Fallout creator laments the loss of the game’s earliest development materials: ‘I had that in digital form and was ordered to destroy it’

Vault Boy waves through a Vault door

The original Fallout’s lead developer Tim Cain has been making YouTube videos about his long and eclectic career for a while now, and he keeps dropping fascinating tidbits about the foundations of what is now one of gaming’s biggest series. Such as: What the Vaults were actually for, or why specifically the first game is […]

World of Warcraft’s latest patch is a bugstravaganza the likes of which I haven’t seen in my 21 years playing WoW

Xal'atath appears before Alleria Windrunner to loom, menacingly, over them in World of Warcraft: The War Within.

World of Warcraft’s latest patch launched Tuesday in North America, and players are still encountering massive, gamebreaking delays and bugs in nearly every aspect of the update more than 48 hours later. Originally, the 11.1.5 content update appeared to be packed with new features: A new faction to grind and related rewards to earn The […]

Credit where it’s due: Bethesda is being admirably normal by letting modders carry on with their competing Oblivion remaster

A funny looking character in Oblivion

If you’re reading this, I’m sure I don’t need to explain to you that modding and PC gaming go hand in hand. Likewise, I’m sure I don’t need to explain that the lively culture of games modding has provoked an equally lively culture of IP litigation. Every year, we publish countless stories about modders finding […]

Oblivion Remastered kept the acting gaffe where its master speech trainer says ‘Let me do that one again’ and repeats their line—It’s even lip-synced now

Tandilwe, the Imperial City's master speechcraft trainer.

I was convinced Oblivion Remastered would satisfy my childhood nostalgia when, in the middle of its official reveal, Todd Howard declared with a slight grimace that the devs had made sure to preserve its “charm.” That is to say, those baffling bits of jank and strange NPC behaviours that still make the original one of […]

Oblivion Remastered is ‘verified’ for Steam Deck, but the original with mods is a far superior handheld experience

An image of a Steam Deck showing two versions of an Oblivion gate from Oblivion

I recently spent an afternoon getting the original Oblivion to work optimally on Steam Deck. Despite being “playable” out of the box, it’s kinda not: the vanilla PC version of Oblivion lacks gamepad support, meaning gamepad glyphs aren’t present. While the Steam Deck’s community controller layouts tab is a godsend for situations like this, it […]



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