If you’re stressed about AI slop creeping its way into The Witcher 4, fear not, CD Projekt Red says it’s still using humans as its primary means of developing games, even if robots are seemingly replacing people at an alarming rate everywhere else. During CDPR’s latest earnings call, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski was asked to […]
Getting GTA Online players to move on to GTA 6 Online is going to be “a mess” for Rockstar, Valve veteran says

There are a lot of things we don’t know about GTA 6, but arguably the biggest is what the heck the next generation of GTA Online is going to look like. Given how much money the online mode attached to GTA 5 makes, a follow-up seems inevitable. But how is Rockstar going to convince players […]
2019Devil May Cry co-creator understands why physical games are dying, but wants IP holders to prioritize game preservation

Hideki Kamiya, one of the big brains behind franchises like Devil May Cry and Bayonetta – as well as the practice of threatening people on Twitter – has a good reason to be worried. Under all the ex-Capcom hero’s bluster, there is a genuine concern for a healthy and well-preserved video game industry, and publishers […]
2019CD Projekt Red wants to hire 50 more devs for its secret Project Hadar “by the end of this year” as it starts gameplay prototyping

CD Projekt Red hasn’t forgotten about its enigmatic new IP Hadar amid all the clamoring over The Witcher 4. The developer confirms during its 2026 earnings conference on September 2 that the covert project originally revealed in 2022 is comfortably in pre-production. “Hadar is still in the concept phase,” CD Projekt Red vice president of […]
2019Star Wars animator says “the most important” scene for Jon Favreau in The Mandalorian and Grogu was a surprising Rotta moment

Industrial Light & Magic animation supervisor Hal Hickel says that impossibly sweet scene in The Mandalorian and Grogu where Rotta and Grogu play together on the beach meant a lot to director Jon Favreau (and me, personally). “That was maybe the most important scene to Jon. It’s the heart of the whole movie for him,” […]
2019The Witcher 4 devs aren’t announcing every milestone because they’re “very technical,” but they’re focused on “the actual making of the game till its release date”

The Witcher 4 is in production – or, more specifically, “full-scale production,” as developer CD Projekt Red put it back in 2024. The studio has offered the public only a few small, tantalizing glimpses at the upcoming RPG, but it’s passing new internal development milestones all the time. Those kinds of things are just too […]
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