Bloodlines 2 narrative director tries to get players to lower their expectations, patiently explains it’s not going to have the scale of Baldur’s Gate 3 or Grand Theft Auto

While we will get to choose the clan and gender of our player-character in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, it’s apparently not going to be a full “how many skill points do I want to put into Security” kind of character creation—a revelation that’s set a few fans on edge. Narrative director Ian Thomas…

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The Battlefield 6 battle royale ring will instantly kill anyone caught in it: ‘There’s no jumping in and out of it, no using it for cover, no walking through it’

We’ve finally got a few details about the incoming Battlefield battle royale mode, which was teased during the Battlefield 6 reveal event and is rumored to be a free-to-play mode coming sometime after the October launch of Battlefield 6 itself. In a Steam post about an upcoming Battlefield Labs test of the mode, the developers…

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An embarrassing failure of the US patent system’: Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo’s latest patents on Pokémon mechanics ‘should not have happened, full stop’

The last 10 days have brought a string of patent wins for Nintendo. Yesterday, the company was granted US patent 12,409,387, a patent covering riding and flying systems similar to those Nintendo has been criticized for claiming in its Palworld lawsuit (via Gamesfray). Last week, however, Nintendo received a more troubling weapon in its legal…

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Paradox apologizes for botching yet another DLC release: ‘It hurts so much when we f**k up like this’

PC Gamer’s Joshua Wolens wrote last month that Crusader King 3’s then-upcoming DLC Coronation would provide “even more opportunities to be murdered spectacularly by your vassal.” He was close, as it turns out, but a bit off the mark: It is in fact Paradox Interactive that’s being spectacularly murdered by Crusader Kings 3 players, for…

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The ‘Phunky Physics’ bundle is cooler than it sounds, with 9 great games including Hardspace: Shipbreaker and What the Golf? for just $13

“Phunky Physics” is a terrible name for a game bundle, and if I told you that Humble Bundle was offering just such a thing without elaborating, you’d be forgiven for closing this tab immediately. But if I told you that you can score the excellent Hardspace: Shipbreaker, along with What the Golf?, Totally Accurate Battle…

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Former Anthem lead producer says flying in BioWare’s doomed live action shooter is proof of the dysfunction in its development: ‘It’s Anthem’s worst feature, because the consequences of flying aren’t adequately taken into account’

Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah just released the second two-hour video in his tell-all Anthem trilogy, in which he’s chronicling his recollections about the production of the infamous BioWare live action shooter that’s due to go offline for good when its lifetime of development turmoil ends in January. Darrah’s first video covered Anthem’s earliest years…

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The US government is ‘looking at’ the connection between videogames and gun violence, because what else could it possibly be

Like a dog gnawing on a particularly tasty bone, the US government is once again trying to link violent videogames to violence in the real world. In a press conference following the release of the Make Our Children Healthy Again report conducted by the Make America Healthy Again commission—MAHA, of course—US secretary of health and…

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