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Planescape: Torment 2 was greenlit by Wizards of the Coast, ‘they were really into what we were doing’, but it refused to fund the sequel, and nobody else was interested

Baldur’s Gate 3 might be the greatest D&D videogame out there, but Planescape: Torment—with its potent mix of exceptional writing and fever-dream setting—is a close second. And we almost got a sequel, Planescape: Unraveled, but nobody had the courage to fund it. Unsurprisingly, Beamdog—which has become something of a custodian for BioWare and Black Isle’s…

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AYANEO “Evaluating” Another Pocket Micro 2 Run After Launch Shortages, But “Can’t Promise” It’ll Happen

Ridiculously, only 100 units were allocated overseas. Last Friday, AYANEO opened pre-orders for the AYANEO Pocket Micro 2, its successor to 2024’s AYANEO Pocket Micro, with a more powerful processor, a better battery, and dual power TMR joysticks, causing a mad rush to secure the console from its website. But almost as soon as it…

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YouTuber builds pocket-sized Game Boy emulator using an ereader, demonstrates an ‘actually playable’ refresh rate for your Pokemon Blue replay

Listen, I do love the vibrant colours and deep blacks of my OLED. What I don’t love is the price tag (though, in the grand scheme of RAMpocalypse knock-on effects, the cost of gaming monitors has remained relatively stable). As such, I’m always intrigued by more affordable low-fi tech options, like epaper displays. It’s just…

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Sony games boss says company will bravely keep sending live services over the top, despite cancelling 8 of the 12 ones planned for 2025 and wiping out most of Destiny 2’s developers

Sony had a rough track record last year. As one of our contributors Rick Lane pointed out, the company had cancelled eight out of 12 live service games that were originally planned for 2025, including the trainwreck that was Concord—fast-forward to 2026, and it’s called curtains on Destiny 2, a game just years prior I…

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