After it launched, Baldur’s Gate 3 hit a phenomenal 800,000 concurrent Steam players and received PC Gamer’s highest review score in 16 years, but during its years in early access, it wasn’t widely expected to be the next big thing. Take as an example this May 2022 document accidentally leaked by Microsoft as part of its lawsuit with the FTC which dismissed Baldur’s Gate 3 as a “second-run Stadia PC RPG” that Microsoft figured it could get onto PC Game Pass for about $5 million. 

You’d think Larian might be insulted by the lack of faith, but the truth is that the Baldur’s Gate 3 developer didn’t think its RPG would be this big of a deal either. Larian boss Swen Vincke is on record as worrying that Baldur’s Gate 3 might have peaked in Early Access.

Larian’s director of p…

At 6,144 CUDA cores, 20GB of GDDR6, and a 130W TDP, the RTX 4000 is “the most powerful single slot GPU on the planet” according to Nvidia. A tantalising glimpse of a genuinely slimline graphics cards—if you can look past the price.

Stuffed with an Ada Lovelace AD104 chip, the RTX 4000 delivers the same graphical architecture found inside the entire RTX 40-series GeForce lineup. It loosely slots in between the RTX 4070 and RTX 4070 Ti in the GeForce stack, though it’s not an exact match for all its extra VRAM.

Extra VRAM but less bandwidth. This card comes with a 160-bit memory bus for 360GB/s overall. It’s also a slimmer core count than the RTX 4000 mobile chip already found in workstation laptops, though this wouldn’t be the first time Nvidia trimmed back the desktop …

April Fools is no laughing matter⁠—in today’s climate of endemic misinformation, every day is April Fools if you ask me. Still, despite the crisis of Truth in today’s internet, figures from throughout the gaming world still press on with their unconscionable horseplay, pumping out fake, silly announcements alongside real news and leaving humble reporters such as myself to sort out the difference. What follows is a dispatch from the front lines of April Fools, my favorite sins from this yearly celebration of lies.

Modder “fixes” Dark Souls’ worst boss

You may remember Crest from their work going out of bounds in Demon’s Souls. Well on this holiest of days the modder decided to “fix” infamous Dark Souls puzzle boss Bed of Chaos… by throwing in clu…

Babylon’s Fall was not a good game by most accounts: we gave the co-op action RPG a 45% in our review, and the best it could muster on Steam was 482 “Mostly Negative” user reviews. Still, its final update is a heartbreaker.

Just six months after Babylon’s Fall came out, developer Platinum Games (one of our favorites, usually) canceled plans for large-scale updates and announced that, although it received many “enthusiastic messages of support,” it couldn’t keep the live service game online. 

“Despite all of your support, we are truly sad and sorry to say that we will be unable to continue with the game’s service,” the studio wrote. “We hope you continue to enjoy playing Babylon’s Fall until the service ends.”

That was in September of last year, and although the $6…

Foxhole developer Siege Camp has unveiled a new project called Anvil Empires that promises to let players take part in massive medieval battles of up to 1,000 people at a time in an open-world sandbox “with no safe zones or other artificial barriers to combat.”

The game takes place in the fantasy realm of Calligo, a persistent world in which three “desperate alliances” exist in a constant state of war. The continent contains an array of different landscapes and dangerous creatures, as well as “dark secrets” of indeterminate types for players to discover.

Medieval warfare is about more than just clubbing people in the face with heavy objects: You’re not going to do very well if you don’t have your supply situation nailed down. To that end, players will also have to build and …

Slay the Spire, the brilliant roguelike deckbuilder that first released in early access in 2017, is getting a sequel next year.

Slay the Spire 2 was announced with a teaser video, embedded above, at the Triple-I Initiative showcase today. It’s quite a glow up: A brief but sweet animated reintroduction to the Spire.

Near the end of the teaser, we see what I assume will be Slay the Spire 2’s three launch characters: The Ironclad and The Silent, and a new skeleton character. A screenshot on Slay the Spire 2’s just-launched Steam page reveals the skeleton to be The Necrobinder, “a wandering lich who seeks to bind the forgotten corpse.”

I’m a little sad not to see my boy The Defect, the first character I beat the original Slay the Spire with, but we don’t know for sure what…