Latest articles by Issy van der Velde
Former Skyrim animator says "gameplay is the most important thing" for The Elder Scrolls 6
News "First and foremost I want to play a game that I enjoy"
The League of Legends fighting game spin-off won't be getting its big playtest, but that's so that more of you can play it later this year
News Some other information has been clarified
After 14 years, Elden Ring Nightreign brings back an iconic Dark Souls boss and gives him some frankly hilarious new tricks
News Centipede Demon is back, and its heads do weirder stuff now
GTA 5 is giving PC players a free upgrade that brings it up to par with the console versions and adds some PC-exclusive features
News Get ready for ray tracing
League of Legends fans' fury grows as Riot nerfs another way to get free skins, this time as a reward for good behavior
News This isn't going down well
Skyrim's foremost geographer uses weather stats to explain how it actually feels to live in each of the iconic RPG's cities
News Now I know how to visit Riften IRL
Japanese officials "taking appropriate action" after viral Assassin's Creed Shadows video shows destruction of their shrine: "If they had asked us, we would have refused"
News It's not the first time the series has taken an aggressive approach to religious sites
Death Stranding 2 draws ever closer as Hideo Kojima shares emotional behind-the-scenes update from "important scene" that wrapped recording for 6 voice actors at once
News He really appreciates his actors
FromSoftware didn't work with Sony on Dark Souls because of how the company failed Demon's Souls, says ex-PlayStation boss: "We definitely dropped the ball"
News It seems to have learned its lesson now
Former exec admits Amazon tried and failed to beat Steam, says the company "needed to build something dramatically better" but "gamers already had the solution" in Valve's store
News Did anyone even think there was a competition?
Assassin's Creed Shadows' new Canon Mode looks like the best way to play because it makes the cutscenes feel a lot more natural
News That's the way I'm going to play
Hollow Knight: Silksong fans reach as-yet-unheard-of levels of cope as the Metroidvania's Nintendo Switch store page briefly disappears
News It's coming out soon, right? Right?!
"Project Hadar needs an extraordinary crew" says Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 studio, sharing lots of job openings for the studio's first original game
News Hadar, better, faster, stronger
After 15 years, Elden Ring Nightreign introduces a FromSoftware first: you can stab a dude with an arrow like you're Legolas
News This is what peak performance looks like
"I thought PlayStation was finished": Former Sony boss says TV sales were the only thing that could save the company when the PS3 was "losing a billion dollars"
News Hanging on for dear life
More than 4 years after its last Elder Scrolls 6 teaser, Bethesda officially re-acknowledges the RPG - using the exact same picture we saw in 2018
News A crumb, Bethesda, anything new, please
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 just got even better to me after watching this video showing NPCs scavenging and a dev explaining "nobles might ignore cheap items, but beggars will pick them up"
News Now that's what I call immersive
In a world of live-service chasing, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 proves people still love single-player games as it sells 2 million units in under 2 weeks
News Let this be a lesson to all publishers
GTA 5 is "the standard-bearer for the industry over three generations," but GTA 6 publisher's CEO isn't taking that for granted: "We don't claim success until it occurs"
News GTA 5 has sold over 210 million copies
GTA 3 originally gave players a wanted level for running a red light, but "This was not popular with the team," so a developer "quickly removed it"
News You can never escape city planning
6 years after Rare's survival game was announced, Xbox boss Phil Spencer says the long wait is because "we've been able to give those teams time in what they're doing"
News Finally, an update
After a hard launch, Hyper Light Breaker dev says negative reviews were key because "you can’t pay for QA of that caliber! That all comes from true giving a damn"
News Constructive criticism pays off - key word, constructive
"Rockstar is controlled by no one, including their publisher": Ex-Blizzard boss says Borderlands 4 "doesn't matter" in response to fans trying to narrow the GTA 6 release window down
News Who would dare to tell the makers of Red Dead Redemption and Bully what to do?
