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Some Rest | No Rest for the Wicked dev may have been quiet for a little too long, but it will back with a vengeance in January

We're finally getting some major No Rest for the Wicked news in the new year, to kick-start 2025 with a bang.

Dec. 23, 2024 Sherif Saed

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Testers Wanted | Fancy testing out Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 and its long-awaited crossplay mechanics? Larian's now letting folks sign up to do just that

Apply for a nice prezzie that you might get to open in January, if you're one of the players picked.

Dec. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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All Aboard | We really don't need a Cyberpunk 2077 movie, but if there ever is one, Idris Elba is already up for reprising his role

"Let's speak that into existence."

Dec. 16, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Text reads, “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Madness. Official Manga.” Artwork shows a colorful cast of characters including Rebecca and her brother Pilar on the background of Night City skyscrapers.

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Page Turner | Still not over Cyberpunk: Edgerunners? The just revealed manga prequel won't help, but it does seem like a great addition to the series

Plus it's the only new Cyberpunk thing you'll be getting for a while.

Dec. 15, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

The main cast of Baldur's Gate 3 on a smoky, grey background.

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Counting The Days | "It needs a lot more time in the oven" - Larian hopes it can distract you from whatever its next game is with a cute, puzzley Advent calendar

Maybe next year!

Dec. 15, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Whirling-In-Rags | If you want to hear Disco Elysium's amazing music live, you need to act quickly: Sea Power is touring in 2025

It's a good time to be a Disco Elysium fan... unless you want a sequel or something, of course.

Dec. 13, 2024 Dom Peppiatt

Onimusha art over two Game Awards statues

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Oni, Oh My | Move over Resident Evil, Capcom's newest remake darling is Onimusha (just don't expect to get your hands on it until 2026)

Onimusha is Capcom's 10th best selling franchise - but I expect that number is going to change once you see this trailer.

Dec. 13, 2024 Dom Peppiatt

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Johnny Silverhand, a man with long hair and big shades, looking at you while you're driving in Cyberpunk 2077.

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Cyberpunk'd | Cyberpunk 2077's 2.2 update has some neat vehicle customisation options, but the best addition is easily that you can cruise around with Keanu Reeves now

It is a surprisingly hefty update considering development was supposedly stopped on the game earlier this year.

Dec. 11, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Indiana Jones in The Great Circle, wearing his Marshall College clothes and looking through a crack in a door at night

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Secret of Secrets: How to get the Sistine Chapel safe code

Paying Indy by robbing Paul and Peter('s symbols)

Dec. 9, 2024 Josh Broadwell

On the left, V and Johnny Silverhand from Cyberpunk 2077 stood in front of a yellow tinted skyline. On the right, Geralt from The Witcher 3 in some dark woods.

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Cyberhunted | Geralt in Night City? As wild as it sounds, one group of dataminers have found evidence of a quest that would have brought everyone's favourite Witcher into the world of Cyberpunk 2077

A fun "what-if" kind of scenario.

Dec. 9, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

A pixel art man with his very large mouth open wide, pixel art from Stardew Valley and Haunted Chocolatier in the background.

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Stay Patient | Stardew Valley's creator wants you to know that just because he keeps adding to the farming sim, it doesn't mean he's "abandoned" Haunted Chocolatier

"It’s been a little sad to see Haunted Chocolatier getting dusty on the shelf… but this is the reality of my situation."

Dec. 6, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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A Perfect Circle | Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review: an acquired taste, but a barnstorming classic

The best thing I can say about Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is that I know I’m going to be thinking about this for a long time yet.

Dec. 6, 2024 Alex Donaldson

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Jackie and Misty in Cyberpunk 2077's Fresh Start mod intro.

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New Cyberginnings | Cyberpunk 2077 just got a whole new intro and backstory option that'll let V relate to both big biz types and Panam's mates, thanks to a modder

A path for the folks who wish they'd lived a bit more of a complex life before being infected with the Keanu Reeves virus.

Dec. 5, 2024 Mark Warren

Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion standing in from of Fallout: London's Barry The Boat.

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On The Boatses | Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion on why he was keen to add some "very British, you know, everything's a nightmare" flavour to Fallout: London's sassiest mode of transport

"I didn't have any say on the lipstick, but we did improvise a lot."

Dec. 2, 2024 Mark Warren

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Humble Brag | "This is the most confident I've ever been" - one veteran RPG dev with titles like Baldur's Gate and Fallout under his belt on the upcoming Avowed

"I'm just overjoyed at how well everything's come together."

Dec. 2, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

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And That's That | Think that Troy Baker doesn't sound enough like Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle? Tough luck, because doing a "bang-on impression" was never the point

In fact, the actor almost didn't take on the role in fear of having to do a pitch perfect impression.

