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Pinky Swear | Promise Mascot Agency review: Lots of CEOs do heck-all work, but I’m not one of those

Come to Kaso-Machi for the Yakuza intrigue, stay for the gang of weirdo workers in costumes you’ve actually got to treat pretty decently.

April 7, 2025 Mark Warren

Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 opposite a location in the Act Two Expansion mod.

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Absolute Stunner | Baldur's Gate 3: Act Two Expansion custom campaign is aiming for a 2025 release, and the "whole new region" it'll be adding looks damn cool in this fresh trailer

Gather your party once more and get ready for "an epic battle against the Absolute's army".

April 7, 2025 Mark Warren

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Sadness Remastered | The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered on PC is not only a great port, but the perfect treat for TV series lovers hankering for Season 2

An upgraded version of a cinematic classic hampered by a few technical faults, this is the perfect appetiser for anyone salivating over HBO's next TV hit.

April 3, 2025 Connor Makar

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Buggy Game? | UPDATE: Canceled Disco Elysium spin-off X7 would have been about Cuno and Cunoesse going on the run with a box of locusts, leaked internal presentation reveals

ZA/UM has responded to the leak, writing: "We will not let anything get in the way of our hard work."

April 3, 2025 Mark Warren

A bunch of Baldur's Gate 3 characters having a picnic in Stardew Valley.

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AFreshStartion | "This is a gift, you know" Baldur's Gate 3 Stardew Valley modders give an update on the future of Baldur's Village, now the Wizards of the Coast DMCA situation is behind them

"Fortunately, we are able to move forward."

April 2, 2025 Mark Warren

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Expect A Payday | Unlike GTFO, Den of Wolves will have both microtransactions and DLC, but that doesn’t mean 10 Chambers is going to put any “manipulative stuff” into its next game

With a growing studio to look after, 10 Chambers is reappraising its approach to monetization. But don’t worry, the dev knows you will ‘vote with your wallet’.

April 1, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

Astarion, a fluffy haired elf, rendered in Stardew Valley's pixel art style, while wearing sunglasses, a scene of him in a rocking chair next to the portrait of him.

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Party On | "A good ending": Phew, the Baldur's Gate 3 Stardew Valley mod is back online after "mistakenly" being hit by a DMCA takedown from Wizards of the Coast

Larian boss Swen Vincke's happy this has seemingly been resolved quickly, and so are we.

April 1, 2025 Mark Warren

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Leo Pointing Meme | Xbox's Indiana Jones and Forza Horizon 5 are currently reigning atop PlayStation's PS5 preorder charts, and you can see why Phil and co have opted to deploy them now

You know, aside from wanting to drive and whip PS5 owners to ecstasy cos money.

March 26, 2025 Mark Warren

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Ciri in The Witcher 4 and Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077.

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Augmented Growth | With The Witcher 4 now properly on the way, Cyberpunk 2077 just powered CD Projekt to the best financial results it's ever recorded for a year without any big releases

Naturally, the publisher's teasing that it's got plenty of Cyberpunk stuff "in store" going forwards, including a MacOS port.

March 25, 2025 Mark Warren

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Indiana Jones can be seen holding a lasso beside a buddha in promotional artwork for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

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Indy Know | Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on PS5 finally has a release date, so you've not got long left to avoid taking suspicious calls about whipping from your Xbox-owning mates

You know, cos they might spoil things for you.

March 24, 2025 Mark Warren

Johnny Silverhand in front of Arasaka Tower in Cyberpunk 2077 opposite Johnny Silverhand next to a cat.

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Meowsagges | Cyberpunk 2077 gets the mod you never knew you needed: a service that'll text you random cat and dog facts midway through emotional chats with Keanu Reeves

From the modder who previously brought a hotdog motorbike with cheeseburger wheels to Night City.

March 19, 2025 Mark Warren

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Still Baldur's Wait | Desperate for news on the Baldur's Gate IP's post-Larian future? Well, a Hasbro exec says you should hear something "in pretty short order"

This is also the phrase I use when trying to convince Gale I'll soon have some magic shoes to shove into his gob.

March 18, 2025 Mark Warren

Two images from Longdue's Hopetown merged together; a woman with light coming from her eyes, and two pigeons standing in a puddle.

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Disco-very | Hopetown's devs accept that Disco Elysium’s shadow looms over them, but say the “seed of an idea” for a spiritual successor has evolved into “something different”

"We put it out there, judge it for what you will.”

March 17, 2025 Mark Warren

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From The Shadows | Another ambitious-looking Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign just put out a demo, and it delves into the aftermath of the base game's pesky shadow curse

"They returned to life, but the possession did not go away without a trace."

March 17, 2025 Mark Warren

Hopetown's protagonist next to Harry and Kim in Disco Elysium.

