Games in the news
“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. […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Titan Quest: 10th Anniversary Edition
One of my all-time favourite games Titan Quest (2006) (my review), recently had a 10th Anniversary release. This mega bufferooni of a release was slipped out in August when I wasn’t paying much attention to such things, and I’ve only just discovered it. The new edition is on GOG.com and apparently also on Steam (I […]
Skyrim Special Edition for PC
I just heard something about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition (PC). But where is it? Erm, Amazon UK “knows nurthing…”, not even a release date. Durh. Steam may know something, but it slams me with an age verification check before it’ll show me anything about the game. And yet search engines show me […]
Civilization VI: Queen Victoria
Civilisation II was once one of my favourite PC games, but the follow-up Civ III was a buggy mess. So I switched to Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri (Civ in space, basically), and that was fun for a few days. But it just didn’t grip like Civ II had. I read the magazine reviews of the […]
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