The unique challenge of directing actors in an open ended masterpiece like Baldur's Gate 3: 'Potentially your brother died; potentially he was rescued... we're going to do all those options. It's a lot!'

The unique challenge of directing actors in an open ended masterpiece like Baldur’s Gate 3: ‘Potentially your brother died; potentially he was rescued… we’re going to do all those options. It’s a lot!’

Secret Level This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 389 in October 2023, as part of our Secret Level series. Every month we talk to the unsung heroes of games development, and explore what makes their roles vital.  During and after university, Kirsty Gillmore studied—and had a passion for—drama; after university, she did…

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Space Marine 2 publisher says even he ‘didn’t believe that we could hit 7 million unique players,’ but it’s proof that players are hungry for sicko games: ‘When the execution is right, it ends up resonating with many more people’

Pullup Entertainment is having a good year. Its portfolio includes Farming Simulator and Space Marine 2 publisher Focus Interactive, indie and retro publisher Dotemu, and in-house studios like Deck 13, Dovetail Games—all of which are humming along well enough that Pullup’s quarterly revenue has increased by more than 130% over the previous year. In an…

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Sennheiser and the company that now makes its audiophile headphones have just been fined €6 million over price fixing

The business relationship between audio brand Sennheiser and audio care conglomerate Sonova is a little confusing, but basically what you need to know is that Sonova finalised their purchase of Sennheiser’s consumer division for €200 million back in March 2022. Sennheiser still makes their own studio kit for professionals, but amateur audiophiles are served by…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, July 19

Feel free to use our clue for today’s Wordle whenever you’re feeling a bit stuck. Unleash it right at the start if you’re not sure what sort of opening word you’d like to go for, and don’t worry about spoiling the fun—it’s written to help, not immediately give the game away. You could always save…

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Apple Boot Camp 6 Now Supports Windows 10

There’s an Apple support page revealing that Boot Camp 6 for Mac is compatible with Windows 10. What’s that mean to you? The ability to use Microsoft’s new platform on a supported OS X “Yosemite” Mac machine. Unfortunately, Boot Camp only supports the 64-bit version of Windows 10. According to the Support page, Boot Camp…

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s devs say they’ll totally make choices from the past games matter next time, though I’ll believe it when I see it

One of the big bummer moments from Dragon Age: The Veilguard, especially for many long-time fans of the franchise, was the fact that key decisions from the past games—Dragon Age: Origins, 2, and Inquisition—didn’t really matter all that much. As a matter of fact, you only get to make three real decisions when you boot…

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