Baldur’s Gate 3 was so big that Larian has developed a ‘Simpsons did it’ problem- ‘Whenever we’re talking about things, we say we did that in BG3’-

Larian is following up Baldur’s Gate 3 with not one but two new RPGs. And, unsurprisingly, they’ll likely be big ‘uns. That’s just Larian’s style, but it does come with some problems, especially when they’re following a game as massive and elaborate as Baldur’s Gate 3. 

One of the challenges inherent in following up a massive RPG with more beefy RPGs is finding original ideas to fill them with. Chatting with writing director Adam Smith for Baldur’s Gate 3’s first anniversary (check out the full interview on Larian’s past, present and future), he tells me that this is an issue Larian’s currently bumping up against. 

“One of the biggest problems we have now is that whenever we’re talking about things, we say we did that in BG3,” says Smith. “And it turns out, we did a lot of things in BG3 when we think back to it.” It’s the classic ‘Simpsons did it’ problem. 

This isn’t a new concern for Larian, though. The first Divinity: Original Sin was also pretty …

Baldur’s Gate 3 player finds an edge case the game doesn’t account for- Reverse-pickpocketing a dead wizard into the devil’s inventory like a Trojan nuke-

Baldur’s Gate 3 has choices—oodles of ’em. Choices that Larian’s accounted for, for the most part. In my recent playthrough, instead of taking a certain character to a certain body for a story quest, I picked up the corpse and dumped it back in camp like a cat bringing their owner a dead bird. The dialogue still worked (though I had to have them in my party) besides one or two out-of-context lines. 

However, one player has found an edge-case scenario that the game doesn’t account for at all, and it’s honestly pretty reasonable when you break it down. Spoilers for Act 1 and Gale’s storyline to follow, as well as a minor Act 3 spoiler. 

As outlined by ThePawn08 on the game’s subreddit, reverse-pickpocketing a dead wizard onto the devil incarnate isn’t on the list of things Larian thought to program. For context: Gale of Waterdeep (ponderer of orbs and all-around dweeb) has a sphere of Netherese mag…

After Life by You’s disastrous end, Paradox chalks up a 90% drop in operating profit for Q2- ‘We end the second quarter of the year with mixed feelings’

It’s been a rough time for Paradox. Bloodlines 2 has been a (wrong kind of) nightmare, it cut ties with Harebrained Schemes after Lamplighters League underperformed, Cities: Skylines 2 came out with a raft of tech bugs, Millennia disappointed, and, of course, the company totally canned its Sims competitor Life by You and shuttered the studio making it.

So it’s not surprising that the company’s Interim Report, released today, contains the kind of news that will make you suck air through your teeth. The good news? The company was still operating at a profit in its second quarter, which lasted from April 1 to June 30 this year. The bad news? It was only by the skin of its teeth, and only really thanks to its homegrown stalwarts—CK3, Victoria 3, Hearts of Iron 4—rather than any of the risks it’s taken in the last few years. Though Age of Wonders 4, from Triumph Studios, has also done well for Paradox.

The headline number is a decrease in operating profit of 90%…

An official Cult of the Lamb comic was funded in just 6 minutes, and I’m getting serious FOMO from the limited-time donator bonuses-

Just when I thought I couldn’t get more invested in the adorably bloody roguelike world of Cult of the Lamb, developer Devolver Digital teamed up with comic book publisher Oni Press to launch a new comic series, Cult of the Lamb: The First Verse, written by Alex Paknadel and drawn by Troy Little. 

As someone who has only just begun their descent into a cult (thanks to some very enthusiastic pestering from a friend), this comic series looks like a brilliant way to get to know all the creatures that I’ll eventually encounter in Cult of the Lamb. The series will also follow the star of the show, The Lamb, as they forge ahead on their path of recruiting new followers and expanding their religious cult. 

It’s clear that I’m not the only one excited by this prospect. With 30 days to go until the all-or-nothing deadline of April 12, Cult of the Lamb: The First Verse reached its goal of £7,800 in just six minutes—now the pledges are sitting at $89,500/&poun…

As a recent D&D to Pathfinder 2e convert, this Humble Bundle’s value is absurd—getting you everything you need to start playing, plus extra adventures, for $15

I’ve recently started running a Pathfinder 2e edition game for my formerly 5e friend group—and while I’m not abandoning D&D in its entirety, I’ve been super impressed with the system so far.

