Anne-Marie Ostler
Originally from Ireland, I moved to the UK in 2014 to pursue a Games Journalism and PR degree at S🐼taffordshire University. Following that, I've freelanced for GamesMaster, Games TM, Official PlayStation Magazine and, more recently, Play and GamesRadar+. My love of gaming sp𒅌rang from successfully defeating that first Goomba in Super Mario Bros on the NES. These days, PlayStation is my jam. When not gaming or writing, I can usually be found scouring the internet for anything Tomb Raider related to add to my out of control memorabilia collection.
Latest articles by Anne-Marie Ostler
With Palworld's best gold-farming tool nerfed into the ground, players are making torture devices instead
news The survival game's next best money-making method is super effective but far from ethic🐼al
After 33 years, an underrated NES Metroidvania gets a direct sequel from the same developer, now with a roguelike spin
News Ufouria: The Saga is back anꦗd more adorable than ever
Greedfall 2 trailer offers some fantasy RPG goodness, complete with a boss who'd look at home in a Dark Souls game
News Thꦦe ambitious follow-up is coming 🦂to Steam Early Access this summer
Pokemon Legends: Z-A reveal trailer hints at a Nintendo Switch 2 release
news "Releasing simultaneously worldwide in 2025"
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director wants the Remake dev team to stay together even after Part 3: "I do really hope to continue to foster this type of environment and grow"
news Naoki Hamaguchi hopes the team remaking Final Fantasy 7 wꦬork on more games together in the future
Palworld's latest patch obliterates the survival game's best gold-farming method, sending min-maxers straight back to the drawing board
news "Goodbye nails. You were our only hope"
Palworld tycoon has kept the survival game running "since launch" some 900 hours ago to farm a million gold off a honey farm: "Almost scared to look at the hours played"
news One fan has been 🧔very slow✨ly turning honey into money in Pocket Pair's Pokemon-like sensation
Dragon's Dogma 2 director on giving players a fighting chance against the RPG's giant enemies: "You have to have ideas for gameplay that goes beyond basic one-to-one combat"
news "It is very difficult to de🐠sign gameplay for fighting a massive enemy while letting the player feel they ಌare on an equal footing"
Helldivers 2 dev now focused on improvements and returning to its "original plan" after the shooter celebrates its first weekend without server issues
news Creative director Johan Pilestedt 𝄹promises "many exciting things"🌄 are on the way
Helldivers 2's engine was "discontinued" 6 years ago: "Our crazy engineers had to do everything, with no support"
news H🦂elldivers 2 lead ♛reveals the shooter was built on an engine that no longer exists
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says reaching over 90 on Metacritic was "one of our goals" as the RPG sequel's review scores surpass Remake
news "This wonderful result was only possible thanks to the entire devel✤opment team’s hard wok and dedic🐲ation"
After a 'Mixed' start on Steam, new survival game from Mass Effect and Dragon Age boss pulls out offline mode to win fans back
news "We misjudged what some of you were looking for in y🌳our experience"
Assassin's Creed Mirage's new update finally adds permadeath mode
news Full Synchronization Challꦗenge is "the ultimate test o🎃f your assassin skills"
Halo 3 player discovers every single rock in one of the game's most memorable levels is the same rock: "I can't keep this knowledge to myself anymore"
news "It's just one rock rotated, scaled, andℱ move💯d around"
Tank controls are fine, but Tomb Raider Remastered's modern camera and controls are proving problematic
news "I tried the modern scheme and couldn't get over a lot of 𝔍choices they made 🌱there"
Helldivers 2's player-made comedy comes from the lead's many years playing D&D: "It always ends with us crying of laughter"
news "The players manage to turn everything🌠 into a farce"
Xbox Cloud Gaming "should" finally allow you to stream games you own this year
news Microsoft is aiming to roll out sup🍎port for owned games i𒁃n 2024
Former Halo devs say they pitched dozens of spin-off games, including a rumored ODST game similar to Helldivers 2
news "We must have pitched 2✱0-30 game ideas that would have totally worked in th♐e Halo universe"
After releasing some of the best Metroidvanias in the business, Ori dev shows off its very different action RPG
news🎀 No Rest for the Wicked looks dark and punishℱing in new gameplay footage
Baldur's Gate 3 and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 win big at DICE Awards 2024
news Larian's RPG has been𓄧 crowned Game of the Year yet again
Xbox boss Phil Spencer isn't ruling out Starfield ever coming to PS5
news "I don’t think we 𒅌should as an industry e𝓰ver rule out a game going to any other platform"
One extremely dedicated Minecraft player has spent 12 years constructing their own incredible fantasy kingdom
news Linar✨d has been working on the Kingdom of Galekin all by themselves since 2012
Deathloop and Dishonored developers reveal the effort they go to guide players without using that immersion-breaking yellow paint
news The folks at Arkane prefer more subtle methods to having players foll𝔉ow the yellow paint road
