“I Wanted To Challenge Myself” – Former WarioWare Director Talks Life After Nintendo

Image: Nintendo Earlier this year, Nintendo veteran and WarioWare legend Goro Abe announced that he was leaving the company and taking up a teaching post at the Osaka Electro-Communication University. Roughly seven months on, VGC got the chance to chat with the dev about his post-Nintendo life, and, rather expectedly, games are still very much…

Beloved PS2-era PlayStation Exclusive Action Series Set to Return

Rumor has it that a PS2-era PlayStation exclusive action game series is set to return after a lengthy hiatus. Originally developed by Sucker Punch Productions, the Sly Cooper franchise hasn’t seen a new mainline entry since 2013’s PS3 and PS Vita game, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. However, that’s reportedly set to change. The return…

Despite calling Grand Theft Auto ‘a videogame franchise built around criminal activity,’ Miami-Dade sheriff isn’t mad about the NBA’s ‘Vice City’ transformation

THEN: Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz “Grand Theft Auto is a videogame franchise built around criminal activity. Its fictional world includes murder, robbery, drug trafficking, carjacking, violence against law enforcement, and other conduct that the men and women of the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office work every single day to prevent.” NOW: Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office “Sheriff Cordero-Stutz’s comments…

Overwatch Season 5 skins and Mythics Revealed by Blizzard

Overwatch season 5 starts on Tuesday with new Support hero Doctrine and a new Escort map, Grímsvötn, coming to Blizzard Entertainment’s hero shooter. But that’s just the beginning, as long-awaited and sort-of-radical hero reworks for Roadhog and Sombra arrive to shake up the hero roster and meta. Season 5 will also feature a spooky new…

We Got A Deep-Dive On The Dungeons And Monsters Coming To D&D: World of Warcraft

Dungeons & Dragons and World of Warcraft are two of the biggest fantasy games around, even though they exist in completely different mediums. As such, a crossover between the two is a natural fit (I bet there are plenty of D&D groups who also run raids in World of Warcraft together), but the form of…

Why GTA Studio Co-Founder Is Avoiding GTA 6–And All Open-World Games

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser left the company in 2020 and now runs a new outfit called Absurd Ventures. Houser will be forever connected to the GTA franchise, and he’s now weighed in on GTA 6. He told Variety that he did not watch the “Extended Look” trailer and doesn’t plan to. Why? He said he…