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24 years at Bethesda taught former head of publishing Pete Hines what a great game looks like and who’s capable of making one. According to the now-retired executive, it’s Todd Howard.Bethesda’s current director and lord of its brand-defining franchises – Howard led Skyrim in 2011, directed Fallout 4 in 2015, among other accolades to chisel on a stone tablet – is not amazing at the technical aspects of his job. Hines tells Kirk McKeand in a new installment of the journalist’s Firezide Chat series matter-of-factly, “He is not the best programmer in the world. He might not be the best…
After first premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, Exit 8 is now one of the highest-rated video game movies of all time.Based on the viral indie horror video game of the same name, the movie follows a character known only as The Lost Man (Kazunari Ninomiya) who learns that his girlfriend is pregnant and panics at the idea of becoming a father. When he gets off the train, he finds himself trapped in an endlessly looping corridor. Much like the game, The Lost Man must proceed to Exit 8 by identifying the anomalies in each corridor… or be sent back…
The Boys star Antony Starr takes great pains to ensure fans he’s nothing like his murderous supervillain dictator Homelander, but there’s one particular quirk of the character that the show’s viewers apparently love to bring up with him quite often: his almost fetishist love of milk, especially breast milk.”Yeah, like it’s the first time. Like it’s the best joke they can think of,” Starr says on Jimmy Kimmel Live when asked if fans ever offer him milk. “Waiters will play it super cool, then they’ll take the drinks order and be like ‘How about you sir? Milk??’. And I’m like…
It’s the weekend, which means it’s time to kick back and relax with some of the best new shows on Prime Video. On this page we’ve selected our three favorite new series, all of which have recently landed on the streamer.The Boys kicks off an action-packed week with the first two episodes of its epic final season. We’ve backed that up with a pair of exciting new anime shows. One is the adaptation of hit manga Nippon Sangoku: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun, and the other is the long-awaited reboot of the all-time-classic Fist of the North Star.After…
As a known Soulslike hater, even I can admit Elden Ring is a very pretty game, and it holds up exceptionally well some four years after its release. Even compared to technical marvels released in 2026, like, say, Pearl Abyss’s Crimson Desert, Elden Ring’s fantasy world is distinctly beautiful, especially on a good PC with all of the quality settings juiced up. That said, according to veteran Capcom artist Akira “Akiman” Yasuda, it’s actually an intentional blurring of visual fidelity that makes Elden Ring so appealing to the eye.Akiman, best known for his Street Fighter character designs, recently responded to…
What are the best GTA 5 mods? There’s no need to navigate through mod databases for dodgy links and unclear mod descriptions as we’ve done the legwork for you, hunting down the most popular GTA V mods to transform your gameplay experience. Grand Theft Auto 5 has a mod scene that is much more than just a few cheats and trainers – it’s rife with incredible additions, useful tweaks, and big transformations. GTA 5 mods are guaranteed to keep you entertained. If you’re stuck on which ones to install, take your pick from our list of the best mods, scripts, and…
This list of the best new to Prime Video movies will help you plan out your weekend’s viewing. On this page we’ve picked out three essential films to thrill you, chill you, and make you think.We’re kicking off with the latest instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise – a terrific action movie that never lets up. We’re following that up with a classic slice of David Fincher paranoia that stands as one of the director’s best films. Finally for this week we’ve selected a brilliant and biting recent satire that comes highly recommended.If, after all that, you’re looking for even…
The CPU-Z and HWMonitor download pages have recently been compromised, with download links replaced with ones pointing to files infected by malware. If you’ve recently downloaded either of these apps from the CPUID site, you should double-check that the file is of the expected file naming style “hwmonitor_1.63.exe” or “cpu-z_2.19-en.exe” and not “HWiNFO_Monitor_Setup.exe” or some other format. It’s also worth doing a virus scan, though Windows Defender is reported to have flagged the compromised versions of these files. The infected files were first spotted around nine hours ago, with an attacker seemingly having compromised the CPUID download site with these…
Who would’ve thought a free-to-play online PvP game based on a beloved IP like Pokemon Champions could be so controversial? First, it was the bugs and performance issues, then it was all of those missing features, and then there’s that alleged bug that traps Pokemon in limbo between Pokemon Home and Champions. Now, players are locked in heated discussion about whether a new change to the game’s ruleset is a good thing or not.As reported by Automaton, Pokemon Champions battles have a timer on them, and if it runs out, the battle ends in a draw, whereas before the winner…
Phantom Blade Zero has lived in my head rent free since Summer Game Fest 2024. I took the action game for a spin on the ground, and its fast pace, dazzling combat, and stunning visuals cemented it as one of my most-anticipated games. But the world has changed a lot since 2024 – I’m hesitant to use the word ‘progressed.’ We’ve seen several prominent studios integrate generative AI into their workflows: Pearl Abyss recently got called out for using AI-created art in Crimson Desert, and the likes of Krafton have been transparent about their plans to heavily invest in the…