David Haden
Tutorial: HeXen Quickstart in 2021 on Windows
Here’s a quickstart 10-step guide to installing the old game HeXen: Beyond Heretic (aka Heretic II), in 2021 on Windows. Not to be confused with the later Hexen II, note. HeXen was a DOOM variant and the successor to the Heretic videogame in the 1990s. Think of it as “fantasy DOOM” with a liking for […]
“Hoots mon, the noo!”
Inkle (80 Days, Heaven’s Vault) are working on a new “Untitled Highland Game” involving walking the hills and lochs. And it’s a musical. Sounds great, and I imagine Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, learning how to play the bagpipes and sing some great show-tunes.
Microsoft buys Bethesda in a megadeal
A new $7.5 billion deal today sees Microsoft buy out videogame makers Bethesda and id, giving Microsoft all-time classic titles such as the Elder Scrolls series (Morrowind, Skyrim etc), DOOM and Quake. Also Bethesda’s forthcoming Starfield space-epic game. What could this mean for Morrowind? A more permissive regime for re-makers, perhaps?
GOG’s got GoTY
The Game of the Year Edition of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind is now on sale at GOG, apparently 75% off. Sadly the Web page for it seems to have been trampled by the eager Guar-herd, but here’s the Archive.org backup of the page. This all-time classic game and its expansions, which is what the […]
theHunter: gone Wild
It seems there are now two versions of the excellent PC hunting game theHunter (now re-named theHunter: Classic). There’s now a new version called theHunter: Call of the Wild, which appeared in the spring of 2017 for retailers. They appear to be identical, and it seems that theHunter: Call of the Wild just has a […]
Titan Quest: Ragnarok
A decade after the most-excellent game Titan Quest, all of a sudden comes a large expansion Titan Quest: Ragnarok. It’s out now on Steam and switches the Mediterranean setting for the Northern… “realms of the Celts, the Northmen and the Asgardian gods”. Sounds good, very good. My review of Titan Quest Gold Edition is here. […]
The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind – PC Gamer review
PC Gamer has a quite positive review of the MMO The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind… “… one of the most encompassing and charming repositories for great stories I’ve played in a long time. Morrowind is an essential excursion for those of a certain gaming vintage, loaded as it is with reverence for that 15 year-old […]
After Nehrim, Enderal
The Nehrim guys have their huge Skyrim total-conversion out, and now have it pretty much nailed down. It’s called Enderal, is free, very well reviewed, and as pretty as you’d expect. Released last summer it’s now available in a full English version, which is currently patched to a 1.1.9 release — it’s now reported to […]
Skywind preview
Loving what I’m seeing of the Skywind world (a Morrowind total conversion mod for Skyrim) in this late-autumn 2016 preview. It appears that 2017 is the team’s “big push” year and the voice-acting appears to be well underway too. I’d love to think this might be “main quest playable” by early 2018, but that’s just […]
“My god, it’s full of bugs…”
Oh dear, The Escapist review of the new Mass Effect: Andromeda game is in… “Unfortunately, Andromeda misses the mark” The story… “quickly devolves into something that’s going to sound all too familiar to fans of the series”. “… the game’s writing seems oddly out of sync, varying from quests that feel agonizing and meaningful to […]
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