Dec. 2, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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A griffin can be seen flying through the sky in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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Jot That Down | The next Witcher game might be making the jump to Unreal Engine 5, but CD Projekt Red really wants to make sure you know its in-house engine wasn't why Cyberpunk 2077 came out a mess

Despite what you may have thought, it wasn't solely REDengine that messed up Cyberpunk's launch.

Dec. 1, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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PASS THE GAMES | The best Game Pass games on Xbox and PC in 2024

Our top picks of the greatest games on gaming's best subscription service.

Dec. 1, 2024 James Billcliffe

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TOP OF THE DROPS | The best PlayStation Plus games on PS4 and PS5 in 2024

Our top picks for Sony's money-saving subscription service!

Dec. 1, 2024 Connor Makar

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It Never Ends | Been thinking you're done with Baldur's Gate 3? Well, Larian isn't done with you, as photo mode, cross-play, and 12 subclasses are coming in 2025

Time to roll the dice again.

Nov. 28, 2024 Fran Ruiz

Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Lucanis, looking like he doesn't want to be sexily chucked across a room, opposite Baldur's Gate 3's Lae'zel.

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Chk Yourself | Dragon Age: The Veilguard modders have added in Baldur's Gate 3's tattoos, so you can slap a reminder that its companions don't chuck you across a room as sexily as Lae'zel on your mug

There's also a fresh patch for the former, as BioWare dishes out more tweaks.

Nov. 22, 2024 Mark Warren

Harry Du Bois sitting in a cabin in Disco Elysium.

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It Never Ends | Disco Elysium's potential 'spiritual successors' reportedly come with even more behind-the-scenes drama, including a bizarre spat about photos of someone's ex-wife

According to ex-Disco writer Argo Tuulik, one of the parties involved in the mess, it's "a comically confusing situation".

Nov. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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Popeing Off | The odds of Baldur's Gate 3 being owned by The Pope just got better, as Larian's head of publishing shouts out mods for helping it outdo numbers from last year

There's also an equally good - if not greater - chance he's not one of the three Vatican-based BG3 buyers, but we can dream.

Nov. 18, 2024 Mark Warren

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A character surrounded by intellect devourers in Baldur's Gate 3.

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Coming In Hot | You might want to start uninstalling some mods, Baldur's Gate 3 console players, as an incoming hotfix will make those of you with 100+ mods unable to play your save

There will be a follow-up fix that lets you play it again, but you'll still need to uninstall some mods.

Nov. 17, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Indiana Jones is stood in front of a man wearing a vicar's outfit in The Great Circle.

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Whip It! | Indiana Jones and The Great Circle's latest deep dive shows just how useful a whip can be, and that our titular hero looks pretty snazzy as a vicar

Maybe I should get a whip...

Nov. 11, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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The player being told off for sneaking about in Stardew Valley.

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Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh | Stardew Valley now has a "secret, experimental" mobile multiplayer mode and it's so hush-hush that to get in you have to, er, consult an official guide

Properly top secret stuff here. I'd say put a stealthy hat on your pet, but that looks to be causing issues right now.

Nov. 6, 2024 Mark Warren

A bunch of characters in Divinity: Original Sin 2.

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Sin-ply Wonderful | Craving more Larian goodness after Baldur's Gate 3? Well, it looks like Divinity: Original Sin 2 might be on its way to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S

Some freshly spotted PEGI ratings could be good news for folks who love a killer cRPG.

Nov. 6, 2024 Mark Warren

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Pecking Order | Stardew Valley fans rejoice, your chickens will no longer vanish thanks to the latest bug fix patch

Your chickens are saved! Thanks to a handy bug fix patch that's just gone live.

Nov. 5, 2024 Connor Makar

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Two For One | New Baldur's Gate 3 class mod gives you an apprentice, lackey, or squire sidekick that shares your turn, because why not have a mini-me to make Shart jealous

Everyone needs an adventuring partner, and it's not like you've got enough already.

Nov. 4, 2024 Mark Warren

Multiple horror game characters are shown. From left to right, there is: Fatal Frame Project Zero's Ose Kurosawa, Alien Isolation's Xenomorph, Resident Evil 7's Jack Baker, the chef from Little Nightmares, and Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2

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DOUBLE JUMP SCARES | The best horror games to play in 2024

From founding fathers of horror to underrated gems, here are some of the best horror games to sink your teeth into.

Nov. 1, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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Classic Voice | Todd Howard initially rejected the idea of Troy Baker playing Indiana Jones in The Great Circle

The prolific voice actor almost automatically lost out on the iconic role.

Oct. 31, 2024 Fran Ruiz

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Father Figure | Baldur's Gate 3 players have now downloaded "more than 50 million" mods since patch 7, and you've gotta thank the weirdos who call undead camp bloke daddy

Seriously, come with me, we're doing it now, so we can swiftly take a cold shower and forget we did.

