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Very DiscoThe new game from Disco Elysium's studio feels like the first Christmas after your parents' divorce
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NewsObsidian was 'surprised' that Avowed players bounced off one of the RPG's most important systems: 'That frustration came through loud and clear'
By Fraser Brown Published -
NewsAvowed's massive anniversary update adds new playable races, but they don't get any unique dialogue because there were 'no dedicated narrative people available'
By Fraser Brown Published -
NewsTodd Howard says Bethesda will return to 'that classic style' for Elder Scrolls 6: 'Fallout 76 and Starfield are a little bit of a creative detour'
By Jody Macgregor Published 15 Comments -
newsTodd Howard says there's no Starfield 2.0 coming: The next big update is for people who already love Starfield, and if you don't, 'I don't think this is going to change that'
By Andy Chalk Published 71 Comments -
newsOriginal Witcher story lead says the surprise twist at the end 'was a mistake,' because instead of focusing on Geralt the sequel was forced into 'a story about witchers who are killing kings for some reason'
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NewsHuge new Avowed update adds New Game Plus, playable dwarves and Orlans, and quarterstaffs
By Shaun Prescott Published
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Baldur's Gate
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Surprise! Baldur's Gate 3 got a fresh patch. Unsurprise! It's vanishingly small, but at least it repairs some corrupted saves
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NewsDivinity: Original Sin 2 easter eggs hinting Baldur's Gate 3 would be Larian's next game had to be toned down: 'Originally the reference to BG3 was very explicit'
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Gnome way!You think you know Baldur's Gate 3, but you're not getting 10/10 on our exhaustive quiz about its many wonderful gnomes
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NewsLarian lead has a little 'crash out on main' over Baldur's Gate 3 show announce, but big boss Swen Vincke says HBO is in touch about the writing, so now I don't know what to think
By Joshua Wolens Published 37 Comments -
NewsLarian made a chill beats Baldur's Gate 3 animation full of references to popular mods and memes
By Jody Macgregor Published -
NewsBaldur's Gate 3 mod restores more than 100 conversations and 1,000 lines of voiced dialogue from the early access version previously lost in the ethereal plane
By Jody Macgregor Published -
NewsBaldur's Gate 3 modder adds legally distinct Poké Balls so you can 'capture non-player characters inside a ball and free them later (or don't)'
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News'I wish Wyll had gotten more content' says the Baldur's Gate 3 writer who wrote him, and splitting his story between devils and dads 'might have been a mistake in hindsight'
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Kensai/MageThe best Baldur's Gate 3 builds for Patch 8 and beyond
By Ted Litchfield Last updated
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Dark Souls
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NewsThe creators of a popular Dark Souls 2 lighting mod are experimenting with path tracing and, oh boy, it no longer looks like an Xbox 360 game
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NewsI give up: They're doing no-hit Souls trilogy runs with a saxophone now
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newsI didn't realize how much Elden Ring Nightreign upgraded its Dark Souls skins until I saw them side-by-side with the originals
By Ted Litchfield Published -
newsDark Souls narrator and prolific actor Pik-Sen Lim has died
By Ted Litchfield Published 7 Comments -
NewsElden Ring Nightreign's overview trailer lays it all out for the quirky co-op spinoff
By Dominic Tarason Published -
NewsDark Souls 2 cut content includes a giant enemy crab wearing a castle tower as a shell which you could enter from above for massive damage
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NewsThe modder who added seamless coop to Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 is now doing the same with Dark Souls: Remastered
By Rick Lane Published -
NewsThe co-creator of Dark Souls' most ambitious mod resurfaces to inform me that Blighttown, source of my nightmares, was cobbled together with '10 bits of wood'
By Harvey Randall Published -
NewsStreamer achieves git gud godhood by beating all mainline Souls games at level 1, back to back, without getting hit—then explodes into tears of relief
By Harvey Randall Published
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Dragon Age
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Ages pastI'm mourning the Dragon Age game I missed my opportunity to play
By Jeremy Peel Published 8 Comments -
News'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
By Ted Litchfield Published 48 Comments -
newsFormer 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
By Ted Litchfield Published 8 Comments -
newsFormer 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'
By Ted Litchfield Published 38 Comments -
News'Veilguard is 4 games stitched together', says ex-BioWare lead Mark Darrah, and it might've been better to 'shut the project down completely' around 2017
By Harvey Randall Published 47 Comments -
NewsDragon Age wasn't meant to be a series, says former BioWare executive producer, and that's why Origins was full of storylines that 'had to be abandoned'
By Fraser Brown Published 54 Comments -
newsFormer 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
By Ted Litchfield Published 7 Comments -
news'They're very determined, suddenly, to see your game fail': Former Dragon Age writer calls out 'anti-fans' who bet on games failing before launch
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NewsThe BioWare we loved is mostly gone, but '2017 is when EA finished digesting' it, says Dragon Age studio veteran
By Harvey Randall Published 7 Comments
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Fallout
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NewsThe White House is a radioactive crater in Fallout 3 because there were no quests there, so why build it? 'It is our version of [Indiana Jones] shooting the guy rather than pulling out his whip and going into a fight'
By Rich Stanton Published 7 Comments -
NewsBethesda originally thought Fallout 3's metro system should go all over the map, then realised running through miles of tunnels was dull as hell: 'Being realistic sometimes isn't fun'
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NewsYou can pick up $1000+-worth of Fallout tabletop gubbins for $25 right now, with a portion going to the ACLU
By Joshua Wolens Published -
NewsFallout's co-creator again recalls nixing 'Terminator-style' robots in the original game, which has me rubbing my chin real hard at Fallout 4's entire plot: 'Mr Handy and Terminator robot do not belong in the same universe'
By Joshua Wolens Published 9 Comments -
NewsThe best thing about Fallout New Vegas was right there in Bethesda's initial pitch to Obsidian
By Jody Macgregor Published 12 Comments -
newsFallout 76 devs were surprised the community turned out to be so friendly: 'It’s post-apocalyptic, it’s Fallout, they’re going to all want to kill one another ... it's the complete opposite'
By Andy Chalk Published 9 Comments -
NewsTodd Howard says Bethesda really didn't expect people to hate the way Fallout 3 ended with a full stop: 'We thought this is Fallout, it’s great! People hated it!'
