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Larian boss Swen Vincke says the studio is 'deep in the trenches' on its 'crazy-ambitious' follow up to Baldur's Gate 3, hopes to show it off no later than 2030 because 'my wife will divorce me if it takes longer'
news "I hope that definitely five years from now I can tell you about it."
Because of a Baldur's Gate 3 weapon's deceptive description, it took me nearly two years to realize it's a sleeper beast—and I'm kicking myself because it works the exact same way in Baldur's Gate 2
news Belm is back, baby.
Oblivion Remastered hit 4 million players in less than a week, with a big chunk of them buying the game on Steam
news That overall figure includes PC, PS5, and Xbox sales, as well as Game Pass players.
Hexblade might the best 1-level dip in Baldur's Gate 3, but going the distance with a full 12 levels and their infinite necrotic ghost turrets has me fixing to finally beat the game without multiclassing
Hex Heck I'm Mr. Multiclass, but a full 12 levels of Hexblade is hard to beat.
Modders somehow cranked out a VR mod for Oblivion Remastered mere hours after its surprise launch
news It's like you're really there, stabbing the rats.
The Oblivion remaster is so faithful, it still has the secret glitched door to the end of the game that lets you roll credits in under 15 minutes
news It's an older code, sir, but it checks out.
After Hyper Light Breaker players loved a secret one run, one life mode sneakily included in an update, Heart Machine is completely overhauling the game to match
news Hyper Light Breaker's next update includes a progression and structure overhaul.
How excited are we to replay a shinier version of Oblivion 19 years later?
TESIV Oblivion is a safe pick for the remaster treatment, sandwiched between the more flavorful Morrowind and more popular Skyrim.
Fallout 1 lead Tim Cain says the marketing department wanted him to make it real-time 'because of Diablo,' but he got them to back off when he told them how much it would cost
news He has some ideas of how real-time Fallout 1 could theoretically work, but says "I would never do it."
I don't know what I expected: Everybody's just recreating memes in Baldur's Gate 3's new photo mode
news You're all having too much fun, we need to get back to power gaming.
While this paleontologist doesn't find Elden Ring's monster designs all that realistic, he was impressed by FromSoft's subtle storytelling and commitment to 'speculative biology'
news Dr. Darren Naish walked away impressed with Elden Ring's attention to detail.
Thanks to Baldur's Gate 3's new Swashbuckler subclass, it no longer sucks to be a pure Rogue
buckle my swash A three-level dip no longer.
Forget Baldur's Gate 3's new subclasses: Patch 8's most disgusting power gamer combo is the Rock That Makes You Stupid paired with a sneakily revamped level 2 spell
NEWS Resonance Stone + Shadow Blade = Sicko Mode.
I'm a Baldur's Gate 3 Honour Mode sicko, and these are the 4 new subclass builds I'm most excited for in Patch 8
Baldur's Buildz Permanent Hexblade Economy
My biggest pleasant surprise of 2025 so far has been the free prequel to one of my favorite indie RPGs, made with FromSoft's 25-year-old game making toolset
moon man It's maybe not the best introduction to Lunacid, but Tears of the Moon is already one of my top games of 2025.
Data sleuth discovers that Sekiro's inexplicable, skyscraper-sized rope man who gives you a lift to Heaven might have once been a boss fight or level unto itself
news One of those cuts that totally makes sense, but is still interesting to learn about.
The underrated, open world, hoverboard FPS gem of 2024 just got a free update with new guns and islands for its cloud archipelago
Echo Point Nova is a great game worth checking out.
Never mind, President Trump truths on Truth Social that electronics (including from China) are still subject to tariffs
news I guess somebody was just feeling silly at Customs and Border Patrol.
Bungie finally shows off post-Destiny extraction shooter Marathon, which will launch in September with signups open for a playtest this month
news With Destiny flailing, Bungie's new shooter has to stick the landing.
Baldur's Gate 3's transformative patch 8, with 12 new subclasses and photo mode, will finally launch on Tuesday
news On Tuesday, April 15, we're all returning to Faerûn.
The next game from the creator of Hyper Light Drifter is a Toonami-core anime throwback set in one of the most interesting Metroid-style worlds I've seen in a while
searchvania My first look at Possessor(s)' gameplay was very promising.
Microsoft unveils AI-generated demo 'inspired' by Quake 2 that runs worse than Doom on a calculator, made me nauseous, and demanded untold dollars, energy, and research to make
news Not my favorite gaming experience.
The rights to one of the greatest PC games of all time languished in the vault of a Midwestern insurance firm until a frustrated player bugged them about a re-release, 'But they asked me if I wanted to do System Shock 3'
news Thus, Nightdive was born.
