One of Elden Ring’s upcoming new starter classes is a freakishly strong jock with an intelligence score so low, they probably can’t read, but the hardcore PvP kiddies are going ga-ga for them

First spotted by weliveinasocietyboi on the Elden Ring subreddit, Bandai Namco has finally clued us in on the stats for one of Elden Ring’s upcoming new starter classes, an absolute unit of a knight who looks tailor-made for strength builds⁠—and whose knuckle dragger spellcasting stats may leave them a prime pick for PvP tryhards. Most…

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To the dismay of sweaty ‘movement kids,’ Battlefield 6 is nerfing Call of Duty sliding and jumping to maintain a ‘traditional Battlefield experience’

Duck, dive, and dodge: Following feedback from the Battlefield 6 beta that its movement was too squirrely and unpredictable, Battlefield Studios is planning significant changes for the full release. The announcement came in an “Open Beta Debrief” blog published on Battlefield’s official social channels, which, in addition to movement, touched on hot topics like map…

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Eric Barone says he doesn’t get paid for Stardew Valley collabs, and that’s the way he likes it: ‘I wouldn’t want to make money from a collaboration’

We learned earlier today that Stardew Valley and Infinity Nikki are teaming up for a collaboration of some sort that’s set to land on September 1—a crossover that PC Gamer’s Infinity Nikki superfan Mollie Taylor as “surprising,” because “Stardew Valley doesn’t do this sort of thing very often.” A little while later, Stardew Valley creator…

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Nintendo Download: 21st August (North America)

Herdling! Roadwarden! Uhh…umm… The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived — a few hours late, but unless you’ve been sleeping all day, you’ll know we’ve been dealing with a lot of silk(song). Anyway! As always, we’ve got a list of new games galore that have arrived on the US eShop. It’s a…

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Bloodlines 2 developers try to justify the game’s DLC clans, but it’s not very convincing: ‘We have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land’

It didn’t go over super-well when Paradox revealed yesterday that two of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2‘s six playable clans will be available via some rather pricey DLC. Especially after the game’s infamously rough development, you might think that Paradox and developer The Chinese Room would want to engender goodwill among existing and potential…

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