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CEO of No Rest for the Wicked developer Moon Studios, Thomas Mahler, has revealed in a recent interview that the studio has ideas, including even a title, for a third game in the Ori franchise. Mahler spoke about a potential follow-up to Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisp in an interview with Game Informer.

In case you've been living under a rock, a movie based on the The Legend of Zelda franchise is coming to theatres. Details are sparse at the moment, so we have no clue what game, if any, it'll cover.

In one of the biggest auctions for a raw boxed video game, a rare sealed hangtag copy of Castlevania for the original NES recently sold for $90,100 on eBay after a bidding war that started at $37,000, all for a hard-to-find game with a literal sticker price of $27.87. 

Sugar star Colin Farrell talks his first reaction to the script – and what made him sign on to the role.

Over three years after a disastrous launch, Cyberpunk 2077's developer is now "finally happy" with the state of the RPG.

If you've ever caught yourself jamming out to a Latin-filled song in a Final Fantasy game, or any other game in which Nobuo Uematsu was credited as a composer, you might've been wondering just what the heck the singers are saying so elegantly, yet powerfully.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer hasn't explicitly said an Xbox handheld is coming, but in a new Polygon interview, he said he has a number of ideas if one were to ever happen.

The Legend of Zelda movie director Wes Ball has outlined his vision for the upcoming Nintendo adaptation.

A live-action Legend of Zelda movie is on the way from Wes Ball and, now, The Maze Runner director has outlined his exciting vision for the upcoming Nintendo project.

Final Fantasy 14 is getting a Final Fantasy 16 questline, but more importantly, why is Naoki 'Yoshi-P' Yoshida referring to himself as a different person?

With lovely strategy RPG Unicorn Overlord being a Vanillaware title, it obviously has a cute little minigame where you scarf down illegally delicious-looking food. It turns out the main artist behind these entreating entrees is also responsible for the way the game upholds another Vanillaware quirk: curiously jiggly women. 

The hacker who disrupted the North American Apex Legends Global Series finals has said he did it «just for fun».

The former director of a new Battlefield game has criticised EA, after he recently left the company and saw the studio he co-founded closed.

Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says he sees "consolidation to be the enemy of creativity," as the company's outgoing boss Jim Ryan shares his enthusiasm for Microsoft's Call of Duty deal with PlayStation.

Another company joins KSI's lawsuit against Adin Ross over a non-division boxing match he plans to host at his content warehouse. Ross was served the notice from a subsidiary of KSI's boxing organization, evolving their social media arguments now to a potential legal battle if the match takes place.

Renowned Twitch personality xQc, also known as Félix Lengyel, has once again captured the spotlight, but this time for reasons beyond his gaming skills or entertaining antics. In a surprising twist, Twitch star xQc has revealed his plans to pursue legal action against his former partner, Adept, aiming to regain possession of his $300k McLaren.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is finally launching tomorrow, which has given producer Yoshinori Kitase some time to catch up on his backlog, namely The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

Uncharted 4 and Last of Us creative director Neil Druckmann has said he’s started thinking seriously about when he might stop making blockbuster games.

Popular Pokémon trading card illustrator Naoki Saito says he feels like he’s in danger because of frequent ambushes by autograph hunters.

Cal Kestis actor Cameron Monaghan has spoken about whether he would be interested in taking his Star Wars character into live action after portraying him in two Star Wars Jedi games.

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has revealed his plans for the future of Xbox in a brand new interview. 

Xbox head Phil Spencer says he’d like to see Sony and Nintendo bring its games to Xbox, but that he isn’t holding his breath.

You may not know his name, but Richard Wells is one of the most-heard voices in video games — and now he's blowing up on TikTok.

Former Mass Effect and Dragon Age director and BioWare general manager Aaryn Flynn says he "wouldn't go back" to the RPG studio.

