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Final Fantasy 9 translator admits some references to older games "slipped by us completely," and he'd love to see "a new team" tackle the JRPG: "I wish we'd been sharper about the nostalgia"
News "Localization's come a long way in the last 25 years"
After their Black Panther game got killed, 14 EA devs are fleeing to D&D house Wizards of the Coast to "incubate a new game" under Monolith vet and Shadow of Mordor boss
News "Something very cool and new"
The first co-op multiplayer game from horror publisher Blumhouse is like REPO after a long, hot day in an Agatha Christie novel, and it just launched in early access
News Make your friends look into the Eyes of Hellfire
Hollow Knight: Silksong has now delayed at least 8 indie games in the 5 days since its September release date was announced: "I feel like a little krill trying to not get eaten by a blue whale"
News And the delays keep coming
Hideo Kojima says "I won't" play the Metal Gear Solid Delta remake from Konami, but its devs still "would love" if he did: "We want to deliver this game whilst being very respectful"
News Maybe if Elle Fanning were in it
Silksong delayed a game so hard its devs made an entire trailer featuring a giant statue of Hollow Knight character Hornet
News Baby Steps can't baby step around this
"Dropping the GTA of indie games with 2 weeks notice makes everyone freak out": Devs wanted to "fight Silksong," but it's added another body to its kill count with delay of Persona-inspired tactics RPG
News Demonschool is delayed until November
The Balatro hivemind absorbs another victim as Super Smash Bros. modder is compelled to add Joker king Jimbo to Melee, and there hasn't been a new character this scary since 2001
News No, Jimbo – please don't hit me with a deck of cards, please!
It took Nintendo devs a year of "squashing and crushing watermelons" to record sound effects for Donkey Kong Bananza: "There were no more good watermelons"
News That's too many melons
New Dan Da Dan season 2 teaser reveals beloved Attack on Titan character as voice of Kinta as it marches on toward "chaotic" kaiju battle climax
News Bryce Papenbrook is very versatile
Silksong is powerful, but a new foe emerges at Gamescom: over 70 million horny otome game players – "Today is truly a momentous day"
News GTA 6? Hollow Knight? Sorry, I only know my hot stepbrother in Love and Deepspace
Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4 finally exists in a world where technology "caught up to the ambition of what our game is" and praises the '80s double-jump: "Where in the rules of physics can I leap into the air and, out of mid-air, jump again?"
News Technology has come a long way since the OG Borderlands
The Blood of Dawnwalker dev says comparisons to The Witcher 3 are inevitable, but it's OK because "we are not compared to a bad game" and "we are making our own kind of beasts"
News It's flattering, really
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch Netflix adaptation from John Wick writer gets first look trailer that's so full of moody anime spies, you might forget there hasn't been a new game in 12 years
News Whatever works for you, Ubisoft
Indie devs' weirdly promising Bubsy 4D wouldn't exist if the clouds hadn't parted and blessed the Atari CEO with a revelation: "I was like, 'Is this a nationally known IP?'"
News I don't know, is it?
Palworld suddenly has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam after Valve introduces language-based scoring: "As always, we're so incredibly grateful"
News Goode werk, Palworld
"You have a dodge, people are like, 'Ah, that's a Soulslike'": Silent Hill f leads "disagree" melee combat makes it a Soulslike, say "the most authentic" way to play is story mode
News Chill, bro, it's just action-horror
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says "I think they could charge $200" for Borderlands 4, "you can't find a better value in the world for any type of entertainment," then adds: "I wish they'd give it away, because then everyone would play it"
News You might worry about pricing, but Randy Pitchford won't
The Blood of Dawnwalker lead say the medieval vampire RPG is a "narrative sandbox" with quests that "can be completed in any order, skipped entirely, or even never discovered at all"
News You're a real vampire now
New Bloober game trailer at Gamescom seems to include a secret Silent Hill 2 cameo, unless I'm as confused as James Sunderland
News Meet me in our special place: Kraków
Control 2 fans in shambles after mysterious, psychological Gamescom trailer is revealed to be an advertisement for more Gamescom: "Step on legos for eternity"
News How could this happen…
You know and hated Bubsy 3D, now get ready for Bubsy 4D from Atari: a bit of '90s "platforming purrfection" that might signal the End Times
News We're in danger
Kirby Air Riders director Masahiro Sakurai says those who haven't already played the GameCube racer might ask themselves "if it's basically Mario Kart," and, uh, yeah, "it basically is like Mario Kart"
News OK, cool