One blessing to my wallet is how much of it you get for basically free—Archives of Nethys is an officially-supported hub that has all of the player content, creatures, and so on from all sources. It feels like piracy from a sketchy wiki—but it’s not, Paizo’s 100% okay with it.

It’s not in lockstep with official content, but it’s bountiful enough that I’ve not minded one bit. Conversely, its Foundry Virtual Tabletop (VTT) integration just… gives you everything bar the adventures themselves.

Basically, Paizo makes most of its money through official adventure paths, which, as a DM who runs exclusively homebrew, makes me feel like I’ve been robbing Paizo, somehow. Well, great news: There’s now a way for me to feel like even more of a cheapskate, as th…

AMD confirms imminent launch of ‘new enthusiast-class Radeon 7000-series cards’-

AMD is finally committing to rounding out its RDNA 3 GPU stack, with Dr. Lisa Su promising it is going to be launching new “enthusiast-class” graphics cards before the end of October. We’ve already had sources suggesting an August reveal for new cards, and a September launch is looking pretty good right now.

It’s promising that Dr. Su is stating publicly that AMD is going to be releasing multiple cards, which implies that we will see both the RX 7800 and RX 7700 GPUs dropping in the next few months. After it dropped a solo Radeon RX 7600 at the end of May, there was maybe some concern that it would continue to drip-feed us RDNA 3 cards.

The announcement came in the recent AMD Q2 financials call, where some more green shoots of the PC industry revival have been noted. Those shoots are still pretty fragile, though, as AMD’s gaming segment is still suffering from lower GPU sales, down both year-on-year and compared to the previous three months. Thankfully, it’s semi-custom&…

A book about text adventures is the latest essential addition to your videogame history library-

Last year, Aaron A. Reed published 50 Years of Text Games, a fascinating history of the kind of games where you have to “get lamp” or “float down the Columbia river”. It covered ancient classics like Hunt the Wumpus and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy through to more modern games doing fascinating things with letters on a screen like Dwarf Fortress and 80 Days. Now he’s published a companion volume called Further Explorations, which covers stuff that had to be left out of the original—which focused on one exemplary game from each year from 1971 to 2020—but is no less interesting.

That includes games you may have heard of like Lovecraftian horror adventure Anchorhead, as well as more obscure games, like one with a simulated model of every Manhattan block south of 110th. Reed’s just as good at retelling the story of famous Infocom classics as he is at unearthing things you’ve never heard of like Silverwolf, which was one of eight well-reviewed but now forgotten …

AMD’s launched a pair of new budget chips in its 8000-series, lopping the GPUs of its APUs-

AMD has finally launched two new processors in its 8000-series of APUs, except these ones strictly aren’t APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) as the large integrated GPU is completely disabled. That might not seem like they’re worth considering but AMD has sweetened the deal by making them its cheapest AM5 socket chips to date.

We first heard tell of these new models, based on the non-chiplet Phoenix 2 architecture, back in March and now we’ve got a full global launch on our hands. The silicon was originally used for laptops and some handheld PCs, before making an appearance in the desktop PC market in the form of the 8000G series. The best one of those, the Ryzen 7 8700G, is a great way to start the basis of a cheap 1080p gaming PC, although it’s a little on the pricey side with a SEP of $329.

That’s the same price as the Ryzen 7 7700, which only has a very basic GPU, though its higher boost clock speed and larger L3 cache make it a better CPU than the 8700G. The new Ry…

Arrowhead CEO says Helldivers 2 was going to have helmets with bespoke HUD elements like enemy outlines—but they were cut due to ‘well, having to ship the game’-

Johan Pilestedt, the CEO of Arrowhead Games, made a visit to the Helldivers 2’s Discord recently. He answered a deluge of questions before needing to “do [his] part as a husband and watch ‘The Boys'”, though one answer in particular leapt out at me—turns out, helmets were originally meant to actually do something.

As you might be aware, helmets in Helldivers 2 are purely cosmetic. However, they have their own section in the Armoury with stat readouts and a window dedicated to showing off their bonuses—of which there are none. 

