Derek Strickland
Senior Gaming Editor - Florida, USA
Derek joined the TweakTown team in 2015 and has since reviewed and played 1000s of hours of new games. Derek is absorbed with the intersection of technology and gaming, and is always looking forward to new advancements. With over six years in games journalism under his belt, Derek aims to further engage the gaming sector while taking a peek under the tech that powers it. He hopes to one day explore the stars in No Man's Sky with the magic of VR.
Editorial Responsibilities: gaming news and reviews
Derek Strickland has written 11264 pieces of content
- April 2024
- Blizzard praises Microsoft's 'let it be' hands-off approach to management
- Target confirms plans to reduce physical media, but games are unaffected
- Fallout 4 conquers PlayStation Plus charts amid TV show success
- Microsoft has more best-sellers on PlayStation Store than Sony does
- Take-Two layoffs: Over 570 workers affected, multiple games cancelled
- Star Wars Outlaws does a great job upselling Ubisoft+ subscriptions
- Roblox charges users a 'publishing fee' to sell custom creations
- Is Square Enix preparing a Final Fantasy series subscription?
- Call of Duty Vanguard, the one that missed expectations, still sold 30 million copies
- Fallout TV show only works in binge format, here's why
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth sales are underperforming, Square Enix profit goal likely impacted
- PlayStation 5 Pro targeting 8K with new PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution tech
- '$70 games aren't sustainable,' says CEO that's selling a game for $70
- Franchise-as-a-service bleeds into subscription gaming to create supplemental revenue streams
- Game Pass to reach 200 million subscribers by 2034, analyst predicts, double MSFT's forecast
- GTA+ price increased by 33%, was $5.99 now $7.99 per month
- Apple to allow retro game emulators on iOS
- Microsoft is 'full speed ahead' on next-gen Xbox console
- Good news: Microsoft will continue focusing on the most important thing for Xbox consoles
- New Destiny 3 rumor: No classes, new full game, in development since Witch Queen
- Fallout 4 will hit 60FPS on PS5, Series X/S later this month
- Hellblade II is cinematic experience that runs at 30FPS on Xbox Series X
- First-party Xbox game Sea of Thieves has exclusive content for PlayStation gamers
- New Helldivers 2 Democratic Detonation warbond has a crossbow that fires exploding bolts
- Knights of the Old Republic PS5 remake is 'alive and well,' but we still have no release window
- Google engineers hacked PS Portal to play PSP games, then handed the secrets to Sony
- Sony takes on Xbox at their own game, signs two indies as PlayStation Plus launch releases
- From Red Dead to Bully, GTA+ is now the cheapest way to play Rockstar's games
- Capcom scores again: Dragon's Dogma 2 achieves 2.5 million sales in 18 days
- Helldivers 2 brews more Liber-tea for the cosmos, triples level cap to 150
- PlayStation 2 sales are a lot higher than Sony says
- Tekken 8 Fight Pass booster is $20, or 3x more expensive than the actual battle pass
- No one knows for sure if GTA 6 will hit 60FPS on PS5 Pro, but 30FPs seems more likely March 2024
- AI isn't even close to beating game devs, Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 quest designer says
- Xbox Game Pass and Epic Store funding deals reportedly fizzle out
- Warzone Mobile earned 67% less than COD Mobile, could be big miss for Xbox
- Buying Gearbox may considerably change Take-Two's FY25 pipeline and revenue forecast
- Take-Two buys Gearbox for $460 million
- Xbox is a 'profitable and growing business,' Microsoft gaming CEO Phil Spencer says
- Witcher 4 could be out by 2026, new Sirius Witcher multiplayer game by 2027
- CD Projekt 'well-prepared to fund new games' with $326 million cash trove
- Witcher 4 is CD Projekt's 'most-developed game,' over 400 devs working on project
- PS5 Pro enhanced mode combines performance and graphics modes in one
- Phil Spencer is very interested in an Xbox handheld
- Cyberpunk 2077 has made over $750 million since launch
- GTA+ gets new must-play Rockstar game
- Xbox's new brand pivot hopes to capture Gen Z audience
- More Xbox games to break exclusivity, Phil Spencer hints
- Epic Games mobile store could significantly boost revenues, increase profitability odds
- Epic Store coming to Android and iOS in 2024 with third-party partner support
- Opinion: GTA 6 delay could leave room for GTA V PS5 Pro upgrade or re-release
- Overwatch to hit 100 million players during season 10
- Final Fantasy 9 remake possibly teased by Yoshi-P
- Yoshi-P moved FFXIV's Dawntrail release so you can enjoy Elden Ring's DLC: 'You have 1 week'
- Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail collector's edition only includes PC or Mac version
- Yoshi-P wants to 'spice up' Final Fantasy XIV's battles
- Report: Microsoft experimenting with Xbox handheld prototypes
- Blizzard's new compensation policy cuts bonuses for Overwatch 2 devs
- Capcom under fire for not showing Dragon's Dogma 2 convenience microtransactions before launch
