Today is the 20th anniversary of immersive sim developer Arkane Studios. Bethesda have decided to mark the occasion by setting up an "Arkane 20" site where fans can sign up and get a free copy of the studio's first title, the 2002 Ultima Underworld homage Arx Fatalis, on the Bethesda.net store. It's clearly an attempt at doing some community building ahead of the imminent reveal of Arkane's next game Deathloop, but free stuff is always nice. The game has been updated on Steam and GOG as well, so you can play on Windows 10 now without having to use the Arx Libertatis source port. They even made a trailer:


Bethesda have published an article about Arx Fatalis' legacy on their website, and there are also some details about the game in Noclip's new documentary about Arkane. Did you know that Dark Messiah could have been Arx Fatalis 2 if Bethesda had published it instead of Ubisoft? Those were different times.