Modder adds an entire chapter to Baldur's Gate 3 between the second and third acts
In mid-September, modder SquallyDaBeanz released Act Two Expansion, a solo-developed custom campaign for Baldur's Gate 3, in beta. The mod adds an extra chapter to the main story. The new content sits between the second...
Why the wizard in Baldur's Gate 3 silently watches the barbarian fail a magic check
RPGs love to talk about friendship, trust, and a tight-knit party, but the mechanics sometimes shatter that idyll with a roll of the d20. Picture a hero with the intelligence of a stool trying to...
Even after a thousand hours in Baldur's Gate 3, you can still find new content in the first act
A good RPG is usually praised for its scale, but a great one gets praised for what most players never see. It gets absurd when someone with a thousand hours on the clock sits down...
The Witcher 3 remaster made dungeons brighter and monsters funnier
Darkness in games works as well as any soundtrack, because the scariest things are the ones you can't see. But flood a dungeon with even light and render every brick, and the monster around the...
Josh Sawyer explained that gamers often misunderstand game mechanics, and this needs to be taken into account during development
If you've played XCOM, you know the feeling: the screen shows a 95% chance to hit, you take the shot, and... miss. Statistics work like that sometimes. Josh Sawyer, the legendary RPG director behind Fallout:...
Politeness as a seduction strategy, or how to accidentally sleep with the entire camp in Baldur's Gate 3
In RPGs, being polite is usually the safe choice. Say a few warm words to a companion, nod in agreement, and collect a bump in approval with no strings attached. Especially when there's no heart...
8 cars from Cyberpunk 2077 and their real-life counterparts: From Mustang to garbage truck
Futuristic car design in games almost always grows out of a very earthly garage. An artist can paint all the neon, chrome, and flying cars they want, but beneath the 2077 gloss, the silhouettes of...
CD Projekt RED releases patch for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt remaster with DLSS and fix for dark interiors
CD Projekt RED released a patch for the The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Updated Edition on PS5 and Xbox Series. The Xbox Play Anywhere version on PC also got its own fix. The studio announced...
One PC setting rids The Witcher 3 Remastered of its washed-out picture
The Witcher 3 Remastered launched this week, and early impressions of the re-release are mostly positive. Lighting has sparked the most debate. The updated visuals are noticeably brighter than the original, and some fans of...
Super mutant vs button – why Fallout 3's ending has annoyed players for 17 years
Heroic self-sacrifice only works when the hero has no other way out. When a radiation-immune super mutant nearly three meters tall is standing right there, the grand sacrifice turns into an absurdity. The Savior of...
The Witcher 3 Remastered performance test in 4K – RTX 5080 handles path tracing at up to 84 FPS with frame generation
CD Projekt RED has released The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered. The free update is available to all Complete Edition owners, and its main addition is path tracing support on PC. The team at DSOGaming...
Why The Witcher 3 Remaster is worth playing on the highest difficulty
Many players default to the standard difficulty so they can enjoy the story in peace. In RPGs with a well-designed combat system, that habit often backfires: half the mechanics stay an unread chapter. Geralt, armed...
In Fallout 3, you can leave Vault 101 without a single casualty, and Amata becomes the killer
A pacifist run in an RPG is often an illusion of clean hands. A player can go the entire game without pulling the trigger once, but someone else will gladly do the dirty work for...
Legendary power armor from Fallout: Tactics appears in Fallout 4
Fallout fans know exactly how much power armor matters in the series. These hulking metal suits can turn any battle around, and they look absolutely amazing doing it. Over the years, the franchise has introduced...
The three best protagonists of story-driven RPG live in Eastern Europe
The RPG genre has long run on American fuel: Skyrim, Fallout, Mass Effect. But put together a short list of characters worth living a hundred hours as, and it turns out they all come from...
It took a Skyrim newcomer 15 hours and a talking dog Barbas to understand why people love the game
A short post from a newcomer describing the moment Skyrim finally "clicked" serves as a good reminder of what makes the game so magical. A player going by SeaInRain spent about fifteen hours in Skyrim,...
55 missed calls from Panam and the main problem with the Phantom Liberty ending in Cyberpunk 2077
The most gut-punching scene in Cyberpunk 2077 looks completely mundane – just a phone log with a counter showing 55 missed calls from one nomad. V's favorite nomad, no less. We're talking about the "Tower"...
The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past scriptwriter wrote her thesis on Hearts of Stone – is the story in good hands?
If you need proof that real fans are working on The Witcher 3's new expansion, here's one: the lead writer of Songs of the Past wrote her thesis analyzing "Hearts of Stone" almost a decade...
Bethesda veteran with 20 years of experience and The Elder Scrolls lore expert has been unable to find a job for months
Kurt Kuhlmann, one of the key designers at Bethesda Game Studios and known among fans as the "lore master" of The Elder Scrolls, publicly announced he's looking for work. The industry veteran got caught up...
The family of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's main character – real monsters
The scariest villains in history are the ones who genuinely believe they're the victim. And when that victim happens to hold a paintbrush capable of creating living people, an ordinary family drama turns into industrial-scale...
