ConnexionAfter a 'catastrophic' hack, 4chan has risen from the grave: 'No other website can replace it, or this community'
Return of the posting dead.
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Today's Wordle answer for Monday, April 28
Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.
Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 28, 2025)
Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.
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Doom: The Dark Ages is almost here, and PC PowerPlay has all the insider reveals
Grab the new PC PowerPlay today. It's a magazine you can hold and love
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'If the players own the game, they'll make it fantastic': Larian CEO Swen Vincke doubles down on defense of Baldur's Gate 3 Stardew Valley mod and the modding community overall
Swen Vincke sees mods for what they are—a vital part of the gaming community
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'Stories are our bread and butter': Larian is building a special team to lay out the plot of its games years in advance
Larian Studios is amping up its narrative department and it has me even more excited for "Excalibur"
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Larian boss Swen Vincke says the studio is 'deep in the trenches' on its 'crazy-ambitious' follow up to Baldur's Gate 3, hopes to show it off no later than 2030 because 'my wife will divorce me if it takes longer'
"I hope that definitely five years from now I can tell you about it."
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Trump-appointed lawyer threatens to revoke Wikipedia's non-profit status, putting the online encyclopedia in jeopardy
Is Wikipedia spreading propaganda? Don't ask Ed Martin
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Humble's latest bundle gets you every Doom game, a discount on Doom: The Dark Ages and some Wolfenstein as a treat for less than $30
More Doom than you can shake a chainsaw at.
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Oblivion's forgotten goblin wars system, which saw gobbos battling each other all over Cyrodiil, emerged from designing a single quest: 'I figured it wouldn't be a lot more work to make this systemic'
"It certainly allowed for fun emergent gameplay."
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Better hurry up and finish your Oblivion Remastered playthrough, because the massive mod that aims to rebuild all of Morrowind gets a whole lot bigger on May 1
Outland-er.
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Here's a tower defense about little bloodthirsty gnomes in little red hats
Try the demo to see some clever ideas about the tower defense format.
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V Rising's big free content update introduces a cursed, poisoned forest this week
V Rising's big free content update introduces a cursed, poisoned forest this week
© Stunlock Studios
Steam trains and ships are coming to city builder Workers & Resources as a new DLC rolls the start date back to 1930
It'll release next month.
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Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, April 27
Help with solving Sunday's puzzle.
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I miss old PopCap like you miss old BioWare
Diamonds in my eyes.
© EA
Oblivion Remastered hit 4 million players in less than a week, with a big chunk of them buying the game on Steam
That overall figure includes PC, PS5, and Xbox sales, as well as Game Pass players.
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The RoboCop: Rogue City expansion that looks like Dredd will bring more trouble to your PC in July
Unfinished Business gets a release date.
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Hexblade might the best 1-level dip in Baldur's Gate 3, but going the distance with a full 12 levels and their infinite necrotic ghost turrets has me fixing to finally beat the game without multiclassing
I'm Mr. Multiclass, but a full 12 levels of Hexblade is hard to beat.
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The adventure game that kicked off the Syberia series just got a shiny Myst-like makeover
Amerzone – The Explorer's Legacy is out now.
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The end of The Long Dark is in sight after over a decade in development, culminating in a fifth and final story episode that is '3 to 4 times as big' as episode 4
"The episode is the most ambitious we've built so far."
© Hinterland Studio
My favourite Elder Scrolls YouTuber returned after 2 years, and it's made me fall in love with ridiculous challenge runs all over again
Challenge accepted.
© Bethesda, Micky D
Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, April 26
Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.
© Future
A Windows 11 update revealed a 2-decade old bug in GTA: San Andreas that yeets CJ at '1.087 quadrillion light years' into the stratosphere
Aw shee-it, here we go again…
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EA's Skate reboot is always online, and you know what that means
The promised "living, breathing massively multiplayer skateboarding sandbox" sounds great, but what happens when the servers go offline?
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Nexus Mods decides to allow an Oblivion Remastered mod that changes 'body type' options to male/female, declares it's not 'a battleground for broader cultural or political debates'
The mod was deleted multiple times before Nexus Mods threw in the towel.
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We can finally play 2006's flip phone-exclusive Monster Hunter port thanks to the tireless work of game preservationists and fan translators
What a beautiful world we'd lost.
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Oblivion Remastered looks so good that I can't believe I'm saying this: I kinda hope Bethesda remasters Skyrim (again) too
I wouldn't have said this a week ago, but in the wake of Oblivion's shiny new facelift, Skyrim suddenly feels pretty drab.
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By choosing not to replace Oblivion Remastered's soundtrack, Bethesda made the allegations against composer Jeremy Soule everyone else's problem
Oblivion's soundtrack is a core part of its identity, but it's also tainted by association.
