King’s Quest: A Knight to Remember Out Today

The Ultima Series – by Jarrod Kailef

if you spent your entire lifetime doing so. From amazing modern masterpieces to the most primitive, barely playable first-generation games, it’s hard to determine what’s worth your time and what isn’t. But for old-school gamers like us, one of the best ways to identify early standouts is to look at which games inspired successful modern…

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Todd Howard says there’s no Starfield 2.0 coming: The next big update is for people who already love Starfield, and if you don’t, ‘I don’t think this is going to change that’

The concept of ‘Starfield 2.0,’ essentially a major update/overhaul of Bethesda’s less-than-stellar sci-fi RPG, has been kicking around for quite a while now. Fans have been huffing the copium since at least the middle of 2025, and started hitting the pipe extra hard at the end of last year when it came to light that…

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Asus starts an ‘immediate internal review’ on its 800-series motherboards in light of ‘recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs’

Imagine that you’d just bought a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the best gaming CPU around right now. You drop it into your AM5 socket motherboard and start enjoying the freshly boosted frame rates. After a while, you then start experiencing all kinds of problems, until eventually your gaming PC no longer fires up: the CPU…

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Arc Raiders’ latest patch has made Rocketeers deadlier, and you can guess how happy it’s made players: ‘The problem with rocketeers was their abundance of mercy’

Arc Raiders’ latest update added a slew of new content: a couple of arcs, beards, and also introduced some changes and fixes. The price of crafting Wolfpacks has gone up, making Rocketeers way more important now, but these changes have also made the angriest arc topside more dangerous. One part of the patch notes reads:…

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Attention survival game sickos: you can be among the first to playtest the sequel to one of my favorite survival RPGs

I loved 2019’s Outward. The fantasy RPG from Nine Dots Studio embraced survival in a way few RPGs do, making everything from casting a basic spell to packing for a trip between cities a methodical and thoughtful process. Even its permalife system, which sounds forgiving—you don’t die if you lose a fight, you lose consciousness…

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