Author: Jody Macgregor
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The ToyBox mod lets you skip almost all the combat in Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader and play it like the choose-your-own-adventure it should have been
Once, while hopping between systems in the Koronus Expanse, I woke up in a completely different part of the ship. Instead of the ostentatious throne I usually inhabit as a Rogue Trader—a title that puts me halfway between Vasco de Gama and a space pirate—I was suddenly on the lower decks. And the lower decks…
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One of the Assassin’s Creed cards coming to Magic: The Gathering is just a haystack
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Magic: The Gathering is heading into videogame territory for some of its sets this year, with a Fallout crossover first on deck, and both Final Fantasy and Assassin’s Creed on the way. We got a look at some of the Fallout cards already, which show an understanding of the fact the Fallout games are about…
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Greedfall 2: The Dying World will launch in early access, ‘players will have access to the entire beginning of the game’
Our reviewer Lauren Morton called Greedfall “adequate” when she reviewed the RPG from by French studio Spiders, saying its systems “parrot those of successful RPGs, but they’re all a bit thin.” The studio has higher hopes for its sequel, which is scheduled for release in the summer of 2024. In a first for Spiders, it’ll…
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Fallout TV show producer says, ‘It’s almost like we’re Fallout 5’
Previous attempts to pitch an adaptation of Fallout have apparently stalled because current rights-holder Bethesda isn’t interested in a movie or TV show that retells a story the games have already told. The showrunners of the upcoming Amazon Prime TV show got around that by pitching something new, they said in an interview with Total…
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Call of Duty has already thrown King Kong, Godzilla, and Nicki Minaj into its brand synergy blender, so a Warhammer 40,000 crossover is next
“Operators are only as strong as the oaths they uphold”, says the official Call of Duty Twitter account, by way of announcing skins based on gothic space satire Warhammer 40,000 are coming to Warzone and Modern Warfare 3. Expect skins based on the Adeptus Astartes, Adepta Sororitas, and Astra Militarum among others, which is to…
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Cartoon spaceship disaster sim Space Crew is free to keep on Steam for a limited time
Back in 2017, indie studio Runner Duck released Bomber Crew, a game we said wasn’t quite a World War II version of spaceship sim FTL, but was pretty close—a cartoony management game where you’ve got a mission to accomplish and a team of experts to do it with, until you accidentally lose an engineer over…
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I harnessed the power of deceit to conquer Hell in Solium Infernum, but I’m still not sure what I’m doing
These are the names of some of the legions you can recruit in Solium Infernum: The Defilers; Vile Apostates; Iron Maidens; 10,000 Screaming Bastards. You want to recruit 10,000 Screaming Bastards, don’t you? Of course you do. Who wouldn’t? It’s a strong theme. The throne of Hell is empty and all the devils sneer. You’re…
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‘Lore-accurate’ Dawn of War 2 mod lets you make it more like Dawn of War 1
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2 shrunk the classic RTS down to squad-scale, presenting its battles as a series of close-range skirmishes between at most half-a-dozen units on each side. If you miss the larger scale and variety of factions in the original Dawn of War, the Codex Edition mod, which just released version 3.0,…
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You can punch a tank in retro beat ’em up G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra
It’s a good time to be into retro beat ’em ups based on classic toys and cartoons. We had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge in 2022, and developers Maple Powered Games just revealed a new trailer for G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra at IGN Fan Fest. It’s a side-scroller in the tradition of arcade…
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Baldur’s Gate 3 has been nominated in five categories at this year’s Gayming Awards
Gayming Magazine’s annual awards for celebrating queerness in videogames are back for their fourth year. The nominees have been announced and Baldur’s Gate 3 is in the lead, being up for five potential awards: Game of the Year, the Gayming Magazine Readers Award, the Authentic Representation Award, Best LGBTQ Character (two nominations, one for Dame…