Reakktor Studios waited decades for someone, anyone, to make a spiritual successor to PS1 cyberpunk flight sim G-Police. They told me what happened when they got fed up of waiting and made it themselves. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/g...

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

I'm back at Nintendo Life talking about Rayman 2: The Great Escape – out now on NSO. I've never forgotten its oddball creativity in a time when a braver, weirder Ubisoft tested the limits of the 3D platformer. (Partly because I played the opening dozens of times, as I didn't own a memory card!)

Delighted to see this piece up! Massive thank you to all the women who shared their experience with me for this 🖤 www.gamesindustry.biz/a-decade-on-...

I'm back at Nintendo Life talking about Rayman 2: The Great Escape – out now on NSO. I've never forgotten its oddball creativity in a time when a braver, weirder Ubisoft tested the limits of the 3D platformer. (Partly because I played the opening dozens of times, as I didn't own a memory card!)

The first Aussie Bluey game may be the first to share the show's respect for young audiences. Halfbrick Studios, Screen Australia's Head of Games and @jasonimms.bsky.social explain why kids and Australian developers deserve more from their homegrown icon. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

this interview is essential reading for SILENT HILL fans 🐜🦟🦗 i know i wrote it 🤧 but 😇😈 silent hill f producer motoi okamoto and scriptwriter ryukishi07 were just so honest with me about their vision for the franchise, and what they need from you... www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...

One last new byline (and a big one!) before the year ends: For Epic Games, I interviewed @owlcatgames.bsky.social's Leonid Rastorguev and Alexey Drobyshevsky, who revealed the design and tech evolution and challenges behind The Expanse: Osiris Reborn. Read here: store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/t...

The first Aussie Bluey game may be the first to share the show's respect for young audiences. Halfbrick Studios, Screen Australia's Head of Games and @jasonimms.bsky.social explain why kids and Australian developers deserve more from their homegrown icon. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

I spoke to Halfbrick Studios CEO Shainiel Deo about making the first Aussie Bluey game in the pup's Brisbane hometown. With a story by Joe Brumm, it's likely the last Bluey we'll see from from the show creator until the 2027 movie. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

I spoke to Halfbrick Studios CEO Shainiel Deo about making the first Aussie Bluey game in the pup's Brisbane hometown. With a story by Joe Brumm, it's likely the last Bluey we'll see from from the show creator until the 2027 movie. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

NEW: I spoke with the reporters behind Post Games, Aftermath, Game File, People Make Games, Rogue, and Rascal News to learn about the trials and triumphs of going independent in a shifting game media landscape dominated by conglomeration and layoffs.

@jasonimms.bsky.social Hey Jason, I'm working on a Guardian Australia piece about Bluey video games and why Aussie devs didn't get a shot at the franchise. I remembered your tweet from two years back, and wanted to ask if you'd be interested in giving an Aussie dev's perspective on the topic?

I've just hit my third month at @rascal.news and am grateful and humbled to be part of this amazing crew. I've learned a lot here as the resident greenhorn, and I would love to share some pieces I've written for the site.

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it"

Dispatch's success has helped break the AA narrative genre's losing streak. I dug into how Dispatch models how dropping adventure game convention – in this case the very concept of level design – can help a struggling genre rediscover its reason to exist. www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...

Easily my fave scene from the entire game, I ended up booking a karaoke session just to have an excuse to belt out Bitch by Meredith Brooks shortly after playing it. Great behind-the-scenes piece on how it came together.

Love Harada. Is Tekken pursuing cultural authenticity because it's the right thing to do? Nah, it's just because everyone's a smart-ass these days.

Dispatch's success has helped break the AA narrative genre's losing streak. I dug into how Dispatch models how dropping adventure game convention – in this case the very concept of level design – can help a struggling genre rediscover its reason to exist. www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...

I played the new Dragon Quest 7 remake in the same way I played my first DQ game on the ZSNES emulator: With the battles on fast forward and cheat codes to give me more XP so I could skip the grind.

Persistence paid off for schoolboy game dev @rockandrollmachine.bsky.social when he landed a publishing deal for his first game, Total Wormage (aka Worms), at a trade show. Listen to the untold story of how Andy designed a game at school that became a global sensation. Out now: apple.co/47PAhUk

Civ 7 and Football Manager 26 left basic UX functionality far too late, a self-inflicted lethal blow to first impressions. A UX expert reveals how poor planning, understaffed teams and internal compromises too often make launch UX "a real hot mess". thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/when...

