Tetris Conquered, Star Wars Outlaws and More Of The Week’s Biggest Gaming News
Think the first week of January is a slow one for news? Think again. A 13-year-old Tetris phenom has boldly gone where no one has gone before, beating the NES version of the classic puzzler by reaching a âkill screenâ on level 157. Steam announced the occasionally baffling results of its annual playersâ choice awards, and The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall got a free-to-play, fan-made remaster.
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Bethesdaâs Biggest Game Ever Is Free And Remastered
Screenshot: Daggerfall Unity
Before Starfield, before Skyrim, before Fallout 3 and Oblivion, before your parents even knew how to make you, there was The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall. It was, and remains, Bethesdaâs biggest-ever game, and now a fan-made rebuilding of the entire vast world in Unity has reached its 1.0 release. Oh, and itâs entirely free, and wonât be destroyed by lawyers! This new Daggerfall is an almighty achievement, and exactly the excuse you needed to return to Tamriel. – John Walker Read More
So, Uh, Whatâs Up With The Steam Awards?
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The results of 2023âs Steam Awards are in. Each year, Steam turns to the community to vote on the yearâs best games across a wide variety of categories. This year saw Larian Studiosâ RPG Baldurâs Gate 3 grab game of the year, while Lethal Company, a first-person cooperative horror game, got the âBetter With Friends Awardâ for its co-op gameplay. The Last of Us Part I snagged Best Soundtrack, which seems odd because it came out in 2013, but it technically wasnât added to Steam until 2023. – Claire Jackson Read More
Horror Game Studio Shuts Down Due To Cyberattacks, Poor Sales
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Just two months after the third-person action-horror game Stray Souls came out, developer Jukai Studio abruptly shuttered its doors, citing myriad issues including poor game sales and multiple cyberattacks from an unknown perpetrator.The developer took to X/Twitter on December 22 to announce the sudden closure. Part of the problem, Jukai Studio said, was Stray Soulsâ abysmal reception and sales, which made the team âcompletely unable to sustain the company.â – Levi Winslow Read More
Three Decades Later, Someone Has Finally Beaten Tetris On NES
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Classic puzzle game Tetris has been around for over three decades, and in that time, plenty of people have reached its various endings, usually by clearing four rows of bricks at once like a digital demolitioner. Thatâs a challenge in and of itself, but now, someone has taken the concept of âbeating Tetrisâ to the extreme by playing the NES game so hard it straight-up crashed, a phenomenon also known as the âkill screen.â – Levi Winslow Read More
Star Citizenâs âEverything Packâ Costs $48,000
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Forever-in-development space sim Star Citizen might not be finished after over a decade of dev work and announcements, but it does already contain a lot of expensive ships you can buy and fly around in. And if you want all of those ships in one big DLC pack, Star Citizen has an option for you. Just be prepared to spend over $48,000. – Zack Zwiezen Read More
Baldurâs Gate 3 Contains A Beautiful Tribute Youâll See Through Misted Eyes
Screenshot: Andrea Gatta / X
Hereâs something unironically wonderful. Via a post by Larian Studios writer Rachel Quirke, weâve just learned of a deeply moving tribute to a playerâs father that appears in the studiosâ award-winning RPG Baldurâs Gate 3. In October 2020, a member of the Larian forums posted to thank the developer for releasing the first act of the game in Early Access, because it allowed them to enjoy one last adventure with their father, who had recently been diagnosed with Alzheimerâs. – John Walker Read More
Ubisoft Swiftly Corrects Star Wars Outlaws âLate 2024â Release Window
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Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoftâs upcoming action-adventure game that follows scoundrel Kay Vess between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, previously had no release date beyond a very broad â2024â window. Today, however, a Disney Parks blog post quietly announced that it would launch in âlate 2024.â This didnât last long, as Ubisoft promptly swooped in to correct the record and re-assert the general 2024 timeframe. – Levi Winslow Read More
Fan-Revived MMO Given Official License To Continue
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City of Heroes was a beloved MMORPG that launched in April 2004 and lasted just over eight years. In that time it won a dedicated community of players who, even after the game died, kept playing the MMO via private servers that existed in a weird legal gray area. But now, the developers behind City of Heroes have given one private server the official thumbs-up to keep on keeping on. – Zack Zwiezen Read More
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The first part of our interview with Baldurâs Gate 3 actresses Devora Wilde and Jennifer English
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