Baldur's Gate 3 players surprised to discover that, due to Elf shenanigans, Shadowheart is actually over 40 years old

The next Sims 4 expansion pack, based all around renting and property management, isn't quite what fans were hoping for - especially after playing the City Living pack from 2016. 

In her one-room home on a quiet street in Agara, a tiny village three hours southwest of Bangalore that's fringed by rice paddies and groundnut fields, Preethi P. sits on a stool near a sewing machine. Normally, she would spend hours mending or stitching clothes, averaging  less than $1 a day for her work. On this day, however, she is reading a sentence in her native Kannada language into an app on a phone. She pauses briefly, then reads another.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is now gearing up to potentially win Game of The Year, thanks in large part to its amazing gameplay and RPG elements.

The powers that be at Larian are continuing to issue fixes for Baldur's Gate 3.

Varun Thvar wants to educate people about how they can get treatment for insomnia. That isn’t news, but Thvar is a 16-year-old student who has a unique approach to the problem: video games.

 Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2’s protagonist is an Elder vampire who flips the script on RPG convention.

In a demonstration of the social engineering that you only get in MMOs, thousands of Old School RuneScape players – because of course it's OSRS players – have rediscovered an ancient minigame and independently repurposed it as a community event that only works thanks to animalistic strength-in-numbers tactics and a severe addiction to "sq'irk" fruits. 

Fuelled by spite following commentator shade-slinging over setting Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunning records by murdering Shadowheart and setting off magical nukes to skip Act 3, a misunderstood genius of the community has set a new record for the All Acts category, clearing the previous one by 12 minutes. 

Last Thursday, UL Solutions celebrated the 25th birthday of 3DMark, the evergreen game graphics benchmarking tool. Since the early days of DirectX 6, there's been a version of the tool, showing off the latest graphics features and technology, and although it's not quite as ubiquitous as it was, you can't deny that two-and-a-half decades is an impressive run for a piece of software.

So you thought developer Rocksteady was done with Batman: Arkham Knight, did you? Well, it seems that might not be quite the case. Eight years after its initial release, Rocksteady's third entry in the Arkham series has been updated to add an unexpected bit of new content — but it appears the celebrations might have been a bit premature.

One Halo modder has turned a mainstay Phil Spencer meme into an in-game heavy cannon.

As we all know, graphics cards are painfully expensive these days, and I regularly shift through lots of sites trying to find some good deals on GPUs. So imagine my surprise when I saw one for sale on Dell UK with a price tag of £13,866. It wasn't a mistake, it was a genuine graphics card. It's also five years old.