Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick
Former Witcher 3 devs behind The Blood of Dawnwalker want the vampire RPG to set "a new standard" for the genre with a "hybrid" combat system influenced by Batman: Arkham Asylum, For Honor, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance
News One combat system was too hard and the other wasn't immersive enough, so Rebel Wolves combined the two
21 years later, remake of beloved JRPG classic Trails in the Sky gets first playable demo – it's 5-7 hours long, and fans say it's a certified banger: "Oh my god it's phenomenal"
news Explore Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter's prologue in its entirety on PC and PS5, with a Switch version due out later
Resident Evil Requiem's new trailer makes a great case for Grace Ashcroft, not boring old Leon Kennedy, being the anxiety-riddled hero we need for the series' scariest entry yet
Opinion Opinion | Horror is less horrifying when you're hot and cool and unstoppable
Severance star Tramell Tillman is joining Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Brand New Day cast
News Spider-Man: Brand New Day's cast is generational
Gearbox's Randy Pitchford says Borderlands "ushered in a whole new genre" of looter shooters, and imitators get it wrong when they "twist it too far," unlike Gearbox: "We tend to commit to the bit"
News "Borderlands is the borderland between a role-playing game and a shooter"
High on Life 2 release date set for February, but you can watch 42 minutes of gameplay right now
news Squanch Games' sequel is due out on Friday the 13th
The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin says he avoids Reddit unless it's to find a good bow for his Oblivion: Remastered archer, and honestly, hell yeah
news I'm even more excited for The Last of Us season 3 now
Dead Space creator says the devs put posters in EA toilets to fight for funding and get exec attention: "Whenever they went to the bathroom, they were seeing Dead Space"
news "That's about as indie as you can get inside a giant company, having to fight for your dollars"
Hades meets Wind Waker action-RPG sequel Moonlighter 2 gets October early access release date
news Moonlighter 2: The Endless Dungeon was originally due to release this summer on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is gracing Nintendo Switch 2 with its presence next year
News The best Indy game ever is going mobile
Jurassic World Evolution 3 is adding hot air balloons, and I can't imagine a worse place to be when my pteranodons break containment
news A kayak would be a pretty bad place to be too
Marvel Rivals devs are allowed to make their own original characters, NetEase threatens: "Stay tuned"
News Are there not enough Marvel characters already?
Capcom has good news and bad news: it's aware Monster Hunter Wilds kinda sucks on PC and has "a multifaceted plan" to fix it with CPU and GPU optimizations, but it's targeting "this winter"
News But, but winter is months away
Valve founder Gabe Newell is doing billionaire things again with the $300 million purchase of a ship the size of an NFL football field designed to explore the deepest parts of the ocean
News Gabe Newell's Inkfish has added the RV6000 to its fleet
After 16 years, Jason Voorhees' official comeback is either a soulless hard cider commercial or the setup for the goriest, most experimental Friday the 13th to date, and I can't decide which it is
Features Opinion | Sweet Revenge resurrects Friday the 13th in all but name, but I'm conflicted on whether that's a good thing
Assassin's Creed 3 director says Ubisoft put "a lot of pressure" on devs to "add play time" and "bulk" out games with RPG elements "to delay resale as GameStop was the only one making any money on that transaction"
news "The cheapest and most effective way to bulk it out was to add RPG elements"
Ubisoft vets releasing free demo for Metroidvania couch co-op Revenge of the Savage Planet because "we know that money is tight," and they hope you'll say "this 4 years of effort and 30 people" that made the full game "is worth 2 lattes"
news There's also a performance mode and photo mode coming very soon
Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us 2 dev's new Japan-based studio aims to make a multiplayer game with Naughty Dog-level cinematic action and a Breaking Bad-style story, and it's already playable
news Former Naughty Dog game director Vinit Agarwal was inspired by FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki
These indie devs gave their co-op roguelite away for free for 24 hours – 2 million people claimed it, and now it's relaunched at $5 with the backing of the Deep Rock Galactic studio
news Guntouchables studio Game Swing says the game's launch "has blown all our expectations for getting the game off the ground"
They'll do anything but make Titanfall 3: Respawn adds wall-running to Apex Legends for its next limited time event
News Apex Legends' new Wildcard mode gets a touch of Titanfall
Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says his new dating sim character sounded too much like his iconic vampire voice, so he had to base his performance on a fictional sex symbol from an '80s British sitcom instead
News "We wanted to make sure that he wasn't going to fall into the Astarion trope too much"
Battlefield 6 dev says the beta's small maps are "to make sure we hit the full-octane version of Battlefield on the head" and, don't worry, "large maps exist" too
news Battlefield Studios wanted to make sure we could all see it "can handle that too"
Welp, another JRPG is coming to devour my whole entire life as Trails in the Sky remake dev says you'll need about 80 hours to beat the game – twice as much as the original game
news Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter should take about 80 hours to clear
