Author: Harvey Randall
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Sorry, everyone, sex is temporarily banned in Helldivers 2 because you failed the major order, though some of your fellow soldiers are getting special treatment
It’s just another normal day in Helldivers 2. Players, regrettably, appear to have failed the major order to liberate Fori Prime and Zagon Prime. While the galactic map shows Fori Prime as safe and sound, Zagon Prime is regrettably at zero percent liberation. We lost, folks. As a consequence of our collective inability to manage…
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I’m sad to see the old gang go, but Larian really doesn’t need the Baldur’s Gate IP or D&D to make another groundbreaking RPG
Larian Studios, the developer behind Baldur’s Gate 3, has recently announced that it’ll be moving away from D&D games, also citing a general lack of enthusiasm when it came to developing DLC for BG3. And honestly? I’m pleased as punch. Well, for the most part. I am admittedly holding some conflicted feelings about these characters’…
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‘Let’s just have closure on Baldur’s Gate 3, it’s been great. We’ve done our job’: Larian CEO says he hit the brakes on DLC plans because the team’s heart wasn’t in it
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a great game. Even that feels like an understatement, though. It’s one of our highest-scoring games in a decade and a half, a landmark RPG so significant it sparked actual debates in the developer community about its own quality. It’s also done. While the game’s going to keep getting patches and…
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Lego goes all-out on a 3,745 piece D&D set with its own bespoke TTRPG adventure, but it’ll set you back a dragon’s ransom of $360
As announced last year, a D&D and LEGO collab has been in the works for the TTRPG’s 50th anniversary—including a LEGO Ideas set (formerly called Dragon Keep: Journey’s End, now titled A Red Dragon’s Tale), which was devised by a fan designer by the name of Lucas Bolt. The set’s going to be a stonking…
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The Twitch hot tub meta has reached new heights with a green-screen booty scene, and I’m mostly just upset by how inefficient it is
Twitch has had, let’s call it a complicated relationship with adult content over the past few months. In case you’re completely uninitiated, the rough timeline is as follows: back in 2021, the “Hot Tub Meta” was born—wherein streamers would rake in viewers by streaming in, you guessed it, a hot tub. Twitch played ball after…
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Astarion’s actor was deployed to replace the missing mocap of around 150 lines of Baldur’s Gate 3 dialogue: ‘I just had this dog’s breakfast’
Astarion is a stand-out performance in Baldur’s Gate 3—with his voice actor, Neil Newbon, earning several awards because of his stellar work. That’s not to say he outshines anyone (the game is filled with incredible performances) but in my mind, Astarion is special because of the sheer variety of emotion he portrays, which is as…
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Top-tier deckbuilder Balatro hits 1 million sales in less than a month, which hopefully justifies all the hours we’ve collectively lost to it
I don’t like poker, but I love Balatro—and I mean, hey, I’ve at least got that in common with its creator (though I’ve played considerably more deckbuilders than they have). It’s pretty astounding that someone with zero experience in almost anything their game is about could make such a banger, but here we are. A…
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‘It’s just cosmetics’ monetisation doesn’t quite hold up anymore, especially now it’s started to make fully-priced games worse
Some variant of ‘it’s fine if it’s only cosmetics’ has been the rallying cry of many a live service game and MMORPG, especially in the past few years—and OK. If you’re looking at a game’s balance from a pure numbers standpoint, that’s absolutely true. It’s old gamer wisdom that any full-price game which locks direct…
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Cities: Skylines 2 will finally start getting modding support, alongside some performance fixes and its first wave of paid DLC
Cities: Skylines 2 has had a rocky launch, to say the least. Major performance problems and bugs have kicked its planned content patches a long way down the road, and the situation’s been made worse by an absence of modding support at launch—something Colossal Order’s CEO says is her team’s “biggest regret”. While redemption stories…
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We are once more informing you that the KOTOR remake is probably delayed for at least another year
Knights of the Old Republic is one of Bioware’s most beloved RPGs—a game that capitalised on the promise of the Star Wars extended universe in so many inventive ways that it spawned an entire fandom dedicated to that slice of a galaxy far, far away. So when a remake was announced in—god—2021, we were all…