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Two things inSkyrimare steeped in more mystery than just about anything else in theElder Scrollsseries – the Dwemer and mudcrabs. The Dwemer, who many Tamrielic races refer to as the Dwarves, suddenly and mysteriously disappeared all at once across Nirn thousands of years beforeSkyrim(well, almost all at once, as Yagrum Barnam can be found inMorrowind). RELATED:Skyrim: Every New Rare Curios Item (And What They Do) Mudcrabs, on the other hand, seem toexist in almost every provincein Tamriel, including Skyrim....

Summary Star Warscould be looking to return to its film roots and shying away from Disney Plus shows likeThe Mandalorianshortly. Thanks to studios still refusing to negotiate in the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike, or perhaps simply out of a desire to simplify things, Lucasfilm and Disney seem ready to shake things up regarding its current flagship series,The Mandalorian. The Mandalorianseason 3 saw many criticisms among fans, even if series starPedro Pascal appears to favor one particular change....

According to a video game industry analyst, Steam is getting an official release in a new region soon. According to Daniel Ahmed of Nico Partners, Perfect World and Valve will be releasing a public beta ofSteamChina in the country on February 9th. This will be the first official release of the Steam platform in mainland China. RELATED:Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Trailer Banned in China Compared to the international version of Steam, Steam China will have a number of differences....

The voice actor of Luke fromStreet Fighter 6, Aleks Le, voices a number of fan-submitted memes from the community revolving around the character. This is in celebration of Luke’s birthday, which Capcom officially listed as February 17.Voice actors reading memes from the communityis a fun way for the actor to interact with fans, which has been seen with actors from games likeFire Emblem: Three Houses,Destiny 2, andGod of War. WithStreet Fighter 6coming out this June and its central character’s birthday being quite recent, Le took to Twitter to voice some popular memes made by the fans....

The two annualGames Done Quickcharity marathons have become staples of the video game industry, looked forward to all year round. With June nearing its end, that means that it’s once again time forSummer Games Done Quick. The week-long event will feature dozens of speedrunners rushing to complete dozens of games. SGDQ will run from Sunday, June 26, through Sunday, July 3. As those dates would imply, SGDQ 2022 has officially begun....

Super Mario 3D All-Starssurprised fans everywhere by bringing three classicMariogames together in one irresistible package. For Mario’s 35th birthday, a number of projects were announced, and while fans weremost excited for3D All Stars, a collaboration with Puma has been making waves for sneaker heads. Announced back in September, images of thePuma x Mario collection leaked early on, with a fewSuper Mario Galaxy-inspired colorways shown off. These leaked images proved to be the real deal, as theSuper Mario GalaxyRS-Fast shoes are part of the latest run of Mario kicks....

Gamers who are hoping to embody the role of the villain inTexas Chain Saw Massacremight overlook Cook. His frail frame and broken broomstick handle might make players laugh him off. But when it comes to hunting down victims and hitting them hard, nobody does it as well as Cook. RELATED:Best Horror Co-Op Games To Play With Friends With the right build choice, Cook actually hits as hard as Leatherface. Even better, he’s not as loud as Leatherface and can track enemies from nearly across the entire map....

Xbox is no stranger when it comes to large-scale video game sales. Much like its competitors, Xbox is consistently releasing sales throughout the year that reduce its platform’s game prices by a fairly significant amount, and most of them are themed around a specific event or season. For as long as most fans can remember, Xbox has released an annualShocktobersale. Coinciding with Halloween,Xbox’s Shocktober salecompiles some of the best horror games on the platform and reduces them by a notable amount, with this year’s reductions possibly being some of the best ever....

For almost 30 years,Magic: The Gatheringhas been one of the world’s most popular collectible card game, pulling in more than $581.2 million for Hasbro in 2020 alone. For the longest time, the game refrained from crossovers with different IPs, but Hasbro has finally started to branch out over the past few years, crossingMagicwith other popular properties. With various crossovers over the past decade, includingTeam Fortress,Plants vs. Zombies,Puzzle and Dragons,My Little Pony,Godzilla, and more, Wizards of the Coast has tried a few different things, some of which have worked well and others that have flopped....

EveryLegend of Zeldaplayer knows the thrill of opening a treasure chest to that iconic jingle and finding a new item. Part of that thrill comes in the form of discovering theutilityof the new equipment. In his many quests to save Hyrule, Link obtains a bevy of tools to traverse dungeons and battle foes. These items range fromsimple magical trinketstopowerful weapons and armor, and each stays fairly unique from one another....

Although the story of the Kaldwin dynasty ended inDishonored 2, developer Dinga Bakaba from Arkane has indicated the studio’s interest in continuing the franchise, and has pushed back on the idea that the end of Corvo and Emily’s stories means the end of the series. ThoughDishonored 3has yet to be announced, there are plenty of clear settings from the first two games’ lore that could provide a springboard for the third chapter’s success....

Many know that Monolith Soft, the studio behind theXenoblade Chroniclesseries, was acquired by Nintendo back in 2007. However, few know that the story behind Nintendo’s purchase of the studio was really wholesome. In 2007, Nintendo is riding the wave of the height of its success. TheNintendo Wiiand Nintendo DS released to become two of the best-selling consoles of all time, with Nintendo enjoying even more time in the sun than usual....

Summary The upcoming Xbox console exclusive titleContrabandwon’t be coming out anytime soon, according to an industry insider. Avalanche Studios, in partnership with Xbox Game Studios, is developingContraband, a first-person heist title first revealed during Microsoft’s conference at E3 2021. For the past three years, fans have been eager for any update on the project following its reveal via a cryptic CG teaser trailer. No concrete release window or gameplay footage has been shared with the community just yet, though the studio has shared thatContrabandwill be a co-op adventure set in the 1970s that is being built on the next generation of the Apex Engine, the tech used to power the ever-popularJust Causegames....