News & NA DeskGaming News & Culture Staff Writer • North America Correspondent (Quebec City)
Originally from Lyon, France, gaming journalist Bastien "Orion" relocated nearly a decade ago to Quebec City's Saint-Roch district, right in the heart of eastern Canada's development studio hub. Before crossing the Atlantic, he honed his versatile reporting style across classic French gaming web portals and specialist television outlets in the 2000s and 2010s, notably with JeuxVideo.fr and JeuxNews. Equally passionate about AAA blockbusters, North American studio culture, retro preservation, and community modding projects, he anchors Pro-Gamer's transatlantic desk and real-time coverage of US and Japanese industry announcements.
Two unannounced projects have reportedly been spotted inside Ubisoft's backend systems: Assassin's Creed Codename Mars, set in Ancient Rome, and Codename Pocket, a mobile spin-off returning to Jerusalem.
Speaking on The Trophy Room podcast, former SIE Worldwide Studios chairman Shawn Layden says Sony has a strong chance of winning with a PS6 handheld, provided it doesn't launch a traditional home console at the same time.
From turning down a headhunter during the Wii U collapse to the launch of the Nintendo Switch and Shinya Takahashi's playtesting methods, former Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser looks back on his tenure.
Two days after posting a historic quarterly earnings report, AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su did not mince words about where the Santa Clara chipmaker's priorities now stand. Speaking with Executive Editor Brian Sozzi on Yahoo Finance on November 5, 2026, Su defined the company's modern identity in a single, unmistakable sentence: "We are a...
After spending the first half of the current console cycle experimenting with delayed PC ports on Steam, Sony Interactive Entertainment is making sure players know exactly where its marquee blockbusters live. Starting on November 7, 2026, a brand-new "PlayStation Exclusive" badge has begun appearing right at the top of official store listings for several tentpole...
Playing mainline Nintendo DS classics on a modern television or a widescreen handheld has long forced players into an awkward compromise: stacking two tiny 4:3 boxes vertically or shrinking the touch screen into a cramped corner. Indie developer mamesj has just eliminated that visual bottleneck with Pokémon Fulldex (originally launched as the open-source repository pokemon-ds-widescreen-switch)....
Following the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Season 1 across PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, Infinity Ward has reshuffled its featured multiplayer playlists. Rotating out the standalone Shipment 24/7 queue, the studio introduced a chaotic 6v6 small-map moshpit officially named Shransit, bundling the three tightest arenas in the game into a...
In March 2022, Electronic Arts Senior Producer Jim Vessella stumbled upon nearly 20,000 archival media assets at EA's Redwood Shores campus. After digitizing 6,000 tapes and 2,500 hours of footage, EA has launched 25 classic PC games alongside 7 restored Anniversary Editions built with community modders.
Published by Shueisha Games and developed by LASTWONDER under creator Ryu Fujisaki's supervision, HOSHiN ENGi Re:surrection revives the Soul Hunter universe as a roguelite hack-and-slash on Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, and PC in 2027.
Twelve days before its launch on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, Grand Theft Auto VI commands 89% odds on Polymarket to win Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2026, far ahead of Resident Evil Requiem (7%) and Phantom Blade Zero (3%).