Amid a legendary autumn for PC gaming, a team of three developers quietly released one of the best shooters you can play right now into early access

I spent over five hours exploring Fortune’s Run‘s first full level, and I didn’t even finish the optional objectives. “Fully simulated centrifugal gravity space station level” is a promise, one I have to admit I wasn’t sure Fortune’s Run would deliver on. I wondered how tiny developer Team Fortune could pull off an open-ended, fast-paced…

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It turns out good guys can rescue Baldur’s Gate 3’s evil playthrough companion mod-free by turning her into a sheep and making the sheep stand trial

Drow Paladin Minthara seems like a cool character, even if she placed dead last in PC Gamer’s Baldur’s gate 3 companion ranking. You literally have to break the Geneva Convention and help some stinky goblins attack a refugee camp to recruit her, and this route also sees you waving goodbye to companions Karlach, Wyll, Halsin,…

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One of Baldur’s Gate 3’s sound designers studied blacksmithing and made a pair of metal shoes just to record armor clanking noises for the game

“In Baldur’s Gate 3, when you wear shoes with metal on them, we wanted them to have a unique sound layer of metal clanks,” explains one of Baldur’s Gate 3’s sound designers, Glenn Goa, in a video demonstrating where he sourced the sound effect. “I made some sabatons in the forge (I learned blacksmithing) and…

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