The next DLC for Total War: Warhammer 3 will include a Slaanesh faction led by a six-armed snake lady

The latest video in Creative Assembly’s “dev chat series” sees senior community manager Steve Coleman, game designer William Håkestad, senior game designer Vasil Nikolov, and principal technical designer Radoslav Borislov sit down to talk about the 6.2 update, the campaign AI improvements, and the next DLC. It’s a smaller-than-usual peek at what’s next, with just…

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Obsidian snuck goodies and secrets around every corner to make exploring Avowed feel worthwhile: ‘If you have a lot of dead ends that lead nowhere, you learn the lesson as a player: This game doesn’t have much to offer me’

When I had the chance to talk to Avowed region director Berto Ritger recently, I had one thing on my mind: How every nook, cranny, dead end, rooftop, and pond in the game had something hidden in it that was worth my time. Even a bit of vendor trash or upgrade materials in the right…

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I’ve finally seen gameplay from ZA/UM’s follow-up to Disco Elyisum, and it looks a lot like Disco Elysium. It will have to be spectacular to win back a hostile fanbase

At this year’s Game Developers Conference, I had a chance to see a first gameplay preview of Studio ZA/UM’s RPG follow-up to Disco Elysium, codenamed C4, and speak to two developers on the project: writer Siim “Kosmos” Sinamäe, and artist/producer Ruudu Ulas. Setting aside the controversy, the labor and creative disputes, the ownership of Elysium,…

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This whimsical adventure game sees you play as a retired Sherlock Holmes whose beekeeping hobby keeps getting interrupted by pesky crimes

Sherlock Holmes never struck me as the retiring sort, more the ‘dying in his armchair mid-deduction’ sort. Nonetheless, this is the premise of The Beekeeper’s Picnic—A Sherlockian Adventure, a charming little adventure game that’s just released on Steam. Finally fed up with the detective lark, Holmes retires to the village of Fulworth to start a…

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