"This is going to be horrible": BioWare's classic D&D RPG Baldur's Gate 2 looked like a "hacked-up monstrosity that was still full of bugs" as the devs crunched to get it ...

"The crunch at the time was brutal," according to designer and writer Lukas Kristjanson. The company was bringing in Domino's ...

RPG vet Josh Sawyer keeps things like Fallout and D&D grounded in history because 'Once things get too magical… it's impossible to bring it back down to Earth'

n particular, Sawyer says his work on Icewind Dale was inspired by DnD author RA Salvatore's own writing in the setting.

The last time I was this obsessed with a Balatro-like, it sold 750,000 copies in 2 weeks – and this one has a D&D twist so it's easily my favorite roguelike in Steam Next Fest

That game was CloverPit, which is a slot machine twist on the Balatro format, and has been racking up hundreds of thousands of sales since its recent release. My obsession with that put Slots & ...

Prolific D&D novelist R.A. Salvatore says writing around 4th Edition rules 'almost broke' him and he knew its setting changes were a mistake: 'In about 5 years they're going to ...

Changes made in the popular 5th Edition seem to have vindicated him. In a new interview with Polygon, fantasy (and sci-fi, and videogame) writer R.A. Salvatore dished on some of the unique challenges ...
GameSpot

Xbox Users Reportedly Play More Games Than PS5 Or Steam Players, And There's One Big Reason Why

PS5 and PC may have larger player bases than Xbox these days, but Xbox apparently still has the other platforms beat on one metric. According to a new report, Xbox users play more games than their PS5 ...
Polygon

What is a AAA game? A clever system ends the debate

Everyone knows what a AAA game is, right? If it were a movie, you’d call it a “blockbuster”: a big, glossy, heavily marketed production, expected to sell big numbers. Then there are AA games, ...
Game Rant

Epic Games Store Reveals Free Game and One More Offer for October 2

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and is sure he began doing so professionally in 2010 or thereabouts. If he was forced ...
Powder

X Games Reveals New Logo, Branding

Over the past year, under the leadership of its new CEO, Jeremy Bloom, the action sports circuit X Games has rapidly evolved, embracing initiatives like sports betting, AI-powered judging, and an ...
The Escapist

2D Mario Games Ranked

Super Mario Bros. 2 is seen as the black sheep of Mario games series. Released in 1988 for the NES and in 1992 for Japan, some players were sure they had played it before. They’d be correct, as the ...
Variety

Xbox Game Pass Price Increases as Microsoft Revamps Subscription Tiers, Expands Library

Microsoft announced Wednesday it will be revamping its tiered gaming subscription service Xbox Game Pass with expanded game libraries, including PC titles, unlimited cloud gaming, new in-game benefits ...
Forbes

After 30 Years, X Games Gets New Look, Leagues, Betting, Fantasy, More

It’s been three decades since X Games launched as a way to both draw attention to fast-growing extreme sports that weren’t typically on television then, while also filling a hole in ESPN’s mid-summer ...