It’s time again to return to Tamriel. After a full week of speculation stemming from an alleged leak of screenshots and key art, Bethesda has confirmed that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is both real and will arrive very soon. Following the details that popped up online, Bethesda had …
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Demons move in waves over cliffs slick with rain, cultists chanting in perfect circles, pentagrams glowing beneath their feet. Small medieval villages are demolished in the wake of hell’s minions pouring forth from their dimension and into the next. But where there are demons, there is the Doom Slayer — …
Read More »'The Great Circle' Lets You Become Indiana Jones — For Better or Worse
At his core, Indiana Jones is a character of conflicting traits. On most days, he’s a professor teaching archaeology at a fictional university in Connecticut, where his students sit either bored or enraptured (depending on how much of a crush they have on him). At other times, he’s called to …
Read More »How the New 'Indiana Jones' Video Game Got Its Star
Todd Howard always wanted to create an Indiana Jones game. In 2009, the prolific director of titles like Fallout 3 came close, pitching an Indiana Jones game to LucasArts, the video game subsidiary arm of Lucasfilm. However, the collaboration didn’t end up happening. At the time, Howard and the developers …
Read More »Flying iPhones, Break-Dancing Knights, and $10,000 Worth of Corn: How 'Fallout' Came To Life on TV
It’s a frigid February day on the Brooklyn waterfront, and the world is ending. A dusting of snow powders the makeshift walkway through the rubble stacked high. Underneath, shanties made of scrap flex and creak with each step. Directly ahead, the disembodied nose of a commercial airliner dangles from the …
Read More »'Starfield' Is Great, But It's Not Destined To Save Xbox
It’s no secret that Microsoft’s Xbox has been having a rough couple of years. Trailing behind its competitors Sony and Nintendo, in both sales and cultural cachet, the brand that once dominated the console shooter space with the Halo and Gears of War series has struggled to find its footing …
Read More »'Redfall' is a Decent Looter Shooter With an Identity Crisis
2023 is a big year for Microsoft and Xbox. After acquiring Bethesda back in 2020, Microsoft (finally) has a slate of exclusive titles coming up, an area where it lagged behind Sony, its main competitor. Back in January, Tango Gameworks released the excellent rhythm action-adventure game, Hi-Fi Rush, and later …
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