There are an awful lot of spells in D&D, and while Baldur’s Gate 3 features less than half of them, several of the big hitters are present; Tasha’s Hideous Laughter, Otto’s Irresistible Dance, or true classics like Fireball and Healing Word. But when a boss fight meant that all of …
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Baldur’s Gate 3‘s second act is very different to its first. Fairytale-style exploration quickly gives way to something far darker and less welcoming, but according to lead writer Adam Smith, there’s a very good reason for that. Speaking with Smith at Gamescom, GamesRadar+ asks about the somewhat jarring difference in …
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The Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan that traveled across 3 continents to see all of Redd’s artwork in real life has revealed it started out as a joke. Back in 2022, Mayplaystv – Animal Crossing fan and TikTok creator – began their travel series after posting a video to TikTok …
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Why did Baldur’s Gate 3 blow up the way it did? We put the question to lead Larian writer Adam Smith at Gamescom, and he reckons it’s partly down to the fact that it doesn’t just look like Larian’s traditional brand of CRPG – it’s a full-fledged cinematic RPG, too. …
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The Diablo 4 1.1.3 patch notes are here, and they bring a welcome list of fixes for common complaints. There have been a number of patches released since the unambiguous disaster that was Diablo 4’s Season 1 launch, some of them better received than others. Patch 1.1.3 is yet another …
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One streamer and dev has found the perfect way to mark the days until the launch of Starfield: with an online countdown that deposits one digital sandwich into an ever-growing pile every five minutes until the game is out. The Starfield Sandwich Countdown, available at starfieldsandwich.com, is a simple Unity …
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Cyberpunk 2077 will completely overhaul its skill tree surrounding ‘Netrunner’ builds. We’ve heard a lot about how update 2.0 will overhaul aspects of Cyberpunk 2077, at the same time as the Phantom Liberty expansion launches on September 26. Now, expansion game director Gabrial Amatangelo has revealed just how extensive the …
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Few games have completely sold me on their concept quite like The Plucky Squire. Just five seconds into my hands-off demo session with co-director James Turner, I’m smiling from ear to ear as I watch protagonist Jot walk through the pages of a storybook in chapter four of the adventure. …
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I’m an amateur fleet commander with admirable intentions: I want to dominate the stars in Homeworld 3 with a massive squadron of Interceptors, the nimble fighters that look a lot like the Vipers from Battlestar Galactica. Hitting the population cap, I’m able to arrange my Interceptors into differing formation and …
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In our Blasphemous 2 review, I describe The Game Kitchen’s blood-spattered second coming as “a Soulslike sequel that’s as unsettling as it is unpredictable”. For the most part, that’s in reference to the Metroidvania-meets-FromSoftware-styled adventure’s brutal boss battles, its disparate themes of tragedy framed by religion and cultism, and the …
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