The world’s “largest PC strategy game” has a novel idea – what if it was OK for people to leave? March 31, 2025 / admin / retro news Teamfight Tactics game director Peter Whalen makes a strong argument Read More 2019
Super Mario Bros 2 player crashes the game, casually posts the clip online, and accidentally makes “the biggest 2D Mario speedrun discovery in years” March 31, 2025 / admin / retro news “I genuinely can’t believe a random crash I had with this game actually helped discover a new speed run trick” Read More 2019
Balatro creator LocalThunk stays so anonymous, a GDC attendee couldn’t believe how he “crushed” the roguelike’s base difficulty: “‘Wow you must have played this before!'” March 31, 2025 / admin / retro news “I guess you could say that” Read More 2019
The Last of Us HBO showrunner says “flat out” that “I am not going to go past the game” like Game of Thrones did with George R.R. Martin’s novels March 31, 2025 / admin / retro news Craig Mazin says that he and co-showrunner Neil Druckmann have no plans for a prequel or spin-off show anytime soon Read More 2019
Larian boss defends mods as D&D owner Wizards of the Coast blasts a Baldur’s Gate 3 Stardew Valley mod offline with a DMCA: “There are good ways of dealing with this” March 31, 2025 / admin / retro news Swen Vincke has something to say Read More 2019
New Black Mirror season 7 trailer reveals how Will Poulter’s Bandersnatch character returns to the Netflix show – with a Sonic the Hedgehog namedrop March 31, 2025 / admin / retro news The sequels to Bandersnatch and USS Callister are almost here Read More 2019
Former Nintendo marketing leads say the Wii U flopped so bad that getting third-party support on Switch was “really hard,” but the Switch 2 marks a new era: “There’s no more proving yourself” March 31, 2025 / admin / retro news “The transition from Wii U to Switch 1 was pretty tough from the Nintendo third-party side” Read More 2019
The Baldur’s Gate 3-themed Stardew Valley mod that Larian boss Swen Vincke called “amazing” gets DMCA’d by D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast March 31, 2025 / admin / retro news Clearly, Baldur’s Village was too well-loved for the IP owner to let people enjoy it Read More 2019
After PlayStation boss praises Nier Automata as a savior for Japanese games overseas, Yoko Taro says he was specifically told to focus on Japan because it wouldn’t fly overseas March 31, 2025 / admin / retro news Although the game’s producer responded saying it wasn’t quite as harsh as it sounds Read More 2019
“Should JRPGs be considered a distinct genre?”: Lunar icon Kei Shigema reflects on the genre with new remasters on the way and how RPGs have changed 33 years later March 31, 2025 / admin / retro news Interview | “The time I spent working on this game was the happiest and most fulfilling period of my life” Read More 2019