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Pursued By A Bear | Larian explains how that particular Baldur's Gate 3 scene involving quite a raunchy bear came to be
It wasn't always meant to be so prominent.


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Willy Or Won't He | Dragon Age: The Veilguard does contain some nudity, but Bioware's staying purposefully mum about manhoods
It's also not saying anything about vaginas either, so a general pipe down about the realities of virtually laying pipe down here.

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To The Streets | Hold the phone, Valve has created a fighting game for its DOTA 2 battlepass
With five playable characters, it's basic, but it's way better than a few skins and currency.

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Insufficient Funds | Command & Conquer is back, and it makes me want to scratch my eyes out
C&C Legions is an affront to the IP that spawned it. Where is Red Alert 4?




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Skyfall From Grace | Cities: Skylines 2 still isn't faring all that well, as its console ports get indefinitely delayed
Sorry to those of you hoping to play on PS5 or Xbox Series X/S.
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Raving About It | Subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online? Never got round to Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope? Aren't you lucky, because it's free to play this week
What's better than free?

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Back At It | Baldur's Gate 3 developers commemorate "lift-off" on what's next by revisiting the same dungeon they cleared during that RPG's final push
Because hey, sometimes you just need to remind yourself how well your last playthrough turned out.



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Roll For Kiss | Stardew Valley's Baldur's Gate 3 mod team hopes to let you romance pixelated Astarion later this year - in a seasonal outfit, too
Last year's biggest game will potentially meet one of this decade's biggest titles at the end of the year.

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Taking It Slow | Manor Lords publisher doesn't think devs should be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks" just to regularly update a game
"Not every game should be aimed at becoming some live-service boom or bust."

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It's Black And White | Sorry, the creators of LA Noire aren't working on a new game after all
It was all just a bit of a misunderstanding.

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To The Dynamax | You might have hated it in Pokemon Sword and Shield, but Pokemon Go has teased a much-disliked feature for its 8th anniversary
They're going big with this one.

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A Dino Crisis | A year after it was released, Exoprimal updates are coming to an end
Guess this one's going the way of the dinosaurs.

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HYPERFRAG | Hypercharge: Unboxed is the relaxed shooter I'd have put hundreds of hours into back in the early 2000s
The one modern arena shooter that actually has a player base.



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Kunitsu-Gami Path of the Goddess could be this summer’s best sleeper hit, and you can play it right now
Capcom knows that experimentation works – that's how we got Devil May Cry, after all. Kunitsu-Gami Path of the Goddess should be on your radar.

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Together At Last | How to add Epic Games titles to your HoYoPlay Launcher on PC
HoYoverse's new in-house launcher is having some trouble identifying games installed via Epic, but luckily, there is a fix.


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Take it in Pride | First F1, the World Cup, and golf – now esports: gaming’s biggest ever sports-washing tournament starts today
Life changing money, courtesy of the Saudi Arabian Public investment Fund.


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A Rogue Roll | How a Baldur’s Gate 3 modder who’d never played a "known" roguelike ended up turning Larian’s RPG into one
"There is still a lot that hasn't been done with the current tools."


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TOP OF THE DROPS | The best PlayStation Plus games on PS4 and PS5 in 2024
Our top picks for Sony's money-saving subscription service!

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PASS THE GAMES | The best Game Pass games on Xbox and PC in 2024
Our top picks of the greatest games on gaming's best subscription service.

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Better Together | Yes, Concord will require you to have a PSN account on PC because cross play and progression are an "important piece" of the game
"The goal is we want to get players together."

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Return To Port? | Get ready for some Assassin's Creed remakes, says Ubisoft CEO, as everyone and their mum starts chanting about Black Flag
No offense, cities, we all just love a good boat.

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Dead Keen | Desperate to see more of the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster? You'll want to tune into the showcase Capcom's just announced
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess and Resi 7 Biohazard for IOS are also set to make appearances.


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Fresh Challenges | If Fallout's co-creator was to work on the series again, there's one key question he'd want answered first
"If you don't have an immediate answer, if you have to go 'Well, I don't know, we may put in a new perk', I'm probably not interested."

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Meli-No Way! | Finished Hades 2? There's now a Baldur's Gate 3 mod that turns it into a fully-fleshed out roguelike
Are you and your party up to taking on the Trials of Tav?

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Fighting Words | 2XKO is getting one of League of Legends' coolest narrative features
It's no good the characters just being souless fighters, is it?

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TERRA VISION | The most inventive, disruptive city-builder of the last few years is getting a massive expansion – and you can play it for free if you have a Netflix account
Terra Nil's Vita Nova expansion is here, and it's more of a good thing – which is great, if you know the base game.

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New Mode, Who This? | "Think of it like a theme park" League of Legends' game director talks new game modes, and the importance of mixing things up
Game director Pu Liu speaks on why adding new game modes to League is a good idea.

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Challenge Accepted | Stardew Valley has a hardcore mode now thanks to a silly joke, but it's no laughing matter - you will lose your save if you use a guide
For all the gamers that like to take risks.

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New Name, New Me | Dragon Age: The Veilguard might not be as cool a name as Dreadwolf, but BioWare says the change is because the game isn't all about Solas
Couldn't they have stuck with it anyway?

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New Magic | Dragon Age: The Veilguard could be escaping Baldur's Gate 3's shadow by leaving its heritage behind
BioWare isn't trying to occupy the same fantasy RPG space anymore, and that's okay.

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Trail by Briar | League of Legends' new summer event is a loving send-up of Vampire Survivors that you've got to play
Available for a limited time, you'll be able to join the Anima Squad in what I feel is Riot's best summer event yet.

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JRP-We'll See | Elden Ring director Miyazaki is interested in making a traditional JRPG, but it wouldn't be an Enchanted Arms sequel
I'm sure you're devastated that an ok game from 2006 isn't gonna suddenly be resurrected.

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Do You Booth-er? | Xbox will be whipping out its "biggest booth yet" at Gamescom 2024, while PlayStation and Nintendo give the show a miss
The green brand's even put out a list of games you can expect to see there.

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Roaming around | League of Legends new champion Aurora is a roaming, evasive monster you've absolutely got to try
Riot Games has been hard at work on a new champion, an AP carry for both top and mid lane.

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PODCAST | What’s the best game that had the worst reveal trailer? The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 102
They say that the first impression is the most important, so even if your game is great, you’d better not botch the announcement.

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Opposites | Dragon Age: The Veilguard is "almost the total inverse" of Mass Effect in one key way
Though there's another way where they're quite similar.

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Build Ordered | Battle Aces feels like a brilliant competitive RTS for the TikTok generation - and also the old, somehow
The classic genre is evolving.