Author: Harvey Randall
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Amid fan backlash, Modern Warfare 3 studio bluntly denies reports the campaign was scraped together in 16 months as ‘simply not true’
Modern Warfare 3 hasn’t had the smoothest of entries. This latest entry has caught some major flak for being a ‘glorified expansion’ in the eyes of some fans, thanks to some confused initial messaging, carrying your guns over, and its speedy—some suggest rushed—development cycle. Now that it’s out, the campaign’s been panned for both its…
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Remnant 2’s new DLC class will let you set foes on fire, melt them with acid, electrocute them, and make them bleed—all at once
Big damage numbers are fun, sure, but slapping a bunch of damage-over-time effects on your foes and watching them wilt has its allure too. Remnant 2’s new archetype, the Ritualist, will let you do just that, and it’ll be arriving alongside the game’s first DLC next week. The full trailer dropped on the game’s official…
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Unfortunate: You can now completely ruin every single cutscene in Baldur’s Gate 3 with a Thomas the Tank Engine headcrab
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Mods are one of my favourite things about PC gaming, and Baldur’s Gate 3 is no different. Give players even the slightest bit of access to your code, and they’ll create whole new games, stunning graphical overhauls, and community patches to squash bugs. Then there’s also the horrors. The latest lovecraftian nightmare to pull into…
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Baldur’s Gate 3’s narrator wants to play TTRPGs like D&D forever: ‘when we’re old ladies, right? In the old people’s home … we’re gonna freak the f*ck out of a bunch of carers’
I chatted to Amelia Tyler earlier this week. In case you’re unfamiliar, Tyler’s the voice of Baldur’s Gate 3’s narrator, but she’s also a huge nerd and a seasoned roleplayer. While we talked about her favourite voice lines—as well as playing the Dark Urge’s inner monologue—the conversation inevitably shifted towards pen & paper. We got…
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FF14 player scores 100 wins in Fall Guys crossover in under a week, just by being really dang good at it
Final Fantasy 14’s Fall Guys event is, uh, a crossover that exists in a game. I’ve already made my feelings clear on the disturbing bisected Fall Guys hat, but it’s also got some pretty weird netcode wonkiness. I’ve done a spot of Savage raiding so I’m used to this kind of stuff, but for your…
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Baldur’s Gate 3 latest patch gives a lovely facelift to Karlach and Halsin’s smooch scenes—but it’s seriously soured kisses with Astarion
Baldur’s Gate 3 received its fourth patch earlier this week, and while it’s added some very important features like AMD’s FSR 2.2, the ability to wash your companions with soap, and letting you erect a naked statue of yourself, it may have also done some damage to your character’s love life. For starters, the Sex%…
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Remnant 2’s first DLC, The Awakened King, is inbound—here’s everything we know about it
Get ready for stormy skies, moody Elizabethan streets, and fantastic fae castles. We’re goin’ back to Losomn. I booted up Remnant 2 earlier this week, and was quickly reminded of why it’s still one of my faves from this year. It’s a great third-person romp that’s a mixture of soulslike staples and ARPG-style procedural generation.…
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Powered by spite, Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunner cleaves 12 minutes off the world record with dozens of glitches—like trapping a villain in a child’s body and knocking them out
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my time on the internet, it’s that you never, ever challenge a speedrunner. They live for challenges. Baldur’s Gate 3 is so open-ended it nudges into immersive sim territory—which means that its speedrun tactics have been suitably hare-brained, and runner Mae has been at the centre of them…
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One of the creators of Baldur’s Gate and Dragon Age: Origins has finally statted up D&D Satan (and all his mates)
There’s a tradition among Dungeons & Dragons players—and honestly, RPGs at large—that if you get to a high enough level, you’re gonna kill a god. Unless, of course, you’re running a campaign for a table of obstinate players who want to kill the devil instead. This officially-sanctioned D&D book from Arcanum Worlds lets you do…
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This FF14 animation mod turns the ninja into a high-tech John Wick, and it’s the coolest thing I can’t recommend
My main job in Final Fantasy 14 is the ninja. It has a satisfying rotation. I like that I can occasionally dip into ranged combat. I like that I’m slightly faster than everyone. I like that I get a little bunny on my head when I mess up. It’s good fun. I will, however, always…