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Code Vein 2 review

I’ve never felt more kinship with a silent protagonist than in Code Vein 2. Just like being stuck with someone rambling all about the Definitely Interesting details of their job, there my little make-a-me was in the early hours of the game, listening to a giant goth mom monologue a string of proper nouns—something like…

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Sega Almost Sued Atari Over A Terrible Virtua Fighter Clone But Decided It Would Be “Embarrassing”

“The culprit was definitely that French person”. When Sega released Virtua Fighter in the early ’90s, it represented one of the single biggest leaps the competitive fighting genre had since in years; without Yu Suzuki’s 3D masterpiece, things would have been very different indeed. Unsurprisingly, other companies quickly released their own 3D fighters in the…

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Dragon’s Dogma 2 hands out an infinite fast travel item after people wouldn’t stop moaning about how laborious it was to go anywhere

It has been two years since Dragon’s Dogma 2—the unlikely sequel to an unlikely RPG—emerged from its Riftstone, and it just got a fairly mondo new patch. Released on June 10, Dragon’s Dogma 2’s latest title update brings fast travel tweaks, pawn futzing, bug fixes, and plenty else besides. Oh, and it’s part one of…

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Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord gets free patch alongside War Sails DLC that’s so big, the 17,000 word update run more than twice the length of Age of Empires 2’s ‘legendarily long’ patch notes

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord’s War Sails expansion landed on the base game’s unassuming shores earlier today, adding fully simulated naval battles to Taleworld’s medieval RPG. Yet even if you’re not interested in crewing a longship with a raiding party to terrorise the coastlines, there’s plenty of reason to consider diving back into Mount &…

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There’s a unique game over in Baldur’s Gate 3 you can only get by rolling 20 on a bunch of Constitution saving throws, then being an absolute dunderhead

There are a lot of unique game overs in Baldur’s Gate 3 you can only discover in extremely specific circumstances. Maybe you fail a Wisdom saving throw and a dying mind flayer eats your brain. Maybe you taunt the god-queen of the githyanki and she wishes you out of existence. (Yes, I learned about those…

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