Baldur’s Gate 3 is now the highest-rated game ever, beating even Mario

Frankfurt, GERMANY – Friday, August 25, 2023 – Game development studio Gunzilla Games has unveiled its first gameplay trailer for its upcoming game, Off The Grid. The gameplay trailer, which made its debut at Gamescom 2023, gives players a first-hand look at the ground-breaking mechanics, stunning environments, and unforgettable characters behind the next-generation battle royale game masterminded by visionary filmmaker Neill Blomkamp.

Publisher Kepler Interactive and developer Ebb Software have finally announced a release date for the PS5 port of Scorn, the grotesque first-person horror title that first launched last year. If you're interested in exploring its fleshy, squelchy nightmare of a world, you can do so when it arrives on 3rd October 2023.

A writer on the original Baldur's Gate has shared their surprise at stumbling upon a character they helped create as they explored Baldur's Gate 3.

PLAY #31 is out now! Pack your bags because, for this action-packed issue, we're travelling between dimensions in the upcoming soulslike behemoth Lords Of The Fallen. We chronicle our hands-on with an early build and find out what makes two worlds better than one in an insightful interview with the developers.

I have an unhealthy fascination with advergames. Well, advertising in general, but advertising has gotten so boring since we started expecting companies to tell the truth and not try to kill us too blatantly. Advertising games in general aren’t super common anymore, usually relegated to browser or mobile platforms.

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Slime Rancher, indie developer Monomi Park’s slimetastic 2017 hit, is being made into a movie.

Europa Universalis 4 remains one of the best strategy games ever made. Taking control of four different nations, you guide your armies and civilization through several centuries, battling it out to forge one of the most powerful empires in history. With a realistic map, myriad units and buildings, and an in-depth diplomacy system, Europa Universalis 4 has just hit its tenth anniversary, and to celebrate, you can now pick it up for the low, low price of absolutely nothing. But you need to move fast.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has been nothing short of a revelation, and in the days following its release earlier this month, Larian Studios’ widely acclaimed RPG has enjoyed unprecedented success on all fronts.

Little-CRPG-that-could Baldur's Gate 3 has solved the Labyrinth, outwitted the Sphinx and ascended to the rank of Metacritic's highest-rated PC game of all time, knocking ZA/UM's Disco Elysium into second place. (OK, so technically they're both on 97, but I'm guessing the "score distillation" arithmetic behind-the-scenes puts Baldur's Gate 3 ahead - their positions were reversed last time I checked.) This follows a busy weekend for Larian's new game, which exceeded its own online player activity record on Sunday to the tune of around 875,000 players.

Baldur's Gate 3, Larian Studios' most recent entry in the series, is currently the highest-rated PC game of all time on both Metacritic en Opencritic.

In just three days, Overwatch 2 has become Steam's worst-rated game of all time.