Larian has followed up Baldur’s Gate 3’s hefty fourth patch with a wee hotfix that squashes a variety of bugs, one of which I wish I’d experienced before it was fixed. I knew I should have rolled a dwarf. If you’ve been playing as a dwarven Barbarian since the arrival of the last update, you…
Savings are already going live! Black Friday, the biggest shopping event of the year, is almost here once again! This year’s Black Friday bonanza officially gets underway on Friday 24th November and is sure to provide fantastic deals on Nintendo Switch games, eShop credit, controllers, accessories, and more. Some retailers are actually kicking things off…
Who doesn’t love a chocobo? Perhaps the most ever-present member of the Final Fantasy cast, these idealised chad chickens have been in the series since Final Fantasy 2, and are the true series icon. And now one enterprising player has proven that there is a chocobo god. Take a bow Saint Riot, a streamer who…
Back in 2020, a team of StarCraft 2 veterans announced the launch of a new outfit, Frost Giant Studios, with the stated goal of creating “the next great PC real-time strategy game.” We got our hands on that effort, called Stormgate, earlier this year, and it certainly looked like Frost Giant was on track to…
We may rarely think about them, but A.I. systems can fundamentally alter the gameplay experience. In order to build Call of Duty: Black Ops 3‘s four-player cooperative campaign, the team at Treyarch had to completely overhaul its A.I. technology and rethink how it influences combat, storytelling, and level design, all the while maintaining the cinematic…
My many years of experience have taught me: you should only stay with someone because of who they are, not who you think they could be. The last two weeks have taught me: unless they are a horse. Because it turns out that, if you stick with the worst nags in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2…
Given that there’s only about two weeks of 2023 left, it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that Read Only Memories: Neurodiver has been pushed back into 2024, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little sad about it. The original Read Only Memories—which somehow turns nine years old next year, god help…
Pre-orders are now live. We’ve got some good news for theme park enthusiasts today, with Atari announcing a RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Complete Edition physical release for Switch. Pre-orders are now available for $29.99 (or your regional equivalent) from the official Atari website, and this item will ship next year in March 2026. Read the full…
For a game so insistent on letting me forge my own narrative, Inzoi makes it weirdly difficult to do so. I’m a real sucker for a meet-cute storyline, so I’ve been making my Zoi chat up a guy she met in the park, Will Stewart—he’s all artsy with pretentiously curly hair and spends his entire…
We would never steer you wrong. In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”. We don’t have…