assassin's Creed Shadows was supposed to get a major quality-of-life update in the "beginning of September," but Ubisoft has been silent for weeks, so fans decided it's coming out today
News When does it stop being the "beginning" of September?
Millions of gamers on Steam and beyond gather to mourn famously untalented horse who inspired the beloved anime girl in Umamusume, Haru Urara: "May she get all the grass and carrots in heaven"
News "We share our condolences to all the staff involved"
Borderlands 4 fan decides life is long, might as well spend the next 950 years cataloguing some of the looter shooter's 30 billion guns
News I actually think that's too many guns
"I don't think there's such a thing as a good game": Fallout's Tim Cain says "the same people will complain" about a game with bad reviews while praising a game with good reviews even if they have the "exact same problem"
News It happens
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was inspired by JRPG greats like Final Fantasy, but its director loves gaming because of an old-school 1988 beat 'em up
News Guillaume Broche says, in Paris, games were for nerds
Elden Ring maestro takes talents to Hollow Knight: Silksong with saxophone controller that goes "doot," immediately puts all our pogo abilities to shame and "doots" to glory
News Dr. Doot knows what he's doot-ing
Final Fantasy Tactics devs originally considered making a famously powerful character weaker when he levels up because that's how getting old works: "His strength actually becomes lower"
News Hey, leave Cid alone!
"The great Todd Howard says that great games are played, not made," according to Bethesda's Pete Hines, so Elder Scrolls devs changed Oblivion combat three times and no one spoke about it
News No need
Final Fantasy-style RPG Lost Soul Aside gets extensive new patch players hope will bring a Cyberpunk 2077 "moment" and melt away some of those Mixed Steam reviews
News Godspeed
Hollow Knight fans, driven to madness by the Silksong wait, are still fighting a war that already ended and pretending the Metroidvania sequel isn't out yet
News You have a problem
Hollow Knight: Silksong breaks 535,000 concurrent players on Steam, making it one of the biggest launches of all time and nearly 8x bigger than the first game
News That's a big bug
"A lot of RPGs have adopted more action gameplay elements," says Dragon Quest remake producer, making old-school turn-based JRPGs "actually rare nowadays" and "considered fresh again"
News And it all started with Dragon Quest
Over 12,300 people turned up to watch "John Silksong" release one last Hollow Knight: Silksong news update, and it was kind of a beautiful moment: "All of this truly has been my, no, our daily Silksong news"
News I just shed a tear
Weapons director Zach Cregger is making a Resident Evil movie without ever having seen a Resident Evil movie: "I think the people that are fans of the of the games are probably going to be stoked"
News Can confirm, I'm stoked
Final Fantasy 14 boss Naoki Yoshida might not have become a Square Enix dev if it weren't for a "jerk" childhood friend that accidentally taught him PvP by tricking him into being bad at 1983 Mario Bros.
News "I hated the guts of my friend"
Silent Hill 2 remake studio boss says new game Cronos is on Switch 2 because he wants to bring back the "gold time" of GameCube horror classics like Resident Evil 4
News "We would like to be the one to open the new story for Nintendo right now"
Dan Da Dan anime voice actors are "very" influenced by the original Japanese cast, but Momo talks like her English-speaking grandma on purpose: "You could definitely see that she was raised by Seiko"
News Exclusive: Dan Da Dan's Momo actor Abby Trott talks to GamesRadar+ at Anime NYC
Cronos: The New Dawn review: "An unabashed mash-up of survival horror greatest hits, from Dead Space to Silent Hill, with plenty of its own gory ideas"
Review
The best moment in the Dan Da Dan anime was also the hardest for Okarun and Momo's voice actors to record: "'I have to take a break.' I was like, 'I can't do it'"
News The English voice of Okarun, A.J. Beckles, was so close to giving up
$112 million Borderlands movie was a critical and commercial disaster, but Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford just wants you to know "it would have been way worse if I directed it"
News OK, thanks for letting me know
"FromSoftware was my very first job after graduating": Legendary Bloodborne and Elden Ring composer says she'd watch the games in debug mode "partly because I couldn't beat the boss myself"
News Me neither, Yuka Kitamura
"You could go and keep beating up people on top of buildings" forever in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, but devs say "we're not making GTA" because even vampires need to sleep
News Vice City? No, no, you're in vampire country now
Hideo Kojima thinks video games are in the middle of a major shift: there was 2D, then 3D, and now "we have not just ChatGPT," but also extensive AI tech for devs to "take advantage of"
News Kojima personally likes using AI to download celebrities
