Starfield, Clutter, and the Story Behind Bethesda’s Love of Junk

Starfield, Clutter, and the Story Behind Bethesda’s Love of Junk

This story contains minor spoilers for Starfield. About ten hours into my Starfield playthrough, I started collecting ‘Earth books’ for fun. I thought it would be a fun personality quirk; my celestial cowboy scuttling across systems looking for long-lost literary links to the past. Forget precious ores and mysterious celestial relics, I wanted art, and…

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Analyst says Sony going all-in on digital is like the death of PC disc drives: ‘Not a single person is complaining about it today’

In case you haven’t heard, Sony recently announced that it will stop producing physical game discs come 2028—a move PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon argued continues a trend of consoles turning into little more than worse PCs. But Daniel Ahmad, a videogame market analyst and director of research and insights at Niko Partners, argued in a…

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