Poll: Box Art Brawl – Duel: Kirby Mass Attack

They… they’re multiplying! It’s time for another edition of Box Art Brawl, are you ready to judge a game by its cover(s)? Before we dive into the proceedings of today’s match-up, let’s check out what happened last time. It was a good old one-on-one duel for The Lion King on the SNES, with Europe and…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 lets you use sausages as weapons, so of course one audacious player built a dual wielding ‘Salami-mancer’ ready to take on the game’s hardest difficulty

There’s a ton of cool weapons in Baldur’s Gate 3: the super slick pirate rapier Duelist’s Prerogative, the Magic Missile-launching hand crossbow Ne’er Misser, the… hunk of salami? Yes, while it’s probably best reserved as fuel for your long rests, the salami item in Baldur’s Gate 3 is also a 1d4 damage bludgeoning weapon, and…

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The Talos Principle 2 brings in GLaDOS to roast itself for copying Portal: “You came up with that? Oh. No, wait. I did.”

The latest game in the first-person puzzler legacy of Portal, The Talos Principle 2, is getting pretty positive reception. Developed by Croteam and Devolver Digital, the game inevitably cribs some design logic and concepts from Portal and Portal 2, seeing as they’re in the same genre. Normally you’d just acknowledge the giants on whose shoulders…

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