Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick
Assassin's Creed Shadows and Fallout among the latest games to succumb to Balatro as the hit poker roguelike adds Xbox Game Pass to its global dominance
News Balatro's Assassin's Creed crossover will include characters from Shadows
Monster Hunter Wilds debuts as the highest-rated game of 2025 with a 90 Metacritic score, and it's the top-selling game on Steam ahead of launch this week
news It just barely beats out Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
Former CDPR lead says "experimental" new open world vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker will "push the genre forward" a lot like The Witcher 3: "The risk is worth the reward"
feature Exclusive: 10 years after The Witcher 3 broke new ground in open-world game design, Rebel Wolves hopes to do the same with The Blood of Dawnwa
Despite Zelda: Majora's Mask basically being a horror game, one of its key devs didn't think its creepiest features were scary at all: "People on the team were like 'whoa!'"
News Yes, Majora's Mask is a horror game and no one can convince me otherwise
Corsair exec says GTA 6 is coming to PC in early 2026 and then quickly un-says that
News Jk lol
Former Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies dev says MMOs have "been in a rut for a long time" after World of Warcraft's popularity narrowed down "a much more diverse genre"
news MMO pioneer Raph Koster says "we haven't had a lot of innovation in the space"
Marvel Rivals bans popular third-party plugin: "We deem this program as cheating," but "fear not" if you've been using it
News Blitz has been banned, and NetEase "strongly" urges you to avoid any third-party plugins
The best JRPGs to play in 2025
Best List From Metaphor: ReFantazio to Dragon Quest 11, these are the best JRPGs you can play today
Former Witcher 3 lead says his new vampire RPG Blood of Dawnwalker has a smaller open world because "it feels more like you actually know the place" compared to "behemoths"
news Rebel Wolves creative director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz says smaller open worlds can be explored "calmly and more relaxed"
A Sifu movie is in the works at Netflix from the John Wick director
news News of the Sifu movie was revealed years ago, but with Netflix now involved, it shouldn't be too long before we get a trailer
Cyberpunk 2 associate game director reveals his greatest development secret: 10 hour loops of music like "Epic Sax Guy" that "gives me insane focus and clarity"
News Some people like lofi, others prefer 15 year old memes
After hitting 500,000 copies sold and nearly 24,000 reviews on Steam, viral $13 horror game Mouthwashing is coming to consoles this year
news You're gonna want to proceed with caution on this one
Massive new Hades 2 update finally adds a brutal final boss and, more importantly, a new pet sidekick
News Hades 2: The Warsong update adds Ares and his powerful Boons
Ex-Witcher 3 lead says CDPR initially worried the RPG's massive story didn't fit "the play style of an open world game"
News The Blood of Dawnwalker creative director says he's familiar with "risk" having worked on The Witcher 3
As Activision stays quiet, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 actor casually reveals there's another remaster "that's about to come out"
news Could Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 be near?
Everwild: Everything we know about the new game from Rare
Guide Everwild is a beautiful upcoming adventure game where natural and human worlds collide
"I really hate how we did it": The Witcher 3 quest lead says there are parts of the iconic RPG he still wishes he could "time travel and fix"
news Blood of Dawnwalker creative director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz has some regrets from his time at CDPR
Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor is enjoying romancing herself in the RPG again because "there's a lot of the stuff I've kind of forgotten about"
News Devora Wilde is doing another Baldur's Gate 3 Githyanki run
2 weeks after launch, Escape from Tarkov-style survival horror mashup Level Zero: Extraction ends development because it "underperformed" expectations
news "It's no longer feasible for our relatively small teams to sustain the game from a financial standpoint"
Christopher Nolan's new movie The Odyssey adds Pearl and X scream queen Mia Goth to star-studded cast, but it may not be a speaking role
News To call The Odyssey cast "star-studded" is an understatement at this point
Ex-CDPR devs' new open-world vampire RPG is aiming for "the quality level of The Witcher 3," but since it's a smaller studio, only about a 30-40 hour campaign
News The Blood of Dawnwalker's director doesn't care if you call it AA, AAA, or AAAA
Former Blizzard boss says "GTA 6 is king" and "everyone will move their release" when it gets a launch date: "It is really the only game that has the power to do this today"
News "[Borderlands 4] doesn't matter. [Rockstar] is controlled by no one, including their publisher"
Before he was Cyberpunk 2's associate director and was just "employee #86," CDPR dev says it took him 46 tries to beat an infamous boss in The Witcher 2: "I was losing my mind"
News Draug is no slouch, even for the developer whose job it was to beat him
