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Diablo 4 season 15 is officially live following server issues and delay
Diablo 4’s 15th season, Season of Hell’s Legacy, is officially live following a brief delay apparently caused by server issues. Blizzard fully lifted the lid on Season of Hell’s Legacy during BlizzCon 2026, showing off a nostalgic seasonal questline celebrating the entire history of the Diablo series coinciding with its 30th birthday—and confirming a September […]
After 24 years, one of GameCube’s most beloved cult classics shows signs of life with a tease from an excellent remaster studio
While the ranks of the best GameCube games are dominated by the family-friendly titles Nintendo is best known for, Nintendo’s purple square was also quietly a killer horror machine. Sure, that’s mostly down to the mostly exclusive Resident Evil games Capcom was pumping out for the system, but there’s one other horror titan on the […]
Bungie’s mantra was “I love playing Destiny. I hate that it’s not better” in the MMO’s early years, says former lead
Destiny’s Taken King expansion is officially 11 years old, and former Bungie studio vice president Mark Noseworthy marked the occasion by saying what many Destiny players have thought a million times: this game is so good, but it could be so much better. In a post on Twitter, Noseworthy, who left Bungie in 2024 along […]
Exodus lets you do polyamory, but the Mass Effect-like RPG’s companions won’t all be happy about it
Upcoming Mass Effect-like RPG Exodus takes romance seriously, which means you’ll need to get comfortable with the idea that serious romance requires sacrifice, and, sometimes, a pig pen of mess. You’ll be able to date around, but not without consequence. Exodus narrative director – and Mass Effect’s lead writer – Drew Karpyshyn tells Game Informer […]
“I expect people to crunch,” says Wardogs boss, so his studio will “check people’s socials” to see if they criticize crunch online before hiring them
Crunch culture is one of the most controversial and maligned aspects of video game development, right up there with generative AI and mass layoffs. Forcing employees to work well beyond their normal hours to ensure a game ships on time is generally viewed as not a good thing, but Wardogs studio Bulkhead very much embraces […]
Open-world D&D game Warlock doesn’t have AAA-standard waypoints because the devs want players to feel that “when they found things, it was based on their actions”
Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons ditches the quest and objective waypoints seen in many large games, and even lets you disable its small compass, to prioritize organic exploration. It’s music to my ears. General manager Dominic Guay of Warlock developer Invoke Studios spoke to IGN about the game’s approach. “We wanted them to engage with the […]
The Last of Us season 3 might be the final season, according to HBO boss
After plenty of speculation, HBO boss Casey Bloys may have just confirmed that The Last of Us will end after season 3. “I think [showrunner] Craig [Mazin] has planned it as the final season,” Bloys told Deadline, when asked to confirm whether or not it would be the final season. Last year, composer Jake Staley […]
Xbox Game Pass is “extremely poorly managed” and Doom should never have been part of it, says former producer
It seems to me that no one is ever convinced that Game Pass deserves an oxygen tank while it’s dying, not even Xbox executives. Having experienced what it’s like to actually have your game on the sickly subscription service, Doom veteran Andrew Willis – who was impacted by the enormous job cuts at id Software […]
Laying off the people making The Elder Scrolls 6 while desperately trying to get The Elder Scrolls 6 finished “doesn’t make any sense,” says former Bethesda dev
Kurt Kuhlmann became a central figure for The Elder Scrolls in the two decades and change he spent as lore expert and world builder at the studio, and, from where he’s standing now, Bethesda owner Xbox’s decision to cut veteran devs from the team working on The Elder Scrolls 6 doesn’t make a lick of […]