Embracer cuts jobs at Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition developer Beamdog

The Wolf Among Us 2 developer Telltale Games confirmed layoffs at the company “due to market conditions,” but said all its in-development projects are still in the works.

id Software and Nightdive Studios released the first update for Quake 2 Enhanced Edition. It improves on a new feature added with this remaster, the Compass, with better objective navigating through several places in Quake 2, Quake 2 64, The Reckoning and Ground Zero.

Gungrave G.O.R.E Ultimate Enhanced Edition is out now for Switch via Nintendo eShop in Europe, and will launch on October 18, 2023 in North America and on January 11, 2024 in Japan and Asia, developer Studyio IGGYMOB announced.

Microsoft has announced its latest Xbox controller design.

Naughty Dog, the renowned Santa Monica-based game development studio owned by Sony, is cutting jobs, albeit not internally. The news comes from a fresh Kotaku report. Citing anonymous sources, it reveals that at least 25 contract workers were cut last week, mostly in the quality assurance department (though art and production teams were also reportedly affected in some capacity). The report also says the affected employees received pressure not to disclose the news. They won't get any severance, either. Their contracts expire at the end of this month, and they are expected to keep working until then.

Baldur's Gate 3 is chock full of hotties to romance, whether you're into no-nonsense goths like Shadowheart, snarky vampires like Astarion, or heroic do-gooders like Wyll. But many have gravitated toward the tall, dark, and handsome glass of red wine that is Karlach, at least, going by the internet and the spike in sales for her MTG card. In reality, more people have been bumping uglies with a mind flayer.

In Baldur's Gate 3, you can pick out your custom character's willy before embarking on your quest to destroy the Absolute. Think of like window shopping before all those long nights at camp getting your groove on with Astarion and whoever else tickles your fancy, or bites your neck. The only downside is that you can't wag it around like a floppy uncooked sausage.

While most Baldur's Gate 3 players are still blissfully making their way through Larian's lavish and expansive world, others are taking it upon themselves to do the essential work of memeing its memorable cast of characters.

Last night, talk of layoffs from Activision Blizzard affecting the Hearthstone team began to circulate, with several employees sharing the news. Among them was an engineer that had been with the company for 18 years.

Balthazar is a tough bastard. The second your conversation ends at the Nightsong, he uses an unstoppable Raise Dead spell to summon an army of minions while spamming overpowered magic to rub salt into the wound. The best way around this is to shove Balthazar into the abyss, but then you don't get any of his goodies. Since his corpse is, y'know, in the abyss.

Help: I need to tell you about this excellent parody of the Friends sitcom opening made in Baldur's Gate 3, but all I can think about now is really bad puns.

Baldur's Gate 3 has a whole bunch of tough fights, but you'll struggle to find a more difficult opponent than Raphael, the charismatic cambion that you encounter part way into Act 1. Players have been finding a way to make a mockery out of every single tough fight since the game launched, taking down boss fights via reverse pickpocketing or turning them into cats. Now they've found an easy way to take down Raphael, and you don't have to move a muscle.