2026

MMOs—particularly the long-lived ones—have a bit of a design problem. Given they’re worlds built for all sorts of players, they need to have enough bite to challenge vets while also not scaring away the greenhorns. Which is fine, you can have hardcore raids: Except even the most skilled players aren’t going to be spending their…

Two things I believe to be true are: One—given the success of last year’s Oblivion remaster, remasters of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are all-but assured. Two—they probably won’t drop any time soon. Oblivion is not even a year behind us (though given its last patch was in July and Bethesda seems to have…

Microsoft releases a list of all the bugs it knows about in Windows 11 every month, and the first of the year reveals over 100 of the pesky lil’ guys in the popular operating system. Microsoft has fixed 112 vulnerabilities in its own services and has flagged a further three in non-Microsoft products. Those products…

You’d expect nothing less from a Minecraft-inspired crafting RPG created by prominent Minecraft modders, but Hytale already has a large collection of mods available from day one of early access. Honestly, it’s hard to go wrong when picking the best Hytale mods right now, and just like the vanilla experience, it’s only up from here…

In this age where AI threatens to do everything for us, robbing the human race of agency, is there a certain masochistic appeal in intentionally and needlessly making something much more complicated and manual than usual? That’ll a be a huge, 50-storey, fully-carpeted yep according to YouTuber DocJade. He decided that installing and running the…

The Elder Scrolls Online‘s going through a big shift—with subclassing falling somewhat short and a difficult year for Zenimax in the rearview, its developers have decided to shake things up. Going from a yearly “chapter” formula to a seasonal structure where, in a recent conversation I had with executive producer Susan Kath and game director…

I’ve used videogames to be antisocial at family gatherings many a time—but I’ll always have a soft spot in my cold, black heart for the 1992 Addams Family pinball machine at one family friend’s abode. As much as I enjoy Space Cadet 3D Pinball, Pinball FX, and more recently Ball x Pit, I do miss…