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Octopath Traveler has been made available to purchase on the Nintendo eShop again.

Ubisoft has finally confirmed the release date for its long-delayed free-to-play FPS, XDefiant.

It’s still unclear whether cloud gaming will ever become the next big thing. The appeal is clear: The game you’re playing runs in a data center near you, and the video output is directly streamed to your local device. When you interact with the game, everything is relayed back to the data center.

Baldur’s Gate 3 studio Larian has announced that it’s working on two new projects based on its own original IPs.

Baldur’s Gate IP owner Wizards of the Coast has addressed the future of the franchise, following the news that developer Larian won’t be making another game in the series.

Remember when Pac-Man got its own battle royale game where 64 Pac-People competed to eat each other and be the ‘Chomp Champ’? Me neither! But Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle apparently came out on Google Stadia - ah, that’d be why - back in 2020, and served up a massively (or at least medium-ly) multiplayer spin on the arcade classic. With Stadia dead and buried, Mega Tunnel Battle is chewing its way out of the streaming console’s grave with a new subtitle and a fresh Steam release next month.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has won the award for best game at the 2024 BAFTA Awards.

Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs will be released for PC and consoles next month, Bandai Namco has announced.

Larian Studios CEO Swen Vinke says the decision to move on from the Baldur’s Gate series had nothing to do with Wizards of the Coast.

Larian Studios CEO Swen Vinke has said the company’s moving on from Baldur’s Gate and the Dungeons & Dragons universe.

Baldur’s Gate 3 director Swen Vincke has had some time to reflect on Larian Studios’ Google Stadia deal, and he thinks it was “really stupid.”

The CEO of Larian Studios and director of its hit game Baldur’s Gate 3 has blamed corporate greed for the high number of mass layoffs in the video games industry.

Baldur’s Gate 3 was the big winner at the 24th annual Game Developers Choice Awards.

Larian Studios has delayed the physical edition of Baldur’s Gate 3 for consoles.

Larian Studios has said the physical version of Baldur’s Gate 3 will now come on four discs and likely be delayed to April.

A Red Dead Redemption 2 player has made a wild discovery about the Fence located within the Van Horn Trading Post, tied to the mystery of Princess IKZ's disappearance. The expansive world of the massively popular cowboy shooter features plenty for players to do throughout its many Old West communities. Many of the game's towns feature a variety of facilities for players to visit, ranging from Red Dead Redemption 2's saloons and shops to theaters and plenty more. Now, one fan has found something at a Fence that could crack one of the game's mysteries wide open.

Octopath Traveler has seen an unexpected change to the game's listing on the Nintendo Switch's eShop, currently showing the beloved RPG as «Not Available.» First debuting in 2018 from Final Fantasy developer Square-Enix, the RPG saw critical acclaim following its debut for the interweaving of its eight different stories and its «HD-2D» graphics. The game was first released as a Switch exclusive, later being brought to PC and Xbox and even receiving a sequel in Octopath Traveler 2 last year. Now, however, fans are noticing an odd change to the game's Switch listing.

An executive at Baldur’s Gate 3 studio Larian has condemned “threats and toxicity” against developers as the team works on implementing official mod support for the game on all formats.

Larian Studios has confirmed that it’s working on official cross-platform mod support for Baldur’s Gate 3.

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) has announced the winners of the 27th annual DICE Awards.

Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke has said the company won’t be putting any of its games on subscription services.

The nominees for the 24th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) have been revealed.

Google has extended its deadline to let you adapt your Stadia controller to use with other systems.

Total sales for Cyberpunk 2077 have surpassed 25 million units worldwide, developer CD Projekt RED announced.

After it launched, Baldur's Gate 3 hit a phenomenal 800,000 concurrent Steam players and received PC Gamer's highest review score in 16 years, but during its years in early access, it wasn't widely expected to be the next big thing. Take as an example this May 2022 document accidentally leaked by Microsoft as part of its lawsuit with the FTC which dismissed Baldur's Gate 3 as a «second-run Stadia PC RPG» that Microsoft figured it could get onto PC Game Pass for about $5 million. 

By Sean Hollister, a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget.

Google blames the failure of its Stadia game-streaming service on a lack of quality games. 

Google's streaming dream died in January this year: the Google Stadia streaming service joined a laundry list of projects the company has canned over the years. Google could open a Ben & Jerry's-style flavor graveyard for them all. We know the streaming platform struggled with market share since its release in 2019, and I never was a fan of its business model, but today we do have some insight into why Google closed Stadia down, from the person in charge of doing so.

Google might be reviving its Stadia game-streaming service through an experimental YouTube feature. The video platform is testing a so-called “Playables” feature for a select group of users, according to a YouTube support document, which was spotted by 9to5Google.