A Baldur's Gate 3-style early access period wouldn't have done much for Deadfire, the secret best CRPG of the last decade, per its director Josh Sawyer

A Baldur’s Gate 3-style early access period wouldn’t have done much for Deadfire, the secret best CRPG of the last decade, per its director Josh Sawyer

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is, you may have heard, the 40th best videogame you can play right now. Ask certain incredibly cool members of the PC Gamer team and they might even tell you it’s actually higher than that. But it’s also not a super difficult game—it’s fairly easy to assemble a party that…

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Helldivers 2 begins the long march back into the community’s good books with a technical patch that represents the ‘opening salvo’ in a battle for better performance

Helldivers 2 is currently in the “it’s so over” phase of its live-service cycle. A dodgy Warbond plus a general comedown from its Siege of Cyberstan event has left the community discontented and recent Steam reviews at ‘Mostly Negative’. After addressing the community on the issue, Arrowhead has begun the process of clawing its way…

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“I Sympathise With The Negative Sentiment” – Technosoft’s ‘Fantastic Pinball’ Gets An AI-Assisted English Translation

“I tried to produce a high quality faithful translation”. Technosoft is famous for the Thunder Force series and titles like Hyper Duel and Herzog Zwei, but the company also dabbled in other genres – and its 1995 PS1 and Saturn pinball title, Kyuutenkai, is something of a hidden gem in its library. Also known as…

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