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How indie studios are thriving while AAA games struggle

Major game publishers keep announcing layoffs, studio closures, and canceled projects. Meanwhile, small indie teams are ...

PUBG creator's take on a metaverse is radically different from Roblox or Fortnite: "Everyone's doing it the wrong way"

PlayerUnknown's PUBG inspired Fortnite's battle royale experience, but he won't be similarly influenced by Epic's metaverse ...
IGN

Mario + Rabbids Creator Davide Soliani Announces New Platforming Game Bradley the Badger | The Game Awards 2025

Davide Soliani, the lead creator behind the Mario + Rabbids games, has revealed Bradley the Badger — his first new project since leaving Ubisoft and forming a new studio. Bradley the Badger mixes ...
Game Rant

Last of Us Co-Creator Bruce Straley Will Finally Reveal Next Game Soon

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...
Game Rant

Last of Us Co-Creator Reveals New Game Coven of the Chicken Foot

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...
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The next game from the creator of Yakuza features Don Lee as the main character and otherwise looks a lot like a Yakuza game

The next game from the creator of Yakuza has been revealed at The Game Awards, and to one's surprise, it looks a lot like the series he founded. It's called Gang of Dragon and appears to star Don Lee ...

Sony patented AI-generated video game tutorials this year, and it sounds like a nightmare

Struggling in that PS5 game? Don't worry, a ghost player who can look like Yoda trained on YouTube, Twitch and social media posts can help you ...
Polygon

The Witness creator reveals his next massive puzzle adventure, Order of the Sinking Star

The creator of Braid and The Witness upended players' expectations about what kind of stories platformer and puzzle games could tell, thanks to their creative reinterpretations of well-worn genres.
IGN

Its 1,000-plus puzzles have been 10 years in the making.

Puzzle games have changed a lot since The Witness hit in 2016, which showed us new ways of interpreting game environments and connecting the dots. And even in 2025 we had the likes of Blue Prince ...
PC Gamer

Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert isn't interested in returning to making 2D adventure games: 'When we're all dead, it probably won't be the kind of thing that survives'

RPG 'A good idea, infinite drive, and lots of Diet Pepsi': How YouTube essayist Majuular's life changed course telling the story of Ultima across 2 years and more than 20 hours of documentaries Puzzle ...
GamesRadar+

AAA lets indie games take big risks, says The Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen, then "the mainstream grabs what worked" and "cashes in" the "safe way"

Edmund McMillen thinks mainstream video games unashamedly borrow ideas from riskier, more ambitious indie games – and as the designer behind indie hits Super Meat Boy, The Binding of Isaac, and the ...
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Fallout creator Tim Cain is back working full-time at Obsidian, but "don't bother guessing" what his new game is

Fallout creator and former The Outer Worlds co-director Tim Cain has announced his return to a full-time role at Obsidian Entertainment. Cain, who was the driving force behind the post-apocalyptic RPG ...