Baldur’s Gate 3 player gives every NPC a +99 to their attacks, devises a harebrained build around being an unkillable wizard that obliterates anyone dumb enough to hit their shield

I just wrapped up my first honour mode playthrough in Baldur’s Gate 3—and whenever I roll those golden dice, I feel a sense of pride. So of course the universe sends someone along to take a greatsword to my sense of self-worth by pulling off an even tougher challenge. Typical. Bouch on YouTube has set…

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After a 6 year brawl, Billy Mitchell is back in the record books even though Twin Galaxies ‘had all our ducks in a row’ for a courtroom showdown

Almost exactly six years after being stricken from the record by the scorekeepers at Twin Galaxies, Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong’s scores are back in the (historical) books. In a statement released Tuesday, Twin Galaxies announced that it was restoring all of Mitchell’s scores to its official historical database but not, mind you, its modern leaderboards….

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Tekken 8 promises to change accessibility options after potentially dangerous filters that ‘may hospitalise players’ were discovered

Tekken 8 director Katushiro Harada has revealed that changes to the game’s accessibility features are coming for the full game after concerns began circulating in early January around potentially life-threatening seizures relating to its colour and mask filters. In late December, a since-deleted viral tweet began circulating demonstrating one of Tekken 8’s potential accessibility filter…

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An ex-D&D designer has made a stat block for Elden Ring’s hardest fight, in case you wanted to punish your players with Malenia’s scarlet rot

I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella. Six words any Elden Ring player has burned into their frontal cortex by this point—like a Sekiro boss that accidentally stumbled into Elden Ring, this fight was so obscenely difficult that it spawned an entire genre of pot-wearing heroes. Well, now you can fight her in D&D. This stat…

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Star-studded cinematic horror Until Dawn is getting a big screen adaptation, an ‘R-rated love letter to the horror genre’

Shazam director David F. Sandberg has decided to take some time off from superhero movies in order to film horrible things happening to some people on a mountain. He’s been enlisted to direct an adaptation of Until Dawn, Supermassive’s first cinematic horror choose-your-own adventure that was the precursor to things like The Quarry and The…

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The phenomenal original Deus Ex, as well as its underappreciated cyberpunk sequel, Invisible War, are on sale now for half the price of a small McDonald’s fries

There’s no doubt that Ion Storm, the studio set up by John Romero and Tom Hall, had its fair share of disappointments when active, the most notable being the high-profile FPS flop Daikatana. But Ion Storm was also the studio that developed the original Deus Ex, one of PC gaming’s most iconic and groundbreaking games….

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4 years after it was announced, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is finally making its versus mode a reality with a closed alpha: ‘We put it on the shelf to marinate for a bit’

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is getting a versus mode, as announced four years ago at our very own PC Gaming show, no less. Except it’s for real this time. A steam post by Fatshark outlines their mission statements for the mode’s closed beta test on Steam.  “This isn’t the first time we’ve announced Versus; and our…

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