Oblivion's radiant AI system is mainly remembered for its impeccable, if entirely unintentional, comedic timing, producing non-sequiturs and bizarre NPC interactions all over Cyrodiil. Players are currently discovering this all over again in Bethesda's immensely popular remaster. But one of the system's lesser-known effects is how it also influenced goblin behaviour.Far from being mindless greenskins, Oblivion's goblins exist in their own tribal ecosystem. The game's seven goblin tribes all carry...

A clever little tower defense game released earlier this month, and the demo, at least, is damn good. In Gnomes, you're put in charge of a little horde of angry bearded dudes in red hats who must build their beautiful little garden and then defend it from a goblin invasion. They are surprisingly vicious.After each wave, the arena gets larger and the enemy spawn points change, and you've got to...

The oddly square world of vampiric survival-craft RPG V Rising gets considerably less square on April 28 with the release of Invaders of Oakveil, a new, free update that adds a poisonous, accursed forest in the northwest corner of its little continent. Not to be confused with the actual Cursed Forest in the northeast corner, of course.It's ruled by a terrible witch, the serpent queen, whose venomous powers shrivel the...

If you're playing Oblivion Remastered via the Microsoft Store, perhaps because you got it with your PC Game Pass subscription, then you have access to a patch that other players do not. But before Steam users get jealous, this is not a patch anyone would want.This 2GB update seems like it was rolled out due to an issue with cross-play. If you loaded your PC save on an Xbox, it...

Outrageously hardcore city builder Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is set to drop its first post-release expansion next month, with the Early Start DLC to roll back the 1960 start time to the era of rapid industrialization in the Eastern bloc: the 1930s.The expansion will introduce over 90 new vehicles, including variants, with both Soviet and Western designs for era-appropriate locomotives, traincars, trams, trucks, buses, aircraft, ships, and more. Many...

Solve Sunday's Wordle whenever you like with a quick click through to today's answer. Maybe you just want to see that first line flip over green, or want to save a tough game before you run out of guesses. Either way, we can help. We've got a brand new hint for the April 27 (1408) puzzle here too if you'd like a bit of help without immediately giving the game...

From 2000 to 2010, one of the most important studios in videogames was making the kind of games you'd see dismissed off-hand today. If PopCap released Bejeweled out of the blue right now every YouTube comment would say "looks like a shit mobile game," but instead we live in the reality where PopCap dominated the casual game market for an entire decade, and now almost everything on mobile looks like...

While perusing the sickos-only BG3Builds subreddit, I learned something that shocked me thanks to the helpful comment of user Arx_724, a bit of knowledge that's been out there in the ether, but was never apparent to this obsessive BG3 power gamer.The Belm scimitar, obtainable in Act Three, isn't just a fun callback to Baldur's Gate 2, it's extremely powerful in the exact same way as the original, despite what its...