Latest articles by Issy van der Velde
Cities: Skylines 2 on console is still delayed at least until summer as devs work on "improving performance and stability"
news Slow and steady
"I am freaked out by how much might actually have been accurate": Battlefield Bad Company 3 writer unearths forgotten script
News Life imitates art
Red Dead Redemption 2 has some of the most accurate rivers in video games, according to the video game geographer who charted Skyrim and Zelda's waterways
News Those are some mighty fine rivers you got there
Helldivers 2 has a Major Order problem, but the solution isn't simple because "having 100% participation means the MOs will always be won and that introduces other issues"
news Too many patriots could tip the balance unfairly
Pokemon Legends: Z-A's starter trio proves it's time for a new type, and I know what it should be
Opinion Opinion | It's time for dinosaurs to get their due
Assassin's Creed Shadows file size is the second-biggest in the series, beaten only by Valhalla and dwarfing Mirage
News Chonky
Helldivers 2 has an endgame problem, but a developer assures us "things are coming," they just can't say what yet because otherwise our expectations will be too high
News Onward toward liberty
We all yearn for construction jobs as simulator RoadCraft takes a podium spot in Steam Next Fest's most-played demos just behind PvP mech game Mecha Break
News You all really love construction, huh?
I'm finally sold on Assassin's Creed Shadows after seeing Yasuke boot a bad guy through a building in a move that puts Assassin's Creed Odyssey's Spartan Kick to shame
News Yasuke > Alexios
New Monster Hunter Wilds patch fixes a bunch of progress-blocking bugs, but there's still a network error bug playing havoc with SOS signals
News A solid hotfix
The Among Us 3D demo did so well that you can still download it even though Steam Next Fest has ended
News Your favorite social deception game, now in three dimensions
With over 5,000 "overwhelmingly positive" Steam reviews already, a new co-op horror game with the spirit of Lethal Company has officially popped off
News Gather your friends and get stuck in
GTA developer Rockstar opens new Australian branch by acquiring the studio that's been working on its ports for "this past decade"
News The founder was the creative director on L.A. Noire and another, more troublingly titled game
This streamer just beat a no-hit run of Dark Souls 3 with a saxophone controller, and they've got their sights set on Monster Hunter Wilds next
News Doot
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs chased down a 600-year-old star map for the sake of historical accuracy and immersion, and it should "be useful for Hardcore Mode"
News Look to the stars
In classic Nintendo fashion, the latest Pokemon Legends Z-A reveal left out the best part: the Lumiose City map looks great after a massive overhaul in the 12 years since X and Y
News I was nervous about the entire game being in one city until I saw the map
FromSoftware proves it's been the master of asset reuse for over a decade as a modder discovers Dark Souls' Blighttown is made of just "10 bits of wood"
News Got wood?
Pokemon Legends: Z-A breaks a 24-year fashion tradition, giving its female protagonist pants for the first time in the series' history
News Those are some wide pants
"EA gives you enough rope to hang yourself": BioWare co-founder says working for a big game company just ain't it, even if "it was actually a pretty successful run" for Mass Effect
News Not a glowing recommendation
A single frame in the new Pokemon Legends Z-A trailer gives hardcore shiny hunters and Nuzlocke runners hope for a huge quality-of-life change
News Thank Arceus
Pokemon Legends Z-A remembers it's an open-zone JRPG, adds actual parkour and platforming so you can explore the city
News It's not quite Assassin's Creed, but it'll do
Pokemon "will go downhill" if "we become complacent and go with the flow" says CEO, who hopes the series could last another 70 years
News Will it make it to its 100th anniversary?
Monster Hunter Wilds dev says remaking the series' old games is hard because "trying to go back to a game that was from 2004 Internet" takes so many changes it becomes a reboot
News Why go back when you can go forward?
