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"Vince was the real deal." Gaming leaders mourn Vince Zampella in Las Vegas
An hour of today's annual DICE Summit that would usually be reserved for a keynote address was instead devoted to eulogies for the Call of Duty and…
Feb 11 • Stephen Totilo
A good joke about game launches
Plus: PlayStation's recent win against counterfeiters
Feb 11 • Stephen Totilo
20 very up and down hours with Mewgenics
A review of a long-awaited tactical game about cat warfare. Plus: PlayStation sales, Roblox results, a Raven complaint, the Baldur’s Gate HBO show and…
Feb 6 • Stephen Totilo
Epic’s plans for its game store include launching on the next Xbox
Plus: Horses' Epic Games Store roadblock, revisited. And how EGS did in 2025.
Feb 5 • Stephen Totilo
Nintendo actually showed me the Virtual Boy
I had the best and worst of times. PLUS: Switch breaks a sales record, a key Nintendo stat declines, three labor complaints are withdrawn, Ubisoft fires…
Feb 3 • Stephen Totilo
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Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year
Oct 8, 2025 • Stephen Totilo
Nintendo warns it may brick Switch systems whose users “bypass, modify, decrypt, defeat, tamper with” their games and services
May 9, 2025 • Stephen Totilo
Halo co-creator says ICE’s Halo-themed recruitment ad “makes me sick”
Oct 28, 2025 • Stephen Totilo
Who killed Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II’s 'Restored Content DLC' for Switch? Disney lawyers.
Dec 8, 2025 • Stephen Totilo

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Meet Gertie
Video games have let you play as a space marine, a world-saving teenager and a god of war. An upcoming adventure proposes a riskier role: an old lady.
Jan 30 • Stephen Totilo
"Oh, this is gonna be very different": An ex-Blizzard developer's eye-opening year
My visit to Dreamhaven to talk about Sunderfolk, an unusual RPG with one of last year's worst-timed release dates. Blunt talk about what went wrong…
Jan 29 • Stephen Totilo
44 hours (unexpected!) with a gorgeous game called MIO
PLUS: Battlefield tops U.S. sales charts, GameStop gets sued, a Wii connects to Domino's and more
Jan 24 • Stephen Totilo
Game File, two years in
What’s going well, what keeps me up at night, and which countries and states love Game File the most
Jan 23 • Stephen Totilo
Interview: As Arc Raiders surges, Nexon CEO eyes the west (and is dreaming of gaming's "third wave")
Plus: A big shake-up at Ubisoft, and...what was the best video game made in New York?
Jan 21 • Stephen Totilo
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