Blizzard accidentally left a placeholder item in Diablo 4 and a couple of lucky players went god mode with it

PlayStation Blogcast Post-PGW Special

We’re back, baby! Sorta. Apologies for the lack of a Blogcast recently; we’ve been busy prepping for our big Paris Games Week Showcase! We hope you’ll agree that the wait was worth it. Sid, Zac and I crashed a meeting room shortly after the show ended to record our impressions while they were still fresh…

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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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Diablo speedrun sleuths proved its 15-year world record was fake after reverse-engineering the game and failing to replicate the run in 2.2 billion possible randomized dungeons

First reported by Ars Technica, a team of Diablo speedrun enthusiasts have decisively proven that a three minute any% world record that has stood since 2009 was faked. The effort required reverse-engineering Diablo’s map generation system, which has 2.2 billion possible legitimate outputs. The offending speedrun was uploaded to Speed Demos Archive by Maciej “groobo”…

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Mortal Kombat player nabs a tournament victory just 5 days after giving birth, all while her newborn chills in her lap

As someone who’s been to a whole bunch of fighting game tournaments over the years, I thought I’d seen it all—Beyblade battles, best-dressed contests, real-life tier lists taking place on giant velcro-laden whiteboards, pro players taking their shirts off for money—but a woman absolutely bossing a Mortal Kombat 1 tournament mere days after giving birth,…

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