Latest articles by Issy van der Velde
"Is this going to be Valheim with party hats?": RuneScape: Dragonwilds devs know survival games are competitive and focus on "things that make us unique" in a tree-punching genre
news Come for the survival, stay for the lore
PlayStation needs to "reconsider" its push for "cutting-edge graphics" and "change our way of thinking" says former Sony boss
news More games made with worse graphics please
Hideo Kojima says the fact that people are still playing Death Stranding 5 years later is "what makes me happiest," but I'm sure the 20 million players don't hurt
News I'm sure we'll still be playing five years from now
GTA 3 on the Sega Dreamcast now has a 60fps "performance mode," but it makes the game almost unplayable
news 60fps has been achieved, but at what cost?
Dread it, run from it, the Palworld dating sim is real – and Pocketpair is tripling down with a Steam page starring "Chillet's little sister" and "Yandere Splatterina"
news "Good idea? Bad idea? Who cares! SOMEONE WILL BE HAPPY!"
Death Stranding surpasses 20 million players amid spike of Steam users presumably trying to finish it before the sequel
News I've still got some deliveries to make...
Death Stranding 2 inches ever closer to completion as Hideo Kojima says sound mixing is finally finished just 3 months before release
News It took 3 years
As Krafton irons out the InZoi bugs, devs "recommend avoiding repeated remarriage and, if necessary, proceeding only when there are no children involved"
News I don't know why the kids make a difference, but they do
Take-Two CEO says AI users who think they "can push a button and say, 'Create the next GTA 6'" are completely wrong: "The big creative leaps forward will be generated by humans"
news Take that, Skynet
Assassin's Creed Shadows has an early secret weapon that's easy to miss, but you have to get: "I haven’t even been hit once since I found it"
News One of the most OP weapons I've ever seen in the RPG series
The mysterious button on the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con has finally been revealed – it's a C, and fans are desperately trying to figure out what it's for: "Either Community or Connect"
News What could it be?
English is no longer the biggest language on Steam as Chinese gamers embrace PC gaming even harder after Black Myth: Wukong
news China's domestic industry has been building up for a while
Assassin's Creed Shadows shoots past 3 million players and 40 million hours played with the "second-highest day 1 sales revenue in Assassin's Creed franchise history"
News It's doing very well
Pac-Man, the gritty Metroidvania seen in Amazon's Secret Level, gets a new launch date and some very dark gameplay
News Pac-Man has changed...
"They are really feelin' the pressure": Former Nintendo staff think today's Direct, just 6 days before the Switch 2 Direct is a "bad idea strategically"
News There's a lot of sympathy for the staff that have to organize these Directs
Despite fans begging for Tifa, Final Fantasy 16's Clive is "significantly more popular" than any other Tekken guest fighter
News Sometimes the hero you need isn't the hero you want
Getting Assassin's Creed Shadows on PS5 and Xbox Series X was all about adding "dynamism" to the open world, but the devs seem most proud about the trees
News Can't see the forest for the trees
Somehow this keeps happening: Another game with a Persona 5 collab is going under, and this time it's JRPG comrade War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
News Is it a curse or are games just expensive to maintain?
No Man's Sky's latest free update lets you live out your childhood dreams of digging up dinosaur bones
News The Relic update includes bones, museums, and new monsters
20 years later, God of War's original monster art has been revealed: behold this army of stick figures slapped on a whiteboard, no clue Kratos is coming for them
news Fans just want a remaster though
The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 developer enters into partnership with Pokemon Go owner to create a new game "set within one of CD Projekt's IPs"
News Please be Cyberpunk; I've seen enough Witcher mobile games
GeoGuessr is coming to Steam and you can go head-to-head to prove you're the best geographer of them all
news What a time to be alive
