Baldur’s Gate 3’s most beloved voice is joining Fallout 4’s most ambitious mod as Astarion actor Neil Newbon bares his fangs on the streets of London

Fallout 4’s mega-ambitious, DLC-sized, and indiscriminately British expansion mod Fallout: London is rapidly approaching its official release date of April 23, and to mark the occasion its creators have released its final (of many) progress videos, showcasing the mod’s state ahead of its release and revealing a few appetite-whetting tidbits to pique your interest. First…

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Pacific Drive review

NEED TO KNOW What is it? A singleplayer first-person driving survival game with maybe the best car ever Expect to pay: $30/£25 Developer: Ironwood Studios Reviewed on: Intel i7-9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAM Multiplayer? Nope. Link: Official site With sincere apologies to the Magnum Opus from Mad Max, the Saud Kruger Orca passenger liner…

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I’m still not convinced about the brilliance of OLED gaming monitors, is this a me issue or an OLED issue?

Dave James, Managing Editor Hardware (Image credit: Future) This month I have been mostly testing… handhelds and laptops: I’ve been going mobile with my gaming recently, checking out new handhelds, with new chips inside, and shiny new laptops, too. The OneXPlayer 2 Pro wasn’t super-exciting, but I’ve also got the Meteor Lake-powered OneXPlayer X1 in…

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Update your spreadsheets, CDPR is out talking about the genres its mysterious non-Witcher, non-Cyberpunk game isn’t going to be

With Cyberpunk 2077’s redemption arc firmly in the rear-view mirror, CD Projekt Red is now full throttle on three separate projects. We already know, more or less, what two of them are: One is a new trilogy of Witcher games codenamed Polaris, and the other is a Cyberpunk sequel codenamed Orion. But one mysterious star-themed…

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D&D Lego comes full circle by rendering the tabletop game’s deadliest block in brick form: The dreaded gelatinous cube

We’ve come full-circle—or full cube, as it were. There’s something about this recently-announced set by Lego ideas that’s tickling my poetic sensibilities. It’s a block, represented by blocks. Now we just need a Minecraft mod porting this exact set inside it, and we’ll be three meta-layers deep. Time to party up. We’re oozing with anticipation!…

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Reddit’s set to rake in $60M per year in a deal with an unnamed AI company to train future models on its 20 years’ worth of user generated content

If you’ve ever posted to Reddit there’s a good chance you’re helping train the next generation of AI models with your own words, pictures, and memes, because the company’s selling access to its 20 years’ worth of content for a reported $60 million. I mean, chances are you’ve already been used to train AIs given…

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