Don’t think of Avowed as Obsidian’s Skyrim but as a Fallout: New Vegas and Outer Worlds-style take on first-person fantasy, says the studio

You’ve gotta feel for Avowed, Obsidian’s upcoming first-person fantasy RPG. As soon as the studio started talking about it, people (including, ah, me) began to look for pigeonholes to slot it into. A quick shorthand that would let us call the game “Obsidian’s take on X”. The easiest reference point, of course, is Skyrim (Starfield…

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Obsidian’s design director would love to add the immersive sim elements of Baldur’s Gate 3 into a ‘Pillars-y’ game: ‘we have mostly 2D worlds, so that’s a lot more difficult’

Before Baldur’s Gate 3 came along and took a great (weapon master) swing at what we thought the CRPG could do, Obsidian was keeping the flame alive with Pillars of Eternity—a series that is by all means absolutely stellar. Granted, Larian’s Divinity: Original Sin 2 laid that groundwork, and the immersive sim elements the studio…

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink has stuck a device in someone’s brain and he’s already talking up its theoretical uses: ‘Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist’

The first patient to receive a brain-computer implant from Neuralink is doing well after the procedure, company founder and billionaire Elon Musk has said on X.  The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well.Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.January 29, 2024 See more Neuralink aims to produce a brain-computer…

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2018’s best platformer now has an adorable Mario 64-style tribute made by the game’s original dev team for its 6th anniversary—and it’s completely free

Celeste is one of the best platformers in the past decade—it’s a game with a heartfelt, deeply affecting narrative that’s also just really damn good at what it does: Complex 2D platforming with a skill ceiling so high it’s nudging the moon. Now you can play it in 3D, kinda. Celeste 64: Fragments of the…

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Adam Jensen voice actor says cancelled Deus Ex likely ‘wasn’t a Jensen story anyway’ and that ‘I gotta be honest, I gave up on it a long time ago’

The world got worse yesterday as the ever-spiralling Embracer Group laid off 97 people at Eidos Montreal and apparently cancelled an upcoming Deus Ex game the studio had been working on for two years. The layoffs were, in a year that has already seen thousands of job losses before the end of January, bitterly unsurprising,…

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AMD Ryzen 5 8600G review

If you’re putting together a new gaming system on a tight budget, but don’t want to spend the money on a current generation graphics card to go with it, AMD’s Ryzen 5 8600G may well be the solution for you.  Every PC gamer can appreciate a machine that offers smooth 4K ray traced performance with…

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Real-life Team Rocket robs 35,000 Pokémon cards from a store despite using a blocked entrance, crawling around on their hands and knees, and missing a major release by 2 whole days

Card games are serious business—with a massive heist gone wrong at Gencon and an entire art gallery event ruined by hungry scalpers forming just part of the hobby’s high-stakes controversies last year. These things are worth a lot of money—and where there’s money, there’s theft. As reported by ABC7 news, A store by the name…

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