When Diablo 4’s eighth season launches on April 29, the battle pass will look completely different. Instead of a linear track, it will be split into categories, or Reliquaries, for you to chase after specific types of cosmetic tweaks for your demon slayer. Like a lot of popular live service games that have introduced more choices in their battle passes, Blizzard’s goal is to make it fit with how people...
Six months after the massive "teraleak" that unleashed literally decades of Pokémon art, design documents, and other development material upon the world, Nintendo is trying to force Discord to give up the identity of the person behind it.As reported by Polygon, the company has petitioned a California court to issue a DMCA subpoena ordering Discord to provide the name, address, telephone number, email address, IP address, "or other information within...
Leveling up in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered is far more complicated than it needs to be. You don’t just earn XP and click through a menu. Instead, the leveling system dictates that you do a bunch of other actions first. Our Oblivion Remastered guide will tell you all about the leveling system. We’ll also cover how to level up all skills and your general character level in Oblivion...
A fancy new crafting/gathering game mode, Cosmic Exploration, is out in Final Fantasy 14 with some pretty enticing rewards, so the reasonable thing to do is… immediately look up macros to help you automate the process and ease the grind, right? Well, I have some bad and good news for you. The bad news is that each crafting job has dozens of items to craft, each with varying durability, quality,...
Almost everyone ignores the persuasion minigame in Oblivion if given the chance. I don't blame them—it's really weird and doesn't make any sense if you think about it for five seconds. Why the heck would you always need to admire and coerce every person you try to persuade? And yet, I earnestly enjoy this weirdo minigame, so I'll coach you through how persuasion works in Oblivion so you don't put...
A Variety report says a new videogame based on Robert Jordan's massive Wheel of Time series of books is now in development at a newly established game division of Iwot Studios, one of the production companies responsible for the Wheel of Time TV series on Amazon.The new game, described as a triple-A open-world RPG, will be headed up by former Warner Bros Games vice president Craig Alexander, whose previous credits...
Discord co-founder Jason Citron has announced that he is stepping down as CEO, and will be replaced in the position by former Activision Blizzard executive Humam Sakhnini. Citron will remain with the company, however, as a member of its board of directors and an advisor to the new chief.Citron's resignation comes a little over a month after the emergence of reports that Discord was making moves toward becoming a publicly...
While everyone was enjoying the massive deluge of Switch 2 news Nintendo uncorked on April 2, my broken brain couldn’t help but focus on something far less important: awkward marketing language. I’ve struggled to come up with a succinct and simplistic way to explain this to other people, so let’s instead use an example from last week’s presentation on Mario Kart World. Listen to how the narrator begins this video...
Lockpicking is one of the best ways to unlock chests and doors The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered — and to get loot. You will encounter loads of locked chests and doors while exploring the lands and dungeons of Oblivion Remastered. To bypass these locks as you encounter them, you will need to play a little lockpicking minigame. Our Oblivion Remastered guide will explain how to lockpick chests and doors...
When I hit credits on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, I was left with the feeling that it was a role-playing game that’s like a lot of games that came before it — your Elden Ring, Final Fantasy, and more interestingly, Nier Replicant — and yet, not a lot of games are quite like it. Sure, it had an all-star voice cast, dynamic turn-based combat, a haunting score, a distinctive art...