Tetris Conquered, Star Wars Outlaws and More Of The Week's Biggest Gaming News

Think the first week of January is a slow one for news? Think again. A 13 year old phenom has boldly gone where no one has gone before, beating the NES version of the classic puzzler by reaching a “kill screen” on level 157. announced the occasionally baffling results of its annual players’ choice awards, and got a free to play, fan made remaster.

Before , before , before and , before your parents even knew how to make you, there was . It was, and remains, Bethesda’s biggest ever game, and now a fan made rebuilding of the entire vast world in Unity . Oh, and it’s entirely free, and won’t be destroyed by lawyers! This new is an almighty achievement, and exactly the excuse you needed to return to Tamriel.

John Walker The results of are in. Each year, Steam turns to the community to vote on the year’s best games across a wide variety of categories. This year saw Larian Studios’ RPG grab game of the year, while , a first person cooperative horror game, got the “Better With Friends Award” for its co op gameplay.

snagged Best Soundtrack, which seems odd because it came out in 2013, but it technically wasn’t added to Steam until 2023. Claire Jackson Just two months after the third person action horror game came out, developer Jukai Studio abruptly shuttered its doors, citing myriad issues including poor game sales and multiple cyberattacks from an unknown perpetrator.The developer to announce the sudden closure.

Part of the problem, Jukai Studio said, was ’ abysmal reception and sales, which made the team “completely unable to sustain the company.” Levi Winslow Classic puzzle game has been around for over three decades, and in that time, plenty of people have , usually by like a digital demolitioner.

That’s a challenge in and of itself, but now, someone has taken the concept of “beating ” to the extreme by playing the NES game so hard it straight up crashed, a phenomenon also known as the “kill screen.” Levi Winslow might not be finished after over a decade of dev work and announcements, but it does already contain a lot of expensive ships you can buy and fly around in.

And if you want all of those ships in one big DLC pack, has an option for you. Just be prepared to spend over $48,000. Zack Zwiezen Here’s something unironically wonderful. Via by Larian Studios writer Rachel Quirke, we’ve just learned of a deeply moving tribute to a player’s father that appears in the studios’ award winning RPG .

In October 2020, a member of the Larian forums posted to thank the developer for releasing the first act of the game in Early Access, because it allowed them to enjoy one last adventure with their father, who had recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. John Walker , Ubisoft’s upcoming action adventure game that follows scoundrel Kay Vess between and , previously had no release date beyond a very broad “2024” window.

Today, however, a Disney Parks blog post quietly announced that it would launch in “late 2024.” This didn’t last long, as Ubisoft promptly swooped in to correct the record and re assert the general 2024 timeframe. Levi Winslow was a beloved MMORPG that launched in April 2004 and lasted just over eight years.

In that time it won a dedicated community of players who, even after the game died, kept playing the MMO via private servers that existed in a weird legal gray area. But now, the developers behind have given one private server the official thumbs up to keep on keeping on. Zack Zwiezen The second part of our interview with actresses Devora Wilde and Jennifer English The first part of our interview with actresses Devora Wilde and Jennifer English.