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August 11, 2026 0

Star Wars Zero Company hands-on: Attack Astromechs, permadeath, and delightfully fatal Rube Goldberg tactics

By Brian Crecente

Spread out across a dusty red courtyard in an unnamed backwater on Anaxes, my team of four hunkers down behind steel crates and the stucco walls that make up this little village. Trick, a clone trooper on the team, just...

July 20, 2026 0

Cliff Bleszinski’s comeback started at Radio City Music Hall

By Brian Crecente

Last week, I sat down virtually with Cliff Bleszinski to chat about why his studio went under back in 2018....

July 17, 2026 0

Cliff Bleszinski Knows What Went Wrong

By Brian Crecente

Cliff Bleszinski has a list. He picks the paper off his desk during the tail end of our interview and...

July 3, 2026 0

The Slow, Deliberate Death of Game Ownership

By Brian Crecente

News this month that Sony Interactive Entertainment would stop producing PlayStation physical discs in 2028 wasn’t very surprising, but the way it...

June 25, 2026 0

New York Has a Gamer Mayor Now — and a $2.6 Billion Game Industry to Match

By Brian Crecente

June in New York City wasn’t entirely about the NBA. Three days before the New York Knicks won their first...

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March 31, 2025 0

BBC: Could a ‘dating app’ for video games help smaller developers?

By Brian Crecente

I chatted with the BBC about the development of a new game discoverability app called Ludocene, that I'm listed as an expert for. The interview taps into the problem of...