Larian in Talks With Microsoft Over Xbox Baldur’s Gate 3 Players Getting Banned For Sharing Explicit Content

Twitch streamers are known for doing some pretty wild stuff, some of which gives the platform real headaches over what to do about them. One such streamer is Boggles1, who you may know due to a video of his going viral over the past few days, which appeared to show the streamer sticking two metal forks into two toasters and exploding as a result.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone players have started receiving some useful freebies on January 19. The digital gifts are meant to serve as an apology for the serious issues introduced with the Call of Duty Season 1 Reloaded update earlier this week.

MachineGames has shown the first full trailer for its Indiana Jones game, revealing that Harrison Ford will reprise his role as the hero – in likeness at least.

Unlocking some of the Adamantine Forge weapons and armor in is an excellent way of gearing your characters up with well-crafted items in the game's early stages. The Adamantine Forge is an important part of Act 1, though accessing it is completely optional. It is a part of the Underdark’s Grymforge region, where you have to deal with True Soul Nere. If you continue to explore Grymforge and delve deeper, you may encounter the Adamantine Forge, some scattered items, and the area’s special boss, Grym.

Ubisoft has rebranded its subscription offering and introduced a new service for PC players.

Qualcomm was reportedly able to leverage an exclusive agreement with Microsoft where only the San Diego company’s chipsets would be used with any OEM launching a Windows notebook. However, we could be heading into a new era as, according to ARM CEO, the agreement between the two companies will expire later this year, giving other chipset makers an opportunity to penetrate this market and offer more options to customers.

Amid the altogether glowing launch reception for Baldur's Gate 3, which went on to win just about every GOTY award under the sun and which we also put at the summit of the best games of 2023, there were a fair few reviews and posts from long-time CRPG fans who argued that Larian's take on the series felt more like a Divinity game than a Baldur's Gate game. That's not necessarily calling it bad – the Divinity games are beloved, after all – but perhaps it just doesn't feel like the Baldur's Gates of old. And I remember similar conversations around Baldur's Gate 3's early access launch about three years ago.

A year ago, one Pokemon Red speedrunner set a world record so good that big chunks of the community thought it would never be broken. Last month, a runner named Jadiwi seemingly did the impossible by claiming a new world record, but the keepers of Pokemon speedrunning have now declared Jadiwi's world record too good to be true, alleging that the miracle run was the result of cheating.

Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios has said Microsoft plans to release a firmware update to fix the pesky save bug that has plagued the game’s release on Xbox.

Masimo successfully managed to enact an Apple Watch sales ban in the U.S., and though the healthcare technology firm may have found an enemy in Apple, its CEO, Joe Kiani, is still open to settlement talks with the largest smartwatch maker in the world. According to one report, settling with Masimo would be the best course for Apple, as a different route will mean the latter will have to undertake a ton of responsibility of bringing not just software but hardware modifications to its wearable lineup that support a blood oxygen meter.

Anyone interested in what's coming to the Xbox Game Pass service and Xbox Series X/S consoles in 2024 should mark their calendars for January 18. Although the year has just begun, developers and publishers alike are already gearing up to make some major announcements. 2023 was packed full of incredible game releases, so 2024 has big shoes to fill. Microsoft is starting off early with a spate of new reveals to be made on January 18.

Microsoft has suggested Xbox players turn off auto-upload when “sensitive content” is being captured after some Baldur’s Gate 3 players were banned after captured sex scenes were automatically uploaded to the Xbox network.