Path of Exile 2 gets its first hits with the nerf bat to bring mace slams, magnetic arrows, and stinky clouds in line: 'It is better to do this early'

Path of Exile 2 gets its first hits with the nerf bat to bring mace slams, magnetic arrows, and stinky clouds in line: ‘It is better to do this early’

Path of Exile 2 is in that early phase of a new ARPG where things are a little bit like the mathematical equivalent of the wild west. All those millions of early access players are running wild, smashing together every possible combination of combat and passive skills in an environment where the laws that undergird…

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Dauntless’s launch on Steam has gone horribly, horribly wrong with overwhelmingly negative reviews: ‘This update is easily, out of every game I’ve ever played, the worst one I’ve seen’

Dauntless has launched on Steam, and smashed straight into a gigantic brick wall that says “Overwhelmingly negative.” The co-op hunting game, which has been available to play since August 2017 but is new to Steam, has over a few days accumulated nearly 1,000 negative reviews and they’re all about the major overhaul Dauntless received for…

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‘I got slapped by CD Projekt’: Doug Cockle says he doesn’t actually know if Geralt is in The Witcher 4 or not, but the studio wants him to shut up about it

It turns out that Geralt of Rivia, everyone’s favorite monster-hunter-for-fire, may not be in The Witcher 4 after all. Then again, he may be—the truth is, nobody outside of a presumably select few at CD Projekt really knows, and that includes voice actor Doug Cockle, who says he got “slapped” by the studio after revealing…

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