Latest articles by Issy van der Velde
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
This PS1-style action horror game went straight on my Steam wishlist when I saw a ghostly samurai come out to parry the boss instead of just a dodge roll
News Oh yeah, it's got the sauce
In 1997, Hideo Kojima said the "one thing" he wanted to avoid in Metal Gear Solid was "tedious" cutscenes with characters "blabbering at each other for 4 or 5 minutes"
News If only he knew what his future would be
Helldivers 2 streamer is using the new cars to delay democracy and bring back the medieval sport of jousting
News That's not how you spread managed democracy
After winning big at The Game Awards and taking hours of our time in 2024, Balatro creator reveals their "most productive night" resulted in one of the game's most satisfying features
News It's the little things that make a big difference
18 years after Guitar Hero 2 released, a streamer has completed the hardest challenge there is - perfecting all 74 songs back-to-back without missing a single note
News He makes it look easy
Elder Scrolls modders have released a playable part of the ambitious Project Tamriel, which aims to recreate all of the beloved RPG's regions in Morrowind
News You can now experience Cyrodiil
Atlus makes games like Persona 3 by "serving players deadly poison wrapped in a sweet coating"
News "If they like it, they like it, if they don’t, they don’t"
League of Legends co-creator responds to report that Arcane was a "financial miss," says "people think we make things like Arcane to sell skins, when in reality we sell skins to make things like Arcane"
News "Arcane crushed for players and so it crushed for us"
You might be ready for Elden Ring: Nightreign, but not as ready as this streamer who completed the RPG like it was a roguelike – 207 bosses, random items, and permadeath
News He makes it look easy
After being labeled a Dark Souls copy, Black Myth: Wukong is now getting its own imitators on the Nintendo store
News Not everyone is happy about it
Unhinged outtakes from live-action Balatro trailer reveal we could have seen Final Fantasy 16's Ben Starr gobble down a banana too many ways
News Look, if you dare
"We're not interested right now": Original Dead Space creators say their pitch for a fourth game was turned down by EA
News Oh what could have been
Palworld's Feybreak update adds a built-in Nuzlocke mode to the open-world survival game - and a taste of next year's Terraria crossover
News There's a lot to unpack here
