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Metaphor: ReFantazio smashed Atlus' expectations on PC - another reminder that PC gamers really want more JRPGs and Japanese games
News Hot off Monster Hunter Wilds and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's massive releases on the platform
Oblivion Remastered added a spell from Skyrim that's basically "a magical trail of breadcrumbs" pointing to quests and objectives
News Especially handy for those dark and dour dungeons
More than a month before the Switch 2 launch, one dedicated fan is already camping outside Nintendo's store and vlogging the entire wait on a 3DS
News Or a 2DS XL, to be exact
Voice recording for Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is seemingly underway just months after the JRPG's director completed its script
News The plot for Rebirth's follow-up was done and dusted late last year
Former Helldivers, WoW devs had to employ horse actors for new game, and getting them into motion capture suits was predictably wild: "But the results have been worth it"
News "Everything had to be built so that it functioned exactly the same for the horse as it did for the people."
Pocketpair uses examples from Final Fantasy 14, Tomb Raider, Monster Hunter, and more to defend Palworld against Nintendo's lawsuit
News Catching strays
"One wrong move and everything's lost": Metaphor: ReFantazio battle lead explains why turn-based JRPGs rule and why they absolutely have to be hard
News Kenichi Goto doesn't want players to get careless
34 years later, MCU star Paul Rudd reprises the SNES role that got him into acting with an adorable Nintendo Switch 2 trailer
News And he's barely aged a day
Along with Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft seems to be bringing Assassin's Creed Shadows to Nintendo Switch 2 according to PEGI
News Another huge open world for the Switch 2?
Star Wars Zero Company is inspired by the best parts of every era: Andor's "political intrigue," Rogue One's grit, and the OG trilogy's "mythic pulp adventure"
News Respawn's tactics game is coming out next year
Respawn and XCOM veterans' new strategy game Star Wars Zero Company looks like Fire Emblem: Clone Wars Edition, and it's coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox in 2026
News Lucasfilm Games, Bit Reactor, and the Star Wars Jedi studio lift the lid on their joint tactics games
Nearly 4 years later, Hollow Knight: The Sanctuary, an expansion-sized mod resurfaces right on the heels of long-awaited Silksong news
News And more news should be coming in the weeks ahead
We asked Metaphor: ReFantazio's lead UI designer about RPGs that inspire him, and he name dropped a surprise PS2 sleeper hit from 25 years ago
News Koji Ise was inspired by a lesser known game that also has incredibly papery menus
Palworld dev explains what's going on with its slick Dead Cells-style "Metroidvania x Roguelite," which has its own team who "used to be at Pocketpair"
News The team still works in Pocketpair's offices, unconventionally, but they're somewhat separate
As the Oblivion remaster looms, fans hope the original RPG's viral goofiness makes it through unscathed
News Thank you, Bethesda jank
Palworld developer says reaching 32 million players is "unexplainable" and "a lot of people don't realize how much of an anomaly that is"
News One of a kind
To get through the Kingdom Hearts 4 news drought, Square Enix is re-releasing a 10-game collection full of other already re-released collections
news Kingdom Hearts All-In-One package (a bundle within a bundle within a bundle) is getting a physical launch in the EU
Mario Kart World borrows some tips from the other open-world racing epic Forza Horizon with a handy rewind feature
News If car parkour doesn't go your way, you can simply retrace your steps
Hideo Kojima confirms Death Stranding 2 features the traditional Japanese couriers that inspired the original's fiddly movement
News He's not called Sam Porter Bridges for nothing
Former PlayStation boss predicted the Switch 2 would be $100 cheaper than it is, but isn't irked by $80 for games like Mario Kart World as publishers shouldn't be "limited to a fixed price"
News Shuhei Yoshida thought the Switch 2 would have been $399
"We based our decisions on that selling 100,000 copies over 2 years, it did 200,000 copies in the first month": Indie publisher says planning small is key to its success
News Yogscast Games is "almost too realistic in terms of our projections"
Bungie thinks Marathon can coexist with games like Escape from Tarkov and help players get to "the survival storytelling a little bit faster"
News Wiping off the genre's usual jank to make everything more approachable
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's divisive weapon durability is getting a workaround, but it's locked to the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition app
news Equipment Repair is a daily bonus you can unlock in Zelda Notes
