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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Japanese patent attorney, burdened with a party pooper’s knowledge, says Nintendo having 22 out of 23 Palworld-targeting claims ‘rejected’ in the US is business as usual

Nintendo’s suing of Palworld has, as one might imagine, set the internet on fire. Primarily because most people like a good underdog story, and also because Nintendo has built a reputation for being very, very litigious. As such, cheers went up on the internet when it was uncovered by GamesFray that Nintendo’s patent claims, which…

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The new game from The Witcher 3’s director revives the best tradition of Morrowind by letting you kill off ‘really important NPCs’

Time was, videogames let you just kill whoever. Plucky sidekick, love interest, authoritarian father figure, plot-critical NPC—all these and more were fodder to a sufficiently trigger-happy player. The best games to ever do it were, I reckon, Fallout: New Vegas and The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. The former was designed to adjust the plot whenever…

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