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More To Playgue | Massive Skyrim mod inspired by The Witcher 3's Hearts of Stone gets an extra 20 hours added to its questline about the Dragonborn fighting a full-on plague

Version 2.0 of Death Consumes All definitely looks to have made it close to as beefy as CD Projekt's DLC masterworks.

Jan. 14, 2025 Mark Warren

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Mankar Come On, Man | Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remake is reportedly reworking some gameplay systems, including two I'm worried might stop me re-creating the funniest clip ever

Look, leakings that may or may not be accurate, all I want is to watch guards flop about going 'Unnnghhh' with totally straight faces.

Jan. 14, 2025 Mark Warren

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Classic Computing | Fallout 2 remake mod Fallout 4: Project Arroyo releases its version of the classic Pip-Boy 2000, as a wonderfully boxy taste of what to expect

Very West Coast 2241 vibes.

Jan. 13, 2025 Mark Warren

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Boomer Schooler | “It always felt like this vague form of superficial hell to me” Doom: The Gallery Experience devs on turning a 90s shooter into high culture

Read on to find out which Renaissance paintings they think Doomguy himself would get a kick out of.

Jan. 8, 2025 Mark Warren

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Miner Key | Good news culture lovers, a Minecraft YouTuber is hopping on Classic FM to blast banging choons from Skyrim, Street Fighter, and more

And here's the symphony that plays when an army of creepers blows up your entire town, delivered by the brass section of the New York philharmonic.

Jan. 8, 2025 Mark Warren

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Hell Yeah | One of gaming's best metal songs has just passed 100 million streams on Spotify

Mick Gordon is a beloved composer, with one of his most popular tracks soaring past the 100 stream mark.

Jan. 7, 2025 Connor Makar

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Culture Classic | Doom: The Gallery Experience takes you to the real hell - trying not to choke on wine and cheese by sniggering at the nude bits of classical art

*cough* Oh, yes, it's a *cough* masterpiece, you can tell by the shading around the er...excuse me a moment...

Jan. 6, 2025 Mark Warren

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Hiiiiiii-nahhhhh | Indiana Jones and the Great Circle baddie Voss might say karate weirdly, but his actor's glad he didn't have to learn how to whip Indy's bum for real

He did nail some monkey noises in one take, though.

Jan. 3, 2025 Mark Warren

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Cyrodiil You Soon | Skyblivion, the huge Oblivion remake mod in Skyrim's engine, is now in its release year and its devs only have one region of Cyrodiil left to complete

By Azura, things currently still look on track to let you hop into the massive mod's Imperial province by the end of 2025.

Jan. 2, 2025 Mark Warren

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PASS THE GAMES | The best Game Pass games on Xbox and PC in 2025

Our top picks of the greatest games on gaming's best subscription service.

Jan. 1, 2025 James Billcliffe

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TOP OF THE DROPS | The best PlayStation Plus games on PS4 and PS5 in 2025

Our top picks for Sony's money-saving subscription service!

Jan. 1, 2025 Connor Makar

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Mod's In Your Favour | Sure, gaming in 2024 had some killer underrated gems, but it was really the year of the mod

And not just the rude ones either, though obviously they did their bit.

Dec. 28, 2024 Mark Warren

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CHOOSING WISELY | Indiana Jones may have arrived too late for many awards ceremonies, but it’s definitely one of the best games of 2024 regardless

Indy's first video game outing in forever is one for the ages, and the fact it released too late for some of the biggest gongs can't change that.

Dec. 27, 2024 Alex Donaldson

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The Next Evolution? | Would Fallout 76's devs be open to doing playable super mutants? The game's lead producer says it could depend on how much people like going ghoul

"That does give pause to talk about: ‘Okay, does it make sense for us to have anything else in this world that players can do?’"

Dec. 19, 2024 Mark Warren

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Don't Jinx It | Sorry, but Fallout and Arcane's Ella Purnell wants to stay away from more video game adaptations, and she's right to do so

She got lucky twice.

Dec. 12, 2024 Fran Ruiz

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Secret of Secrets: How to get the Sistine Chapel safe code

Paying Indy by robbing Paul and Peter('s symbols)

Dec. 9, 2024 Josh Broadwell

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A Perfect Circle | Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review: an acquired taste, but a barnstorming classic

The best thing I can say about Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is that I know I’m going to be thinking about this for a long time yet.