Oct. 30, 2024 Mark Warren

Longdue's game in between Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3 and Harry Du Bois from Disco Elysium.

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Kim Karlachsuragi | Longdue creative director says its upcoming game will be on the "closer to Disco" end of a great Disco Elysium to Baldur's Gate 3 cRPG spectrum

"There's so much room for other studios to come out and make something on that spectrum."

Oct. 29, 2024 Mark Warren

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A Perfect Circle | Indiana Jones and the Great Circle hands-on: a twisted love child of cinematic action, adventure games, and immersive sims - and I love it

Part-Lara Croft, part-Nathan Drake, but all Indiana Jones - the Great Circle scratches an itch I didn't know I had.

Oct. 29, 2024 Alex Donaldson

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Playing Co-op | Summer Eternal’s not-quite-Disco Elysium successor needs a focused vision, and the studio’s unique worker-owned set-up is the key to making sure it finds one

"I think we are going to relieve those fears."

Oct. 28, 2024 Mark Warren

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Games Going Forwards | “I think this industry is finished”: not quite Disco Elysium spin-off studio Summer Eternal on the chances of things getting better for game devs

"Now, after tens of thousands of layoffs, the time seems right for game developers to stand up for their rights against systemic greed."

Oct. 25, 2024 Mark Warren

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White Noiz | The best video game soundtracks to revisit in 2024

From classical symphonies and industrial noise to acid jazz and synthwave, these game soundtracks leave no stone left unturned.

Oct. 24, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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Revashow Me The Way | Fittingly, Summer Eternal isn't aiming to "outdo or even match" the original Disco Elysium, because it's driven more by artistic vision than profit

"We leave that business to the profiteers."

Oct. 24, 2024 Mark Warren

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Tequila Sunrise | We’re not getting a “Disco Elysium 2 assembled on autopilot, trauma and uppers”, but here's how one group of ex-ZA/UM devs is building something “familiar but new”

“Kuno’s not yet done with this fight.”

Oct. 23, 2024 Mark Warren

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Tell Me A Good One | The best story games to play in 2024

If you're looking for a game with a story that will captivate you, check some of these out.

Oct. 23, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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The best co-op games to play in 2024

Whether you simply want some quick co-op fun or a lengthy campaign to embark on, we've got you and your friends covered with these co-op games.

Oct. 23, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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Partnership! | Former CD Projekt Red devs partner with Bandai Namco for Dark Fantasy RPG Dawnwalker

The latest step for a studio out on it's own. Well, not on it's own anymore.

Oct. 22, 2024 Connor Makar

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NO MONEY, NO PROBLEM | The best free-to-play games to try in 2024

Here are some good games for you to play without the need to splash the cash.

Oct. 22, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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Tractor High Beams | Keep Driving is in Steam Next Fest, and it reminds me of that time I drove halfway across the country to a lake not that far from my house

It’s a Swedish indie thing about being young, having access to a car, and occasionally fighting tractors. Just like real life.

Oct. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

Wyll in Baldur's Gate 3 looking pretty chipper.

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Mod To Last | Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix 28 is good news for idiots like me who've already installed more mods than they can count, and also for Wyll stans

Here's hoping your Wyll to live is restored when he actually greets you nicely.

Oct. 16, 2024 Mark Warren

A man covered in sweat, dirt, and scratches stood in a dimly lit room in the Until Dawn remake.

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Book Your Tickets | The Until Dawn movie has a release date, and it won't be too long until you get to complain that they didn't go with your favourite ending

Just don't bring your PlayStation controller to the cinema, it won't work.

Oct. 16, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Harry and Kim in Disco Elysium next to some cover art for Summer Eternal.

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DJ Khaled Meme | Enter "a war machine waging war at the machine": I see the Disco Elysium spin-off projects you've already read about, and raise you one with its own manifesto

Yep, I go on holiday for one week, and all of my buses come at once.

Oct. 14, 2024 Mark Warren

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Electric Boogaloo | Until Dawn 2 isn't confirmed, but hints from a couple of its cast members might just suggest a sequel is on the way

Plus there's those new endings to think about too.

Oct. 14, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

A number of characters from Baldur's Gate 3.

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How About A Kiss? | A Baldur's Gate 3 fan spent a five-figure sum on an Astarion you-know-what doll, and all Larian has to say is "can I expense this?"

I'm gonna assume the answer is no, buddy.

Oct. 13, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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The exterior of Washington Lodge at night, as seen through the trees.

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Before Sunrise | How to save everyone in Until Dawn

Full walkthroughs on how to ensure each of the eight main characters survive the night. You can also ignore this advice if you want to get everyone killed - there are trophies for both, so I'm not judging.

Oct. 11, 2024 Rebecca Jones