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Often, in Silent Hill 2, you need to find an item that’s inside a toilet. Typically, they’re keys, or fragments of puzzle pieces, things that you need to progress the story forward. In other words, Silent Hill 2 is a game that forces you into uncomfortable or grim situations; you have to press a button multiple times to make James Sunderland dig through the detritus, muck, and gross liquids to dig out the items you need.The point of this isn’t just for the game to gross you out, but to force agency onto you. In order to move forward, you…
Former Skyrim lead turned novelist Bruce Nesmith has some rather contrarian advice for Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, who has repeatedly admitted to struggling with finishing his A Song of Ice and Fire series: Just throw in the towel, man.Having previously served as lead designer on Skyrim, Nesmith left Bethesda Game Studios and the video game industry as a whole in 2021, after which he turned to writing novels. He’s since published three books in the Loki Redeemed series as well as a three-book LitRPG series, Glory Seeker. With this considerable experience in fantasy novel writing, Nesmith commented…
Former Bethesda developer and Skyrim design lead Bruce Nesmith says he “led the charge” on streamlining some of the systemic elements of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, like the attribute system that had been in Oblivion, as he wanted an RPG that didn’t result in “your head buried in menus, stats and rules”.Speaking with Press Box PR, Nesmith examines the challenge of lowering barriers to entry on long-running RPGs. Compounding complexities, both in worldbuilding and in character-building, can be exciting for longtime players but overwhelming for newcomers.”Having 52 different races, 112 different magic systems, it’s exciting for the people who’ve…
Ever since I tested it last year, the Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE has been my go-to recommendation for anyone seeking a sensible, low-cost, yet still powerful CPU cooler. Making this already fantastic-value cooler even more appealing right now is a 15% off deal on Amazon, bringing it down to its lowest price yet. If you’re rocking a CPU with fewer than eight cores – yes, even the brand new AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D – the Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE will cool it just fine, and do so quietly. That’s why it’s my “best for most” choice on our…
The 64DD is one of those infamous little failures that lives in a special hall of shame among Nintendo fans. This N64 peripheral launched, after many delays, at the tail end of the console’s life, received just a handful of games, and was discontinued barely a year after its debut. Still, Nintendo’s desire to see the 64DD succeed seemingly had the publisher coming down hard on the studios it had contracted to make games for the device.Released exclusively in Japan on December 11, 1999, the 64DD was a disk drive for the Nintendo 64, adding support for rewritable storage disks…
I love Borderlands 4, and was reminded of that when I returned to it earlier this month, so seeing Gearbox drop its first major update of 2026 along with an overhauled roadmap for the coming months is good news. There’s a boost to dedicated loot drops as you crank up UVHM ranks, a long-deserved rework for my favorite action skill in the game, and even a photo mode. Yet as we look ahead to the Pearlescent update and the game’s first Story Pack DLC, I’m still struck with a worried feeling that the FPS game is being left out in…
There are many reasons why I’ve decided to keep to myself instead of making a new friend out of a stranger, and while “I’m scared” is all the way at the top of the list, “they have a beard” sometimes comes in fifth, or like, 25th. So I can sort of relate to original Raiden studio lead Hitoshi Hamada, who found some Sony employees’ facial hair extraordinarily off-putting 30 years ago.Localization veteran Richard Honeywood shares the anecdote with Time Extension while recalling his time with defunct Raiden developer Seibu Kaihatsu around the time of the first PlayStation. Along with “pocketing…
What is the best gaming CPU? Your choice of processor will fundamentally affect your PC’s frame rates, so you want to make sure you buy the very best gaming CPU you can afford when building a new PC. It’s your CPU that sets up the frames for your GPU to render in games, making it the foundation of your gaming PC hardware. Our current top choice is the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D. It’s the fastest chip for gaming with enough power for other tasks too. Most gamers will probably want to opt for the nearly as fast but cheaper 9800X3D,…
The Elder Scrolls 6 seems to still be pretty early in development, and thus we don’t know much (read: anything) about its story, but naturally, there’s plenty of theorizing and speculation. The latest to do so is none other than Bruce Nesmith, who was lead designer on Skyrim and who left Bethesda Game Studios in 2021.In an interview with Press Box PR, Nesmith was asked how he thinks Elder Scrolls 6 will handle the issue of continuity with Skyrim, which lets players choose sides in the civil war between the Imperial Legion and the Stormcloaks.”I don’t know but if I were…
AMD has just been directly accused of submitting AI-generated code that hasn’t been checked properly by a human to one of the longest-running open source software projects around. So unimpressed was the project with this submission that it took to X to complain about “your AI slop.” The project in question is FFmpeg, a video and audio processing tool and a related suite of libraries and programs. It’s used in various capacities to perform video and audio transcoding operations in apps such as Chrome, Handbrake, OBS Studio, and VLC Media Player. Suffice to say, it’s a high-profile project that AMD…