Author: Harvey Randall
-
D&D lore buff discovers Elminster’s likely been leaving magic items strewn around Baldur’s Gate 3 like a fantasy wizard Santa Claus
You ever thought about why you find so many potent, powerful magic items in Baldur’s Gate 3? No, really—while most of the places you delve into are dangerous, they’re also abandoned and lost to the ravages of time. Why in the nine hells is there the arcane equivalent of a fully-functioning Glock in some chest…
-
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty’s third deadliest boss is an OSHA-violating garage, making it 86.6% as dangerous as a giant killer robo-tank
Cyberpunk 2077’s triumphant DLC, Phantom Liberty, added some fun bosses to the game—including a giant enemy (mecha) crab robot… thing. I guess it’s more of a beetle really, being a hexapod. The Chimera 0005-C M is a Militech monster that sweeps the area with a deadly laser, though you can snag its core and get…
-
Square Enix announces it’s tanked $140 million in losses due to ‘content abandonment’, though there’s no clue as to what’s been dropped—and where
In a continuation of Square Enix’s promise to review its development processes “from scratch”, the gaming giant best known for Final Fantasy announced it was expecting massive losses in a warning to investors yesterday. “… in light of the myriad changes underway in the environment surrounding its Group,” the statement reads, Square Enix plans to…
-
Buckle up—Hasbro spent over $1 billion on games and has plans for ‘the next 100 years’, since Baldur’s Gate 3 proved fans ‘like a great, well-executed D&D game’
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that Baldur’s Gate 3 did well—winning just about every major Game of the Year award, starting industry-wide conversations about the quality of videogames, and getting one of our highest-ever review scores. It’s also done remarkably well as a licensing deal for Hasbro, which owns Wizards of…
-
Helldivers 2 players decry broken ricochet changes, then realise it’s probably just shrapnel from the now-deadly Eruptor
Helldivers 2’s latest patch introduced a new wrinkle into your average diver’s shoot loop—deadlier ricochets. As the patch notes read: “Shots that ricochet from heavy armored enemies will now properly hit the Helldiver who fired them. Trigger discipline is highly recommended.” In essence, ricochet shots didn’t used to harm you—now they do. This has, naturally,…
-
Helldivers 2 devs send players into a frenzy as they tease 2 new potential stratagems via meme propaganda
Helldivers 2 devs have proven before that they aren’t above a little trolling—proclaiming that bugs can’t fly (they can), that there are no such things as heavy machine guns (there are) and that blue lasers aren’t real (jury’s still out on that one). Super Earth propagandists have apparently discovered new and creative ways to mess…
-
FF14 players are struggling to complete the Yo-kai Watch event thanks to a tide of Blue Mages armed with bad vibes and missiles
The Yo-kai Watch event has made a return to FF14, letting players grab weapon glams, mounts, and a terribly cursed dog. It’s a fun excuse to run around the overworld and complete FATEs, which are public group quests that spawn regularly in most zones—but there’s a wrinkle to the good times: the feared Blue Mage.…
-
Arrowhead Games keeps the spirit of democracy alive by making Helldivers 2 players choose which stratagem they’d like to unlock next
Well, it looks like we know what that meme from earlier in the week was about—and a surprisingly accurate use of one, to boot. Helldivers 2 players are faced with a choice for their next major order: mines or rockets. MAJOR ORDER: Helldivers, it’s time to choose between liberating Choohe or Penta. Depending on your…
-
Helldivers 2 devs confirm that, no, trimming ‘excess leg space in the cockpit’ doesn’t mean the nice Eagle-1 lady is hacking off her legs for liberty
Helldivers 2 players are normal about the Eagle-1 pilot—otherwise known as that charmingly-voiced lady who helps you dispense liberty from the cockpit of her fighter jet with lines such as “Administering Freedom!”, “Democracy’s on its way!” and “Got ’em!” Eagle-1’s cheery disposition, confident attitude, and distant nature has quickly elevated her to “best girl” status…
-
Roll20 will cut out the alt-tabbing middleman and let you run your D&D and TTRPG games directly in Discord, which you were probably using for voice chat anyway
If you play D&D online, there’s a chance you use—or have used—Roll20. While it’s far from the most versatile or powerful virtual tabletop (VTT) on the market (with others having far more extensive modding and addon support) it’s both free and straightforward enough to use that I feel its popularity is deserved. You also probably…