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Doug Cockle wasn't the 'obvious' choice for Geralt in The Witcher—but he kept winning out because he was 'the best at being normal'
News "There were some who would have preferred him to have sort of a Texan accent."
Stalker remaster reviews crater to 'Mostly Negative' as players lament deleted Soviet monuments, yanked Russian language, and blurry graphics that I didn't notice in 23 hours playing
Such is life in the Zone.
'You guys are not Bethesda': During development, The Witcher 3 devs were told by a Walmart rep 'I like you guys, but it's just not gonna happen'
News "I made a bet with him … he still kinda owes me that dinner."
I accidentally forgot to start the Soviet Union in this excellent free game about the Russian Revolution
News Lenin must have written it on a post-it note.
The legend who made Oblivion's Dark Brotherhood infinite has made its Thieves' Guild go on forever as well
News Plus the Fighter's Guild and Arena. There's a lot of stuff to do for the rest of your life, basically.
The PC Gaming Show returns June 8 with great hosts, amazing games, and a live on-air PC build and giveaway
News Now I have to what all these motherboard headers are for.
The best free games on Steam
Updated! Nothing but the best free Steam games you can play right now.
I did Liberation Day tariffs in Victoria 3, and it all went well until the famine in Colorado, the 2 lost wars with Canada, and the president beating a man to death with a stick
Big, Beautiful But apart from that, would recommend.
Kojima has a mind tomb: a USB stick filled with ideas for his staff to use after he dies 'kind of like a will'
News Watch out for Kojima Productions to split into two warring factions over competing definitions of Kojima's Will.
Oblivion guru found a way to save the Emperor and his bodyguard in the original game, getting the drop on his assassin like the fantasy secret service
News If only Bacon had been around in 1963.
YouTube's top brains crack making its ads even worse: Using AI to insert commercials at moments you're 'most engaged' with its videos
News I love the future.
Incredible news: Stalker 2 fixes corpse-eating and sausage blood in big ol' patch which also gives enemies less of a death wish
News No more sniping with shotguns or infini-grenades, a lot more cover-taking.
Kingdom Come 2's first expansion feels like the base game's best parts distilled, but don't expect a game-changer
Brushing Up Also, rocket cat.
I don't want a Morrowind remaster, I want Bethesda to write a fat cheque for the OpenMW team
Open m' wallet What if the true Morrowind remaster was the open-source engine reimplementations we made along the way?
Stonking Half-Life remake Black Mesa is the cheapest it's ever been on Steam, offering Barney Calhoun in glorious 4K for a mere 2 bucks
News What more could you ask for?
Oblivion Remastered mod makes its best part last forever: A Dark Brotherhood freelancer mode with infinite contracts and a gacha-style reward system
News I will kill again. And again. And again. And again.
All 3 original Stalker games get 'fully remastered and optimized' versions next week, free for OG owners, and I can't wait to get shredded by an anomaly from the comfort of my sofa
Something to enjoy while GSC keeps tinkering with Stalker 2.
This Factorio-ish sim is threatening to devour hours of my time, and I haven't even gotten to the part where I make my own starships yet
News The station must grow.
OG Infinity Ward dev says Call of Duty's gone the way of The Simpsons: 'It kind of feels like they've run out of ideas at times'
News Call of D'ohty.
'We cannot take any more Sexy Flame Atronach posts': The Oblivion community is hornyposting so hard about the remaster's Atronachs that the game's subreddit had to ban it
News Hot stuff.
I wish Ubisoft had ever made the game it promised with Assassin's Creed 1, but instead the series just spiralled into a weird identity crisis
New Creed Who Dis There's still room in my heart for the assassin sim AC1 was set up as, someone just needs to make it.
Fallout show actor says they know its 'endpoint' and it's sometime in season 5 or 6, which means we've still got loads of time to scream at each other about New Vegas
Phew.
Oblivion Remastered has a new texture error, and this one mucks up a gag from the original game
Several ups to be un-mucked, is the short and tall of it.
