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The Elder Scrolls 6 is ‘progressing very well,’ Todd Howard says: Everyone wishes it could go faster, but ‘it’s a process that we want to get right’

Just a month after Bethesda creative honcho Todd Howard said The Elder Scrolls 6 “is the everyday thing” that developers at the studio are now working on, he’s said it again in a chat with Game Informer. But this time, he added one very important note: It’s goin’ good. “It’s progressing really well,” Howard told…

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‘No matter what we changed, somebody was going to get mad:’ After hearing what an Obsidian dev went through to get RPG difficulty right, I get why nobody’s ever gotten RPG difficulty right

In a talk at the Game Developers Conference, Obsidian senior systems designer Robert Donovan spoke about dialing in the difficulty of The Outer Worlds 2⁠—a great game you ought to play⁠⁠—but one I found to have a particularly noticable reverse difficulty curve. Instead of the challenges ramping up as you get more familiar with the…

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Prison Architect Coming to PS4 This Spring

Hi everyone, my name is Mark Morris and I helped found Introversion Software back in 2001. We’ve made a few games in our time, however I’m delighted to say that our biggest accomplishment to date, Prison Architect, is coming to PS4 through a collaboration with the good people at Double Eleven! Prison Architect allows you…

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Interpol’s ‘Operation Ramz’ has arrested over 200 people for phishing scams, malware threats, and all sorts of internet ne’er-do-well behaviour

International police organisation Interpol has announced the arrest of 201 individuals as part of “Operation Ramz“, a multinational effort to target phishing operations, malware threats, and “cyber scams” in the Middle East and North Africa region. The “first of its kind” operation involved the participation of 13 countries and resulted in the seizure of 53…

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PuffPals: Island Skies, a cosy game that earned $2.5 million on Kickstarter, has been slammed with refund requests after its website and online store disappeared

If you’re a fan of farming simulators and cosy games, then Puffpals: Island Skies has probably come up on your radar at some point over the last few years. This sweet, Animal Crossing-esque farming simulator being developed by plushie company Fluffnest was originally announced on April 6, 2022 with a Kickstarter project launched the following…

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