Latest articles by Issy van der Velde
PlayStation boss says good old-fashioned consoles like PS5 are their priority, but as PC gaming grows Sony also wants to reach players elsewhere
News The company still has a long way to go with cloud streaming
Marvel Rivals season 1 has "double the playable content of a regular season" and adds maps, heroes, balance changes, and more
News Nerfs, buffs, maps, there's a lot to digest
Hopes that Overwatch 2 will fully return to 6v6 matches are raised as the playtest is extended thanks to "continued player interest"
News Not quite the Wild West of the early days, but close enough
Ex-Starfield lead looks at the open-world game boom and says "you can see Dark Souls and Elden Ring being a secondary trend: let's make third-person action combat really hard"
News "Everything became survival crafting because Minecraft became super popular"
It's about sending a message: Elden Ring fan waits for Nightreign by no-hitting Shadow of the Erdtree's Messmer on NG+7 difficulty with a new weapon every single day
News I haven't even beaten the DLC yet...
Before taking the lead on Alan Wake 2, its game director wanted Remedy to be the "European Naughty Dog" because "Naughty Dog games are f***ing awesome"
News That they are
The leaked GTA San Andreas source code is apparently fake and contains ransomware, so please don't download it
News Stay safe on the internet, folks
The RTS genre "hasn’t changed much" says former Age of Empires developer, "you’re still playing the same game we’re playing 20 years ago"
News If it ain't broke, don't fix it
Cozy farming sim Stardew Valley has sold over 41 million copies as of right now, with over half on PC and almost 8 million on the Switch
News Not bad for a mostly solo developer
Ambitious Skyblivion project is nearing completion, with only one region of Oblivion left to remake with Skyrim's engine, but it still needs volunteers to help
News 2025 is going to be a huge year for gaming
Hideo Kojima's Overdose hit a snag this year because "scanning and filming were suspended" due to the SAG-AFTRA strikes, but work on Death Stranding 2 continued as normal
News Casting for Physint was also paused and should resume next year
You can now play GTA 3 on a Sega Dreamcast. I'm not too sure why you'd want to, but you can
News It's only taken the team a few months to pull this off
There's a free version of The Oregon Trail where you start out with dysentery and have to make it across the country without pooping your pants
News A harder task than you might expect
A brutal Pikmin strategy allows you to beat the game with just three throws, but you'll have to commit some atrocities to do it
News Those poor, poor creatures
After a tough eight-year battle, a series of new glitches completely changed The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker speedruns
News The HD and original versions have been jostling for the top spot for years
The new free-to-play Ark mobile game "isn't just a port; it's a fully-fledged survival experience that rivals its console and PC counterparts" and has been downloaded over a million times
News It's doing very well at the moment
Move over Manor Lords, this cozy medieval city builder is so good it "ruined other builders," and it's leaving early access very soon
News It looks like you can build a lot more in Foundation
Palworld's Feybreak update is clearly a success as the game just hit its highest concurrent player count since launch
News The big update is winning people back
Squid Game creator says main character Gi-hun "will not be the man he was in season 2" once season 3 releases
News How could he be after all he's been through?
Like a Dragon developer says none of us have figured out what its new game Project Century is about because "We didn’t include any information that would enable people to guess"
News Back to the drawing board
Dune 2 director Denis Villeneuve bans the same item from his movie sets as Christopher Nolan because "everybody has to focus and be entirely in the present"
News It seems to work
Pokemon professor does the math to work out the most damage possible in each generation over the past 28 years, and the number is staggering
News It takes an unbelievable amount of set up
Skyrim fan completes personal quest to yeet the entire RPG's map into Unreal Engine 5
News It can even be done for other Bethesda games
