Shadowheart has been respecced over 4,890,005 times in Baldur’s Gate 3, and I know at least 2 reasons why

Larian’s released a whole treasure trove of fun stats for Baldur’s Gate 3, and I encourage you to peek the full list yourself—however, one particular statistic leapt out at me and immediately activated the prehistoric lizard part of my brain that’s obsessed with min-maxing in RPGs, because I’m almost certain I know exactly why it … Read more

Silksong fan uses electrons to draw the ‘world’s smallest Hornet’, which is ‘about 1/5 the width of a strand of silk’, ‘2 bacteria long’, and ‘8,000 times smaller’ than the actual insect

What do you do when you’re waiting for a game to release? Go back and visit some old classics? Distract yourself by picking up a new hobby? Or do you draw the world’s teeniest-tiniest Hornet that can only be observed under a microscope? Because that’s what this one Silksong hopeful did. In ritualistic preparation for … Read more

Nvidia claims H20 chips do ‘not have backdoors’ after reportedly being summoned by ‘Beijing authorities’ for a quick word

Technologically speaking, America has been quite afraid of Chinese development for, well, ever, but there’s been a significant resurgence of this thought since the boom of AI in the last few years. After much deliberation and argumentation, Nvidia was finally cleared from US scrutiny to import its H20 chips into China recently, and this came … Read more

After 3 years of bargaining with Microsoft, the Raven QA workers have secured their first union contract: ‘Ratifying this contract is a win for game workers everywhere’

In 2022, quality assurance testers at Call of Duty studio Raven Software became the first union to organize at a major American games company as the Game Workers Alliance-CWA. Today, after three years of negotiation, GWA-CWA members voted to ratify their first contract between the union and Microsoft. According to a press release from the … Read more

Larian says it’s going to expand the Baldur’s Gate 3 mod toolkit ‘to give you even more freedom,’ so there goes another 100 hours I’ve lost to modding

Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8 marked the last of Larian’s major updates, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get a hotfix or modding surprise as a treat. As part of the RPG’s second anniversary community update, the studio shared a few bite-sized fixes and a quick breakdown of more BG3 player stats. But most notably, … Read more

Gamescom Asia is joining with the Thailand Game Show this year, and Dead Space creator Glen Schofield will keynote

Gamescom made its Asian debut in Singapore last year, but in 2025 it’s heading further east to Thailand, in a collaboration with the Thailand Game Show. Running October 16-19 in Bangkok, and with distinct business and consumer areas, the show will feature heavy-hitters like Bandai Namco, Capcom, Ubisoft, Xbox and Razer, as well as a … Read more

Larian celebrated a ‘probably this time really maybe’ defeat of Baldur’s Gate 3’s Zoom grandpa portrait glitch too soon, with the beloved bug already rising from the dead like a slasher villain

First reported by GamesRadar, one of Baldur’s Gate 3’s most persistent bugs has once again resisted Larian’s attempts to squash it, with players on the BG3 subreddit sharing screens of their companions staring flatly into the camera in their portraits. I don’t know if it was around in early access, but I’ve seen screenshots of … Read more