Oblivion isn’t many people’s favourite Elder Scrolls game—that title usually goes to either its predecessor or successor—but it’s unquestionably the funniest. Yes, Morrowind had The Lusty Argonian Maid and Skyrim sent you to the Moon every time a giant took a swing at you, but Oblivion’s technology and acting combined in perfect alchemy to produce…
Look, I’m not even the worlds biggest fan of the series. I can quote it, sure, but to me the Lord of the Rings was, at school, an extremely dense series of books I felt I needed to get through, and after that a series of films that were quite entertaining when watched leaning back…
Sometimes, it’s nice to hear the things you know in your heart said out loud. Such is the case with the Game Developers’ Conference State of the Games Industry 2024 report, the latest edition of GDC’s annual look at just what devs are doing. One of the many, many questions GDC has put to devs…
Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 is already a delight—and not just because it’s already raised over $1 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. In a recent speedrun of Doom (2016), Hugo Martin, the game’s creative director, decided to make an appearance as a guest commentator. During the speedrun, the BFG 9000 came up—BFG stands for…
Last week, we asked you to travel back to the shores of Valhalla to face Kratos’ past in God of War Ragnarök using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: Dadavidtd shares Kratos swinging the Blade of Olympus at a cyclops luucas_saantana shares Helios hanging from Kratos’ belt sorathluna shares Kratos swinging the Blades of…
Stealth mission. In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”. We don’t have pages on the internet,…
The United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has unveiled further details about Colossus, often referred to as “the first ever digital computer”, for its 80th birthday. A machine which—as this obituary to an MI5 chief scientific officer who helped rebuild it states—could “read Hitler’s mind”. OK—we didn’t have psychic powers in the 1940s, but Colossus…
The Pokémon-with-guns-and-abusive-labor-practices game Palworld is off to a roaring early access launch on Steam, racking up 370,000 concurrent users (and counting) in its first day of release. That’s proving to be a bit of a problem for the game’s servers, which are buckling under the stream, but developer Pocketpair says it’s working on the problem,…
When it comes to trying to experience everything a sprawling hundred-hour RPG has to offer, New Game+ can often be an essential tool for running through a game a second or third time without causing too much psychological damage. Some games, like the Persona series, even require a NG+ run if you want the full…
Double the screens, double the fun. When Nintendo announced the DS in the mid-2000s, it claimed the device would be a ‘third pillar’ alongside its GameCube home console and its Game Boy family of portables. This admission alone shows just how leftfield the dual-screen handheld was; even its creator wasn’t sure that the general public…