Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s controversial GOTY wins at The Indie Game Awards retracted after the RPG’s use of generative AI December 21, 2025 / admin / retro news “When it was submitted for consideration, a representative of Sandfall Interactive agreed that no gen AI was used” Read More 2019
Bethesda lead says the biggest difference between a fantasy RPG like Skyrim and a sci-fi RPG like Fallout is how you piece together the story December 21, 2025 / admin / retro news “I think it’s easier in a fantasy game like The Elder Scrolls” Read More 2019
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer “didn’t think of it as writing an RPG” – “I thought of it almost like writing an HBO drama” December 20, 2025 / admin / retro news “A lot of times, we didn’t know what we didn’t know.” Read More 2019
From Minecraft to The Last of Us Season 2, the best gaming adaptations of 2025 weren’t lacking in variety December 20, 2025 / admin / retro news Year in Review 2025 | The best gaming adaptations from to 2025 to stream and catch on the big screen Read More 2019
Bethesda was scared of making Fallout 3, but by Fallout 4 it had chilled out: “we don’t have to be so reverential now” December 20, 2025 / admin / retro news “Owning a franchise and an IP is different than feeling like you own it creatively.” Read More 2019
“Last year we were the ‘Manor Lords publisher’, this year I think we’re something more”: Heroes of Might and Magic company sold over 4.5 million copies two years in a row December 20, 2025 / admin / retro news But their 2025 sales were spread out across more games Read More 2019
Arc Raiders legend dedicated to collecting rubber ducks has now amassed an army of 4,200 of them with no end in sight December 20, 2025 / admin / retro news Rich in quacks Read More 2019
Death Stranding’s Hideo Kojima wants to “pioneer a new genre,” not “focus much on existing ones,” but he’d still like to make a Western or space game December 20, 2025 / admin / retro news “Or a period piece, but those exist already” Read More 2019
Death Stranding 2 is the purest expression of “a Hideo Kojima game” yet, and it’s got nothing to do with the long cutscenes or esoteric plot December 20, 2025 / admin / retro news Year in Review 2025 | Don’t let Kojima’s movie buff reputation fool you – these games have always been about the play Read More 2019
Dispatch cut a KPop Demon Hunters-style character who “looked like a Saja Boy undercover,” devs say: “We should do that for Season 2. If there is a Season 2.” December 20, 2025 / admin / retro news AdHoc’s studio founders recall some cut ideas Read More 2019