Even now, some six years since the fifth Elder Scrolls instalment first graced our screens, Skyrim can look gorgeous with the help of the right mods. There are loads of them, and while last year’s Special Edition is still playing catchup so far as updates go, Delta 6 has now upgraded milisot1325’s Animated Feathered Wings. With reworked animations, Animated Feathered Wings lets you “play as an angel, divine being, or cross-bred freak of nature”, so explains Delta 6 on the mod’s Nexus page. Here’

For those who still get motion sickness from Doomguy’s blistering sprint, here’s a fairly awkward solution: play Doom 2 as an isometric ARPG ala Diablo 2! Someone has made a tentative effort to make such a thing happen, and the video above shows how it looks. It’s the work of YouTuber DolloM, who has dubbed the mash-up Doomiablo. It’s definitely a work in progress, and they’re currently seeking feedback in the YouTube comments section. It’ll be interesting to see if this can some day evolve from

Ubisoft has released some footage of Rainbow Six Siege’s forthcoming Theme Park map, and it’s very moody indeed. The map will rollout alongside the Operation Red Orchid expansion, which will also feature two new operators – though details on these won’t be released until Gamescom later this month. “For this map, we wanted to portray a site that was not successful, a theme park that was built very quickly, and was lost just as fast.”I for one am looking forward to blowing holes in walls throughou

The latest newsletter doesn’t show off any god-slaying combat, but it does show off something almost as enticing: a new climbing system that lets you grappling-hook to any rock surface and climb, climb, climb. Developer NoMatter Studios doesn’t specifically call out The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as an inspiration, here, but it’s a safe bet the freedom of the latest Zelda has made everyone reconsider the climbing in their games. “A large part of our game is climbing and we weren’t using

Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier is a new story-driven game coming this fall from FoxNext Games in partnership with The Imaginarium Studios, which handles performance capture for the films. It’s set between the second and third movies in the excellent reboot trilogy, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes, and gives you control over both sides of the growing conflict. While it doesn’t look like you’ll have direct control over a player character, you’ll have control ov

Blizzard has announced its schedule of events for the upcoming Gamescom show in Germany, which will including the debut of a new Overwatch animated short, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, and World of Warcraft pro play, dance and cosplay contests, and a mysterious “reveal ceremony.” People lucky enough to attend live on the scene will have the opportunity to score some Blizzard swag, including “brand-new and convention-exclusive items,” while the rest of us will have to be content with livestre

Not quite the glorious victory I was shooting for, but representative of how I’d really fare in the post-apocalypse. Speaking of Just Survive’s new strongholds: while there are a few benefits to the new system I think they’re ultimately a turn in the wrong direction for Just Survive, which is undergoing a hefty revamp. Keeping in mind Just Survive is in Early Access, and this new stronghold system has just been added publicly to an unfinished map and will certainly undergo changes in the future,

The medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance is set to come out in early next year, and it looks very promising. The trailer’s voice acting isn’t great (to put it gently) but developer Warhorse Studios is a pretty small outfit, while Kingdom Come: Deliverance is by all appearances a tremendously ambitious game. If they have to cut corners somewhere, voice acting is probably a good place to do it. And despite the appearance of the trailer, Warhorse says the story is actually non-linear: Players wil

The retro-FPS Dusk, as we said in our preview earlier this week, is “not shy about its Quake-and-Doom inspiration.” It’s fast, bloody, loud (Brutal Doom composer Andrew Hulshult created the soundtrack), and looks (and plays) like it fell out a rupture in the space-time continuum that leads directly back to 1994. It is also, with very little fanfare, now available for pre-purchase on Steam. Dusk, like Doom, will ultimately offer 33 levels spread over three episodes, the first of which, “The Footh

Billie Lurk has played a prominent role throughout the mythos of Dishonored: She was present at the assassination of Empress Jessamine Kaldwin, aided Daud throughout the Knife of Dunwall expansion, and even gets some work in Dishonored 2. “When we find her in Death of the Outsider she’s sort of getting it back together. She’s finding purpose in her life again, and she’s taking action,” Arkane creative director Harvey Smith says in the video. In Death of the Outsider, Billie wields powers and gad

