I never knew I wanted to be able to trap monsters in bubbles and watch them float away until I tried the demo for this upcoming magical FPS

Sorceress is shaping up to be a precious kind of game: The Dark Messiah-like. Arkane’s sophomore outing is mostly remembered for its legendary kick ability, which could turn nearly any enemy into one of those supremely satisfying Source engine ragdolls with one or two good smacks, but it also had this beautifully anarchic approach to…

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Even after 300 hours, I’ve never met one of Baldur’s Gate 3’s most elusive NPCs: a half-orc named Honk who only shows up if you kill his brother then go on a date at their restaurant

One of the best parts of Baldur’s Gate 3 is all the stuff you don’t even realize you missed. The half-orc waiter, Honk, isn’t exactly the juiciest morsel of BG3 esoterica, but as YouTuber Proxy Gate Tactician points out, he might be the NPC you’re least likely to have met even after hundreds of hours…

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That Pokémon with guns game, Palworld, just sold 4 million copies in 3 days and it isn’t slowing down

Former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata outlined a “blue ocean” strategy with selling the Nintendo Wii, which is to say it was designed to tap into the “ocean” of potential customers outside the usual gamer sphere. Well, it turns out there’s an untapped blue ocean of people who wanted Pokémon with guns, because the survival-crafting Poké-like…

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