D&D-skewering, Disco Elysium-inspired RPG Esoteric Ebb had me trying my best to be a cleric while my Intelligence stat kept telling me to become a wizard-king

Waking up in a morgue in the updated demo for Disco Elysium-like RPG Esoteric Ebb, the first thing I did was check out the other body lying in there with me. It’s hard to tell what’s a brand new interaction compared to my run through Esoteric Ebb’s original demo versus pre-existing stuff uncovered by a…

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Best starter Bow build in Monster Hunter Wilds

If you’re looking for the best Bow build in Monster Hunter Wilds, two things are probably true. One, you’re interested in dealing damage without putting yourself directly in disemboweling range. And two, you probably looked at bowguns and thought “This might be a lot” when you saw the ammo screens. Welcome to the Bow, aka…

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The first gameplay trailer for PUBG creator’s ‘brutal’ survival game shows off deadly weather and cozy cabins

“I expect a lot of people will hate it,” said Brendan Greene, creator of PUBG, when talking about his next game. That’s not the strongest sales pitch I’ve ever heard, but makes more sense with the context that he’s talking about the uncompromising difficulty of survival game Prologue: Go Wayback!, which launches into early access…

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Monster Hunter Wilds

Monster Hunter Wilds has “entered the area,” as it would say of one of its giant roaring enemies storming onto the scene. Far from an unbeatable monstrosity though, Wilds is the best starting point yet for the long-running series with its open world, streamlined combat systems, and slightly less clunky co-op system than past games….

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Bioware co-founder laments Jade Empire’s commercial failure and blames it on ‘the worst advice, absolutely moronic advice’ from Microsoft

BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk left the company with fellow founder Ray Muzyka in 2012, four years after the pair had sold the storied RPG developer to Electronic Arts. It’s fair to say that both are probably watching recent events with interest, after the lukewarm commercial reception to Dragon Age: The Veilguard saw the publisher react…

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Epic will give Fortnite cheaters ‘a second chance’ with a new, more forgiving ban policy, as long as they didn’t do anything too awful or illegal

Everybody makes mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes arise from good intentions—paving the road to Hell and all that—and sometimes, well, maybe you just didn’t think things through very well. But Epic Games says it believes in second chances, so if you’ve made a mistake in Fortnite at some point in the past, it’s going to give…

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Adult game dev reveals annual gamer ‘kink survey’ results: ‘Monster Girls’ are on top, but ‘Tentacles dropped out of the top 25’

Sexy games have been around for as long I can remember: I played Strip Poker on my Apple IIe way back in the ’80s. But Steam’s hands-off curation policy, the arrival of indie-friendly marketplaces like Itch.io, and the rise of monetization platforms like Patreon have led to a proliferation of adult games that means it’s…

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