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These are heady days for Tamriel Rebuilt, the 24-year-old Morrowind mod that aims to build out—in a brilliant and fanatically lore-friendly way—all the parts of the titular province that Bethesda didn’t get to. The team has just put out Grasping Fortune, its ninth and biggest expansion, which adds in a humungous new landmass to explore…

The story of Battlefield 6 so far has been one pleasant surprise after another: Surprise that leaked playtests looked really fun, surprise that Battlefield Studios committed to grounded cosmetics early on, surprise that the open beta was so popular it eclipsed Call of Duty on Steam, surprise that it actually runs well on PC without…

Days before committing the world historic sin of putting quest markers into The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, modder RPGKing117 already earned himself a pardon: He created a mod that lets you play The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind on the in-game Pip-Boy and computer terminals of Fallout 4. RPGKing117 has a nice demonstration of the mod…

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…

Nintendo first entered the virtual reality industry back in 1995 with the launch of Virtual Boy. The product tanked in Japan and North America, which led the company to refrain from selling the device in other regions. Complaints about the device included headaches caused by the monochrome screen, the high retail price, and its failure…

If you’re anything like me, the first time you heard about Dune: Awakening, your ears perked up at the phrase ‘they’re making a Dune game,’ then immediately shut off at ‘and it’s a survival MMO’. But this was, I think, a mistake. After a positive first impression at a hands-off demo last year, I’ve finally…