Over the last decade, Critical Role has managed to establish itself as one of the premier name brands in the tabletop roleplaying space, primarily through its Dungeons & Dragons actual play series. Though they’re most known for their YouTube streams and the corresponding podcast episodes, the team behind Critical Role has no shortage of custom tabletop games under their belt already via their Darrington Press imprint. However, their most in-depth foray into this space yet stands ready to be unveiled:Daggerheart....

With the rise ofgenerative AI,Steamstarted requiring that developers disclose if they’ve used AI tools during developmentas of January 2024. This was to certify that games don’t include “illegal or infringing content” and that games are “consistent with… marketing materials”, while ensuring that the AI isn’t “generating illegal content”. The Alters Might Have Used Generative AI Without Disclosing It However, it looks likeThe Alters, 11 Bit’s new survival game,uses generative AI and didn’t disclose it on Steam....

Elden Ringwill forever be a funny game because some players bash their heads against easier bosses like Margit or Azula for 90 hours and don’t make any progress, while others complete the whole game at level one, naked and without taking a single hit from an enemy. The director of the upcoming Elden Ring movie adaptation, Alex Garland, is somewhere between these two types of players. In a recent interview withIGN, Garland was coaxed into speaking a little bit about Elden Ring, despite his insistence that he wasn’t “going to say anything about it....

If you’ve beatenElden Ring Nightreign’s toughest challenge –finding a third friend for your party– the rest of the bosses may not be too hard to maneuver. While anofficial duos mode is coming at some point, those who’ve managed to find a third have been steadily making their way through the game. If you’re still struggling, though, the community has found a new way to make boss fights trivial. It all revolves around a new relic called the Grand Luminous Scene....

Quick Links Mount Vulkano is a late-game optional destination forMetaphor: ReFantazio. You’ll have a couple of reasons to head here: either for a Eupha Bond quest, or a wholly unrelated side quest. In truth, you’ll likely end up doing both. As such, you’ve got plenty of opportunities to familiarize yourself with the enemies who lurk within. Our guide on Mount Vulkano’s a swift one - its purpose is to get you familiar with those enemiesahead of time....

Quick Links ForRoblox Grow a Gardenplayers who are more obsessed with their pets than they are their plants (including myself), there’s a new way to make your favourite pet shine while it’s roaming around your garden, as now you may give them mutations! There are currently 13 active Pet Mutations in Grow a Garden, though we’ll update this guide as and when new Mutations are added. Here’s everything you need to know about Pet Mutations, including what each one does....

Expelled!launched at a very different moment in time than its predecessor. Inkle’s previousgame, Overboard!, which starred a woman who murdered her husband during a cruise and tasked the player with getting away with it, launched in June 2021. Its Covid-era launch, a time when many players had been stuck inside with their families for a year, made the game resonate in darkly humorous ways. “Because it was a game about killing your husband, I think, over lockdown… there was a slight fantasy of murdering your whole family that people could really connect with,” says Inkle co-founder and narrative director Jon Ingold....

Over the years, farming sims have taken off in popularity. Titles like Stardew Valley are household names while others, like Fields of Mistria, are just taking off and finding their footing in the industry. However, how do these two similar games compare to each other? Certainly newer titles learn from older ones, but how do they improve upon them? Fields of Mistria takes ideas from Stardew Valley and its predecessors to create something new and exciting....

Early this month,MicrosoftandSquare Enixmadegood on their promiseto bring moreFinal Fantasytitles to theXboxplatform, revealing thatFinal Fantasy 16was available immediately, and thatFinal Fantasy 7 Remakewould beavailable before the end of the year. Normally, that would be a cause for celebration. However, according to two separate reports, there are some outstanding concerns, as Final Fantasy 16 hasn’t sold particularly well so far, and it is also seemingly poorly optimized on top of all that....

Summary Funko revealed a new way to collect its smallest Pops earlier this yearvia Bitty Pop arcades. The new collectibles put iconic characters inside small arcade machines, and after kicking the collection off with characters fromSonic the HedgehogandFive Nights At Freddy’s,Star Warsis about to get in on the fun. Since we’re now only three days removed from May 4, better known in select circles as Star Wars Day, Funko has revealed all of the new Star Wars Bitty Pop products that will be coming our way to mark the occasion (thanks,Funko Pop News)....

Summary Early last year,Helldivers 2took the world by storm. Surprising many, its frantic freedom-fighting action propelled the game to the highest of highs, withalmost half a million playersonSteamat its peak. A series of unpopular updates,nerfs, and natural attrition meant that player count degraded over time, though. However, following its latest major update, players have come flooding back to the title, with its Steam player count reaching numbers it hasn’t seen in over a year....

Magic can work in many different ways depending on the world.Dungeons & Dragonsis, by default, a scenario of high magic, where magic is a common aspect of the world and its cultures. Many people have access to it, magical creatures roam freely, and individuals can solve numerous problems through magic. However, some fantasy worlds are known for being a low magic setting, where magic is highly uncommon, and it does very little, with the sole exception of maybe one or two people who can use magic to its fullest potential - which may still be inferior to the average wizard in a high magic setting....

AsHollow Knight: Silksong’slaunch gets closer, confirmed to becoming at some point in the next few months, the fan base is getting more and more restless. The community had to endure years of silence before a flurry ofleaks,rumors, andSteam updatesarrived at the beginning of this year. But as summer showcases came and went, with no sign of the game, apart from whenDeadpool mocked it during Summer Game Festanda few brief moments during the Xbox Game Showcase, the wait began to seem never-ending....