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Party for one If you’ve grown weary of having your party ofBaldur’s Gate 3 companionsfollow you around Faerûn - or just prefer to do things by your lonesome - modders have you covered with a series of mods that allow the D&D video game to be played as a true solo adventure. TheLone Wolfmods take their name from the solo perk found in Larian’s previous CRPG epicDivinity: Original Sin 2, which is absent fromBaldur’s Gate 3- likely because there’s not an equivalent trait found in the Dungeons & Dragons 5E tabletop RPG, to which BG3 stays doggedly faithful and which is designed to be played as a group....

The AW3423DWF is one of the best monitors I’ve ever tested. So what makes this monitor so good? Looking at the core specs, it’s not so obvious - we’ve seen 34-inch 3440x1440 monitors for years after all, even those with a 165Hz refresh rate. Instead, what sets this monitor apart is its Samsung QD-OLED panel, with its self-emissive pixels providing a bright and vivid HDR experience for gaming and films alike, near-instant pixel response times for great motion handling and the perfect blacks and infinite contrast that are only possible with OLED panels....

No need to Chell out Escape Simulatordoes a great job of virtually scratching that escape room itch I often get, with the added appeal of not having to leave the home comforts of my house or chair. You know what’s also a pretty greatpuzzle gameset in successive rooms you need to escape?Portal. You may have heard of it. And now the two are set to collide in an upcoming bit of free DLC that brings Portal’s test chambers to Escape Simulator....

Time for another dip MiHoYo have releasedGenshin Impact4.0’s update, adding a new area, story elements, characters, domains and equipment to the gacha-driven free-to-play action RPG, which I remember having a lot of fun with last year. I’ve since inhaled a vast amount of shonen anime, and have accordingly been looking for a moment to reconnect with Genshin, one of the better anime games on the shop - perhaps this is it....

The ultimate Steam Deck or ROG Ally storage upgrade. Lexar’s Play 1TB Micro SD card is a popular option for anyone that wants to slam a full terabyte of space into their Steam Deck, Switch or other Computing Device on the cheap. Its performance isn’t quite up there with the fastest options from Samsung or SanDisk, but this memory card still works great on Steam Deck. This Micro SD card normally hovers below the £90 mark, but today it’s down to a new historic low of just £67, a great value for a Micro SD card of this size!...

Studio co-founder Scott Chen talks about creating games where everything supports the story The first game in the Opus series of visual novels (not to be confused with alchemy-themedpuzzlemachine gameOpus Magnum),The Day We Found Earth, begins 14,000 years in the future, on a starship far from our familiar home planet. The humans in this far-flung future don’t even remember their ancestral home - it’s just a rumour, a fantasy. Yet that rumour is driving scientist Lisa, as it may be all that humanity has left....

I’ve not played a huge amount of Dungeons & Dragons, but I get why those kids fromStranger Thingswon’t stop banging on about it. It turns out all those librarians in the 90s were right: using your imagination reallyiscool and fun! Indeed, our ability to conjure fiction from the ether is fundamental to the ongoing success of D&D. Making up stories with friends is very much a good time, and if you get to kill a goblin or two in the process?...

A “small number” of users will be able to stream Oxenfree and Molehew’s Mining Adventure during limited beta test I keep forgetting that Netflix have their own games offering, despite the streaming giant keeping it well stocked with afairly solid libraryof free (if you’re a Netflix subscriber anyway) games - including the likes ofOxenfree 2,Kentucky Route ZeroandImmortality. If you wanted some more proof that Netflix is pretty serious about this whole “getting into video games” thing, the movie streaming platform-turned-games publisher is now looking to unite their two fronts by experimenting with game streaming....

Solid gold Winding back the clock to rewrite past mistakes is a core stratagem of any Mimimi game.Baldur’s Gate 3might have rekindled the debate about save-scumming over in RPG circles, but in the stealthstrategyarena where Mimimi operate, reaching for the F5 and F8 keys to quick load a previous save is as natural as swapping between your party members on 123, or activating their unique abilities to clobber all manner of unsuspecting guards on the back of the head with ASD and F....

Also, the prospect of battlemechs Hold onto your warp nacelles and hyperdrives,Starfieldaficionados. The game’s lead designer Emil Pagliarulo and lead quest designer Will Shen have hosteda Discord Q&Aabout Bethesda’s forthcoming space colossus. Self-despising fool that I am, I sat up late at the office taking notes throughout - please accept a modest avalanche of new details. First off, a note on the subject ofStarfieldand housing. You can own property in “all the major cities in the game”, according to Pagliarulo, with some dwellings being purchaseable and others, quest rewards....

Warp speed SSD upgrades to satisfy an unusual system requirement Starfieldis almost unique among PC games for demanding – not merely suggesting or recommending –SSDstorage as part of its officialsystem requirements. As far as I can tell, only Bethesda’s galaxy-spanningRPGandCyberpunk 2077: Phantom Libertymake such a stipulation. Are these requirements justified? In Bethesda’s case, it’s at least accurate:Starfield on a hard drive is downright broken. Faster storage is plainly necessary, so here are some solid state recommendations: a selection of our favourite SSDs that will get your PC good and ready for someStarfieldspace trucking....

Something wicked this way comes The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhoodis many, magical things, but initially, at least, it is a card game in which you create your own cards. This takes the form of an MS Paint-esque editor in which you glue together a background, character assets and a collection of props, rotating, duplicating and altering the size of each asset with the mouse. Each asset soaks up a certain amount of arcane energy, divided between the four elements, which mean somewhat different things here than in the spell systems of other games....

Vote now! Last time, you decided thatDark Souls bonewheels are better than in-game memorials to players. Reader dear, I now know how you wish to be remembered. I’m going to ask the lads in corporate if we can launch an official RPS funeral plan whereby you can pre-pay to have your skeleton lashed to a wheel and turned loose round the foot of the RPS treehouse. “It’s what she always wanted,” your assembled family will say, dabbing at a tear gathered in the creases of a bittersweet smile....