You're only ever fighting an attention span war if you accept up-front the premise that you are fighting an attention span war, and if you accept that, you WILL lose, because you are incapable of being interesting. It's a loadbearing (and disrespectful) misunderstanding of your fellow humans

this is so cart-before-horse to me. i don't accept that people's attention spans are shorter in a way that has to matter. the problem is that we keep thinking that and "complying in advance" with the imagined boogieman of "people not paying attention nowadays". nothing done in that direction helps

Really chuffed to have @dominguezf.bsky.social back on TWIV with another killer long read. He speaks to UX expert @celiahodent.com for some fantastic context behind how and why some games feel so awful to navigate at launch (which feels like it’s happening way more than it should lately).

When UX is done right, you hardly notice. But players sure noticed Football Manager 26 and Civ VII's many issues at launch. UX expert @celiahodent.com explained why, despite the clear harm to first impressions, game UX is too often left to post-launch fixes.

Me anytime I'm grating ginger down to the stub: where did my fingertips go? (Still worth it!)

Some folks absolutely think this way, BUT I’ll also say a good PR person advocates for the value small sites, small creators, and freelancers bring to the table. Do my clients want IGN? Of course. But do I impress upon them to remember the little guys? Yep. An army of small voices adds up!

Talking to people way smarter than me about the things I enjoy is, no bullshit, the best part of my job. So thanks to the folks who talked to me about why Magic’s starting to look like a Fortnite lobby and what this means for the long term health of the game

If anyone feels like supporting an independent Australian videogame website with award-winning work that strictly has no advertising, no sponsored content, no corporate ownership, does not let publishers pay for travel, and discloses every code we get and image we use: thisweekinvideogames.com

Hey all you gamers claiming to "want shorter games made by fewer people who are paid more to work less" here's your chance to put your $15 where your mouth is: a spooky & elegiac exploration game made by ex-Bethesda & Ubi devs. It's excellent. Buy it & prove there's a market for games like this!

As you may have seen, we've launched a brand new website today! And while we're excited about some of the big stuff involved--like a sale and new payment methods--here are some other neat features we hope readers and newcomers will appreciate. aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...

Forgot FEAR came out at the exact stage of PC gaming where fiddling with the settings could produce its own 90s demake.

I’m bad at self promoting but if you’re reading this, it’s the last chance you have to support our 3-month-old, non-corporate, reader-funded videogame website as a “Founder” and lock in the baseline subscription price indefinitely. If you’ve been on the fence and have the means, it’s a good time! 🙏🏽

🤖🌟 Issue 6 of APWOT is live on Kickstarter! 🌟🤖 Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation. Get in there! 💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫

I got to talk to Miles Jacobson about Football Manager 26's new match engine, adding women's football to the game, and the lamentable decline of my fave football position in life and FM: the trequartista. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/f...

Making my @rollingstone.com debut writing about Monolith's incredible F.E.A.R. and how the story's meaning has kind of gotten lost over the years. Alma isn't F.E.A.R.'s villain. Armacham and the people that made her are. She's as much a victim as anyone else, a spirit of vengeance made, not born.

ART BY FUCKING W H O?

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

very excited to share this story about an emerging video game genre: games that live on bottom of your desktop screen. my first story in the NYT, featuring @mistermorrisgames.bsky.social, @toadzillart.itch.io, and more! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

The devs behind Ninja Gaiden 4, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, AC: Shadows and a few ninjutsu practitioners told me how history, acrobatics and ingenuity made one of history's most elusive figures become a gaming icon. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/year...

The devs behind Ninja Gaiden 4, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, AC: Shadows and a few ninjutsu practitioners told me how history, acrobatics and ingenuity made one of history's most elusive figures become a gaming icon. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/year...

Absolute whopper of a long-form feature from cool word guy @dominguezf.bsky.social, who simply wanted to talk to anyone and everyone about ninjas GET IN

I reviewed Bounty Star for @ign.com. It is the most personal review I've written in a long time (maybe ever) and I'm very proud of it. It would mean a lot to me if you read it. Full disclosure: I talk about being suicidal for two years in the opening because I had to. This one hit me pretty hard.

SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average. This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything. Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

oh this is up sooner than I thought! I wrote about this year’s superhero adaptations, stories most interested in superhumans saving themselves slate.com/culture/2025...

This was wonderful. A really personal piece that shares decades of understanding about who Itagaki was underneath the spiky public persona.

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New Review! Ninja Gaiden 4's combat is absolutely incredible, like we're talking peak of the genre good. The things around that combat are... not so great. It was a tough game to put a score on. Here it is: www.ign.com/articles/nin...

“My life was a series of battles. And I kept on winning.”: Skybox remembers Tomonobu Itagaki by @edgarallanbro.bsky.social feat. several Skybox contributors "Tomonobu Itagaki was a rock star. Maybe our last one." Read on: