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Need to Know What is it? A turn-based strategy game about superheroes rebelling against a dystopian regime.Release date May 29, 2024Expect to pay TBADeveloper Spitfire InteractivePublisher Daedalic EntertainmentReviewed on Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAMSteam Deck VerifiedLink Official site  All the best superhero teams have one thing in common: everyone has…

Helldivers 2 may not have any official modding support, but you simply cannot stop players putting weird stuff in your game. A couple of weeks ago, YouTuber and modder ToastedShoes dropped Master Chief, Buzz Lightyear, the TARDIS, and more into the war for a truly chaotic take on managed democracy. Now he’s showing off an…

Greetings, fans of Baldur’s Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2. What if I was to tell you that Larian has launched a new massive RPG that you can play right now? Sure, it may be a bit pricier than you expect, and involve more little bits of card…  Divinity: Original Sin The Board Game…

After six years of development, Larian Studios has released Divinity: Original Sin The Board Game—a distillation of its unique approach to fantasy RPGs into a box full of cardboard and plastic. You can read my impressions of the game for a full rundown, but suffice to say, I think it’s something really special. So I…

In the dystopian future of Capes, renegade superheroes are called “Capes”, but none of them wear capes. What are you supposed to make of that? I was planning to dedicate the following 1000 words to trying to figure out a possible explanation for this bizarre state of affairs, but then it turned out to have…

Last month, Larian announced that it’s going to “move away from D&D”, and suddenly the future of Baldur’s Gate seemed a lot murkier. The smash success of Baldur’s Gate 3 has firmly revived the classic RPG series, but without Larian to continue to shepherd it, what can we actually expect from any possible sequels or…

The return of the Dragon’s Dogma series this year has been a real breath of fresh air. Not because the sequel is perfect—it certainly has its quirks and flaws—but because it so confidently walks its own path. There are all sorts of elements of it that make it feel so different from its peers, and…

As the technology of videogame graphics has grown and evolved over the decades, developers have been able to imbue their characters with more and more life and humanity. Subtle animations and mo-capped facial expressions give heroes and villains a believable inner life that enables more emotionally resonant stories to be told. But that’s all a…

The first Dragon’s Dogma was a true cult classic. Weird, idiosyncratic, in some ways a huge pain in the ass, yet deeply compelling. Since 2012 it’s built an audience of people who love it for its strangeness, warts and all—myself included. When a big, modern sequel was announced, I was excited… but also a little…

Before I’d even taken five steps out of the character creator, I was wondering how to start a new game in Dragon’s Dogma 2. Even with its detailed lighting options, it’s very possible to accidentally make an Arisen you can’t live with and want to start over right away rather than wait until you can…