Author: Robert Purchese

[ad_1] Every year, in March, the Independent Games Festival celebrates the best indie games of the past twelve months. It’s one of the only celebrations where smaller games, made by smaller teams, are not overshadowed by hulking blockbusters. And it always serves as both a great reminder of what was released, and a way to…

[ad_1] I don’t know whether to be turned off by the new Colossal Cave or charmed by it. Here’s a game that originally came out in 1976, and was played entirely in text – printed on paper, in some cases – and it’s been remade in 3D. The caves you once explored in your imagination…

[ad_1] Sometimes it’s hard to imagine, when a game becomes a series and an admired one at that, that once upon a time there was nothing. There was nothing tangible. All there were, were hopes and ideas, swirling around. And the process of materialising them into something: it’s a fragile thing. There’s no certainty that…

[ad_1] I think fiction sometimes forgets about the bonds between brothers and sisters and how powerful they can be. I guess we usually see siblings as a way of showing two sides of the same coin – one who turned out evil while the other turned out good, like me and my brother. But…

[ad_1] It’s Witcher day again! A cool seven-and-a-half years after The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was released, a brand new next-gen update has arrived to make Geralt’s Big Adventure look better than ever. I thought I’d take the occasion to celebrate some of the things we’ve written about the game over the years. We’ve done…

[ad_1] The paladin class is coming to the early access version of Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s the headline addition in Patch 9 which, I’m afraid, sounds like it will be the last major content update to the early access build before the game’s full release in August 2023. Larian leader Swen Vinke said this during…

[ad_1] Please note, this interview was recorded before the allegations about Diablo 4’s chaotic and mismanaged development aired, so I didn’t have the opportunity to ask about it. Earlier this week, I had the chance to play the beginning of Diablo 4, and I put around 10 hours into it. I came away very impressed.…

[ad_1] Baldur’s Gate 3 finally has a release date! It’s only narrowed down to a month, rather than a day, but here it is: August 2023. Mark it in your calendars and take the whole month off. Say Eurogamer said it was okay. The August 2023 release date means Baldur’s Gate 3 arrives, in full,…