‘Elder Scrolls: Blades’ gets at least one thing right: The one-handed controls are *great*

Elder Scrolls: Blades is something I never would have expected: a full-blown Elder Scrolls game that is mobile-friendly and playable with just one hand.
I know that’s how it was introduced way back when at Bethesda Softworks’ E3 2018 press conference…

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All the wild facts we learned about ‘Doom Eternal’ from the QuakeCon reveal

Doom Eternal is back after a completely unfulfilling tease at E3.
The upcoming game is a sequel to id Software’s 2016 series revivalDoom is a reboot of the original first-person shooter, both of them following an anonymous space marine’s bloody assau…

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Amazon’s Alexa playing ‘Skyrim’ with Keegan-Michael Key wins E3 2018

Bethesda Softworks used its E3 2018 showcase as an occasion to share what appears to be a cancelled April Fool’s joke.
I’ll set the scene and let Keegan-Michael Key do the rest: It feels like Bethesda’s Skyrim has been released for everything, mu…

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‘Fallout 76’ announced after a hype-filled Twitch stream, but what is it?

There’s a new… something happening in the Fallout universe, and it’s called Fallout 76.
Bethesda Softworks’ Todd Howard, who serves as one of the creative leads on the Fallout series, announced the project at the end of a hype-filled Twitch str…

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It used to be gaming’s most pervasive meme. Then it took an arrow in the knee.

“I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee.”
Ah, Skyrim. In the pantheon of Gaming’s Greatest Memes, “The cake is a lie” from Portal may have the edge. But anyone who was plugged into games back in 2011, when Bethesda Soft…

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