Month: October 2024

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…

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…

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

คุณ Nojima นักเขียนบทมือเก๋า ผู้ที่มารับหน้าที่เขียนบทให้กับ Rebirth ได้โพสต์ข้อความบน Twitter เพื่อเรียกร้องใ…

หลังจากการเปิดตัว PlayStation 5 Pro อย่างเป็นทางการ Sony ต้องเผชิญกับกระแสโจมตีจากแฟนเกม PlayStation ในประเด็นของ “ราคาที่ไม่คุ้มค่ากับคุณภาพ” เพราะเครื่องเล่นเกมดังกล่าวมีราคาสูงถึงเกือบ 24,000 บาท ในขณะที่ตัวเครื่องตัดช่องใส่ดิสก์ออกไป จนทำให้ในตอนนี้บนโลกออนไลน์เต็มไปด้วยมีมแซว PS5 Pro เพียบคำพูดจาก

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…

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…

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…

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…