CD Projekt Red announces new Witcher game will be developed after Cyberpunk 2077

Obsidian director Josh Sawyer says it’s a ‘mistake’ for RPGs to sacrifice crunchy ‘sweaty boy’ systems in favour of a ‘one size fits all’ game, since easier difficulties aren’t too hard to make

Dear reader, I need to confess something to you. I have never done a proper playthrough of Skyrim. I’ve booted the game up countless times, gotten a few hours deep, and felt a kind of malaise drag me away. It’s nothing personal—I just need more crunch out of my RPGs. Josh Sawyer, studio design director…

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How to get Aegon’s Dream in Borderlands 4

While we wait for George R.R. Martin to finish A Song of Ice and Fire, you’ll have plenty of time to farm for Aegon’s Dream in Borderlands 4. Referencing the iconic series, this legendary assault rifle shoots both fire and ice projectiles, dealing incredible damage against unarmoured and armoured foes alike. Unlike some other popular…

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Haunted Chocolatier: all the key details on the followup to Stardew Valley

Haunted Chocolatier is the eagerly-awaited next outing from Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone, which you could probably tell from a quick glance. While there’s a strong resemblance with the beloved farm life sim, Haunted Chocolatier’s ditching the farm business for sweeter pastures: It’s chocolate shop sim time. Also, there are ghosts. Barone revealed Haunted…

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The Communist Manifesto – A Visual Novel review

Over the course of the 20th century, more people were called a great—or the greatest—theoretician of Marxism than I can count. Lenin, Che Guevara, Deng Xiaoping, Tony Cliff: all these names and more bore the mantle of Karl Marx’s true inheritor—the standard-bearer who had synthesised historical materialism for a new era and was prepared to…

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