Exploring the "effortless grace" of theatrical villainy with Baldur's Gate 3's Raphael: "You don't play something that's evil, you play something that's charming"

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. “What’s better than a devil you don’t know? A devil youdo.” It’s an unforgettableBaldur’s Gate 3line, simple yet effective in establishing the game’s most entrancing villain. Naturally, I meet his words with a face-splitting grin. Where better to start than with a piece of script that sums up the character’s very essence? “But he is nothing if not theatrical....

August 3, 2024 · 3 min · 498 words · Dylan Leblanc

GTA 4 tech lead left Rockstar because he thought the series was getting "too dark, too depressing almost"

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. “I really enjoyed them,” he said in an interview withSanInPlay(good spotRPS). “One of them was like, my wife’s Canadian and she wanted to move back to Canada. But also, I thought GTA 4 wasn’t as good and as fun as the games before. And I thought that the next one was going to be like, even darker....

August 3, 2024 · 1 min · 123 words · Paula Scott

If the RPG ever gets a sequel, the actor behind Baldur's Gate 3's Raphael would "find it hard to say no" to returning: "If he is Larian's creation, he's also mine"

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. Mephistopheles is his father isn’t he? But if he is Larian’s creation, he’s also mine. I’d love to play him again. But of course, there are a lot of ifs and buts. He has a point. “Well, I mean, I thought, ‘Is it possible? Could there be?’ Because that epilogue does suggest that you might have a DLC....

August 3, 2024 · 1 min · 141 words · Steven Allen

Life is Strange Double Exposure confirms Max became a major Final Fantasy 7 stan with some adorable crossover outfits locked behind the $80 Ultimate Edition

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. What’s happened in the years since? She’s become a major Final Fantasy fan, that’s for sure.

August 3, 2024 · 1 min · 33 words · Sarah Foster

Months after Xbot shut down lean teams, Microsoft reportedly forms a "smaller" studio to create AA games based on Blizzard IP

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August 3, 2024 · 1 min · 17 words · Brenda Kelly

Years before Baldur's Gate 3 blew everyone away, Larian's CEO nearly quit the industry over publisher pressure on the Divinity series

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. Either way, the stressful experience made Vincke think “about quitting at that point.” As well all know, Vincke’s time in the industry didn’t stop there. His time with publishers did, though. “you might’t just go from failure to failure to failure,” he said. “You’ve got to do something right. This is famously when I dropped publishers....

August 3, 2024 · 1 min · 84 words · Cynthia Cortez

20-year-old romhack site that was a treasure trove of Pokemon fan games and JRPG translations winds down after achieving "almost everything it set out to do"

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. Major romhack website Romhacking.net is winding down its operations effective immediately. “Copyright pressures increased dramatically with takedowns and legal burden,” Nightcrawler says. “The site shifted from serving mostly contributing humans to bots and overzealous people abusing resources. They drowned everybody else out. The need for the site has lessened over time. The site’s forum will remain available, but Discord and Twitter affiliations have ended....

August 2, 2024 · 1 min · 102 words · Eric Henderson

25 years later, Hugh Jackman shares his emotional X-Men reunion with Ke Huy Quan

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. “Of course, he won an Oscar recently. His story is incredible and his career is incredible and we saw each other and embraced. We worked together on X-Men 1. He was in the stunt team at the time, working on that movie. First of all, he’s incredible, and that team were incredible. And that’s really where I learned a lot about action movies and how to do stunts....

August 2, 2024 · 1 min · 119 words · Laura Jackson

A new Darksiders game is coming, and after a Zelda-style adventure, a loot-driven ARPG, a Soulslike, and a Diablo-esque hack-and-slash, nobody knows what to expect

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. It’s official: a new Darksiders game is on the way. Embers swirl through the air, cast up from pools of bubbling lava. Three enormous heads, hewn from otherworldly stone suddenly burst into life with mystical flame. The Charred Council roar a single word in unison: HORSEMAN." What, then, will this new entry look like?...

August 2, 2024 · 1 min · 100 words · Rebecca Lewis

After 10 years, Ubisoft's always-online racing game The Crew has snowballed into a massive consumer rights campaign that's now looking for 1 million EU signatures

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August 2, 2024 · 1 min · 17 words · Meagan Bailey

After 12 years, legendary visual novel Katawa Shoujo is coming to Steam in a "modified" SFW version for those who want it

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. Four Leaf Studios is pleased to announce that Katawa Shoujo will soon be available on Steam and Itch! “Changes are limited to what was required to get it onto Steam,“the studio said. It’s never a bad time to peruse our list of thebest visual novelsto play today.

August 2, 2024 · 1 min · 64 words · Theresa Valenzuela

Alien: Romulus director wanted his movie to look like Ridley Scott’s original so bad that he used the same concept art and even did side by side takes

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. “And figured out a way to be inspired by that and put it in this movie.” We will just have to wait and see. Thenhead on over here to get the latest issues sent directly to your home/gadget! Alien: Romulus releases on August 16.

August 2, 2024 · 1 min · 61 words · William Taylor

Alien: Romulus star Cailee Spaeny ran "out of ways to be horrified," so she watched horror movies 24/7 to get more ideas

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. Can you just turn that on and off? Because you do sort of run out of ideas. You’re like, ‘I dont know how to be horrified again today in an interesting way. Thenhead on over here to get the latest issues sent directly to your home/gadget! Alien: Romulus releases on August 16. Check out our guide to this year’smovie release datesfor everything else 2024 has in store....

August 2, 2024 · 1 min · 84 words · Lisa Brown