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A New Genre? | Despite all the chatter about being a Disco Elysium successor, Hopetown devs say "you don't need to have made Disco Elysium to make something great"

"We're not running around with a bottle trying to catch lightning."

March 17, 2025 Mark Warren

Harry Du Bois in Disco Elysium's mobile port.

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You What? | Disco Elysium is being released on mobile because ZA/UM wants to, er, "captivate the TikTok user" by "creating an all new, deeply engaging form of entertainment"

Yeah, I don't know either.

March 13, 2025 Mark Warren

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Wicked 2025 | No Rest for the Wicked reveals its biggest update yet and a roadmap as its maker goes fully independent

2025 is looking very promising for No Rest for the Wicked, and this week, we got our first proper look at what's next.

March 12, 2025 Sherif Saed

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Some Red Info | Hopetown's latest ex-Disco Elysium recruit reveals he's "had to leave" another of the kinda Disco Elysium successor studios, but says it's on "friendly terms"

"I have only good words to say about the work that we did together; I wish them all the best."

March 11, 2025 Mark Warren

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Some artwork of characters and pigeons in Hopetown.

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One of Those Days | Hopetown, one scrapper in the sort of Disco Elysium successor fight, reveals another ex-Disco collaborator and gets a pretty Disco Elysiumy first teaser starring DE's narrator

The Kickstarter campaign for Longdue's game launches on March 17.

March 11, 2025 Mark Warren

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Words | “This is not Disco Elysium 2, this is C4” ZA/UM announces its next game, a spy RPG about “doing the work you love, even if it doesn’t get you any fame or parades”

"We want to build on what we've done before, but not simply by repeating it, or rehashing it."

March 11, 2025 Mark Warren

Halsin in Baldur's Gate 3 opposite a bunch of characters in a tavern in Stardew Valley mod Baldur's Village.

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Druiding It | Will the Stardew Valley Baldur's Gate 3 mod let you bone a pixelated bear? Well, its lead dev is "certain" that Halsin's romance arc will "stay true to his character"

The Baldur's Village team is approaching its upcoming druid courtship "with care".

March 11, 2025 Mark Warren

Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

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You Know We're Right | Indiana Jones And The Great Circle for PS5 rated, so the day Xbox and PlayStation fans finally come together via a shared love of whipping and swinging doesn't look far away

Whhhhhhchhhhsssssshhh. Console war dead.

March 10, 2025 Mark Warren

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A Stardew Valley character chatting to Astarion in Baldur's Village, alongside Halsin in Baldur's Gate 3.

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Farmnication | That Stardew Valley Baldur's Gate 3 crossover mod is out now, and there's even more good news: it sounds like pixel art bear sex could be coming soon

Forget being able to marry Astarion, I'm keen to see how the team behind Baldur's Village handles everyone's favourite druid.

March 10, 2025 Mark Warren

A Red Wizard of Thay in Baldur's Gate 3 next to Astarion.

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The Show Goes On | Baldur’s Gate 3 custom campaign mod The Grand Theater’s first big update is currently set to drop next month, and it’ll feature a boss fight Baldur’s Gate 2 fans will dig

Plus a freshly-opened gambling den area, proper combat, and a familiar magical ring to claim.

March 6, 2025 Mark Warren

Joel in The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered.

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More Layoffs | PlayStation reportedly enacts fresh wave of layoffs, with staff who worked on cancelled live-service games and Last of Us remaster support studio affected

The full scale of the cuts isn't clear as of writing.

March 5, 2025 Mark Warren

V and Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077 next to NPCs partying in The Atlantis.

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Atlantis' Afterlife | Cyberpunk 2077 mod reopens a nightclub previously only visitable in a Johnny Silverhand flashback, so you can properly hang out in The Afterlife's forerunner

It's the hottest night spot of the 2020s, restored so people living in the real 2020s can still boogie there in 2077.

March 3, 2025 Mark Warren

A character getting intimate with The Emperor in Baldur's Gate 3.

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Illithidtercourse | Baldur's Gate 3 finally gets the romance overhaul mod you've been waiting for: "tender", "sexy", and "hot" Emperor intercourse, possibly with companions chilling in the background

It's called Squid's Game, because of course it is.

Feb. 26, 2025 Mark Warren

The little Wishlisted guy creepily watching Michi chill in a hiot tub with a mascot in Promise Mascot Agency.

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Demo Derby | “For indies, we have to do this” Here’s what Promise Mascot Agency’s devs are hoping Steam Next Fest will do for a game that sort-of defies explanation

“These days, there's what? 14k or 15k demos in there? So, it's absolutely wild.”

Feb. 25, 2025 Mark Warren

A man hangs of the spire of an old town, the moon shining down on it in The Blood of Dawnwalker.

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All Good Here | As NetEase reportedly stops funding overseas devs, The Witcher 3 director's next game The Blood of Dawnwalker is apparently safe thanks to being "fully-funded" already

"NetEase is Rebel Wolves' minority shareholder."

