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Amelia Tyler, Baldur’s Gate 3’s narrator, talks putting a voice to the Dark Urge’s ‘feral, visceral, animalistic, want to tear the world apart with [its] teeth’

Baldur’s Gate 3 has voiced narration—a lot of it, as I’ve personally confirmed by playing the dang thing while having the sound turned on. I recently had the pleasure of speaking to the voice behind the game’s reams and reams of narration, Amelia Tyler, earlier this week.  While Tyler’s dulcet tones do stay largely consistent,…

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Monster Hunter: World – Welcome to Astera

Monster Hunter: World brings you into a rich and intricate set of living, breathing ecosystems, and to prepare you for the wildest dangers of this new world, we introduce a robust home base of operations to supply your every need. Enter: Astera. Astera, the beating heart of the Research Commission, has everything a hunter needs:…

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PlayStation Blogcast 313: Cheers to Five Years

Email us at blogcast@sony.com! Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify, Google or RSS, or download here Can you believe PS4 turned 5 this past week? Sid and Kristen share some of their favorite PS4 memories, along with which games the new PS Classic makes them nostalgic for. Enjoy! Stuff We Talked About PS4’s anniversary PlayStation Classic Beat…

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LAN Parties Before Broadband: Playing Together in the Dial-Up Years

The era before always-on internet felt slower and louder. Gaming with others meant planning ahead, packing hardware, and hoping nothing went wrong once everyone arrived. Dial-up tones echoed through bedrooms, and connections dropped without warning. Yet those previous limits did shape how people played and how communities formed. LAN parties became social events, technical challenges,…

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Panther Lake is simply begging to be stuffed inside a benchmark-crushing gaming handheld, but the price tag is likely to be brutal

I’ve just wrapped up my benchmarking of the Intel Core Ultra X9 388H, or more commonly-known to most of you at this point, the top-end Intel Panther Lake mobile chip. It’s a feisty little beast, with iGPU performance that feels very close to what you might expect from an entry-level, discrete GPU-equipped gaming laptop—and that…

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