Jennifer Hale did not see the twist in Knights of the Old Republic coming either: ‘I remember just being gobsmacked by this game so many times’

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the game that put BioWare on the map for people who thought Baldur’s Gate was the thing that kept Baldur’s dog in Baldur’s yard, has an incredible twist. Unfortunately, I knew about it ahead of time because of the internet, but if you haven’t played it yet—it’s an…

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Microsoft was apparently so embarrassed by Windows 98’s infamous on-stage Blue Screen of Death it built a new testing room on campus to ensure it would never happen again

A company that’s been around as long as Microsoft will inevitably have a history of presentations that have gone so far off the rails they’ve ended up somewhere in the next county. You’ve got Steve Ballmer shouting “DEVELOPERS!!!” while sweating through his shirt, Don Mattrick sinking the Xbox One before it had even set sail,…

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Firefighters don’t actually use the ‘fireman’s carry’ anymore, and other things I’ve learned from the Steam reviews for simulator games

You can learn a lot about the world’s professions by checking out the Steam reviews for games with the word “simulator” in their titles. For instance, in the reviews for Lawn Mower Simulator, you will find the owner of a lawn maintenance company asking, “Why are we cutting grass at 2.5 inches??? Are we $20…

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Battlefield 6 lead producer comes back from vacation and immediately addresses a storm of feedback: ‘Need to go action on a bunch of this now’

When I come back to work after a nice long vacation, I open my email client with the sort of dread usually reserved for month-old leftovers at the back of the fridge. Not so for Battlefield 6 lead producer David Sirland, who recently returned from some PTO and immediately asked the entire Battlefield community an…

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Battlefield 6 players says they got banned from Steam forums for sharing a config tweak that lets PC players disable crossplay, and yes, PC players can disable crossplay

Consider this a two-for-one PSA for Battlefield 6 players on PC who don’t want to share their battlefields with the console squad: It’s possible to disable crossplay on PC, and you might get banned from the Steam forums for talking about it. The whole thing first came to our attention by way of this Reddit…

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‘You can have the loot. My reward is justice’: Arc Raiders players are appointing themselves Topside Sheriffs to dispense vigilante vengeance on raiders who don’t play nice

For a permanently PvP-enabled zone, the Topside in Arc Raiders is surprisingly peaceful. Since launch, players—especially those in the solo queue—have been opting for nonaggression with respectable reliability, with our Morgan Park reporting that his first 20 hours of Arc Raiding consisted of more makeshift truces than wasteland murders. Yet there are still, inevitably, those…

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Sorry, Fallout fans, but Obsidian isn’t really interested in making New Vegas 2: After years of working on other people’s games, the studio is finding ‘joy’ in doing its own thing

2025 was a very big year for Obsidian, which released not just one but two major RPGs, Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2, plus the backyard survival adventure Grounded 2 in early access. An awful lot of fans are eager for something else, though, and it’s no secret what that is: Alpha Protocol 2. And,…

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