Perusing the Baldur's Gate 3 subreddit for pro gamer tips this morning (as one does), I was struck by something: It was all photo mode shitposts. The subreddit has gazed upon all Patch 8 has to offer, and summarily declared: "This is r/BaldursGate3, bitch. We clown in this mf. Better take your sensitive ass back to r/BG3builds."You're laughing? Prime OP Shadow Blade combos are getting drowned out by memes, and...

In the latest episode of our video series Reality Check, paleontologist Dr. Darren Naish returned to give his assessment of the monster designs in Elden Ring. While you might be unsurprised to learn that FromSoft's opus isn't exactly "realistic," Naish praised the studio's attention to detail and commitment to its fiction.Case and point: The universally loathed Land Octopus. With an eye for environmental storytelling that would make a FromSoft lore...

I've seen lots of attempts to recreate the success of Rocket League over the past decade, but none have come close. Rematch might finally, actually do it.The multiplayer soccer game ('Rocket League but with feet,' as I'm calling it here) is having an open beta on Steam this weekend, and has already surpassed 100,000 concurrent players.Attracting lots of players during a free beta doesn't necessarily mean that Rematch will sell...

Base-building RTS Tempest Rising released on Steam yesterday, a full week before it was supposed to, and the publisher doesn't see a good way out of it, so the game just has a new release date now: April 17 instead of April 24."While the team worked quickly to address the issue, the most seamless solution ended up being to release the game to everyone," reads an update on Steam.The mistake...

A gnarly new skin for Doctor Strange is causing a stir among Marvel Rival players. The $25 "Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness" skin, depicting the wizard's zombified form from the 2022 Sam Raimi film, was teased earlier this week and released today, but some customers are miffed that the in-game skin doesn't match the one advertised on the store.It's a matter of hands—specifically, the zombie corpse hands that...

I don't have any way to prove it, but I'd bet money (up to $11) that over at Marvel movie headquarters there's a big whiteboard upon which a phrase has been written and circled and underlined for the past several years:How do we make Mr. Fantastic's stretchy powers not look goofy af???I genuinely don't think there's a way to pull off Mr. Fantastic's body stretching powers in a live action...

Monster Hunter Wilds just finished up its first limited-time challenge quest, where hunters could compete on a worldwide leaderboard for the fastest clear time in a hunt against a Doshaguma to earn bragging rights and cosmetic rewards. Unsurprisingly, those leaderboards were quickly flooded with cheaters posting impossibly fast hunting times. Today Capcom said it's beginning a "review" of the leaderboard, so that it can "take action" against users who posted...

I thought I was out.I'd had my fill of Baldur's Gate 3—in a good way, mind you—and was finally free to play something else without feeling like I was shamefully neglecting what is surely the RPG of the decade. I'd made all the Tavs and Durges I'd ever wanted to play as, and then a few more just for good measure. I'd conquered honour mode with ease. I'd "accidentally" triggered...

I was excited when the Painkiller reboot was formally revealed back in March, but also apprehensive. Anshar Studios' revival of People Can Fly's 2004 shooter looks exactly how I imagined a modern take on the game would. But it also has a co-operative emphasis, and I'm uncertain how this will mix with the series' brutal simplicity.To be fair, the reveal trailer only provided a brief snapshot of the game. Now...

Path of Exile 2's recent 0.2.0 update did not go down well with players. The update unleashed nerf-a-geddon unto numerous classes and abilities, while also making monsters tougher by fattening their health bars. The purported aim of the update was to make the later game more challenging. But the effect, at least according to players, was that it made the game feel way too slow, denying them that sense of...