AA games (Double-A) have been thriving lately, taking the sweet spot between smaller indies and ever-growing, in scale and cost, modern AAA games that typically end up bloated and too formulaic.

Vlad Mazanko is Ukraine-based gaming enthusiast, writing about the industry since 2013 and covering everything from games and studios to movies and TV shows. He joined the Valnet family back in 2021, ...

Remember the Xbox 360 era? Back in the 2000s, publishers tended to have heaving release slates, mixing oddball ideas with more established formats. But as development budgets have spiralled in the ...