Latest articles by Scott McCrae
Hideo Kojima left "a number of clues" in the new Death Stranding 2 trailer, including hints of a day/night cycle
News In my defence these are not very good clues
The fan-made Dreamcast version of GTA 3 is looking way better in the latest look, introducing tech that "would’ve previously been a slideshow"
News I suppose this is the part where I say, ‘we got GTA 3 on the Dreamcast before GTA 6.’
Devil May Cry and Bayonetta veteran Hideki Kamiya is still leaning on Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami's wisdom at new studio Clovers: "I have always made decisions based on his teachings"
News You should really play The Wonderful 101 already
Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding's themes of connection came about because "I thought I lost everything when I became alone nine years ago"
News "I had something very important, which was [a] connection with people"
Ori and the Blind Forest developer is now "fully independent" after "months of negotiation" with what remained of its gutted publisher
News Moon Studios also revealed a massive update for No Rest for the Wicked
Monster Hunter Wilds dev says the game's success is thanks to an "emphasis on the story," but I think that's only a tiny aspect of it
News Crossplay was also given a shoutout
Fortnite has had Tomb Raider's Lara Croft locked away in battle pass exclusivity jail for almost 4 years, but she's reportedly getting a new skin very soon
News How will this affect Big Dill's legacy?
Hideo Kojima says he chose Death Stranding 2's Solid Snake lookalike because he needed an actor who "would surpass" Mads Mikkelsen
News Luca Marinelli told Kojima he "grew up with Metal Gear"
Split Fiction blows It Takes Two out of the water by selling 1 million copies in 2 days, becoming Hazelight's fastest selling game ever
News It takes two (days)
Fallout: New Vegas is a big inspiration for Atomfall, which is why you’ll be able to kill every NPC in post-apocalyptic Cumbria
News Innit to winnit
Doom director claims The Dark Ages can be beaten without using a gun, but "the game's not necessarily built to do that"
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Hideo Kojima aims to beat the ‘walking simulator’ allegations as Death Stranding 2 releases combat-heavy trailer
Remember the goop? It's back, in kaiju form!
Hideo Kojima is still hung up on his ex, as Death Stranding 2 features a Metal Gear Solid doppelganger the director says is the spitting image of Solid Snake
Bandanarama
The Witcher 3 dev says his new vampire RPG Blood of Dawnwalker wants to challenge genre conventions, but only if "we're changing them to actually achieve some goal"
News "Sometimes even very mild changes can be extremely controversial to people"
PUBG creator's wilderness survival game actually draws inspiration from an unexpected place - a whole raft of zombie games like DayZ, Project Zomboid, and Left 4 Dead
"At the start, we selected a bunch of games, and then we played them"
The Witcher 3 devs created a Jekyll & Hyde-style character for their new vampire RPG "because nobody yet has done that"
News Split fiction
Balatro creator initially considered a Steam release in part to help "get a game developer job somewhere," and after 5 million sales I'd say he found one
News "All I knew about Steam is that there were about a million games on there and that very few could realistically make a living"
From "I stopped working on the project entirely" to "we are so back," Balatro creator says the roguelike's development was always about passion and taking breaks was essential
News The momentum from this break led the developer to consider publicly releasing a game for the first time
The director behind The Sims competitor InZOI spent 20 years making MMOs, but he ditched the massive RPGs after playing life sims with his son
News "My son asked me why there aren't more games like the ones we enjoyed together"
Balatro creator intentionally avoided roguelikes but did eventually play and "steal from" Slay the Spire anyway: "Holy s***. Now that is a game"
News "This is from Slay the Spire (see? Told you I’d steal from it)"
Before selling millions of copies, Vampire Survivors creator says he'd "given up on the idea of success," and he's not interested in making something just to be successful
News "I don't want to start having to look around in order to try to maintain the success"
Until Dawn Remake developer “effectively closed” following an unannounced wave of layoffs hitting the company
“Sony said after the game they might greenlight more funding for updates, but it looks like they didn’t”
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 could be making a major change to Pro Skater 4, with the apparent removal of free-roaming in favor of "streamlined goals"
I’m destroying the (open) world