Hideo Kojima dropped a bombshell at the end of January, announcing that — alongside development of Death Stranding 2 — he would also be returning to the action-espionage genre that put him on the map with the Metal Gear series, in the form of Physint for PlayStation 5. And now, in a new episode of his HideoTube web series, the designer has explained how a period of sickness and surgery — and thoughts of his own mortality — convinced him to 'change his priorities' and do something fans had been asking him to do for years.

A couple of weeks ago, Hideo Kojima announced that he was returning to the action espionage genre with a new game, codenamed Physint.

The future of Xbox is incredibly uncertain right now. What started as rumours that Hi-Fi Rush is coming to PlayStation and Switch has exploded into reports that the company is near-enough dropping exclusives entirely, making many of its games multiplatform. Starfield was said to be one of these games, with the Bethesda RPG reportedly set to come to PS5.

The creator of one of Counter-Strike's most popular maps has a serious case of seller's remorse.

Even one of Death Stranding 2's leading actors has no clue what the sequel is about because Hideo Kojima isn't letting any details slip before the recording starts.

Lawrence Sullivan, the man behind viral internet personality 'Florida Joker', has once again released a statement directed toward GTA 6's alleged parody of his persona. This time, he's asking to work on the hugely-anticipated crime fest. 

The director of Dragon’s Dogma 2 has said he wants players to properly travel through the game’s world instead of using fast travel.

The CEO of Palworld developer Pocketpair has stated that the game's artists have received death threats, and has asked that people stop directing messages towards studio staff.

It's a busy week for John Szymanski as he debuts not one but two new games, but as the developer explains in a post on Twitter, this is "not all for fun reasons." 

Barely containing his inner nerd as he lifted the curtain on the gameplay reveal for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Todd Howard explains that he's had almost everything about the game, down to granular plot points, planned out for years. 

Homeworld 3 is a dream two decades in the making, according to director and Blackbird Interactive founder Rob Cunningham.

Self Reliance, the lively, funny, weird new Hulu comedy movie produced by The Lonely Island and directed by New Girl and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verseco-star Jake Johnson, has a premise built for action. A schlubby guy named Tommy (played by Johnson) is so depressed and disengaged with his life that he agrees to be part of an underground streaming reality show where he tries to evade assassins for a month. If he wins, he gets $1 million. If he loses, he dies.

Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki'  Yoshi-P' Yoshida knows exactly what he'd do if he were to be fired from his current position at Square Enix: he'd keep playing the MMO and just complain to the development team about the state of the game.

Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke says he's finally settled on the first part of his next project, after four months of trying.

Platinum Games co-founder Hideki Kamiya has said that in 2024 he wants a new job in games so that he can “have a meal.”

The recent Apple Watch sales ban in the U.S. was thanks to the efforts of Masimo, a health technology firm that claims Apple uses stolen technology in its latest smartwatch models. Though Masimo has found some measure of success against the most valuable company in the world, the journey has been harrowing, both mentally and financially, with CEO Joe Kiani stating that around $100 million has already been spent in its legal battle.

Dragon's Dogma 2 is less than three months away from being released. Just a year and a half ago, this remained a pipe dream for fans of the original action RPG, as ten years had passed without a sequel. Then the June 2022 announcement came and they could finally rejoice.

Danganronpa's creator has said he doesn't care if his games sell well - he's just focused on making games that he likes.

Former Mass Effect lead writer Mac Walters has reflected on his time at BioWare and explained why he decided to leave the studio earlier this year. 

A podcast host interviewing GTA 5's Michael de Santa had made one of the biggest U-turns I've ever seen after accidentally linking the actor to GTA 6. 

Hideo Kojima says that when he parted ways with Konami, he was «opposed» by peers, colleagues, and relatives" who told him that going independent would «never work».

Fortnite (a game which by all accounts probably doesn't need the help) could come to Steam, but on one condition: the platform does away with its 30% cut.

In a recent interview with WoW's community council (thanks, WoWhead), the game's current director Ion Hazzikostas was asked about the current state of the story, and how dang hard it is to introduce new players to its extensive lore.

