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Tick tock, it’s RPG sex o’clock Baldur’s Gate 3, out of early access last week, is an officially licensed D&DRPGof many hours of turn-based combat, as you bring together a rag-tag group of misfit heroes to save the world from a mysterious cult. And also every single one of those misfit heroes wants to get at you. In many cases with zero prompting from you whatsoever. It doesn’t end with your team companions either; by my loose estimations, any character who is in upwards of three cutscenes comes with a 70% chance of propositioning you....

To respec in Baldur’s Gate 3, you’ll first have to find the game’s creepiest NPC How do you respec your character in Baldur’s Gate 3?Baldur’s Gate 3has countless build combinations, so if your initial build isn’t quite cutting it, you’re not alone. If you’re hoping to respec your character inBaldur’s Gate 3, here’s everything you need to know, including how to find the NPC that will allow you to respec, the basics of respecing, interface options, costs, and everything else you need if you want to try a new character build....

Meet your Makarov on November 10th Activision have finally given the much-teasedCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3remake a release date - November 10th. Here’s your teaser trailer, in which the camera skydives through a cosmic wilderness of glowing red waveforms while returning adversaries Captain Price and Vladimir Makarov apparate briefly to the rear. There are mysterious husky whisperings - “he’s not new”, “never bury your enemies alive” - and you fly through a giant stone wolf’s head....

Nostromo the merrier Behaviour Interactive have shared more details ofthe Alien expansionfor asymmetrical PVP affairDead By Daylight, which adds Giger’s celebrated hoover-faced menace to the game’s line-up of playable horror movie villains. I’ve never played Dead By Daylight - going by myAmong Usstats, I make a pretty shambolic assassin and besides, the whole impale-people-on-hooks sacrifice mechanic is just so urrrgh - but I will always play an Alien game, and Behaviour’s take on the xenomorph is intriguing....

Level 12-20 characters “require a different way of doing things” I am but a stripling level 4 sorcerer inBaldur’s Gate 3, still learning to distinguish my Magic Missiles from my Chromatic Orbs, my Cantrips from my Colour Sprays (or at least, restore my memories of these concepts from my long-agoBaldur’s Gate2 playthrough). I’ve just discovered the finer applications of Mage Hands, which are a great antidote to goblin archers - simply spawn one behind the offender, use it to hurl them from the cliff they’re standing on, and chuck a nearby crate after them for good measure....

Light at the end of the tunnel In Dark and Darker you slip on the boots of a familiar fantasy class such as a Barbarian or a Wizard and sally forth into a dungeon for treasure, while dealing with traps, locked doors, marauding monsters and, worst of all, other players, towards whom you’re ushered by a battle royale-style shrinking circle. There’s no mandate to engage in PvP, but when you’ve got a bagful of gold, it’s hard not to be suspicious of strangers....

Not bad for a drive capable of up to 100MB/s reads. Want a 128GB flash drive forhalf a sawbucka fiverfive of your US dollars? Good news, as this TeamGroup C175 USB drive is down to $5.49 at Newegg, half price and a great deal for a drive capable of 100MB/s reads in the right circumstances. I’ve pontificated before about the draw of USB flash drives, as they’re essential for many common PC setup tasks like transferring network drivers to a new PC or flashing a new motherboard BIOS....

Good enough, with upgrade potential. AMD’s Ryzen 5 3600 processor remains one of the best “good enough” CPUs on the market, providing a six-core design and enough grunt to run most games at 60fps when paired with DDR4-3200 RAM and a good modern graphics card. The CPU launched at £200 and now costs around half that, but it does occasionally go on discount - and today that’s happened, with the CPU now costing just £70 at Scan....

Forest hags, demon tricksters, jade lions Sega have formallyunveiledthe next steaming helping ofTotal Warhammer 3DLC, Shadows of Change, which adds three Legendary Lords to this already-jam-packedstrategy game: the Changeling for the demonic Tzeentch faction, Yuan Bo for Grand Cathay, and Mother Ostankya for Kislev, plus a brace of new campaign mechanics, units and battlefield abilities. I’ve been going off Total War lately - I fired up a new Lizardman game last month, having developed a hankering for dinos after reviewingExoprimal, and found myself lingering in disappointment on each faction’s reliance on rock-paper-scissors unit relationships....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for August 8? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordlepuzzles have been really mean of late, and today’s is another doozy. If you were hoping for an easy ride after a weekend of tricky answers, then we’re sorry to say that you’ll need to keep waiting. Fortunately, you don’t need to figure out today’s Wordle answer by yourself, because we’re here to help!...

What are the best skills to get first in Starfield? How does Starfield’s skill system work, and what are the best skills to get early on?It’s well-known that Bethesda RPGs tend to have massive and versatile skill trees that allow you to build your character however you like. ButStarfieldtakes this to a whole new level. Not only are there82 skillsin total broken into5 skill trees, but there are also4 ranks per skill, giving you a huge amount of scope for customising your character’s abilities and playstyle....

This RTX 4090 gaming laptop leaves a serious mark Newgraphics cardgenerations are a typical driving force behind gaming laptop refreshes, butCPUscan floor that pedal with just as heavy a boot. The result is often something like this latest Asus ROG Strix Scar 17, which wields not just a top-spec Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 but also one of AMD’s newest and most number-crunchy processors, the Ryzen 9 7945HX. That’s a lot of newness, and even more of a specs list: 32 threads from the Ryzen, 16GB of VRAM,DLSS 3support and so on....

Please, don’t let me finish Baldur’s Gate 3is the CRPG with a billion and one features, but there will always be players who want a billion and two and yes, I am among these insatiable souls. I cracked a fresh save over the weekend, having bid a sad goodbye to my early access Tiefling rogue, and I already know what I’d like from thegame’s modding scene, or preferably, a forthcoming official update....