Former Retro Studio design lead, Mike Wilkan, who worked on the three Metroid Prime games has claimed that porting the trilogy to Switch would be extremely difficult. He noted that while the first two games wouldn’t be too tough, porting the third one would be “a herculean effort” due to the Wii’s motion controls as […]
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Character Designer Hints At Atelier Ryza 3
Atelier Ryza 3 has seemingly been hinted at by the character designer of the series, Toridamono. The artist was on a presentation, celebrating that the series has shipped over 1 million copies worldwide. The video showcased the new costumes that will be added in celebration of the milestone, but Toridamomo was pressured to give an […]
Perfect Dark’s Lead Designer Left Xbox For Sony’s Insomniac Games
Drew Murray, the senior designer at Xbox’s The Initiative, which is working on a new installment in the Perfect Dark series, has left the developer to rejoin Insomniac Games. Murray, who co-founded The Initiative after 10 years at Insomniac, was a designer on the Resistance and Ratchet & Clank series, and game director of the […]
Kena’s Former Lead Designer Says He Was ‘Maliciously Forced Out’
In a new report from publication Video Games Chronicle, game designer Brandon Popovich alleges that he was “maliciously” forced out from developer Ember Lab, the studio behind the upcoming PS5 title Kena: Bridge of Spirits. According to Popovich, some of his work went unpaid during his tenure at the company and that he was instrumental […]
Pokémon UI Designer Wants To Know What Mistakes Annoy Players Most
More than 1,700 Pokémon fans provided Detective Pikachu‘s UX designer with constructive criticism of previous games’ user interfaces. Not many people truly understand how important user interfaces are to games, websites, and computer software. When something has good UI, it is almost impossible to see, but a bad UI sticks out like a sore thumb. Even with […]
The Last Of Us 2 Designer Moves To Microsoft's Outer Worlds Studio, Obsidian
One of the developers of The Last of Us: Part II has left the Sony-owned Naughty Dog to join Microsoft’s Obsidian. Jordan Denton, who was an associate sound designer on The Last of Us: Part II, is joining The Outer Worlds developer as an audio designer. Both Naughty Dog (Santa Monica) and Obsidian (Irvine) are […]
Oculus designer creates LED face mask to encourage social distancing
Facebook’s corporate mission is to “bring the world closer together,” but as the coronavirus continues to endanger lives around the world, one of the company’s designers has come up with a novel tool to keep people a little further apart. Operating under her fashion-technology brand Lumen Couture, Oculus design manager Chelsea Klukas has introduced a […]
Valve Designer Says He’s "Too Old" To Leave Fans Waiting Another 13 Years For The Next Half-Life
Valve designer Robin Walker says he doesn’t see the next Half-Life game taking another 13 years to get here following the release of Half-Life: Alyx. This year’s drop picks up where Half-Life 2: Episode Two left off way back in 2007, so fans were likely expected to be curious over how long it might take […]