With Oblivion Remastered’s first patch looming, I wish Bethesda had taken a leaf from CDPR’s book and straight-up incorporated popular mods at launch

You know what? You gotta give Bethesda credit: the tack it takes with modders is a breath of fresh air compared to, well, pretty much every other big games company out there. Where, say, Nintendo is liable to send in a detachment of mercenaries to damnatio memoriae you and everyone you’ve ever loved if you…

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‘It’s the year of Obsidian’: The Outer Wilds 2 game director says the studio isn’t worried about releasing another RPG in the same year as Avowed

2025 is a busy year for Obsidian. The studio launched the well-received first-person fantasy RPG Avowed in February. Grounded 2, the sequel to its “honey-I-shrunk-the-kids” survival game, arrives in July. And in October, Obsidian’s revisiting its satirical space sci-fi setting with The Outer Wilds 2. You might reasonably expect that its packed release schedule would…

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Despite its new easy mode, Lies of P will get a ‘difficulty reduction’ in a future update because too many players are getting wrecked by the DLC

The Pinocchio soulslike Lies of P got an easy mode alongside the release of Overture DLC last week, an entirely uncontroversial move that riled up absolutely no one. But the DLC also apparently introduced a major difficulty spike in the Legendary Stalker mode—previously the game’s default—and it’s bad enough that game director Ji Won Choi…

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Team Ninja says Ninja Gaiden 4 is all about ‘bringing together the stylish qualities of Platinum while retaining that distinct Ninja Gaiden feel’—and the studios ‘wouldn’t hold back’ critiquing each other’s work

Team Ninja is busy. On the heels of remaster Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, the studio is working on Nioh 3 for 2026 while also overseeing development of this October’s Ninja Gaiden 4, which is in the works at PlatinumGames. Though they were once rivals for the fiefdom of Japanese character action games—Ninja Gaiden 2 and…

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Star Trucker – Get Cozy in Your Home Away from Home

Category: ID@Xbox June 10, 2025 Star Trucker – Get Cozy in Your Home Away from Home Mariela González – Marketing Manager, Raw Fury How’s it been rollin’, truckers? Today Star Trucker is getting a bit of tune-up with the release of the latest update, Plates & Parking. We’ve popped open the hood and tinkered around…

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