Should you save or leave the mayor in Dragon Age Veilguard?

Here are the consequences for saving or leaving the mayor at D’Meta’s Crossing Wondering if you should save or leave the mayor in Dragon Age Veilguard?As you progress through the first few quests inDragon Age Veilguard, you’ll be faced with a moral quandary. The mayor of D’Meta’s Crossing has allowed the blighted Gods to take root in the town and is now, himself, trapped. This leaves the question: should yousave or leave the mayorof D’Meta’s Crossing?...

October 31, 2024 · 2 min · 293 words · Miss Elizabeth Gonzalez

The trick to Dragon Age's lore is that the lore is lying, says original "uber-plot" writer David Gaider

But does Veilguard get us closer to a final answer? Part of the fun ofDragon Age’s fantasy is that it’s inconsistent - or at least, inconsistent by the standards of fantasyRPGs, which often break down into a million neatly organised and interlocking codex entries. It all rides on who you speak to. The humans believe one thing about the origins and workings of Thedas, the elves another, the qunari something else entirely....

October 31, 2024 · 3 min · 624 words · Brenda Romero

Wordle hints and answer (#1230): How to solve the Thursday October 31 Wordle

Stuck on the Wordle word for October 31? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?If you’re struggling to finish today’s word, we have a helpful list of hints to give you a guiding hand and maintain your streak in the process....

October 31, 2024 · 6 min · 1234 words · Adam Caldwell

Animal Use Protocol asks: what if we put a happy little rat on Half Life 2’s gravity gun and gave it to a chimpanzee?

The rat’s name is Trip When they’re not doing environmental art for projects likeWasteland 3, The Brotherhood have a history making enticingly odd games. Sinvery nearly likedStasis: Bone Totem, landing positive despite giving up after several hours. That’s also my experience withBeautiful Desolation- an isometricRPGI got a real kick out of the art for before also stopping one day and just accidentally never playing it again. This might be a coincidence, but whatever else can be said about these projects, one thing is for certain: when compared to upcoming horrorFPSAnimal Use Protocol, they both featured considerably less monke....

October 30, 2024 · 2 min · 297 words · Jacqueline Adams

Best Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Marine SP loadout and class setup

Here’s the best Marine SP loadout in Black Ops 6 Looking to build the best Marine SP loadout in Black Ops 6?The Marine SP is one of two Shotguns in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6, and it’s the more traditional of the two. For everyone out there who loves old school pump action Shotguns that can blow a door open (along with whoever’s standing behind it), the Marine SP is your only option, and it’s a darn good one....

October 30, 2024 · 4 min · 792 words · Larry Trevino

Call Of Duty Black Ops 6 best quickscope loadout and class setup

Here’s how to kill enemies instantly with the best quickscope loadout in Black Ops 6 Looking to build the best quickscope loadout in Black Ops 6?Quickscoping’s a different beast when compared to regular sniping. Instead of setting up shop in a far corner of the map and taking a well-timed shot, you’re going to be aiming at close-range, shooting directly after switching to your scope, and hopefully dealing big sniper damage without having to be patient....

October 30, 2024 · 4 min · 836 words · Douglas Webster

Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicle makes good on Ubisoft’s threat to coil out hot steaming NFT garbage straight into my innocent eyes

You wouldn’t FUNGE a TOKEN “Worthless,’ they’d declared. Most NFTs were ‘worthless.’ The greatest artistic movement since The Big BSoD, the greatest proof of the power of the blockchain, the very future of the whole funging Infobahn, and the hedgie soybean-counters say it’s all ‘worthless’,” once wrote thegreatest living prophet of our era. Now, in an entirely predictable case of “I amonce againasking our tech overlords to watch the whole movie”, those plucky chancers at Ubisoft have lifted AliceO’s ideas wholesale, ignored her timely and cogent commentary, and released a roiling puke reservoir of NFT upchuck masquerading as a game....

October 30, 2024 · 3 min · 631 words · Nicole Fox

Hello Rockstar, please make an open world based on my unplayable Xbox edition of Red Dead Redemption

How the West was Weird I never completed the originalRed Dead Redemption, but not for the usual reasons of being terrible at the game, or thinking that open worlds aretoo big and boring these daysand I just want to lie down forever and watch anime. I never finished it because my Xbox 360 version was not, in practice, anopen worldgame, but a lonely farm at the bottom of a vortex of butchered spacetime....

October 30, 2024 · 5 min · 950 words · Jose Branch

In strategy game Sintopia you harvest a whole civilisation's souls for your own custom-built hell

Devil up One of my favourite satires is the Screwtape Letters, an epistolary novel by Narnia scribe C.S. Lewis. It consists of messages from an oily elder demon to his nephew about how to correctly groom the soul of an unsuspecting human being. It’s a claustrophobic send-up of managerial politics and nepotism, with World War 1 unfolding in the background. A real pick-me-up.Sintopiais theTwo Pointincarnation of that premise - in other words, brighter and breezier and definitely more slapstick than Christian....

October 30, 2024 · 2 min · 372 words · John Robertson

Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them

Disclaimer: he really does hate these guys The line between escapist entertainment and Problematic fantasycan be thin, but I think Indiana Jones’s dislike for the German National Socialist Party of the 1930s and 1940s is fairly clearcut. “Nazis - I hate these guys!” he says in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Let’s play Devil’s Advocate and try toLionel Hutzthat quote: “Nazis? I hatetheseguys!” [pointing at some Communists]. Yeah, I’m not really feeling it....

October 30, 2024 · 2 min · 397 words · Jesus Gardner

Max Caulfield is a terrible detective - I wish her all the best

Bad cop, bad cop If I am ever murdered, please do not ask Max Caulfield to investigate. I’ve already writtenour reviewforLife Is Strange: Double Exposure, in which I celebrated the touching moments of Max’s return to the series, and lamented the clunky plot that she finds herself in. In this adventure game, you’re looking into the killing of a close friend, shot by an unknown assailant. You hop between two dimensions to solve the case - one world in which your pal still lives and the other in which she’s dead....

October 30, 2024 · 6 min · 1075 words · Anna Shah

NYT Connections hints and answers for Wed, October 30th

Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #506. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 30th October?You’re in good hands, and we’re the only resource you need to figure out all of these Connections groups word by word. Connectionsis a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), the hosts of the endlessly popularWordlepuzzle....

October 30, 2024 · 4 min · 698 words · Austin Williamson

Sony write off ill-fated $200 million shooter Concord as a loss by closing studio permanently

Concoup de grace Sony have shut down Firewalk Studios, the developers behind ill-fated multiplayer hero shooterConcord, and confirmed that the game will not be returning to stores. In doing so, they are effectively striking a line through a big, red $200 million in their books - a number that some report is only part of the loss. “[Certain] aspects of Concord were exceptional,” said Hermen Hulst, CEO of Sony’s Studio Business Group ina press releaseyesterday, “but others did not land with enough players, and as a result we took the game offline....

October 30, 2024 · 2 min · 400 words · Lisa Sullivan