Grand Theft Auto 6 or GTA 6 has already started shattering records even though the game's release is still two years away. Rockstar Games published the GTA 6 trailer on December 4 and it amassed a staggering 93 million views in the first 24 hours, breaking the record for most views in the initial 24-hour period for a non-music video. It overtook the previous record of YouTuber Mr. Beast whose “Every Country on Earth Fights for $250,000” video had 59.4 million views on the day it was released. Rockstar might have anticipated this hype considering that its previous Grand Theft Auto entry, GTA 5, is the second best-selling video game of all time. However, it seems that even this astronomical popularity isn't enough to convince billionaire Elon Musk to play GTA 5.

In June last year, it was confirmed that Naughty Dog president Neil Druckmann’s next directorial single player project had entered development, and there’s been plenty of speculation since then about whether that game is going to be a third Last of Us entry. A story outline for a sequel has apparently been ready for a while, and leaks have also claimed that The Last of Us Part 3 is indeed in development– though an actor who has played a major role in both previous titles doesn’t seem to have started working on the game.

Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone continues to tease Stardew Valley’s next major 1.6 update, this time revealing an expanded storage option for the pixel farmers, hoarders, and foragers still playing the smash hit indie. 

The Viewtiful Joe series used to be one of Capcom’s most promising franchises. After a big debut outing on GameCube and PS2 (the later featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series), it got a direct sequel, a multi-console Smash-like spin-off, and side story exclusive to the Nintendo DS.

Final Fantasy 16 players are getting their hopes up for a DLC reveal this month off the back of an actor's tweet.

Michael Fassbender has said he gets mistaken for Ewan McGregor – and, honestly, we don't really see it. 

The Anacrusis is a co-op swarm shooter from Stray Bombay, the studio co-founded by former Left 4 Dead developer Chet Faliszek. It's currently making its way through Steam Early Access, but Faliszek says he "will never do Early Access again" due to "how player counts are seen by steam and then downwind by the community."

Left 4 Dead writer and Valve veteran Chet Faliszek says he'll never launch a game in Early Access again.

Fallout New Vegas director Josh Sawyer has shared some helpful advice for those still struggling with the RPG's card-based minigame Caravan. 

Andrzej Sapkowski is quite the renaissance man. He studied economics in college, and knows 20 languages. However, the world primarily knows him as the author behind The Witcher book series, a Polish 1990s low fantasy series that itself became famous thanks to the video game franchise based on it, and after that, the two television series.

Original Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya suspects many of his ideas for the series will be going to the grave with him.

Chet Faliszek, the writer behind the original Left 4 Dead, has revealed he was mistakenly appointed by Valve's Gabe Newell to lead the project in its early development and through launch.

Though it took a few years (or 10), Director Eli Roth says he's been wanting to make a Thanksgiving-themed slasher film since he was a kid.

Baldur's Gate 3 recently swept the board at the Golden Joysticks. Neil Newbon, the voice behind Astarion, won Best Supporting Performer at the Golden Joysticks 2023—and during his acceptance speech, said: «when I found games I was broke, I was on my knees, I actually was actually very close to quitting the [acting] industry.» 

Antony Starr, who plays Homelander in Amazon Prime show The Boys, has said he is not voicing the famous supervillain in fighting game Mortal Kombat 1, much to the disappointment of fans.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will continue the FFVII remake trilogy with a more open world-like design. To that end, Naoki Hamaguchi, one of the game's directors, admitted he took inspiration from Western games like CD Projekt RED's The Witcher and Guerrilla Games' Horizon.

