Last week, my coworker, news writer Harvey Randall, wrote a 100% correct love letter to taking a single level of Baldur's Gate 3's new Hexblade in a multiclass build. Hexblade gets so much at level one⁠—Charisma-based melee attacks, Shield on short rest, Booming Blade, easier critical hits⁠—that almost any melee character could be improved with a cheeky nip of Hexblade. Swashbuckler 11 / Hexblade 1, Paladin 7 / Hexblade 5,...

The internet creates a very strange kind of closeness, doesn't it? There are, on my Steam friends list, numerous people who just dropped off the Earth one day. One guy has been gone for a year. Another, 3646 days. If these were people I knew in real life, this kind of thing would have me filing a police report. The distance of a computer screen means that these people I...

Our clue for today's Wordle is just a quick scroll away, ready to help you rearrange an unruly assortment of grey and yellow letters into a neat row of winning greens, or just give your opening line a fantastic start. As always we've got some great tips that'll help at any point in Saturday's game, as well as the April 26 (1407) answer ready to go.Today's game didn't get off...

Game developer and modder Silent, perhaps best-known for the SilentPatches he's released for various games including Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, has stumbled across (and fixed) a bug that's been lying dormant for two decades. And while this manifestation was, apparently, triggered by a new build of Windows 11, it's been there the whole time.Silent received a "rather specific bug report" relating to SilentPatch, in which a user noted that...

The good news, according to a newly posted FAQ (via ShackNews) is that EA's upcoming skateboarding sim Skate is still on track for early access release sometime in 2025. The bad news, alas, is that it will require a constant internet connection to play, and an offline mode won't be offered."The game and city are designed to be a living, breathing massively multiplayer skateboarding sandbox that is always online and...

One of the very, very small changes in Oblivion Remastered is a switch in the character creator from "male" and "female" bodies, as it was in the original, to "body type 1" and "body type 2." It's the sort of thing that would likely go entirely unnoticed were it not for the distressingly predictable explosion of outrage from the usual corners of toxic gamerdom—and, in short order, the creation of...

Despite being a devoted Monster Hunter sicko for well over a decade now, even I didn't know about Monster Hunter i. And for good reason: The 2006 port of Monster Hunter G wasn't just a Japan-only release—it was a keitai game, released exclusively for early 2000s Japanese cell phones. It was Monster Hunter's first game for mobile phones, and until last month, it was believed to be lost to history.As...

As a longtime Oblivion advocate, I wasn't super interested in Oblivion Remastered. While the rumors swirled and excitement grew I just didn't see the need for a new edition of Bethesda's 2006 RPG. "The original Oblivion is still great as it is!" I would yell from my porch at anyone who walked by. It's definitely showing its age almost 20 years later, but I really was having a fine time...

It's been at least 15 years since I last touched Oblivion, but a few seconds of the triumphant theme Reign of the Septims brings me right back to the menu screen I saw so many times on my Xbox 360. The gentler, almost aching Harvest Dawn conjures the quieter moments I spent wandering around the Imperial City picking locks and pockets. Those are good memories, but today I have a...

Looking for the fastest ways to level up your skills in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered? The remastered version of Oblivion keeps most of the original game's structure intact, but there are some new tweaks to skills and leveling that bring things in line with Skyrim and Starfield.You can still hop around like a madman to level Acrobatics, though, so things aren't that different. Leveling up your skills in...