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Oblivion Remastered leveling explained—with skill exploits to rank up faster
Here's how leveling skills works in Oblivion Remastered along with some tips on how to grind ranks quickly.
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Modders somehow cranked out a VR mod for Oblivion Remastered mere hours after its surprise launch
It's like you're really there, stabbing the rats.
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The new shooter from the former 4A Ukraine studio was supposed to launch today, but instead it got a last-second delay and nobody knows for how long
A closed beta test earlier this month was also delayed, and apparently did not go very well.
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Fallout creator laments the loss of the game's earliest development materials: 'I had that in digital form and was ordered to destroy it'
"The amount of stuff that's been lost about Fallout and its early development saddens me," Tim Cain says.
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Powercolor Radeon RX 9070 GRE pictured which means the new AMD GPU is probably arriving sooner than we expected but it may be restricted to China
As ever, its appeal will be all about pricing.
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Apple and Meta have been fined a total of €700,000,000 for non-compliance with the EU Digital Markets Act. Which, in their billion-dollar world, is just chump change
Will they even notice?
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Path of Exile 2 Dawn of the Hunt endgame mechanics explained
Master the atlas in PoE2's endgame.
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I spent $3 to shoot a wall for 30 minutes
In Shoot the Wall, there is a wall and a gun. You shoot the wall with the gun.
© Manning Media
As she chalks up 10,000+ final boss kills, Elden Ring folk hero says her record is 100 in a day and she has absolutely no plans to stop
Let Me Solo Them is like Let Me Solo Her, but for Them.
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Metaphor: ReFantazio did surprisingly well on PC, says director, and that the number of desktop-based JRPG enjoyers is on the rise: 'The trend is evident'
Katsura Hashino was impressed with Metaphor's PC sales.
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Best attributes for each character in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Build the best stats so each of your party members can survive the expedition.
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Our favorite budget VR headset beats the old Quest 2 hands-down, and at $269 right now it's cheaper than it's ever been before
The Meta Quest 3S is still donning the VR crown and cowl.
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The FBI says cybercriminals were responsible for a record $16,600,000,000 in reported losses last year, up 33% from 2023
That's a whole lot of ill-gotten gains.
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Intel's elderly Raptor Lake CPUs are still selling surprisingly well and the reason is simple: They're cheap
Good enough performance at the right price, for laptops at least...
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Dune: Awakening will host a massive beta weekend in just a couple of weeks: 'Tens of thousands of beta keys will be unleashed'
A few days of fun in the sun.
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Water is so precious in the Dune: Awakening beta I wound up treating innocent scavengers like my personal juice boxes
Feeling a bit thirsty? Lock and load.
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After 25 hours of the Dune: Awakening beta, I'm sold on it as a survival game but still a bit iffy on the MMO parts
Crafting and resource management is compelling, but the wider world has yet to grab me.
© Funcom
Getting around in Dune: Awakening is a blast thanks to grappling hooks, suspensors, and the ability to climb literally anything
Who even needs an ornithopter?
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Oblivion Remastered modder has already fixed its awful levelled loot system, after very reasonably blacking out in an 'incomprehensible fury'
The one crime the remaster didn't fix.
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All Genshin Impact 5.6 livestream codes
Get some free Primogems before they expire if you want them.
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Oblivion struggling to nail 60 fps on my RTX 5090 was not on my 2025 bingo card, but without frame gen Oblivion Remastered's top settings bring the card to its knees
Sticking everything on Ultra with a UE5 game was always going to be thus, I guess.
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Razer has made a wild-looking wireless ergonomic mouse with six month battery life and it's making my eyes go funny
Stand up straight, for goodness sake.
© Razer
New Intel CEO is looking 'for partnership with the industry leader to build purpose-built silicon' for AI, but is he talking about making chips with Nvidia or for OpenAI?
Lip-Bu Tan also says he hooked up with TSMC to talk about a possible collab'.
© Intel
Modders have torn apart Oblivion Remastered and found 'potential' for proper modding, but without tools from Bethesda we'll need 'a lot of reverse engineering work… before modding can be fully realised'
It won't be the same without Thomas the Tank Engine.
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If your Oblivion Remastered save files are mysteriously disappearing or not syncing between devices, don't worry: It's not your fault, they're just getting sent to the wrong place
Bethesda says it's investigating the issue.
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RuneScape: Dragonwilds has finally made me realise that, actually, maybe the skill grind isn't so bad
Maybe I do appreciate stopping to smell the roses.
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If you hurry, you can pick up a set of these sweet artisan keycaps in all sorts of delicious combinations
Five and a half hours or so, and counting.
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