Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick
After making $8.5 billion from GTA 5 and saying it had "no current plans" for layoffs, GTA 6 publisher announces nearly 600 layoffs and $140 million in canceled projects
news As recently as February, Take-Two's CEO said no layoffs were planned
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's most painfully boring minigame was originally twice as tedious, but at the last minute Square decided "it might be stressful"
news Square Enix "put in a lot of work" to make mako vacuuming "feel satisfying" and, well, at least they tried
D&D owner Hasbro is already "talking to lots of partners" about the next Baldur's Gate game and hopes "it's not another 25 years" before it comes out
news "We're going to take our time"
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director is struggling to decide how to kick off the JRPG's final installment
News Naoki Hamaguchi is stuck on how to proceed with the beginning of the end of the Remake trilogy
Reading 42 pages of Elder Scrolls Online Gold Road patch notes won't make Elder Scrolls 6 get here any quicker, but it's a good way to kill some time
news Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road is a behemoth of an MMO update
Helldivers 2 devs are reworking "fire as a whole" after admitting the way it works now is "ridiculous"
news The works – DPS, DOT, the host thingie, not dying in two seconds from just touching it etc
Helldivers 2's ammo booster was inspired by the director's time in the military where "it was always possible to stuff an extra magazine in another pocket"
news Not everyone's a fan of Helldivers 2's ammo boosters, but they probably aren't going anywhere
Heck yeah, my favorite open-world indie game of 2023 is releasing on Switch in June
news The absolutely stunning Tchia has a new Switch gameplay trailer
EA shoots down rumors of a canceled Dead Space 2 remake: "There is no validity to this story"
news No matter how you slice it, it really sounds like Dead Space 2 remake isn't happening
The vice on the PS4 and Xbox One gets a little tighter as Diablo 4 boss agrees "there's always a time and a place" to drop last-gen
news "I don't think we're at that time"
One of last year's best and biggest roguelikes gets even better: first Brotato DLC coming this summer alongside 4-player co-op
news Brotato is adding 20 new and challenging waves
"They were nearly lost forever": How one JRPG superfan spent 340 hours saving Dragon Quest 7's DLC just before Nintendo's 3DS server shutdown
news Dragon Quest 7's DLC tablets will live on
Just before Nintendo shut down the 3DS and Wii U servers, fans rallied together and gathered 23,000 data dumps to preserve DLC that was nearly lost forever
news The SpotPass Archival Project has been a "massive success"
As delayed Helldivers 2 medal payouts trickle in, dev says "we've realized that we need to do an overhaul" on the whole reward system
news "It's frankly about as reliable as a solar-powered watch in Malevelon Creek"
Elder Scrolls Online's big 10th anniversary update is an autumnal trip home for Oblivion fans and a worthy step forward for the MMO
Features I played Elder Scrolls Online's big 10th anniversary update after a few months away and was overwhelmed by everything new
After Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Nobuo Uematsu says he started adding Latin to epic songs because "if no one understands the language, then it's fair for everyone"
news There's a diplomatic reason you can't understand the words to 'One Winged Angel'
No April Fools' joke: This co-op horror game where you "get famous or die trying" is like Dark and Darker but you're a YouTuber, and it's free for 24 hours
news Content Warning surprise dropped with a 100% launch discount
Helldivers 2 director's "childhood dream" is for the co-op shooter to join the pantheon of PlayStation's biggest IP: "It's crazy that it might be in the future"
news Uncharted, God of War, Helldivers? Maybe one day
Cyberpunk 2077 quest lead says CDPR has explored AI generation, but bots just can't compare to writers: "The gap in quality, specifically, is huge"
news There's still a "gigantic, really long way to go" before AI-generated characters are as good as the real thing
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Vincent didn't know he was voicing the JRPG's fan-favorite antihero until he was in the studio: "It kind of broke me in a beautiful way"
news Watch Matthew Mercer learn he would be the voice of Vincent Valentine in real time
Veteran MMO studio casually reveals Guild Wars 3 is in development, and fans aren't sure how to feel
news "Scared to hear it'll be free to play or something"
Diablo 4 Season 4 PTR patch notes are here, they're 10,000 words long, and they bring game-changing news for controller players
News The Season 4 PTR is coming, with a welcome change to improve controller "parity with mouse and keyboard play"
Helldivers 2 probably wouldn't exist without Nintendo as its director says the Mario maker is "the reason why I became a game dev"
news You can thank Mario, Zelda, and Kirby for your democracy
