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As Borderlands 2 fan flexes their super-fast loading, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford appears to tease "seamless" Borderlands 4 loading, then refuses to elaborate
News "Seamless, you say?"
A Helldivers 2 player wrote a whole essay on how it feels to fight bots and almost nobody noticed, but one of the lead devs has responded with an essay of their own
News Arrowhead plans to look "more properly" into "how tanky or deadly" bots should be
Former PlayStation boss says Japan Studio's closure "wasn't necessarily" surprising: "When a studio hasn't had a hit for a while, then they forget how that feels"
News "You start to forget how to get there," says Shawn Layden
Diablo 4 boss admits the Spiritborn is "going to have some issues that need to be addressed," but "some people don't recognize the difference between 'fix' and 'nerf'"
News But "I'm not saying we're doing anything," Rod Fergusson clarifies
Helldivers 2's Democracy Space Station may have been dominating our Major Orders for the last month, but Arrowhead still isn't "going into the details" on it yet
News Like the rest of the game, the DSS will "most likely change and evolve over time"
One of Metaphor: ReFantazio's hardest optional bosses has a glaring weakness – itself
News This is a great way to cheese one of the hardest late-game side quest fights
It only takes 2 years to become a god: Pokemon Platinum scientist achieves omniscience by beating 4 billion versions of the RPG at the same time with the power of math
News Step aside, Arceus
Palworld dev tells haters to "do yourself a favor" and "stop thinking" about the survival game: "Who wants to dedicate time and energy to things they don't like?"
News "Vibes"-based Palworld accusations are "particularly silly"
Helldivers 2's army of flying bots has been stopped, but now players face a tough decision - protect the Democracy Space Station or the Terminid version of Jurassic Park
News The choice is yours, Helldivers
A Helldivers 2 Xbox release is "not up to" Arrowhead but to Sony and Phil Spencer to "duke out" - but if Sony says no, that's it
News It could "hypothetically" happen if "both partners think it would benefit them"
Multiplayer games dominated Steam Next Fest with extraction shooter Delta Force wearing the crown, and even the top roguelike and weird sim are technically co-op
News Police sandbox The Precinct is the only fully single-player game in the top 10
Assassin's Creed Shadows' art book is apparently being altered to remove an unauthorized flag from a real-life re-enactment group, despite Ubisoft's previous plans to leave it in
News The flag was spotted in the game's concept art back in June
"I couldn't resist": Nintendo legend Takaya Imamura on trying but failing to keep a huge console secret, his hopes for the future of Star Fox, and a lot more
Interview Interview | The designer of Captain Falcon, Tingle, and Fox McCloud has a lot of stories to tell
One of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered's biggest glow-ups is because of a malfunction in the original that got missed because the open world was too big for Guerrilla to check everywhere
News "It was extremely hard to check every nook and cranny"
The Day Before studio falters once more as it delays a new co-op game after a failed Kickstarter to work on a prop hunt game that "many of you have been waiting for"
News It will "require significant resources" to develop
Undefeated JPRG salesman Yoko Taro congratulates Metaphor: ReFantazio developer, immediately asks fans to buy Nier Automata too
News Yoko Taro has been very forthright in suggesting Metaphor fans' next game
Horizon Zero Dawn was the result of Guerrilla being "done" with Killzone, and wanting to make something that was "by choice, the opposite"
News Guerrilla needed a change from Killzone
A month after Nintendo's Palworld lawsuit, Sega files its own patent infringement claim against idle RPG devs' gacha mechanics
News Sega is seeking 1 billion yen in damages from MementoMori developer Bank of Innovation
In a post-Baldur's Gate 3 world, was Metaphor: ReFantazio right to ditch romance?
Opinion Opinion | The 12DOVE team discuss how romance is only one way to build a strong relationship with your party members in an RPG
Super Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai teases a new game that's secretly been in the works for years – and "it should be announced sooner or later" if "we're able to get it made"
News But what could it be?
Netflix reportedly shutters its AAA game studio, dismantling a team of former God of War, Overwatch, Halo, and Gears of War devs
News Talent included Overwatch executive producer Chacko Sonny and God of War Ragnarok art director Rafael Grassetti
Helldivers 2's Jump Pack buff immediately backfires: they're so good now that the Automatons stole some for themselves, and the "Jet Brigade" is kicking our butts
News Heads up, Helldivers
Phantom Blade Zero dev says it's not just Black Myth: Wukong, the Chinese console boom has been building: "We've wanted to make these kinds of games from the beginning"
News "We simply weren't able to make console games" in the past, says S-Game's CEO
