Leon Kennedy’s actor has seen all your thirst traps: ‘I found myself in life embodying an avatar that’s just infinitely better looking than myself’

Back in school, we were always told to be careful what we put on the internet, you never know who may see it. The same rule still applies, but maybe all those Leon Kennedy fan accounts forgot, because it turns out that Leon’s current VA, Nick Apostolides, has seen all your thirst traps. “I think…

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Marathon launch times and release date

After a less-than-ideal early reception last year, Bungie made the call to indefinitely delay Marathon while it returned to the drawing board somewhat. Now, it’s officially back on the menu, and the Marathon launch time is drawing near. But release is far from the end of Bungie’s plans for Marathon, as it unveiled Season 1:…

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D&D’s clunkily-named 2024 ruleset, a revamp of 5e, finally throws up its hands and goes fine, we’ll call it 5.5e on D&D Beyond, you win

Dungeons & Dragons, judging by the D&D Beyond site (which is owned by Wizards), is going through a bit of a revamp with its 2024 ruleset—in that it’s finally giving in to semantic ease and normal naming convention and just calling itself 5.5th edition, or 5.5e. Well, on one specific website. The system, originally dubbed…

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Esoteric Ebb Review

Esoteric Ebb is the best game like Disco Elysium that anybody’s made since Disco Elysium, an RPG with a focus on exploration over combat, a literary, political bent, where your skills attributes talk to you. But it’s not some rehash of the things Disco did well and few have managed to replicate: Esoteric Ebb has…

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Highguard’s failure is emblematic of something that has tormented videogame investors for years now: past live service hits do not equal future live service hits

Tyler Wilde, US EIC (Image credit: Future) This week: Tyler has been making plans for PCG’s coverage of next week’s Game Developers Conference, which should shed more light on the issues at play here. Every time a game like Highguard craters, we collectively wonder why the games industry keeps chasing huge live service hits when…

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World of Warcraft: Midnight player proves that you only need a single button and a clever build to heal your dungeon party

A feature that a lot of players might overlook in World of Warcraft: Midnight is Blizzard’s new single-button assistant. It’s basically a way to play any class in the game by pressing one button as it cycles through various abilities. Anyone who plays WoW for its hardest dungeons and raids, like mythic+, won’t need something…

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Capcom makes the majority of its sales on PC, and it expects the ‘ratio to continue increasing’

PC beats PS5, Nintendo Switch and Xbox by a large margin when it comes to Capcom game sales, the publisher has confirmed in its latest quarterly report. It’s a pretty astonishing figure: PC sales make up “approximately” 50 percent of total unit sales. That means other platforms—the aforementioned consoles and smartphones—share the other 50 percent…

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