Author: Jody Macgregor
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Skyrim mod lets you match the pace of NPCs so you can more easily follow them around
Surely everyone knows this extremely specific frustration: a game expects you to accompany an NPC while they lead you to the next part of the quest, talking the whole way, but they travel slower than your running speed and faster than your walking speed. You have to alternate awkwardly between a stroll and a jog…
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Games Workshop has no plans to bring Cathay and Kislev armies to Warhammer: The Old World ‘for the foreseeable future’
One of the exciting things about Warhammer: The Old World was the news of collaboration between the team working on it and Creative Assembly, which was working on Total War: Warhammer 3 at the time, to round out the army lists for Grand Cathay and Kislev. These two nations hadn’t been focused on in tabletop…
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Magic: The Gathering’s Fallout crossover understands they’re RPGs about reading lore on terminals and hoarding junk until you’re encumbered
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What’s the iconic Fallout experience? Is it talking the final boss into changing their philosophy, or is it shooting mutants in the ruins of America? Those are easier things to highlight, memorable peaks that make for good videos, but they’re not true to what we do the most when we’re playing those games. We spend…
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Bandai Namco has canceled ‘at least five’ games following a drop in sales, would like to remind everyone it still has ‘large-scale downloadable content for Elden Ring’ on the way
Figures from Bandai Namco’s recently concluded third fiscal quarter (via VGC), show its digital division performing poorly compared to the same period last year, with income falling by a huge 96.5%. A statement accompanying the figures explained the dramatic drop-off was due to an understandable inability to replicate the massive success of Elden Ring, despite…
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Creative Assembly shows off hag lore, three-headed heroes, and other additions coming to Total War: Warhammer 3’s DLC
We’ve already seen the new additions to Cathay’s roster in the Shadows of Change DLC coming with patch 4.2, and now Creative Assembly has posted two more blogs lining up all the new stuff coming to the armies of Tzeentch and Kislev. It’s a lot. Worshippers of the Great Conspirator Tzeentch are already well-off when…
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Helldivers 2 is too successful for its own good, problem with rewards not unlocking ‘was mitigated but not resolved’
“It doesn’t get much worse for a multiplayer launch”, Fraser Brown wrote on the release of Helldivers 2, mentioning issues like “broken matchmaking, frequent crashes, and a kernel-level anti-cheat system that everyone hates.” The developers at Arrowhead have been working to rectify the issues, and according to an update from CEO Johan Pilestedt, three hotfixes…
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After more than 60 Books spread out over 18 years the Horus Heresy series is finally over, so please be kind to the Warhammer 40,000 tragics in your life
For the foundational myth of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, the Horus Heresy had an extremely prosaic origin. The reason it exists, this massive fallen-paradise fairytale taking place 10,000 years in the setting’s past, is that Games Workshop couldn’t afford to put miniatures representing two different factions in a box back in 1988. Rewind to the…
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Watch a retrospective of classic 1983 CRPG Ultima 3: Exodus
You know what’s relevant and exciting in the year of our lord 2024? The third Ultima game from 1983. OK, not really, and I leave drawing a line from Ultima 3: Exodus to the CRPGs of today as an exercise for the reader, but it really is fascinating to look back at nonetheless. This is…
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Yes, I will play Magic: The Gathering crossed with Clue
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Clue, or Cluedo for non-Americans, is my favorite family board game. (Great movie too.) It’s the kind of thing you can bring out when you’re not playing with people who know every Catan expansion front-to-back and are halfway through some giant legacy game and have like three Kickstarters they’re waiting on. Clue is a game…
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Creative Assembly begs Total War: Warhammer fans to come back with upgraded DLC that adds a giant terracotta warrior
Following last year’s expensive Shadows of Change DLC, the Total War: Warhammer 3 community’s Public Order score dropped until it was only a few turns away from outright rebellion. Redditors and YouTubers folded in a bunch of perennial complaints about bugs and update cadence and communication and how they want one specific kind of beastmen…