I haven't played Crimson Desert enough, but we had everything that I've seen from Crimson Desert in the plans for that game. It was signed with a big publisher that has a lot of famous IPs...And then they just changed business direction again and wanted to focus on their existing IPs instead of new ones. They broke up with us on a text message, which I will never forgive them for.
Whenever you're working with an existing IP, there's always the question of how you're going to translate and adapt, right? Because it's not a one-to-one sort of interpretation.
Hotel Barcelona embodies a distinct voice. The game comes from two industry auteurs, Hidetaka Suehiro and Goichi Suda, known for their unconventional games that push the medium into wacky territories. Over the years, Suehiro, who goes by Swery65, and Suda, popularly known as Suda51, have been the creative forces behind unique and bold video games that blend genres.
from its opening moments, it's clear that its creators and its director, Matt Johnson, are video game fans, and specifically fans of 16-bit RPGs. Johnson and his creative partner, Jay McCarrol, are also the creators of the viral Wii Shop Update Day video where they run down an impressive list of classic video game titles set to the tune of the Wii's Shop Channel music.
IOI Partners' involvement with MindsEye comes to an end, except for any essential transitional functions required to transfer publisher-of-record status to Build A Rocket Boy. In light of this separation, the Hitman mission announced in June 2025, planned as a crossover event within MindsEye, will no longer be released.
As Samson, you return home to The Ditch with a mountain of debt to repay. To keep the debt collectors off his back, he hooks up with an old friend who happens to be a major player in the streets of Tyndalston, Carter, to take on some jobs around the city. These range from beating down the door of a local business and roughing up the owner who owes him money to chasing down some rival gang members.
The original was an unexpected hit. Rising above the tide of urban sandboxes in 2006, the game pushed its tomfoolery further than even Grand Theft Auto dared. The most recent entry, however, was a misfire. 2022's reboot was busted across technical levels and tonally out of sync for fans. Last year, rumors arose that the series might get another pass, but Chris Stockman, design director for the original game, now says the long-running has a fork in it.
Guerrilla Games has announced its next project, Horizon Hunters Gathering, a co-op action title set in the universe of Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West. The PvE multiplayer title will let players hunt beastly machines from the Horizon games to earn rewards. Horizon Hunters Gathering will be released on PS5 and PC at some point, with a closed playtest planned for the end of February.
From a simple tweet to a mural in NYC to a trailer delayed by a massive hurricane, here's the complete marketing timeline for GTA V Grand Theft Auto V launched over a decade ago on Xbox 360 and PS3 in September 2013. And its sequel, the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6, is seemingly, finally, actually, for real, launching this November.
The original The Long Dark was first released in its earliest form in 2014, following a successful Kickstarter the previous year. One of the rare examples of a truly purposeful early access development, the shiver-inducing first-person survival sim then released regular significant updates, each developing its core ideas in new and interesting directions, until its splendid 2017 final version. And all of them ensured you were always likely to be eaten by a wolf.
Trails Beyond the Horizon's new character, Ulrika, is like staring into the abyss of a broken TikTok algorithm, and while my knee-jerk reaction might have been shock and even a little disdain, over the next 100 hours, I grew to find the character's bit surprisingly genuine and, admittedly, hilarious. What first felt like a gimmick grew to become one of my absolute favorite parts of the game, enhancing the already distinct personality of the Trails games.
"The industry faced a 'video game apocalypse' in 2023 and 2024 as things collapsed following the pandemic boom. Games were not always of high quality or were taking much longer to develop. For instance, the sequel to Killing Floor 2 took five years to make. I believe part of the reason for these game delays is remote work," Gibson explained.