- Sony was 'thrilled' to sign Call of Duty deal with Microsoft
- Final Fantasy XIV Coins explained: What you need to know
- PS5 Pro might be actually be an affordable mid-gen upgrade
- PS5 Pro won't boost 30FPS CPU-limited games to 60FPS
- PS5 Pro likely to use same 6nm process as PS5 Slim
- Report: Sony overestimated PSVR2 demand, halts production on headset
- PS5 Pro specs said to be real: 33 TFLOPs, built-in AI accelerator, custom upscaling
- Embracer sells Saber for $247 million, Metro devs at 4A Games get sold
- Final Fantasy XVI's PC spec requirements will be 'somewhat high', Yoshi-P says
- Rooster Teeth shut down, iconic Red vs Blue machinima maker is no more
- Why Apple terminated Epic Games' developer account
- Grand Theft Auto franchise revenues break $8.9 billion since GTA V's launch
- EA says players are 'rapidly shifting' to live services, open world games, massive communities
- COD Black Ops designer David Vonderhaar's new studio BulletFarm will make 'zero BS' games
- Embracer to sell Saber Interactive for up to $500 million
- Embracer may sell Gearbox sometime in March February 2024
- Respawn's Mandalorian FPS has been cancelled, sounded like an evolution of Star Wars 1313
- EA shuts down Ridgeline Games, Criterion now handling Battlefield singleplayer campaign
- EA plans to lay off 11% of workforce by March 2025
- Destiny 2 gets new skimmer hoverboard
- Big 3 revenues compared: PlayStation made $30 billion in 2023, Xbox $18 billion
- Ubisoft's ambitious games-as-a-platform takes shape with Assassin's Creed Infinity
- Magic: The Gathering made over $1 billion in 2023, or 52% of Hasbro's gaming revenue
- PlayStation Portal handheld may have been a big success for Sony
- Analysis: Why PlayStation's profits are so low
- Opinion: Xbox and PlayStation could follow NVIDIA's lead with gaming ads
- Tekken 8's budget was 'more than double' Tekken 7's
- Tekken 8's microtransaction store is now open for business
- PlayStation's low profit margins lead to mass layoffs, studio closures, game cancellations
- New Pokemon Z-A game may let players shape Lumiose City, likely to launch on Switch 2 in 2025
- PlayStation made $9.8 billion in holiday 2023, a new historic all-time high
- WB Discovery CEO David Zaslav says bundles are the future of streaming
- Warner Bros disappointed with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League sales
- Sony wants to grow first-party games on 'PS5, PC, and other platforms'
- Palworld reached 25 million players in a month
- Opinion: Generative AI poses new opportunities for games monetization
- Xbox takes cues from platform-agnostic juggernauts like Roblox, Fortnite
- PSVR2 is breaking exclusivity as Sony seeks profit boost
- Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree is FromSoft's biggest expansion, will have separate map
- Microsoft announces the first Xbox exclusives that are coming to Nintendo Switch
- Roblox may have helped PlayStation achieve $2.36 billion mtx spending, 123 million MAUs
- Xbox's Phil Spencer: 'Getting rid of physical is not our strategy'
- Switch 2 reportedly coming in 2025, not 2024
- Respawn working on Mandalorian bounty hunter FPS, reports say
- Microsoft wants to 'use other platforms' to grow Xbox
- Next-gen Xbox to deliver 'largest technical leap' in console history
- Microsoft finally updates Xbox Game Pass subscriber numbers
- Xbox Game Pass will 'only be available on Xbox,' won't come to PlayStation or Nintendo
- Starfield and Indiana Jones not coming to PlayStation, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer confirms
- These could be the 4 Xbox games that come to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch
- Xbox breaking exclusivity to 'see what happens'
- Xbox wants to become the 'top cross-platform games company'
- Sony misses historic 25 million PS5 sales target, reduces console forecast
- Lenovo Legion Go Review
- Nintendo Switch has made over $77 billion lifetime revenue
- Nintendo should avoid this costly mistake with the Switch 2
- RuneScape is officially a billion-dollar gaming franchise
- Xbox Series X/S sales figures updated with new Holiday 2023 results
- Sony's live service game plan is off to a great start
- Opinion: What the future of Xbox console hardware could look like
- Xbox consoles won't be phased out or discontinued, games hardware still important for Microsoft
- Nintendo champions physical game sales in latest results
- Nintendo made $4.2 billion during Holiday '23 with a 31% operating profit margin
- Final Fantasy XIV online play isn't free on Xbox, requires Game Pass subscription
- Switch breaks 139.36 million units, Switch shipments drop to historic holiday low
- Phil Spencer responds to Xbox exclusives controversy
- Godfather of tactical stealth games returns to the genre: Kojima is officially back
- Gears of War may come to PlayStation as Microsoft weighs breaking Xbox exclusivity
- Report: Xbox to break exclusivity, Starfield and Indiana Jones may come to PlayStation 5
- It's not just you, game devs are tired of microtransactions too January 2024
- Palworld's Xbox player count revealed, console and PC hits 19 million combined