Feb. 24, 2025 Oisin Kuhnke

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A vampired baring his sharp teeth in the moonlight in The Blood of Dawnwalker.

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A Lot's At Stake | The Blood of Dawnwalker devs' main goal is "maximizing players' agency and freedom of choice", and they're taking what they learned from The Witcher 3 to make it happen

The pedigree certainly suggests they can do it.

Feb. 23, 2025 Oisin Kuhnke

Mystic Messenger artwork showing the game's main characters all huddled together for a photo.

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Who You Gonna Call? | Mystic Messenger guide: essential things you need to know to win Zen, Yoosung, Jaehee, Jumin, 707, V and Ray's hearts

Feb. 20, 2025 Brenna Hillier

Zen from Mystic Messenger winks at the camera whole Yoosung looks on in frustration, in a cropped-down version of the game's loading splash art.

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Talk To Me | Mystic Messenger chat schedules: A complete spoiler-free Mystic Messenger walkthrough including all Casual Story, Deep Story, and Another Story chatrooms

All Mystic Messenger chat times to help you plan your perfect romance route.

Feb. 20, 2025 Brenna Hillier

Rogue in Cyberpunk 2077 playing pool in front of a crowd.

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We'll NPC | Cyberpunk 2077's sequel will boast "the most realistic and reactive crowd system in any game to date" if CD Projekt hits its goals, so no pressure then

It's ok, whoever lands this encounter design gig, you'll have a systems design team to help you do the thing.

Feb. 20, 2025 Mark Warren

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Who Is V? | Mystic Messenger V route (Another Story): A complete walkthrough to romancing V and getting his good ending

Plus general tips and advice on how to get to V's alternate endings.

Feb. 18, 2025 Brenna Hillier

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Man Of Mystery | Mystic Messenger 707 route (Deep Story): A complete walkthrough to romancing Seven and getting his good ending

Plus general tips and advice on how to get to Seven's alternate endings.

Feb. 18, 2025 Brenna Hillier

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Girlboss | Mystic Messenger Jaehee route (Casual Story): A complete walkthrough to romancing Jaehee and getting her good ending

Plus general tips and advice on how to get to Jaehee's alternate endings.

Feb. 18, 2025 Brenna Hillier

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An Original | Mystic Messenger Zen route (Casual Story): A complete walkthrough to romancing Zen and getting his good ending

Plus general tips and advice on how to get to Zen's alternate endings.

Feb. 18, 2025 Brenna Hillier

Pinky and Trororo in Promise Mascot Agency opposite the kei-truck flying.

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Promises Kept | As Promise Mascot Agency nears the end of its costumed run through the explosions of development, its devs are feeling good about handing their "band of freaks" over to you

“We've made the game we want to make.”

Feb. 15, 2025 Mark Warren

Gwendolyn fighting some enemies in Tides of Annihilation.

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Whole Gang's Here | PlayStation State of Play hit Tides of Annihilation shows off some fresh gameplay, and Baldur's Gate 3 fans are in for a special treat

Here's an extended look at the kind of Arthurian bottom-kicking you'll be getting up to.

Feb. 14, 2025 Mark Warren

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Some Cyberpunk 2077 characters with feet for hands, you know, the usual stuff.

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Johnny Soleverhand | "Don't miss out on this gem my gonks" Cyberpunk 2077's lead quest designer gives a big toes up to a weird mod that turns your hands into feet

We agree, Paweł Sasko, Tarantino would probably love this.

Feb. 11, 2025 Mark Warren

Kazuma Kiryu in Yakuza 6 next to Michi in Promise Mascot Agency.

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Something Kir-new | Promise Mascot Agency stars Kazuma Kiryu’s actor because he had “the sexiest voice”, but his character’s designed to be much more than a supermarket own-brand Dragon of Dojima

"We were quite worried about it, actually, because then we're already thinking people are gonna be saying, ‘Oh, [you're] Yakuza rip-offs’."

Feb. 11, 2025 Mark Warren

The Grand Theater in Moezillaaa's Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign mod, alongside Astarion looking shook.

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Mysterious Mod Music | Freshly-released Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign is all about finding "the dark secret of the Grand Theater", and your musical soul might be nicked in the process

"This is a world where the Red Wizards hold the strings, and you’ll have to decide whether the cost of fame is worth the price."

Feb. 11, 2025 Mark Warren

Shuhei Yoshida next to Pinky and Michi driving in Promise Mascot Agency.

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Things Happen Y'know | PlayStation royalty Shuhei Yoshida being revealed as a duck mascot alongside Swery right after leaving Sony wasn't some master plan, it was "complete serendipity"

Promise Mascot Agency's devs not only didn't initially plan on casting industry legends - they thought their game might not even have any voice acting at all.

Feb. 10, 2025 Mark Warren