Squealing pigs, disgruntled bison, and the most beautiful frying meat I’ve ever seen: Dragon’s Dogma 2 is just as wonderfully weird as the first game

There really is no RPG quite like Dragon’s Dogma. It’s a big, weird, wonderful, terrifying, enthralling mess of an adventure that demands you meet it on its own bizarre terms, or else get savaged by wolves in the middle of the night. Heading into my hands-on with Dragon’s Dogma 2, my biggest fear was that…

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Behind the Scenes of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty’s Launch Trailer

Summary CD Projekt Red’s spy-thriller adventure Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is out today for Xbox Series X|S.To celebrate its launch, we created the Official Launch Trailer featuring Dawid Podsiadło’s closing track for the expansion, titled “Phantom Liberty”.Our video artists worked together to reflect the expansion’s spy-thriller atmosphere in a tense, beautifully shot trailer — and…

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Todd Howard says that Starfield’s ship AI sucks on purpose so players can actually hit stuff: ‘You have to make the AI really stupid’

Bethesda is known for making big, blockbuster RPGs—but Starfield‘s space combat was a totally new frontier for the team. I’ve personally found a decent bit of fun in zipping around and knocking pirates out of the sky, even if it’s clearly not the game’s main focus. I don’t envy the devs saddled with the task…

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Final Fantasy 14 is a 400-hour-plus epic you can share with your friends, and I’m not sure we’ll see anything like it again

Final Fantasy 14 is a long RPG. Well, long feels like an understatement—it’s actually five very long RPGs stuffed inside each other, like some kind of game turducken. Even if you aren’t distracted by all the little MMO bells and whistles—player housing, glamour hunting, fishing—you’re still gonna be there a while. Sentiments are cooling on…

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