Almost everyone ignores the persuasion minigame in Oblivion if given the chance. I don’t blame them—it’s really weird and doesn’t make any sense if you think about it for five seconds. Why the heck would you always need to admire and coerce every person you try to persuade? And yet, I earnestly enjoy this weirdo…
Having gorged itself to satiation on videos of your ears, PlayStation maker and digital anatomy house Sony has announced it now wants your entire body. Or, well, the entire body of the first winner of its just-announced Playerbase scheme, which will let some lucky son of a gun have their “likeness scanned and appear within…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
“I may have killed two N64s with this…”. As gaming hardware gets older, finding replacement parts gets harder and, therefore, more expensive. It’s for this reason that we’ve seen a bunch of community-made replacements, one of which is the Open Source Expansion Pak (OEXP), a replacement for the N64’s Expansion Pak which aims to provide…
A new trailer for Yakuza prequel game Stranger Than Heaven premiered at Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest. It ended with a perplexing announcement: Tupac is in it. That’s Tupac, as in Shakur, as in the legendary rapper who has been dead since 1996. His likeness is the last thing we see in the trailer with…
As well as praising Hitler and banging on about white genocide and creating naked images of actual women and children, apparently Grok can be a resource for answering questions about videogames. According to an investigation by Business Insider into what’s been going on at xAI since Elon Musk stopped being the de facto leader of…
“A premium collectible for retro gamers”. AYANEO’s work rate is truly remarkable – it seems that not a week goes by without the company announcing something new. Hot on the heels of the revelation that AYANEO is producing its first smartphone, we have more information on its previously-teased vertical handheld, the Pocket VERT. Read the…
The High-Gain Antenna is a new player project in Arc Raiders, added in the Flashpoint update. Similar to the Trophy Display project, you’ll need to gather a bunch of different items to donate to the High-Gain Antenna project (including some brand-new materials) to construct your own Arc-detecting machine. With Shredders escaping Stella Montis, Assessors revealing…
The newly launched content creation platform S&box has 7,693 Steam reviews and they are decidedly “Mixed,” though it definitely has its defenders. Facepunch co-founder and creator of Garry’s Mod Garry Newman has now directly addressed the situation on the studio’s blog, beginning by acknowledging that “our Steam reviews obviously aren’t great. They’re painful for us….
No surprises here. Baldur’s Gate 3 is the best game of the year. For the rest of the awards, visit our Game of the Year 2023 list. Phil Savage, UK Editor-in-Chief: It wasn’t even close. Of the 26 people who submitted nominations for our GOTY awards this year, 23 of them included Baldur’s Gate 3….