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Enthusiast Reports 40% Performance Boost in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Using AI
A modder who goes by LTSharpe26 has released a free performance fix for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. No official patch has appeared yet, but PC players now have an alternative. Bethesda Game Studios and Virtuos haven’t released patches for last year’s The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered in a long time, so various...
Outlast Testers Reportedly Ran Out of the Office to Cry and Refused to Return
Red Barrels’ horror game Outlast hit some people hard enough that they quit or left the studio in tears. Phillipe Morin recently talked to GamesSpot about the development of the 2013 game. Outlast became a big hit. It was the debut project of Red Barrels, whose team then consisted of just 10 people. The developers...
Peanuts Great Pumpkin Comic Strip Predated Famous TV Special by Two Years
In 1966, CBS debuted the now-classic television special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The kids in the Peanuts gang take part in typical Halloween activities, including trick-or-treating and pumpkin-carving. Linus is the exception. He is busy preparing for the arrival of a mythical being known as the “Great Pumpkin.” Linus explains the legend this...
Modder Turns Diablo Into a 3D Shooter With Multiplayer and Scalable Interface
Players will be able to turn on an authentic-looking sky. A modder who goes by Drelvak has published a new video diary about developing a large-scale mod for the original Diablo. The mod turns Blizzard Entertainment’s classic ARPG into a first-person 3D shooter and offers a different perspective on the game. Controls use WASD and...
Calvin and Hobbes Halloween Strip Remains Controversial 31 Years After Publication
Daily newspaper comics tend to follow the calendar. A gag-a-day strip that skips Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas is rare. When a cartoonist has to produce a joke every day, holidays are an easy source of material. A Halloween reread of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes shows how little it bothers with that habit....
Pokémon Returns to Galar in 2027 With New Animated Series on Disney+
Disney and The Pokémon Company are teaming up on a new streaming series. They announced Friday that the stop-motion animated adventure series Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu will debut on Disney XD and stream exclusively on Disney Plus in 2027. The announcement is part of a wider push to bring Pokémon to...
Rockstar Co-Founder Says Bully and Red Dead Redemption Nearly Got Canceled During Difficult Development
There were many moments when the projects could have been shut down. Many players love Bully, sometimes called the “school GTA,” and Red Dead Redemption. According to Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser, both games faced difficulties during development and were at risk of cancellation. He shared his recollections in a recent interview with IGN. Houser...
10 NES Games That Are Still Worth Playing From Start to Finish
On October 18, 1985, Nintendo launched the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America with a modest lineup that included Super Mario Bros. and Excitebike. Within a few short years, its catalog had swelled to hundreds of titles. That growth showed how premature the early-’80s obituaries for the video game industry had been. Many of those...
9 DLCs That Outshined the Base Game
When you buy downloadable content, you usually expect more of the same: a few extra hours, some new gear, maybe a boss the main game had no room for. But what if the DLC crowned you the new god of madness instead of handing you a few new outfits and some fetch quests? What if...
Netflix Reports Box Office Figures for One of Its Films for the First Time
For the first time in its history, Netflix has published official box office numbers. The film in question is the acclaimed Spanish drama “The Black Ball” (“La Bola Negra”), which opened in the US this week. The Penélope Cruz title earned $277,500 over its opening weekend while playing in just four theaters. That is a...
Polygon Review Praises Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 as Strong Return for Netflix Anime
Night City makes it easy to confuse becoming a legend with having a life worth living. Mercenaries replace their flesh with increasingly powerful chrome and take gigs they have no business surviving. They hope somebody remembers their name after it all goes to hell. The first season of Netflix’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners turned that bargain into...
Jesse Eisenberg to Produce Series for A24
Actor and director Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Now You See Me) is developing the first television series of his career. According to Variety, A24 will produce the project. The show is set in 2002 and follows an 18-year-old college student whose beliefs shift as she meets new people. Eisenberg explored a similar story in...
Taika Waititi’s “Star Wars” Remains in Question
In a new interview, Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, Thor) revealed that his Star Wars project has been put on hold indefinitely. I hate to disappoint anyone, but we’ve decided to shelve this one for now and collaborate on something else… I honestly don’t know how to put it without sounding too vague. This...
