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Former PlayStation Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida says he shut down 2 games "in deep production" after Sony had spent $25 million on them: "At that time, that was lots of money"
News "I felt really bad about how we couldn't see this"
Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version "to access a decade-old, discontinued video game"
News The Crew players "received the benefit of their bargain and cannot complain now that they were deceived," Ubisoft argues
4 years later, The Witcher multiplayer devs have been fully absorbed into CD Projekt: "This is a GOOD AND HEALTHY thing for the studio, and it was long-expected," co-founder says
News "It's going to be an amazing game, one for the books, and I cannot wait until the rest of the world learns about what we've been working on"
Nintendo wasn't sure about Mario Kart: Double Dash's central 2-driver gimmick, so the devs made a single-driver version simultaneously as an "emergency escape hatch"
News "The pressure is huge" to make worthy Mario Kart entries
"I just want people to be able to enjoy the game": Earthbound legend Shigesato Itoi is "glad" the SNES JRPG got the English localization changes it did
News One English line is even "pretty famous among Japanese fans as a really great example of a translation"
Mario Kart's infamous Baby Park was inspired by the 2002 Olympic ice skating track, and Nintendo knew it was going to be "a love-it-or-hate-it kind of course" even during development
News "I saw the short track they'd prepared for the ice skating and thought, 'We should make a track like that!'"
Blizzard details full Diablo 4 roadmap for 2025 with teasers for seasons 9 and 10, reconfirms a new expansion for 2026, and hints at multiple "new IP collabs"
News The devs seem keen to make sure you know Diablo 4 won't turn into Fortnite
22 years ago, the worst game of all time launched to a Metacritic score of just 8, and now it's on Steam with 83% positive reviews from a whole new generation of garbage lovers
News "You're winner!"
The man who brought Tetris to the world was "p***ed off" when Nintendo made Dr. Mario: "It's not as good"
News "Dr. Mario is sort of a blatant attempt at making another Tetris"
2003's Kirby Air Ride was "ahead of its time," Nintendo exec says, and the Switch 2 sequel might finally let people appreciate "the genius of Masahiro Sakurai"
News It's been 22 years since Kirby Air Ride launched to a 61 Metacritic
"I did lick it once, but never again": Nintendo Switch 2 devs confirm the new game cartridges still taste bad, and they "can't believe" you sickos are taste-testing them
News "We have indeed made it so that if it enters your mouth, you'll spit it out"
Schedule 1 fans review bomb Drug Dealer Simulator as its publisher launches an apparent copyright investigation: "Suing a lone indie dev for making a superior game is laughable"
News "I liked the game up until they became greedy and jealous that a solo game developer, who created a game 10 times greater than theirs is so successful"
Assassin's Creed Shadows patch fixes my 2 biggest annoyances, tedious dismantling and the hideout FPS cap, right as I've nearly finished this open-world RPG
News I've wanted these fixes since the day I launched the game
Nintendo confirms Switch 2's new Joy-Con 2 controllers are "not Hall effect sticks," and all our fears about Joy-Con drift are still here
News "They're not Hall Effect sticks, but they feel really good"
Nintendo Switch 2 upgrades of Switch 1 games are getting physical releases, but nobody's sure if these are Switch 2 cartridges or old games repackaged with digital upgrade codes
Switch 2 versions Metroid Prime 4, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and more are all making us ask the same question
Super Mario All-Stars speedrunner sets triumphant world record only to suffer SNES cart tragedy 90 seconds later: "I guess it's not safe to do any more runs until I give it a good clean"
News "What if massive World Record pace but the universe said no"
Hidetaka Miyazaki can't help himself and now The Duskbloods sounds even more like a Bloodborne successor: "The Bloodsworn are competing for something known as First Blood"
News If this isn't Miyazaki making a Bloodborne successor I don't know what is
Insomniac is "actively working on Marvel's Wolverine for PS5" but won't share news just because you ask: "Things take time, resources, and the greenlight to share them"
News "That will always be our answer"
For the first time since Super Mario Kart 33 years ago, Mario Kart World brings the feather back to actual races and it seems like it can even stop the dreaded blue shell
News What's a Mario game without jumping?
Metroid Prime 4's Star Wars-style opening space battle has the 14-year-old Metroid nerd in me absolutely screaming
News The galaxy is not at peace
Nintendo Switch 2 officially has the Nvidia DLSS tech that's become essential for PC gaming, promising "10x the graphics performance" of Switch 1
News The Switch 2's screen also supports VRR through G-Sync in handheld mode
Nintendo heads off the Zelda lore debate that surrounded Age of Calamity by preemptively confirming that Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is "canonical"
News That's one debate that's over before it's even begun
Nintendo says Switch 2's Discord-like GameChat is a "defining feature" of the new console that was partially shaped by Zelda: Breath of the Wild and a cult puzzle game
News "We spent about two hours every day playing various games while sharing screens via GameChat"
