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Whether you’re mentally prepared for it, back-to-school season is right around the corner. And even though it feels like we blinked and August arrived, there’s still plenty to look forward to. Yes, we’re talking about starting the school season with a brand-new aesthetic. Which, of course, consists of picking out new bedding for you or your teen’s upcoming school year. Or maybe the young adult in your life is entering college life soon, and n…

Baldur’s Gate 3 colossal new patch adds a playable epilogue set six months after the game ends with 3,589 new lines of dialogue, 2 new difficulty modes, and I’m running out of headline space-

Baldur’s Gate 3‘s latest patch has punished me specifically. For context, literally not more than (checks watch) three hours ago, I wrote and published this sentence in a news story about Patch 5: “I’ve learned to stop being surprised at how massive these patch notes are, or how elaborate new cutscenes can be”.

Like a lightning bolt thrown by a divine being to strike me down for my hubris, Patch 5 just dropped, and I’ll tell you what: I am surprised by both how massive the patch notes and how elaborate its new cutscenes are. I have never so quickly stepped on a rake. First things first, the new epilogue:

“Players will now find themselves in camp, 6 months after the events of Baldur’s Gate 3’s story, where they’ll meet new friends and old, t…

Baldur’s Gate 3 player stacks so much movement, their character can walk 800 feet in under 10 seconds-

Stack enough movement buffs in Baldur’s Gate 3 and you could cross an entire zone in less than a minute.

YouTube user Chris Reven created one of the world’s fastest monks by combining as many movement speed buffs as they could to travel at nearly 100 miles per hour. Of course, what we see looks like a character walking normally, but that’s because it’s happening in Baldur’s Gate 3’s turn-based mode, where each round of action represents six seconds of real time. 

Here’s how Reven created The Flash of The Forgotten Realms. For starters, Reven’s character is a Wood Half Elf, which comes with a five foot movement bonus. They’re also a Monk, so they get another 15 feet of movement at level six whenever they’re not wearing armor or using a shield. And the Mobile feat adds an…

ผู้เขียนบท Final Fantasy VII Rebirth ตอกกลับพวกประหลาดที่ขอให้ฆ่าตัวละครทิ้ง

การพัฒนา Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth กำลังดำเนินไปอย่างเข้มข้น แต่ดูเหมือนว่าความคลั่งไคล้ของแฟน ๆ บางคนจะเกินขอบเขตไปเสียหน่อยจนทำให้ทางคุณ Kazushige Nojima นักเขียนบทต้องออกมาตอบโต้เกมเมอร์ประหลาดเหล่านี้

คุณ Nojima นักเขียนบทมือเก๋า ผู้ที่มารับหน้าที่เขียนบทให้กับ Rebirth ได้โพสต์ข้อความบน Twitter เพื่อเรียกร้องใ…

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Desperate GTA fan erupts onto unrelated TV show in quest for GTA 6 info, gets doused by a water bottle-

Grand Theft Auto 6 was announced way back in February 2022—though there’s been precious little information since then, bar a series of leaks later in the year. Rockstar Games itself has been hush-hush on the details, only really promising that it ‘needs to be something you’ve never seen before’. 

One fan has searched for the truth in an, uh—unconventional way, by walking onto the set of a completely unrelated TV show and begging the German public to please give him some information on GTA6, as posted to Twitter/X by user MichaelSchachel.

The superfan, sporting nothing but a beanie and raw determination, strode onto the set of Doppelpass to petition its hosts for insider info. Doppelpass is a German TV show that covers the Bundesliga football league—not…

Elon Musk potentially eyes locking Twitter behind a paywall to combat ‘vast armies of bots’-

As reported by the BBC yesterday, Elon Musk is planning to potentially add a paywall to Twitter, as per a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which was live streamed on the site.

“We’re moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the system,” Musk said, before explaining his reasoning. “If somebody even has to pay a few dollars or something, some minor amount, the effective cost to bots is very high.”

This is a head-scratcher for me, since I was under the impression that X Premium—previously called Twitter Blue, which is outlined in X’s help section, which at the time of writing still refers to Twitter and “Tweets”—was meant to combat bots. This has, after all, been a mission statement of Musk’s, after a tweet in April 2022 declare…

Fallen London is getting a tabletop RPG for its 15th anniversary-

Failbetter Games has announced that their Fallen London videogame world will soon come to the adjacent world of tabletop roleplaying. It’ll be “a fully-fledged, custom tabletop roleplaying system for Fallen London, in a big book,” says Failbetter. So prepare to explore the neath and its great big city, Fallen London, in 2025—and probably don’t talk to any devils.

