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For every issue of Game Informer magazine, we print a handful of Game Informer Gold editions. These versions sometimes feature alternate art, have a gold embossed logo on the front, are individually...
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Each year, the Game Informer staff reviews a ton of games, but only a select few earn the highest scores. While you can find our full list of reviews here, we know that some people are just looking for...
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Stellar Blade is heading into full release, and you can dive into the action-heavy sci-fi adventure for yourself. You can read our full review for more details about how it turned out, or read our...
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This article originally published on June 7, 2018With the announcement of Fallout 76, fans are scrambling for clues that will shed light on the new game. A few concrete details come from the...
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This month, Hades II graces Game Informer's cover. After playing several hours of the Early Access build (which is publicaly available as of today), we traveled to Supergiant Games' studio in San...
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Hades II has launched into Steam Early access, and it’s also Game Informer’s next cover story (which launches on May 14). Whether you’re a returning fan or a newcomer, it may take a few runs to get...
View ArticleThe 2024 Summer Gaming Showcase Schedule
With the sun out and the temperature rising, it must be summer. That means it's time to stay cool indoors and watch a litany of gaming showcases airing throughout the season. Highlighted by Summer Game...
View ArticlePokémon TCG: Scarlet & Violet – Twilight Masquerade | The Coolest Cards We...
It's once again just about time for a new Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion to hit store shelves. Continuing the Scarlet & Violet series is Twilight Masquerade, a set that focuses on the Teal...
View ArticleVampire Survivors' Contra DLC Shows One Of Gaming's Best Values Still Has...
Ever since it came to Switch at the tail end of last summer, Vampire Survivors has been my plane game. Sure, other run-based indies like Balatro and Dead Cells, all-encompassing triple-A titles like...
View ArticleThe Art Of The New Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons has a big year ahead of it. The classic tabletop RPG is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and the most significant event of that celebration is undoubtedly the release...
View ArticleHades Voice Actor Logan Cunningham On Finding His Voice, Favorite...
During our trip to Supergiant Games for our Hades II cover story, we had a chance to speak with one of the studio's original seven employees and its principal voice actor, Logan Cunningham. From...
View ArticleGame Informer's Graduation Gift Guide 2024
Students across the land are donning gowns and readying their cap-throwing arms. If you’ve got a gaming or tech fan celebrating their big accomplishment, it’s likely you may also be looking for a way...
View ArticleAlex Horne On Taskmaster VR And Being A One-Man Writing Room
Long-running British comedy panel TV game shows are not something we usually cover here at Game Informer (a magazine and website devoted to informing readers about video games), but Taskmaster, the...
View ArticleThe Exuberance of Being Night School Studio
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View ArticleHow Street Fighter 6 Was Shaped By A Social Media User's Love For Ed
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View ArticleExploring The Intersection Between A.I. And Indie Game Development
I woke up this morning and put on a white Hanes t-shirt mass-produced by a machine able to produce clothing at a rate no human ever could. But shirts like this used to be made by humans. While making...
View ArticleFrom Canabalt To Tunic – Finji's Independent Approach To Publishing And...
In 2009, a video game called Canabalt was published on the iOS App Store. It had a simple premise: Your character flees through a crumbling urban landscape, making great leaps across rooftops at the...
View ArticleThe First Descendant: Nexon Aims For The West With New RPG Shooter
Revealed during The Game Awards 2023 last December, The First Descendant is an upcoming looter-shooter RPG from Nexon and one of the South Korean company's first forays into the console market space....
View ArticleSuda51 On Working With Swery65, James Gunn, And Finding Peace And...
Goichi "Suda51" Suda is arguably the most consistently unique game designer in the industry. He created Killer7, the No More Heroes series, worked with James Gunn (before he directed Guardians of the...
View ArticleHigh-End Raiding Overview of Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Job Changes
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View ArticleMy 13 Favorite Games From The Wholesome Direct 2024
Today's Wholesome Direct overflowed with thoughtful, creative, and, most of all, relaxing titles either out today or on the horizon. The showcase spotlighted dozens of titles you should go out of your...
View ArticleCover Reveal – Dragon Age: The Veilguard
This month, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (you read that right – Dreadwolf is no more) graces the cover of Game Informer. After years developing Baldur's Gate and its sequel early in its history, BioWare...
View ArticleThe Coolest Games We Played At Summer Game Fest 2024 And More
Summer Game Fest has slid comfortably into the slot once occupied by E3, and it has only gotten bigger with each passing year. With hundreds of media members and content creators converging in Los...
