Nintendo doesn't really need to create new franchises, a former developer has said, explaining that the company can simply wrap its fresh gameplay ideas into one of the many beloved video game series it owns already. Speaking to Bloomberg, programmer Ken Watanabe said Nintendo doesn't "really fuss over" which of […]
Month: September 2025
Hollow Knight: Silksong Players Are Trying to Help Out Those Who Have Quit the Game Outright Because They’re Finding It Too Hard by Pointing to Mods That Make It a Lot Easier
Hollow Knight: Silksong is one of the biggest launches of the year, hitting huge player concurrent numbers on Steam alongside a positive reception from critics. But amid the excitement over Team Cherry’s long awaited sequel is a debate within the community about whether the game is too hard — perhaps […]
Andor Creator Driven ‘Crazy’ Seeing its Success Used to ‘Draw Controversy’ With Other Star Wars Shows
Andor creator Tony Gilroy has said that he and the show’s creative team have been driven “crazy” seeing the positive response to the Star Wars prequel series being used to create “controversy” with the franchise’s other Disney+ series. Across its two seasons, Andor has been warmly received by both TV […]
Andor Creator Driven ‘Crazy’ Seeing its Success Used to ‘Draw Controversy’ With Other Star Wars Shows
Andor creator Tony Gilroy has said that he and the show’s creative team have been driven “crazy” seeing the positive response to the Star Wars prequel series being used to create “controversy” with the franchise’s other Disney+ series. Across its two seasons, Andor has been warmly received by both TV […]
'I Saw That and I Was Like, 'That's Gotta Be Us' — if World War Z 2 Happens, It's Because 30 Million People Played the World War Z Video Game, Developer Insists
While Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has helped push developer Saber Interactive to another level, it already had a monster hit under its belt: World War Z. World War Z is a co-op third-person shooter developed and published by Saber in 2019 as a loosely based adaptation of the 2006 […]
Get Hunted By Dinosaurs in Co-Op Extraction Shooter ‘Eggspedition’
Drop into Eggspedition’s unknown planets and try to successfully extract with the valuable eggs you seek in this first-person co-op shooter – but don’t think for a second that the dinosaurs these eggs belong to won’t come looking for you. Eggspedition puts you into the boots of a member of […]
Xbox Game Pass Once Again in the Firing Line After Former Microsoft Executive Says It Creates ‘Weird Inner Tensions’
Hot on the heels of former Bethesda executive Pete Hines questioning Xbox Game Pass as a business strategy, a former Microsoft executive has backed the comments, insisting Microsoft’s subscription service creates “weird inner tensions.” Last week, Bethesda Softworks’ former senior vice president of global marketing and communications, Pete Hines, said […]
Xbox Game Pass Once Again in the Firing Line After Former Microsoft Executive Says It Creates ‘Weird Inner Tensions’
Hot on the heels of former Bethesda executive Pete Hines questioning Xbox Game Pass as a business strategy, a former Microsoft executive has backed the comments, insisting Microsoft’s subscription service creates “weird inner tensions.” Last week, Bethesda Softworks’ former senior vice president of global marketing and communications, Pete Hines, said […]
War Mechanic Re-revealed; Doubling Down on Single-Player Gameplay
Get your first look at developer Chronospace’s revamped War Mechanic, a single-player alternate-history “what if the Manhattan Project had been sabotaged?” action-adventure game where you must survive, pilot your combat car, deal with NPCs that have their own agendas, and build up your base. The reworked War Mechanic brings in […]
Digimon Story: Time Stranger – Our Thoughts After Playing 4 Hours
Sometimes you sit down at a game with no idea what to expect. That was how I felt when I got my first hands-on time with Digimon Story: Time Stranger at Summer Game Fest. I’m a lapsed Digimon fan, someone who liked the franchise a lot as a kid and […]