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Golden Sun launched in August 2001 with a combat system and puzzle design nobody has replicated since. Twenty-five years later, that absence says more about the RPG genre than any nostalgia trip could.
Id Software lead services programmer Chris Hays publicly criticised Xbox's layoffs, calling it "impossible" to ship another AAA Doom with half the studio gone.
The Octopath Traveler series has sold seven million copies and spawned an entire HD-2D movement, but producer Tomoya Asano says a third mainline entry still isn't ready to be revealed.
Newly surfaced footage from a 2007 Sony internal event shows Demon's Souls with a toggleable first-person camera, a fixed third-person view, and enemies that never made it to the final game. The entire Souls genre could have looked very different.
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