‘Forever cherished for who you were and what you helped achieve’: 10 years after his death, Larian Studios pays tribute to composer Kirill Pokrovsky

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since Divinity composer Kirill Pokrovsky died unexpectedly at the age of 53. I still remember being shocked by the news: Pokrovsky was one of my favorite videogame composers, and he was a high-profile presence at Larian Studios, having created the music for every game the studio…

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The Borderlands cup overfloweth with a huge sale—1-3, The Pre-Sequel, all their DLCs, and one very good Telltale game are available for $36

The Borderlands series is having a massive stonking sale, and regardless of your opinions on some of Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford’s recent—er, let’s just call them ‘online moments’—the sale is downright generous. For starters, Borderlands 2 was made straight-up free yesterday. If you are at all a fan of shooters, looters, or either genre, you…

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Oblivion Remastered’s improvements have Oblivion’s meme king hopeful Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas will see similar glow-ups: ‘[It’s] so much better and exactly what I have wanted for years’

Oblivion’s renowned meme king, the YouTuber Bacon_, has recently regaled us with tales of rescuing Emperor Uriel Septim, secret agent-style, and why the original’s chaotic Radiant AI system remains the gold standard for Bethesda NPCs. Bacon unsurprisingly has a lot of love for the recent remaster and believes that it makes “lots of good changes…

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‘John Nightreign doesn’t have a face’: YouTuber manages to uncover all but one of Elden Ring Nightreign’s hidden Nightfarer faces, ‘leaving his appearance a mystery’

The most mysterious part of Elden Ring Nightreign isn’t its errant matchmaking system or how Morgott keeps tracking me down, it’s actually much simpler than that: The identity of some of the Nightfarers. Unlike Elden Ring with its character creator, Nightreign simply gives players the choice of eight Nightfarers all with pre-built looks and skins….

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Ro-Souls 3 is ‘a sharp and precise recreation’ of Dark Souls 3 in Roblox, and it’s training up a whole new generation of soulslike demons

It never ceases to amaze me just how many gems you can find on Roblox. Whether it’s Roblox’s hottest game Dress to Impress, Project Lazurus which is actually better than most COD Zombies games, or now a remake of Dark Souls 3. “Ro-Souls 3 is a mortal journey by perseverance and strength,” the game description…

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If you fondly remember the wonders of terrible graphics card box art like me, there’s now a book available with a collection of some of the greatest hits

At some point in the future, I look forward to telling my grandchildren that their new holo-GPUs are nothing like the wonderful hardware I experienced as a child. No, our graphics cards were spiky, robust bits of technology—and they came in boxes covered in art featuring robot frogs, or scantily clad cyber elves, or the…

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Disney Dreamlight Valley has shared its new roadmap for the rest of 2025, and it looks like one character fans have been asking for since launch is finally coming to stay

In a new Developer Update shared to the Disney Dreamlight Valley YouTube channel, a roadmap for the remainder of 2025 was shared. These usually hint towards which villagers we can expect to see in new game updates, and the three screenshots shared are definitely going to be big hitters. The first, coming not long after…

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You could cut the tension with a needle—7 SteamDB changes in the past week have Silksong hopefuls wondering if the final hour is upon us

Silksong may, after many long years, finally be releasing—or it may not be. A shadowdrop could be arriving tomorrow, or our eternal vigil may never end. It’s either the final 24 hours, or time has no meaning anymore. One thing’s for certain: SteamDB has some updates. In addition to the updates released earlier this week,…

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