Larian publishing chief wades into the fray, says Morrowind updated with a modern combat system ‘would sell like f**king hotcakes’

Bruce Nesmith has an enviable list of design and writing credits earned over a long history on some of Bethesda’s greatest games: Daggerfall, Oblivion, Skyrim (on which he served as lead designer), Fallout 3 and 4, and others. None of which prevented him from being extremely wrong in his recent assessment that “the reality of…

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Cairn developers ‘couldn’t be happier’ as they celebrate 200,000 copies sold: ‘We hope you feel the passion we baked into the mountain’

Cairn released late last week to glowing reviews, with Shaun Prescott calling it “prickly but approachable” in PC Gamer’s review. And clearly it’s been a big hit with the players as the devs celebrate passing a huge milestone less than a week after launch. “Is this the revival of Kami’s golden age of tourism?” The…

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‘Everybody who worked at Nvidia in the early days really wanted to make a game console’ says senior VP of engineering Andrew Bell: ‘Selfishly, a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves’

I sometimes forget about the existence of Nvidia’s Shield devices, in all their various iterations. Shield TV, however, has been with us now for over a decade in some form or another—and according to Nvidia, the Android-powered set-top box is far from done yet. In an interview with Ars Technica, Nvidia’s senior VP of hardware…

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