Latest articles by Scott McCrae
After blowing up on Steam, indie horror hit Repo confirms its first major update will include a new map and a 'duck bucket'
News You'll be able to fight back against the Apex Predator of Repo
Compare it to FromSoftware all you want, but the devs on this extremely promising hardcore action RPG say they're making "more than just a Soulslike"
News The First Berserker: Khazan is categorised as a 'Hardcore Action RPG' by its developers
MMO scholar puts a $500 bounty on old versions of RuneScape as part of a community archive project: "You might have ALL of the game's lost versions!"
News Help preserve the game that brought us 'Buying GF'
"Games are meant to be engaging, not exhausting": Lead dev on promising Soulslike RPG pushes balanced difficulty because "if stress keeps piling up without relief, players will eventually want to quit"
News The First Berserker: Khazan is already kicking my butt from the demo alone, so that's good to hear
One of the best new Metroidvanias just got a huge update with New Game+ and heaps more content like a boss rush mode
News Ender Magnolia is also part of the Steam Spring Sale
Can't wait for the No Man's Sky dev's new game Light No Fire? Well, its latest and much smaller game is $1.49 in the Steam Spring Sale 2025
News If you remember LostWinds you'll want to see this.
One of Hideo Kojima's most overlooked games is under $6 in the Steam Spring Sale 2025 to make the wait for Death Stranding 2 more bearable
News No MGS2 demo included this time we're afraid
Silent Hill f trailer suggests Konami’s newest nightmare will bring back an iconic weapon central to every game in the franchise
News Pipe dreams
Pokemon streamer builds a controller so bad that it takes them a full 80 minutes to walk to FireRed's first city
News We're on the road to Viridian City
Atomfall dev doesn’t understand how massive development teams manage to keep organised: "How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?"
News "People who are in charge of the people who are in charge of the people"
Monster Hunter Wilds' new event quest is the best one yet: bully a Chatacabra for "a pile of Hard and Advanced Armor Spheres"
News How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?
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!
