Features Interviews

Gaming and the climate crisis |
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What does the all-digital future mean for the climate crisis?
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What we learned about gaming's climate impact
Digital Foundry | AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution: the Digital Foundry interview
Team Red talks FSR upscaling.
Feature | The big interview: EA, FIFA and loot boxes
"Kids should not be spending in our game."
Feature | The big Gran Turismo 7 interview
How Kazunori Yamauchi wants to preserve 150 years of car culture in a single game.
Digital Foundry | The big interview: how Intel Alchemist GPUs and XeSS upscaling will change PC gaming
"I think the industry is looking forward to another player."
Feature | The big Back 4 Blood interview: environmental storytelling, always online, and the new card system
It's no longer about surviving.
Feature | "Regardless of how you feel about Sylvanas, you're going to get some answers"
Blizzard on World of Warcraft Shadowlands patch 9.1, Chains of Domination.
Feature | Monster Hunter finally broke the west, but it wants to go broader still
Capcom talks us through its plan for Monster Hunter Stories 2.
Feature | The fan who took the reins at a JRPG powerhouse
Celebrating 40 years of Falcom.
Feature | When Nintendo went Hollywood: a casual conversation with the man who helped shape the N64
Happy 25th to one of Nintendo's most important consoles.
Feature | The big Forza Horizon 5 interview: "There's not any point being bigger if it's more of the same"
Playground Games on the setting, the modes, the updates and more.
Feature | With Guilty Gear Strive, Daisuke Ishiwatari aims to make one of the most complex fighting games around finally accessible
"We wanted to open up Guilty Gear."
Feature | An interview with Warhammer 40,000 author Dan Abnett, who's writing Fatshark's Darktide
"This is Nurgle at its most horrible."
Feature | Plotting a course: how Mass Effect 3 brought the trilogy to a close
BioWare talks scrapped Reaper boss, switched missions, and picking up the pieces after ME2's Suicide Mission.
Feature | Mortal Kombat movie producer's "dream" is to do a Marvel with the famous fighting game franchise
"Johnny Cage needs his own movie."
Feature | In a series-first, the classic Rome: Total War is getting an extensive remaster
Feral Interactive talks balance changes, new factions, and "quite a huge amount of uplift on the visuals".
Feature | How Civilization 6 prevents Portugal's unique new ability from being incredibly annoying
"It's actually a win-win relationship."
Feature | Call of the Sea: Lovecraft, new studios, and the legacy of Myst
"It isn't a descent into madness, it's a rise to sanity."
Feature | Bungie on Destiny 2's Content Vault, solo challenges and the return of Exotic missions
"Forsaken content will be vaulted at some point."
Feature | How the grand dame of shooting games is making its return
'I don't want to leave anything on the cutting room floor.'
Feature | How PlayStation 5 exclusive Returnal is keeping the arcade fires alive
Housemarque on the PT influence, justifying the Ł70 price tag and the future of the studio.
Feature | The big Diablo 2 Resurrected interview
"This is the re-emergence of Diablo."
Feature | Blizzard on Diablo 4's Rogue and how PvP works within the open world
"It's a mechanic we really like."
Feature | Climbing inside fear with the makers of Little Nightmares 2
How do you make something scary?
Feature | Turrican returns this week - alongside another gaming legend
Julian Eggebrecht on Factor 5's return, and what the future holds for Turrican.
Feature | What's in store for Microsoft Flight Simulator in 2021?
Jorg Neumann on console, VR - and why an Xbox One version hasn't been ruled out.
Feature | This is an opportunity to be the scariest game on the next generation of hardware
Glen Schofield on his return to the world of sci-fi horror.
Digital Foundry | The big Xbox Series S interview: why Microsoft made an entry-level next-gen console
"For me, it was an easy decision - let's go do this."
Feature | Single-player League of Legends "true RPG" Ruined King coming early 2021
On PS4, Xbox One, PC and Switch first, with free upgrades to next-gen.
Feature | Monster Hunter Rise looks like it'll be the best of both worlds
Tsujimoto and Ichinose on going portable, getting quirky and why a 15th weapon isn't on the cards just yet.
Feature | Fast cars, big bums and the secrets behind one of the best Need for Speed games yet
Criterion on Hot Pursuit Remastered, and where the series goes next.
Feature | What happens when motorsport legends go virtual racing?
In conversation with Emanuele Pirro.
Feature | The gaming archaeologist and his quest for a Neo Geo holy grail
How an unreleased SNK arcade game found its way out into the world again.
Feature | Chasing the dream of four people in a room
Hello Games' Sean Murray and Steven Burgess on The Last Campfire, No Man's Sky, and coming full circle.
Feature | Command & Conquer Remastered Collection was a success - so what's next for the revived RTS franchise?
We speak to the EA producer spearheading the project to find out.
Feature | Warframe dev on working from home, Necramechs and the wild new Helminth system
"Sometimes you gotta try these things."
Digital Foundry | The EPOS tech interview: designing gaming headsets for esports and immersion
The artists formerly known as Sennheiser's gaming division.
Feature | Final Fantasy 14's big 5.3 patch opens up the path to new players
Naoki Yoshida on crossovers, killing old content and going beyond 20 million players.
Feature | Sucker Punch talks Ghost of Tsushima's inspirations, cultural authenticity, and the studio's growing identity
"It would have been immensely harder if we had not had the Japanese localisation team."
Feature | A spoiler-heavy interview with The Last of Us Part 2 director Neil Druckmann
"I've seen people say online, you disrespected the characters. *************! No-one loves these characters more than we do."
Digital Foundry | The big Valorant tech interview: Riot on developing the next big competitive FPS
Next-gen consoles, agent design, weird bugs and more.
Feature | Ninjala might be the perfect summer game
Gumplay - GungHo on the launch of the Switch exclusive.