The critical and commercial success of Baldur’s Gate 3, the singleplayer sequel to a decades-old RPG, has led to one unexpected outcome: the emergence of Larian CEO Swen Vincke as some sort of champion of sanity in the games industry. Singeplayer is dead? Arrant nonsense! Wizards of the Coast hassling modders? Step back, fools! And…
In Saudi Arabia. Colour us a little bit surprised that a Dragon Ball game hasn’t been announced for the Switch 2 yet. The legendary anime and manga series from the late Akira Toriyama has proven hugely popular on the current Switch, with both Dragon Ball FighterZ and Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot both getting ports to…
Over Ukrainian support. World of Tanks‘ Russian operator Lesta Games, which was formerly owned by Wargaming, is being targeted by the Russian government over claims that the maker of various long-running, and highly popular war-sim titles, has been involved in extremist activities. According to a report from RIA.ru (owned by the Russian state), which has…
The Elden Ring Nightreign PC system requirements are out, and the good news is that if you’re still rocking the same system you used for Elden Ring, you should be just fine. That is perhaps not surprising, given that Nightreign essentially is Elden Ring, by way of Fortnite: “Essentially a standalone expansion,” PC Gamer’s Wes…
As the sportswriter Jon Bois once said regarding Jimmy Dean Frozen Scrambled Egg Cups, “Perhaps some humiliations are private affairs.” So it was for me with Oblivion Remastered’s local map, at least until PC Gamer news writer Joshua Wolens broke the silence on this issue in our work chat: “Did it take anyone else longer…
Accessorise up. Well, the Switch 2 pre-order circus came to town, and it was predictably calamitous. It feels like the same story every time a console launches these days, with demand vastly outstripping supply and the frenzy to secure a unit at launch generating joy and disappointment in equal measure. We hope those of you…
That’s a lot of tarnished. FromSoftware has announced that it has now shipped over 30 million copies of the hit action-RPG Elden Ring, making it one of the most successful video games of all time after just three years on the market. Originally launched on 25th February 2022, the game took the now-classic ‘souls’ formula…
It is the year 2025 and Bethesda wants you to tell it how to improve Oblivion. Such is the strange and rich new world we’ve been plunged into by last week’s release of Oblivion Remastered, which fixed some parts of the original game’s jank, lovingly preserved others, and introduced some entirely new bits of its…
Look, I’m not even going to mess around with a creative intro on this one. The world’s largest zip manufacturer, YKK, has made a remote-controlled, motorised, self-propelled zip, and it’s glorious. See how it connects a pair of 16-foot membrane sheets together in seconds (via The Verge). Marvel at it zipping up two halves of…
Manor Lords has been in early access for about a year now, and while that may not feel too long at all, the medieval city builder has come a long way from its impressive beginnings. And apparently, it still has a long way to go. “There’s still lots to do, and while I’ve been working…