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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Review – The Classic Is Back & As Joyfully Janky As Ever
Nearly two decades after Bethesda unleashed Oblivion onto the world and tasked millions of players around the globe with shutting the gates, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered gives the massive RPG a fresh coat of paint and some under-the-hood changes. Most importantly, this impressive remake retains the original game’s charming jankiness. Absolutely no other…
Mastering Stratego, the classic game of imperfect information
Research Published 1 December 2022 Authors Julien Perolat, Bart De Vylder, Daniel Hennes, Eugene Tarassov, Florian Strub and Karl Tuyls DeepNash learns to play Stratego from scratch by combining game theory and model-free deep RL Game-playing artificial intelligence (AI) systems have advanced to a new frontier. Stratego, the classic board game that’s more complex than…
Psychonauts Is 20 Years Old, So Let’s Remember An All-Time Classic
One of the stranger moments of my career was reviewing a game, giving it a four-page review and a well-deserved score of 89 percent in the then-massively-selling UK PC Gamer magazine, and then the game not coming out for another eight months. That was just one example of the nightmares Psychonauts—Double Fine’s magnum opus—went through…
Mode Sixty-Five (2024) Review: A Renewed Classic
The custom mechanical keyboard hobby has lulled a little with orders to Return to Office, but Mode Designs hasn’t. The company has launched several new models in the last few years, including the Loop TKL, the Envoy and Encore, the Sonnet and, most recently, the “new” Sixty-Five — which we’re reviewing today. Designed to compete…