Smash Bros. Creator Reveals That Brawl Leaks Changed Series’ Approach To Storytelling

This Switch OLED holiday bundle comes with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, themed Joy-Cons, and a Nintendo Switch Online subscription.

Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya has revealed in a recent video on his YouTube channel that a collaboration between him and other major Japanese game developers, such as Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima or Nier creator Yoko Taro would be a disaster.

When it comes to The Witcher, it’s one of the best examples of having adaptations across multiple forms of media and having those adaptations be good. It started as a book series, then was picked up by CD Projekt Red, who turned it into an award-winning gaming franchise, and then Netflix grabbed it, and they’ve had three seasons of it on their streaming service, with a spinoff or two to boot. So you’d think that franchise fans and those associated with it would be happy with everything happening. However, when it comes to the franchise’s creator, he does have some bitter feelings.

The developers behind the acclaimed indie fighting game Rivals of Aether have silently been working on a sequel for three years, and they're hoping it'll usher in a new generation of platform fighters.

This Black Friday Nintendo Switch OLED bundle comes with special-edition Joy-Cons, Smash Bros. Ultimate, and Switch Online.

One of the biggest joys about the “Creating Games” channel that Masahiro Sakurai hosts is that we learn not just about the games he’s made or the insights into other titles that he has, but we get to learn about his “creative process.” Past videos have highlighted how he views “gaming concepts” and what he feels is the true “essence” of video games as a whole. To that end, the latest video of his series touches on Super Smash Bros Ultimate in a way you likely didn’t expect: his supervising role. Specifically, how he surprises and “touches up” certain things with art to showcase how it should be changed.

Super Smash Bros stopped having in-game CG story cutscenes because overseas media outlets kept leaking them before the game had released, according to the series director.

In a surprising revelation during the Google vs Epic trial, it came to light that Google had extended a generous offer of $147 million to Epic Games in 2018 to bring Fortnite onto the Play Store. This proposed deal, greenlit by Google's VP of Play Partnerships, aimed to secure the popular game's presence on the platform and avert potential challenges arising from alternative distribution methods.

Sledgehammer Games reportedly pitched Call of Duty Advanced Warfare 2, its follow-up to 2014's Advanced Warfare, only for it to be shelved in order to create Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. This reportedly led to heavy development crunch within the studio.

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Dario Casali, who started working at Valve in 1996, has started his own playthrough of the original 1998 Half-Life on YouTube (thanks, Gamesradar). The episodes are coming out at a blistering pace, with Chapters 1 through 8 already released, but the Chapter 1 walkthrough comes front-loaded with a fascinating glimpse into the classic's early development.

A Half-Life developer has revealed that the game's potential list of titles included the names Crysis, Fallout, and more.