Fanatical’s running a $3-a-pop Bethesda bundle, so it’s time to finally put down Oblivion Remastered and play Morrowind, the actual best TES game

I’ve written so much hagiography for Morrowind on this website that I’m even starting to annoy myself. You’d think that means I’m not going to spend yet another article gushing about Morrowind. You’d be wrong. You should play Morrowind: it’s the best Elder Scrolls game and, quite frankly, one of the best games of all…

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Parts for that high-performance Intel Battlemage gaming GPU have been spotted again and I still want it to teach Nvidia’s RTX 5070 a $400 pricing lesson

A couple of weeks ago, a mooted high-end variant of Intel’s Battlemage gaming graphics architecture was spotted in a shipping manifest. That was labelled for “R&D” purposes, but still had me hoping Intel was cooking something up that might compete with Nvidia’s RTX 5070 on performance but radically undercut it on price. This latest spot…

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‘I’d say chances are good’: While the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team is still figuring out where to go next, DLC is likely

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is currently doing a rather well-deserved victory lap after one million sales and stellar Steam numbers—which is heartening to see from an ambitious AA studio. I went in not expecting too much myself, and came out delighted (and a little dazed) after 60 hours of JRPG goodness, hankering for more. My…

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Microsoft says it wants to completely ditch passwords as it makes passwordless login the default for all new accounts

“Ten years ago, Microsoft had a bold idea. Instead of signing in using clumsy and insecure passwords, what if you could simply smile?” Never mind that certain limitations of Microsoft’s cloud services (I’m looking at you, file sharing and collaboration) might make you weep rather than beam, because gurning logins are apparently Microsoft’s aim for…

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Mod adds Dark Souls-style player messages to Oblivion Remastered so you can write ‘Try finger but hole’ in front of Patrick Stewart

The thing that makes FromSoft games great isn’t the tightly honed boss fights, the layered lore, or the quiet tragedy of their antagonists. It’s the ability to write ‘Don’t give up skeleton’ and ‘Try finger but hole’ across every inch of the game and subject players around the world to it. Every game should have…

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There’s another Pathfinder 2e bundle on Humble with nearly $700 of books for $57, including an adventure that’ll let you go full Mortal Kombat with your friends

Paizo continues to offer some absolutely bonkers value for its Pathfinder 2nd Edition—once more putting a whole heap of its books on offer for a good cause. This time around, the Asian Fantasy Bundle on Humble has raised thousands for Stop AAPI Hate, an organisation dedicated to fighting discrimination and hatred against Asian and Pacific…

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