A streamer played an hour of Marathon early before Bungie cut him off

Sadly, we weren’t invited - the alpha is only open to North Americans. And one quick-witted player streamed a full hour of the game before the servers clamped shut once again. You canwatch him play on Twitchif you’re so inclined. “All players with Closed Alpha access will be able to join on April 23 at 10AM Pacific.” So yeah, hopefully nobody needs to disappear. It appears to trek head-bobbingly down all the well-trodden extraction shooter paths, albeit with Bungie’s chunky triggerfeels....

April 22, 2025 · 1 min · 151 words · Michelle Holden

All Attributes in Oblivion Remastered and how they work

They influence your maximum health, magicka regeneration rate, running speed, and more. HP, the red bar, is your maximum health. It depletes whenever you take damage, resulting in death if it’s reduced to zero. Magicka, the blue bar, is consumed whenever you cast a spell. The amount of magicka consumed varies per spell, with stronger spells usually requiring more magicka. Fatigue, the green bar, determines how much physical action you could take before you become exhausted....

April 22, 2025 · 1 min · 98 words · Alicia Hodge

Anker 537 is the best Steam Deck power bank I've tested, and it's only $35 today

Packing 65W and 24,000 mAh. That’ll do nicely. At half off the regular $69.99 price, it’s an easy recommendation. Its reliable and doesnt drop off when Im gaming while plugged in. The 65W output is exactly what I need. I can charge while playing without watching the battery go down faster than it goes up. Thats the baseline for me, and it meets it consistently. It’s not tiny, but it doesn’t feel bulky either....

April 22, 2025 · 1 min · 152 words · Mark Williams

Best birthsign in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

Best birthsigns in Oblivion Remastered Oblivion features 14 birthsigns in total. The best five birthsigns are theMage, Warrior, Lady, Thief, and Atronach. Thieves have better options. It balances this out with Trollkin, which gives you a permanent 25% weakness to fire. Also, this birthsign is useless for Argonian characters, who already have poison immunity. It counters this by making you vulnerable to magic. Not great, so the Apprentice ranks low unless you want to build a ‘go for broke’ spellcaster....

April 22, 2025 · 2 min · 251 words · Crystal Murray

Best class in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

TheSorcereris our choice for the next best pick. Each of Oblivion’s 21 prebuilt classes specializes in either combat, magic, or stealth. Each class is outlined in detail and ranked further below. Healer Healers heal - and not much else. They don’t start with any way to reliably deal damage, unless you go all-out with Destruction. They have absolutely no proficiency with Blunt or Blade, meaning they’re squishy as heck. Acrobat...

April 22, 2025 · 2 min · 291 words · Michael Hopkins

Best race in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

Their starting stats will require some tinkering to fully understand, however. For greater detail, see the table below, comparing the Attribute bonus and special abilities of each race. Below the table, we’ve outlined each race in greater detail. Argonian The Argonians are the lizardfolk of the Elder Scrolls franchise. They also make decent archers thanks to their Marksman bonus. Imperial As the typical human residents of Cyrodiil, Imperials are all over the place....

April 22, 2025 · 1 min · 163 words · Katherine Cannon

Bethesda release Oblivion Remastered for £50

It looks very shiny, and has a few new cogs under the hood. More importantly, it’sout now. First of all, here’s the trailer. There’s also a modernied third-person perspective (no more roller-skating up the mountainside). Other stuff remains mostly untouched. They’ve been working on it alongside Bethesda’s own studios. They also predicted it would be released in tandem with its announcement, you know, as a treat. We’ll be playing to find out just how much of a remaster it truly is....

April 22, 2025 · 1 min · 106 words · Jessica Rush

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Andy Serkis says the film industry "could not exist" without games

I thought I’d spent my weekend hunched over a screen in a goblinesque sweat-trance. Take that, Roger Ebert’s dead wrong dead horse of a dead body. “But I was always very interested in next generation storytelling. But games have “come of age” since then, he says. But also: it’s vitally important that no-one ever take a videogame remotely seriously under any circumstances. kindly trust me on this. “He showed me a trailer after we’d discussed mortgage rates and I thought it was fantastic”....

April 22, 2025 · 1 min · 91 words · David Baker

Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3, a survival horror, match-3 metroivania sequel to a game that doesn't exist, is out now

You’ll be matching three in combat, for lockpicking, debating… swallowing diamonds, apparently.

April 22, 2025 · 1 min · 12 words · Jeffrey Hobbs

Diablo 4 season 8 is all about becoming a boss and cosplaying characters from Berserk

First up, there’s that Belial guy who the season is named after. There’s a new event on too, with Belial’s “apparition monsters” showing up around Sanctuary. I’ve included his image below because if I had to see this, so did you.

April 22, 2025 · 1 min · 41 words · Aaron Simmons

Doom: The Dark Ages story trailer shows off a full-scale hell invasion

I’m a big fan, even despite this misplaced fascination with its unnecessarily fleshed out gun-numpad-with-legs. We’re also shown a bit of what I’m assuming is the game’s central antagonist. I think he looks cool! It’s not all story, though. Perhaps you’d like to investigate further?

April 22, 2025 · 1 min · 45 words · Richard Vincent

Ex-Skylanders devs announce Voidling Bound, a monster-taming game that looks more Spore than it does Pokemon

Me wonderful Voidlings RememberSpore? So, naturally, you take to genetically modifying Voidlings to help you survive. If it takes your fancy, you canwishlist Voidling Bound on Steam.

April 22, 2025 · 1 min · 27 words · Melissa Henry

"Can we find the resources to do it? I don't know" Rebellion's CEO on the likelihood of an Atomfall sequel

Still, a sequel is still clearly on developerRebellion’smind. Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley recently spoke toGamesIndustry.bizabout theopen world game, and how he’s feeling post launch. Guess that roughly positive, slightly mixed response isn’t a huge deal then! I don’t know." Rebellion are obviously best known for their Sniper series these days, which continue to do well.

April 19, 2025 · 1 min · 55 words · Jamie Peterson