“We don’t want to keep on doing the same thing, we really want to move forward and do new things” Baldur’s Gate 3’s upcoming mod support update, which willintroduce official modding tools to the sprawling Dungeons & Dragons RPGlater this year, will effectively serve as Larian’s swan song for their work on the game. That’s the perspective of the developers’ CEO Swen Vincke, who told the audience during a BAFTA event recounting Baldur’s Gate 3’s demanding development - which spanned a number of years both before and during early access - that opening up the game for players to mod (albeit with some limitations due to use of the D&D licence) represented “the point where we’re going to say, ‘Okay, now it’s yours fully’....

The most banter ever BioWare are also promising/threatening the largest quantity of Dragon Age party banter ever, so much banter that you will never wish to speak to another human being again, that you will shriek and beg for silence. What’s more, characters will dynamically break off and resume their bantering should they be interrupted by a rogue Pride Demon or because you’ve thrown yourself over a cliff to escape the relentless small talk....

“Thanks for playing with us” In late March, Embracergrandly announcedthat they were done throwing studios into the sacrificial volcano, but evidently, there’s always room for one more. In late April, Embracer revealed plans to divide their remaining tabletop gaming, free-to-play and premium video game businesses intothree smaller organisationsthat are focused on specific markets and platforms and which, crucially, do not have the word “Embracer” in the title - all presided over by the investment firm run by Embracer CEO and cofounder Lars Wingefors....

Positively smoking Fumes has starred ina few Screenshot Saturday round-upsbut this is the first time, to my knowledge, that somebody from the Treehouse has slipped behind the wheel and taken this crusty old banger for a spin. I am glad to have done so. Created by a team of four, Fumes is theMad MaxX Vigilante 8 adaptation somebody really should have made in the 90s, when the very thought of such a thing would have had me flipping tables and then sheepishly righting them again, before being sent to bed with no dinner....

Third entry in the fantasy Soulslike series will be exclusive to Epic on PC Lords of the Fallen, Lords of the Fallen 3, The The Lords of the Fallen, Lords of the Fall3n or whatever they decide to call it, before undoubtedly rechristening it later on for maximum confusion, was revealed by a bit of paperwork filed by publishers CI Games and spotted by Polish financial outletBankier. The paperwork filed on June 14th pertains to a partnership between CI Games and Epic to give the latter lifetime exclusive distribution rights to the game - currently referred to internally as Project 3....

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You shove to see it Well, shovel me timbers!Shovel Knight, the retroplatformerthat started it all (it all being everything froma roguelike spin-offto aDead Cellscameo) turns 10 this month, and Yacht Club Games are releasing a ultimate edition to celebrate. Entitled the ‘Shovel Of Hope DX’, this definitive-me-doo bundles in the original game with old and new features like saving and rewinding, over 20 playable characters, local and online co-op, and new modes....

Studio hopes to follow their annual DLC release cycle Starfield’s first expansion, this year’s Shattered Space, won’t be the only major DLC for the sci-fi exploration game, Bethesda bossman Todd Howard has confirmed. DiscussingStarfieldwithYouTuber MrMattyPlays, Howard revealed that Shattered Space started “actual” development after the team wrapped up work on Starfield’s base game, meaning it’s been in the works since August-September time last year. Howard also compared the scope and focus of the expansion - which largely takes place in one city on a single planet - toFallout 4’s Far Harbor DLC andThe Elder Scrolls....

Oil not sleep tonight Scottish petrochemicalhorroris not exactly a genre, but maybe it ought to be. From the opening moments ofStill Wakes The Deepyou know life on its 1970s North Sea oil rig is precarious. Leaky ceilings, busted panelling, faulty drill machinery - the omens pile up as you spend your first thirty minutes wandering through the colleague-packed canteen and over the platform into the boss' office for a severe dressing-down....

This week’s least pestiferous PC game releases, plus our weekly news blog Beloved friends, hated enemies - last week, we let the side down. Due to ashortage of hands at the pumpandpersistent clouds of Geoff Keighley activity, there was no weekly Maw liveblog, and this has bred disaster. Shaken, stirred and finally ignited for want of two-sentence updates aboutDragon Age, the Maw emitted a full 13% of its cosmo-puissance into Mundus and took a grievous bite out of the ailing and fearful lasagne of reality itself....

The free update also brings summoning pool and inventory tweaks on the 20th This once verdant ground is now wrecked by the passage of time. My terrible nemesis looms before me, inevitable and devastating. Many have fallen to it, but I will overcome. Oh,Elden Ring? I was talking about male pattern baldness. It will eventually destroy all that was once beautiful about my hairline, but at least I’ll have five fancy new hairdos to pick from when theopen worldRPG’s newest free update releases this Thursday, 20th of June....

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