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The Outer Worlds 2 feels like a much more ambitious RPG than its predecessor: I played its prologue three times with different builds, and each run felt unique
double down A sneaky ghost playstyle was especially fun.
'It takes Anthem's spot': Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah thinks the original version of Dragon Age 4 would have released in February 2019—a 'compromised' game, but likely better received than Veilguard
News It's unclear if Darrah is saying BioWare would have made project Joplin instead of Anthem, or that Anthem would have come later.
Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah agrees that Mages were the most 'complete' class in Origins, says it came from D&D rules and the fact that Warriors and Rogues weren't allowed to 'violate physics' yet
news At least Dragon Age didn't have THAC0.
It's shaping up to be a crazy month for new games, with Indiana Jones' beefy-looking story DLC finally arriving on September 4
news The Order of Giants expands The Great Circle's early chapter in Rome.
Even in a year packed with great RPGs, you don't want to miss Disco Elysium-style time loop noir Rue Valley, which has a new trailer and a release date in November
news Rue Valley looks like a winner.
We just got a free expansion pack out of nowhere for one of the most underrated FPSes on Steam, and it adds a second open world to the one we already had
news You could have charged for this one, Echo Point Nova. We wouldn't have minded.
Two years after launch, Assassin's Creed Mirage is getting surprise free DLC adding a second city to the game
news The specific choice of al-Ula is also pretty exciting.
Metal Gear Solid Delta still lets you wait two weeks for a boss to die of old age—or mess with your system clock to cheat him out of his final fight
news But that's just rude.
Nightdive's System Shock 2 remaster now supports 26 years of mods and fan missions
news So far, compatibility seems good for old mods in the new remaster.
One of Elden Ring's upcoming new starter classes is a freakishly strong jock with an intelligence score so low, they probably can't read, but the hardcore PvP kiddies are going ga-ga for them
The Beefcake Knight.
Hyper Light Breaker has shadow dropped a new update with floating islands, difficulty modifiers, a beefy new tank character, and a challenging duo boss that's 'technically 4 bosses' depending on what order you beat them in
news The Double Down update is available now.
15 attempts in, I actually love that Elden Ring Nightreign's Everdark Libra is the first FromSoftware boss who's harder to beat in co-op than solo
Equilibrious Those crazy kids in Tokyo have done it again.
Actor Terence Stamp, who played General Zod in Superman and Mankar Camoran in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, has died
news Stamp was 87 years old.
One of the devs behind System Shock and Thief wants to see more games catering to 'a new generation of folks discovering the game that demands more from them'
"I think there's something there about a game that demands you put the pieces together in your head."
Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks the studio failed to 'prepare' fans for how different Dragon Age 2 was: 'People look at it and they're like, well this sure isn't Dragon Age: Origins 2, which it isn't'
news The best RPG spinoff ever made probably should have been called something different.
I played this free, 15-minute claymation horror game about examining an ancient idol in the morning while the birds were chirping, and it still scared me more than anything I've played in years
news The protagonist of The Children of Clay should have also considered doing his thing in the morning.
New report suggests that there are 3 million fewer PC gamers in Japan than 10 years ago, despite the market having at least tripled in size
news Does that add up?
A veteran Final Fantasy programmer hates how indie games deliberately recreate PS1 visual bugs he made 'many futile efforts' to fix: 'I just don’t get what’s so interesting about trying to replicate that'
news The kiddies can't get enough affine texture warping these days.
Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks Dragon Age remasters are the series' best hope for a future, but I doubt EA and BioWare even have it in them anymore
news BioWare had floated the idea in the past, but it never went anywhere.
id Software co-founder John Romero was apparently one week removed from co-founding a completely different icon of PC gaming, but he'd already made plans
news There's another timeline where Romero worked on System Shock instead of Doom.
The Battlefield 6 beta has broken Call of Duty's Steam player count record, surging past half a million concurrents
news This puts the BF6 beta at 18th place overall on Steam.
'Let's just kill everyone on the station:' The videogame audio log was apparently invented to avoid 'awkward' RPG dialogue trees
news System Shock dev Marc LeBlanc shared the story on a recent Nightdive podcast.
