Big budget games have nearly killed the gaming industry. It finally seems that people are waking up to the reality of unsustainably massive video game budgets, but it’s sadly a decade too late. In a ...

For most of the 2010s, PC success followed a predictable pattern: massive budgets, cinematic scope, and blockbuster launches. By 2025-2026, that model is no longer holding. On PC, mid-budget games are ...

Adam Braunstein is a Contributor at DualShockers who has been covering games professionally since 2019. He primarily writes lists and features, with a focus on RPGs, JRPGs, action-adventure games, VR, ...

It's no secret that Pokemon Legends: Z-A seems not to have had a huge budget during game development, as its asset reuse has been a big subject of conversation surrounding it up to and following its ...

Viraaj is a spirited gamer, lifelong PlayStation main, huge petrolhead, but most importantly, a principled journalist. With experience at publications like FandomWire, HotCars, and DriveTribe, writing ...

Ronald is a Staff Writer at DualShockers with more than a decade of experience covering video games. He began writing about games in 2013 through public forums, reviews, news, and opinion pieces, ...

Most modern big-budget games don’t have the most complicated sales pitches these days. Assassin’s Creed Shadows? It’s an open-world action-adventure game with stealth. Doom: The Dark Ages? It’s a ...

When discussing the biggest big budget PS3 flops, it’s important to remember that over its first few years, the PlayStation 3 itself was viewed as a flop. I’ll never forget those first ads that went ...