Remasters We Really Need

Cyberpunk 2077 will completely overhaul its skill tree surrounding 'Netrunner' builds.

Bethesda head of publishing Pete Hines has said Starfield “doesn’t even really get going” until after the main story mission is completed.

One of the big mysteries hanging over Ahsoka episode 1 and 2 is who exactly Inquisitor Marrok really is. The force-sensitive individual is aligned with Morgan Elsbeth, Baylan Skoll, and Shin Hati, and is a very adept fighter. However, given he’s dressed head to toe in black, and covered with a mask, many viewers have been wondering if he might be hiding something. Warning: spoilers for the opening episodes of Ahsoka ahead.

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There’s always been a question of how well video games affect a nation and its economy. After all, people buy video games all the time, and they can be an expensive item. So if enough of them are sold, it’ll boost the economy, right? It’s a bit more complicated than that, and that’s why you honestly don’t hear much from certain nations about how well video game sales are boosting things like their GDP. However, in Japan, a new report states that the launch of Tears of the Kingdom helped raise the nation’s GDP, which is quite something.

When I wrote up yesterday's big dollop of Starfield info I was expecting readers to focus on the stuff about housing, mechs and giant snake cults, in roughly that order. I wasn't expecting a slight stir about the inability to complete the game without killing anyone. "Disappointing", responded Youtuber Mike BurnFire in the QTs. Opined Mama Bedlam: "A fully pacifist run not existing (without mods) is a genuinely worrying sign to do with the flexibility of what the game can do". Some players took the news as a brazen provocation. As ManyATrueNerd put it: "CHALLENGE. FUCKING. ACCEPTED."

Another Lenovo Legion Go leak has landed, and the handheld PC is posing for the camera. Shared images reveal something that looks pretty close to a Nintendo Switch in terms of design, as its controllers appear to detach. However, I’m not entirely convinced that’s what the portable scene needs right now, removable Joycon style gamepads might be a blessing and a curse.

Listen up, theater kids: Stephen Sondheim has one last posthumous wish to grant. Prior to his death in 2021, the famous musical theater composer was collaborating and advising on spatial audio remasters of some of his most famous works: Company, Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods. He also consulted on plans for an audio reissue of Assassins. Co-produced by Didier C. Deutsch and Peter E. Jones, the remasters of those four famous Sondheim musicals are now available for your listening pleasure.

Back in the early 2000s the flash animations of Homestar Runner duo The Brothers Chaps were some of the best goofs, laughs, and general hilarity you could find on the internet. There were even a few point-and-click adventure games out there to play. Now they're back, and better than ever, as Strong Bad's spinoff Dangeresque adventures come to town.

The sudden release of a remastered edition of Quake 2 had been rumored for some time, but the final product has delivered a range of enhancements and options that go well beyond what we've come to expect from other retro rereleases.

LAS VEGAS—The Pentagon’s research-and-development shop showed up at the Black Hat security conference here with a request and a reward: Show us how you can use AI to secure critical software and infrastructure, and you could win a share of almost $20 million in prizes.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has a new tone when it comes to ports, remakes, and remasters of the companies’ games.