Author: Jody Macgregor
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In Baldur’s Gate 3, like so many RPGs, the mod to remove the party size limit is essential
Dragon Age: Origins gave you a dog—a rumple-faced mabari war hound who could dig up items, mark territory to earn buffs, and fight alongside you. He was great, and I loved him. But he took up one of the same slots as party members who were actual people, who could talk and be romanced and…
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The original tabletop deckbuilder Dominion is free-to-play on Steam, with AI powered by neural networks
Before you jump down my throat, no, Dominion wasn’t the first tabletop game with deckbuilding in it, with predecessors like StarCraft: The Board Game. Dominion was, however, the first to build an entire game around the mechanic, giving birth to the genre that would hop to PC with Dream Quest, Slay the Spire, Monster Train,…
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The T’au are coming to Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector
Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector, the turn-based strategy game whose singleplayer campaign casts you as 40K’s ultimate goth space marines, is adding another DLC faction. Joining the previously added Sisters of Battle, Necrons, Orks, and Daemons of Khorne will be the technogoth universe’s resident mech-piloting alien weebs, the T’au. Battlesector’s T’au army includes a variety of battlesuits…
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We thought Death Stranding was Peak Kojima, but Death Stranding 2 already looks like it’s scaling new heights of his personal WTF mountain
If it doesn’t make you say “what the fuck” out loud is it even a Death Stranding trailer? The marketing for the original Death Stranding was a masterclass in intriguing nonsense that everyone wanted to talk about even though we did not understand a lick of it. There were dead whales, blood urine, and a…
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Blood Bowl 3 gets league admin tools at last, though in beta form
One of the frustrating things about Blood Bowl 3 was that it launched without features Blood Bowl 2 had, including ways for players to manage their own multiplayer leagues. Being able to remove teams when players drop out and decide which special rules your tournament wants to play with are basic features for a Blood…
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Spiderweb’s remaster of classic CRPG Geneforge 2 gets a March release date
Last year a Kickstarter for a remastered version of Spiderweb Software’s CRPG Geneforge 2 passed its humble $30,000 goal and raised $76,777 based on its promise of “Open ended fantasy role-playing fun with your own army of custom-made mutant monsters.” That remaster, which is called Geneforge 2 – Infestation, will be out on March 27.…
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Two years after release, the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters on Steam finally achieve feature-parity with the console versions
You know how Steam is famously strict about certifying new updates? No? I’ve just been handed a note, apparently Steam doesn’t give a hoot and the only explanation for Square Enix being so tardy with updates for the PC version of the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters (and the mobile versions too) is that they forgot…
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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 creative director outlines its ‘visceral immersive combat’
The latest dev diary for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is dedicated to the horror RPG’s combat system, outlining three gameplay styles players will be able to choose between. Alex Skidmore, creative director at The Chinese Room, begins with the “strategic stalker” playstyle, which is your stealth assassin package for backstab-likers. “Did you enjoy…
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Great moments in PC gaming: Going back to the 1960s TV show in Lego Batman 3
Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham (Image credit: WB Games) Developer: Traveller’s TalesYear: 2014 I grew up watching repeats of the Batman TV show, decades old by that point. With one of the catchiest theme tunes ever recorded and a tone…
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Suicide Squad devs say despite being a live-service game it’ll respect players’ time because ‘We all love playing games, but we also have lives’
It feels like the internet’s already made up its mind about Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, to the degree that I can’t imagine it receiving any kind of fair response when it launches on February 2. It’s become a symbol of everything wrong with live-service games, which is a reputation I imagine Rocksteady is…