As a recently-self-employed gamer, the price of new games is even more a concern to me than it used to be (if such a thing is possible). Yes, I’ve heard plenty of people argue that pounds-per-hour, games are much better value than films/clubbing/sailing/blah, blah, blah. These people invariably leave out the part where the majority
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An RPG? From BioWare? Weefz is all over that.

It’s a buggy game. Unfortunately, I can’t help with that. I can, however, point any PC gamers among you towards these two player-created mods which have made my Oblivion non-fighter experience a whole lot better. Mod 1 – Fixing the Interface: It’s like he looked into my shrivelled, wasting, PC gaming heart and saw that
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I’m a PC gamer. We have more than 101 keys. We have mice. We have high-resolution monitors. We have a long, long history of RPG interfaces being progressively refined for usability from the crappy-looking Gold Box games to the Ultima series, through Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2, Dungeon Siege and Morrowind. So why the FUCK
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There are a couple of new previews out on Bethesda’s new RPG, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion over at GameSpy, Joystiq and MyGamer. From GameSpy: “This is truly a sandbox game, where every action will result in some sort of reaction. During the demo, our hero accidentally set an innocent villager on fire…” Looks like it’ll be
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