This is Starfield's touching tribute to a fan who didn't get to play

The mid-season update for Inkbound is set for today, and introduces multiplayer matchmaking, an improved ping system, easier difficulty changes, and additional quality of life and system improvements.

We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of «Playing the Edge.» Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers. Apply or nominate today!

Baldur’s Gate 3 is an incredibly open and versatile game. Developer Larian Studios has worked hard to ensure that everything players can and will do is considered, even the silliest of circumstances. It’s a testament to the game’s level of polish that pretty much anything a player can think of has been considered at some point.

Starfield was comfortably No.1 across Europe during its launch week, GSD data shows.

One of the biggest PC mod repositories in the world, NexusMods, has banned a mod that let Starfield players remove all mentions of pronouns.

Diablo 2 Resurrected is the ARPG. There’s a ton of great games in the loot-grinding genre nowadays, including the likes of Diablo 4, Path of Exile, Last Epoch, Titan Quest, Grim Dawn, and more. But there’s a reason you’ll hear so many people refer to ‘the best games like Diablo’ – ultimately, Blizzard’s epic is the game that inspired them all, and Diablo 2 Resurrected is the shiniest, crispest version of what many people consider to be the series’ peak. So with the Diablo 2 Resurrected Season 5 start date now known, what better time to find out just why so many games cite Diablo 2 as their main influence?

Even though the lack of technical problems seems like something positive, ’s lack of one of ’s best and most classic glitches is actually having an impact on gameplay. is Bethesda’s new action RPG, this time set in space in the far future. The title follows most of the tropes present across the company’s games, such as open-world exploration, leeway to build characters as the player pleases, and many side quests. In fact, there are many side quests in that are better than the main campaign itself.

Strategize in the sands of Arrakis and rise to power in Dune: Spice Wars . The new real-time 4X strategy title has left Early Access and fully launched, adding a brand new playable faction, and additional content.

For my money, The Nameless Mod (TNM) is one of the best Deus Ex experiences out there. It's a lengthy total conversion mod for the original Deus Ex that transplants the original masterpiece's immersive sim brilliance into a tale set in a Deus Ex fan forum, and it's much, much better than that pitch makes it sound. Richard Cobbett called it «one of the best things to come from Deus Ex, and one of the best single-player mods in general,» in his Crapshoot of the mod, and it just received a huge update 14 years after its original release.

PC players looking to max out the settings on may need to upgrade their machine before the long-awaited expansion pack releases according to one CD Projekt Red developer. Set to be released on September 26 alongside the free Update 2.0, the Phantom Liberty DLC introduces new gameplay features to Cyberpunk 2077 in addition to adding new story content for players to explore.

When Microsoft acquired Bethesda Game Studios for $7.5 billion in 2021, it was made abundantly clear some of Bethesda’s upcoming fare would be exclusive to Xbox and PC. Yet, when Starfield launched, some PlayStation fans seemed to take umbrage with that. So much so that a mod has been created, the purpose of which is solely to take the Bethesda splash screen that plays when you load up the game … and replace it with the PlayStation Studios intro.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration – or NASA, as it's more commonly known – wants to know why the millions of us obsessed with Starfield haven't applied to «be a NASA intern» yet.