Tekken boss confirms iconic fighter King’s strange origin

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There are an awful lot of spells in D&D, and while Baldur's Gate 3 features less than half of them, several of the big hitters are present; Tasha's Hideous Laughter, Otto's Irresistible Dance, or true classics like Fireball and Healing Word. But when a boss fight meant that all of those spells failed me, I had to turn to a true icon: Magic Missile.

Baldur’s Gate 3’s first major patch is now live, and just as promised, it includes over 1,000 fixes for various problems, including bugs and balancing issues. It’s fixed so many things, in fact, that the patch notes don’t actually fit within Steam’s news post character limit.

Consistent with the spirit of the game, Baldur’s Gate 3’s first “major” patch notes are too large to even fit into Steam’s usual text character limit. Developer Larian instead published a portion of the patch details on a Steam blog and the rest on their forums, which were briefly down - probably either due to an online traffic jam or just, again, the patch’s sheer size. Regardless, we have well over three thousand words worth of details on today’s patch, which addresses around one thousand bugs and graces us with “Short King Summer” before it’s too late. But beware: there are some spoilers in the patch notes.

The first major patch for Baldur's Gate 3 has dropped—and it's a doozy, so much so that it can't even fit on the Steam page: «Patch 1 is too big for our usual patch notes due to Steam’s character limit». 

Finally, our short of stature players can frolic in the realm of smooching once again thanks to Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 1. 

Amazing news for RPG fans on Xbox who’ve been patiently waiting for the release of Baldur’s Gate 3 — Larian Studios boss Swen Vincke has confirmed that the title will be launching on Xbox Series X|S this year.

After the recent reports, the is hotly anticipated by the fans. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness left us with a cliffhanger ending. Clea appeared towards its end and asked for Doctor Strange’s help after the incursion he recently caused. The two portalled into the Dark Dimension and were never seen after that. But when are they returning?

Gamescom has already dropped all manner of trailers and reveals on gamers, and it’s hard to keep up with all that’s going down. However, if you’ve been looking for fighting game news, we have you covered. At the show, Harada himself appeared to unveil details about a new mode and drop a new trailer as well. In that trailer, we got the confirmed release date for Tekken 8. The game will arrive on January 26th, 2024. So while we have a bit longer to wait, you can take heart in knowing that the new year will start with a bang.

Nintendo has revealed that Charles Martinet, the original voice actor for Nintendo’s iconic character, is stepping back from the role.

With Gamescom Opening Night Live now right around the corner, its lineup of confirmed titles is continuing to fill up, and another major upcoming game has now joined that list. Taking to Twitter, Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada and Gamescom ONL producer and host Geoff Keighley recently confirmed that Tekken 8 will be shown off at Gamescom Opening Night Live tomorrow, on August 22.

Veteran developer of the series and director of Tekken 8, Katsuhiro Harada, has spoken up about the toll trolling and harassment takes, causing real damage to team morale and even incurring additional financial costs on the larger FGC (fighting game community) in extreme cases.