2025

Oblivion Remastered has taken some well-judged steps to fix the original’s wonky skill and attribute system, but it’s still a very strange, unbalanced experience. Nublivion’s middle, “Adept” difficulty just feels too easy, while a single step up to “Expert” makes fighting even a basic bandit a life or death slog. Now I know why: The…

As long as you don’t call them Pokémon-likes, games where you collect little monsters and have them fight each other are just legally distinct enough to keep Nintendo’s lawyers away. At least that’s how Steam is framing an entire sale dedicated to them in what it’s calling the Creature Collector Fest. “Collect fantastical creatures, tame…

Let’s play ‘guess the game’. You’re a meticulous killer in a historical setting. Your targets are high-ranking aristocrats, priests, merchants—men and women of status who go everywhere flanked by a platoon of guards, who sleep behind barred doors, and whose entire lives are lived publicly. These people cannot enter a room without an eruption of…

Forget fighting Night Lords; picking which of the Elden Ring Nightreign classes to try on launch is going to be the real ordeal. Do you go basic and play Wylder with his grappling hook and stake driver? Do you jump right in the deep end with Recluse and her endlessly combinable magics? Or do you…

If one thing is clear about Elden Ring Nightreign, it’s that this is gonna upset a lot of folks’ expectations for what a FromSoftware Souls game is. The co-op roguelike is built around short sessions, with each complete run lasting roughly 40 minutes, and that comes with a relentless pace: if you just enjoy bashing…