Oblivion Remastered mod makes its best part last forever: A Dark Brotherhood freelancer mode with infinite contracts and a gacha-style reward system

RuneScape: Dragonwilds creative director says survival crafting has more in common with MMOs than you might think: ‘It’s almost like the genre was born from MMOs’

When Jagex unveiled it was making RuneScape: Dragonwilds—a survival crafting game that cribs more than a few elements from its long-running MMO—I was curious, if not a little hesitant. I couldn’t help but wonder how certain elements would translate cross-genre. Turns out, pretty well. I recently sat down with Dragonwilds creative director Rick Turek to…

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FBC: Firebreak – hands-on report

FBC: Firebreak – hands-on report

“What. Is. THAT?” At Remedy HQ, me and two other writers getting a first hands-on with the forthcoming FBC: Firebreak have hit a problem. Namely, a strange, ever-changing black-grey mass, aimlessly and unnervingly stuttering around the Quarry we’re currently exploring. We have no idea what it is until we get close enough to recognize it—an…

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All 3 original Stalker games get ‘fully remastered and optimized’ versions next week, free for OG owners, and I can’t wait to get shredded by an anomaly from the comfort of my sofa

Just before the Christmas break, I capped off 2024 with a news piece about GSC’s surprise announcement that it would be putting out gleaming “next-gen patches” for the original Stalker trilogy—Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, and Call of Pripyat—on PC. The studio was maddeningly vague about what the heck that actually meant, though, so I…

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