A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French

Without a blockbuster budget or much experience, the creators of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 astounded the industry with an ...

Meet the Game Awards Nominees

The six nominees for game of the year are Clair Obscur: Expedition 33; Death Stranding 2: On the Beach; Donkey Kong Bananza; Hades II; Hollow Knight: Silksong; and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II.

An AI Dark Horse Is Rewriting the Rules of Game Design

The Chinese video game giant Tencent is now building some of the world’s best 3D AI models. This could have implications far ...

After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death

If you know the name Ron Gilbert, it’s probably for his decades of work on classic point-and-click adventure games like ...

Nintendo’s secret to becoming a design powerhouse? Developers who have stayed at the company for decades

The people who first made Nintendo’s hits are still working at the company,” says Keza MacDonald, author of a forthcoming ...
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'A big document of stealth' requested by Todd Howard from a designer of one of the best stealth games of all time was the blueprint for Skyrim's most beloved playstyle

Being obsessed with stealth in games, particularly Bethesda RPGs, I've always wondered about the Pagliarulo Connection: Bethesda's design director, who has contributed to all of the studio's games ...
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After just 4 hours, I'm impressed by Nioh 3's snappy action and samurai-to-ninja combo transformations: "We want the player to have a rich experience of mastery"

As I sit in a darkened room, taking near-endless punishment from a four hour build of Nioh 3, It's easy to forget that Soulslikes were once utter garbage. As Dark Souls fever swept the land in the ...
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Pioneering Game Designer Rebecca Heineman Has Died

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. A game industry legend, Rebecca Heineman, has passed away due to cancer on November 17, 2025. She was 62 years old. Friends of Heineman have mourned ...