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13 Most Influential Video Games of the Past 45 Years

Developers don’t always set out to make the most influential games they can. A lot of them are just trying to provide players a good time, blissful escapism, mental stimulation, or thoughtful commentary. But sometimes, the sum of those efforts amounts to more than that. Every so often, a game comes along that forever shifts the landscape of the medium, and it doesn’t even have to be as big…

Castlevania celebrates turning 40 by giving away the original game for free

In celebration of the 40th(!!) anniversary of Castlevania, Konami is giving away the original 1986 game for free on the App Store and Google Play…

Former Starfield designer says Bethesda's sci-fi RPG probably won't get a sequel, because the original wasn't 'anywhere near successful enough'

I wasn't expecting to see a Starfield sequel any time soon, given it took Bethesda eight years to make its sci-fi RPG and the studio is currently focussed on The Elder Scrolls 6. But if the words of Starfield's former systems designer are anything to go by, we may not see a sequel to Bethesda's first new IP in 25 years at all.In an interview with FRVR (via VGC), Bethesda veteran Kurt Kuhlmann…

US court orders Redditor to pay Nintendo £3.4m over Switch piracy

A US District Judge has granted Nintendo a £3.4 million ($4.5m) default judgment against James Williams, the former Reddit moderator known online as "Archbox", after he failed to respond to a lawsuit over alleged Nintendo Switch piracy…

Delta Force Celebrates Its Second Anniversary with New Season Reorientation

Delta Force’s mission has always been to incorporate player feedback to create the best experience possible for its players. As Delta Force players prepare for the free-to-play first-person tactical shooter’s second anniversary, the developers at Team Jade have been hard at work, listening to two years of player feedback as the game has evolved since its initial PC launch, since coming to…

Marvel's Wolverine Dev Adds Option to Turn Off Controversial Scent Trails and More in New Update

Insomniac Games has published a new Marvel's Wolverine update that adds an option to turn off those controversial scent trails for collectibles.The Sony developer made good on its promise to investigate a proper on/off option when version 1.001.006 launched just hours ago. Its patch notes reveal more targeted changes as the studio works out the remaining kinks that have emerged in the days since…

Drop everything and grab the popcorn: Majuular's 4.5-hour documentary on Ultima Online is here to devour your weekend

I'll make this quick: Whatever you had planned for the weekend, you've got to carve four-and-a-half hours out for a last-minute swerve into the late '90s. Six months in the making, YouTube essayist Majuular is back with the (I believe) penultimate video in his multi-year Ultima series. "This one was a doozy," he wrote in the comments. It's Ultima Online."From its unlikely formation at the behest…

Guess who patented a new system for in-game ads

Tom's Hardware and Respawn First recently reported on a fun new patent from those wiz kids at Microsoft, one that would dynamically pause your game to show you advertisements. Here are the big wham lines from the abstract of US 202610260258 A1, "Contextually Aware Management of Interactive Software Application Access:""A content management system may suspend a user's interaction with the…

The eyes of Valve's creepy portrait are glowing again

The portrait of the man with red gloves is glowing again, which can only mean one thing for Deadlock players: Valve is about to drop a major new update very soon.Real soon, in fact. The last time the portrait in the main hub started glowing was before the Old Gods, New Blood update, which introduced six new heroes, a new mode, and a bunch of other things that elevated the game from Valve's pet…

GTA 6 Fans Are Already 3D Printing Items in the Game's $400 Collector's Edition

Fans of GTA 6 are already copying items from the game’s $400 collector’s edition and 3D-printing them for a far cheaper price.On September 24, Rockstar revealed a special, $400 collector’s edition for GTA 6… except it doesn’t actually come with the game. Despite putting up nearly half a rack, players won’t get the game itself; instead, it comes with a bunch of GTA 6-branded…

Skyrim loremaster says The Elder Scrolls never got a Fallout: New Vegas-style game because Bethesda is "very protective" over its golden goose

Skyrim launched almost 15 years ago while The Elder Scrolls 6 is still marinating over at Bethesda Game Studios. Even so, Bethesda apparently never considered having an outside team develop a spin-off game to fill that painfully long gap - as it did once upon a time with Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas…

Yes, Beyond Good & Evil 2 Is Somehow Still In Development

No news is good news, they say. They also say that some news, however little, is good news, too, and girl, do we have some news: Ubisoft's struggling action-adventure game Beyond Good & Evil 2 is still alive despite remaining in development hell. Ubisoft Bordeaux's lead writer and associate narrative director Rik Godwin took to Bluesky on September 22 to provide a brief update on the game. "Odd…