My partner and I started a co-op campaign in Baldur’s Gate 3 to ring in the new year. It’s been… rocky. Like many people, myself included, he doesn’t intuitively grasp the controls of the game and keeps stabbing my druid with his rogue by accident thanks to the crowded UI. He’ll get used to it, but we’ve both been getting increasingly frustrated, having to take breaks to google things and take deep, calming breaths....
Summary Legodiscovered gamers want their favorite characters and backdrops to be turned into toy bricks when it released its first wave ofSuper Marioitems. Mario Lego gets new sets all the time, and in March,the first Animal Crossing sets will join them.Sonichas quickly become the video game character with the most sets after his plumbing rival, though. What started as a Lego Ideas submission has turned into an entire collection, and next month, Knuckles and Rouge will join that collection....
Quick Links If you want to be the mistress of all evil, thenDisney Villainousis the game for you. Take up the mantle and horns for yourself as you set out to accomplish your villainous objective and prove that you are truly the biggest, baddest villain of them all. Challenge your friends to see who is truly wicked to the core. Playing as Maleficent is a good choice, as she’s easy to learn quickly....
To little surprise,Baldur’s Gate 3won Game of the Year at The Game Awards earlier this week. While not many fans could have predicted this a year ago, before Baldur’s Gate 3 left early access and shot to fame, the CRPG felt all but guaranteed to take home the big prize after its full launch. Even with fierce competition likeTears of the KingdonandAlan Wake 2. However, fans of one of the other Game of the Year nominees aren’t taking Baldur’s Gate 3’s win very well at all....
The most highly anticipatedOverwatchcharacter is finally here: Mauga. Years since he was first teased, the huge Tank is finally coming toOverwatch 2, as he’s officially unveiled atBlizzCon. It’s also been revealed that Mauga will be playable this weekend, starting as soon as the showcase comes to an end. So, prepare to update the game if you were planning to play tonight - and get ready to learn a new character ahead of his official launch in Overwatch 2....
Updated at 15:58 GMT, 18-06-2025: Blizzard president Mike Ybarra and chief design officer Allen Adham have announced that they are also leaving the company. Microsoft is reportedly laying off 1,900 of its 22,000 video game staff followingthe $69 billion Activision Blizzard King acquisition. As reported byIGN, Xbox boss Phil Spencer announced the news in an internal memo; “As we move forward in 2024, the leadership of Microsoft Gaming and Activision Blizzard is committed to aligning on a strategy and an execution plan with a sustainable cost structure that will support the whole of our growing business....
I played a lot of games this year, because as we all know, a lot of good games released this year – too many for anybody to play them all! That’s why when I say I played a game, I usually don’t mean that I finished that game. In fact, if I haven’t written a review for a game, I almost certainly have not finished it. Baldur’s Gate 3, my game of the year, is lying stagnant and unfinished near the end of Act 2....
The nextBattlefieldgame from Ripple Effect (previously known as DICE LA) is aiming to have “the most realistic and exciting destruction effects in the industry”. Although EA has been surprisingly quiet on the Battlefield frontever since the launch of Battlefield 2042 failed to light the world on fireas the publisher originally hoped, efforts to improve the game and bring it up to what fans hoped it would be have been going strong....
Baldur’s Gate3 is still going incredibly strong four months on from launch, with over 130,000 players in-game at the time of writing on Steam alone. But despite its resounding success and wealth of players, only half have finished the first act. 90.7 percent got through the tutorial andcrashed the Nautiloid, washing up on the shores of the Sword Coast. So, it’s not that a sizeable chunk of the player base bought the game and never tried it....
Pikminisn’t exactly a game you’d associate with stress, but as a child I foundNintendo’s bizarre Gamecube classic rife with it. I remember playing Pikmin 2 for the first time and having a difficult time properly delegating my cute little plant helpers. Eventually, I settled on carrying a small group of 10 at a time, leaving the others to sit back while I cleared the danger and protected them from certain death....
Despite more than a year passing since the last newPokemongame, the pressure to shake the formula up has been reapplied thanks toPalworld. Sure, it’s a little unfair as even though Palworld’s unofficial tagline is ‘Pokemon With Guns’, the games have almost nothing in common. Palworld is a survival game with no indication whatsoever that you should be trying to catch ‘em all and be the very best, like no one ever was....
There are eight Pokemon Squishmallows, most of which are notoriously hard to find even though the first wave was released more than a year ago. All fourSquishmallowsincluded in that first wave are out of stock at the Pokemon Center right now, although the newer Clefairy and Teddiursa options are available if you’ve been waiting for them. A good sign for whenever morePokemonare given the Squishmallow treatment, and the next two creatures joining the collection may have been revealed....
Many of the most successful gaming series of all time developed their core fan base by consistently releasing acclaimed titles. However,triple-A gamescost millions to make, and sometimes it can just take one negatively received title to force a studio to totally rethink its entire approach or even tank the series altogether. Whilst there are series such asUncharted,God Of WarandSuper Mariothat haven’t put a foot wrong so far, there have also been series, such asSonicandResident Evilthat have suffered over the years from a handful of underwhelming releases....
