Powers: 4 Things We’ve Learned for Season Two

‘A good idea, infinite drive, and lots of Diet Pepsi’: How YouTube essayist Majuular’s life changed course telling the story of Ultima across 2 years and more than 20 hours of documentaries

The monsters in Akalabeth: World of Doom—the precursor to the Ultima series, sometimes called “Ultima 0” by fans and series creator Richard Garriott himself—look ridiculous. The thief is just a floating cloak, the mimic is a featureless cube, and the final monster (straight-up called a Balrog) looks a bit like Firebrand if he was crushed…

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Banjo-Kazooie Composer Has “Zero Hope” For A New Entry

We’re inclined to agree. Just days after Moon Studios’ lead Thomas Mahler expressed his desire to see the Banjo-Kazooie franchise in the hands of a “really talented developer”, original composer Grant Kirkhope has taken to social media to say that he has “zero hope” in a potential new entry (thanks, Eurogamer). He then went on…

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Battlefield 6 hits a peak of 747k players on Steam, hot on the heels of Baldur’s Gate 3’s record and in the platform’s all-time top 20

Battlefield 6 is proving a remarkable milestone for the venerable military shooter series. It’s not just a great game—as PC Gamer staff writer Morgan Park put it in last week’s review-in-progress, “a bullseye where it matters most”—it’s also very popular, as evidenced by its recent eye-watering concurrent player count of over 747,000. That number comes…

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