Dispatch is set to hit its fantasy ‘Bull case’ 3-year sales target in just 3 months, and players have gone gaga for its episodic release structure

I’ve not gotten around to it yet, but it’s my understanding that Telltale-style superhero sim Dispatch is really rather good. So good that it won the heart of our Fraser Brown, who scored it 89% in his Dispatch review and called it “one of the best superhero TV shows around.” And that’s without all the…

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The Spectrum Is Getting A New Collector’s Edition In White, Complete With A Printer

“Once it’s gone, it’s gone!”. Following the release of The Spectrum, an emulation-based version of Clive Sinclair’s popular 1980s microcomputer, Retro Games Ltd. is back with a new Collector’s Edition in white, featuring a printer, a thumb drive, and a recreation of the Quickshot II joystick, alongside a spiral-bound manual and a companion issue of…

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The new Forgotten Realms books are set after Baldur’s Gate 3 and show Karlach found her happy ending, though one jerk wizard also dodged his comeuppance

The idea of “canonicity” in RPGs is an odd one, given the whole point of both videogame and tabletop RPGs is that the players decide what the main characters do. But sequels, spin-offs, and sourcebooks have a habit of choosing particular outcomes as the “real” ones—unless it’s the Elder Scrolls, where every ending of Morrowind…

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The Blood of Dawnwalker’s latest gameplay trailer starts out looking like a Witcher spinoff, then the main character starts walking on walls

The Blood of Dawnwalker⁠—a new vampire RPG from former CD Projekt devs⁠—has been half on my radar, but its latest gameplay trailer (following a first one in June) really has the sauce: There’s a lot of very apparent Witcher 3 DNA on display, but that just seems to be a comfortable starting point for a…

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