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Feature: “It’s Like Time Travel” – Nightdive’s Studio Head On Resurrecting Outlaws, LucasArts Forgotten FPS Western

Outlaws + Handful of Missions Remaster is out today on PC & consoles! When Nightdive Studios announced it was remastering LucasArts’ 1997 western-themed FPS Outlaws back in August for PC & consoles, the decision immediately made a lot of sense to us. Not only did it seem to fit with the studio’s ethos of bringing…

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Before Paradox became king of grand strategy, it made a Baldur’s Gate-inspired RPG doomed by ‘bugs, many and diverse, some more interesting than the gameplay’

Paradox has always dabbled in a smorgasbord of styles, especially when you consider all its published games, but its in-house efforts are almost all grand strategy games where you paint real-world provinces your favorite color. But before it had solidified that reputation, it was trying to make a name in other genres. Trying, and failing…

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I know tariff-related price increases are a thing right now but a $1,371 motherboard might be pushing it, even if it is ‘Extreme’

Our newsfeeds have been dominated by one word over the past few weeks, and that word is “tariff”. President Trump’s favourite word, apparently. His administration’s international trade policies have thrown markets the world over into something of a loop. Still, even among all this pricing turmoil, there’s really no excuse for a $1,371 motherboard, is…

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Bethesda veteran says less RPG complexity in the Elder Scrolls series is good, actually: ‘We got rid of attributes in Skyrim and you know who complained? Almost nobody’

In a new interview with PressBoxPR, Bethesda veteran and Skyrim’s lead designer Bruce Nesmith talks at length about his time at the studio. Among the topics Nesmith addresses is why it wouldn’t make sense to switch to Unreal Engine, and how studio head Todd Howard is an inveterate fiddler, even if he “desperately” tries not…

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