Chief producer of the Yakuza series wasn’t worried about going turn-based back in Yakuza: Like a Dragon, saying, ‘we are confident that we can make an enjoyable game, even if it is in a genre we have never made before’

The Yakuza/Like a Dragon games are an annualized series, a new entry appearing every year since 2014, and sometimes two per year—as was the case in 2023, when Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio released both Like a Dragon: Ishin! and Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. With so many games coming out,…

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Forget the Dark Urge: if you want to feel like a monster in Baldur’s Gate 3, it has over an hour of different gut wrenching breakup conversations

“I thought I knew every type of hurt there was. I didn’t know anything, did I?” Jesus, Karlach, I’m sorry, I didn’t even get this dialogue in my game and I still feel bad. Baldur’s Gate 3 is a big game with tons of world state variations and a veritable smörgåsbord of romanceable companions⁠—it makes…

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Assassin’s Creed players started having their games interrupted by full-screen pop-up ads, but Ubisoft says it was a ‘technical error’ and quickly patched it

First reported by Rock Paper Shotgun, console players of older Assassin’s Creed games like Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla encountered Black Friday ad pop-ups for the latest entry, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, while trying to access in-game menus. Ubisoft has since stated that the ads appeared due to a “technical error” and removed them. Videos demonstrating the…

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