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Jennifer English, the actor who voiced Maelle in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, only recorded her audition tape for the game in a last-minute rush in the early hours of the morning. But she still got the job, so no harm, no foul.When asked about what the video game audition process looks like for actors, in an interview with Radio Times Gaming, English explained that “it completely varies” depending on the job and role, though “usually, for me, it’s very last minute because I’ve forgotten to do it and filmed very hastily wherever I am.”The actor, who’s also known for her…

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is much more accomplished than its predecessor but still just as uncompromising an experience, and the sequel’s lead designer says it’s because Warhorse Studios were kind of “experimenting” the first time around.Warhorse Studios’ Prokop Jirsa explained the difference in the two games’ development cycles in an interview with Edge Magazine. “In the first game, a lot of things were brand-new and we were experimenting and learning as we went,” he said.”If you try something genuinely new, the odds of it being perfectly smooth from day one are slim,” Jirsa added. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was a…

With the first rounds of World of Warcraft Midnight Mythic raiding and Mythic+ dungeons behind us, Blizzard is deploying a fresh balance pass to tackle specs that are missing the mark. After recently facing heavy nerfs, Shadow Priest is back in action with some pretty significant numbers changes, while Arms Warriors get a beefy single-target buff. The new WoW class tuning patch also targets PvP outliers on both ends of the balance spectrum. “The first couple of days of Mythic raiding and Mythic+ dungeons revealed a few specs performing lower than intended, so we’re nudging them up to help their…

Dan Daglow is the rare video game creator who’s remained around the industry for over half-a-century, having worked on some earliest digital games back in the ’70s – including one of the first RPGs in the form of the simply-titled Dungeon. He’s seen big publishers become more and more reliant on sequels as the years have worn on, and he reckons it takes a lucky indie shot like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to break through the noise of the familiar these days.”For each of the big publishers, how many years has it been since they had a major new IP?…

Learning how to get a Dark Ring in Sailor Piece is the kind of thing that can make you a few friends. Not ones willing to bask in your knowledge and crowd around to hear your wise words, but the sort who’ll then beg for you to grind five more Dark Rings for their sakes: to unlock a powerful new combat mode without them lifting a finger. Still, Dark Rings are needed to shatter the ceiling of your power in this Roblox anime adventure game, so it’s vital knowledge all around. While beating up the necessary boss, there’s a good…

One of the most interesting slides in Arc Raiders production director Caio Braga’s GDC presentation offered a breakdown of PvP satisfaction among fans of different games who played an earlier build of Arc Raiders. Players of different games were grouped by game categories, and their feedback from playtests was plotted on a bar graph with a line showing their “PvP enjoyment.”Embark asked playtesters what other games they play and then associated that data with PvP feedback. Unsurprisingly, fans of PvP games like Delta Force, PUBG, Escape from Tarkov, and Hunt: Showdown, were bigger fans of Arc Raiders PvP early on.Rust…

Even though I’ve only gone hands-on with Saros for three hours so far, blasting and shielding my way through the Returnal spiritual successor’s first two levels, it’s already shaping up to be one of the best PS5 games of the year. While Returnal was an impressive release, Saros is shaping up to really reflect how much better Housemarque have gotten at getting the most out of the console. I liked Returnal a lot, but I felt like I didn’t love it as much as everyone else. But, that makes it even more exciting that I love Saros so much, and…

The Dota 2 ESL One Birmingham 2026 tournament reaches its grand conclusion today, and it’s been an impressive showcase full of memorable stories and dramatic comebacks. The big news is the chaos created by Valve’s decision to drop a gargantuan, game-changing Dota 2 patch on everyone’s heads right before playoffs. Speaking to ESL product manager Álvaro ‘Avo+’ Sánchez Velasco ahead of the finals, I ask him about the impact of those changes, who his pick is to win, and whether he’s worried about the looming shadow of Deadlock and its potential impact on the Dota 2 scene. Patch 7.41’s arrival…

“The biggest goal was to make it more of an evolution,” says Saros lead game designer Abebe Tinari when I ask about developing a spiritual rather than direct sequel to Housemarque’s electric PS5 launch window title. The aim has been to “build off what Returnal established and add elements like the shield, different types of bullets, take the bullet ballet formula, but then bring something new to it.”Central to this vision was “Evolutionizing our gameplay, [and] being more cinematic, as well,” adds narrative designer Khalil Osaimi. Specifically, how the team was to “drive the story” through this new, theatrical lens.…

Darenn Keller is, in some ways, the modern games industry personified. As a young French game designer, he landed a “dream” job at Ubisoft working on the Assassin’s Creed series, getting his fingerprints on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Mirage as well as a few games in the Ghost Recon series. There was just one problem: “It wasn’t what I’d imagined and I started feeling miserable,” Keller said in the Reddit post that first alerted me to his story.So, as Keller tells me in an interview, he went indie. He left with “about two years of savings and no real plan,”…