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Braid creator Jonathan Blow’s latest game, the well-received puzzle game The Witness, won’t be heading to Nintendo Switch, it seems. Blow told Eurogamer that there are no plans currently to port the 2016 game to Switch, but he has a never say never attitude about it. If it were to happen, Blow would likely outsource the project to a different studio because his team is too busy.

“I wouldn’t say never,” Blow said about the possibility of The Witness coming to Nintendo Switch. “But we worked on that game for a long time. We could have done more ports but I felt like it was a good idea to give the team a break and work on some new things.”

“We’re working on new projects now. We’re not really working on ports of The Witness but that could change,” he said. “Something could happen. We could outsource it and quality control in-house. But we’re not currently doing anything.”

The Witness was originally released in January 2016 for PS4 and PC, before coming to Xbox One later that year. An iOS edition was released in 2017.

The Switch is selling really well, so there may come a time when the installed base of the hybrid console is too big to ignore, but it seems it’s not at that point yet.

Blow’s current project is a game codenamed Sokoban. It’s still early days, but Blow sums it up thusly, “It’s weird. It’s a level-based game. There’s a lot of levels. We have a lot more levels than we had last year.”

Blow is one of two programmers on the game, while five artists are also on the team. In addition to that work, Blow is apparently creating a new programming language for it, which may explain why it’s taking some time. You can watch Blow’s presentation from Gamelab in the video embedded above to learn more about Sokoban.

2010’s Fallout: New Vegas was developed by Obsidian Entertainment, not by Bethesda Game Studios itself. The game was generally well-liked, with GameSpot praising its big, detailed open world and quests filled with personality. While Obsidian has said it would like to make another Fallout game someday, it sounds like that won’t happen. Bethesda boss Todd Howard said in a new interview that the company would rather develop big games internally.

He told The Guardian that he isn’t ready to say definitively that a Fallout game from an outside studio won’t ever happen again–but don’t count on it.

“I wouldn’t say never,” Howard said. “[But] now that our company is so big, it’s always better to keep stuff internal … it becomes less likely, but I could never say never. I thought the Obsidian guys did a fabulous job.”

In addition its main office in Maryland, Bethesda Game Studios opened a studio in Montreal in 2015. Earlier this year, Bethesda rebranded BattleCry Studios as Bethesda Game Studios Austin, based in Austin, Texas. The team was formerly working on BattleCry.

This is all to say, Bethesda has more internal development headcount than it did years ago when it went to Obsidian to make a Fallout game. Given the size and stature of the Fallout brand, it makes sense that Bethesda would want to develop new entries in-house, as it theoretically gives the company more control over the end product.

The next big Bethesda Game Studios title is this year’s Fallout 76, which is a multiplayer-focused entry in the long-running series. After that, the studio will release its new sci-fi game Starfield, and after that will come The Elder Scrolls VI.

Doctor Who is a sci-fi show that debuted in the 1960s, was cancelled in 1989, and was then rebooted in 2005. It follows an alien lifeform known only as the Doctor who uses a device called the TARDIS to travel through space and time. The Doctor generally has a companion or two and has the ability to regenerate after he or she dies, which conveniently gives the show the ability to recast the role over and over again. The show’s reboot has been very popular and will now enter its eleventh season with a brand-new Doctor and companion.

What It’s About

BBC is being incredibly tight-lipped about the plot details of the eleventh season of Doctor Who, which is to be expected, but one big, amazing detail is that the newest Doctor will be a woman for the first time in the entire 54-year run of the show. Jodie Whittaker was cast as the thirteenth doctor last year.

The other detail we do know is that it has been reported that the Doctor will encounter civil rights activist Rosa Parks in an episode.

Who’s Who

Crew

• Chris Chibnall (Broadchurch) is the showrunner following Steven Moffat’s departure; he had been the showrunner since its reboot in 2005.
• Matt Strevens is executive producing the show.

Cast

• Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch) plays the Doctor.
• Tosin Cole (Burning Sands) plays Ryan, who is presumably a new companion of the Doctor’s.
• Mandip Gill (Hollyoaks) plays Yasmin, who is likely also a companion.
• Bradley Walsh (The Chase) plays Graham, another potential new companion.

What’s Been Released So Far

So far, a teaser trailer has come out in conjunction with the World Cup which introduced the world to Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor. The teaser gives away nothing about the plot, but instead shows normal people, and some future cast members, reacting to hints that the new Doctor has arrived, followed by debuting the Doctor herself.

What We Want At Comic-Con

BBC America will have a Doctor Who presentation coming to Hall H on Thursday which will feature Chris Chibnall, Matt Strevens, Jodie Whittaker, and her two co-stars, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill.

Hopefully we will get a full-length trailer and some more details about what this season will entail. There is both a new Doctor and new showrunner this season, so we want to know what changes are in store and what Chibnall’s vision is for the future of the show, which will premiere this fall.