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With great self-awareness WinRAR releases official $150 merch: ‘What better way to support the software you’ve NEVER paid for than by buying a WinRAR bag?’

WinRAR, the compression and encryption software known for having a paid version that many users deftly dodge, has put out flashy new merch including a messenger bag modelled after its iconic logo. For $150, you can get some of the geekiest (and most fun) merch I’ve seen this year. In an announcement tweet that has…

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I thought I was tough stuff for beating Baldur’s Gate 3’s hardest difficulty, but this new permadeath ‘Honour’ mode has me quaking in my bardic boots

When I first rolled credits on Baldur’s Gate 3, it was at the hardest launch difficulty: Tactician. That achievement was slightly undermined by the knowledge that Tactician wouldn’t stay top dog forever⁠—I knew Baldur’s Gate 3 would eventually follow Larian’s Divinity: Original Sin games in adding a permadeath “Honour” mode. Now that it’s here as…

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The MindsEye fallout continues as axed staff allege crunch, mismanagement, and a total lack of direction: ‘Leslie [Benzies] never decided what game he wanted to make’

Expectations were high for the first game from Build a Rocket Boy (Barb), the studio founded by former Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies after his departure from Rockstar North in 2016. Benzies was one of the key leadership figures that had overseen GTA’s rise from a pioneering open world romp into a global cultural…

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the surreal debut RPG from Sandfall Interactive, is out this April and I can’t wait to hang out with my inscrutable balloon comrade

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the debut game from Montpelier studio Sandfall Interactive, was first revealed to us back in June 2024 with a wild trailer showing a turn-based RPG set in a world being slowly destroyed by a giant, unfathomable paintress. During today’s Xbox Developer Direct, we got another, longer look at the surreal RPG,…

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