One of the hairier unintended consequences of cheap 3-D printing is that any troublemaker can duplicate a key without setting foot in a hardware store. But clever lockpickers like Jos Weyers and ...

Laurence is an avid writer, gamer, and traveller with several years of journalistic writing experience under his belt. Having helped create a student-focused magazine at university, he is keen to ...

The Skeleton Key is one of the most useful Daedric Artifacts in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion — instead of a weapon or a piece of armor, the Skeleton Key is a powerful lockpick that never breaks. If ...

Many feared that a remake of the fourth Elder Scrolls would do away with its quirky minigames, but we’ve had to write a guide on how to lockpick in Oblivion Remastered as it’s as hard as it was back ...

About a month ago, I picked up a training lockpick set. I’ve always been curious about how lock picking works and how difficult it really is. In the process of learning, I discovered not only how easy ...

The wasteland of West Virginia is filled with locked doors and padlocks that you’ll want to bust open. Lockpicking, therefore, is an essential skill in Fallout 76, and you’ll need to not only master ...

Lock picking in games, especially Bethesda games, is always a fun little minigame. There is even a little bit of truth to how those games do it. Elex 2 breaks away from that slightly, so you need to ...

Learning to pick locks is a fun exercise in learning about locking mechanisms, honing a useful skill, and getting a better understanding of how locks work and protect—or fail to protect—you and your ...

The art of picking locks may seem like a skill more suited for an action-movie hero than the average person. However, with perseverance, an understanding of locks, and the right tools, anyone can ...