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Pac-Man and Tetris are "the two most important games of all time," says Bethesda lead Todd Howard, with Doom and Super Mario Bros. standing as the most "influential"

"For what they do for gaming"

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Skyrim artist secretly worked to save the RPG's ugly werewolves from getting cut before taking a demo to Todd Howard and getting a big reaction: "This is f***ing awesome"

Werewolves are an art

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'I think geniuses come up with terrible ideas, too': Former senior artist at Bethesda likens Todd Howard's struggles with complete creative control to George Lucas

"If you don't have somebody to help you filter through these things and give you an honest assessment, it actually does hurt you."

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'Starfield' once had a gore system similar to Fallout — a former Bethesda developer explains why it was removed

Alongside the technical debt it would require to implement, it just didn't make sense given the vision the game had.

Windows Central

Harrison Ford praises Troy Baker's Indiana Jones and the Great Circle performance, years after arguing "nobody else" could be Indy

The Hollywood icon crashed The Game Awards 2024

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'I want to thank the fans of New Vegas for not burning my house to the ground,' says Jonathan Nolan while accepting a Game Award for the Fallout TV show

"You'll be very happy you didn't."

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Harrison Ford says Troy Baker 'did a great job' playing Indiana Jones: 'If I'd known he was so good, I would've done it myself'

Gotta be a dream moment for an actor, right?

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Todd Howard "rolled his eyes" at the idea of Troy Baker playing Indiana Jones in the Great Circle, but the Bethesda boss later told him "you're doing a hell of a job"

Troy Baker thought he'd be fired after Todd Howard's skepticism

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Much to Todd Howard's chagrin, testing audiences for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle loved Troy Baker as the leading man: 'They picked you every time'

The gamers yearn for the Troy.

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"Cut to about 3 o'clock in the morning, I end up on the piano, the bars kicked us out, and I spent the weekend nursing a hangover": Troy Baker on the 9-hour bender that taught him how to bring Indiana Jones to life

"I can tell you the wrong way to do it"

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Troy Baker isn't trying to do a 'bang on' impression of Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Which seems like the right choice.

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Troy Baker originally turned down playing Indiana Jones, but took the job because it wasn't about doing "a bang on impression" of Harrison Ford

One legendary game developer was very skeptical about Baker portraying Dr. Jones

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'Indiana Jones and the Great Circle' Will Mark a Monumental First For The Series

'Indiana Jones and the Great Circle' will be Machine Games' longest game yet, according to the game's creative director.

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is "by far" the "biggest and longest game that MachineGames have ever done" with nearly 4 hours of cutscenes

That's like two free Indiana Jones movies with your Indiana Jones game

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In an expansion-heavy time for Xbox, Phil Spencer says he doesn't like "expansions that are manipulative" – "I don't want it to be, like, the third level that you cut"

"Not every game will do expansions"

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After Starfield: Shattered Space's mixed reviews, Todd Howard wondered if Bethesda should "have waited to put buggies out"

Fans wanted "more features" from the expansion

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Microsoft Gaming head honcho Phil Spencer says 'I don't like expansions that are manipulative... like, the third level you cut before you launched'

"Not every [Microsoft] game will do expansions."

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'Fallout' Season 2 Is Making One Crucial Change From the Games

Fans of the 'Fallout' series have something to look forward to in Season 2, executive producer Jonathan Nolan tells Inverse, during New York’s annual Paley International summit.

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Bethesda's Todd Howard told Troy Baker he didn't want him to star in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, but after "a blind taste test, people chose you every time"

The Last of Us actor wasn't Todd Howard's first choice

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Machine Games confirms that 'Indiana Jones and The Great Circle' runs at 60 FPS on the Xbox Series X and the Xbox Series S

It's sixty frames per second for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on both the Xbox Series X and the oft-30 FPS Xbox Series S.

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WoW stays true to form by dropping a $90 dinosaur mount during a controversial balance patch—and of course players are buying enough of them to gather in herds

"This is what we've chosen."

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Former Bethesda lead is sceptical of The Elder Scrolls' return to 'fiddly stat sheets', even in the face of Baldur's Gate 3's success

No fuss with your roh-dah.

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Elder Scrolls 6 won't return to "fiddly stat sheets" due to Baldur's Gate 3's success, says Skyrim lead: "Through Skyrim, Bethesda has wanted to have the game get out of its own way"

Bruce Nesmith says Todd Howard is "a big proponent of the interface vanishing if you’re not doing something that needs it to be visible"

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Fallout vet says his heavy metal open-world RPG is "5x the size of Skyrim," riffs on Todd Howard: "See that mountain there? You can go there"

"I tried something smaller and it felt awful"

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Todd Howard reflects on Starfield development: "How do we generate these planets? Is that even a good idea? OK, maybe at the time, no, but we made it work"

Starfield was a uniquely challenging RPG for Bethesda

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