Author: Harvey Randall
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The Finals uses AI text-to-speech because it can produce lines ‘in just a matter of hours rather than months’, baffles actual voice actors
A podcast by Embark Studios—creators of the upcoming FPS The Finals—has hinted that the game will be using AI voice lines for the foreseeable future. The explanation, however, has left some voice actors feeling confused, at best. Carl Strandberg and Andreas Almström, audio designers for The Finals, were asked: “who did the voiceovers? They sound…
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D&D’s latest physical book has been delayed due to bad luck of the draw: ‘The defect rate is too high. I cannot in good conscience ship this stock’
Dungeons & Dragons has a new book coming out—but you’ll have to wait a while longer for the physical copy. The release of The Deck of Many Things core rulebook has been delayed thanks to a streak of bad luck (or poor manufacturing, depending on how charitable you’re willing to be). On October 28, the…
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D&D livestream Critical Role announces its next charity one-shot, where donors vote on its classes and story to mess with celebrity guests
Critical Role—a mega-popular Dungeons & Dragons game that’s spawned its own official campaign settings and animated series—is doing another run of its “choose their adventure” charity one-shots. The Critical Role Foundation has partnered with Red Nose Day and Comic Relief US to run a one-shot with a twist: donate, and you’ll be able to vote…
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Unity’s disastrously unpopular fees were ‘rushed out’, according to anonymous sources: ‘we were not told a date. And then before we knew it, it was out there’
Last month Unity, one of the biggest game engines, tried to push out a massively controversial change to the way it does business. Namely a retroactive fee taken from devs for every install of a game—no matter how that install happened. Putting your game up on Game Pass or Humble Bundle? Doesn’t matter, Unity wanted…
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Final Fantasy 14’s bizarre Fall Guys event drops later this month, and I’m scared my trips into the bean dimension will be a good way to make gil
The Final Fantasy 14 x Fall Guys event has been in the pipeline for a while now, and we’ve just been treated to a full list of details, as outlined on the game’s official website. I’ve felt deeply conflicted about this whole thing. While FF14’s no stranger to crossovers—heck, there was an entire raid series…
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This graphics mod for Dark Souls is so comprehensive it breaks a boss fight, letting you bomb the Capra Demon from on-high
Dark Souls is an interconnected game—if you datamine out a full model of Lordran, you’re able to look at the entire breadth of it like it’s a model train set, from the swamps of Blighttown to the hallowed halls of Anor Londo. Back when the game first came to PC, its port was pretty shocking—it…
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Ex-Bethesda dev says Starfield could’ve focused on ‘two dozen solar systems’, but ‘people love our big games … so let’s go ahead and let ’em have it’
Starfield‘s big. Real big. Over 1,000 planets big. However that illusion of bigness really vanishes when the game reuses particular prefabs. You can only go through the exact same space base so many times before you start feeling like you’re on the Truman Show. As PC Gamer’s Fraser Brown pointed out a while back: “there’s…
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Starfield player’s anti-grav salad spinner soothed my soul, right up until I saw its lettuce-obsessed creator’s other dark designs
Ahh, Bethesda physics, you never let me down. Starfield‘s no exception—and its physics engine is genuinely impressive, able to handle thousands of potatoes stuffed into a room (with some understandable framerate tanks and whining from your rig). PC Gamer’s Lauren Morton even had some fun herself, shoving all sorts into that same locker. We’ve seen…
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Forget Karlach and Shadowheart, my new favourite Baldur’s Gate 3 pairing is this delusional fan romance with zero supporting evidence
“We were robbed,” boldly states a post on the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit, one that inexplicably has over 14,000 upvotes. “We were cheated,” cries its sister. Both show Withers, everyone’s favourite respec zombie, hastily added into a fancam-style montage with Raphael, a devilish antagonist. We were robbed from r/BaldursGate3 Despite Tinkerpopp’s insistence that you can…
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Remnant 2’s latest dev talk puts crosshairs on the game’s most busted ring, confirms loadouts with a ‘Yep’, and gets into the armour nitty-gritty
The Remnant 2 Dev Loop, a tell-all set of posts by Principal Designer at Gunfire Games Ben Cureton (otherwise known as Verytragic), hit the Remnant 2 subreddit over the weekend, and it’s a doozy. The second of these dev insight blogs, this dev loop went into the Gunfire’s upcoming balance changes and plans. In particular,…