By Rich Stanton Published 28 Comments -
NewsThe Fallout VATS system was inspired by Burnout's crash mode of all things or, as Todd Howard puts it, 'imagine the car parts are, like, eyeballs and guts!'
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News'It took about 5 years' for people to start liking Fallout: New Vegas, says Josh Sawyer, and even longer for Obsidian to see that 'players actually liked the design choices we had made'
By Harvey Randall Published 12 Comments
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Final Fantasy
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14's Valentine's Day event is a Mario Party-lite encounter that reminded me it's actually quite fun to do some socializing in an MMO
By Andrea Shearon Published -
NewsThis Final Fantasy 14 player house looks shockingly close to my favorite Phasmophobia map despite being made entirely of regular FF14 props
By Andrea Shearon Published -
machi-no-tionsIt's about time Final Fantasy 14 retires one of its most divisive, overused songs
By Mollie Taylor Published 22 Comments -
newsIt has taken Final Fantasy 14 players no time at all to form a cult around this glitched level 1 mob with no name or purpose
By Mollie Taylor Published -
straight fireFinal Fantasy 14's newest raid theme is changing what it means to be a videogame song
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NewsHoly baloney Batman: Final Fantasy Tactics genius/maniac proves that Chocobos canonically believe in god
By Rich Stanton Published -
newsFinal Fantasy 14's upcoming Monster Hunter collaboration will 'feel more like 14' compared to its more unorthodox Rathalos encounter
By Mollie Taylor Published -
newsAfter stumbling out of the gate with poor sales as a PS5 exclusive, Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth director says it's 'doing very well on both PS5 and PC,' while 'a lot of the content is already playable' in the upcoming third game
By Ted Litchfield Published 25 Comments -
Guiding lightA beginners guide to Final Fantasy 14 in 2025: Getting set up and making the most out of your time in Eorzea
Sponsored by Square Enix
By Mollie Taylor Published
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The Elder Scrolls
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NewsThis 8-bit Morrowind from someone with 'no experience with game making' will run on your actual Game Boy Color and is genuinely kind of great
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NewsHere's playable mahjong in Morrowind, boss, just like you ordered
By Joshua Wolens Published -
NewsI thought I was finally free from stealth-focused Skyrim builds, then someone modded in the ability to hide in bushes
By Jody Macgregor Published 11 Comments -
NewsSkyrim lead says the $100 videogame may not be the best idea: 'I personally think game developers would be wise to not push the prices higher, but gamers are a special breed... they will pay for what they want'
By Rich Stanton Published 10 Comments -
mod squadThe best Oblivion Remastered mods
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NewsSkyrim lead designer says the next Elder Scrolls should look at how Baldur’s Gate 3 made things ‘meaningful,’ because ‘the gaming community has spoken’
By Rich Stanton Published 10 Comments -
NewsBethesda veteran says less RPG complexity in the Elder Scrolls series is good, actually: 'We got rid of attributes in Skyrim and you know who complained? Almost nobody'
By Rich Stanton Published 20 Comments -
NewsSkyrim lead designer's biggest lore regret is *checks notes* one of the coolest things the series has ever done
By Joshua Wolens Published -
NewsSkyrim lead praises Todd Howard for trying 'desperately' not to micromanage and be a ‘bottleneck’, even though he still 'does what he calls seagulling where he swoops in and changes things'
By Rich Stanton Published 15 Comments
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The Witcher
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newsOriginal Witcher story lead says the surprise twist at the end 'was a mistake,' because instead of focusing on Geralt the sequel was forced into 'a story about witchers who are killing kings for some reason'
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NewsLead story designer on the first Witcher game just rolled credits on a full playthrough, and you can watch the whole thing on YouTube
By Justin Wagner Published -
NewsWitcher 3 mod restores a darker ending for the Hearts of Stone expansion that was cut during development
By Jody Macgregor Published -
NewsAmbitious The Witcher 3 restoration mod adds yet more cut dialogue to the game, including a new Yennefer romance scene and extra choices for its most famous quest
By Rick Lane Published -
SOMEDAYThe Witcher 4: What we know about the start of a new trilogy
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NewsThe voice of Geralt isn't worried about Ciri's recasting in The Witcher 4: 'I think she's going to do a great job'
By Harvey Randall Published -
NewsCD Projekt Red was considered the 'ugly child' of CD Projekt as a whole before the first Witcher became a hit: 'They will never earn any money here'
By Emma Withington Published -
NewsCD Projekt 'hacked time and space' to cast Charles Dance in The Witcher 3, because they needed an announcement before the countdown on their website reached zero
By Emma Withington Published 12 Comments -
NewsCD Projekt was worried people wouldn't really 'get' dark fantasy as a concept, and then Game of Thrones became the biggest franchise on Earth
By Emma Withington Published
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More about RPG
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NewsHuge new Avowed update adds New Game Plus, playable dwarves and Orlans, and quarterstaffs
By Shaun Prescott Published -
newsThanks to Diablo 2, Blizzard might've found a way to fix Diablo 4's loot fatigue in its next expansion
By Tyler Colp Published -
newsThe best parts of my favorite World of Warcraft classes are being turned into new heroes for Fellowship's pre-season 2 update this week
By Tyler Colp Published
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