Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick
Helldivers 2 players are getting rocked by Hive Lords, but grunts are begging for Arrowhead not to nerf them: "The game was lacking a fear element"
News Freedom fighting ain't supposed to be easy
Gearbox's Randy Pitchford says everyone expects Nintendo to do something "really interesting," and sometimes you get "brilliant" things like the Wii and Switch 2, and other times you get the Wii U, which "didn't work as well"
news This is objectively true, and I also don't like it at all
Marvel Rivals season 4 launches in September with Angela, Daredevil, and a PS4 release
News This Marvel Rivals: The Heart of the Dragon trailer goes unreasonably hard
Blizzard wakes up and chooses fun: the "wacky and crazy" powers of past Diablo 4 seasons could come back as "permanent" features
News Now we're talkin'
"Mario Kart World won't have any influence" on Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, but like everyone else, Sega was "somewhat expecting a new Mario Kart to be released soon" even before its reveal
News Sonic series producer Takashi Iizuka says the Sonic Racing team was "surprised" by Mario Kart World, but also kind of not
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
Borderlands 4 endgame and post-launch roadmap revealed: You can start new characters at level 30 after beating the campaign, there are weekly challenges, and the first story pack is "cosmic horror" with "a bloodier, darker tone"
news The first few months of post-launch Borderlands 4 updates include a revamped Ultimate Vault Hunter mode, "Weekly Wildcard" missions, and much more
This Final Fantasy Tactics-inspired indie strategy RPG with anime fish and lizard people was fully funded on Kickstarter in less than a week, and after that banger of an elevator pitch, are we even surprised?
news Beaten Path looks like Final Fantasy Tactics but just extremely anime
The Sims 4's colorful competitor Paralives lets you be a passive aggressive king and give backhanded compliments or just straight up diss characters for being bad cooks or because "they have a lower paying job than you"
News Paralives' Together cards have "variants" that let you give "flirty" or "ironic" compliments
EA says "a substantial number" of Battlefield 6 beta players were running the FPS on PCs that didn't meet the minimum specs
News Suddenly my old RX 580 rig doesn't seem quite so dusty
Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Jennifer English says she's appeared in "sh*t games," too - but they're not on her CV, so good luck finding them
news It's not all Shadowhearts and Latennas for Jennifer English
The internet bullied Blizzard into reversing an Overwatch 2 change 72 hours after it released, but the studio says it's "still invested in creating new and unique features"
News Mirror matchups are back in Stadium after a massive backlash to removing them
Bloober dev says Cronos: The New Dawn is a "treat" with Resident Evil-style action and, screw it, cats as the team moves past Silent Hill 2: "No more James Sunderland, running around the place with his wooden plank"
News "What do you want? What do you like? Someone said cats? Okay, let's do cats"
Hideo Kojima only plays "maybe one game a year" because "games take a lot of time" and "what's happening outside the game world is more important to me to incorporate into my game"
news The Death Stranding 2 director says "young people are playing games a lot, and that's good," but they should also try "to feel art or see art and then digest it themselves and create new games"
Resident Evil 7 was "possibly too scary" and "some people couldn't handle it," says director Koshi Nakanishi, and that's why Resident Evil 9 has a third-person mode to "make it slightly easier to deal with"
News "I want to make sure that people enjoy this game"
After 14 years in development and $860 million racked up in crowdfunding, Star Citizen director hopes single-player spin-off Squadron 42 will be "an event almost as important" as GTA 6
News "Apart from GTA 6, it's probably the most important AAA-budget game"
Oh good, Resident Evil Requiem director says "there are similarities" to the scariest scene in Resident Evil history, but on "another level" of "claustrophobic, unarmed" tension
News Capcom wanted to add "something fresh" to Resident Evil 9 instead of "copying and pasting over House Beneviento"
Marvel's Spider-Man officially has its first working multiplayer mod, and it's probably the closest thing we've got to Insomniac's canceled Great Web project
news Unfortunately it's locked behind a Patreon
Bloodlines 2 publisher says it's "making adjustments ahead of launch" in response to "feedback about the Lasombra and Toreador" clans being locked behind paid DLC
News More info is coming "as soon as possible," says Paradox
Return to Silent Hill's first teaser trailer shows Silent Hill 2's James Sunderland confronting Pyramid Head in live-action glory, or terror, depending on how you look at it
News The first official Return to Silent Hill teaser trailer is here, and it looks like a whole different vibe from the game
Silent Hill f director says, alright, you got your Silent Hill 2 remake, which was "basically for the classic fans," but moving forward things are going to look different: "Future titles will probably carry their own flavour"
News "Instead of being too adverse to new experiences in Silent Hill games, it seems like a reality that players should come to terms with"
Path of Exile 2's first free weekend lets you check out everything the ARPG has to offer for the low, low price of nothing
News Path of Exile 2 is free for everyone for the launch of The Third Edict update
The beautiful, sad cyberpunk game I've had my eye on for 4 years has sad, less beautiful news: it's delayed again, this time to spring 2026 - "It's no secret that it's taken longer than we initially thought"
news Replaced has replaced its 2025 release date with a later one
World of Warcraft takes home decorating in MMOs like Final Fantasy 14 and adds the freedom of The Sims 4 building to it, letting you "resize and rotate stuff" using 3D software made to look more "WoW-like"
News World of Warcraft's in-depth home decorator originally looked "too much like a software," so Blizzard "changed the art to feel like magic"
