Skyrim lead designer’s biggest lore regret is *checks notes* one of the coolest things the series has ever done

I don’t mean to overreact, but someone needs to stop Skyrim design lead Bruce Nesmith before I actually start crying. The ex-Bethesda dev’s been on a tear of late, chatting about everything from Todd Howard’s tendency to “seagull” around the studio to his take on why Bethesda shouldn’t ditch its venerable old in-house engine. That’s…

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Blizzard could add more homes per account to World of Warcraft’s player housing in the future, but ‘we have to be conservative at the start with these things’

World of Warcraft‘s player housing system is pretty much great—it offers an absurd amount of freedom, the decor limits just keep going up as Blizzard explores new ways to increase it, and while it sure has taken it a while, the developer seems to’ve learned (from two decades of other MMORPGs trying, failing, and flying)…

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‘We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI’ says Mozilla, as it introduces an AI blocking menu to upcoming Firefox builds

Not everyone is happy with the introduction of AI into… well, everything they use on a daily basis, and it appears Mozilla has been listening. After considerable backlash towards its announcement that Firefox would become an ‘AI browser’ over the next few years, it looks to have changed its tune in recent weeks. Beyond the…

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