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The cast of Baldur’s Gate 3 has evolved over the game’s Early Access period and beyond—Wyll in particular had a whole rewrite between the game’s conception and its full release. Whether it’s whole storylines shifting or just toning down Gale’s accidental thirstiness, finding the core of a character in a story this large is bound…
There’s a hint for today’s Wordle right here and ready to help if you need it, as well as a great selection of general tips that will improve every game. If you’re really stuck, don’t forget the answer to the December 18 (912) Wordle is on this page and ready to go if you need…
Best of the best (Image credit: Bandai Namco) 2023 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPSes: Finest gunplay On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up…
Broadly speaking, when you play Magic: The Gathering via its digital incarnation in Arena, you choose a format to decide whether you want to play with just new cards (Standard), a mix of new and old cards (Historic), or a mix of new and old cards but none older than the popular Return to Ravnica…
When a game has multiple endings, that can cause problems for post-ending DLC. Do you canonize one ending, which risks alienating players who chose a different one? Make the story vague enough that it could follow on from any of the endings, which can mean tying yourself into narrative knots? Rewrite the ending and provide…
Dyson Sphere Program is one of the best factory-building games out there, and it has picked up a lot of interesting features during its trek through early access development—but now the biggest game-changer of the planned features has hit. Rise of the Dark Fog, the update that adds an interplanetary menace to your game, has…
There is an entire universe of beats out there on YouTube, low-fi or otherwise, that you can relax/study to, but I’m a big fan of “videogame ambience” videos. It’s not just a soundtrack rip, but long cuts of actual in game footage with all the other assorted sights and sounds adding to the experience. One…
Mimimi’s swan song was supposed to be the two DLCs it released earlier this month for Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew—Yuki’s Wish and Zagan’s Ritual. But the studio dedicated to stealth tactics games has one last parting gift before closing its doors altogether. Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew now has a modding tool for creating…
So you’re a scientist who works in one of those science-fictional giant underground research facilities—your Black Mesa, SCP Foundation, The Loop, what have you—and the day arrives where the big science catastrophe goes down and everyone’s dying left and right and there’s a horrible cascade of alternate dimensions and weird aliens pouring in. That’s the…
On the second day of reviewing Redfall, Arkane’s co-op vampire FPS, I logged in and lost all my progress. I made the critical mistake of playing with someone else in a multiplayer game that only remembers what one player does. I wasn’t devastated about losing a few hours of my time, but disappointed that the…