Baldur’s Gate 3’s lead writer hopes we won’t want to save scum in Divinity: ‘Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting’

We all save scummed in Baldur’s Gate 3⁠—except, apparently, for my friend Jack and coworker Morgan Park. They both accidentally killed everyone at the Last Light Inn and just kept trucking. As part of Larian’s big Divinity AMA on Reddit, the game’s writing director, Adam Smith, revealed how the studio is factoring players’ save scumming…

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Valve spent 2025 ripping apart Deadlock and putting it back together, and it delivered better live service than most live service games

League of Legends looks unrecognizable in 2025 when compared to its cartoonier, humbler 2009 incarnation. And yet, while Summoner’s Rift has been dotted with all sorts of new jungle monsters, balance tweaks, and visual overhauls, the actual map has changed only slightly. Occasionally a different mode is introduced with a new map, but those rarely…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 composer Borislav ‘Bobby’ Slavov is coming back for Divinity: ‘We wouldn’t be able to stop him even if we wanted to’

Not that there was much doubt, but now it’s confirmed, and it’s good news for Larian fans. Borislav Slavov, the creator of the Baldur’s Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2 soundtracks, is composing the music for the studio’s next game, Divinity. “We wouldn’t be able to stop him even if we wanted to,” Larian…

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Arc Raiders player ranks 30 common outfits by how likely they are to shoot you in the back, and I have to admit it’s right on the money

Does your choice of fashion say something about your behavior in Arc Raiders? As I pore over this “Raider Outfit Danger Scale” created by Reddit user abeetabee and marvel at its anecdotal accuracy, it’s hard to argue there isn’t a correlation. Some threads just scream “this guy is totally going to shoot me when I…

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Over half of The Sims development team is working on The Sims 4 and ‘the next evolution’ so I guess it’s time to start speculating again

I feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day because the year was 2022 when I first watched EA tease the “next generation Sims game” with the codename Project Rene. Two years later it said “actually that’s not the Sims 5 though” and spent another year being weird and silent before finally admitting today that yeah,…

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Divinity’s reveal trailer was brutal and dark for a reason, Larian’s writing director says: ‘We want to give players the opportunity to be the light in that darkness’

Remember that Divinity reveal trailer at The Game Awards? It was a banger, alright, from the puke-eating pigs to the orgy in front of the guys getting burned to death Wicker Man-style and then the big finish, where everyone dies horrifically—except the pig, which I thought was a nice touch. It is dark, to put…

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The PvPvE extraction shooter where you build and drive a huge stompy mechanical base across a ruined planet gets a Steam release date

I love the idea of building a huge mechanical mobile base and using it to stomp my way around a post-apocalyptic landscape on giant metal legs. Throw in a PvPvE system where I can battle other players’ bases and raid ruined cities for resources, and set the whole thing in an “industrial alternate history of…

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The PvPvE extraction shooter where you build and drive a huge stompy mechanical base across a ruined planet gets a Steam release date

I love the idea of building a huge mechanical mobile base and using it to stomp my way around a post-apocalyptic landscape on giant metal legs. Throw in a PvPvE system where I can battle other players’ bases and raid ruined cities for resources, and set the whole thing in an “industrial alternate history of…

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