It’s hard to overstate the spectacle of Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s hard to escape it, too. Baldur’s Gate 3 is all over the internet like its players are all over bears. Larian’s latest epic RPG is well and truly having a moment, and through it, CRPGs in general are too. …
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GTA 6 is coming. Granted, it’s been coming for some time. Depending on how you look at it, it’s been on its way for almost a decade – since GTA 5 breached the shores of PS3 and Xbox 360 in September 2013, graduated onto PS4 and PC two years later, …
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I didn’t finish Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, which says a lot about my feelings towards the latest entry in the long-running series. As an avid Pokemon fan who grew up playing the games, I almost always reach the end of each trainer’s journey. But I fell off of Scarlet and …
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Streamer RTGame and his community have completed a map of ‘New Earth’ in Minecraft after three years of construction. The map is built on a 1:4000 scale of the Earth, meaning it horizontally spans about 10km or 10,000 blocks in-game. This has been going on for three years on and …
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Midnight Club, Rockstar’s series of street racing games from the 2000s, is an unlikely candidate for a remaster. Look, if Red Dead Redemption isn’t getting one, the odds are practically zero for Midnight Club. But if we were to imagine a return for the series, what could that look like? …
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As we dive into a weekend full of free time to play Baldur’s Gate 3, it also means there’s lots of neat things we’ll start to see being discovered. And whilst there’s the fun bits, like finding secret pacts hidden in the terms and conditions or Matt Mercer flexing his …
Read More »Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya thinks Japanese devs should be proud of JRPG
Earlier this year, Final Fantasy producer Naoki Yoshida revealed he doesn’t like the term ‘JRPG’, explaining he’s uncomfortable with its use due to the term’s history of being used in a discriminatory way. Since then, there’s been a lot of debate about whether to continue to use ‘JRPG’ or not, …
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You’d think there was some grand inspiration behind The Witcher book series – a fictional land rife with politics and undiscovered geographical points, or dragons and ogres for the hero to slay. After all, it’s a popular series in its own right, plus it’s got an acclaimed video game tie-in …
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This cozy room-organizing game is going to be the next Unpacking and A Little to the Left, which is great news since I’ve played both of those and need more. Earlier this week I spotted a new indie game on TikTok that looks exactly like the kind of thing I …
Read More »How the Fort Solis developers made a sci-fi thriller for the Netflix generation
There is a level of polish and visual flair to Fort Solis that belies its two-year, relatively low budget, indie development. It leverages its Unreal 5 engine to create some incredible environments on a Mars-based setting, and includes some impressive facial animation that wouldn’t look out of place in the …
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