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Baldur’s Gate 3 Is One Of 2023's Best Games, Don't Turn It Into A Weapon
15.8.2023
It’s been an unusually good year for blockbuster games. Dungeons & Dragons RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 is the latest one, a sprawling fantasy adventure filled with an overwhelming number of choices that let you spark a civil war one moment and have sex with a bear the next. That scope and...
The Pokémon Battle Gimmicks, Ranked From Worst To Best
14.8.2023
Nearly every mainline Pokémon game has changed up how we engage in battles alongside our favorite little (nongendered) guys. Whether pitting multiple monsters against each other at once or full transformations for your team, each Pokémon game puts a specific twist on its fights. But even though...
Diablo IV Dungeon Can Take You To Level 40 In Just Two Hours
14.8.2023
Leveling up a completely new seasonal character in Diablo IV just got a lot faster after fans discovered what might be the best early XP dungeon grind in the game. Following Blizzard’s recent big buff to enemy density, the Domhainne Tunnels in Scosglen can take players all the way up to level 40...
Paladin Is Baldur’s Gate 3’s Most Popular Class By A Large Margin
14.8.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 has a myriad of choices for building your character from the moment you boot up the RPG, including its 12 different classes, which range from magic users to standard sword-and-board warriors. Developer Larian Studios has released early statistics since the game launched on August...
All The Starters Are Coming To Pokémon Scarlet And Violet
14.8.2023
At the Pokémon World Championships, Game Freak showed off a new look at Scarlet and Violet’s upcoming expansions. There was a lot of new footage in the latest trailer, but the most important thing is that Scarlet and Violet are bringing back every starter Pokémon from across the games with...
Pokémon Company Hints That Its Game Output May Be Unsustainable
14.8.2023
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet sold phenomenally well on Switch. They also launched with tons of bugs and frustrating raid battle performance that made them some of the most busted games in the series’ long history. Fans have been debating for years now if developer Game Freak is just making too many...
Baldur’s Gate 3: How Does It Run On Steam Deck?
14.8.2023
The big, enormous, mega-large final version of Larian’s addition to the Baldur’s Gate franchise is out and it’s getting a ton of attention for its depth, multifaceted outcomes, and generally solid adaptation of the Dungeon & Dragons ruleset. It’s also a very visually pretty game, with...
Study Shows Bitcoin Mining Could Accelerate Transition to Renewable Energy
14.8.2023
A new study suggests bitcoin mining could actually help drive the transition to renewable energy sources. Researchers Juan Ignacio Ibañez and Alexander Freier make the case that Bitcoin miners’ demand for cheap electricity provides incentives for increased renewable energy production....
Baldur's Gate 3 Fans Who Pick An Origin Largely Go With Gale, Stats Show
11.8.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out for about a week now, and developer Larian Studios is revealing some early stats based on the decisions players have made. This includes what characters seem most popular to the community according to hard numbers. And fellow Gale romancers, our boy is winning in...
Lords Of The Fallen Reboot Is Sounding Like A Solid Soulslike
11.8.2023
Lords of the Fallen was already a game, one that came out nearly 10 years ago by developer Deck13 (Atlas Fallen) and publisher CI Games. It was fine, but felt too much like a lackluster facsimile of FromSoftware’s Dark Souls formula to have much of an identity of its own. CI Games is back, though...
Baldur’s Gate 3: 6 Tips To Avoid Combat If You're Not Into It
11.8.2023
For some players, Baldur’s Gate 3’s combat is a rewarding challenge that requires a lot of planning and preparation. For others, it’s an absolute roadblock that makes it hard to progress in the game. We’ve given some general tips to help you excel in combat, but honestly, Baldur’s Gate 3 has enough...
Pokémon Tourney Cracks Down On Hacked Monsters, Disqualifies Tons Of Players
11.8.2023
The biggest Pokémon tournament of the year is going on right now and tons of players are getting disqualified for fielding hacked teams. The first Pokémon World Championship since Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s big launch, the stricter checks are apparently catching some pros off guard, and ending...
Baldur's Gate 3 Puts Luck Ahead Of Fun
11.8.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 is obviously a triumph. It’s an astonishingly ambitious and successful RPG, which brings the long-abandoned series back to its D&D routes, while building on everything developers Larian learned when making the exceptional Divinity: Original Sin games. But if there’s one aspect...
Popular GTA Role-Play Community Scooped Up By Rockstar Ahead Of GTA 6
11.8.2023
The team behind the biggest Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 role-playing communities, Cfx.re, is officially becoming part of Rockstar Games. The new partnership comes ahead of the possible launch of GTA VI in 2024, and will lead to an updated policy that officially allows the addition...
Baldur’s Gate 3: The Kotaku Review
10.8.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 has been propped up as a big-budget, computerized approximation of a tabletop role-playing game, but that’s not entirely accurate. Sure, as an RPG rooted in Dungeons & Dragons’ Fifth Edition ruleset, complete with dice rolls, big decisions, and enough customization options...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Fans' Save Files Got So Big They Were Breaking The Game
10.8.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a Dungeons & Dragons RPG that gives players a ton of freedom and choice to play the game how they want, from having all kinds of wild sex to stacking up crates until they can jump over a castle wall. This also means player save file sizes have apparently been getting massive...
Diablo 4 Build Lets Barbarian Hit For Nearly A Billion Damage
10.8.2023
Diablo IV’s Barbarian class has struggled since the game came out two months ago. Even after some recent patches that buffed a few aspects of the character, its endgame doesn’t perform that well compared to other classes. But a streamer has uncovered a busted combo that makes Barbs deal nearly...
Destiny 2 Taps Keith David As Zavala To Replace The Late Lance Reddick
10.8.2023
Ever since John Wick and The Wire actor Lance Reddick suddenly and unexpectedly passed away earlier this year, Destiny 2 fans have been wondering what would become of his iconic character, Commander Zavala. Today, Bungie announced that veteran actor Keith David, beloved for his video game work...
New Wiglett Pokémon Plush Looks A Lot Like Something Else
10.8.2023
Good news: The Pokémon Company released a Wiglett plush on its official Pokémon Center store. Bad news: it looks like a dick. Not a human dick, but, like, the Platonic ideal of an alien dick the U.S. government doesn’t want us to know about. Read more
9 Things You Should Never Say To A Mass Effect Fan
10.8.2023
If you have a friend or significant other in your life who won’t shut up about how they’re on their umpteenth playthrough of the Mass Effect series, chances are you’ve slipped up and said something you probably shouldn’t have, possibly even questioning their love of BioWare’s space opera.Read more