Also a photo mode Way back in June, treacherous, fickle Larian declared thatBaldur’s Gate 3patch 7 would be theirfinal handover to playersof the well-good D&D RPG, with the focus then shifting internally to Larian’stwo currently untitled new game projects. CEO Swen Vincke did, however, caveat that while the overall level of post-release support would be “diminished”, there would be a few more updates. We interpreted that to mean bug fixes and the like....

I love fantasy games Picking things up. Putting the things in boxes. Setting prices. Managing employees. Wiping the sweat from your creased brow and knowing, even if your meagre salary doesn’t get you very far, at least you put in an honest day’s graft to acquire it. All things done by pathetic fools that don’t realise the true CEO grindset actually involves no-wifingDiablo 4all day and subsisting entirely off the the Lucozade-bottled urine of overworked drivers forced to make the agonising decision between self respect and continued employment....

Ahh… That’s the stuff! I’ve gone on record as not being a huge fan of the artstyle choices used in the newWarcraft I & IIremasters. It’s crisp and readable, sure, but I’m never exactly thrilled to see all the roughness of older sprites completely done away with, especially when I always felt some of that ruggedness was the point. The tendency of remasters to treat every characterful oddity as a blemish is a wider topic than the scope of this article, but one day, Bluepoint will remasterBloodborne, and the world will feel my pain....

Trust me, I’m sort of a doctor Another explosion sends the bodies flying. “Has anyone been here long enough to tell me what the hell is going on!?” the sergeant yells. He sounds annoyed. The field hospital is gone, probably blown to pieces. Troops keep wandering north and disappearing from view, only to come flying back as airborne cadavers moments later. The number of corpses and spilled backpacks on the road imply that someone in battalion headquarters (if such a place even exists) has made a terrible decision....

There’s something buried beneath the sticks and stones Back in January I wrote a (supporters only) post about how tired I am of allsurvival gamesstarting off the same. Here’s the gist of it: I’ve had enough of gathering rocks and sticks to make a crafting bench, from which I’m forced to build a hut and so on. I’m sure for some this is riveting, but for me, it’s something I tire of within seconds....

Genius loci The Cabin Factory is described as a horror game but it’s sort of about deciding whether you are, in fact, playing a horror game. There is indeed a factory and it does indeed produce cabins - jolly, Center Parcs-style affairs made of big, merry logs, which roll up fully constructed on a conveyor belt. Your job is to enter and inspect them in first-person. What are you inspecting them for?...

How… diabolical The genre of ‘ActionRPG’ is supremely annoying to write about, because the term can mean different things to different people, but here’s how I see it:Diablo 4and similar games, such asPath Of Exile, are ‘ARPGs’. Which stands for ‘Action RPG’. But Zelda games are ‘Action RPGs’, which is a totally different genre that you could, if you felt like it, also shorten to ‘ARPG’. So, to summarise: ARPGs and ARPGs are two different things, and both are Action RPGs....

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Including new tower bosses, vicious pals, and more mystery stuff Palworlddevelopers Pocketpair have revealed a new major update, which introduces “the largest and harshest” island in the survival game’s history, together with new tower bosses and new pals. As for everything else… that’s a secret, but you can expect a “large amount of new content”, and we’ve got a few images to speculate over. Going off theSteam announcement, Palworld’s next major update lands sometime in December....

I vote no, but I’m old and no longer with it It’s almost the end of November, which means it is technically but not spiritually still autumn. It is spiritually winter, the season of wearing gloves and using my phone’s flashlight to look for my dog’s poos in the long grass. Yet it’s not the Steam winter sale that started yesterday, but theSteam autumn sale. Discounts are definitely never a bad thing, but Steam sales used to feel like big events on the PC gaming calendar....

That’s a lot of power. The Alienware Black Friday sale is well underway, and you can get your hands on some very tasty gaming PCs for a huge discount this year. Our top pick from this sale is theAurora R16 RTX 4090 Gaming PC for $2,999.99. That’s a gigantic $1,000 saving on a powerful out-of-the-box gaming PC. The RTX 4090 GPU on its own will set you back $1,600, so if you’re not feeling like building your own setup, this PC represents a great option at a reasonable price point....

Lawyering intensifies “I believe that Valve is taking away gamers' freedom to choose how much extra they are willing to pay to use their platform,” Wolfire founder David Rosen said at the time, aspreserved by the GameDiscoverCo newsletter. “I believe they are taking away competing stores' freedom to compete by taking advantage of their lower commission rates. I believe they are taking away developers' freedom to use different pricing models.”...

No guns, no knives, only beasts S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl challenges you to survive the Zone, a land where the rules of nature are more like half-hearted suggestions and death may come from a mutant’s fang as quickly as a bandit’s bullet. But what if you could not only survive it, but tame it? I am Bohdan Beastmaster, aspiring wrangler of all the radiation-twisted insults to God that occupy the Zone....