Latest articles by Issy van der Velde
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs chased down a 600-year-old star map for the sake of historical accuracy and immersion, and it should "be useful for Hardcore Mode"
News Look to the stars
In classic Nintendo fashion, the latest Pokemon Legends Z-A reveal left out the best part: the Lumiose City map looks great after a massive overhaul in the 12 years since X and Y
News I was nervous about the entire game being in one city until I saw the map
FromSoftware proves it's been the master of asset reuse for over a decade as a modder discovers Dark Souls' Blighttown is made of just "10 bits of wood"
News Got wood?
Pokemon Legends: Z-A breaks a 24-year fashion tradition, giving its female protagonist pants for the first time in the series' history
News Those are some wide pants
"EA gives you enough rope to hang yourself": BioWare co-founder says working for a big game company just ain't it, even if "it was actually a pretty successful run" for Mass Effect
News Not a glowing recommendation
A single frame in the new Pokemon Legends Z-A trailer gives hardcore shiny hunters and Nuzlocke runners hope for a huge quality-of-life change
News Thank Arceus
Pokemon Legends Z-A remembers it's an open-zone JRPG, adds actual parkour and platforming so you can explore the city
News It's not quite Assassin's Creed, but it'll do
Pokemon "will go downhill" if "we become complacent and go with the flow" says CEO, who hopes the series could last another 70 years
News Will it make it to its 100th anniversary?
Monster Hunter Wilds dev says remaking the series' old games is hard because "trying to go back to a game that was from 2004 Internet" takes so many changes it becomes a reboot
News Why go back when you can go forward?
Former Skyrim animator says "gameplay is the most important thing" for The Elder Scrolls 6
News "First and foremost I want to play a game that I enjoy"
The League of Legends fighting game spin-off won't be getting its big playtest, but that's so that more of you can play it later this year
News Some other information has been clarified
After 14 years, Elden Ring Nightreign brings back an iconic Dark Souls boss and gives him some frankly hilarious new tricks
News Centipede Demon is back, and its heads do weirder stuff now
GTA 5 is giving PC players a free upgrade that brings it up to par with the console versions and adds some PC-exclusive features
News Get ready for ray tracing
League of Legends fans' fury grows as Riot nerfs another way to get free skins, this time as a reward for good behavior
News This isn't going down well
Skyrim's foremost geographer uses weather stats to explain how it actually feels to live in each of the iconic RPG's cities
News Now I know how to visit Riften IRL
Japanese officials "taking appropriate action" after viral Assassin's Creed Shadows video shows destruction of their shrine: "If they had asked us, we would have refused"
News It's not the first time the series has taken an aggressive approach to religious sites
Death Stranding 2 draws ever closer as Hideo Kojima shares emotional behind-the-scenes update from "important scene" that wrapped recording for 6 voice actors at once
News He really appreciates his actors
FromSoftware didn't work with Sony on Dark Souls because of how the company failed Demon's Souls, says ex-PlayStation boss: "We definitely dropped the ball"
News It seems to have learned its lesson now
Former exec admits Amazon tried and failed to beat Steam, says the company "needed to build something dramatically better" but "gamers already had the solution" in Valve's store
News Did anyone even think there was a competition?
Assassin's Creed Shadows' new Canon Mode looks like the best way to play because it makes the cutscenes feel a lot more natural
News That's the way I'm going to play
Hollow Knight: Silksong fans reach as-yet-unheard-of levels of cope as the Metroidvania's Nintendo Switch store page briefly disappears
News It's coming out soon, right? Right?!
"Project Hadar needs an extraordinary crew" says Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 studio, sharing lots of job openings for the studio's first original game
News Hadar, better, faster, stronger
After 15 years, Elden Ring Nightreign introduces a FromSoftware first: you can stab a dude with an arrow like you're Legolas
News This is what peak performance looks like
