The opening cinematic for Baldur’s Gate 3 (opens in new tab) was revealed on Thursday, and it’s nothing short of exhilarating. Simply on a technical level, the cinematography is on another level, but the real stars of the show are the dragons, which are beautifully detailed and wonderfully horrifying. Whether …
Read More »Fortnite Brutus Briefing challenges: How to beat his tasks and unlock the Ghost or Shadow Brutus style
We’ve now reached week 2 of the Fortnite Brutus’ Briefing challenges, which means that even if you blitzed the initial offerings from last week your Challenge Table should now be restocked with new assignments to complete. This set should be the last supplied by Brutus, as the next Agent is …
Read More »Hideo Kojima will get BAFTAs highest honor at its game awards ceremony in April
Hideo Kojima is set to receive the BAFTA Fellowship Award in April, with the lofty award putting him in the same ranks of games industry leaders such as Shigeru Miyamoto and Gabe Newell. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced today its plans to give Kojima its highest …
Read More »How to steal security plans and deliver them to SHADOW or GHOST in Fortnite for Brutus final mission
If you’ve been working your way through the first set of Agent challenges, then you may be wondering how to steal security plans and deliver them to SHADOW or GHOST in Fortnite. Once you’ve reached level 20 of the Battle Pass and completed at least 18 of Fortnite Brutus’ Briefing …
Read More »Assassins Creed: Gold takes the historical fiction to a new setting: audio drama
The timeline-spanning historical fiction of Assassin’s Creed has been told in games, books, and movies, and now it’s taking a leap of faith into audio dramas. Assassin’s Creed: Gold is a new Audible original (opens in new tab) that just went live today. Rather than retelling previous stories in audio …
Read More »No, PlayStation isnt teasing a PS5 announcement today… probably
PlayStation Germany (opens in new tab) is teasing an announcement for later today on Twitter, but it’s probably not what you’re hoping for. “You know what we’re going to tell you today, don’t you?”, reads the translated tweet, instantly bringing to mind the idea of more PS5 (opens in new …
Read More »Scrawl board game review: “a filthy-minded romp through the weirder parts of your brain”
You definitely wouldn’t want to play the Scrawl board game with your parents. Think ‘Cards Against Humanity’ and you’re in the right ballpark; it’s fun, filthy, and absolutely NSFW. That’s hardly a criticism, though. In fact, it’s the perfect party game for anyone aged 17 and up. You don’t need …
Read More »The making of Theme Hospital: The legendary sim that paved the way for Two Point Hospital
Read more great retro features in Retro Gamer magazine (Image credit: Future) The Making of Theme Hospital feature originally ran in issue #130 of Retro Gamer magazine, 2014. If you want to read more excellent long-form features and developer interviews about history’s best games every month, and you can save …
Read More »PUBG PTS: How the Public Test Server works and what its for
The PUBG PTS PS4 and Xbox One (Public Test Server) has been around for a while for PC players, but it’s only recently been introduced to both PS4 and Xbox One. A lot of players are wondering exactly what the PUBG (opens in new tab) test server does and why …
Read More »Metro studio 4A Games on next-gen graphics: “We experimented a lot, and with spectacular results so far”
Metro developer 4A Games briefly discussed its ambitions for next-gen graphics in a recent interview with Digital Foundry (opens in new tab), and after the visual splendor of Metro Exodus (opens in new tab), any graphics tease from 4A Games is mighty tantalizing. “We are fully into ray tracing, dropping …
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