AI Agents Used to Build Co-Op Versions of Single-Player Games, Including Fallout: New Vegas and Deus Ex
A developer who goes by cranebeaker has released Co-op Anything, a project that lets players configure an AI agent to turn any single-player game into a co-op game. The result can be played online or in split-screen mode. The code quality of these mods may raise questions, but they work well enough. AI has already...
Hacker voices38 Returns and Cracks Denuvo in Several SEGA Games
The Denuvo protection in one of the Kimetsu no Yaiba games lasted about five years. Earlier this year, Denuvo’s lawyers tried to identify the well-known hacker voices38, but he did not give up. He has now returned and announced that he cracked two games from the popular franchise. This time he went after Kimetsu no...
Angel Series Now Streams Free 27 Years After Its 1999 Debut
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is widely considered one of the best and most influential TV shows ever made. Creator Joss Whedon built a rich mythology of vampires, demons, witches and the bureaucratic organization that fights them. It gave Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her friends, the Scooby Gang, seven seasons of escalating threats. That...
Enthusiast Reports 40% Performance Boost in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Using AI
A modder who goes by LTSharpe26 has released a free performance fix for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. No official patch has appeared yet, but PC players now have an alternative. Bethesda Game Studios and Virtuos haven’t released patches for last year’s The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered in a long time, so various...
Outlast Testers Reportedly Ran Out of the Office to Cry and Refused to Return
Red Barrels’ horror game Outlast hit some people hard enough that they quit or left the studio in tears. Phillipe Morin recently talked to GamesSpot about the development of the 2013 game. Outlast became a big hit. It was the debut project of Red Barrels, whose team then consisted of just 10 people. The developers...
Peanuts Great Pumpkin Comic Strip Predated Famous TV Special by Two Years
In 1966, CBS debuted the now-classic television special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The kids in the Peanuts gang take part in typical Halloween activities, including trick-or-treating and pumpkin-carving. Linus is the exception. He is busy preparing for the arrival of a mythical being known as the “Great Pumpkin.” Linus explains the legend this...
Modder Turns Diablo Into a 3D Shooter With Multiplayer and Scalable Interface
Players will be able to turn on an authentic-looking sky. A modder who goes by Drelvak has published a new video diary about developing a large-scale mod for the original Diablo. The mod turns Blizzard Entertainment’s classic ARPG into a first-person 3D shooter and offers a different perspective on the game. Controls use WASD and...
Calvin and Hobbes Halloween Strip Remains Controversial 31 Years After Publication
Daily newspaper comics tend to follow the calendar. A gag-a-day strip that skips Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas is rare. When a cartoonist has to produce a joke every day, holidays are an easy source of material. A Halloween reread of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes shows how little it bothers with that habit....
Pokémon Returns to Galar in 2027 With New Animated Series on Disney+
Disney and The Pokémon Company are teaming up on a new streaming series. They announced Friday that the stop-motion animated adventure series Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu will debut on Disney XD and stream exclusively on Disney Plus in 2027. The announcement is part of a wider push to bring Pokémon to...
Rockstar Co-Founder Says Bully and Red Dead Redemption Nearly Got Canceled During Difficult Development
There were many moments when the projects could have been shut down. Many players love Bully, sometimes called the “school GTA,” and Red Dead Redemption. According to Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser, both games faced difficulties during development and were at risk of cancellation. He shared his recollections in a recent interview with IGN. Houser...
10 NES Games That Are Still Worth Playing From Start to Finish
On October 18, 1985, Nintendo launched the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America with a modest lineup that included Super Mario Bros. and Excitebike. Within a few short years, its catalog had swelled to hundreds of titles. That growth showed how premature the early-’80s obituaries for the video game industry had been. Many of those...
9 DLCs That Outshined the Base Game
When you buy downloadable content, you usually expect more of the same: a few extra hours, some new gear, maybe a boss the main game had no room for. But what if the DLC crowned you the new god of madness instead of handing you a few new outfits and some fetch quests? What if...