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If you want to get caught up with Larian's pre-Baldur's Gate work, $157 worth of Divinity games are on sale on Steam for $23
news Far out, man.
id Software's second FPS only brought in $5,000, and the studio might not have made Wolfenstein and Doom if the game hadn't made a dev fall out of his chair: 'That was just one of the craziest things in a videogame I'd ever seen'
news Happy 35th birthday, id Software.
2 days after promising it was still 'worthy of your investment,' the most successful Kickstarter MMO ever was canceled and its team laid off: 'The developers and staff acted in good faith and deserved better'
news Sifting through the ashes of Ashes of Creation.
I've already put 10 hours into this upcoming RPG's demo because it has the best combat I've seen outside a FromSoft game
news I got five hours of sleep last night.
Instead of difficulty, Obsidian designer Josh Sawyer thinks in terms of 3 RPG player archetypes: 'What are they trying to get out of this game?'
news I'm usually looking for a bow that shoots chain lightning or something.
15 years on, Dark Souls 1's best boss is nearly undefeated fighting Elden Ring's bosses, and one of his KOs definitely doesn't count
news Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy is a Mickey Mouse champion who does not deserve to be in the hall of fame.
Final count for Stop Killing Games petition verifies 1.3 million of its 1.4 million signatures, well above the minimum to be formally considered by EU politicians
news They threw out all of Sideshow Bob's votes from the pet cemetery.
Fallout lead Tim Cain worked 70+ hours a week for 2 years to make the classic RPG: 'I'm glad things have changed, that was unsustainable—but it was also absolutely amazing'
news "I often drove to work in the dark and drove home in the dark."
Fallout 4 feels like a brand new game now that it's forcing me to take naps, drink plenty of water, and not save scum
H4RDC0RE Pro: Everything feels fresh and dangerous. Con: I had to replay the same scripted walk and talk story mission three times on account of bugs.
Roguelike fatigue is real, but I can make an exception for this upcoming project that remixes some of my favorite stealth games at 90 mph
news Roguelike Dark Messiah of Might & Magic alright I'm on board.
'Lasting consequences where every action could leave a trail back to you' is just what I want to hear from a medieval thievery simulator, so this first person sneaker is now one of my most anticipated games
news Thief: The Bright Project.
It's been 9 years of no word on a new Nier, but Pokemon creator Game Freak's upcoming action RPG might just scratch the itch
news Nier-ly there.
Wikipedia turns 25, still boasting zero ads and over 7 billion visitors per month despite the rise of AI and threats of government repression
news The Ming Dynasty Yongle Encyclopedia is quietly seething.
Once and for all, which game has the best art?
Fine art Make your case PC gamers.
Nexus Mods quashes rumor of 2-year bans for linking the site on Discord: 'There does not appear to be any risk of being moderated by Discord for posting Nexus Mods links'
news You may be personally banned from a server for that New Vegas Hatsune Miku companion, though.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'
News Not the hill I'd die on, but I'm not a billionaire.
Divinity: Original Sin 2's brilliant armor system is one of a kind in RPGs, and I'm bummed we'll apparently never see it again
en garde Sic transit gloria mundi.
Larian's head writer has a simple answer for how AI-generated text helps development: 'It doesn't,' thanks to its best output being 'a 3/10 at best' worse than his worst drafts
new My worst drafts are a 5/10 but I might have lower standards.
Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer hopes we won't want to save scum in Divinity: 'Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting'
news F5 + F8, save scummers say "great" / Overwriting autosave, scummers behave!
For all the Divinity dev details Larian isn't ready to comment on, we got a firm answer about the game's controls: the studio's sticking to its guns on no WASD movement
news I can respect it.
The best FPS games on PC
Updated Our favorite FPS experiences of PC gaming's past and present.
What games did you play over the holidays?
HAPPY NEW YEAR One last look back at the Christmas break.
I thought I was crazy for thinking Fallout 4 feels like a perfectly crisp fall day, but that's exactly what Bethesda was aiming for after a 'field trip' to a national park: 'I was like, this is what our world needs to look like'
news "It was late fall, so all the leaves were down, all the grass was brown, all the trees looked barren and dead."
