When the COVID pandemic began, Vanillaware artist and developer Yoshio Nishimura departed the studio and moved into the rural mountains outside of Nara. For six years, Nishimura rekindled his love of early fantasy “gamebooks,” which heavily informed his work on Dragon’s Crown, Odin Sphere and Monster Hunter. Now that isolated…

Obsidian game director Brandon Adler has criticized what he described as an “enormous amount of misinformation” about the studio that emerged online following reports that the developer is working on another Fallout game. He took particular issue with vocal fan skepticism over whether Obsidian can do the project justice, given…

An open-world indie survival game called KeepUp Survival is currently free to keep on the Epic Games Store, but gamers will need to act fast because the offer ends on July 19. While the Epic Games Store follows its own schedule for weekly free games on PC and mobile, the…

Warframe launched a year before Destiny 2 and kicked off what would become one of the most vibrant and consistent MMO shooters around, especially on console. And despite spending many years in the shadow of Bungie’s live service blockbuster, Digital Extremes’ sci-fi odyssey now continues to thrive even as Destiny…

A recent study analyzed the prices of several first- and third-party PS5 games across retail stores and the official PlayStation Store, concluding that physical copies can be significantly cheaper than their digital counterparts. Competitive retail pricing for video games is nothing new and has been the norm for most of…

Next year’s Fable reboot isn’t a complete reset of the famous RPG franchise, as it will feature at least one prominent character from entries’ past: Jack of Blades. This legendary character is referenced a few times throughout the original trilogy, but his most prominent, meaningful appearance is in the first…