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Dispatch leads say the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team's shout-out at the Golden Joysticks "means so much," and "I've never had a game make me cry so quickly before"
News It's always nice when everyone gets along
Sega is willing to take risks on "highly volatile" new games, and can do so using the "stable foundation" created by its strong free-to-play revenue
News Sega isn't willing to give up on creating another game as popular as Sonic
Rapid-release "Definitive" editions like Persona 5 Royal could put people off buying games at launch, Sega worries, with players "hesitant to make purchases" when their version could become outdated
News That's not to mention the ever increasing price of games
Nintendo sent a crack team of unimaginably talented developers including Shigeru Miyamoto to the Mario's Picross studio to "personally" teach the plumber's aura
News Nintendo took the development of the Game Boy puzzle game very seriously
Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says Final Fantasy 10 is "the ultimate perfection" of the beloved JRPG series, and we're sure stans will be completely normal about it
News As if Final Fantasy fans needed another reason to fight for their favorite
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2's new Reclamation update is not only free but adds new weapons, stratagems, and even a boss
News Plus new cosmetics for season pass owners
Bless him, Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says "warmth" and "accessibility" are key to the almost-40-year-old JRPG series' enduring success
News "Older computer games didn't really have a sense of warmth"
After leaving Fire Emblem studio, Donkey Kong veteran and Mario's Picross creator couldn't hire his former co-workers or he'd face Nintendo's wrath: "It shows a lack of decency"
News "If I took even a single employee from Intelligent Systems with me I knew that I would lose the ability to work with Nintendo"
A few hundred employees working on "self-directed projects" has made Valve one of the world's most profitable-per-person companies, on track to top $17 billion this year and shame the likes of Google and Meta
News You get a yacht, and you get a yacht
Helldivers 2 players are suspicious of their Citizen Surveillance Center as divers start getting marked as dissidents after a recent Major Order
News Dissidents should report to their local democracy officer
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is making a game set in the same world as his new novel about devs who create a "self-loathing" AI, and is "dabbling" with using real AI in its development
News But the developer thinks the technology is sometimes overhyped "just to sell AI stock"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gustave actor Charlie Cox is "thrilled" about his Game Awards nomination, but insists "any credit I get" should go to his character's motion capture actor instead
News Charlie Cox claims his "voice was just part of that process"
007 First Light CEO is glad GTA 6 got delayed since now "spring looks really good," but thinks Rockstar could help "the industry as a whole" once it finally ships its masterpiece
News Hakan Abrak thinks the release will encourage people to return to gaming as a hobby
As Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox decides to make the looter shooter's first DLC pack free for everyone, Deluxe Edition players aren't too happy: "I'm calling bulls**t"
News Not everyone is getting into the holiday spirit
Arc Raiders is a hit, but the extraction shooter's pitch didn't impress one of the Embark devs' kids years ago: "Sci-fi game? Very original"
News There's no accounting for taste with some children
GTA 6 might be the "massive game with massive marketing," but The Witcher 3 director doesn't mind launching his next RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker at the same time: "I'm fine with it"
News Rebel Wolves' Konrad Tomaszkiewicz is the coolest guy in the room
The Witcher 3 director says his upcoming RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker isn't "going fully into the vampire fantasy," and expect some Dishonored vibes
News Half-hominid, half-spirit
New MMO on the block Where Winds Meet promises to never become pay-to-win, greeting players with the message "your legend is written by skill and choice, never by wallet size"
News The new starting screen makes some big promises
With an 'Overwhelmingly Positive' rating on Steam, Risk of Rain 2 fans finally get the DLC they deserve after the first Gearbox-led effort put the roguelike "in a really bad place"
News The team seems to have turned things around following the last broken DLC
Battered and bruised Where Winds Meet players rally together to rid the Wuxia open-world MMO of its demonic geese: "Yeet into the water. Every single one of them"
News Turns out humans weren't the real monsters all along
Among millions of Arc Raiders, Embark says 117 legendary players "somehow downed themselves" with rocks in the Breaking New Ground community event
News What goes up, must come down
Here's how to watch the Golden Joystick Awards 2025, hosted by Lady Dimitrescu herself Maggie Robertson
News This year's Golden Joystick Awards 2025 stream is live at 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT on November 20
Super Smash Bros. and Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai says "it's best to just play games, instead of looking at who made them," so please don't perceive him
News Despite his fame he wishes to live an "unassuming life"
