Latest articles by Issy van der Velde
A magic experiment gone wrong in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered led to a player paralyzing themself for 66 years, "longer than Uriel's reign"
News Please don't try this at home
Pokemon logo designer speaks up after 27 years, shares unused designs and says Nintendo gave him a month to draft one of the most iconic logos in history before Red and Blue reveal
news It's amazing what artists can do so quickly
Oblivion Remastered player pours 15,000 points into Athletics and Acrobatics, letting them leap across the entire map in a single bound
News Gotta go fast
"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"
News The story was always going in this direction
Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann reaffirms the Last of Us studio is working on another game alongside Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, but he's "more of a producer" on it
news Any guesses on what it is?
"It is a mistranslation regarding a Chrono Trigger Remake" says Square Enix, further dashing hopes of a new version of the iconic RPG 30 years after its release
News Go on and huff that copium
Lego shuts down Bionicle fan game 8 years into development, and the team thinks it knows why: "Our project was too easy to mistake for an official product"
News The team is now working on a new, original project
Naughty Dog is keeping actors in the dark with Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet: "Is this Last of Us Part 3 that we’re doing?"
News "What I know about it is probably as much as you guys"
"That was me at three in the morning trying to come up with something": Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's silliest moment came to its writer when she was very, very tired
News Sometimes you just put something on the page and in the morning you realize it's actually pretty good
Sony is prioritizing monthly active users over direct sales now, but the company's live-service games aren't doing too hot
news It's a tricky time to be pivoting
Fortnite adds a generative AI Darth Vader that uses James Earl Jones' voice, which immediately began swearing and talking about skibidi toilets, and not everyone is happy
News "Why does a battle royale game need to contribute to boiling the oceans?"
As Switch 2 fans worry about price increases, Nintendo of America president isn't too reassuring as he admits tariffs make for "a very fluid situation"
News He does say the company will make it "as obtainable as we possibly can"
Fortnite was supposed to release on the App Store in the US last week, but Apple has "blocked" the battle royale's submission, and the iOS version "will be offline worldwide" until further notice
News The battle wages on
The First Berserker: Khazan missed sales targets, but Nexon says the Soulslike RPG was still a success because it got us to care about the 20-year-old action series it wants to globalize
news It's not always about the money
God of War dev remembers getting "so angry" during play tests before admitting players were right: "Why can't you just get on this climb wall here?"
news Sometimes you need a fresh set of eyes
Tourists visiting Ghost of Yotei's namesake mountain in Japan airlifted out after getting stranded in the cold
news Please don't wear shorts up a mountain
I regret to inform you that the unofficial Smash Bros. dating app has been shut down, a day before its open beta
News Sorry to be the bearer of bad news
After God of War's success, the overlords said "you're gonna make the second one and you're gonna do it in half the time and it's gonna be twice as long with more bosses and enemies"
News God of War did so well that the higher-ups wanted seconds, and fast
PS5 prices could rise again as Sony considers passing US tariff impacts on to players
News Play has no limits, but your wallet does
Marvel Rivals is bringing back its Season 0 Battle Pass, but only for two weeks, so get it before it's gone again
news There may be more Battle Passes coming back in the future
Not content with a massive update and a new Warbond, Helldivers 2 may be getting another patch next week as a deleted post points to an invasion of Super Earth itself
News Prepare to defend the very Heart of Democracy
Sony has sold almost as many PS5s as it did PS4s in the same time frame, but expects its sales to worsen, and analysts reckon GTA 6's delay won't help
News That's still impressive considering the old supply issues
Bethesda celebrates Oblivion Remastered by watching 19-year-old documentary about the making of the original, and Todd Howard says "this is gonna be really f***ing awkward"
News They all look so young!