Dec. 6, 2024 Alex Donaldson

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LonDLC Calling | Fallout: London's next patch will come with its first bits of DLC, as Team FOLON celebrates becoming a registered business by asking players to help shape its future

The massive mod's devs are going in for a penny, in for a pound.

Dec. 5, 2024 Mark Warren

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Yeehaw! | You can ogle at Walton Goggins getting "back in the saddle" for Fallout season 2 while you think about picking up a pair of Walton Goggins Goggle Glasses

Say that five times fast.

Dec. 4, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Motell Me More | Alleged Fallout season two set pics have fans speculating New Vegas' Novac could show up, but I'm not believing it til I see the Dinky the dinosaur

There'll seemingly also be at least one nod to the Great Khans, if these snaps are legit.

Dec. 3, 2024 Mark Warren

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On The Boatses | Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion on why he was keen to add some "very British, you know, everything's a nightmare" flavour to Fallout: London's sassiest mode of transport

"I didn't have any say on the lipstick, but we did improvise a lot."

Dec. 2, 2024 Mark Warren

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Humble Brag | "This is the most confident I've ever been" - one veteran RPG dev with titles like Baldur's Gate and Fallout under his belt on the upcoming Avowed

"I'm just overjoyed at how well everything's come together."

Dec. 2, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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And That's That | Think that Troy Baker doesn't sound enough like Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle? Tough luck, because doing a "bang-on impression" was never the point

In fact, the actor almost didn't take on the role in fear of having to do a pitch perfect impression.

Dec. 2, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Mojaving Fun | Fallout fan fest in real-life version of New Vegas' Goodsprings features NCR vs Legion battle re-enactments, and a Todd Howard cosplay with "an actual piece of trash"

The Fallout community's annual trip to the Mojave came with plenty of cool cosplays, as has become the tradition.

Nov. 18, 2024 Mark Warren

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Wasteland Walkout | UPDATE: "We are not afraid to do what's necessary" Hundreds of Fallout and Elder Scrolls devs at Zenimax go on strike against Microsoft

The need to bargain over issues like remote work options and outsourcing is the crux of the one-day action, union claims.

Nov. 14, 2024 Mark Warren

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Good For Old Games | GOG is launching a new preservation program, and it looks like good news for PC folks who love playing classics without having to mess around

"We continue our mission to make games live forever."

Nov. 13, 2024 Mark Warren

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Philling Us In | Xbox's Phil Spencer on why a new Fallout game didn't drop alongside the TV show: "the play is much more long term than trying to drive some gift buying"

The Microsoft gaming exec actually reckons not trying to time the two up together allows a bit of extra "creative liberty".

Nov. 13, 2024 Mark Warren

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Whip It! | Indiana Jones and The Great Circle's latest deep dive shows just how useful a whip can be, and that our titular hero looks pretty snazzy as a vicar

Maybe I should get a whip...

Nov. 11, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Choices, Choices | "We really heavily focused on freedom to play the game the way you wanted" - Fallout: New Vegas' director on Obsidian's goals in the face of bug criticisms and Fallout 3 comparisons

"You always have to prioritise things."

Nov. 10, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Fantastic Casting? | Fallout season two will reportedly star Macaulay Culkin as a "crazy genius-type character", and I'm praying it's somehow the Mojave's top theoretical physicist

It almost definitely won't be, but a guy can dream, right?

Nov. 8, 2024 Mark Warren

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Bad Hand | Forgot there was an Elder Scrolls card game? Me too, but this isn't a happy reminder, as it's going offline permanently next year

Another one for the pile of dead live-service games.

Nov. 3, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Clocked In | It was only a matter of time: someone has gotten Doom to run on the Nintendo Alarmo

The age old question answered once again.

Nov. 3, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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DOUBLE JUMP SCARES | The best horror games to play in 2025

From founding fathers of horror to underrated gems, here are some of the best horror games to sink your teeth into.

Nov. 1, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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Classic Voice | Todd Howard initially rejected the idea of Troy Baker playing Indiana Jones in The Great Circle

The prolific voice actor almost automatically lost out on the iconic role.

