Through dark magic, one dev looks to have captured the magic of Sekiro in a gorgeous 2D game – I’ve followed it for a year, it finally has a Steam page, and I hammered the Wishlist button into dust

September 5, 2025 / admin / retro news

False Princess Iruruu finally approaches

2019

Final Fantasy Tactics devs originally considered making a famously powerful character weaker when he levels up because that’s how getting old works: “His strength actually becomes lower”

September 5, 2025 / admin / retro news

Hey, leave Cid alone!

2019

Drink up a double dose of Blade absolutely destroying vampires in this preview of Marvel: Black, White & Blood and Guts #1

September 5, 2025 / admin / retro news

Preview | Get an early look at interior pages from all three stories in Marvel: Black, White & Blood and Guts #1

2019

Wizards of the Coast boss and ex WoW dev would love a new D&D MMO, but says “the traditional model” Blizzard used “could use updating”

September 5, 2025 / admin / retro news

“We’ll want to rethink what an MMO is in this day and age”

2019

Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford says Stop Killing Games “comes from the same heart that I have” and is “a metaphor, I think, for life” in the face of the inevitable heat death of the universe

September 5, 2025 / admin / retro news

Coincidentally, Gearbox’s failed live-service shooter Battleborn “was about the last star that would exist” before the end of all life

2019

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds almost ended with a 2-hour movie before the compromise of a shorter final season: “We get to wrap up all of our storylines”

September 5, 2025 / admin / retro news

“I think we feel very lucky to get a season five”

2019

“The great Todd Howard says that great games are played, not made,” according to Bethesda’s Pete Hines, so Elder Scrolls devs changed Oblivion combat three times and no one spoke about it

September 5, 2025 / admin / retro news

No need

2019

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare director came up with Private Military Companies because he wanted to stop making real-life countries the enemy for his own security: “I don’t want to have this problem anymore”

September 5, 2025 / admin / retro news

“I’m like, ‘Do you know who the enemies are in Modern Warfare 3?’”

2019

“Cultural touchstone” Life is Strange is getting a TV show on Prime Video from Margot Robbie’s production company and a “thoughtfully assembled dream team”

September 5, 2025 / admin / retro news

The End of the F***ing World creator Charlie Covell is set to helm the project

2019

Despite being weeks into filming, Mark Ruffalo says he’s “still waiting to hear” if the Hulk is in Spider-Man 4: “I haven’t read a script yet”

September 5, 2025 / admin / retro news

Is Mark Ruffalo returning as the Hulk in Spider-Man: Brand New Day? Even he doesn’t know for sure

2019