Modding turf war erupts as 'notoriously controversial' dev puts out an Unofficial Oblivion Remastered Patch one week after the game came out

Modding turf war erupts as ‘notoriously controversial’ dev puts out an Unofficial Oblivion Remastered Patch one week after the game came out

Birds fly, the sun shines, water is wet, and Bethesda games get unofficial patches. There’s Morrowind’s Patch for Purists, the Yukichigai Patch for New Vegas (an Obsidian game, but Bethesda’s engine down to its bones), even a Community Patch for Starfield. This is an immutable law of the universe, and not even wrapping original Oblivion…

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Remember those ‘choose your own adventure’ fantasy books? Well, now they’re coming back in this delightfully chonky e-ink console

No good thing ever dies, Stephen King once wrote, and while he was talking about hope, the saying could well be applied to the hugely popular ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books from the 1980/1990s. That’s because one person has decided to revisit the magic of those books and old-school text-based RPGs, by inventing a bespoke…

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Paradox refunds PlayStation Store preorders of Bloodlines 2 in preparation for ‘adjustments’ to its reviled $30 DLC to be revealed later this month

First reported by Eurogamer, Paradox announced this weekend that PlayStation Store preorders of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 are being refunded with the instruction that customers renew their preorder after planned “adjustments” to the game and its price. This is in response to the backlash over core content being locked behind a $30 DLC,…

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