It always struck me as particularly strange. That’s a lot of UI elements dedicated to conveying the same information—every helmet is “Standard Issue” and provides 100 armour rating, speed, and stamina regen. So why make a note of it at all?

As Pilestedt reveals, Arrowhead actually had designs on making helmets a key part of your loadout: “I know there’s a convo on helmets … Originally, each helmet was go…

A Dead Cells animated series is coming in 2024, but untangling the game’s patchwork story is a daunting task-

I love every single one of Dead Cells’ animated trailers—they’re funny, well-produced, and hit me right in my weakness for chunky and expressive linework. I’m not, however, entirely sure how the writers and animators are going to dig up a compelling narrative from Dead Cell’s bloated, five-year-long story.

Dead Cells – The Animated Series will be made by Bobbypills—the same team responsible for their trailers—and co-produced by the French Animation Digital Network. It’s set to span 10 seven-minute episodes and will “initially be exclusive to France before being made available worldwide” in 2024.

While I’m confident the series will be good fun, ‘good fun’ doesn’t carry a good story. They’ve added plenty of lore and worldbuilding to the 2018 roguelike since my initial excursions as the Beheaded, but the act of tying those threads together into a single narrative is a huge task. I can only imagine that Motion Twin’s narrative …

Avowed’s devs tap the it’s not Skyrim sign for the third time in a year (at least), and ‘don’t love’ to compare games, anyway-

Seeing Obsidian’s developers make the same public statement for the third time in a year that the studio’s upcoming RPG Avowed isn’t like Skyrim reminds me of nothing so much as a prank interview with Elijah Wood—in which the Lord of the Rings co-star Dominic Monaghan torments poor Frodo with repeat enquiries into whether he wears wigs.

Well, it’s happened again. This comes after a statement made in June last year, wherein Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart told us that Avowed was no longer like Skyrim. Then an interview with PCGamesN in January, wherein Patel told them that the game was not like Skyrim. This latest assurance comes from GameInformer, who were once more told that Avowed is not (you might want to sit down) like Skyrim.

When asked about the comparison, game director Carrie Patel replies: “I think the best comparison is The Outer Worlds. I think that gives a much clearer idea of the scope of the game and also the design and layout.”

While thi…

Asus and ASRock BIOS files provide yet more evidence AMD’s cheap Phoenix laptop APU will rise on desktop-

Motherboard BIOS updates are rarely newsworthy but the latest ones from Asus and ASRock, for some of their AM5 X670 models, contain an Agesa update that provides more evidence AMD is definitely going to release a Ryzen 7000G desktop APU, using its laptop Phoenix architecture. 

Just don’t ask when.

As reported by Hardwareluxx, the fresh BIOS files contain the 1.1.0.0 version of AMD’s Agesa software. This is essentially a checklist for PCs to follow when they first boot up, to ensure that the CPU, RAM, and motherboard chipset all correctly initialise. Any new processors have to be included in the lists, otherwise, the BIOS won’t function properly.

In this latest revision, there are clear entries for Phoenix 7xxx APUs. At present, desktop PCs sporting Ryzen 7000-series CPUs are host to Raphael processors, which use one or two 5nm chiplets for the Zen 4 cores and a single 6nm IO chip, that also houses two RDNA 2 compute units for very basic graphics outpu…

‘New Vegas is a very, very important game to us,’ says mildly exasperated Todd Howard, who will never stop getting grilled about New Vegas-

If we keep bugging Todd Howard about Fallout: New Vegas, I wonder if he’ll get so irritated that he eventually turns against the game for real? For now, at least, the Bethesda Game Studios director has reiterated that he likes New Vegas, the 2010 Fallout spin-off developed by Obsidian, and also likes Obsidian, and also respects New Vegas’ lore, and also isn’t trying to erase it from history.

The question posed was a benign one, actually: On a Kinda Funny Games stream, a fan asked whether Bethesda and Obsidian now both being owned by Microsoft opens up the possibility of another collaboration. To that, Howard said that he can’t say: “I can’t speak to things that we’re doing with the franchise in the future, obviously.”

