Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick
If Blizzard turned Diablo 4 into a full-on Vampire Survivors roguelike, it might be as cool as this Norse Steam Next Fest gem
news Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel turned me into a Vampire Survivors(-like) fan
Hitman dev hopes its new James Bond game Project 007 will spawn "a big trilogy" building on the studio's "20-plus years of training for the agent fantasy"
News "It's a Bond we built from ground up for gamers"
Riot announces "an update on how we're evolving" League of Legends, which is of course another layoff announcement
news "It's about making sure we have the right expertise so that League continues to be great for another 15 years and beyond"
I don't say this lightly, but this Silent Hill-inspired Steam Next Fest survival horror is giving Bloober Team's remake a serious run for its money
news Heartworm lives up the hype
Skyrim lead admits "Bethesda games could have a higher degree of polish", but some jank "could be forgiven" because of how much you can do in the RPGs
news "Having an NPC run in place in front of a wall for a little while became acceptable because of the 17 things you could do with that NPC"
Metaphor: ReFantazio combines real-time and turn-based battles because its director wanted to integrate "the idea of manga and movie-style combat"
News "That balance of the tempo of fast and slow is something that we brushed up in terms of the combat system in our previous games"
After 25 years, we finally know why it's called Super Smash "Bros" – Nintendo icon Satoru Iwata wanted the fighters to be "friends who were settling a little disagreement"
news Masahiro Sakurai's new Grab Bag video is both revealing and highly emotional
Steam Next Fest countdown – here's when Valve's October 2024 free demo event kicks off
news Here are the Steam Next Fest dates and times for October 2024
Former Blizzard president says the "gaming downturn" is "a little bit overstated" and companies just wanted to "cut back" after the pandemic
news Michael Morhaime says it's more of a correction than a downturn
A second Disco Elysium spiritual successor has been announced from a different "breakaway group" of devs who worked on the original RPG
news Dark Math Games announces XXX Nightshift just as new studio Longdue reveals its own Disco Elysium spiritual successor
Dragon Ball Sparking Zero isn't even fully out yet and fans are finding additional DLC online
news Dragon Ball Sparking Zero: Martial Arts Pack has leaked
Arkane lead says Marvel's Blade will "explore uncharted dimensions of our art" building on Dishonored, Prey, Deathloop, and yes, even Redfall
news Art and co-creative director Sébastien Mitton reflects on 25 years of Arkane
It's been 24 hours and Silent Hill 2 Remake mods are already letting you play as protagonists from GTA San Andreas, Nier Automata, and Resident Evil 4 Remake
News That was alarmingly fast
Nintendo is recruiting players to test a mystery "new feature" for Switch Online, and nobody has any clue what it is
news "Customers will need to download exclusive software to their own Nintendo Switch system in order to participate"
New A Quiet Place survival horror game borrows Alien: Isolation's scariest feature to use your own voice against you
news A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead's creatures can hear you through your microphone
Bethesda lead addresses Starfield Shattered Space criticism: "Nobody, and I mean nobody, at Bethesda is patting themselves on the back while ignoring our players"
News "Just know that we’ve also been hearing from plenty of people who love it"
Christopher Nolan's next movie is reportedly due out in 2026, and Matt Damon is in talks to star
news Universal Pictures will distribute the untitled film
Balatro creator kicks off supervillain arc, celebrates humanity losing 11,000 years of time to the roguelike across all platforms
news Yes, eleven t h o u s a n d years
Sega is making a Shinobi movie from the Extraction director
news The Shinobi movie is being directed by Sam Hargrave
RGG boss says he wanted to make a Yakuza game called Like a Dragon: Tuna where Kiryu is a fisherman, and now I'm genuinely bummed "it never came to fruition"
news Give me Like a Dragon: Tuna or give me death
Paradox exec admits canceled life sim Life By You wasn't "actually clearly better than Sims 4 in any of its main areas"
news Life By You was canceled in June
For fantasy JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio, Persona director gave himself a crash course featuring classics like The Lord of the Rings, but "if we tried to copy that it would just be a copy"
News Director Katsura Hashino wasn't as familiar making fantasy worlds, so he studied the best
After 5 years, cult classic horror RPG series Pathologic is back with a "rebirth" sequel featuring time travel
news Pathologic 3 looks every bit as bleak and unforgiving as you'd expect
