How to unlock Scholar in Elden Ring Nightreign

Puzzling out how to unlock Scholar in Elden Ring Nightreign isn’t all that confusing, especially compared to the slightly weird unlock conditions that Duchess had when the game first launched. This learned gentleman is more of a support Nightfarer, debuffing enemies, linking them together for shared damage, and also connecting allies so they heal each…

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Skyblivion is ‘in the best state it’s ever been’ but, you guessed it, it’s also been delayed into 2026, and the dev team is once again asking for help to get it finished

There was a spot of skycontroversy earlier this year when former Skyblivion world designer Dee Keyes took issue with the mega-mod’s planned launch in 2025. Keyes was critical of project management over “crunching” in pursuit of what he called “a pointless and unachievable release date.” And it turns out he was right, at least about…

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GameStop gives someone a historic $30,000 trade-in payout for an ultra-rare Pokémon card, then takes aim at the ‘trolls’ for some reason

GameStop’s been on a roll with bizarre trade-ins as of late. After announcing “Trade Anything Day,” an idea that sounds more like a sketch comedy bit than a real thing, it has awarded a record-setting payout of over $30,000 to a customer who handed in a “fully authenticated PSA 10 Holo Gengar.” It’s also really…

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Ron Gilbert canceled his Zelda-inspired RPG, in part because a good publisher is hard to come by these days: ‘It’s like they have formulas that they apply to games to try to figure out how much money they could make’

Ron Gilbert is something akin to PC gaming royalty, having worked on all-time greats like The Secret of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion—he also designed the Mona Lisa of edutainment, Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds, so he’s good in my book. You might think such a resplendent back catalog would…

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The RAM crisis is just getting started: Micron makes the ‘difficult decision’ to abandon the consumer memory business to focus on supplying AI data centers

Citing a “surge in demand for memory and storage” driven by AI data centers, Micron announced on Wednesday that it’s made the “difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve suply and support for [its] larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments.” In other words: sorry, PC gamers, but you’re no longer…

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