View ArticleHidetaka Miyazaki Talks Why Bloodborne Is Special To Him And How It Led To...
Bloodborne arrived on PS4 in 2015 and immediately became one of the best games of the year, earning a 9.75 out of 10 from Game Informer and even taking home our award for Best PlayStation Exclusive....
View ArticleA Deep Dive Into Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Combat, Abilities, Skill Tree,...
If you're at all familiar with the Dragon Age series, you likely already know BioWare has experimented quite a lot with its gameplay. From Dragon Age: Origins' real-time strategy RPG approach to Dragon...
View ArticleTakashi Iizuka Explains Why Shadow Has New Powers In Sonic X Shadow Generations
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View ArticleTakashi Iizuka Recalls His Reaction To Shadow Coming To The Sonic Movies
Earlier this year, Sega announced Fearless: The Year of Shadow, a yearlong celebration of one of Sonic's biggest rivals, adversaries, and frenemies, Shadow the Hedgehog. In the past, Sonic Team...
View Article2025 Video Game Release Schedule
If you're wondering what games are coming up in 2025, we've put them all in one convenient location. This list will be continually updated to act as a living, breathing schedule as new dates are...
View ArticleDragon Age: The Veilguard’s Leads On The Name Change And Solas’ Role In The...
Dragon Age 4 was revealed years ago under the name Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. However, with seemingly months to go before the game’s fall 2024 launch, BioWare announced it was changing the name to Dragon...
View ArticleThe Big List Of Upcoming Video Game Remakes
Remakes tend to be more exciting than remasters because the improvements often go beyond mere bumps in resolution or framerate. At best, studios reimagine classic experiences in exciting new ways, sand...
View ArticleFrom Software's Hidetaka Miyazaki Discusses His Approach To Difficulty
From Software games have garnered a reputation – alongside the rest of the Soulslike subgenre – for delivering difficult, punishing experiences that reward persistence with an unparalleled thrill of...
View ArticleBreaking Down Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Classes And Factions
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View ArticleDragon Age: The Veilguard’s Character Creator Is BioWare’s Most Robust Yet
As BioWare prepared to show me the character creator for Dragon Age: The Veilguard in its Edmonton, Canada, offices, I expected something robust – it's 2024, character creators have come a long way,...
View ArticleHere’s How Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s ‘Unbound’ Option Lets You Customize...
Throughout my visit to BioWare's Edmonton office for Game Informer's current cover story about Dragon Age: The Veilguard, game director Corinne Busche reiterates that the studio designed the game with...
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View ArticleGaming As The Third Place
The culture around social interaction is constantly shifting, but those profoundly strange years of the pandemic were especially jarring. In the wake of such a weird cultural moment, I’m certainly not...
View ArticleCapcom Keeps Bringing Resident Evil To VR – Here's How And Why
Deflecting a crossbow’s bolt in real life takes practice. In the Resident Evil 4 (RE4) VR port, all it takes is lifting the controller in the air at the right time.And it’s always satisfying.The parry...
View ArticleDragon Age: The Veilguard Will Feature A ‘Robust’ Transmog System At Launch
Dragon Age features a ton of different customization options. Just within the character creator, there are hundreds of options to customize things like hair, body type, what your playable character...
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In December 2023, Epic Games launched the next chapter of Fortnite, one of the most popular games of all time, with a huge virtual performance featuring Eminem, his avatar landing on a stage in front...
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View ArticleCompanions Can Romance And Form Relationships With Each Other In Dragon Age:...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a BioWare RPG, which means a lot of things, including the fact that the game will feature romance. Based on what I learned during a recent trip to BioWare's Edmonton office...
View ArticleYes, Dragon Age: The Veilguard Has Nudity, And I've Seen It
Dragon Age: The Veilguard will feature nudity. That's something I learned firsthand while customizing my Rook within BioWare's Edmonton, Canada, office earlier this year during my cover story visit. We...
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During my visit to BioWare in its Edmonton, Canada, office earlier this year for the current Game Informer cover story on Dragon Age: The Veilguard, I heard a sentiment repeated throughout the day from...
View ArticleEverything We Know About Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Bellara Lutare
We've reached the end of Game Informer's Dragon Age: The Veilguard cover story coverage as we prepare to launch our next exciting issue. But I still have this one last feature to publish, and it's...
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