Latest articles by Justin Wagner
Saints Row 1 designer reckons the series is 'dead,' adding that Embracer 'ghosted' him after a comeback pitch: 'I wish things were different'
News The Third Street Saints won't go marching in anytime soon.
To celebrate 2 years of Balatro, creator LocalThunk reflected on dropping out of an engineering program to make games: 'Even if I could warn myself I’m not sure what I could have said to prepare for the insanity'
News "Thank you to everyone for allowing this terrible student to keep staying up too late."
Lead story designer on the first Witcher game just rolled credits on a full playthrough, and you can watch the whole thing on YouTube
News 26 episodes later, Artur Ganszyniec's let's play series is finally over.
Assassin's Creed Shadows is still getting updates, and it just added manual jumping to the delight of many a parkour enthusiast: 'I picked a good time to reinstall'
News It's like jumping, but done manually.
Total War: Warhammer 3's first character pack stars an all-new legendary lord that puts the 'cat' in Grand Cathay
News Bhashiva the White Tiger will arrive some time during "a late‑Spring release window."
The best Smash Bros.-like on Steam just added a character who can shop for items and go fishing in the middle of a match, in case you thought fighting games were too one-note
News Fin-ish him.
Solid Snake is coming to Rainbow Six Siege in March with David Hayter reprising the role, and a new trailer shows Snake and stealth game rival Sam Fisher finally squashing the beef
News New playlists, weapons, map updates, and yes, Solid Snake, await.
Silent Hill 2 Remake dev Bloober Team's Valentine's Day reveal turned out to be Layers of Fear 3
News Sorry if you were expecting Cronos 2.
The EU declares TikTok's 'infinite scroll' and 'highly personalised recommender system' are 'addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act'
News The European Commission has taken a stance against some of social media's deleterious rhythms.
'They can never kill emulation': Players vexed as Nintendo continues its siege on Switch emulation, handing DMCAs to various emulators on GitHub
News It might be time to back up some files.
That new Metal Gear Solid collection won't include Metal Gear Online, but it will have Peace Walker's essential online co-op
News Konami giveth, and Konami taketh away.
The Overwatch dating sim and its associated rewards are back for a limited time, but it's still got far fewer romances than its China-exclusive counterpart
News Sorry if you were hoping to woo Junker Queen or Mauga.
Hytale’s unfinished sandbox has finally given me hope for a voxel RPG, after Cube World broke my heart twice
Hy on Cubes This is the third time I've fallen for a voxel game's lofty promises, but I think it might work out for me this time.
Deadlock's littlest guy makes size matter in a way it almost never has in a MOBA before
Mightily small Top-down MOBAs with locked camera perspectives can't make headshots and hitboxes matter the way they do in Deadlock.
Fallout was a 'B-tier product' that lost both the licenses it was banking on and had its lead dev joking, 'In a week, we’re going to be asking whether people want fries with their meal,' but now he thinks those trials 'turned out to be positives'
News The little post-apocalyptic roleplaying game that could.
Overwatch creeps past Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty's concurrent players on Steam, hitting its biggest peak in years
News Was it the jetpack? Or maybe, the cat?
Modders have already put mechs, music boxes, and an 'MMO-style dungeon' in Hytale, impressing Hypixel founder: 'Absolutely crazy talented'
News Game unfinished? Do it yourself.
'A classic fake reflection where it's just the same room under a glass floor': I no longer trust my senses after reading this gamedev thread breaking down cost-effective graphical sorcery
News Smoke and mirrors.
Train Sim World devs announce Thomas the Tank Engine game 'powered by Train Sim World' and the true train sickos are down: 'It will make 9 trainzillion dollars'
News Step aside, Grand Theft Auto 6.
Director Gore Verbinski said he 'loved' working on the BioShock movie and 'was going to dive deeply into the Oedipal aspect': 'Every year I hear something about the project, but I’m not sure any studio is quite willing to go where I was headed'
News Verbinski was the first of three directors to have taken the helm on the shooter's long-awaited film adaptation.
Yoshi finally gives birth on-screen in new Super Mario Galaxy movie teaser
News The Mario Galaxy movie also kind of looks like the Mario Sunshine movie, the Mario Odyssey movie, the Yoshi's Island movie, and so on.
Rust devs surveil cheaters like they're 'playing an RTS game': 'Every gun shot, every message, every dropped item, every kind of interaction is logged'
News How many pylons do you need to construct for kernel-level anticheat?
'We need to get the funniest person we can possibly find': Helldivers 2's lead writer had seven days to cast John Helldiver, the face of the game's beloved intro cinematic
News "I never could have imagined the reaction to this friggin' game."
