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Open world games are some of the most popular in 2025, but as GTA 6 looms on the horizon, 2026 is about to get competitive

Interview | With a new Grand Theft Auto en route, it's open season on open world games; where do we go from here? And how many kinds of open worlds are there?

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Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard are both "very LGBTQ+ friendly," former EA dev says, "but one handled it perfectly and one fumbled it"

"Baldur's Gate 3 just supports you"

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Former Assassin's Creed and Far Cry lead says the Simpsons game they worked on "is underrated" and "being able to walk around a recreation of Springfield was pretty fun in of itself"

No word on if the devs slept nude in an oxygen tent in the belief it might give them development powers

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Revenge of the Savage Planet director isn't happy with the sequel's revenue, despite it bringing in millions of players on Xbox Game Pass: 'If you give stuff for free, what you've done is told people not to pay for it'

Revenge of the Savage Planet director thinks the industry's obsession with free games and subscription services is 'existentially dangerous'

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Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"

Assassin's Creed's shift to open-world RPGs would never have happened at many companies, Alex Hutchinson says

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Assassin's Creed 3's controversial, hours-long opening was meant to solve a classic game narrative problem, but the team didn't realize it was "too long" until "the last two months" of development

"You're always taught you have to conquer this villain, but you really don't care about the villain"

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Assassin's Creed was supposed to be a "trilogy" and end with Desmond Miles' death in Assassin's Creed 3, but Ubisoft released Brotherhood and Revelations before it released: "The problem with success is it drags it out"

Games die "when they start to disappear up their own butts a bit"

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Game Pass can’t cash in forever — ex‑Xbox VP warns of hidden costs

Former Xbox VP, and PlayStation executives warn that Game Pass, while popular with players, may devalue games and create tensions for developers.

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Revenge of the Savage Planet dev says "if just the people who have already wishlisted" the game buy it in the next month, "you would get more DLC"

A free Steam demo dropping next week should help

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Assassin's Creed 3 director says Ubisoft put "a lot of pressure" on devs to "add play time" and "bulk" out games with RPG elements "to delay resale as GameStop was the only one making any money on that transaction"

"The cheapest and most effective way to bulk it out was to add RPG elements"

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Ubisoft vets releasing free demo for Metroidvania couch co-op Revenge of the Savage Planet because "we know that money is tight," and they hope you'll say "this 4 years of effort and 30 people" that made the full game "is worth 2 lattes"

There's also a performance mode and photo mode coming very soon

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Revenge of the Savage Planet is an 'upbeat, optimistic dystopia' that pulls no punches on our corporate overlords (interview)

'We had an idea for a meat planet' — Revenge of the Savage Planet game director Alex Hutchinson talks strange new worlds and mocking corporate spaceflight.

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As GTA 6 and Ghost of Yotei approach, Assassin's Creed veteran says good open-world games are slapstick: "You're just setting up the opportunity for jokes"

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Far Cry 4 lead reveals a cut idea for enemy camps that would have completely changed the story: "I think that's where the fun of the whole genre might lie"

Alex Hutchinson says the devs toyed around with letting players give enemy camps back to Pagan Min

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Assassin's Creed and Far Cry veteran didn't want the "feeling Kojima's going for in Death Stranding" in his new open-world game: "We want dense, joy-filled nuggets"

Is it possible for an open world game to be too big?

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This dev launched his game on Xbox Game Pass, but warns that others shouldn't — here's why

Lead Revenge of the Savage Planet developer Alex Hutchinson says "content has been devalued" by Xbox Game Pass even though his game launched onto the service.

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Far Cry 4 and Assassin's Creed 3 director 'hates' the Nintendo Switch 2 Game Key Card system, 'We’re losing some of what made the business special'

Far Cry 4 and Revenge of the Savage Planet director Alex Hutchinson,thinks the Nintendo Switch 2's Game Key Card system is "sort of lame".

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"I hate it": Former Assassin's Creed, Far Cry lead says that with Switch 2 game-key cards, "we're losing some of what made the business special"

Even though game-key cards aren't popular with everyone, Alex Hutchinson thinks "Nintendo is going to get away with it"

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Revenge of the Savage Planet hopes to follow in the footsteps of Metroid Prime

Big In 2025 | Raccoon Logic brings a bigger, bolder take on interstellar exploration and capitalist hijinks

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AAA – Developers discuss the three little letters that have shaped an industry: "It's a stupid term. It's meaningless"

Feature | Edge talks to developers to unpack the baggage around the blockbuster marketing term

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Revenge of the Savage Planet adds a new perspective and deeper satire to the sequel's 'optimistic yet funny dystopia'

The creative director explains how the fall of Google Stadia and the current challenges of the games industry drove them forward.

Inverse

'Revenge of the Savage Planet' Developers Break Free from Big Tech

Without Google hanging over it, Raccoon Logic's "Revenge Of The Savage Planet" expands on its 2020 predecessor and goes all in on the humor.

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Families may miss out on girls-only education due to VAT on private school fees

Donna Stevens, chief executive of the Girls’ Schools Association, has called Labour’s private school policy a ‘step backwards for equality’.

Evening Standard

VAT on private school fees could have ‘seismic impact’ on girls – headteacher

The Girls’ Schools Association president called on independent schools to ‘stand up and fight’ to protect girls-only education.

PC Gamer

Journey to the Savage Planet developer says Google only wanted 'monstrous' games with major licenses for Stadia: 'They were very strange'

Typhoon Studios co-founder Alex Hutchinson says Google didn't really have much of a taste for game development.

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