The PvPvE extraction shooter where you build and drive a huge stompy mechanical base across a ruined planet gets a Steam release date

I love the idea of building a huge mechanical mobile base and using it to stomp my way around a post-apocalyptic landscape on giant metal legs. Throw in a PvPvE system where I can battle other players’ bases and raid ruined cities for resources, and set the whole thing in an “industrial alternate history of…

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For all the Divinity dev details Larian isn’t ready to comment on, we got a firm answer about the game’s controls: the studio’s sticking to its guns on no WASD movement

In Larian’s big AMA for its next RPG, Divinity, there were aspects of the game the studio wasn’t ready to share, but we got a definitive answer to a surprisingly granular aspect of its controls: No WASD movement, everything will still be mouse-driven on PC. User Plastic-Guarantee976 posed the question about keyboard controls⁠—similar to the…

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Looks like the EU is getting serious about open source, which could eventually spell good news for Linux and hopefully gaming distros

The European Commission (EC) has opened a ‘call for evidence‘ (via LWN.net) to inform the “European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy.” In other words, it’s looking for experts and relevant parties to help it figure out how to push towards open source software. This has the SteamOS-loving and Linux-pining part of myself getting all excitable on…

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Larian’s given us a single-word spoiler for Divinity, its next game, and for some reason it’s ‘alligator’

Unsurprisingly, Larian Studios isn’t revealing much about Divinity‘s story, characters, and world, not least because it’s likely to change a lot from now until its eventual launch. Baldur’s Gate 3 made significant changes to characters and story arcs from its early access launch, so it’s a fool’s errand to even attempt to pin anything down…

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‘I wish Wyll had gotten more content’ says the Baldur’s Gate 3 writer who wrote him, and splitting his story between devils and dads ‘might have been a mistake in hindsight’

Baldur’s Gate 3, you may have heard, was quite a good videogame. Good enough to make PCG history, even. But not every part of it shines equally. Wyll, the origin character and (if you’re not playing as him) party member, is notoriously a little underbaked. He’s so straightforwardly good as to be, well, maybe a…

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