Latest articles by Iain Harris
Everything announced at the Nintendo Direct September 2025
News Super Mario Galaxy movie! Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave! More!
Get ready for the Borderlands 4 release – live build-up, reactions, and launch info as we count down to Gearbox's open-world looter shooter
LIVE It's Borderlands 4 release day, so follow along as we cover everything you need to know
Hollow Knight Silksong release live coverage – Steam and eShop outages, early hands-on impressions, and more
LIVE With the Hollow Knight Silksong release time now here, join us live as we all act completely normal about this massive launch
Final Fantasy Tactics remaster makes Cloud easier to use, Square Enix promises, and even gives him the Materia Blade right off the bat, so you'll want to see the secret hiding where it was in the original RPG
News Director Kazutoyo Maehiro admits "he was pretty difficult to utilize as a character" in the original strategy RPG
Gamescom Day 1 live coverage – all the news, interviews, and previews as they happen
LIVE From Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 to Hollow Knight Silksong, we're on the floor in Germany to go hands-on with all the most exciting upcoming games
League of Legends, Overwatch 2 contributor announces a game of its own, an adorable survival-crafting adventure called Witchspire
News And it's launching in Early Access next year on PC
This quirky roguelike JRPG brings some deck building to the Pokemon formula I didn't know I needed until now
News There are many Pokemon games and RPGs like it, but few implement the cards the series is known for like this
Sequel to Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark throwback Tormented Souls gets October release date
News Tormented Souls 2 launches this spooky season
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 ad goes live early, showcasing stompy mechs, Goliath foes, and yet another November release date
News After a few leaks and reports, I think Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is coming out in November
Subnautica 2 designer isn't alarmed by people taking a break, because survival games aren't as "monogamistic" as MMOs like World of Warcraft: "I know what they're doing"
News "If I see people play through all the content of Subnautica and then they leave for a little bit until we do a content patch, that doesn't alarm me"
The Outer Worlds 2 was helped along by Fallout co-creator Tim Cain, but Obsidian is switching up RPG history by going "much bigger and deeper" with its sequel
News "The Outer Worlds 2 delivers on the fantasy we had when we started the first game"
Square Enix team behind JRPG gems like Octopath Traveler is trading turn-based combat for Zelda-like action with The Adventures of Elliot in hopes of reaching "a new audience"
News "As the HD-2D series has expanded and evolved, we’ve gradually shifted genres"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says "prejudice against turn-based RPGs isn't completely gone," even if fellow JRPGs like Persona and Dragon Quest sell millions of copies
News "I could talk about the prejudice forever"
Cyberpunk 2077 was a challenge for CDPR as V has "more freedom" in how they tackle the open-world, whereas it's "very difficult" to see The Witcher 3's Geralt "go GTA style"
News "Ciri or Geralt, they are fully fledged characters. They have their own personality, there are things that they will not do."
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio is "just the right size" for a "full-priced turn-based RPG," so don't expect its success to lead to AAA ambitions: "I'd prefer working as a small team"
News Sandfall Interactive is happy as it is
Everything announced at the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase July 2025
Recap Octopath Traveler 0! Monster Hunter Stories 3! More!
Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil Village stars set to host Future Games Show at Gamescom 2025
News "I've had a sneak peek and the show is packed with world premieres, new trailers, and deep dives into some incredible games"
How do you make an impossibly dense MMO friendly to new players? Warframe dev says you just keep trying: "I don't think we've ever quite got that 100% right"
News "If Warframe is Disney, we're putting in new rides every year or maybe even every quarter"
Cyberpunk 2077 dev thinks the RPG is a "much better game" for having gone through its notoriously messy launch: "We ended up pushing so much energy in this game"
News "If the success of the game would have been what we originally expected, would it be the same game that we're playing today? I don't think so"