While Blizzard Entertainment has been busy in recent years with the big releases of Overwatch 2, Diablo Immortal, and Diablo 4 - and then of course being acquired by Microsoft with the Activision/Blizzard deal - the storied game developer has also hit several major hurdles while maintaining support for their existing IPs. However, the recent BlizzCon 2023 showcased updates and plans for their major IPs, and the developers at Blizzard are feeling optimistic about the future of their games and the company. In an interview with IGN, Blizzard president Mike Ybarra reflected on the year of big releases and what's to come now that Blizzard is under Xbox's wing. "I would say I'm very proud of the last few years and the games we've released," said Ybarra on the number of releases. "When I think of Overwatch 2 and when I think of [Diablo] Immortal, Diablo 4, I think those games have been very big moments for us ...

Sega executive Osamu Ohashi has said that he would like to see Sonic surpassing Mario in popularity one day.

We said in our long-ago review of Dead Space 3 that it suffered from an «identity crisis.» Series star Isaac Clarke very suddenly went from being an engineer in a tight spot (and with a precarious grip on reality) in the first two games to a full-blown action hero in the third: «Isaac fights wave after wave of monsters while saying things like, 'I turned my back on the world because I couldn't face what had to be done'—and he's not talking about an oil change or repairing a carburetor.»

Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe, aka Eric Barone, said that he would be interested in creating a Stardew Valley movie if Studio Ghibli or David Lynch involved.

The story producer of the original Dead Space trilogy has said he would like to “redo Dead Space 3 almost completely”.

NOTE: There are some spoilers ahead for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.

Bruce Nesmith, a former Bethesda veteran who was lead designer on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, has said that he “probably played Skyrim for 1,000 hours" and that for "950 of those hours, it was broken”. 

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, took the stand at his trial on Friday and said that while he may have made mistakes he did not commit fraud or steal from customers.

There are many misconceptions about video game development that continue to this day despite decades of proof to the contrary. One of them is that video game developers rarely “stress about their titles” unless they’re in “crunch mode” or simply unsure how people will receive the game. The fact is that game developers stress about their titles all the time for various reasons, both internal and external. The bigger the game, the more the stress piles in. Starfield is an excellent example of this. Numerous people, from Todd Howard to others at Bethesda, have noted the stresses of working on the game and attempting to make it great.

Neil Newbon, the actor who plays Astarion in Baldur’s Gate 3, has spoken more about the process behind crafting his vampiric character, and the inspirations he drew from when bringing him to life.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has said he'd be "all in" when it comes to revisiting the company's "trove" of IP.

Platinum Games co-founder Hideki Kamiya announced last month he was departing from the studio. Having founded it in 2006 in Osaka, Japan, later working on games like Bayonetta and The Wonderful 101, he left his reason for leaving up in the air. He simply said, «This came after a lot of consideration based on my own beliefs» and that he feels «this outcome is for the best.» Now, just a few weeks later, Kamiya has started a YouTube channel – aptly called «Hideki Kamiya Channel» – and in his first video, he reveals he's not retiring, as first reported by VideoGamesChronicle. 

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic’s lead designer reckons his version of a KOTOR threequel wouldn’t be great since he’s “all Star Wars’d out.”

DLSS modder PureDark has been featured on news websites ever since he started adding support for DLSS (and other upscalers, occasionally) in PC games that didn't offer a native implementation, providing performance boosts for gamers.

Bayonetta and Devil May Cry creator and director Hideki Kamiya has thanked fans for their support after quitting PlatinumGames, as well as hinted at his plans for the future.

Given how many first party studios now fall under the Xbox Game Studios banner, it’s no surprise that Microsoft technically has the power to oversee revivals of as many dormant franchises as it can- a list that’s bound to grow further still once the company’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard is finalized. However, one name in particular that Xbox boss Phil Spencer has personally had his eyes on that may take some by surprise is MechAssault.

Yes, that’s a real headline, folks: Nier Automata‘s Yoko Taro would like aliens to destroy Earth. Perhaps it’s not that much of a shock given the fact that he’s the mind behind Nier Automata and its predecessor, Replicant, the RPG games that basically see Earth descend into robot armageddon instead, but still, it’s pretty wild.