Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick
Switch 2 is getting an even more co-op-focused spinoff of a massively popular survival space sim, but it's not replacing the original: "Astroneer will continue to live on"
news Starseeker is coming to Switch 2, Playstation, Xbox, and PC in 2026
Forget $80 games, this $10 indie RPG is being hailed as "one of the best if not the best" cosmic horror games ever, and thank Cthulhu, it only takes "10-12 hours" to beat
news Look Outside tackles cosmic horror, JRPG-style combat, and Undertale-style humor, and its 98% positive Steam reviews are calling it one of the best of all of those genres
31 years after working on the original System Shock, Arkane founder gave up on the 2023 remake because it was "too hard"
news "I got stuck in the cyberspace"
"I can promise my game will be significantly less than $80": Indie dev stunned by Kirby Air Riders Switch 2 reveal after working on their own Air Ride successor for months
news That is very unfortunate timing
Mario Kart World quietly fixes one of the series' longest-standing annoyances and I suspect I will get hit with 10% fewer red turtle shells because of it
news No more accidentally letting go of your back protection
Switch 2 analyst says the $450 price tag is "relatively reasonable" compared to the $700 PS5 Pro and $550 portable PCs
News Not to mention $2000 graphics cards
Mario Kart World gameplay showcase proves the rail-grinding mechanic is more than just a slick Tony Hawk-style gimmick: "It opens up so many possibilities"
News "You can do something different every time"
Elden Ring on Switch 2 is officially called Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition, and it comes with new weapons, armor, and horse armor (kinda)
News Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is coming to Switch 2 this year
Nintendo says the Switch 2 "isn't simply an improved Nintendo Switch, we redesigned the system from the ground up," and after 8 years, I'd sure hope so
News The Switch 2 is packed with "lots of new gameplay features"
Japan's "multi-language" Switch 2 costs 20,000 more yen, or $130 more dollars, than the Japanese-only version
news Foreigners living in Japan who want a Switch 2 in their own language will have to pay
Nintendo admits "there were times when we wished the Switch system's processor was faster" so that "developers could make any kind of game they wanted"
News The OG Switch's limited hardware sometimes meant Nintendo couldn't "provide new and unprecedented gameplay experiences"
Switch 2 will return to the golden days of the N64 with Nintendo’s first new James Bond game in over a decade
News Project 007 looks promising
The Nintendo Switch 2 era could be bittersweet, as former staff point out that 40-year veterans like Shigeru Miyamoto and Zelda and Metroid legends are nearing their retirements
news "It may not mean that the games are going to be bad, it's just going to feel different"
"Games that get 19% user score do not generally recover": Helldivers 2 CEO reflects on Arrowhead's "summer of pain" and No Man's Sky-inspired redemption arc
News Helldivers 2 was at such a low point that Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani had to tell PlayStation boss Hermen Hulst "there is nothing we can do in the short term"
"If it can run on Steam Deck, it can probably run on Switch 2": Ex Nintendo marketing leads say Baldur's Gate 3 and Elden Ring prove there's a market for big AAA games on Switch 2
news The Switch 2 could be a home for big AAA third-party games
Ex-Bethesda dev turned indie says "good things often happen by accident," like that time Skyrim players convinced themselves the RPG's foxes were leading them to treasure
News "Players don't realize how many happy and sometimes unhappy accidents" happen in games
Metaphor: ReFantazio had to dial back an early battle system inspired by a notoriously brutal 2003 JRPG, because 20 years later, players found it "irrational" and "just not fun"
news Some people online called Atlus's battle planners "sadists or the devil himself"
Former Nintendo marketing leads say the Wii U flopped so bad that getting third-party support on Switch was "really hard," but the Switch 2 marks a new era: "There's no more proving yourself"
news "The transition from Wii U to Switch 1 was pretty tough from the Nintendo third-party side"
Inzoi dev says "highly inappropriate" bug that let you kill kids with your car has been patched out: "We are strengthening our internal review processes"
news "These depictions are highly inappropriate and do not reflect the intent and values of inZOI"
The other big Soulslike out this week has some Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 in its combat, dev says, but "we would rather call AI Limit an action RPG"
news "AI Limit possesses many unique traits"
It's not just your favorite JRPGs, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes notes from Studio Ghibli movies like Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle too
News Clair Obscur dev Sandfall hopes to capture the same "sense of wonder" as the best Studio Ghibli films
Famed Silent Hill artist Masahiro Ito, creator of Pyramid Head, says scrapped concepts of freaky creatures "still exist in my mind" and "their children may be" used in future titles
news Ito isn't currently involved with Silent Hill f
The actors behind Split Fiction's main characters nearly botched their first auditions because they didn't know the script had two sides: "We were just stood there, sweating"
news Zoe and Mio almost sounded very different
