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Remaking The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind comes with two theoretical problems, according to a former Bethesda Game Studios lead. One is that the company might not even have the original source code anymore. Two is that Bruce Nesmith, Skyrim’s lead designer, thinks people would probably “cringe” playing the 20-year-old RPG.”The problem with doing Morrowind is that I bet they don’t have the original code,” Nesmith guessed in an interview with Press Box. “The game is so old. I don’t know if the original source code exists anymore. If it does, can you even compile it?””The other thing I would say…
Skyrim’s lead designer Bruce Nesmith suspects that if Starfield were made by a company not called Bethesda Game Studios, it might be talked about like “the second coming.”The former Bethesda veteran talked about how the storied RPG studio suffers from the weight of so much expectation, in a chat with Press Box PR, suggesting that the lukewarm reception to Starfield might have be partially down to how sky high (star high?) the hype was before launch.”Bethesda’s in the bad position of having expectations being so high they cannot be met,” Nesmith says. “Managing expectations is the number one thing a…
In a year punctuated with heavyweights like Nioh 3 and FromSoftware’s The Duskbloods, my most-anticipated action RPG of 2026 is Phantom Blade Zero, the first game of its kind from Chinese developer S-Game. The studio has been making action games for over a decade, but with a more casual and often mobile focus – never anything with the depth, intensity, or presentation of Phantom Blade Zero, which is due on PS5 and PC on September 9.I’ve been following and sampling this game, and interviewing its lead developers, for multiple years. With every updated demo or new reveal, I’ve become increasingly…
Co-op dungeon crawler Barony is one of those games you could easily have missed, yet stumble into the right crowd of people and they’ll wax lyrical about how it’s one of the best roguelikes around. There’s good reason for that; first launched in 2015, Barony is still going strong nearly eleven years on, and developer Turning Wheel’s latest update is one of its biggest in a long while. It features fundamental overhauls to the magic system with around 80 additional spells, upgrades to its word generation, and more crafting stations. All of that is accompanied by a new DLC that…
Things are getting weird in the White House (steady, now) with news from Deadline that Blumhouse-Atomic Monster is set on adapting the supernatural comic book from Hannah Rose May, The Exorcism at 1600 Penn. Originally published in 2024, the series follows the first female president of the United States as she discovers more than she expected upon assuming the role.If keeping the threat of World War III at bay wasn’t enough, the new political leader’s children begin to experience supernatural incidents in their new home. The haunting artwork that will hopefully be transferred to the screen comes from Vanesa Del…
Nine years on from a $3.2 million Kickstarter campaign and in the middle of a lengthy ongoing alpha, the writing looks to be on the wall for Ashes of Creation. The ambitious MMORPG appears to be in turmoil amid reports of mass layoffs, and a message from director Steven Sharif states he has resigned “in protest” of decisions made by the Intrepid Studios board. Alongside this, several former developers confirm via LinkedIn that they are no longer with the company, with departed director of communications Margaret Krohn writing that the team “was all laid off.” There had been a tense…
Having handled the master of magnetism for 26 years now, you’d think that Ian McKellen would know to keep his lips sealed when it comes to upcoming superhero outings. Unfortunately, though the X-Men star and soon-to-be new addition to the MCU in Avengers: Doomsday has spilled some details about Magneto’s part in the eagerly anticipated sequel, and it turns out he might have created a spot of bother for New Jersey.During an interview on Jake’s Takes, McKellen expressed his love for the character that he’s played five times across the original X-Men franchise. “I didn’t realise how popular he was,”…
The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web.Sundays are for heading into your kitchen at 7am to find the neighbour’s cat squatting with her back to you on the windowsill. The neighbour’s cat spooks easily and every time you scare her away, you worry she’s never coming back. So let’s very quietly make a cup of coffee and ever so softly click on some links to internet articles and read them as frictionlessly as we can manage. You! I can hear your eyelids squeaking. I can hear the little wheels chewing…
Netflix is revving up a new version of the Mystery Machine with a fresh live-action take on Scooby-Doo, and now one of the original gang who tried it out back in 2002 has had a few words to say on the matter. Matthew Lillard played Shaggy in two films, alongside the other perfectly cast members of Mystery Inc. — Freddie Prinze Jr. as Fred, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, and Linda Cardellini as Velma — so it’s fair to say he knows how to handle the permanently petrified dog.“My general thought is that I’m really happy for them. I think…
It’s somehow been over 30 years since Jurassic Park hit cinemas in 1993 and broke several box office records, including beating E.T to become the highest-grossing film of all time – beaten only by James Cameron’s Avatar in 2009.It’s one of the best action movies of all time and still a mainstay in so many households across the world, and it’s easy to see why. But, even if you’ve lost count of how many times you’ve watched it, it doesn’t mean you’re bound to ace this Jurassic Park trivia quiz.As always, if you like this quiz, there’s more where that…