Nintendo Music Adds Fire Emblem: Awakening Soundtrack In New Update

Jack Thompson, The Man Who Tried To Ban GTA, Thinks Video Games Can Be Good, Actually

“Video games are arguably the greatest teaching tool ever invented”. Jack Thompson, an activist with a long history of fighting against sex and violence in video games, has said that interactive entertainment is “arguably the greatest teaching tool ever invented.” Speaking on Simon Parkin’s My Perfect Console podcast, the 72-year-old former attorney – who famously…

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Cities: Skylines 2’s bicycle update adds a lot more than just bikes, as Colossal Order prepares to hand over development to a new studio

Colossal Order will soon part ways with its difficult second child, Cities: Skylines 2, but at least the developer got to teach the sequel to ride a bike before sending it to live with adoptive parent Iceflake Studios. The newly released bike patch actually adds bicycles and electric scooters into Skylines 2, along with all…

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Fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim has a new video, looks amazing, is set for release ‘this year,’ and I struggle to imagine the rumoured official Oblivion remake doing much better

Remaking an old game in a new engine is a venerable and usually doomed mainstay of the modding scene. Always has been, always will be. They either stay ‘in development’ forever, get cease-and-desisted, or shrivel up in their incubators. It’s the natural order of things. Unless, apparently, they’re Skyblivion, the remake of The Elder Scrolls…

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Steam users react ecstatically to update that lets them access their heaving game notes via the web, also it fixes Monster Hunter Wilds video recording

I gotta be honest, the sum total of my engagement with Steam’s Game Notes feature is that one time I wrote a news story about people using them to cheat at Counter-Strike 2. I’ve never used ’em myself. Is this because of my incredible mind and prodigious powers of recall? Yes. But also it’s because…

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The PvPvE extraction shooter where you build and drive a huge stompy mechanical base across a ruined planet gets a Steam release date

I love the idea of building a huge mechanical mobile base and using it to stomp my way around a post-apocalyptic landscape on giant metal legs. Throw in a PvPvE system where I can battle other players’ bases and raid ruined cities for resources, and set the whole thing in an “industrial alternate history of…

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