“In Fallen London: the Roleplaying Game, players create their own characters by drawing on the factions, archetypes, and settings of the city — cutthroats, socialites, radicals, academics, and other, stranger creatures. They are brought together by a shared ambition; a very nearly unachievable goal. Such ambitions may destroy or drive mad those who pursue them… or they may change London forever. The Hea…

Hogwarts Legacy actor responds to backlash- ‘Trans women are women and trans men are men’-

In response to criticism of his decision to take a role in Hogwarts Legacy, voice actor Sebastian Croft has affirmed his support for trans rights in a statement posted on Twitter.

Croft was announced last week as the actor providing one of the player character voices in Hogwarts Legacy. As with all things related to Harry Potter, it’s a fairly high-profile role, but author JK Rowling’s increasingly strident transphobia has blanketed the game in controversy, and the actor faced criticism from a number of people on social media for taking part in the game.

“I was cast in this project over 3 years ago, back when all Harry Potter was to me, was the magical world I grew up with,” Croft tweeted in response to one callout. “This was long before I was aware of JK Rowling’s vie…

Nobody asked, but this Starfield modder delivered—here’s the most innocent companion as Thomas the Tank Engine-

The Starfield mod pipe has been gushing out bangers, like one that overhauls the UI and another that adds Nvidia’s DLSS, but, until today, none of them have inserted the funny blue train that seems to get modded into every videogame in existence: Thomas the Tank Engine.

BulwarkHD has corrected that with a mod that transforms Starfield’s most innocent companion into Starfield’s most horrifying companion. Thomas the Tank Engine Vasco Retexture is a mod that wraps the nice little robot in the skin of the happy blue train, and it couldn’t be more disturbing to look at. The mod paints the lanky robot blue and red and slaps Thomas’ unblinking face onto the front of his body.

“That is creepy as f*#@.” NexusMods user Tyyphoon said in the comments, echoing any regula…

Forza Motorsport’s ‘ideal’ system requirements demand an RTX 4080 and an NvME SSD-

Back in January, Turn 10 presented us with the traditional listing of the Granular Technical Advancements™ coming in Forza Motorsport. It was an impressive rundown of things like “a fully procedural cloud system,” car paint “sourced using a spectrophotometer” which frankly sounds like a gizmo that gets wheeled out during one of those silly ghost-hunting shows, and the pièce de résistance, “hardware accelerated convolution reverb [that] accurately reproduces how sounds in Forza interact within an acoustic space.”

(All kidding aside, “convolution reverb” is actually a real thing, which I know because Tyler looked it up.)

What Turn 10 did not say at that time was what sort of hardware you’d need to actually take advantage of all these modern new wonders, but…

Players claim to have worked out the hellish details underpinning Diablo 4’s timed events-

Diablo 4’s nature as a live service game means that players have since launch been trying to work out how it handles recurring events: when and where the world bosses spawn, when helltides are due to occur, and the same for legion events. A rough consensus formed pretty early, but now they’ve only gone and blown the bloody doors off.

A player called Shalzuth recently posted the fruits of their labours to the Diablo 4 subreddit, claiming to have worked-out (with help) the spawn times for all the above: to the extent they’ve now got a section of a popular Diablo 4 site with countdown timers and maps for each.

“World Bosses spawn on a repeating pattern, with a repeating time, with some blackout times,” said Salzuth. “Many world boss times have been spawned,…

Starfield player builds ungodly spaceship entirely out of hallways- ‘I was bored with quests and decided to dedicate time to this’-

My forays into the Starfield ship builder tool have so far been utilitarian: a weapon upgrade here, an extra cargo bay there, and maybe a few more windows so my crew doesn’t have to stare at white walls all day. Reddit user FLDJF713 has been on a different mission: to construct a monstrosity of a spaceship almost entirely out of hallways.

They call it the Hallway Fighter 9000, and it features no fewer than 12 consecutive “companionway” modules that, together, create a Z-shaped cruiser that requires an ungodly amount of time to navigate.

