Skyrim lead says the $100 videogame may not be the best idea: ‘I personally think game developers would be wise to not push the prices higher, but gamers are a special breed… they will pay for what they want’

Bethesda veteran and Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith has done a new interview with PressBoxPR going over his considerable time at the studio: among the topics addressed are why Bethesda shouldn’t switch to Unreal Engine, Todd Howard’s “seagulling” habits, and one bit of deep cut lore that had PCG’s Joshua Wolens despairing. Nesmith is asked…

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Of course there’s a tiny Bridgerton reference in The Sims Royalty & Legacy expansion because it’s basically a Lady Whistledown simulation

The next Sims 4 expansion, Royalty & Legacy, launches next week and the details we’ve seen so far are all to do with family legacy and scandals. Coincidentally (or likely not) it’s landing right in the middle of season 4 of Bridgerton, the regency era romance TV show that is also all about the scandals…

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MindsEye was one of the most catastrophic game launches of 2025 but the studio refuses to quit: Its ‘most significant post-launch update’ is now live and an expansion is coming later this year

I use the word “catastrophic” quite a lot—it’s one of those things that just happens when you write about videogames for a living—but there are few games more deserving of the term than MindsEye, one of 2025’s biggest flops. A rough pre-release led into an even worse launch: Player counts on Steam were microscopic, layoffs…

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Overwatch 2 drops the 2 and goes back to being Overwatch as Blizzard launches its biggest update ever next week: ‘We want to gain players’ confidence, we want them to have trust in the game’

The last thing I expected Blizzard to do was to change the name of Overwatch 2 back to just “Overwatch” four years after it came out. But as announced during the recent Spotlight video, that is exactly what Blizzard’s doing. Most of the sequel’s life has been about earning that 2, so why change it…

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New AMD docs show its next-gen Zen 6 CPUs will adopt Intel’s ‘FRED’ interrupt handling and could point to a major architectural overhaul

Documents detailing technical aspects of what’s thought to be its next-gen Zen 6 CPUs have been posted on AMD’s website. The most significant covers AMD’s adoption of Intel’s so-called ‘FRED’ interrupt handling. It’s a change that implies that Zen 6 could be a major architectural overhaul as opposed to a relatively minor revision. FRED stands…

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Nioh 3 review

Need to Know What is it? An open-world soulslike overflowing with samurai, ninjas, and demons. Release date February 6, 2026Expect to pay $70 / £65Developer Team Ninja, Koei Tecmo GamesPublisher Koei TecmoReviewed on Ryzen 7 7700X, RTX 4080, 64GB RAMSteam Deck TBALink Official site When internet denizens and online listicles debate the topic of the…

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AMD has added the potential effects of the RAMpocalypse into its risk statements: ‘There is currently an industry-wide memory shortage as the demand for such components has outpaced supply’

A look through AMD’s recently released financial reports shows an interesting addition compared to the previous year. In its list of risk factors to its business (a required part of a Form 10-K filing) and under a section entitled “Economic and market uncertainty may adversely impact our business and operating results”, AMD makes mention of…

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