Forget the Dark Urge: if you want to feel like a monster in Baldur’s Gate 3, it has over an hour of different gut wrenching breakup conversations

“I thought I knew every type of hurt there was. I didn’t know anything, did I?” Jesus, Karlach, I’m sorry, I didn’t even get this dialogue in my game and I still feel bad. Baldur’s Gate 3 is a big game with tons of world state variations and a veritable smörgåsbord of romanceable companions⁠—it makes…

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Assassin’s Creed players started having their games interrupted by full-screen pop-up ads, but Ubisoft says it was a ‘technical error’ and quickly patched it

First reported by Rock Paper Shotgun, console players of older Assassin’s Creed games like Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla encountered Black Friday ad pop-ups for the latest entry, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, while trying to access in-game menus. Ubisoft has since stated that the ads appeared due to a “technical error” and removed them. Videos demonstrating the…

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Lethal Company’s co-op horror comedy is like Phasmophobia, but immediately more chaotic and deadly

“Let’s split up, cover more ground,” says one boiler-suit clad spaceman to another. “Yeah, that always works out in Scooby Doo.” They turn off in opposite directions at the dark concrete intersection. From the left, voice raised to be audible over the hissing steam pipes, the Scooby-savvy one speaks. “Got some metal scrap. You?” “Nothing….

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