The marquee additions in Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8 are probably photo mode, the Hexblade subclass, and the Booming Blade cantrip, but there’s also a new sicko combo that’s taken the BG3 Builds subreddit by storm: Shadow Blade plus Resonance Stone. Neither of these are fully new, but Patch 8 did a complete revamp on…
When Path of Exile 2 first hit early access last December, its endgame was a bit… sparse. Despite delaying development on acts 4-6 to ship the game with more systems in place, the Atlas of Worlds felt like navigating an endless sea of stuff I didn’t really want to do in order to get to…
We had a tough call last year awarding our GOTY for best survival game—it ultimately went to single-player driving survival game Pacific Drive, but only by a razor thin margin because of these two words: Abiotic Factor. Abiotic Factor is basically what would happen if all those unfortunate science nerds Gordon Freeman left behind in…
Hello, I’m Eser Kaya, I’m part of the Ubik Studios team developing Leila. I’d like to tell you a little bit about the world of Leila that you’ll be diving into. Leila puts you inside the mind of a middle-aged woman and lets you wander there. You are allowed to enter her mind and you…
Some Discord users are now being asked to scan their faces or IDs to verify their age group when they attempt to view sensitive content. While some might call this a chilling advancement of the global surveillance apparatus, Discord says these new “features” are “an experiment” that only applies to users in the United Kingdom…
Category: Games April 17, 2025 Building a Soulslike: Why Lords of the Fallen Version 2.0 is Worth Your Time Ryan Hill, Marketing Director, CI Games Much like playing one, crafting a Soulslike is a brutal dance of precision and punishment. CI Games knows this all too well after a decade of swinging for the fences…
It wouldn’t be a RuneScape game without level grinding, and RuneScape: Dragonwilds mixes XP grinding into the usual open-world survival game formula. Leveling up skills makes you more efficient at collecting materials and killing enemies and improving your skills also unlocks powerful spells that make so many parts of the game easier. It can be…
We described Botanicula in our 2012 review as “the result of Monkey Island and Terry Gilliam falling into a vegan’s blender: A gorgeous-looking mix of point-and-clicking surrealism, whipped together out of nature, discovery and adorable humour.” And yup, that about nails it: It’s weird, funny, heartwarming, and—this is why we’re talking about it right now—free…
Category: Games April 17, 2025 Master the Art of Combat in Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree Nathan WhincupContent Lead, Global Player Communications, Knights Peak Summary Whether you favor brute strength or devastating magic, learn how to best slay monsters in Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree, coming to Xbox Series X|S and PC today….
We feel a new main coming along… The Mario Kart World Direct has been and gone, and we learnt… not all that much actually. What we did get out of it, mind you, is a fresh batch of screenshots from Nintendo, showcasing the majority of our new racers with some stunning close-ups. World appears to…