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"The sheer scale is daunting": These Baldur's Gate 3 modders are remaking the entirety of Baldur's Gate 1 as a custom campaign, with a first demo already out
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"The sheer scale is daunting": These Baldur's Gate 3 modders are remaking the entirety of Baldur's Gate 1 as a custom campaign, with a first demo already out

Last August, I wrote about a Baldur's Gate 3 modder who had recreated Candlekeep, the library-fortress which serves as the starting point of the original Baldur's Gate. Well, modder 786r786 is back with a full team and they're remaking the entirety of Baldur's Gate 1 as a custom BG3 campaign. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 18.03.2026 14:37 Uhr
"You're swimming against the tide making games like this": Why more developers didn't copy Firewatch's reactive storytelling
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"You're swimming against the tide making games like this": Why more developers didn't copy Firewatch's reactive storytelling

By the time Campo Santo were reaching the end of Firewatch's development, Chris Remo was itching to start over. "I remember feeling, 'God, if we made this exact same game again now, we could take these ideas so much further'." After Firewatch's release, Remo began giving talks about what Campo Santo were trying to do: making a game that focused not on interactivity, but reactivity. "I was hoping this model would catch on and be pushed forward and done in a more ambitious way than we did," Remo

Rock Paper Shotgun 18.03.2026 14:00 Uhr
Best Slay the Spire 2 mods
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Best Slay the Spire 2 mods

From adding classic characters to implementing handy QoL tweaks, find out what the best Slay the Spire 2 mods are to add to your gam

PCGamesN 18.03.2026 13:15 Uhr
Arc Raiders studio co-founder resigns following sexual misconduct claims, but Embark say a legal review "did not substantiate" the allegations
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Arc Raiders studio co-founder resigns following sexual misconduct claims, but Embark say a legal review "did not substantiate" the allegations

Rob Runesson, co-founder and chief commercial officer of Arc Raiders and The Finals developer Embark Studios, has left the company following public allegations of sexual misconduct with a streamer. According to an Embark spokesperson, Runesson and the company "mutually agreed to part ways", despite an external legal investigation which "did not substantiate" the claims. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 18.03.2026 12:47 Uhr
“Not even the littlest bit": GTA 6 CEO doesn't think genAI will level the playing field for smaller devs
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“Not even the littlest bit": GTA 6 CEO doesn't think genAI will level the playing field for smaller devs

Hello everybody! A major technology company executive is talking in this, the year 2026, which means it's time for more wrangling about generative AI tools. Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick has spoken at length about why the latest genAI tools aren't going to turn everybody into a game developer and put companies like his out of business, arguing that there are already a lot of ways to hasten or automate bits of game development, used by many thousands of games, and yet only a "handful"

Rock Paper Shotgun 18.03.2026 12:00 Uhr
Nvidia DLSS 5 critics have the tech "completely wrong", CEO Jensen Huang insists, arguing it's somehow "very different than generative AI"
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Nvidia DLSS 5 critics have the tech "completely wrong", CEO Jensen Huang insists, arguing it's somehow "very different than generative AI"

As you're probably aware, Nvidia unveiled DLSS 5 earlier this week, showing off the tech via a slideshow of game characters' face being transformed by its neural rendering into the sort of unnervingly yassified visages you get in dodgy internet ads nowadays. Naturally, the overwhelming response from players the company and its partners had seemingly assumed would be wowed by the tech has landed on a scale capped by annoyed sighs and middle fingers. It's ok, though. Nvidia boss Jensen Huang has

Rock Paper Shotgun 18.03.2026 11:20 Uhr