'This game could never be made by AI… it's too human,' says Baldur's Gate 3 actor Neil Newbon after wrapping a playthrough on stream

‘This game could never be made by AI… it’s too human,’ says Baldur’s Gate 3 actor Neil Newbon after wrapping a playthrough on stream

Over the course of two years and 126(!) episodes, Astarion actor Neil Newbon has been streaming a co-op playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3 alongside his friend Tom de Ville, with occasional guests like Amelia Tyler and Devora Wilde. And yes, he did romance himself. The series has finally wrapped up now, and Newbon spent a…

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Devolver’s Chill Environmental Strategy Game ‘Terra Nil’ Blooms On Switch Next Week

Planting the seed. Publisher Devolver Digital and developer Free Lives have announced that the environmental strategy game-meets-city builder Terra Nil will be laying down roots on Switch on 18th December. Described as a “chill, meditative twist on the city-builder genre,” Terra Nil will see you tasked with transforming a series of procedurally-generated wastelands into thriving…

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YouTuber The Swedish Maker wears a Meta Quest 3 VR headset for his entire woodworking project and miraculously emerges with all fingers intact

We’ve all seen those Meta Quest adverts, in which a practically-challenged human being wears a VR headset for basic construction tasks, like building a crib, with great success. However, The Swedish Maker has taken things further by several orders of magnitude—by wearing a Meta Quest 3 for the entirety of a woodworking project, including while…

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‘It didn’t exist and I wanted to play it’: Phasmophobia’s lead dev got tired of trawling around Steam for a co-op horror puzzle game so decided to just make it himself

When Larian Studios’ CEO Swen Vincke took the stage at The Game Awards to present Game of the Year he also relayed a bit of advice to other studios: Make a game that you want to play yourself, and your game will do well. Something that Daniel Knight, CEO of Kinetic Games and lead developer,…

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The Witcher 3’s former lead quest designer says ‘of course’ there is romance in upcoming vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker: ‘You can expect to build relationships with characters’

The Witcher 3 may notionally be about helping Ciri defeat The Wild Hunt, but real heads know CD Projekt’s RPG is really about mending Geralt’s fractured relationship with Yennefer with the help of a stuffed unicorn. Navigating the love triangle between Geralt, Triss and Yen was a big part of CDP’s 2015′ masterpiece, so naturally…

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