Alessandro Fillari

3 weeks ago | gamedeveloper.com | Alessandro Fillari

Large-scale open-world games give players options and the freedom to engage with the setting as they see fit. Mini-games are a common activity that helps players immerse themselves in the world and unwind. These types of activities offer some stand-alone fun, but for games like Star Wars Outlaws, they're aimed at feeding back into the tone of the game's space-traveling smuggler fantasy.

4 weeks ago | gamedeveloper.com | Alessandro Fillari

Obsidian Entertainment's Pentiment was one of the developer's most unorthodox role-playing games, a 2D detective story in an illustrated book set in 16th-century Bavaria. While Pentiment didn't have the massive scope of the dev's other titles like Fallout: New Vegas or the most recent Avowed, the game's director did have one particular vision for the game's storytelling that required a significant amount of convincing to get the team on board—and that was with how the fonts would look in-game.

1 month ago | gameshub.com | Alessandro Fillari

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2025 just ended, and the mood this year was anxious yet hopeful. Much like last year, GDC felt concerned and uncertain, as stability for the industry was a central focus. 2025 has so far been off to a rough start, and many are still questioning where this industry will go from here. Thankfully, the creativity and passion of developers who believe in a better industry for all are still as strong as ever.

1 month ago | pcgamer.com | Alessandro Fillari

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is still going. Nearly 10 years into its life, The Witcher 3 remains a popular canvas for modders adding new quests and locations, custom gameplay tuning, and the occasional oddity like Geralt on ice skates. For most of the last decade the mod scene had no official support from CD Projekt, but in May 2024 CD Projekt finally launched REDkit, a set of modding tools that enables more streamlined creation and integration of mods. Why did that take so long?

1 month ago | gamedeveloper.com | Alessandro Fillari

The Assassin's Creed series is commonly praised for its stealth-action gameplay and iconic protagonists, but it would be fair to say that its greatest achievements lie in recreating sprawling historical settings for open-world exploration. Nearly 20 years since its debut, Ubisoft is now taking the series to historical Japan with Assassin's Creed Shadows. It's a setting that many fans of the series have wanted to see, and currently enjoying increased popularity due to FX's recent tv series Shogun.