At a GDC talk today, Overwatch game director Aaron Keller said that Marvel Rivals has “definitely had an impact” on the Overwatch team. Keller recalls seeing the excitement around Rivals, which launched with over 30 heroes in 2025 (and is now at 47), and thinking, “Hey, what if we could just drop 30 new heroes…
There is a style of game design built around rigorous playtesting and polish, aiming to smoothly guide the player from one challenge to the next, ensuring they never get hung up for too long or become too frustrated by an obstacle they can’t overcome. And then there’s Baby Steps. One of the best games of…
Following the release of Octopath Traveler 0. Square Enix’s Octopath Traveler role-playing series, which originally started life as a Switch exclusive in 2018, has this week announced another massive sales milestone. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
In a theater set off to the side of this week’s Game Developers Conference, representatives from big tech companies and venture capital firms spoke about, among other things, their enthusiasm for generative AI. Many of the attendees over in the main convention halls don’t feel the same way: 52% of respondents to a recent GDC…
Testing out Baby PacMan inVR
This is what you can expect… Although Nintendo’s focus is slowly shifting from the Switch, it’s still got some first-party titles planned for the original hybrid system. One of these games happens to be Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, and it’s out next month. Ahead of this launch, we’ve now got an official ESRB rating….
I recently watched the Netflix documentary Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee, and it’s one of the craziest things I’ve seen in a long time. I’ve written about McAfee (who died in 2021) a few times over the years, and knew a few things about his chaotic and at times outright…
PC Gamer’s Morgan Park had a rough night in Marathon a couple days ago. He initially attributed it to a run of bad luck—everyone has an off night now and then, after all—but noticed a lot of other people having similar struggles, many of whom pointed the finger at something else: noise. Silence is golden…
In his talk at this year’s GDC, Arc Raiders production director Caio Braga said Embark’s breakout extraction shooter hit emerged from a development cycle involving multiple massive directional pivots—points where many other game productions would have been cancelled. In a post-talk interview with PC Gamer, Braga said the high profile live service launch failures that…
In Act 1 of Slay the Spire 2, Vantom is the toughest of the three bosses you can encounter. It’s a bit of a roadblock in your journey, particularly if you’re a new player, but don’t be tempted to rage-quit and restart your run when you see his icon on the top of your map!…