Baldur’s Gate 3 writer says its Dragon-Agey rep system is there to stop you totally breaking the NPCs, but it ‘becomes a dice roll’ at points to keep romance natural

If you’re not a fan of random violence and sadism—you know, a nerd—the words “Astarion disapproves” were probably burnt into your retinas like the afterimage of a nuclear blast when you finally rolled credits on Baldur’s Gate 3. Your party members in that game always have a goddamn opinion on your decisions, and Larian communicated…

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Corsair Vanguard Air 99 Wireless review

There is a specific audience who’ll be over the moon about this keyboard, and happy to pay the $260/£240 Corsair’s asking for it. The thing is, it really is a specific audience. While some of its best assets can be universally enjoyed, like the creamy-smooth key actuation and Corsair’s trademark construction quality, a lot of…

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Masters of Albion is a ‘Best of Peter Molyneux’ greatest hits collection in one game, but I fear it might not measure up to the games that inspired it

First, the good news: Peter Molyneux has learnt (one of) his lesson(s). Masters of Albion will not try to flog you NFTs, no one said the words “play to earn” in the entirety of its hands-off demo, and I didn’t see a single unfathomable cube in the 40ish minutes I watched Molyneux walk me and…

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Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review

There’s nothing new about a processor architecture being ‘refreshed’, as AMD and Intel have been doing this for years, but where you’d normally expect a particular SKU line to get nothing more than some minor clock speed bumps and a sparkly new badge, Intel has done things a little differently for its Core Ultra 200S…

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