Baldur's Gate 3 fan discovers the game has nearly 237 hours of spoken dialogue in it—and a whopping 14 hours are narrator Amelia Tyler's alone, though Astarion gives her a run for her money

Baldur’s Gate 3 fan discovers the game has nearly 237 hours of spoken dialogue in it—and a whopping 14 hours are narrator Amelia Tyler’s alone, though Astarion gives her a run for her money

Baldur’s Gate 3 has dialogue. A LOT of dialogue. Heaping, great stonking helpings of dialogue. This was to be known already, given the sheer volume of NPCs you talk to when you’re running around in the thing—’tis a fact that is self-evident. But did you know exactly how much spoken dialogue, down to the very…

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Former Google exec says AI’s going to lead to a ‘short-term dystopia’ because the idea it will create new jobs for the ones it’s replacing is ‘100% crap’

Something funny happened as I was watching Google X’s former chief business officer Mo Gawdat, on the Google-owned platform YouTube, outline his exact take on the AI dystopia he thinks is coming. The host began to ask Gawdat about the idea AI will create new jobs, then the video halted while Google ads served me…

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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag remake is such a badly kept secret it’s been leaked by a statue maker who just assumed we all knew it was coming

In days of yore, before we had all this internet nonsense, leaks happened organically, concretely. They happened in printed books and in frantic conversations in the cloisters. In the time of the Roman Republic, unannounced videogames were leaked by loose-lipped sculptors in unguarded moments, out of their gourds on hippocras. A more civilised age, and…

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Valorant player claims to have inherited hardware ban through secondhand CPU, Riot anticheat boss disputes parts of story

User After-Cartoonist-196 on the German-language PCBaumeister subreddit claims to have bought a CPU secondhand, but that it carried the previous owner’s Valorant ban. Extreme surveillance measures have been adopted by esports devs in recent years to combat and punish endemic cheating in their games. Riot support allegedly told them this ban is now associated with…

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Fallout 76’s Burning Springs update draws its ‘main influences from Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas’ as players venture to a whole new state, Ohio

Fallout 76’s next update has finally been announced, and boy, do these just keep getting bigger and better. Blood and Rest will release around early December and introduce Burning Springs as a new area of the map, a bounty system, and [Walton Goggins’ beloved ghoul] from the Fallout TV show. “Burning Springs is in total…

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Totally Accurate Controller Makes a Totally Accurate Comeback with the Commodore TAC-2

One of the 1980s most popular home joysticks is now available for pre-order AUGUST 11, 2026 — Following the runaway success of last year’s Commodore 64 Ultimate, Commodore International has announced it is bringing the TAC-2 joystick, also known as the “Totally Accurate Controller,” back into production more than 40 years after its debut. Pre-orders…

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How to get Cut Amber in Lego Fortnite

Locating Cut Amber in Lego Fortnite is a little challenging if you’re not all that used to survival games. First, you’ll need to find the material it’s made from, Rough Amber, and then you’ll have to refine that further in order to make Cut Amber. This material is used for making rarer upgrades and buildings…

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Treasure’s Sublime Guardian Heroes Turns 30 Today, Which Makes Us Sad We Never Got A Proper Sequel

A Saturn masterpiece. Treasure’s iconic side-scrolling fighting Guardian Heroes is 30 years old today, it pains me to reveal. Released in Japan on January 26th, 1996, Guardian Heroes mixes belt-scrolling action with RPG elements such as experience points, NPC conversations and branching pathways. Read the full article on timeextension.com A Saturn masterpiece. Treasure’s iconic side-scrolling…

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Talent calculators have already been assembled for World of Warcraft: Forever, and there’s some real interesting stuff in here

World of Warcraft has a long-standing tradition of datamining and min-maxing. So it should come as no surprise that, despite only just being shown at Blizzcon, World of Warcraft: Forever now already has online talent calculators available, assembled from a delightful tapestry of streams and ravenous info-gatherers. There’s the old reliable that is WoWHead, but…

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Grab Four Crunching Koalas XPA Faves at a Discount

Category: ID@Xbox February 3, 2026 Grab Four Crunching Koalas XPA Faves at a Discount Bartosz Wnuk – Marketing Manager, Crunching Koalas Summary Highlights from four Crunching Koalas bangers available on Xbox. All four titles are now Xbox Play Anywhere-enabled. Each game is available with Game Pass discount starting right now. Whether you’re playing on console,…

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