Larian Studios is gearing up to develop two new projects at once, and based on CEO Swen Vincke's remarks in a recent GameSpot interview, it sounds like further refining the studio's already-lauded storytelling will be at the heart of the process.“We’re trying to make the stories of our future games now so that we have a big backlog of stories available for us when we start on the next thing,”...

In a new video interview with GameSpot, Larian founder and CEO Swen Vincke revealed a little bit more about its much anticipated next project, as well as everything the studio's doing to make itself a well-oiled RPG machine that still keeps its developers happy and excited.Vincke told GameSpot's Tamoor Hussain that, after an eight-year journey on Baldur's Gate 3, Larian wanted to "go out with a bang" by delivering Patch...

Resident Evil 4 Remake was always going to be popular. It was comfortably the most anticipated overhaul in Capcom's makeover project, given the original is one of the best games of all time. But I hadn't anticipated just how popular it would prove to be. This week, Capcom announced that not only has Resi 4 redux sold 10 million copies, it's the fastest game in the entire series to do...

The Wikipedia articles you use to do research and find basic info on your favorite games might include propaganda. At least, according to Ed Martin, acting attorney for the District of Columbia.Last week, a letter from Martin sent to the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia, was obtained by The Free Press. The letter includes a flurry of accusations against Wikipedia, with Martin claiming that the Wikimedia Foundation is "allowing foreign...

Doom: The Dark Ages is so close you can taste the iron in the air. Id's green and mean killing machine will get medieval in just a couple of weeks, so now's the time to start stretching those demon slaying muscles. If you've somehow managed to miss id Software's totemic FPS series over the past 32 years, Humble Bundle's got you covered, offering every Doom game plus a few extras...

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...