Dark Souls 2 is widely considered the "worst" Dark Souls game, which is not only wrong (that distinction goes to the greatest hits listlessness of Dark Souls 3) but ignores the fact that it could have had a giant hermit crab with a castle tower as a shell.As discovered by YouTuber Zullie the Witch, the Lost Bastille area was originally meant to have a big 'ol crustacean boss battle, which...

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered is most notable for its graphical and gameplay updates to the 2006 classic, but something that's brought me a lot of joy is how fantastic and, critically, well-casted its new voiceovers are.The original Oblivion had a ludicrously small cast for how large a game it was, and while this represented a clear area of improvement for the remaster, it also risked wiping out some...

When I think Dune, I think long treatises on politics and philosophy, dramatic knife fights, hands melting in mind torture boxes, Sting in a speedo with glistening abs, and, of course, giant toothy sandworms. I think about the striking scale and imagination of each and every adaptation of Dune over the years, from illustrated novels to David Lynch and Denis Villeneuve's films to the Dune Bible from the unmade Jodorowsky's...

Prolific Skyrim YouTuber Bacon_ (of I love dogs fame, among other videos) has uncovered a real fan service change in Oblivion Remastered⁠—one where it's naturally hard to tell whether it was intentional or not. The sessionable Khajiiti stimulant, Skooma, has effectively gotten a huge buff. The effects of Skooma now stack up to 22 times as compared to the original game's eight.In Oblivion, the fantasy drug temporarily boosts your speed...

It is the year 2025 and Bethesda wants you to tell it how to improve Oblivion. Such is the strange and rich new world we've been plunged into by last week's release of Oblivion Remastered, which fixed some parts of the original game's jank, lovingly preserved others, and introduced some entirely new bits of its own.Now Bethesda is calling on players to suggest where it (or at least, where developer...

Look, I'm not even going to mess around with a creative intro on this one. The world's largest zip manufacturer, YKK, has made a remote-controlled, motorised, self-propelled zip, and it's glorious.See how it connects a pair of 16-foot membrane sheets together in seconds (via The Verge). Marvel at it zipping up two halves of an industrial-sized tent. Wonder, at least momentarily, as to whether it'll ever be miniaturised down to...

Manor Lords has been in early access for about a year now, and while that may not feel too long at all, the medieval city builder has come a long way from its impressive beginnings. And apparently, it still has a long way to go."There’s still lots to do, and while I’ve been working on new features and improvements for a while now, I wanted to give you all a...

It's hardly news that game controllers are used in modern warfare, as the compact, multi-buttoned devices have been used by armed forces for remote applications for years. However, with the rise of the use of drone attacks in the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, the UK government has decided to implement further export restrictions on Russia, one of which is the wholesale ban on selling any game controllers to...

If the concept of CPU delidding fills you with dread, I think you might also be a little squeamish about this one. A modder has created a functional liquid cooling system by machining straight into an Intel CPU heat spreader—and, with the help of a plastic panel and a handy bucket, it actually works. To a fashion, at least.On the surface, the idea actually makes a whole lot of sense...

Tear down the bunting, Tumblr users, it seems reports of 4chan's demise were premature. Earlier in April, a hack of the infamous edgelord imageboard perpetrated by someone from a rival board called Soyjack.party forced 4chan offline and resulted in its anonymity being peeled away. Now it's back, with a blog post explaining how the "catastrophic" damage was possible."While not all of our servers were breached, the most important one was,...