Pikmin 4 – Every Pikmin Type, Explained

World-ending, god-slaying, and badass. These words perfectly encapsulate the scale of Baldur’s Gate 3’s story. It’s endlessly intriguing, bombastically epic, and easily one of the best narratives to be told in recent memory. Despite all of that, a lot of the plot is driven by the cast of characters you meet on your journey.

There are a whopping 12 classes in Baldur’s Gate 3, and whilst all of them have a place, they are most certainly not all created equally. Like in any game, some classes rise to the top, and others languish in the bowels of underused irrelevance. It is simply how these things go, especially when classes start to overlap. 

As the Dark and Dark early access launch continues, Ironmace has confirmed already that the RPG game will feature microtransactions, and that it is deploying a range of fixes to help with stuttering issues. Now the developer says it is introducing a controversial feature found in other seasonal games such as Diablo 4, Rust, and Escape from Tarkov, as it also works towards the full Dark and Darker release date. If you’ve spent a while building and refining your Dark and Darker character, they might not be around forever.

Baldur's Gate 3 is an exceptional game: a grognardy CRPG with complex and barely-explained D&D rules and a massive mainstream success, even before its console releases. With Diablo 4's always-online grind providing the perfect contrast, it's come across to some as a victory over malignant modern videogame trends: Where other companies build cosmetics stores and battle passes, Larian has succeeded through good old fashioned respect for player freedom and quality craftwork, or so goes some popular posts and articles. A handful of game developers, meanwhile, have cautioned against oversimplifying the lesson, arguing that Baldur's Gate 3 is an anomaly that even big studios won't be able to replicate. Online arguing has ensued.

Denuvo is everyone's least favourite anti-piracy software. The DRM, which comes as a sneaky passenger alongside games like Payday 3, Far Cry, and—inexplicably—Ghostwire: Tokyo, has been accused of causing performance issues (not without reason) in the games it comes with, and is generally regarded as an unwelcome guest pretty much wherever it's used.

Just in case you didn't already think that Baldur's Gate 3 was ridiculously detailed, it turns out that every companion has a special message hidden in their underwear.

Asteroids are chunks of rock left over from the formation of our Solar System. Approximately half a billion asteroids with sizes greater than four metres in diameter orbit the Sun, travelling through our Solar System at speeds up to about 30 kilometres per second – about the same speed as Earth.

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Have you ever wondered what all the Gen 1 Pokemon would look like if they were fused together? Nope, us neither. Nevertheless, we'll soon find out as one artist is on a mission to combine all 151 original pocket monsters into one single abomination. 

It's a rough time for Destiny 2's community right now. I'd argue the game itself isn't in too bad of a place, but the combined effect of Lightfall's disappointing campaign and more general burnout with the seasonal model has meant the mood around online discussion has been grim for months now. Step forward today's 'State of the Game' post from Destiny 2 game director Joe Blackburn and the wider team, which attempts to tackle some of the recurring complaints and concerns being raised.

Roborock has been bringing innovative home cleaning products to our homes for almost a decade. Sold and loved globally by millions of patrons, the company continues to intensely focus on R&D of not only new hardware technologies but also software. In the last year, the Roborock team has developed and improved the app that makes cleaning even more easy.

Microsoft made a key argument to the EU that possibly made the difference in getting their deal approved.