Before you ask, no, there is no strategic intent behind the design: “Oh yeah I was bored of quests and decided to dedicate time to this,” replied the cursed ship creator in a comment. 

Because I can. Th…

Tempted to try VR- This Prime Day VR headset deal knocks $70 off the excellent Meta Quest 3-

Looking for the best Prime Day VR headset deals might not be at the top of your to-do list when it comes to upgrading your gaming setup,  but if you’ve been looking for an excuse to splash out, the Meta Quest 3 is on sale right now at Amazon. It scored an impressive 91% in our review, and this Prime Day deal knocks $70 off the list price coming in at $430, which is the lowest we’ve seen it. And while a VR headset is certainly a luxury, this deal takes some of the sting out of the cost of what is, after all, an expensive bit of kit.

  • We’re curating the best Prime Day PC gaming deals right here.

So what do you get for your money? The Meta Quest 3 is more powerful than its predecessor the Quest 2, g…

Today’s Wordle answer for Monday, September 23

All the help you need to make sure Monday’s Wordle goes just the way you want it to is right here. We’ve got a brand new clue written just for the September 23 (1192) game if you’d like to get off to a great start (or make sense of those yellow letters you found on your way), and today’s answer is ready to go if you want to make sure your week starts with a win.

When I surveyed all of the green and yellow letters that had appeared on my very first row, I assumed I was in for a quick win in two. No? Fine. A slightly less quick win in three then. No? Again? Really? I may have had no way of knowing that I should have gone for that letter instead of the other one I tried first, but winning in four easy guesses still stung.

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Stellar Blade studio is now ‘considering’ a PC release, and a sequel too-

Stellar Blade was originally introduced in 2019 as Project Eve, after which it fell off our radar until 2021, when we said it looked like a cross between Nier and Bayonetta. A year later it got a new name—Stellar Blade—and became a PlayStation 5 exclusive, and that was pretty much that for us.

But it may not remain that way forever: Developer Shift Up said in its latest financial report, shared on Twitter by Okami13_ (via RPS) that it is now looking into a possible PC release.

The English-language wording of the Google-translated report is a bit wonky in spots, but it specifically notes the importance of the PC market: “The expansion of PC-based gaming platforms such as Steam and the Epic Games Store has made AAA titles more accessible to PC users, pushing them b…

UBOAT looks to be the best WW2 submarine simulator in a long time-

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The submarine-captain simulator used to be a pretty big deal, but it—among many other simulator genres—has fallen out of favor in the past decade. Depending on who you ask, the last great submarine sim was one of the last few Silent Hunter games released between 2005 and 2010—all of which are surely heavily modded in some way.

No more, though, as Deep Water Studio’s UBOAT is set to release some time soon and seems to have really taken genre fans with its blend of operations detail and life on-board the infamous convoy-raiding German submarines of World War 2. First released in 2019, the Early Access period is now coming to a close with the release of a beta for the complete game this past week.

Though it’s definitely a simulator of fighting on a Wo…

Today’s Wordle answer for Monday, February 19-

Start your week with a Wordle win. Keep on scrolling and you’ll soon find everything from general advice you can use every day to a helpful clue written just for today’s Wordle. If you want more, the answer to the February 19 (975) game is here if you need it, too.

The dreaded “one missing letter in a row after row of greens” reared its head again today and snatched my chances of securing an early win. Thankfully, this happened early enough that I was able to guess my way to today’s Wordle answer, I just wish I’d found it a few rows up the board. Hopefully tomorrow’s game will be less stressful.

Wordle today: A hint

Wordle today: A hint for Monday, February 19

The answer today refers to the cost of something, usually how much money you’d expected…

Walton Goggins reveals that parts of the Fallout show were filmed at a diamond mine where ‘there’s still diamonds on the ground’-

Walton Goggins plays The Ghoul on the Fallout TV show, who over the course of the series becomes a memorable and conflicted link between the world as-was and as it is in the present day. It’s a fantastic performance, which will be no surprise to those who’ve followed Goggins’ career, and while basking in the aftermath of the show’s success the actor revealed a surprising detail about one of the locations.

Some of the outdoor scenes in Fallout were filmed in Namibia, on what is sometimes referred to as the Skeleton Coast, including in an actual diamond mine (thanks, GamesRadar+). A new photograph released by Amazon shows The Ghoul at this location, looking downcast and moody as is his wont, but Goggins says the real explanation is a little more base. 