While posing the question, host Greg Miller joked that Howard didn’t have to answer at all given his rumored disdain for New Vegas. Taking the cue, Howard once again put it on record that he is not and has never been an Obsidian hater.

“First I’ll say…

After 4 years, Destiny 2’s Cayde-6 finally gets the memorial he deserves-

It’s Lightfall day, and players are already finding new details in Destiny 2’s latest expansion. Those who visit the Tower before jetting off to Neomuna will notice some redecorating that has occurred in the time since the game went offline for maintenance. Near Zavala you’ll find the new Monument to Fellowship, and with it a memorial to a long-departed NPC.

Cayde-6 was the Nathan Fillion-voiced joker of the Vanguard—the de facto leaders of the Guardians. His death was the inciting incident of Destiny 2’s first expansion, Forsaken, and was teased heavily in the run-up to its release back in September 2018. It was a dramatic moment for fans: the first major on-screen character to die his final death in the fight against the Darkness.

The new memorial is a simple bust with a plaque showing his gun, the Ace of Spades. And when you approach, you can hear a selection of messages from characters in the game.

I’m particularly amused by Crow’s message, which you can …

BioWare lays off roughly 50 employees- ‘We must shift towards a more agile and more focused studio’-

In a blog post that studio manager Gary McKay said was “deeply painful and humbling to write,” BioWare announced that it is laying off roughly 50 employees in order to “preserve the health of the studio and better enable us to do what we do best: create exceptional story-driven single-player experiences filled with vast worlds and rich characters.”

“In order to meet the needs of our upcoming projects, continue to hold ourselves to the highest standard of quality, and ensure BioWare can continue to thrive in an industry that’s rapidly evolving, we must shift towards a more agile and more focused studio,” McKay wrote. “It will allow our developers to iterate quickly, unlock more creativity, and form a clear vision of what we’re building before development ramps up.

“To achieve this, we find ourselves in a position where change is not only necessary, but unavoidable. As difficult as this is to say, rethinking our approach to development inevitably means reorgani…

Assassin’s Creed Shadows executive producer says Elon Musk is just ‘feeding hatred’ with his reaction to the game’s Black protagonist-

Assassin’s Creed Shadows has returned to the dual protagonist system that we last saw in Syndicate, letting us play as two characters—rather than having us just pick either a male or female protagonist as in Odyssey and Valhalla—with different playstyles. This immediately prompted a backlash, not because people don’t want to have two protagonists, but because one of them happened to be a Black man. 

Yasuke is an enigmatic historical figure who lived in Japan in the 16th century and is the first African to be officially recorded in the country. He arrived in Japan with Christian missionaries, after which he became an attendant of Oda Nobunaga. We don’t know a lot about Yasuke, but as an outsider who went on to serve one of the most powerful men in Japan, his story is naturally intriguing, and perfect for Assassin’s Creed, which uses history as a springboard to tell its own stories. 

When Ubisoft was researching its latest game, “Yasuke kept surfacing…

Belarusian KGB adds World of Tanks studio boss to terrorist list-

Nikolai Katselapov, the chief business development officer at World of Tanks studio Wargaming, appears to have been added to a list “of organisations and individuals involved in terrorist activities” by Belarus’ Committee for State Security (or KGB, yes, as in that KGB). In a move which was likely sparked by Wargaming pulling out of Belarus following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he is accused under article 290-1—”Financing of terrorist activities”—of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

Katselapov was actually added to the list all the way back on December 30, but it was only when independent Belarusian newspaper Nasha Niva (via Game World Observer) reported on the story that it came to wider public knowledge. Nasha Niva believes that Katselapov is still free, which would make sense given that Wargaming hasn’t been present in Belarus for nearly a year now, but hasn’t been able to obtain comment from the company thus far.

I’ve also reached o…

5 years after it was yanked off stores, GOG’s bringing underrated spy RPG Alpha Protocol in from the cold with fewer crashes and new achievements-

Good news for those of still fighting the good fight, still holding aloft the proud banner of truth and justice, still committed to struggle for what’s right instead of what’s simply popular. Five years after it was unceremoniously yanked from sale, Alpha Protocol is back via GOG.

