Tag: Bethesda Softworks

Say farewell to Starfield’s cockamamie distance measurements with a mod that replaces astronomical units with light years

Have you ever thought to yourself, boy, I sure do wish the Starfield HUD displayed interstellar distances in light years instead of astronomical units? If your answer to this question is “yes,” then it might be time to take a break and go outside for a while. Or, instead, you could download this extremely purpose-specific […]

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A new Fallout anthology stuffed inside a mini-nuke is set to drop the day before the Fallout TV series on Amazon

If you’re a big Fallout fan, or a big PC game collector, Bethesda’s new Fallout S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Anthology might be worth a moment of your time. It’s a collection of every mainline Fallout game ever released, stuffed inside an alarmingly lifelike Fat Man mini-nuke. The new package is essentially a repeat of the Fallout Anthology Bethesda […]

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Starfield’s latest update will end the scourge of vibrating clouds

Clouds. I’ve never trusted them. Floating up there all high and mighty, constantly threatening rain. What makes you think you’re so great, eh? With your posh names like cumulonimbus. You’re just water vapour, you know. You’re not better than me! It’s about time somebody put those fluffy reprobates in their place. Step forward Bethesda Softworks, […]

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Doom is eternal: The immeasurable impact of gaming’s greatest FPS

Features This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 391 in December 2023. Every month we run exclusive features exploring the world of PC gaming—from behind-the-scenes previews, to incredible community stories, to fascinating interviews, and more.   The history of Doom is more than just the tale of how John Romero and John Carmack […]

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When Quake 2 came out, we gave it a 96% review; now, it’s seen as ‘the worst id game’. Let’s reinstall it and figure out the truth

Reinstall This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 391 in December 2023, as part of our Reinstall series. Every month we load up a beloved classic—and find out whether it holds up to our modern gaming sensibilities.  Quake 2 has a fascinating legacy. Released only 18 months after Quake in December 1997, it […]

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Indiana Jones headbutts a Nazi 37 seconds into the reveal trailer for The Great Circle, coming later this year

MachineGames gave us our first real look at its long-awaited Indiana Jones game at today’s Developer Direct showcase, confirming the title—Indiana Jones and the Great Circle—and revealing details on the setting and story, and—this is the important part—a release target of later in 2024. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was first announced in early […]

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The ‘biggest Starfield update yet’ is coming to Steam beta next week, but it actually looks pretty small

Bethesda announced on Twitter today that the “biggest Starfield update yet” is headed to beta testing on Steam next week. This isn’t the start of the big gameplay updates Bethesda promised in December, though: Instead it looks to be a pretty standard patch, making “more than 100 fixes and improvements” to graphics, gameplay issues, and […]

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2023 showed us the cost of pushing singleplayer developers to make multiplayer games

On the second day of reviewing Redfall, Arkane’s co-op vampire FPS, I logged in and lost all my progress. I made the critical mistake of playing with someone else in a multiplayer game that only remembers what one player does. I wasn’t devastated about losing a few hours of my time,  but disappointed that the […]

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Starfield design director calls out unfair game criticism: ‘Don’t fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is’

Starfield did not land with quite the positive thump that just about everyone expected, and lots of people have thoughts about why—and that has apparently inspired Starfield design director Emil Pagliarulo to muse about how confident some of those critics are in their opinions, despite how “disconnected” they are from the process of actually making […]

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Skyrim’s latest patch has pissed off players for two reasons: It broke old mods and added new paid ones

Bethesda has released a big new update for Skyrim Special Edition that has managed the impressive feat of annoying players for two entirely separate reasons. Some are irritated by what they see as a renewed focus on paid mods for Skyrim, while others are chapped that the update has apparently broken a large number of […]

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The Fallout TV series will include a Vault Boy origin story for some reason

We got our first look at the Fallout TV series last week with a trailer on Saturday preceded by a behind-the-scenes report from Vanity Fair, which included looks at the show’s main characters and surprisingly bright and colorful post-nuclear world, and of course some words from Bethesda executive producer Todd Howard. The report also included […]

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The first trailer for Amazon’s Fallout TV series is full of mayhem, monsters, and madmen

Just days after we got our first look at Amazon’s Fallout TV series, we’ve been spoiled with another first look. Above you can check out the first official teaser trailer for the Fallout series. And it’s not the typical quick and unsatisfying teaser we’ve come to expect from upcoming projects these days—it’s two-and-a-half minutes long, […]

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12 moments from the Fallout TV show trailer that make us think it could actually be good

The first trailer for Amazon’s Fallout TV show just dropped, and wow! This isn’t some 20 second teaser with a voiceover and a quick fade to black, it’s a big and boisterous two-and-a-half minute long trailer that gives us a good long look at the world, the Vault, and the characters. There are robots, turrets, […]

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The new Fallout TV series looks like a bright and colorful post-apocalypse—and thank god for that

At last we’ve gotten some official images of Amazon’s Fallout TV series, thanks to a behind the scenes look by Vanity Fair. Along with more information about the show and story and some quotes from Todd Howard and director Johnathan Nolan, we got to feast our eager eyes on pictures of the characters, some power […]

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Skyrim player amasses 267,000 gold lifetime bounty after killing ‘everything that was killable,’ and all you can really do is tearfully salute it

“When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants,” said the greatest philosopher who ever lived: Mass Effect 2’s Thane Krios, “then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.” And friends, I’m excited to announce that war has officially provideth-ed for every man, goat, chicken and guard […]

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Starfield player completes the main story by whacking every enemy to death with his gun, an ability some players didn’t know was in the game at all

Starfield lets spacefarers battles enemies with both guns and melee weapons, but it also allows players to bash their foes with their gun. And it appears not everyone knows about this, as inadvertently revealed by the YouTuber Causal Loop, who  completed the game’s main using only the butt of his weapon. “Guns are designed for […]

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Nvidia owners rejoice: Starfield’s DLSS update will start beta testing on Steam next week

When Bethesda announced back in June that it was partnering with AMD on Starfield, eager fans were not happy. There was almost immediate speculation that the deal meant Starfield would launch without support for Nvidia’s DLSS tech—and for once, the internet was right.  Modders brought DLSS and frame generation to Starfield in relatively short order, […]

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After 3 years of ‘hands-off’ management, Microsoft is making Bethesda and Zenimax report directly to an Xbox bigwig

Just a couple of weeks after finishing its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft is making some changes to its Xbox studio structure. In an internal memo acquired by The Verge, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty is being promoted to president of game content and studios, a role that […]

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Skyrim lead designer says Todd Howard only revealed The Elder Scrolls 6 because the fans had ‘pitchforks and torches’ out

It’s been five years since Todd Howard revealed the startling news that yes, Bethesda is going to make The Elder Scrolls 6, and it will be years yet before it actually arrives. It’s a virtually unprecedented gap between a game’s “announcement” (such as it was) and tangible evidence that something’s being done to make it […]

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Cyberpunk 2077 developer defends Bethesda’s work on Starfield: ‘They are just doing something different with their time and that’s cool’

Starfield is a good game, but it’s also been the subject of a perhaps-unexpected level of criticism from players, exacerbated by the triumphant Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 comeback. But in response to a player’s complaints about Starfield’s use of Creation Engine 2—an updated version of the aging Creation Engine that was first used in 2011 for […]

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