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Discovering just how many pacifist choices you could make in the original Fallout was a delight, because not only were you allowed to talk or sneak your way out of problems, but the game recognized you were doing that and rewarded you for it. Subsequent RPGs and immersive sims sprinkled peaceful options in, but an…
The Framework 16 is the gaming laptop I’ve always wanted. Well… almost. If you put the Framework 16’s GPU party piece into the Razer Blade 14 then you’ve got the gaming laptop I’ve always wanted, but this is certainly a vital step down that path. And without Framework there’s no chance of ever getting there;…
Diablo 4’s new spider pal may be far more complicated than last season’s Vampiric Powers, but I like the change of pace. Season 2 was a critical moment for the game to speed way up and see what happened, and the result was what felt almost like a reboot: a major shift in philosophy for…
We said in 2021 that the ’90s are back, baby, because someone was making an RTS based on Stargate SG-1. Today they’re really back, because that game, formally known as Stargate: Timekeepers, is now live—and for those of you who aren’t sure whether real-time Stargate strategy is going to be your bag, a demo is…
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…
It turns out that one of the best pals to catch early on in Palworld is actually, somehow, one of its bosses. The first major goal in Palworld is taking your team to challenge the tower bosses and their giant Pals but thanks to an exploit players have found, you can actually just catch those…
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…
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…
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…
The dream of any sci-fi fan is a functioning holodeck. Just step into a humble room and be transported into another world, time period (probably in 1930’s Chicago, if you’re one particularly popular sci-fi TV show), get up to hijinks, and come crashing back into reality when it all goes dreadfully wrong. Well, sci-fi fans,…