If you’re of stout heart and righteous spirit, you’ll already know that Alpha Protocol is a straight-up banger, an Obsidian RPG set in the high-stakes world of modern international espionage rather than a more familiar fantasy or sci-fi setting. Yes, okay, it was deeply flawed—the game was either a cakewalk or surreally difficult depending on which skills you chose to specialise in—but it made up for it with a robust system of choice and consequence: How you chose to behave really mattered in a way few games have managed since.

But thrilled as I am that Alpha Protocol is finally back in stores (or one store, anyway), it’s not all that’s going on here. In a chat with GOG’s Z…

Baldur’s Gate 3 modder haphazardly adds lone wolf mode inspired by Divinity 2- ‘I have not playtested this mod for more than an hour’-

If I got to redesign Baldur’s Gate 3 to fit my specific preferences, the first thing I’d do is get rid of the party system. My posse of Shadowheart, Astarion, and Karlach is great, but my favorite character to roleplay is the wandering ronin—the problem solver with an air of mystery who can take care of himself (Geralt of Rivia, essentially). But alas, BG3 is built with a full party of four in mind. You could try to fly solo, but difficulty doesn’t scale to smaller parties, so fights would inevitably become impossibly punishing. Unless mods can save the day.

A new mod from Nexus user Mordread256 aims to make solo play viable with buffs inspired by a perk from Larian’s previous RPG, Divinity: Original Sin 2. “Lone Wolf” attempts to even the odds in fights by giving the player character extra opportunities to attack and a quicker leveling curve.

Here’s the full list of changes:

  • Double main actions, bonus actions, spell slots, and so…

Among Us is doing a collab with some of the most popular indie games ever released-

People did a lot of things to pass time during the early pandemic lockdowns: learn to play the guitar, make sourdough starter, spray their groceries with disinfectant. Among those popular pandemic activities was identifying murderous space goons in Among Us, and if you’ve set the social deduction game aside since then, you might be interested to know that there’s still lots of activity around it—most recently, a collaboration with a bunch of big indie games.

Announced this week, Innersloth is doing a new Cosmicube that features cosmetics from Celeste, Undertale, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Untitled Goose Game, A Hat in Time, Castle Crashers, and Alien Hominid.

A Cosmicube, for the uninitiated, is Among Us’s version of a battle pass. Once you purchase the cube with Beans, a free currency earned in-game, you can unlock the cosmetics by spending another currency you earn by playing the game. (It’s all explained here.) 

The Indie Cosmicube can be purchased wit…

40K’s edgelord assassins are coming to turn-based tactics game Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters-

In a setting as self-consciously dark as Warhammer 40,000 you really have to go out of your way to seem like “a bit much”, but the black-clad killers of the Officio Assassinorum pull it off. They look like something a teenager who read too many Wolverine comics would come up with, and I love them. After going under-represented in 40K videogames they’ll be joining the ranks of Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters in the Execution Force expansion.

A previous teaser video made the fact the assassins were coming pretty obvious, but who bothers with subtlety when you’ve got power claws and skull masks? Your squad of Grey Knights will be able to recruit four assassins, one from each of the four temples: Callidus, Vindicare, Culexus, and Eversor. Callidus are specialists in disguise and stealth, Vindicare are long-range snipers, Culexus are psychically null and therefore experts at shutting down psykers (and are also invisible to daemons), while Eversor are berserkers who just take lots …

Blizzard reveals Diablo 4 seasonal plans and battle pass-

With Diablo 4 now less than a month away—June 6 is the big day—Blizzard has unveiled the details on its post-launch plans, including its seasonal structure, cosmetic microtransactions, and the “completely optional” battle pass.

Diablo 4 will have four seasons per year, each running roughly three months and featuring its own unique “season journey.” Seasons will not expand upon the story of the campaign—that will happen in future expansions, so I guess you can consider Diablo 4 expansion plans confirmed—but will instead offer standalone seasonal questlines with their own “self-contained stories” featuring new characters and narratives.

“Ideas around the seasons are not bound by the campaign,” Diablo general manager Rod Fergusson said during today’s developer stream.

Along with the new story content, seasons will also feature “fresh gameplay,” associate game director Joe Piepiora said. 

