RPG players are conditioned to think they’re ‘built different’, says Josh Sawyer, so some of them hate it when games like Pillars of Eternity tell them they can’t do something

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is the current #40 on the PC Gamer Top 100 and one of my personal favourite RPGs of all time. Somehow, though, it does have its detractors. Most notably, a vocal contingent who felt that the game’s ending didn’t live up to their expectations (spoilers for Deadfire follow). Deadfire’s plot…

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Another Spiderweb RPG that looks like it was made in 1993 drops on Kickstarter and immediately crushes its goal

“Spiderweb Software’s latest crappy-looking RPG is now live,” I wrote about Queen’s Wish: The Conqueror back in 2019. Rude? No, it was entirely affectionate: Spiderweb, a husband-and-wife team of Jeff Vogel and Mariann Krizsan, makes games that look like they come from the Gold Box era but have depth and flexibility that make most modern…

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Everything to know about Modern Warfare 4’s ever-changing Kill Block Multiplayer mode

Everything to know about Modern Warfare 4’s ever-changing Kill Block Multiplayer mode

In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, launching October 23, developer Infinity Ward is amping up the Multiplayer experience with Kill Block, an adaptive live-fire training environment where modular battlegrounds reconfigure before every match, creating hundreds of unique configurations. Let’s take a closer look. Introducing Kill Block Deploy to the West Bridge Training Facility in…

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Dell Pro 5 Webcam review

As I said in my Razer Kiyo V2 X review, the 1440p webcam market is almost as niche as the 4K one, and that’s almost entirely because of its price point. With the likes of the Emeet Pixy regularly sitting at the $90-100 mark, the $100 Kiyo V2 X really struggles to justify itself, and…

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‘Unfortunately, Valve is just starting to sunset these parts’: Aftermarket battery replacements may soon be only option for LCD Steam Deck

The original Steam Deck launched with an LCD screen back in 2022. Four years later, and Valve is apparently sunsetting replacement parts for this older model. A Redditor reached out to iFixIt to query the availability of a replacement battery for their LCD Steam Deck. Unfortunately, iFixIt responded that it was looking “less and less…

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Denshattack! review

My train spins through the air after launching off a skyscraper-high vertical ramp, swiftly twisting onto another bolt-upright bit of track, my view smothered with speed lines, Japanese onomatopoeia, and sparks as enthusiastic allies yell encouragement. A gorgeous vista stretches out below me, Japan’s countryside filled with cherry blossom trees and bright blue water. Need…

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Poll finds 100% of Japanese online game developers are using AI, though mostly for ‘user preference analysis’ and ‘user behavior prediction’

AI is controversial for… well, any number of reasons—but particularly in game development, with studios even as beloved as Larian having to carefully walk back casual experimentations with the technology, and many developers turning their noses squarely up. I’m not exactly a fan myself, but I’ll cop that there are some mundane, often-times very boring…

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