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In the era of D&D 3rd edition and its 3.5 update, character building was a wild west. The game’s complex rules and deep customisation made it ripe for min-maxing—and an unbelievable barrage of first- and third-party expansion content meant there were always new races, classes, spells, and feats to mess around with, usually all hopelessly…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a breathtaking RPG narrative told in three acts—it’s also been the bane of my life for the past couple of weeks. I’m starting to feel like Phil Connors in Groundhog Day: an indestructible god powered by foresight stuck in a time loop. Except Connors had no choice—I’m doing this to myself…
Tributes are flooding in across the games industry following the death of game designer, artist, and transgender rights activist Jennell Jaquays, who died yesterday of complications caused by Guillain–Barré syndrome. Even if you aren’t familiar with Jaquays’ name, she almost certainly had a hand in something you love over the course of her long career…
Lucasfilm has registered several new domains for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, including one that specifically refers to the title as a game. The registrations were first spotted by X user Kurakasis and include: http://indianajonesandthegreatcirclegame.com http://indianajones-and-the-great-circle.com http://indianajonesandthegreatcircle.com Kurakasis further notes that Lucasfilm applied for a European trademark for The Great Circle two years ago….
CES 2024 is starting to wrap up, and the big announcements have turned from a torrent into a trickle. What better time than now then, we thought, to have a look back at the themes of the show as a whole. Pretty easy this year we’ll admit, as unless you’ve been living under a particularly…
Tech events aren’t always about PC components or wearable gadgets, as demonstrated by Honda’s Space Hub stand at the CES 2024. On show were two concept cars that gave me such Cyberpunk 2077 vibes that I spent an hour in the game checking out the different vehicles, before coming to the simple conclusion: Honda’s vision…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs) following years of opposition—though not without stern warnings about the “myriad risks” of investing in cryptocurrency. The news was greeted with enthusiasm by crypto-lovers and has led to a minor spike in Bitcoin’s value, with one Bitcoin being worth around $44,000 on…
Momodora: Moonlit Farewell is the final instalment in the Momodora franchise—designed, as the series’ creator states, to “close the book on many of the past games’ mysteries and questions”. While I’ve not had the pleasure of playing a Momodora game before, I do like a good metroidvania—and I’ve been pleasantly surprised so far as a…
The XGIMI Horizon Ultra is one of the best dumb projectors I’ve ever had the good fortune to play with and yet also a familiarly frustrating smart projector. It looks great, both in terms of the device itself and in terms of what it can beam up onto your wall, but there are definite issues…
We live in an era of AI hype and everyone has a take. But while most of us are a bit concerned about what the rise of ultra-predictive-text means for human creativity and criticism, a few Silicon Valley types are worrying themselves about Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI, which is basically a serious-sounding term for…