After earning an English degree from ASU, I worked as a corporate copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. I got my big break here in 2019 with a freelance news gig, and I was hired on as GamesRadar's west coast Staff Writer in 2021. That means I'm responsible for managing the site's western regional executive branch, AKA my home office, and writing about whatever horror game I'm too afraid to finish.
Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick

God of War actor Christopher Judge says he hopes a potential sequel will take place in Egypt, but "I have no doubt that no matter what pantheon it is, it will be great"
By Jordan Gerblick published
news "Whatever is decided - wait… if there is another game" (insert eyes emoji)

Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money"
By Jordan Gerblick published
news "For most it doesn't happen"

Silent Hill f's Hinako actor is playing her own game on stream and I feel bad for how hard I'm laughing at her terror
By Jordan Gerblick published
News The Silent Hill f star just created a new meme template by streaming her own game and reacting to its many horrors as any normal human should: with looks of horror

Palworld publishing lead ramps up his crusade against AI games, says "you're huffing pure copium if you think this is going anywhere" and "games like Megabonk will continue to body this for the next 50 years"
By Jordan Gerblick published
News I love that the Palworld dev, of all devs, is leading the charge against AI-generated games

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is adding fan-favorite weapon Maddox and the Standoff map, and FPS fans are let's gooo-ing all over the place: "They are way too good at roping us back in every. damn. time"
By Jordan Gerblick published
News "It feels too good to be true"

Get over here and marvel at this unhinged Red Dead Redemption 2 mod that turns it into Mortal Kombat and lets you Fatality Micah by pushing him in front of a train
By Jordan Gerblick published
news This unhinged Red Dead Redemption 2 Mortal Kombat mod is bloodier than both games combined

Gearbox drops Borderlands 4 patch with "major balance tuning" including some skills it "didn't want to nerf" and others it totally did: "It had to happen, you knew it was going to happen!"
By Jordan Gerblick published
News "As a reminder, our primary goal with balance adjustments is to provide you the greatest number of viable builds"

EA hits like Battlefield 4 and The Sims 4 were given time to bounce back from rough launches because they were "too big to fail," whereas with BioWare's Anthem, it wasn't "a given that it was going to be that big"
By Jordan Gerblick published
News "Your choices are either to fix Battlefield 4 or shut the studio down, and through much of its recent history, EA has been very reluctant to shut down studios"

Metroid Prime developer struggled to find common ground with Nintendo "many" times, leading to one clash that went from morning until "the sun was setting"
By Jordan Gerblick published
news "I've been working on Nintendo games my whole career, so I believe I have the most experience in making Nintendo games"

Pokemon Legends: Z-A has an on-screen day night cycle timer and people are beating the game without ever knowing it's there
By Jordan Gerblick published
News Be honest, did you spot this?

Palworld dev's new publishing label isn't interested in AI slop: "If you're big on AI stuff ... we're not the right partner for that"
By Jordan Gerblick published
News Pocketpair Publishing boss John Buckley says "we don't believe in" AI-generated games

The physical Xbox edition of remastered JRPG darling Tales of Xillia seemingly canceled a week before release: "All preorders will be canceled and refunded"
By Jordan Gerblick published
news "We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but it is beyond our control"

Microsoft says the next Xbox console "will be a very premium and high-end curated experience," and you can see "some of the thinking" in the Xbox Ally handheld
By Jordan Gerblick published
news It's good to have confirmation that there even will be another Xbox console

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says "it would be harder to embrace our Frenchness even more" unless Sandfall "put snails and frogs everywhere in the next game"
By Jordan Gerblick published
news Clair Obscur might've created a new genre: the FRPG

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director thinks "Nintendo will put more effort into popularizing" the Switch 2's controversial game key cards, which he calls "a really amazing new idea"
By Jordan Gerblick published
News Square Enix's Naoki Hamaguchi is fully on-board with Switch 2 game key cards

After asking for $50,000 and getting almost $4 million, the Don't Starve board game is running out of stretch goals on Kickstarter: "With a community like yours, is anything impossible?"
By Jordan Gerblick published
news Don't Starve: The Board Game almost has the funds necessary to unlock every stretch goal

Bethesda's Fallout bundle is 70% off and gets you every main Fallout game and all DLC for $43 in one of the best Steam RPG deals of the season
By Jordan Gerblick published
news They wouldn't have believed this in 1997

Screw up too hard in The Outer Worlds 2 and your companions may fight you "to the death" because Obsidian wanted the RPG's cast to feel "like they're their own people"
By Jordan Gerblick published
News "We wanted to make sure that the companions felt more realistic with how they dealt with the player"

After 7 long snowless years, the League of Legends Winter map is coming back this year "because you really asked for it"
By Jordan Gerblick published
news Riot says its "tech and tools need some work," but because of fan demand, the Winter map is returning for 2025

The original Little Nightmares devs basically made their own Little Nightmares 3, and I had more fun playing its Steam Next Fest demo than I did reviewing the actual sequel from Supermassive
By Jordan Gerblick published
news It seems the future of Little Nightmares, in all but name, is at original studio Tarsier

God of War Ragnarok lead says AAA studios should "diversify into double-A and single-A, and then perhaps indie" even if blockbuster releases result in "potentially really large" payoffs
By Jordan Gerblick published
news "I think gamers right now are a little bit desensitized to beautiful graphics and size and scale and scope"

Game dev union blasts EA buyout, asks the government to scrutinize the daylights out of it: "If jobs are lost or studios are closed due to this deal, that would be a choice, not a necessity"
By Jordan Gerblick published
News "We, the very people who will be jeopardized as a result of this deal, were not represented at all when this buyout was negotiated or discussed"

A Short Hike dev's free "seasonal pumpkin carving MMO" with "new areas and new secrets" now supports 800 players at once and it's hard to think of a better way to get into the Halloween spirit
By Jordan Gerblick published
news The thing with real-life jack-o'-lanterns is, they rot and stain your front porch. These ones don't
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