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Old School RuneScape just got its first new skill ever and players are psyched about it, apart from the guy the game accidentally branded ‘Morbid Loner’

Old School RuneScape has been around for, oh, about 12 years now, and in all that time it’s never gotten a new skill. Players have been working with—and making great sport of—the set of skills it inherited from the original RuneScape, which itself last got a new skill (that’d be Hunter) all the way back…

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The Sinking City 2 is delayed into 2026 because of the war in Ukraine, but not just that: Making a survival horror game requires ‘a completely different kind of design thinking’ than adventure games, and that ‘definitely makes development slower’

Frogwares announced The Sinking City 2 in 2024 with a bizarre teaser billing an overt shift to survival horror and a 2025 release target. Today, however, the studio said it needs more time, and has thus pushed the game’s release into 2026. The reason for the delay is twofold: First and foremost, Frogwares is a…

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‘Every stone will not be turned for years’ says Baldur’s Gate 3’s principal narrative designer, on its many hidden outcomes

While Baldur’s Gate 3 is appreciably big in size—its three acts spanning a lot of square miles —its sheer largeness comes more from the amount of pieces on the board. A tool recently discovered that the thing has around 1,800 characters and over 110,000 lines of text. So when the game’s principal narrative designer Lawrence…

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