“We want to introduce new mechanics and gamepl…

Bethesda’s still responding to negative Starfield reviews with cheesy taglines, and at this point I just want the studio’s reply brigade to log off-

Just over a week ago, I talked about how Starfield was getting a beating on Steam. From where I’m sitting, it’s just a result of hype not meeting expectations. It’s a decent game, it’s just that ‘decent’ is a huge problem when we were all strapped in for the next big Bethesda RPG.

One thing that genuinely bothered me, however, was seeing a Bethesda developer responding to some of those negative reviews in a half-hearted attempt at damage control. It’s not inherently bad for a developer to respond to criticism—maybe not advisable, but not unheard of, especially if it’s taking fair critiques into account. That’s not what’s happening here.

As pointed out by Twitter user Juicehead (thanks, TheGamer), Bethesda is entrenched in a long spree of ‘nuh-uhs’ on Steam, for… some reason. The latest bout of developer replies having taken place yesterday, November 27. None of these recent replies, which I counted at least 10 of, even come close to…

AMD’s new uber gaming laptop APU rumoured to use chiplet design and 16 full desktop-spec CPU cores-

AMD’s upcoming Strix Halo APU is one of the more exciting chips on the horizon, what with its console-like specs and the promise of a more efficient and just maybe more affordable portable gaming. Now a new rumour has emerged indicating it could be a chiplet design using the very same eight-core CPU CCDs as AMD’s next-gen Zen 5 desktop processors.

This particular info dump comes courtesy of some slides posted on the Chiphell forum.  The slides purportedly show the AMD Strix Halo APU, also occasionally referred to as Sarlak, composed of a pair of eight-core Zen 5 CCDs or Core Chiplet Dies plus a monster SoC tile containing various I/O functionality, the memory controller plus Strix Halo’s defining feature, namely its honking great iGPU.

Hold that thought, we’ll come back to the iGPU. The very notion of Strix Halo as a chiplet design is new, but does make sense. Cramming in 16 Zen 5 cores, plus a big iGPU would make for a huge monolithic chip. So, splitting it all up,…

Atomic Heart devs apologise for racist cartoon clip and promise edits-

Mundfish, the studio behind Atomic Heart, has apologised for the inclusion of a short, racially-insensitive clip in the cartoons that play in the game’s save rooms, and promised to edit out the offending parts in a future update to the game. Last week, we reported that Atomic Heart had drawn criticism online for featuring a 1978 episode of the classic Soviet cartoon Nu, Pogodi! in which a brief, racist depiction of an African tribesman can be seen.

“The Mundfish team thanks the PCGamer contributor for bringing this lack of sensitivity to our attention,” the studio said in a statement released, oddly enough, to IGN, and added that it “[apologised] if using the vintage cartoon or music has caused hurt or insult”. Mundfish concluded its statement with a pledge to “edit the parts in question”.

I’m curious to know what form that editing will take. The clip in question was incredibly short—perhaps less than a second long—meaning it would be very easy to snip out. B…

Bethesda says most of Starfield’s 1000+ planets are dull on purpose because ‘when the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there’ but ‘they certainly weren’t bored’-

Space is big and, for the most part, kind of dull. The heady thrill of setting foot on planets no human has ever seen aside, most of the celestial bodies in our universe are just big, complicated rocks when you get right down to it. For better or worse, that’s a part of reality that Starfield deliberately tries to capture, according to a recent NYT interview (via VG247) with Ashley Cheng, Bethesda’s managing director, and Todd Howard, who is Todd Howard.

“The point of the vastness of space is you should feel small,” Cheng told the NYT, “It should feel overwhelming.” Addressing fans’ worries that Starfield’s 1000 planets “are going to be boring,” Cheng pointed out that not every planet “is supposed to be Disney World… When the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there. They certainly weren’t bored.”

So Starfield’s many globes are meant to be sparse because, hey, the vast majority of planets out there are sparse too. But the sparsity is c…

AMD’s pre-RDNA graphics products are ready to be put out to pasture as active driver support winds down-

It’s a given that graphics card vendors will fully support their products long after they disappear from store shelves. But for how long? Not that long apparently, if you’re using a Polaris or particularly Vega-based graphics card or APU based on the Graphics Core Next-series of architectures.

