Modder Doneda has released a particularly funky and exciting mod for elden Ring Nightreign, porting Dark Souls 2's Frozen Eleum Loyce and Frigid Outskirts as a standalone map. They also have a trailer up for the project on YouTube. Doneda's a bit of a Dark Souls 2 expert⁠—they previously restored the remains of a cut sewers map to the sequel for demonstration purposes.Gun to my head, I think the Brume...

In 2013, Valve head honcho Gabe Newell spoke to students at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin about "Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions & The Future of Corporations." It was a much more interesting topic than that makes it sounds, and has been doing the rounds again thanks to being sliced up into shorts by the Webknower channel. One clip that's been going around is Newell's response to being...

As reported by IGN, a trove of data from Rockstar has made its way online, with the big ticket items being Grand Theft Auto 5's source code, remnants of canceled GTA5 singleplayer DLC, as well as an early version of GTA6's map that can be loaded into the prior game.It's unclear how or why the data is making the rounds now, but the consensus appears to be that it was...

Baldur's Gate 3 is pretty great right out of the box, but it could be argued that its second act lacks some variety. If you aren't endlessly dazzled by shadowy forests and J.K. Simmons, you might have wished you could hang out after the family drama in the Shadow-Cursed Lands is sorted and explore some less gloomy vistas before arriving in the game's eponymous metropolis. As always, modders have you...

In Dec. 2023, The New York Times filed one of the biggest copyright lawsuits in recent memory against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that its AI models heisted ludicrous amounts of journalistic work from the Times. Two days ago, a court filing (hosted and analyzed by Ars Technica) was newly unsealed with all sorts of revealing quotes from higher-ups at Microsoft and OpenAI (thanks, Tech Crunch).Perhaps the most shocking sentiments are...

A lamentable fact of our hobby is this: time marches on. Because our games have to be rendered in real-time by whatever tech we load them onto, they inevitably end up harder to run as the years wear on, and the gap grows between the tech we have and the tech the games were designed to run on. On PC, the task of keeping those games running tends to end...

It's impossible to gauge a wider community's feelings towards something, thanks to the simple problem of 'the angriest usually shout the loudest', and even if they're the minority, it usually doesn't sound like it. I've had this problem with a lot of things, but Zach Cregger's upcoming Resident Evil film is the latest victim. Despite some promising trailers, some fans just can't get behind this film. People have complained about...

In a new VGC interview, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi revealed that the upcoming JRPG is looking at a 200GB install size, bigger than almost any game out there, and certainly an outlier among singleplayer RPGs.Hamaguchi was responding to a question about Revelation's retail, physical version. It was previously disclosed that Revelation would require additional downloads alongside the two blu-ray discs that come in the box. We're not...

The Hollywood Reporter says noted huge guy Alan Ritchson, best known as the star of the popular Prime series Reacher, is in talks to take the lead on Sony's upcoming Helldivers movie. If negotiations are successful, Ritchson will step into the role left behind by fellow huge guy Jason Momoa, who dropped out of the project in June.The Helldivers film was first announced in February, with Momoa starring and Justin...

Los Santos CustomsI'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Rockstar's baby, or check out what I got up to earlier.In a previous life, long before I began making millions writing about videogames professionally, I wrote marketing copy for a finance...