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Hack and slash and hackin’ some more! I’m streaming Devil May Cry 5's Bloody Palace right now on Twitch. Come join chat for combos, Devil Breakers, and maybe post-modernist criticism. (Though probably not that.)

Chef Andrew Rea of Binging with Babish has a great breakdown on how to make Brock’s favorite—delicious jelly donuts from Pokemon! There’s also a version to make some wonderful onigiri, if you want to make some actual food.

After failing last night and staying up too late, I’m playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and fighting the final boss right now on Twitch. Seriously, this is gonna be a good fight but also.... spoilers. 

Control, the upcoming sci-fi explorefest from Remedy Entertainment, releases on August 27th. I played some of the game last week at the Game Developers Conference and will have impressions and details later this week.

Dancers are coming to Final Fantasy XIV. The new class will release with the Shadowbringers expansion, and is a ranged DPS class that can also buff allies. I... was really expecting it to be a healer, honestly.

Battlefront II is getting a capital ship assault mode. The 20 vs. 20 mode is called Capital Supremacy and will involve both a ground phase and capital ship assault. Doesn’t sound like there’s much starfighter combat though, so don’t expect a 100% repeat of 2005 Battlefront II’s fabulous ship takedown mode. Read more

At their GDC talk this evening, Devil May Cry 5 director Hideaki Itsuno, producer Matt Walker, and senior producer Mitcheru Okabe showed up dressed as the main characters. I really want that Nero jacket! Read more

I’ve been doing a lot of interviews at GDC that I can’t wait to tell you about, but in the meantime can you guess who I was just talking with from this horrible sketch in my notebook? He was throwing a lot of punches and talking about how to make good action games. Read more

If you happen to be at GDC, I’m giving a talk tonight. I will be giving a small breakdown of idle animations at the Animation Bootcamp: Animation Microtalks. Folks from places like Blizzard and Bioware are speaking as well. At 5:30pm, in West Hall room 2010. Hope to see you there! Read more

At his GDC panel on God of War’s animation, Sony Santa Monica Animation Director Bruno Velasquez revealed one scene in God of War where the mo-cap was handled by the animation team: when Kratos beats up that freaky monkey-ogre. Looks at those happy animators! Read more