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Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios has just launched its new community-focused YouTube channel, but the RPG's director of publishing is being exceptionally vague when it comes to confirming whether or not we'll see any Easter eggs hidden in the videos.
There may be a significant overhaul to two key features in ’s Natlan region, as seen in a new Version 5.0 leak. The update, expected to arrive in August, will introduce the Nation of Pyro to the action RPG by HoYoverse. In addition to a brand new area to explore and the continuation of the main Archon Quests as the Traveler looks for their sibling, there will also be several new characters. Furthermore, players can expect new gameplay mechanics, such as the Saurians, as well as minor changes – all should be confirmed during the 5.0 livestream.
The first sequel in the long-running Metal Gear series originally launched in 1990, but Hideo Kojima says it wasn't supposed to be that way - it was delayed because he and his dev team had to go help out on an RPG spin-off of one of his earlier games.
Folks, we may have found the least persuasive Dragonborn in the history of Skyrim. Reddit user NoAdministration1070, who claims that no extraneous mods or exploits were used in their Xbox One version of the RPG, reportedly found that their character's Speech stat had abruptly plummeted to -100,000, effectively ruling out persuasion tactics by making things like bribes cost millions of gold. If their story is true, this Dragonborn couldn't sell water to a fish, and according to them, the inexplicable drop in charm came out of nowhere.
How do you ensure a player's character-building choices feel worthwhile in an RPG, whether they dumped all their points into lockpicking or went heavy on persuasion? Josh Sawyer, seasoned RPG designer and studio design director at Obsidian, says that—like weapon tuning—it's a vibes-based art, but great documentation and a good dataset certainly don't hurt.
Andrew Wincott's BAFTA award winning performance as Raphael, one of Baldur's Gate 3's most entertaining villains, was one of the RPG's many highlights. He also famously gave us one of the game's most memorable musical numbers when he sang his own boss theme at the end of the House of Hope dungeon. It turns out, though, that this performance also gave him the wrong impression of what the game was all about.
Obsidian Entertainment’s upcoming RPG Avowed has been delayed till next year. An Xbox post on X (formerly Twitter) says that the game is now set for a February 18, 2025, release.
A new leak about , indicating a partial solution to characters that have suffered from powercreep releases that made them utterly useless in current team comps. Powercreep is a term used to describe certain characters that have similar gameplay kits or power to previous units and make them less attractive to use because the newer releases are substantially stronger. A great example of this is how Jing Yuan, who was once one of the strongest DPS in HoYoverse’s turn-based RPG, got powercrept by the release of Blade and Jingliu in .