The Undertaker Remembrance is fairly simple compared to many of the other Nightfarers in Elden Ring Nightreign. There’s only one step that’s likely to trip you up, as you help this corrupted abbess search for the Scholar in Limveld. The reason this step is so hard is because it’s entirely inaccurate; the Scholar is actually […]
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The second season of the Fallout TV Show is almost upon us, but before we can bask in the glorious light of New Vegas’ neon-lit casinos, it’s time to reflect on the first season and understand just how far each of our main characters came. By the end of season one, Lucy had found her […]
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If you’ve just started playing Elden Ring Nightreign‘s new Forsaken Hollows DLC and you’re already looking for how to unlock Scholar and Undertaker skins, then congratulations! You’ve got your priorities right. Fashion first. What’s the point in slaying the Dreglord if you can’t slay where it truly matters? Both the new Nightfarers have four skins […]
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Fallout is a lot of things, but it is, at its core, satire—a long and exhaustive example of where cold war-era browbeating could’ve led us: A world blasted, irradiated, and filled with Deathclaws. The furries might be excited about that last bit, but I like my insides un-gouged out, thank you very much. Speaking to […]
Read MoreGive people the ability to transform into a bear and they will do anything in their power to avoid reverting back to their flimsy human form. This is the core fantasy of playing a druid in any RPG, and it’s something the Path of Exile 2 developers learned at the least opportune time when polishing […]
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Ever since we knew that Fallout’s second season would be taking us to New Vegas (so, uh, since the end of Fallout’s first season), the internet has reverberated with just one question: which ending will it be, Todd? Fallout: New Vegas had plenty of ending slides that could go in plenty of directions, but the […]
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I’ve built a solid 60% of my career on ribbing Todd Howard, but make no mistake, I quite like the guy. I think we have diametrically opposed tastes when it comes to “things we like in Bethesda games,” but everything I’ve ever seen from him makes Howard seem generally pretty likeable and self-aware. But that’s […]
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Finding out the Balancers weakness in Elden Ring Nightreign‘s new Forsaken Hollows DLC will give you a better shot at beating them if you’re struggling. I personally think this mob boss is one of the coolest in the game, part-Deacons of the Deep from Dark Souls 3, part-Cleanrot Knights from Elden Ring. This group of […]
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The most iconic line in Fallout, the line that has kicked off every single Fallout game, usually spoken in the dulcet tones of the narrator Ron Perlman, almost didn’t make the cut for the Fallout TV show. This wasn’t for any insidious reason or because the showrunners didn’t like the sound of it—it was actually […]
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Everyone loves a good rivalry; Rocky vs Apollo, Mr Krabs vs Plankton. But sometimes fans can get a little over the top when imagining such competition, as is apparently the case with Bethesda and Obsidian. For the longest time, some fans held the idea that Bethesda wasn’t a huge fan of Obsidian or its work […]
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So you’re wondering why you’ve suddenly been reduced to 50% HP while trying to explore The Great Hollow map? Elden Ring Nightreign‘s new Shifting Earth event has a special (and somewhat annoying) mechanic called the ‘crystal curse‘, which inflicts a half-health reduction whenever you enter the castles or ruins in each corner of the map. […]
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Working out how to unlock Undertaker in Elden Ring Nightreign is actually a lot simpler than it was for previous characters like Duchess. This nun is set to be one of the most powerful characters in the game alongside Wylder, entering a state where she can surge-sprint without consuming stamina as well as get an […]
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Puzzling out how to unlock Scholar in Elden Ring Nightreign isn’t all that confusing, especially compared to the slightly weird unlock conditions that Duchess had when the game first launched. This learned gentleman is more of a support Nightfarer, debuffing enemies, linking them together for shared damage, and also connecting allies so they heal each […]
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There was a spot of skycontroversy earlier this year when former Skyblivion world designer Dee Keyes took issue with the mega-mod’s planned launch in 2025. Keyes was critical of project management over “crunching” in pursuit of what he called “a pointless and unachievable release date.” And it turns out he was right, at least about […]
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As is ever the case with FromSoftware DLC, part of the challenge with Elden Ring Nightreign‘s expansion is working out how to unlock The Forsaken Hollows. Thankfully, it’s nowhere near as cryptic as something like the Artorias of the Abyss expansion in Dark Souls, which was pretty much impossible to find unless you knew where […]
Read MoreRon Gilbert is something akin to PC gaming royalty, having worked on all-time greats like The Secret of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion—he also designed the Mona Lisa of edutainment, Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds, so he’s good in my book. You might think such a resplendent back catalog would […]
