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The best Baldur's Gate 3 builds for Patch 8 and beyond
Kensai/Mage Why stick with just one class when you could have, like, four?
Ultrakill publisher co-founder throws up hands, jokes 'Tarkov has done irreparable f*cking damage to the game industry' because even FromSoftware games are extraction shooters now
News Honestly, I kinda get it.
Baldur's Gate 3's excellent new photo mode is full of details, dances, and poses for your cat—as well as 7 different ways to vogue, because why not
News Subclasses? New builds? I'm out here voguing in the Forgotten Realms.
Former BioWare producer says Baldur's Gate 3's impact on game dev will be 'somewhat muted' thanks to industry convention, and I can't help think we've got it all backwards
News "A perfect storm of factors, working together, to make this game work."
Capcom gets a very special award from the Japanese government for having 6,000 worldwide trademarks
News Who's a good corporate legal engine? You are!
Is Dawntrail the FF14 equivalent of WoW's Shadowlands expansion? No, it's more boring than that
RISING TIDE Nothing ever happens.
Baldur's Gate 3 just got the Hexblade, one of D&D's most OP multiclass options, and it's still the best 1-level dip you could possibly take
News You've got to get SAD!
I'm a Baldur's Gate 3 Honour Mode sicko, and these are the 4 new subclass builds I'm most excited for in Patch 8
Baldur's Buildz Permanent Hexblade Economy
'This is it. Our final major game patch for Baldur’s Gate 3': The colossal Patch 8 is finally here, marking the end of (non-bug fix) updates for Larian's triumphant RPG
News I'm getting all misty-eyed.
The Oblivion remaster is real: Doubters in shambles as developer Virtuos accidentally leaves the door open to trailer screenshots and assets
News I have seen the gates of Oblivion, beyond which no waking eye may see.
A Minecraft Movie makes $550 million globally with no signs of slowing down, putting it inches behind dethroning Mario from his box office kingdom
News Money on my mine 'n' craftin' mind.
Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 8 is among its biggest, holding 48 pages (approx. 19,000-20,000 words) of patch notes in its vast and bountiful form
News Goodbye, free time. I hardly knew ye.
'EA always preferred Mass Effect, straight up': Dragon Age creator reveals that his and Mass Effect's team 'didn't get along' at BioWare, as EA played favourites with its children
News Two households, both alike in development (in fair BioWare, where we lay our scene).
Blue Prince was made possible by creator's Magic: The Gathering fan site: 'Now you know why I had to put up a lot of ads'
News A pretty card puzzle.
Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar'
News "Like, 'we're gonna have 20% more ray tracing'. Okay?"
FF14's composer, Soken, says doing double time on an MMO and Final Fantasy 16 was 'something beyond your imagination of hell'
News Ifrit, Lord of Burnout.
The Elder Scrolls Online is getting subclassing—which'll expand its roster of classes to 'over 3,000' combinations of mix-and-matched skill lines
news This adventurer can fit so many skill combinations in it.
After 10 years of setting-hopping, The Elder Scrolls Online is coming home for a new chapter of its base game story, returning player QoL updates, and a writhing wall of 'soul-juice concrete'
news TES the season to be wormy.
Crimson Desert is an unrestrained feast of violence, with a toolkit of moves that's like a fusion of every action RPG protagonist of the past decade rolled into one
OOPS! ALL PROTAGS I've never wanted to lab an action RPG before.
Former Blizzard president says 'I'm not sure where Diablo is going' after Diablo 4 roadmap disappoints: 'Don't ship to check a box'
News Poorly season'd.
Christopher Perkins, a senior D&D designer, director, and the mind behind 5e's Curse of Strahd, retires after 28 years at Wizards of the Coast
News End of an era.
Balatro's creator has reached poker zen after beating every deck on every difficulty: 'All this time playing has killed any negative emotions I had toward it'
News I have no enemies.
Major Japanese studios and publishers were having a great time in 2025, right up until the weekend because of the (you guessed it) 'insultingly dumb' US tariffs
News It's not a good Monday for anybody, Japan included.
