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Yennefer's voice actor not only knows nothing about what's happening with The Witcher 4, she seems only vaguely aware she was in The Witcher 3: 'I didn't know what I was doing'
NEWS Denise Gough, also currently appearing as Dedra Meero in Andor, seems baffled by a question about CD Project's upcoming sequel.
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For a limited time you can get all the XCOM games for just $10—yes, even that one
NEWS That's $269 and 100s of hours' worth of the best turn-based tactics around.
With Larian finally at the end of its journey with Baldur's Gate 3, what do we want next from the new kings of the RPG?
DIVINE INSPIRATION With Baldur's Gate 4 off the table, the studio has moved on to two mysterious new projects.
Popular board game publisher CMON—creator of Zombicide and Marvel United—is putting all future projects on hold and laying off creatives as tariffs continue to wreak havoc on the industry
NEWS Don't expect any more multi-million dollar Kickstarter campaigns this year.
The creators of Wingspan are 'suing the president' to try and save board game publishers from tariff annihilation
NEWS Stonemaier Games are taking part in a group lawsuit with an unspecified number of other board game publishers.
Yes, Zero Company really is Star Wars XCOM, and it's got the permadeath to prove it
ZERO TO HERO It's ticking all the right boxes.
The new side-scroller from the developer of Blasphemous isn't as brutal as you might expect—but it is a seriously satisfying slice of retro ninja action
SLICE ANGRY Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound hands you the tools to take on a demon army.
This tabletop RPG is like Cyberpunk 2077 but with gods and mythology running rampant—and we've created an exclusive character you can play as
'SCAPE G.O.A.T In :Otherscape, shiny new technology collides with ancient magic. But don't worry, we've made just the guy to sort it all out.
After 6 years of hype, can Hollow Knight: Silksong really live up to the sky-high expectations?
ON PINS AND NEEDLES As the community grows increasingly rabid, I'm left wondering what players are actually expecting the game to be when it (hopefully) launches later this year.
The 5 most historically inaccurate moments in the Assassin's Creed series
ORIGINAL SIN From Pope fights to evil IT managers.
Finally, a news outlet explains the US tariffs in a way even I can understand: with a map covered in Warhammer models
NEWS Space Marines and global economic policy, together at last.
Board game publishers lament the devastating impact of new US tariffs on the tabletop industry: 'There is no silver lining. It is a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone involved'
NEWS The tabletop boom just stopped dead in its tracks.
Assassin's Creed Shadows' huge but shallow open world is proof that we've lost the Nemesis System just when we need it most
ENEMY MINE The games keep getting bigger and more impressive, but the content is stagnating.
Screenshots have seemingly leaked of the new Star Wars game from a team of former XCOM developers, and surprise: it looks like a Star Wars XCOM game
NEWS Featuring Bo Katan and Ahsoka Tano.
Lovecraftian horror detective game The Sinking City's grand redemption arc continues, with a shiny new remaster coming free to all existing owners
NEWS The move to Unreal Engine 5 will bring visual upgrades and a photo mode.
As a Warhammer fan of over 20 years, I've worked out the 3 rules Amazon needs to follow to make a great Warhammer TV show
WARHAMAZON You need more than just Henry Cavill to make this work.
After a not-so-subtle tease 2 months ago, and 4 years since it was originally announced, Grand Cathay from Total War: Warhammer 3 is finally coming to the tabletop wargame
NEWS It's been revealed as a new faction for Warhammer: The Old World, Games Workshop's revival of Warhammer Fantasy.
Electrified sticky notes and spontaneous combustion: Remedy's new co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak is built for chaos and 'joyful discoveries'
OUT OF CONTROL "You should expect the unexpected from Remedy!"
The Bazaar could be the future of autobattlers, if it stops strangling itself to death with its own microtransactions
HOW BAZAAR Aggressive monetisation has made the existing community furious—but it also makes the new player experience miserable.
We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks
VS No, Steam, they're not "bullet hell action roguelikes".
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Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and BioWare have to offer
ROYAL COUP Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Starfield came and went—meanwhile, a new breed of RPG dominates the conversation.
