Latest articles by Issy van der Velde
I hope you saved room after Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered because the Horizon MMO could be on its way as early as next year
News A new job posting has tipped us off
Warcraft 3: Reforged was so bad that Blizzard changed its refund policy – now it's getting a second chance with a huge 2.0 update
News A second chance for the second chance
After cutting 2,500 jobs in under one year, Phil Spencer says he feels good about the industry and that "the Xbox business has never been more healthy"
News Press 'X' to doubt
After their chill fishing game peaks at more than 20,000 concurrents, dev reveals they thought "maybe like 100 people would play it ever"
News Indie magic strikes again
We all wondered why there was no Fallout game announcement to go with the Fallout TV show, but Phil Spencer says it was a good thing: "That gave us some creative liberty"
News Season 2 is going to keep leaning into something games find "grammatically" hard
Marvel boss Kevin Feige confirms when he plans to introduce Miles Morales' Spider-Man into the MCU
News Swinging to a screen near you
Marvel boss Kevin Feige reveals his three favourite MCU moments of all-time, from a fan-favourite Avengers: Endgame scene to some surprises
News Some good moments in here
New Captain America: Brave New World trailer gives us our best look yet at Harrison Ford as Red Hulk as he battles Sam Wilson
News "You're not Steve Rogers"
Marvel's new Thunderbolts trailer reveals who bought Avengers Tower and finally addresses that asterisk, suggesting a name change
News "So what, do we all just punch and shoot?"
"We are just now starting to write the script" for Incredibles 3, says Disney, and we'll learn more about the all-new adventure in the future
News The crowd really wants to know more right now
The new Tron 3 trailer is "a spectacle", the soundtrack is "revolutionary", and Jeff Bridges is back
News Get ready to re-enter the game
Black Panther VFX artist agrees the CGI was bad, but they had just 6 weeks and "given the time and resources we had this was the best we could do"
News "I know there's a lot of complaints on how bad the CGi looks, and I agree"
GTA 5 dev says Rockstar would transplant entire missions "to make sure there isn't any section of the map missing content, missing gameplay" even when that meant starting from scratch
"That was always the worst-case"
Arcane showrunners defend the League of Legends spin-off's reported $250 million budget: "The money is just a reflection of the amount of effort that was put into this"
News "Arcane is a really expensive animated series - which was the point"
Astro Bot has sold 1.5 million copies, but Sony says the platformer's real strength is grabbing people who didn't care about games like God of War Ragnarok or Marvel's Spider-Man 2
The little robot that could (get people to buy first-party games again)
2 years later, God of War Ragnarok PS5 and PS4 players finally get a solution to the game's most annoying 'feature' as it gets updated for PS5 Pro
Quiet, boy
PS5 Pro scalpers may be losing money on the console, but they're still making a profit on disc drives
Won't somebody please think of the scalpers
Death Stranding is finally on Xbox, but one of the console's best features triggers a game-ruining bug
There's a simple fix
Boss of Rockstar owner Take-Two says "never count Nintendo out" as Switch 2 inches closer: "We support successful platforms"
We're listening
Horizon Forbidden West on PS5 Pro has "the best image quality I've seen in a console game," tech analyst says, and feels like "playing on a high-end PC"
A lot of bang for a lot of buck
Nintendo's Miyamoto says he isn't a genius and "I'd prefer not to work at all, but If I'm going to work, I want to do so as efficiently as possible"
He also expands on his video game design philosophy
I was already impressed by this nuke-parrying soulslike, and that was before I found out it has entire cities that you can just miss
News Make sure you explore as well as fight
As GTA 5 passes 205 million units sold, publisher Take-Two says hit titles "decay" and if they're not making new IP, they're "burning the furniture to heat the house"
"Everything degrades"
