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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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