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Well darn, Hello Games' Sean Murray says the team working on No Man's Sky follow-up Light No Fire is "tiny" and working "in the background"
News Light No Fire is somewhere out there in no man's land
The Outer Worlds 2 director bravely says Chrono Trigger is "the best JRPG ever and it's not even close" - and that it doesn't get enough credit for being one of the only ones where "you don't actually have to grind"
News "The pacing on it is just amazing"
After miracle revival, Hytale head "now assembling a dedicated team" to satisfy fans of a key genre that's only grown since the Minecraft-inspired game's reveal: cozy and farming games like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing
News "In Hytale, if you're a cozy player who enjoys farming, building a cute home, caring for animals, cooking, and simply wants to escape the real world, we've got you covered"
Star Fox spiritual successor from one of the SNES classic's original creators gets "re-reveal" gameplay trailer, and it looks even better than before
News Wild Blue Skies is back, even though it never really left
After 2 years and $100,000 invested, acclaimed indie studio is "likely closing" due to Steam ban, says it was "tricked and betrayed" by Valve: "A system that allows that is broken"
news "In a de facto monopoly, opaque decisions like these can quickly determine a small studio's survival"
Ex Valve designer reveals the door and big toe that retroactively broke Half-Life 2: "This isn't a normal bug - it appears to have traveled backwards in time and infected the original!"
News "The two biggest bug-farms in gamedev - doors and floating point - contrived to make a simple NPC placement bug into quite the time-travelling palaver"
Hytale is priced so "aggressively low" that its returning owner is "taking on a considerable personal risk," but "charging more didn't feel right" because "I don't think the game is good yet"
news "My team and I will push hard to make it good, then great. The vision is clear and progress is fast"
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actor is "optimistic" about "opportunities" in generative AI acting: "My hope is that that power will come to the creator"
News "There's this possibility for some amazing creative stuff to happen, as well as a lot of changes"
Capcom says Resident Evil Requiem's "stalker" enemy will only be "a small part of the game," improving the worst thing about my favorite game franchise
News "I understand how there are a lot of opinions surrounding the stalker, but we are giving a survival horror experience"
Gearbox finally fixes the most frustrating loot in Borderlands 4: "Class Mods have been adjusted to drop more for your current character"
News There's also a new "legendary loot indicator"
"We are more effective than bigger teams": Ahead of Blood of Dawnwalker's release next year, Rebel Wolves lead says he doesn't want the studio to grow
News "Because we don't have so many people, people feel responsible for some parts of the game, and feel ownership of it. And I think that this is the most important thing"
2016's Tales of Berseria is getting remastered, leaving some JRPG fans puzzled as to why a mere 9-year-old game is getting this treatment before some much older entries
News Tales of Berseria Remastered comes out in February
God of War 2018's boss fights were so good that they've been recreated almost one-for-one in a new Netflix Bollywood movie that feels like a tribute to Kratos as well as Mortal Kombat fatalities
news Mahavatar Narsimha makes its inspirations pretty clear
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says today's games could learn a lot from '80s games: "They add too many things thinking more of those things make the game better, when really what they do is dilute the game"
news Sometimes simple is better
Hytale creator says "right now, the game is not good enough" for an Early Access launch, but when that happens, it'll "feel real Early Access"
news "We need the community to help us move forward"
Dragon Quest creator wants to "oversee everything" in the legendary JRPG series until he dies: "I think the next goal for me is to witness the 50th Anniversary [2036]"
News You got this, Yuji Horii
Rust studio COO wants an official Delta Force collab after calling out the game for allegedly stealing assets: "Cinematic is great though, hopefully next time we see a Rust Hazmat in their next season"
news "If you wanted to collab, you should have reached out"
Baldur's Gate 3 publishing chief says the Steam Machine isn't super high-spec because there's "genuinely no point" when people who want demanding PC performance on TV "know how to turn any PC into a Steam Machine"
news Larian's Michael Douse says "Steam Deck gave birth to an entire handheld market that helped define the features of the Switch 2," and "the same will happen" with the new Steam Machine and the pre-built market
Silent Hill f's lead actor can't catch a break: As Konami announces new "casual mode," fans are naming it after Hinako's VO after she went viral for streaming the game in terror
News "Kato Kona mode is here!!!"
The new Steam Controller "puck" adapter was internally called "the chongle," says Valve employee: "I'm leaking that information come get me"
news I want to start a petition to change it back
PUBG and Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton, now an "AI first" company, asks devs to fire themselves in voluntary resignation program if they can't roll with "the era of AI transformation"
News Krafton seemingly gunning for the most hated game publisher crown
Valve wants Steam Deck 2 to "truly be a next-gen performance" machine: "We're not interested in getting to a point where it's 20 or 30 or even 50% more performance"
news "The thing we're making sure of is that it's a worthwhile enough performance upgrade to make sense as a standalone product"
