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GDQ's first ever Games Done Queer event already raises over $11,000 thanks to Donkey Kong and hot dog-making speedruns, with Halo CE and Deltarune still to come
News Games Done Quick is back for more speedy, charity-fuelled runs
Keanu Reeves wants to find a way to play Cyberpunk 2077's Johnny Silverhand again, so series creator Mike Pondsmith quips "I have ways to do that, Keanu, contact me"
News Back from the dead (again)
Saints Row devs had a debug NPC named Skinballs that helped the team light all skin tones correctly, but modders preferred to wear his literal skin as an outfit
News Community baller
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director "would love" to make a AA game with a similar scope to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 that's "really focused on one area"
News But only if Naoki Hamaguchi "completely ignored" his role at Square Enix
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain remembers buying Super Nintendo games "for $59 in the '90s," but while digital games saved publishers money "those cost savings for digital weren't passed on to consumers"
News "That would have been a really expensive game these days"
Dragon Age's The Inquisitor actor knows the character is "probably not coming back," but sees a world where BioWare brings back all protagonists "Avengers Assemble-style"
News Dragon Age Inquisition's star thinks there's a world where BioWare gets "wacky" with it
Arc Raiders devs "don’t use generative AI," CCO says AI text-to-speech is used to help "make rich worlds" while keeping the studio small but "there's no end goal in replacing any actors"
News Arc Raiders uses AI TTS similarly to The Finals, in combination with real actors
Bully Online modder isn't worried about Rockstar's lawyers, but all the hype for the GTA Online-like mod is "a clear sign that Bully 2 wouldn't be such a bad idea"
News "This is why we're planning on making the mod free for the public to enjoy in 2026"
Halo MMO from OG Age of Empires and Halo Wars devs was canceled because a former Xbox boss wanted a bonus, says dev, despite Microsoft projecting it'd make $1 billion
News Ensemble's Project Titan sounded like a dream
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director's GOTY pick, and not just because it features JRPG-inspired combat: "It gets all of the elements in it right"
News Naoki Hamaguchi's also a fan
With a peak of 100,000 concurrent players sending it straight into Steam's best-sellers chart, the latest indie hit is a silly physics-based co-op game about driving an RV
News RV There Yet? is another huge co-op hit
OG Halo: CE dev says the remake's changes are "like the dance remix of a classic song that skips the intro and the bridge and just thumps the chorus over and over"
News But series veteran Marcus Lehto is much more positive about Halo: Campaign Evolved
Brave genius takes on the ultimate gamer challenge: converting an elliptical "from the side of the road" into a controller and working out while playing Elden Ring
News It's like Wii Sports, but painful
Xbox exclusives are heading to Nintendo and PlayStation because Microsoft's biggest competition is "everything from TikTok to movies," not Switch 2 and PS5, Matt Booty says
News As Halo, Forza, and Gears of War make the jump
Palworld dev advises players to stop defending games online and play them instead: "Pop open Megabonk or something and just have fun"
News Truly based
Final Fantasy 7 Remake director promises Part 3 news "in the not too far future" and tells fans he's "running straight to my hotel room and back to checking some of the levels"
News "Rest assured it's going well and we're working very hard on it"
"Halo is on PlayStation going forward, starting with Halo: Campaign Evolved": As Xbox's most iconic FPS hits PS5, devs hint that the days of exclusivity are over
"As the Master Chief once said: 'I think we're just getting started.'"
"This is Halo for everyone": Halo Campaign Evolved officially coming to PC, Xbox, and PS5 next year with a new 3-mission prequel arc and 4-player co-op
News Plus new/old weapons, no multiplayer, level design tweaks, and... optional sprint
Commander Shephard actor would love to return in Mass Effect 5 to play "anyone," not just FemShep – but BioWare hasn't picked up the phone
News Jennifer Hale would love to come back, and so would we
Xbox's Phil Spencer leaves it up to developers to decide if they want to use AI, and any top-down mandate "is not really a path to success"
News "On the creative side, I really leave it up to the teams"
Next-gen Xbox console will focus on "connecting all your devices in one place," Phil Spencer teases, with the handheld ROG Xbox Ally a sign of things to come
News Lining up with Sarah Bond's recent comments
Take-Two CEO calls generative AI "the future of technology" that "will increase employment," months after saying GTA 6's "creative genius is human"
News "AI is a great thing. It's a great thing for every industry."
Mario Galaxy and Astro Bot-inspired 3D platformer demolishes its Kickstarter funding goal in just 47 minutes, now smashing through multiple stretch goals
News Home Paige is set in an old school OS' recycling bin
