We were fortunate enough to sit down with producer Masato Kumazawa last week to discuss the sequel, the franchise at large, and a number of lingering questions that have come about.

With PAX AUS truly kicked into gear, Stevivor was able to spend a short amount of time with Joshua Mills, game director of Rainbow Six Siege X.

Fresh off the back of an announcement about new anti-cheat and balancing measures, there was plenty to talk about.

“Randy Pitchford told me that Borderlands 4 was ‘a lot of bigger, better, new’,” writes Steve. “And now, after three hours of hands-on time with Borderlands 4, I believe him.”

“There’s only two ways you can survive,” Aussie Alex Hutchinson told Stevivor, reflecting on his career. “One is by being great and the other one is by being a cockroach.”

Calling the interchangeable Alexios and Kassandra a “conundrum”, Ubisoft Quebec’s Luc Plante explained how that situation has been solved in Assassin’s Creed Shadows.

Flight Simulator head Jorg Neumann explains the architecture behind Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and why the new title couldn’t be built off the back of the old.

Stevivor sat down with Jackbox Games’ Mike Bilder and Evan Jacover to detail why it’s taken ten years of Jackbox Party Pack to finally delve into music genre.

Stevivor was fortunate enough to send a multitude of email questions over to Dramatic Labs’ Dan Martin (lead writer) and Andrew Grant (writer) to delve even deeper into its first title, Star Trek Resurgence.

The actor kindly agreed to sit down with Stevivor to talk about The Quarry, horror, the acting process and his own take on what happens to Elnor post season two of Star Trek Picard.

Halo Infinite campaign level select will be added to the game at a later date, 343 Industries has told Stevivor, meaning players will be able to replay missions without the need to start the game from scratch.

Stevivor jumped at the chance to talk all things The Artful Escape with Melbourne’s own Johnny Galavatron, its creative director.

Double Fine’s Tim Schafer explained what the day-to-day of the company is like now that it has been acquired by Microsoft as a member of Xbox Game Studios.

In his words — or rather, in Microsoft’s — it’s a matter of “limited integration”.

Guardians of the Galaxy was today officially announced by Eidos Montreal and Square Enix. Ahead of time, Stevivor was fortunate enough to check out the upcoming single-player game and speak with Eidos Montreal about it.

Doom Eternal continues to grow with its Ancient Gods DLC. Ahead of the release of Ancient Gods Part 2 later today, Stevivor sat down with composers Andrew Hulshult and David Levy to discuss their contributions to the franchise that rips and tears.

Stevivor sat down to speak with Phil Spencer at X019 in London late last year, and we used the opportunity to delve into the evolution of the Xbox brand under his leadership.

Xbox Game Pass is a sustainable business venture, Xbox head Phil Spencer told Stevivor. At X019 in London late last year, Spencer admitted to Stevivor that Microsoft has “been a little bit opaque [about] how many subscribers” the subscription service has…

Gearing up for the release of AO Tennis 2, developer Big Ant invited Stevivor back to its Melbourne-based office to try things out. Over the course of our preview session, conversation inevitably turned to the original AO Tennis and its multitude of patches.

As an active gay-identifying gamer of many, many years, I was used to messages like this and clicked through to read out of interest. I asked if this new message functionality was using new Xbox message safety technologies I assumed Dave wanted to tell me about.

Part way though my preview time with Days Gone, I ran into a cluster of small zombies — sorry, small freakers — called newts. From a distance, I had the chance to observe them in great detail: short in stature and light of frame, they looked to be children around the age of 10 years old…

Trying to talk to ID@Xbox’s Chris Charla about the programs successes is a little difficult.

I started my interview with Shannon Loftis, General Manager, Global Games Publishing at Microsoft, with a gut punch: Kinect.

The NHL 18 closed beta is now live on Xbox One and PS4, and with it, the franchise’s newest game mode: NHL Threes.

Sitting down with Phil Spencer last month in Sydney, the Head of Xbox discussed where virtual reality sits in his plan for both Xbox One and Windows PC gaming.

There’s something about Phil Spencer that makes him instantly approachable; combined with his 27 years at Microsoft itself, that makes him the obvious choice to lead the company’s gaming wing.

At Gamescom last week, DICE’s Lars Gustavsson explained how excited he was to see EA use the developer’s Frostbite engine across multiple franchises.

Front and centre of the the World of Tanks’ Wargaming.net League Grand Finals 2016 event is World of Tanks’ commentator Mitch “Uber” Leslie, an Australian shoutcaster in Europe.

While speaking with Unravel’s Martin Sahlin’s at PAX AUS, the developer stressed just how important Yarny is to the game.

I’m sure I went a bit white when John Day, Producer of Disney Infinity 2.0: Marvel Super Heroes, asked me, “You know what a Marvel No-Prize is, right?”