Avowed’s companions won’t ditch you for making the ‘wrong’ choices: ‘It’s not about maintaining their approval, it’s about getting to know them’

Avowed, the upcoming first-person RPG from Obsidian, mixes and matches a few RPG standards in its approach to companion characters and their stories. Before we get into details, some basics—in an interview with game director Carrie Patel and gameplay director Gabe Paramo this week, we learned the following about Avowed’s companions and party management: We’ll…

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2 months after killing the Overwatch League, Blizzard teams up with Saudi Arabia’s esports org for ‘a new era of Overwatch esports’

As promised, Blizzard has unveiled “the next chapter” of professional Overwatch esports: The Overwatch Champions Series, a multi-region competitive circuit that will culminate in two major tournaments at Dreamhack. The Overwatch Champions Series will be operated in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa by, an esports company owned by Saudi Arabia’s Savvy…

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Palworld multiplayer: how to join your friends online

As is the case with so many survivalcraft games, Palworld is great for chilling, grinding, and crafting with your pals. The human ones, I mean, but also your Chikipis and Lamballs. Basic Palworld multiplayer allows up to 4-player co-op but community servers and dedicated servers can host up to 32 players. And although there is…

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Immortality developer Sam Barlow teases 2 new projects on Steam, and one of them is survival horror

Sam Barlow’s studio Half Mermaid, the developer of Her Story, Telling Lies, and Immortality—one of highest-reviewed games of 2022—are teasing a pair of mysterious new projects on Steam called, mysteriously, Project C and Project D. The newly-arrived Steam pages for both new games are heavily redacted. The description for Project C opens with a biblical…

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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League reveals its first season, featuring a playable Joker from another universe—a camp, insecure 20-something with a rocket umbrella

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has dropped a third entry into its sequence of insider episodes with a big reveal—in the game’s first season, you’ll get to play as da Joker, baby.  As posted to the Warner Bros. Games YouTube Channel, the diary goes into a few notable bits of information—like three seasons that’ll…

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