The best Palworld 1.0 pals for running your base like a well-oiled machine

One of Baldur’s Gate 3’s sound designers studied blacksmithing and made a pair of metal shoes just to record armor clanking noises for the game

“In Baldur’s Gate 3, when you wear shoes with metal on them, we wanted them to have a unique sound layer of metal clanks,” explains one of Baldur’s Gate 3’s sound designers, Glenn Goa, in a video demonstrating where he sourced the sound effect. “I made some sabatons in the forge (I learned blacksmithing) and…

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Editorial: Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animals

We hope you get all of the goodies you wished for. While we’re sure you’d rather be playing with your He-Man toys and Atari 2600 (this is still 1983, right?) instead of reading this, myself and Jack would like to wish you a Merry Christmas. It’s been a bumper year for retro gaming products, from…

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That’s Incredible! by Walter Day

Twin Galaxies’ fame had become international and many game manufacturers considered Twin Galaxies to be the premiere organization that represented the interests of the player. When That’s Incredible contacted numerous game manufacturers with the idea for a video game competition, they were directed by the manufacturers to contact Twin Galaxies. Twin Galaxies had been the…

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Dawn of War 4 will let you play as the Dark Angels and their boss, a big lad with the best name in 40k, Lion El’Jonson—yes, he’s really called Lionel

Nothing quite says Warhammer 40K like armoured dudes on motorbikes smashing through crowds of Orks. We got that and plenty more in a brand-new Dawn of War 4 story trailer, premiered during the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted. There are massing armies of Necrons awakening from deep within the planet, drop pods full of Blood…

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Guild Wars 2’s sixth expansion is taking players to an island paradise this October, with beachside player housing and a major addition to buildcrafting

A few weeks ago, ArenaNet started teasing the next Guild Wars 2 expansion with a daily drop of mysterious icons. For the community the implication was immediately obvious: New elite specializations are being added for each character class. This should be a pretty major shakeup to buildcrafting. Each of the game’s nine classes currently has…

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