Baldur's Gate 3's new Legendary Actions just made its honour mode bosses way harder than you think, and I can prove it with D&D science

Baldur’s Gate 3’s new Legendary Actions just made its honour mode bosses way harder than you think, and I can prove it with D&D science

Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest patch added two whole new difficulty modes. Honour, a sort of pseudo-permadeath run, and Custom, which lets you fiddle around with rulesets to your heart’s content. One thing that had alarm bells ringing in my head, however, was this line from the patch notes:  “[Honour mode] introduces over 30 new tweaks…

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Amnesia: Collection Coming to PS4

It was June 2009 and we were running out of money. We’d spent nearly two years making a game called Lux Tenebras. Our idea was to make a Super Mario version of a horror game; something that could be enjoyed in bite-sized chunks, was replayable, and mostly relied on easily repeatable gameplay mechanics. The problem…

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Race a Kei truck through a collapsing Japan in DriveCrazy, which is like Burnout if you could drive on walls and fight towering kaiju

If there was an award for videogame vehicle of the year (get on that, Game Awards) then the 2025 award would surely go to the Kei truck. The world’s cutest lorry delivered a brilliant comedic performance in April’s open-world driving sim Promise Mascot Agency, before offering a stranger, more haunting turn in September’s Easy Deliver…

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