- Tencent feels like it 'achieved nothing' in 2023 despite making $21 billion from games
- Activision made $2 billion for Xbox, accounted for 30% of total holiday 2023 revenues
- Xbox delivers historic $7.11 billion revenue in holiday 2023
- Square Enix to reduce games lineup, will now focus on quality over quantity
- Sony said to bring the heat in new State of Play
- Xbox 720 was almost Microsoft's first profitable Xbox console
- Enshrouded is gaming's next mega-hit indie
- New Blizzard president announced as Call of Duty general manager
- Rocksteady presses the beat a game button, Suicide Squad game launches with 'auto complete' bug
- Embracer cancels new Deus Ex game, lays off Eidos developers
- New Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi roster reveals 24 variations of Goku and Vegeta
- Xbox layoffs move industry closer to an all-digital future
- Blizzard president Mike Ybarra leaves as Xbox axes 1,900 jobs
- Xbox lays off 1,900 workers across Activision, Bethesda, and Xbox Game Studios teams
- Junji Ito may be one of Hideo Kojima's Avengers of horror dream team
- Palworld to get PVP, raids, cross-play in new roadmap, Pocketpair also warns of rollbacks
- Square Enix has a lot riding on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's success
- Quake 6 teased by MachineGames, Wolfenstein studio may collab with id on new shooter
- Netflix gaming engagement tripled in 2023, not yet material to core business
- Palworld's profits could be over $130 million
- Dragon's Dogma 2 director argues against fast travel: 'All you have to do is make travel fun'
- Sony CEO outlines one of the biggest issues with subscription gaming
- Riot Games to lay off 530 employees, or 11% of workfore
- Opinion: Microsoft needs to be more transparent with its digital gaming plans
- Halo Infinite seasons are done, 343 teases new Halo game and/or content
- Opinion: Now is an opportune time to push digital-only gaming
- Report: Walmart to dispose of physical copies of Starfield at behest of Microsoft, Bethesda
- Palworld, gaming's latest viral sensation, hits 2 million sales in 24 hours
- Avowed release timing announced by Obsidian
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle confirmed Xbox exclusive, won't launch on PlayStation
- Harrison Ford stars in new Indiana Jones and the Great Circle game
- Gaming subscriptions make up 10% of annual US spending, in excess of $5 billion
- Take-Two vs Remedy logo dispute is a 'formality,' both companies have already worked out issues
- Street Fighter 6 breaks 3 million sales, total Street Fighter franchise now at 52 million
- Bethesda brings Fallout Shelter antics to Elder Scrolls with new mobile game
- Xbox Developer Direct wont have shadow drops, all games will come later in 2024
- U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the Epic v Apple antitrust case
- GAME to stop trade-ins, further impact physical games market
- Ubisoft: Subscriptions will grow once consumers 'feel comfortable with not owning games'
- 2030 gaming predictions: AI, cloud, and subscriptions drive market expansion
- Ubisoft innovates subscription market with back catalog tier
- Baldur's Gate 3 save deletion bug is tied to Xbox firmware, update coming tomorrow Jan 16
- Witcher 3 director's new occult game sets our imaginations whirling
- Halo Tatanka battle royale potentially cancelled at Certain Affinity, 343i
- Konami might not approve of this new Castlevania clone
- Yoshi-P wants Square Enix to become masters of the action genre
- Yoshi-P on Final Fantasy 17: 'Nothing's been decided yet'
- Hogwarts Legacy sold 22 million copies in 2023, new Harry Potter games coming
- Discord still not profitable, lays off 17% of staff
- Amazon lays off 500 Twitch employees, subleases Twitch San Francisco office
- Robocop publisher: 'There's too many games on the market'
- GameShark's AI comeback overshadowed by Nintendo's new Switch 2
- Hyperkin brings back of the most comfortable controllers of all time
- PlayStation MAUs skyrocket to 123 million, up an incredible 16 million quarter-over-quarter
- Sea of Thieves coming to PlayStation makes a lot of sense
- Final Fantasy XIV Xbox open beta set for February 2024
- Mobile gaming to break $110 billion in 2024
- Just a week into 2024 and Steam has set a new concurrent user record
- Netflix games may soon get ads or microtransactions
- Final Fantasy XIV hits 30 million players, gained 3 million players in 6 months
- Sony to ship 18.5 million PS5s next fiscal year, will push PS5 total to 81.9 million
- MSI Claw gaming handheld: 16-core Intel CPU, 8-core 2.2GHz Xe GPU, up to 32GB RAM
- Wolverine leak may reinforce PS5 Pro's AI chip rumors
- Starfield Review: The New Frontier
- Switch 2 will be an iterative upgrade, not a big next-gen 'revolution,' analyst predicts
- Report: 3D Realms and Slipgate Ironworks hit with more layoffs
- Dave the Diver sold 3 million copies in just 7 months
- The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall Unity released with final build
- Square Enix will 'aggressively' use AI for game development and publishing
- Sony's new Horizon live service game may have matchmaking, could come to PC, mobile, and PS5