Author: Alex Van Aken

In this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, we discuss several of the best indie games you might’ve missed amidst this month’s releases. Specifically, we discuss Animal Well’s mysteries, revisiting Hades I, Lorelai and the Laser Eyes, Paper Trail, With My Past, Indika, and Killer Klowns from Outer Space.  Watch The Video Version: Follow us on…

Studio director Amir Rao gave us an office tour while visiting Supergiant Games for our Hades II cover story trip. Enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at the studio that previously brought you Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, and Hades! See The Supergiant Games Office Tour:  www.gameinformer.com

In this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, we discuss our Hades II cover story trip to Supergiant Games in San Francisco and Xbox shutting down four game studios, including Prey, Dishonored, and Redfall developer Arkane Austin, alongside Tango Gameworks, the team behind The Evil Within series and last year’s critically-acclaimed Hi-Fi Rush. Afterward, we chat…

To wrap up our exclusive Star Wars Outlaws cover story, we’re publishing a 15-minute video interview with Massive Entertainment’s Alice Rendell, senior narrative systems designer on Outlaws, and Lead Systems Designer Matthieu Delisle, wherein we learn about the sorts of encounters players can expect to experience while interacting with the game’s Reputation and Wanted Systems.…

In this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, the crew looks ahead at the current slate of publisher showcases happening around Summer Game Fest and subsequent announcements we’d like to see. We chat about Amazon’s Fallout show, rewatching the original X-Men animated series, and A24’s Civil War before remembering this is a video game podcast. Afterward,…

As part of this month’s exclusive cover story, Game Informer’s Brian Shea sat down with Star Wars Outlaws creative director Julian Gerighty to discuss protagonist Kay’s backstory, how Massive Entertainment created her sidekick creature Nix, the game’s intriguing Reputation System, and what it’s like crafting a Star Wars game in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. How Massive designed the first…

On this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, the crew discusses our recent trip to Sweden for our Star Wars Outlaws cover story, Game Informer’s review of Amazon’s Fallout show, and our hands-on impressions of The Rogue: Prince of Persia, a new roguelike from Dead Cells developer Evil Empire. Before diving into listener questions, Marcus and Alex chat about…

Last summer, we sat down with Sonic Team Creative Officer Takashi Iizuka to discuss his multi-decade career at Sega. We learn about his childhood fascination with becoming a manga artist, the transition from college life to working at Sega, and his early career developing games like Devi and Pii, Golden Axe 3, and Sonic the…

On this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, the crew discusses our time playing the public demo of Stellar Blade, the character action game formerly known as Project Eve. We drill into Pepper Grinder, the latest title from Devolver Digital, and then discuss a rad town-building sandbox called Summerhouse. After highlighting Stunt Paradise, a small game…