That’s because the memory prices used in graphics are on the rise. Digitimes says memory prices for graphics cards jumped more than 30 percent in August. For example, a GeForce GTX 1050 is equipped with four memory chips, a GeForce GTX 1060 has six memory chips, and higher end cards like the GeForce GTX 1070 use eight chips. Those costs are likely to be passed on to customers and could be used as an excuse to jack up the price of certain models of graphics cards even further. This is happening b

But while those fans were surely hoping it would communicate a release date in fairly short order—especially with the big Gamescom show looming—the studio explained in today’s blog that it’s not going to happen. “We have not disclosed a release date so far because it does not exist. We don’t work like that. We think that our fans don’t deserve less than our best efforts, our total commitment. “This is why we have not announced a release date, and why we won’t do it at Gamescom either.

Steam games can be purchased two ways: through direct payment to Steam, from which Valve takes a cut, or through third parties which sell keys that unlock the game on Steam. To sell or give away keys outside of Steam, developers must first request a batch from Steam. Given the quantity of keys in the market—we once gave away five million Steam keys—Valve has clearly been generous with key requests in the past. So at some point we start deciding that the value you’re bringing to Steam isn’t worth

Last month it was MSI’s X299 SLI motherboard paired with a Core i7-7740X process that was available for a discount. Today it’s ASRock X299 Taichi motherboard with the same CPU that is available for less than the cost of buying them individually. The Core i7-7740X is a lower tier Kaby Lake-X processor and one of two that’s rocking four physical cores and eight threads. The caveats are that it supports dual-channel memory instead of quad-channel memory, and limits access to 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes. ASRo

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation is receiving a pretty big update that, among other things, will introduce support for Vulkan, a low-level cross-platform API. The same motivation is likely behind Oxide Games and Stardock deciding to bring Vulkan support to Escalation. Modding— Modders have access to more parts of the game and will benefit from several changes that makes modding more intuitive. Modders have access to more parts of the game and will benefit from several changes that makes modd

Cox does not impose data caps in all of its territories, though it has been expanding its reach as of late. A recent broadband analysis by BroandbandNow found that nearly 200 ISPs in the US implement data caps, and that figure might be low. Opponents of data caps believe that the motivation for data caps has more to do with recovering declining cable revenue or creating a roadblock for streaming services like Netflix. Between the two, the next generation of Internet users could end up inheriting

Id Software’s arena FPS Quake Champions will wrap up its closed beta and move into Steam Early Access on August 22, Bethesda announced today, a move that will see the addition of new maps, features, and a familiar face—or helmet, anyway: The great, green Doom Slayer is joining the fight. “The Early Access version of Quake Champions is, obviously, a work-in-progress, but represents a solid and robust version of the game, with four modes, 11 Champions, a variety of maps, and a thriving community o

Kalypso Media and Game Farm have announced Shadows: Awakening—a new action role-player with “real time tactical combat” that marks the next chapter in the Heretics fantasy series. Due next year, Shadows: Awakening promises players upwards of 40 hours, two worlds, and a new ‘Synergy’ talent system—all of which picks up where 2014’s Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms left off. Those familiar with the Herectics games will likely know that the series’ Book 2 failed to materialise, which is something Awakenin

The only trouble is, it’s made me think, in detail, about the games that don’t use my time so well. MacLean also worked on South Park: The Stick of Truth. In the roguelike narrative game Sunless Sea , permadeath meant repeating chunks of text-heavy scenarios. You might play five games, or you might settle down and have a dramatic game that lasts all evening. Waiting can be so gratifying that games like Cookie Clicker spawned an entire genre of ‘Idle Games’, where waiting is the entire game!”

From Mass Transit to Blimpton, Natural Disasters to Snowfall—Cities: Skylines has impressed with its long-term commitment to playful expansions. The latest is of the ‘mini’ variety, and lets players plan and promote their own city-wide music festivals. On the Cities: Skylines modding front, changes are afoot, so say Paradox and Colossal Order: “Alongside the mini-expansion, Paradox and Colossal Order are restructuring the content manager tool as a free update to Cities: Skylines. The content man