Should you kill or spare Ygwulf in Avowed?

Thanks to that mysterious god in your head, Avowed presents you with the unprecedented RPG protagonist opportunity to solve your own assassination. Once you eventually track your assassin down though, he’s conveniently had a change of heart. This leaves you with the option to kill or spare Ygwulf, or force him to confess to the…

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How to upgrade gear and get crafting materials in Avowed

Avowed is surprisingly challenging even right at the beginning, and if you don’t take time to upgrade your weapons and armour you’re going to get stuck looking at a quest log full of skulls warning you that you’re under-geared. It’s a never-ending process of gathering crafting and upgrade materials before returning to camp and enhancing…

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Bethesda refuses to announce that Oblivion remaster to spite me specifically, so I’m consoling myself with this gamejam based on its terri-brilliant persuasion wheel

I am more and more convinced that an insidious cabal of games industry executives—headed by ‘Todd Howard’ and ‘Phil Spencer’—is conspiring to prevent the rumoured Oblivion remaster/remake from releasing to drive me, specifically, to madness. No matter how much I will it, the game has been a no-show at every splashy, trailer-filled videogame event for…

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The Elder Scrolls 6 is offering one lucky player the chance to be made into an NPC for charity, but you’ll have to beat the current winning bid of $11,050 first

Bethesda is currently offering up the chance for one player to be created into an NPC for The Elder Scrolls 6. The exclusive experience is being offered as part of an online auction in aid of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and some big bids have already been made. “For the last several years, we have been…

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 players are seized by the spirit of generosity, band together to buy strangers in need over $1,500 in copies

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a game about war in medieval Bohemia, and all the grisly unpleasantness that entails—like, for instance, being branded a criminal forevermore due to simple mistakes, or worse, just straight-up getting your head lopped off. Its playerbase, however, seems altogether more wholesome: As proved by a recent gifting frenzy that took…

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Dead by Daylight delays its existing update plans for a ‘substantial quality of life initiative’, which includes adding a surrender mode and cracking down on ‘extreme hiding’

In one of the more unusual Steam updates I’ve read lately, Dead by Daylight‘s developer Behaviour Interactive has announced it is suspending plans for numerous hotly anticipated features in favour of what it terms a ‘substantial quality of life initiative’ that will run throughout 2025. As the update explains, Behaviour’s focus this year was supposed…

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Ducky One X review

Gaming keyboards have changed rapidly in recent years. At one time merely a slab of slick keys and LEDs, thanks to new types of key switches, it’s now possible to offer features tailored to the modern gamer, such as rapid trigger and adjustable actuation. Most keyboard manufacturers haven’t missed the memo either—there’s a vast swathe…

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