Joey Brown is an interview reporter, editor, and lifelong gamer with experience in nearly every genre from space sims and MMORPGs to metroidvanias and city builders. He has sat down with industry ...

Shortly before the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta began in October 2025, Treyarch detailed how the next entry in the storied first-person shooter series will be following a three-lane map design ...

Recently, Psyonix announced that the non-standard maps in Rocket League - Wasteland and Starbase ARC - will be removed from ranked play with the game's autumn update, which lands on September 28th.

“Design games, race around the island, battle your friends in new ways and build your dream Fortnite. It’s all happening on your own private island where everything you make is saved,” Epic said in a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Paragon, announced a couple of weeks ago, is a new MOBA by Unreal Tournament creator Epic Games.

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Battlefield 2042 has quite a few map design changes in the works, according to a DICE blog post. DICE identified five map issues it wants to improve, ...

Justin Skiles is a writer from Richmond, VA,and is a lifelong lover of games and stories. He holds a BFA in Game Design and Creative Writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he honed ...

Crash Bandicoot 4 makes the choice to return to a world map format closer to Crash Bandicoot 1 than the warp room setup of Crash 2 and 3. And while the team at Toys for Bob didn’t initially plan for ...

Gaming Industry Hollow Knight's creators didn't want to be constrained by the 'metroidvania' label, but they accidentally set a standard that every game since—even Silksong—has to reckon with Action I ...

Modern Warfare 2’s wide-open map design is great for FPS grandpas like me For someone tired of MOBA-like map design in modern FPS titles, Infinity Ward’s penchant for open areas and secondary routes ...

Nuketown 2025 returns in Black Ops 7 on November 20, 2025, shortly after the game’s Nov 14 launch. The map features next-gen ...