Uncategorized Former Bethesda designer says the studio’s infamous loading screens are “a necessary bane” of how it makes RPGs, whether you’re playing Oblivion Remastered, Starfield, or Skyrim by lucky May 1, 2025 by lucky May 1, 2025
Game Updates Oblivion features warring goblins as one quest designer thought turning a side quest’s gimmick into a whole thing “wouldn’t be a lot more work,” but looking back he’s not sure if that was “actually true” by lucky April 29, 2025 by lucky April 29, 2025
Game Awards After seeing Oblivion Remastered, Fallout 3’s lead designer expects the RPG’s own rumored remaster to be a lot like Fallout 4 by lucky April 24, 2025 by lucky April 24, 2025
Tech Updates The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion’s original game designer thought the remaster was going to be ‘a texture update’: ‘I’m not sure remaster actually does it justice’ by lucky April 24, 2025 by lucky April 24, 2025
Latest News Designer of Disco Elysium spiritual successor TTRPG reveals “key design tenet” mirrored in jazz and progressive metal: “Every misstep, every dead end [makes] the eventual release more beautiful” by lucky April 23, 2025 by lucky April 23, 2025
Game Awards Publisher behind beloved board game Spirit Island shuts, but the designer is “certainly not done with the game” by lucky April 22, 2025 by lucky April 22, 2025
Game Updates Diablo 4’s lead live game designer says difficulty is ‘a tricky balance,’ but Season 8 should pack more of a punch: ‘If there isn’t enough challenge, then it just feels like you’re getting candy for free’ by lucky April 21, 2025 by lucky April 21, 2025
Game Awards We asked Metaphor: ReFantazio’s lead UI designer about RPGs that inspire him, and he name dropped a surprise PS2 sleeper hit from 25 years ago by lucky April 19, 2025 by lucky April 19, 2025
Patch Notes 22-year-old MMO MapleStory is getting the ‘old school’ treatment with the original lead game designer in charge of new classic servers by lucky April 17, 2025 by lucky April 17, 2025
Game Verse MTG’s Head Designer Knows We Want More Fantasy Sets Like Tarkir: Dragonstorm by lucky April 17, 2025 by lucky April 17, 2025
