When the Greybeards invite you to High Hrothgar in Skyrim, you have to climb a mountain to reach them. There's a messenger called Klimmek waiting in the village of Ivarstead at the bottom to warn you what an arduous journey this is going to be. To get to the top of the Throat of the World, he says, you have to work your way up The 7,000 Steps.It's well-documented that...

This week, Bethesda Game Studios is celebrating its 40th birthday—a celebration that included the full name reveal of The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel, successfully completing the eight-year task of adding a word to a thing.In addition, Bethesda is commemorating the occasion with the launch of a 40th anniversary site collecting the anecdotes and favorite memories of studio staff, including one Alan Nanes. Now a design director, Nanes was originally hired...

Indie-oriented digital storefront Itch.io is beginning to push back against the rising flood of AI, announcing on social media that it's "deleted a couple terabytes of AI slop" and made it easier for users to filter out games made with generative AI.A few days after Valve admitted that Steam has a problem with AI slop and game cloning, Itch.io chimed in to say it's experiencing something very similar: The number...

You may well be sick of reading about it—I am certainly sick to my stomach writing about it—but here's another doom-filled prophecy about the continuing memory crisis. Doesn't seem quite so funny calling it a RAMpocalypse now. The CEO of memory module maker TeamGroup, Chen Ching, is claiming we still haven't seen the worst of the supply crisis, and that even in 2027 "there will be no downward price trend...

I can't ignore the elephant in the room: Grand Theft Auto 6 is out this month, but we still don't know when we'll see Rockstar's return trip to Vice City launch on PC. When we asked in a poll whether y'all planned to wait for the PC release, play it on console at launch, or double dip and do both, a whopping 71% said you would wait. Modding is half...

France's Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (STJV) union has accused Microsoft of sabotaging work on Marvel's Blade and then using the inevitable results to justify Arkane's closure.The union said development of Blade "is going fine," and that the game is on par with Arkane's previous body of work, which includes the Dishonored series, Prey, Deathloop, and the sadly overlooked Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Despite that, "workers have...

Intel has already committed to bringing its XMX-powered upscaling and frame generation tech to Linux via Valve's Proton compatibility layer, but one enterprising developer is clearly not willing to wait for the chip behemoth to get it working and has released an experimental version on Github (via Phoronix).This new release promises "real Intel XeSS super resolution and XeSS Frame Generation inside Proton games, running on the GPU's XMX (matrix) units...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a recent podcast that "from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer, and be used 5% of the time."Altman was talking about people running AI models locally rather than relying on data centers, which allow RAM usage to be maxed out in this "very supply-constrained...

Last month we got news that Wing Commander 3, the FMV space-combat sim with perhaps the highest concentration of Mark Hamill in any videogame, would be getting a remaster. Producer Jim Vessella is heading up the project, and revealed it during a presentation at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo.What he did not reveal, it turns out, is that five other Wing Commander games—plus Road Rash—would be getting their own dolled-up...

We've been early adopters of Rust since 2018 and a lot of our infra, voice tech, and even some of the current client is already Rust, the holy grail was getting the whole client there. That means Electron goes away, and so does React Native, mobile keeps native UI but shares app… https://t.co/2CgWyOzaq0 pic.twitter.com/IdOGd4nUglNovember 4, 2026Open up Task Manager and check how much memory Discord is currently hogging on your...