Morrowind mega-mod Tamriel Rebuilt is adding ‘one of the holy grails’ that players have wanted ‘for more than 20 years’ in its next mammoth expansion

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Tamriel Rebuilt is one of the most impressive mod projects of all time. Its quest is to build every part of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind’s titular province that Bethesda didn’t get to, and it’s been doing that for literal decades. Earlier this year it released…

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Infinos 1 & 2 Are A Pair Of Gradius-Style Shmups That Pay Tribute To “The Golden Age Of Arcade Shooters”

And they’ve both just landed on modern consoles. The publisher PixelHeart and developer Picorinne Soft have partnered up this month to release a promising pair of Gradius-inspired shoot ’em ups across Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox consoles. Infinos & Infinos 2 are two titles that were originally launched on Windows PCs during…

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Nier: Automata creator Yoko Taro says ‘nearly half’ of his autographs ‘being resold are actually fake’, since he puts ‘small unknown features’ in them

I already knew scalpers and the like probably weren’t the most reputable people on the internet—but I’ve just had that assessment re-affirmed, because they’re trying to grift game developer’s autographs now. That’s per a post by Yoko Taro, director of the Nier games, to X. Taro was shown an image of a signed copy of…

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The first US-made Nvidia Blackwell wafer just came out of TSMC Arizona, but don’t get carried away thinking about RTX 50 Supers yet

Chip manufacturing moving over to the US might seem like a 2025 phenomenon, thanks to the Trump administration’s very vocal pushing towards this goal, but TSMC, the world’s biggest computer chip manufacturer, approved production of its Arizona plant back in 2020. The US-based fabrication plant (fab) started churning out wafers last year, and it has…

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8BitDo Retro R8 review

I have come to commend what I can only describe as 8BitDo’s commitment to the bit. From the 8BitDo Retro keyboard and the Pro 3 gamepad, to the R8 gaming mouse sat under my palm, they all have a distinguished and unique look, but they’re so much more than a retro facade slapped on top…

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“They Didn’t Even Bother To Look At My Skills” – One Of Japan’s RPG Pioneers Struggled To Find Work In His 50s Due To Ageism

Tokihiro Naito was the creator the groundbreaking RPG series ‘Hydlide’. Tokihiro Naito, the creator of the highly influential Japanese role-playing game Hydlide, recently opened up on his personal social media account about the difficulty of finding work in his 50s due to age discrimination in Japan. As spotted by Automaton-Media, Naito shared on his Twitter/X…

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