Oct. 31, 2024 Fran Ruiz

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Modking A Difference | Nexus Mods says folks "should be pressuring" paid mod platforms to "do better" if they're frustrated by its new policy on the ever-controversial topic

Modding site puts some "ire" at its change down to people seeing its features as "far more powerful and convenient than those offered by the paid modding platforms".

Oct. 31, 2024 Mark Warren

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Free vs Fee | Nexus Mods updates its stance on paid mods for the first time since Bethesda's latest attempt at them, says it believes "modding should be a pursuit of passion first and foremost"

This policy update's proved a bit polarising - as stuff around this subject always does - and Nexus' team says it has "another update" coming soon.

Oct. 30, 2024 Mark Warren

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A Perfect Circle | Indiana Jones and the Great Circle hands-on: a twisted love child of cinematic action, adventure games, and immersive sims - and I love it

Part-Lara Croft, part-Nathan Drake, but all Indiana Jones - the Great Circle scratches an itch I didn't know I had.

Oct. 29, 2024 Alex Donaldson

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Azura's Daily Star | Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil is gearing up to let you decide who rules the Imperial City long after Oblivion, and it’ll feature something any world definitely needs: unhinged tabloid journalism

Yep, you can't escape dickheads like us writing about things you do in sometimes tonally interesting ways, even in Tamriel.

Oct. 28, 2024 Mark Warren

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Worth The Wait? | One former Bethesda dev thinks Starfield 2 is going to be "one hell of a game", so it's a shame we probably won't get to play it for another decade

Or maybe Bethesda has finally cracked the code on not taking so long to make its games.

Oct. 27, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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White Noiz | The best video game soundtracks to revisit in 2025

From classical symphonies and industrial noise to acid jazz and synthwave, these game soundtracks leave no stone left unturned.

Oct. 24, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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Open Roads | The best open-world games to play in 2025

It feels good to take the path less travelled, sometimes.

Oct. 24, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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Bombs And Bunting | Fallout: London modders reveal it's officially surpassed that big one million redeems milestone on Fallout Day, because sometimes life does a thing

Team FOLON teased it was coming, and - whether on purpose or not - the announcement's come at a pretty fitting time.

Oct. 23, 2024 Mark Warren

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Tell Me A Good One | The best story games to play in 2025

If you're looking for a game with a story that will captivate you, check some of these out.

Oct. 23, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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Okie Dokie! | Desperate for Fallout season 2? You might be in luck, as one actor shares that filming is starting a lot sooner than you'd expect

Details on the second season are still being kept quiet though.

Oct. 22, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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By Azura | Starfield modders are attempting to re-create Oblivion in space, with hopes for an eventual "Elder star system" that'll be "finishing the job" the Adoring Fan started

The starting point for "Starblivion" is an alternate start mod that kicks off your interstellar adventure in a familiar dungeon.

Oct. 22, 2024 Mark Warren

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Into The Vault | Despite releasing a popular demo this summer, Fallout 1 remake mod Fallout: Vault 13 has now had its development "suspended"

"This was not an easy decision, but we believe it is the right step at this stage of our journey."

Oct. 21, 2024 Mark Warren

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Millennium Bridge | Wahey, Fallout: London's huge update that brings "over a thousand fixes" drops today, and the mod's "VERY close" to having been redeemed one million times

"You’ll notice a massive difference right away."

Oct. 18, 2024 Mark Warren

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Big Boom Day Bash | Bethesda announces its first ever Fallout Day broadcast, featuring a look at future plans for Fallout 76 and a community parade

Party Like It's 2077.

Oct. 17, 2024 Mark Warren

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Toddaly Unexpected | After a minor calendar mix-up, Helldivers 2's next big patch drops soon and it's already inspired jokes about Skyrim being ported to some bullets

To be fair, I doubt you'll have much time to play DOOM on your rifle while you're in the middle of a firefight.

Oct. 14, 2024 Mark Warren

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Back At It Again | The ambitious New Vegas mod Fallout: Nuevo México finally gets a full reveal trailer, and like Fallout: London, it looks like a whole new game

Just don't expect to play it any time soon.

Oct. 6, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke