Category: ID@Xbox April 22, 2026 Descend Into a Surreal Loop of Memory, Mystery, and Meaning in Rumbral Jesús Álvarez, Game Artist, OSEA Innovations Summary A haunting first-person experience where memory and reality blur. Environmental storytelling, abstract puzzles, and quiet exploration. A collectible short guide tto uncover what lies beneath the surface. Sometimes You Have to…
The last thing you want in a game mode where players disguise themselves as furniture in a World of Warcraft city is free access to x-ray vision. There’s no fun to be had when you’re just chasing after dots on your minimap instead of studying a suspicious table that you could’ve sworn moved a little….
Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has confirmed the layoff of an undisclosed number of employees, telling Game Developer the cuts were made as a result of reduced demand for external development partnerships. “A portion of Behaviour Interactive’s business has traditionally focused on external development partnerships. In recent months, demand for mobile and casual external…
Would you pay a quarter to leave a comment on PCGamer.com? Before you scream “no” at me in the comments for the bargain price of free, consider that the PC Gamer magazine readers of yesteryear were Built Different. Once upon a time, folks were so eager to mail their letters into the magazine that they’d…
New Xbox boss Asha Sharma had some good and bad news for Game Pass subscribers yesterday: the service is now cheaper, but new Call of Duty games will no longer be included with the service at release. They’ll now arrive a year later, around the time that they’re inevitably replaced by the next Call of…
Category: ID@Xbox April 22, 2026 Rewilders: The Lost Spring is a Heartfelt Quest to Restore a Broken World Javier Ramello, CEO and CTO at Herobeat Studios Hello! I’m one of the lead developers of Rewilders: The Lost Spring. Some of you may be familiar with our previous game, Endling — Extinction is Forever. Today we…
Jack Buser is Google Cloud global director for games, a role in which he “enable[s] transformation of game industry developers, publishers and platforms with AI and cloud solutions.” And from that lofty perch he has devised a solution for the woes plaguing the videogame business. Can you guess what it is? I’ll tell you: It’s…
Hideo Kojima has been on his travels again and, rather than posting pictures of overly elaborate lunches like usual, he’s been posting photos of himself at places like Microsoft. And next on the agenda was Seattle and Valve HQ, where the Koj allowed himself a photo blowout with various cool things around the company’s office….
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain has a new video going over some of his principles for game design, and as you might expect has some strong opinions on the intersection between design intention, and what players actually end up doing. “Rule one, our game is non-linear—don’t assume that players will go somewhere first or talk to…
Will Possessor(s) possess you? Late last year, Heart Machine — the team behind Hyper Light Drifter, Solar Ash, and Hyper Light Breaker — released its latest gorgeous action game, Possessor(s) on PS5 and PC. And now publisher Devolver Digital has announced that it’s bringing the stylish Metroidvania to Switch 2 in just a week. That’s…