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7 Things in Hytale's Early Game that Surprised Me as a Minecraft Veteran

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How to get thorium in Hytale

To help you progress in the game, here's how to find thorium in Hytale as well as how to get thorium ingot.

As Fable's Peter Molyneux returns to the spotlight, legendary parody account 'Peter Molydeux' announces its retirement

Fable creator Peter Molyneux is back with his new strategy game, Masters of Albion, but as one titan returns, another has moved on.

What's next for GOG? Publishing games, maybe, but its new owner isn't in any rush

Right at the end of last year, Cyberpunk and Witcher developer CD Projekt Red sold off its game distribution company to its original co-founder, Michał Kiciński (who is also the co-founder of CD Projekt itself, so, go figure). With this sort of new owner, the plan is generally to stick to what it knows best, i.e. sprucing up old games and making sure any game on the platform is DRM-free. But in a new interview, Kiciński also shared his interest in the platform doing some publishing. Read more

'The Whole Fallout Thing Is a Mystery to Me' — Ron Perlman Jokes He Was Paid '$40 and a Sandwich' to Record Iconic 'War Never Changes' Intro for Fallout 1

Hellboy star Ron Perlman has expressed his bemusement at the Fallout franchise and his legendary status within it as narrator of all the video games, joking he was paid "$40 and a sandwich" to record his iconic “war never changes” line for Fallout 1.

As if making the System Shock remake wasn't tough enough, someone apparently called the FBI on Nightdive during development

It is not news to anyone that Nightdive Studios' System Shock remake took a while to make. The remake started development in 2015, with a successful Kickstarter project held for it the following year. After a few engine changes and attempts at making the thing, it finally released back in 2023, a good eight years after development had started. But such a long wait is absolutely not worth calling the FBI over, folks, are we being serious right now? Which is, apparently, a thing that happened to Nightdive. Read more

Nintendo DS Disney Tie-in Looks Set to Dethrone Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as Metacritic's Best User-Rated Game of All Time

Disney Cory in the House, a 2008 tie-in game for Nintendo DS, looks set to be crowned the best game of all time on Metacritic in the near future — by user ratings, at least.

It took less than 24 hours for Hytale modders to find a way to carry over your favorite Minecraft creations

Minecraft build conversion tools are already appearing for Hytale, letting you turn schematics files into prefabs for the new game.

Playing Hytale on the Steam Deck takes some classic PC spannering, but the effort is rewarded

Right up until its early access release, Hytale’s chances of Steam Deck-enabled portability were anyone’s guess. Even the blocky sandbox’s developers Hypixel seemed unsure, announcing a SteamOS-friendly native Linux version (good!) but forgoing an actual Steam release (less good!) and warning Deck owners of Hytale’s absent controller support (definitely not good!). However, as fellow cube enthusiast Minecraft would know, the Steam Deck doesn’t always let something like an apparent lack of basic functionality keep it down. The device itself provides all the tools you need to get Hytale up, running, and playable, and while the process is hardly a one-click install, the fruit of your toils is a game that Valve’s handheld PC can happily keep going for hours. Read more

I have no idea what you do in Hypnos, but its cosmic horror, megastructure world looks so pretty I'm not bothered

A position I take that is quite hard to explain in any way that is actually helpful is that for a game to catch someone's attention it must have aesthetic sensibilities that no other game has. To truly get someone's attention anyway, enough marketing budget can undo that, but for an indie game, a vibe (mysterious, unquantifiable) that I haven't felt before will pull me in quicker than listing off genre conventions it follows. This is how Hypnos, a first-person adventure and exploration game "set in a lovecraftian megastructure fever dream," got me to pay attention. Read more

The Elder Scrolls 6 in the Summerset Isles would be cool, or so recently unearthed Daggerfall-era dev D&D notes have convinced me

As someone who admittedly struggles to feel at home whenever I try to go back and play the older Elder Scrolls entries, I'm surprised how fun I've found reading through some notes from a D&D game some devs on the series played around the time of Daggerfall's development. Said notes have just been made public following the recent death of Julian LeFay, a key figure in the early days of Bethesda, who hosted this freshly unearthed campaign and another more well-known one. Read more

All Hytale console commands - How to teleport, spawn items, and more

Save yourself time and an unfortunate trip back to your dropped loot with Hytale console commands like fly, heal, and teleport.

The dev behind 2025's most popular horse game will not use AI "without prior notice," as its gen-AI studio sparks backlash

Cygames, the creator of gacha hits Umamusume Pretty Derby and Granblue Fantasy, has confirmed it isn't using generative AI in its games.

Games Workshop's AI Ban Makes Perfect Sense When You Consider Warhammer 40,000 Lore

Games Workshop's AI ban makes perfect sense when you consider Warhammer 40,000 lore.

Forza Horizon 6's release date might have raced onto the streets faster than planned, thanks to an ad

What's that screaming around the bend, tyres squealing and RPMs peaking? It's Forza Horizon 6's release date arriving ahead of schedule, assuming a pop-up ad allegedly spotted in Forza Horizon 5 is the genuine article. If that's the case, then the open-world racing series' trip to Japan is booked to arrive in May this year. Read more

Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick accuses Embracer of secretly organising a lawsuit against him and Microsoft

I’m going to keep this one as succinct as possible, because every word is causing me psychic damage. Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has alleged that an ongoing lawsuit accusing him of rushing Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard to avoid the fallout from company-wide sexual misconduct allegations was, in fact, secretly orchestrated by noted layoff manufacturer Embracer Group to boost sales of Embracer’s own games. Read more

Escape From Tarkov lead seems to be teasing a new game with big Starfield energy, but it may be something far more disappointing

Nikita Buyanov, Escape From Tarkov's director, has shared a new interactive website packed with information about a space sci-fi universe.

Blizzard hasn't managed to crush World of Warcraft addons yet, as Midnight pre-patch shows various mods still work

Coming into World of Warcraft Midnight, Blizzard has attempted to crack down on addons and mods, but some are slipping through the net.

Steam Machine Verified games are incoming, but they'll be very different to Steam Deck Verified

Valve has confirmed that there will be a Steam Machine Verified games program, but it won't be nearly as strict as Steam Deck verification.