When alpha footage of an unreleased multiplayer game leaks onto the internet, how studios react can tell you a lot. Often, they make the call to go full scorched earth: Issuing DMCA takedowns to wipe leaked videos or screenshots from the web as much as possible. That’s not what’s happening with the yet-to-be-officially-named Battlefield 6,…
The more tools you give players to fine-tune their builds, the sooner they’ll find a way to crack your game’s math wide open. That’s a lesson that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive learned in record time, as two of its leads explained in a YouTube interview earlier this week (via GamesRadar). While speaking…
Former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider is not known to be shy about sharing his opinions, and so he did in April, saying that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is “kind of to JRPGs what Baldur’s Gate 3 was to CRPGs.” Not everyone took the statement quite as he meant it, though, and so speaking…
Others are “at risk” of losing jobs. A handful of staff at UK-based studio Playtonic, best known for creating Yooka-Laylee and for forming the indie publishing label Playtonic Friends, are sharing messages on social media as they have been made “redundant” at the developer. We were first alerted to the news by a Bluesky post…
What would the other option even be? We can’t say that it’s the kind of question that normally crops up in our everyday lives, but if someone put us on the spot and asked “does Mario actually eat those power-up mushrooms?”, we’d struggle to know the definitive answer. Of course, The Super Mario Bros. Movie…
What an udder surprise. If you watched any of the reactions to the Mario Kart World reveal trailer, then chances are you saw somebody loudly exclaim “you can play as a COW?!”. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford took some heat yesterday when he dismissed concerns about Borderlands 4 potentially launching with an $80 price tag, saying on X that “if you’re a real fan, you’ll find a way to make it happen.” Today, in an effort to calm the roiling waters left in the wake of that ill-advised…
10 years on from its release, The Witcher 3 is unequivocally a phenomenon—one of the bestselling games of all time that turned CDPR from a relatively small studio that makes niche RPGs to one that excites a level of interest comparable to, well, Bethesda. But if you think that success was easily come by, guess…
The kids are into Fortnite, forever and always, but what exactly being into “Fortnite” means is a moving target these days. Lately, Epic Games has decided the future of Fortnite is to become Roblox by expanding its battle royale with a free toolset for creating and publishing games within Fortnite, and incentivizing participation with a…
I suspect fowl play. A duck stands in a fedora and a trench coat, delivering a noir-style monologue about how his recent divorce has fueled his bread addiction. If this image doesn’t tickle you, then you’d better give Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping a miss. If it does, oh boy, do we have the…