Baldur's Gate 3's performance director had a real-life enemies-to-lovers storyline with Shadowheart, and it's so sweet

It’s no secret that in a year of incredible games, Baldur’s Gate 3 is arguably at the top. Not only is it the highest-rated game of 2023 on Metacritic and Opencritic, but of its 353,326 user reviews on Steam, 96 percent are positive for an “Overwhelmingly Positive” rating.

All of the fans were out at BlizzCon, including some fans who worked on the games we love. One of those is Andrew Russell, a voice actor who you may know best as Kalecgos. Andrew is a huge World of Warcraft fan as well as being pretty much the nicest person on the planet.

Although offers plenty of options when making a new custom character, there are still some who may want to change Tav once their adventure has begun. After many requests, developer Larian Studios added the Magic Mirror in Patch 3 allowing custom character appearances to be altered after leaving the character creator. However, there are still other ways Tav’s appearance can be changed without needing this magical item.

If you're wondering whether Lae'zel actor Devora Wilde is wracked with guilt over her actions during the Baldur's Gate 3 cast's D&D session, the answer is a resounding no.

Best Way’s upcoming real-time strategy (RTS) game, Men of War 2, is getting a new open beta period on Steam, offering players the chance to dive into the action ahead of the game’s launch next year. 

World of Warcraft: The War Within is the next expansion set to release for the decades-long-running MMORPG. Touted as during the BlizzCon 2023 Opening Ceremony part of the culmination of nearly twenty years of Warcraft history, The War Within is the first of three chapters that will see the resolution to narrative threads that have been dangling for years. And like any expansion, it will feature new areas for players to discover, along with more than a handful of dungeons and encounters they can tackle at varying difficulties.

Alan Wake 2 has been out for over a week now, and it’s already become the topic of many a watercooler conversation here at Polygon. The long-anticipated follow-up is a top-to-bottom redesign of Remedy Entertainment’s 2010 action-horror game, introducing new puzzle and combat conceits and the parallel campaigns of protagonists Saga Anderson and Alan Wake.

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When Intel Extreme Masters came back to Sydney for the first time since 2019, it came back hard. Over 20,000 fans attended the Counter-Strike 2 tournament in the Aware Super Theatre, making it both the largest and fastest-selling Australian esports tournament in history. That was just for the in-person attendance — online, the tournament saw a peak of over 460,000 viewers and a combined 6.6 million hours watched according to Esports Charts. 

The success of Baldur’s Gate 3 has done more than just boost the reputation of developer Larian Studios. Caught by TweakTown, the latest Q3 earnings figures for Hasbro—the parent company of Wizards of the Coast, which owns Dungeons & Dragons—indicates that the RPG also led to more sales of the tabletop game.

manages to expand and improve upon its predecessor in almost every way, and despite a few bugs and small qualms, it stands as one of the best life simulation games in years. Just like, this new entry comes from developer Pathea Games and publisher Focus Entertainment, the latter of which has also helped release titles like and. While there will be players who simply don't care for the game's fundamentally task-centric nature or wish for more complex combat, for fans of the genre does almost everything right.

The actors behind Astarion, Shadowheart, and Lae'zel have pitched their own Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, and it's a Stardew Valley-like featuring the community's favourite imp Bing Bong.