Our sister site Anandtech reported that AMD is reducing driver support for pre-RDNA products. New driver releases will include things like security updates and bug fixes, but big ticket items like feature additions and performance optimizations are far less likely from this point on.

It’s common practice for GPU vendors to reduce driver support over time before they are relegated to legacy status and all driver development stops. AMD isn’t doing that, thankfully! It plans to release important fixes and updates as required, but the concern here is the timeframe and relatively high market share of GCN 4 and GCN 5 products.

It’s not all that surprising to see AMD deprioritize GC…

Battlebit, the overnight success six years in the making, has sold just shy of two million in two weeks-

Battlebit Remastered released on Steam two weeks ago and the $15, 254-player FPS has been a top seller on the platform ever since, outperforming several big-hitters and even Starfield pre-orders. Why? There’s no catch, as PCG’s Morgan Park put it, this is just a lot of (very good) game for the money. In an age where it feels like every game’s trying to nickel-and-dime you with season passes and cosmetics, that counts.

Now developer SgtOkiDoki has announced that, in the two weeks since launch, Battlebit Remastered has sold 1,800,000 copies. That sure looks like an overnight success but it had a long road here: Battlebit was first announced on Steam Greenlight in December 2016, and was the first project for a collective of experienced modders.

In a new interview with How to Market Your Game, SgtOkiDoki details the slow process of building a community around the game over time, gradually building the hype and setting expectations until, in Januar…

AMD crams 16 Zen 4 cores into gaming laptops with the Ryzen 7045 Series-

AMD has announced its new Ryzen 7045 mobile CPU family. Codenamed Dragon Range, it’s AMD’s new flagship chip for high performance laptops extending all the way to 16 cores.

Essentially a repackaged version of the Ryzen 7000-series already seen on the desktop, it comes complete with Zen 4 architecture and chiplet engineering, with an I/O die and up to two CPU core dies.

There’s also the same teensy little 2CU RDNA 2 graphics core in the I/O die, just like the desktop Ryzen 7000. That graphics is not, of course, intended for gaming. For that, AMD has RDNA 3, also known as the new Radeon RX 7000 mobile chips.

Back to mobile CPUs, this new family of chips tops out at 5.4GHz in the Ryzen 9 7945HX, which is the full 16-core monster. AMD is pitching the 7045 Series as both the “ultimate mobile gaming platform” and offering a “new frontier of performance for mobile creators.”

The extent to which the new 7045 series is focussed on pure performance rather than efficien…

Bungie patches an unknown exploit, but players think it has something to do with an AFK loot farm in private Crucible matches-

Bungie has acted as quick as ever to patch an exploit in Destiny 2’s private Crucible matches and, while the developer hasn’t explicitly said what the issue was, players are pretty sure it has something to do with a specific AFK loot farm. 

Gaming YouTuber Cheese Forever found a hack and shared a video explaining how players could make use of it yesterday. It basically just explains how you can set up a private solo crucible match, and if you activate certain settings you can adjust the match length to one minute and the drops you get for winning. The default is just glimmer but if you go to the last slot in your ghost mods you have the choice between prosperity for world drops and red borders, modularity for upgrade modules, prism harvest for prisms, and finally core harvest for cores. This opens up a wide selection of items for you to farm.  

Hours later the Bungie Help Twitter account said: “Due to an issue, we’ve disabled rewards from Crucible private match…

Baldur’s Gate 3’s third patch just dropped and it’s over 20,000 words big—fixing small holes, thieving skeletons, and counterspelling a nuke-

Baldur’s Gate 3‘s latest patch—the third in two months—is out right now, and it’s a doozy. 

The two big headliners are things we knew about already, but just in case you missed them—Baldur’s Gate 3 is now on Mac, and there’s also now a magic mirror in your camp that’ll let you change your custom Tav’s appearance. 

These are both pretty huge inclusions which’d be worthy of a patch on their own, but Larian being Larian, the patch notes for bug fixes, combat tweaks, writing changes, and more are still big enough to break the Steam page. Guys, I know you’ve got a fancy 24-hour setup with teams in multiple time zones, but I really hope you’re getting some sleep.

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