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Obsidian's Josh Sawyer leads the charge of RPG fans playfully roasting Stranger Things for its D&D rule flubs: 'The oldheads are going to catch all these things'
news Clerics casting Dimension Door? Not at any table in 1987.
Fallout: New Vegas lead writer worries Caesar's argument for authoritarianism 'was done a little too well,' but still believes 'you can't just make your tyrants cardboard villains'
News Fascism's foothold in the wasteland mirrors the way it spreads in the real world.
Elden Ring Nightreign is a deeply flawed multiplayer game I've spent over 250 hours in this year
🏆 Is this some kind of curse?
One of the internet's top experts on Skyrim minutiae hosted a $10,000 charity competition to guess how many trees there are in the Bethesda classic
news Fewer than I thought, but more than one person could feasibly count by hand.
We're hitting peak saturation for first person dungeon crawlers, but Queen's Domain stands apart from the crowd
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Swen Vincke says there's 'definitely more pressure' to nail Divinity after the critical acclaim of Baldur's Gate 3
news You might think making the sequel to the most popular D&D game ever was as high pressure as it gets, but nope.
PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2025
The Gotys Our favourite PC games of the year.
Divinity will be turn-based with a 'new ruleset' based on everything Larian has learned so far, says Swen Vincke: 'it allows you to do fantastic things'
news No Divinity ARPG for thee, we're keeping things old school.
Divinity has even 'deeper sequences of consequence' than Baldur's Gate 3, says Larian: 'We wouldn't be excited if we were making the same game again'
news "The level of agency that we're going to give you is very, very high—much higher than what happened in BG3."
Fallout: New Vegas' Mr. House was based on Howard Hughes, but the game's lead writer says his sense of the character 'has changed as we've seen the rise of Silicon Valley would-be messiahs'
News "The question is does he actually have the chops to make it happen? And there's some indications that he does."
Fate of the Old Republic director promises release before 2030 even though studio was only recently formed: 'I'm not getting any younger'
news Neither am I, man.
If the only Larian game you've played is Baldur's Gate 3, here's what you need to know about the Divinity series
Divine Order The full rundown on Larian's Divinity games, which ones you should actually play, and the ideal order.
The 5 biggest announcements and trailers from The Game Awards 2025
Reveals Reel If you missed the live show, here's the biggest stuff you missed—assuming the group chat hasn't already been typing in all caps to give you the news.
No pods in sight, but Star Wars: Galactic Racer still looks rad
news Now THIS is [not technically] podracing.
That sick-looking first person sci-fi game at The Game Awards is actually the sequel to Sons of the Forest
news Forest 3 has my attention.
Larian reveals Divinity, its 'biggest game ever,' that will be 'even larger than Baldur's Gate 3'
news The news was slightly spoiled by a trademark filing spotted earlier this week.
After 21 years, Knights of the Old Republic's original director is returning to the series for Fate of the Old Republic
news Emotionally, I am in middle school again.
Cultic review: One of 2025's best singleplayer shooters
cult classic Paint Anytown, USA red with blood.
Fallout 4 was initially set in New York because it's 'something grand and American' and Nick Valentine capped-off the very first design document: 'I think the photo was of Humphrey Bogart'
News "But at that time, other games were being set in New York."
Fallout: New Vegas lead writer inconveniently points out that Fallout season 2 is all about New Vegas but 'there's no credit for that, there's no residuals for that'
News "In some ways, I think doing narrative in video games is a little akin to doing comic book work."
Senior Bethesda dev says the Fallout show works because Todd Howard wouldn't let the usual 'videogame directors' touch it: 'We want the best director, the best showrunner possible'
News "We could have made a Fallout movie or Fallout TV show a decade ago—we had certainly been asked."
