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On the CRPG-developer-romance spectrum, Obsidian are at one end—generally anti-romance—while BioWare and Larian are at the other end. As is Owlcat, whose Rogue Trader and Pathfinder games all feature romanceable companions. The reasoning behind that, and the particulars of how romance works in Pathfinder, is the topic of discussion in the studio’s latest developer blog….

Valve risks fines of up to AU$825,000 a day if it fails to respond to a transparency notice issued to it by the Australian government’s eSafety Commissioner. According to a statement released by the regulator, Steam is “reportedly a hub for a number of extreme-right communities”, and must explain to Australia how it is “identifying,…

The founder of laptop company Framework did something radical on Tuesday, setting him apart from nearly every other tech company in the world: He stood on a stage and said nice things about the personal computer. “For the first time in history, more silicon is actually going into the cloud than it is into personal…

Peter Molyneux is playing the hits with Masters of Albion, returning to the god game form he helped define. Towns can be built, townsfolk can be menaced—all through the awesome, lightning-bolt throwing, boulder-dropping, peasant-flinging power of an omnipotent, hovering hand, just as tradition demands. And it’s all happening when Masters of Albion launches in early…

It’s best to assume that nothing you do on a work-issued PC is private. But is there no limit? No breaking point where people start throwing their laptops out of windows and joining Watch Dogs-esque hacktivist groups? Meta sure seems to be looking for it. Reuters reports that the Facebook, VR, and now AI company…

It cannot be overstated how alien a concept “free-to-play” was just a few hardware generations ago. Long before we’d settled on a label for them, the only notable free-to-play games were browser-based MMOs, early MOBAs based on mods, and Korean games that had few players in the West. Free-to-play was niche in these parts, but…