“[Amazon] ju…

Crusader Kings 3’s second expansion promises enough pomp and circumstance to distract everyone while you ‘murder a quarrelsome rival’-

Crusader Kings 3’s next expansion, Tours and Tournaments, has finally got a solid release date. You’ll be able to take your medieval show on tour on May 11, when the DLC hits Steam and the Microsoft Store. 

Tours and Tournaments is CK3’s second bonafide “major expansion,” and aims to beef up life outside the confines of the throne room. “Prove yourself in one of the many forms of gallant Tournaments, either abroad or at home,” reads the blurb, “or use the festivities to murder a quarrelsome rival”. Murdering quarrelsome rivals is, like, my favourite thing to do, so I’m eager to see how Tours and Tournaments innovates in the space.

The DLC will add new “grand activities,” like fancy weddings and “stirring falconry hunts,” that will let you use new means of winning the he…

Websites stole and monetized a free browser game, so the designer replaced it with Goatse-

Sqword is a word game where you try to make as many words as you can in a five-by-five square grid, earning more points for longer words. It was made by Josh C. Simmons and his friends, and is freely available at sqword.com. However, it’s also been picked up by multiple browser game portals, who took it without permission and ran it behind their own ads for profit.

As reported by 404, Simmons found out Sqword was being monetized by sites that were simply embedding it with iFrame, and decided to do something about it. “The mature and responsible thing to do would have been to add a content security policy to the page”, he wrote. “I am not mature so instead what I decided to do was render the early 2000s internet shock image Goatse with a nice message superimposed over it in place o…

You can’t take it with you, but you can’t leave it for someone else either- Valve says you aren’t allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will-

First reported by Ars Technica, ResetEra user delete12345 has made an interesting discovery about Steam libraries: we’re not allowed to bequeath them to our loved ones in the event of our untimely passing.

Delete12345 asked Steam Support about the hypothetical scenario, and got a clear, professional, but very disappointing response. “Unfortunately, Steam accounts and games are non-transferable,” the support rep explained. “Steam Support can’t provide someone else with access to the account or merge its access to another account.

“I regret to inform you that your Steam account cannot be transferred via a will.”

Now, I was going to suggest that you can just give your designated heir the Steam login and password without getting lawyers involved⁠—barri…

Wordle hint and answer #665- Saturday, April 15-

Improve your daily Wordle guesses with our guides and tips, take a look at a hint for today’s game designed to give you a nudge in the right direction, or skip straight to the best part and read the answer to the April 15 (665) game—however you want to win today’s Wordle, we can help.

The answer to today’s puzzle was an obvious one… eventually. I had all the information I needed quite early on, but this was one of those days where I couldn’t see what I had until I was in danger of running out of guesses. It was frustrating, but at least I got today’s Wordle answer in the end.

Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Saturday, April 15

If someone was in an extreme and most likely prolonged level of physical or mental pain, today’s word would be …

Wordle today- Hint and answer for #860 Friday, October 27-

All the help you could need to win today’s Wordle just the way you want to is right here. Go straight for a guaranteed win with a quick click to today’s answer, give yourself a few pointers with our handy tips, or guided assistance with our clue for the October 27 (860) game.

My second guess today turned out to be almost right in a very wrong way, leaving me with a lot of yellows that in theory could’ve been sorted very quickly, if only I had any idea how to organise them. Let’s just say I took the nail-biting scenic route to today’s Wordle answer, and leave it at that. 

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Friday, October 27

As a social rank, this word marks someone out as beyond upper class. This is the realm of dukes, princes, and…

The new Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons book is a vital piece of gaming history-

A new book from Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast chronicles the early history of the tabletop RPG, and therefore a vital step in the evolution of RPGs as a whole. The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977 will release on June 18, 2024, and compiles a slew of documents from the development and release of the first tabletop RPG.

The first chapter of the book is a doozy for people who’re interested in the formation of what an RPG is, detailing and providing documents from the two inspirations that combined to become Dungeons & Dragons: Dave Arneson’s Blackmoor roleplaying wargame and Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren’s wargame Chainmail. It’s deeply cool to see what may well be images of one of the first real RPG character sheets, with its list of sim…