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As everyone else drools over the new characters and bosses coming in Elden Ring Nightreign’s DLC, I am ecstatic over a quality-of-life change in the latest patch notes. Sure, melee characters, like Wylder and Raider, are getting big buffs to related passive effects, but I personally have received a huge buff because you can now […]
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In what I am increasingly coming to regard as an accident of chronomancy, Avowed—Obsidian’s first-person fantasy RPG in the Pillars of Eternity universe—somehow came out last February. Since then, it’s been gradually working its way through its post-release roadmap. There’s been the update that overhauled fighters and rangers, the one that gave you six more […]
Read MoreLife would be so much better if our digital world was more like the one in Digimon Story Time Stranger. Unlike real life, where logging on can feel like walking straight through the gates of hell, my first trip to the land of ones and zeros in Time Stranger is the happiest a game’s made […]
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The Elden Ring Nightreign: The Forsaken Hollows release date is closing in quickly, but the exact times it’ll reach you depend on where you are in the world. Anyone who braved the horrors in FromSoftware‘s multiplayer spin-off will no doubt want to see how the DLC’s new characters, new bosses, and new map work. The […]
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Cyberpunk 2077 launched on December 10, 2020, which means that the fifth anniversary is just over a week away. Despite that age, and the fact that it’s a singleplayer RPG with no live service grind, its peak concurrent player count today on Steam—and only Steam—was nearly 44,000. That’s genuinely astounding, especially when you consider that […]
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Baldur’s Gate 3 has become such a phenomenon since its release in August 2023 that, at least for me, it honestly feels a little difficult to remember a time when the internet didn’t vibrate with strong opinions about Astarion and Gale. But it’s true: the game is closing in on its third Christmas and, to […]
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Elden Ring: Nightreign is a better game that I thought it would be, but that doesn’t mean it can’t get any better. This week’s DLC drop is FromSoftware‘s chance to add a bunch of stuff nobody expected to show up in a co-op spinoff. Dark Souls has plenty of bosses to borrow from and the […]
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I love Fallout: New Vegas but you know what I don’t love? New Vegas itself. The strip and the casinos are a bit of a letdown. The streets are nearly empty. The casinos are dull. And the biggest crime of all: you can’t play poker. For the past 15 years, our choices of casino games […]
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There’s been a deep, unfortunate friction between voice actors and videogame studios, recently—the looming spectre of AI hangs large over everything, with some bigwigs salivating at the idea of getting infinite performances out of people without actually paying them. That is, despite the fact that—aside from efforts so far mostly being bland as all hell, […]
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The Persona games sound fascinating. Tactics RPGs about students who fight demonic analogues of small-town problems at night, yet have to balance that with school and social obligations by day? I’d say sign me up, but even the shorter ones take 80+ hours and the longer ones demand well over 100. I tried Metaphor: ReFantazio […]
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There’s a character in Fallout dating back to the original game called Harold. He’s a sorry sight, mutated beyond recognition with a sapling growing out of his exposed cranial innards, but how he got that way isn’t clear. Fans have speculated for years as to whether he’s a virus-infected mutant, a radiation-poisoned ghoul, both, or […]
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Since it was bought by Krafton in July, players have been looking at Last Epoch developer Eleventh Hour Games with a worried expression. Will the formerly independent studio pivot to AI, or be gutted like Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds was? No, said founder Judd Cobler, and it won’t be charging money for Last Epoch’s upcoming […]
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We Recovered Lost FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS Prototypes – YouTube Watch On A brand new YouTube channel called Games’ Past dedicated to unearthing prototypes and canceled videogames has kicked things off with a humdinger of a find. It’s a pre-release build of Fallout: New Vegas from a month before it went on sale, one that’s two […]
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is big. It’s sold more than five million copies so far, and it dominated the Golden Joystick awards, matching the record set in 2023 by Baldur’s Gate 3 (which was also big). But in a post-Golden Joysticks interview with Radio Times Gaming (via GamesRadar), creative director Guillaume Broche said he didn’t […]
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The Game Awards are once again bearing down on us, bringing with it the usual year-ending slurry of announcements, trailers, random bits of awkwardness, and other such surprises as God and Geoff see fit. Oh, and some awards too, scattered here and there amidst the sound and fury, including one for Most Anticipated Game. This […]
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