Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick
New Blood Interactive co-founder says Escape from Tarkov "caused irreparable f***ing damage to the game industry" after finding out The Duskbloods is multiplayer and not "Bloodborne 2"
News "I just want to play a regular ass game"
The Witcher 4 beta test invites are bogus, says CDPR: "Professional monster slayers don't fall for scams; they see right through them and slay them!"
News "This is a scam!"
Phil Spencer says Xbox is "really happy" with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and thinks "there's life in that franchise," but he also wants more original Xbox IP: "We have a lot of room to tell new stories"
news "Going forward, I also want to give the teams the ability to do our own games and our own franchises"
BioWare veteran says the impact of Baldur's Gate 3 will be "more muted" than most realize because it was a "perfect storm" of development most other RPGs won't be "allowed" to replicate
News Former BioWare executive Mark Darrah says Baldur's Gate 3 changed "the landscape of who is willing to look at an RPG," but it might not change how games are made as much as you'd expect
New Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 patch adds bald representation and the long-awaited hardcore mode: "No handholding. No shortcuts"
News Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 patch 1.2.4 is here
Any live service game is a risk, but Sony and Bungie are betting Marathon can make extraction shooters bigger: "I do think that the ceiling could rise"
News "We have a whole generation of people who are growing up in sandbox experiences"
Steam's Lovecraftian Days event is a week-long cosmic horror blowout, and you can get my favorite cozy spooky game of the decade for just $12
news Steam's latest themed event brings hundreds of cosmic horror reveals, demos, and steep discounts
Assassin's Creed: Shadows has been the best-selling game in the US for each of its first 3 weeks on market
News Ubisoft has a hit on its hands
More than 1,000 classic RPGs, strategy games, and horror greats are wildly cheap in GOG's "Classics" PC sale, and are we OK with Skyrim officially being labeled an "old game?"
news I suppose 2011 was like 5 or 6 years ago now
The indie RPG blending Pokemon with Stardew Valley has hit 1500% Kickstarter funding, and to celebrate the dev is adding a uniquely Animal Crossing feature into the mix
news Monsterpatch is now getting fossils and a museum
Final Fantasy 14 and 16 composer says working on the MMO and a action-RPG at the same time was awful: "Every day was a really horrible hell"
news Masayoshi Soken says "I would just say no" if Square Enix asked him to work on Final Fantasy 17 and 14 at the same time
Cozy game nerds can keep their Stardew Valley, I'll take this "nightmarish life sim RPG" with Zelda dungeons from Celeste's pixel artist where you're "the immortal herald of a dead god"
news Neverway is my kind of cozy game
Naughty Dog really is coming for Skyrim's re-release crown as The Last of Us 1 and 2 get bundled together as the "Complete" edition, with a gorgeous physical launch on the way
news Jokes aside, if you're new to the games after watching The Last of Us season 2 on HBO, this is a good option to experience both
For the first time in 10 years, Elder Scrolls Online is adding Subclassing that'll let you kit out your build with skill lines from other classes
News You'll now have about "3,000 ways to mix and match skill lines"
11 years in, Elder Scrolls Online isn't going anywhere, but its studio head says it's "time to shake things up" so that the MMO can stay "fresh and modern for years"
News Zenimax Online studio head Matt Firor says "we've heard your feedback about wanting more variety and to shake things up"
Xbox channels PS2 era weirdness in a new commercial directed by David Fincher about rats finding their humanity through gaming
news David Lynch ran so... David Fincher could also run
PS5 exclusives: Every game released and confirmed so far
Features Every PS5-only game you can (or will be able to) play on Sony's latest console
Former Sony exec says Nintendo can charge $80 for Switch 2 games because of its exclusives: "If it's the only place you can play Mario, then you get your wallet out"
News "And Donkey Kong and Zelda"
"I'm not sure where Diablo is going": Former Blizzard boss says Diablo 4 seasons "need to get off the cycle of shipping, spending 2 months to fix issues, then repeating"
News "Playing for a week to then 1 or 3 shot an 'uber' boss 500 times for a unique, then quitting until next season is fundamentally not fun"
"LocalThunk is really rich now": 2 weeks after winning yet another GOTY award, Balatro sends Final Fantasy 16 star to accept award in "suspiciously arousing" Jimbo attire
News "This is weird isn't it?"
Wildly successful Balatro publisher says more indie devs need funding "that isn't based on making a ridiculous amount of money back"
News Balatro recently crossed 5 million units sold
"This isn't Ubisoft": Former Nintendo PR managers say the company's mantra of "respect the value" is why Switch games "don't go on sale"
news "You're paying a Nintendo mark-up"
Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser says FromSoftware's The Duskbloods is evidence of Hidetaka Miyazaki's faith in the Switch 2 hardware
News The Switch 2-exclusive Duskbloods is Miyazaki's next game
