Your favourite Baldur’s Gate 2 companions were ‘a bunch of cardboard cutouts’ until the game’s director played Final Fantasy 7 and felt the heat of competition

I might have a personal soft spot for Baldur’s Gate 1, but it’s impossible to deny that Baldur’s Gate 2 is far more influential. It’s tectonic: a game that codified a model of RPG making whose influence is still felt today, and it’s in large part down to how it handled its companion characters.  Where…

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Atari Is Open To Pitches For A New Bubsy Game

“Eventually, a good Bubsy game needs to be made”. Atari’s been splashing the cash recently, acquiring not just Nightdive Studios but also Moby Games and AtariAge. As part of this process of hoovering up assets, the company has also picked up the rights to hundreds of games from Micropose, Infogrames and Accolade – and Bubsy…

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The First Review For Sonic Superstars Is Now In

Can it possibly live up to that superstar key art? We’re less than a week away from Sonic’s return to the second dimension (well, not really, but it’s a side-on platformer in the classic mould, okay?) in Sonic Superstars. After spending some hands-on time with it back at Summer Game Fest, this throwback to the…

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Lost Isle is your next open-world survival obsession

Anyone interested in open-world survival games should get ready for the genre’s next big hitter: Lost Isle, a procedurally generated fantasy MMO that can be wishlisted now. Build a fortress and protect it, or dedicate yourself to sieging and plundering those of others. Cultivate and craft or ransack and loot. Go it alone or forge…

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