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I wondered, last week, if the new call for aid put forth by the Skyblivion development team was a sign that the long-awaited mega mod—the one recreating The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion in the newer tech of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Special Edition—might be delayed again. It was supposed to be out in 2025…

Thanks to the breathtaking power of artificial intelligence, we may now use natural language to beg the computer to perform a function that once came as naturally to its binary brain as breathing does to ours. Google—a company worth 3.5 trillion dollars, uncontested owner of both the almighty internet search algorithm and the web browser,…

Norman Caruso, better known online as The Gaming Historian, has spent the last decade and a half making Ken Burns-style documentary videos for his YouTube audience; he currently has over 1 million subscribers. He’s covered everything from a TV with a Super Famicom built into it to the Sega Mega Modem. But now he’s calling…

Samson, the open-world crime brawler being developed by Liquid Swords, looks to me like a Grand Theft Auto game leavened with a healthy dose of Condemned: Criminal Origins. It’s a much smaller-scale project than (relatively) recent GTA games, of course—because what isn’t?—but a tale of a low-level mook making his way in a city filled…

You’re spoiled for choice these days if you love games about doing chores, which I guess I can’t fault you for given the thousands of hours I’ve spent making numbers go up in various MMOs. If cozy cleanup games like Unpacking or PowerWash Simulator aren’t enough to sate your hunger for affectionately simulated mundanities, you…

Echo Point Nova is a wonder. Greylock Studio’s indie FPS enchanted us in 2024 with its high-flying, hoverboarding, hyperchill gunplay, and—if ziplining onto a cloud with an energy grappling hook to shotgun blast an enemy soldier during a slow-motion backflip somehow left any room for doubt—it secured a permanent place in our hearts with a…

Six years after it was announced, and two years after it last came up for air, we have new proof of life for State of Decay 3, the zombie survival shooter in development at Undead Labs. And this time, it’s not just a promise that it’s still happening, but a call to the community to…

Not content with adding one kind of sea power to Rust in February’s Naval Update, Facepunch studios has introduced a whole other way to exploit the oceans in its latest patch for the survival game. The Spring Clean update adds a bunch of small but significant changes to the game, but the one that immediately…

If you’re looking for something to do in about three weeks’ time, HoYoVerse is now taking signups for a round of closed beta testing for its next game, Petit Planet, that’s set to begin on April 21. Petit Planet puts players in charge of an entire world, contained within the vast Starsea, where they can…

Brian Raffel, who co-founded Raven Software in 1990 with his brother Steve, is retiring from game development after 36 years. Brian has been Vice President of Raven since its inception, and Studio Head since 1997. In 2024, he began sharing this position with Dave Pellas, who joined Raven in 2011. Raffel has also served as…