A ‘vast medieval sandbox’ with a former Cyberpunk 2077 designer working on it may be revealed at Summer Game Fest, but there’s a twist: the studio is really into generative AI

While scanning the list of this year’s Summer Game Fest partners, I noticed an unfamiliar logo—an ‘R’ with a lightning bolt—and traced it to a Danish studio I’d never heard of: Raw Power Games, which says it’s making a “vast medieval sandbox.” We love a medieval sandbox at PC Gamer: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 recently…

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Balatro doesn’t have microtransactions for a very good reason: ‘It makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots and pans,” Localthunk says

Balatro looks like a game that should be filled with microtransactions: More card backs, weird backgrounds, boosters, whatever—the potential for this stuff is virtually limitless. Yet there are none: No MTX, no season passes, no nothing really, except the Friends of Jimbo “collaboration packs,” and they’re free. Why not? “The honest reason I don’t have…

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CDPR says the Kingdom Come style of systems-heavy RPG is ‘super great’ and, when it comes to The Witcher 4’s direction of travel, ‘these are our next steps for sure’

Yesterday brought our first proper look at The Witcher 4, thanks to a highly impressive tech demo, and the Ciri-led sequel is now CDPR’s next big thing. PCG’s Josh Wolens recently sat down with several of the studio’s core figures to discuss the series’ past and future and, with this happening around The Witcher 3’s…

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