Boss Fight creative director Damion Schubert has shared a great thread about the dark side of AAA games’ economics. Players often complain about big companies raising price tags and still releasing titles with loot boxes, but in reality, producing games with nine-figure budgets these days is way more complex than that.

Game design critic Josh Bycer discusses what makes a good horror game. He also wrote a whole book on the subject!

Sony might be building a brand new studio in Japan to work on new AAA titles that can be successful in Japan as well as in the West.

On August 31, Motive Studio held the first Dead Space dev stream and showed early preproduction build footage featuring assets that might not even make it into the final game. Which is perfectly logical, given that the production is just starting: Motive only began working on the title less than a year ago.

A redditor posted a story about the cancellation of a AAA game they’ve been working on for a few years. The thread went viral, with other users sharing their own experiences of developing high-budget projects and being shackled by different NDAs.

VG Insights, which uses third-party APIs to collect data, has released an infographic to show how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced game releases on Steam. The global situation had an impact on both indie and AAA titles.