Author: Valhalladidde

What’s happening on the Nintendo Switch eShop? This week’s highlight is Farmagia, a farming sim with monster combat from the creators of Fairy Tail. This one has it all: exploration, battles, resourcing … not to mention an army of monsters. Meanwhile, the Switch Online collection keeps expanding. There are two new Nintendo 64 entries out now in the form of Shadow Man and Turok 2. Whether you’re looking to cross over the thin veil between life and death or simply hunt dinosaur aliens, check out these latest N64 offerings. Did you know Nintendo quietly released a new app last week?…

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Raphael Colantonio has been making immersive sims for a long time—ever since 2002’s Arx Fatalis. But he’s still not sure how to effectively describe them to people. In a recent interview with PC Gamer, he explains how big of a marketing hurdle the genre is, and why some brilliant games have suffered because of it.”If you don’t hit the market, it doesn’t matter how good your game is,” he says. “Prey is a good example of that, where it was sold as an immersive sim. It’s an immersive sim in every way one can imagine. But because of that, there…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 YouTuber SlimX has released a 25-minute video about all the offscreen tricks and shortcuts Larian used to make Baldur’s Gate 3’s first act work. Among them are a holding pen for plot-critical NPCs to hang out in, and a “magical teleporting death journal” to point you in the direction of Act 2 should you kill all the NPCs who would otherwise direct you there.One consistently impressive thing about Baldur’s Gate 3 is how elastic and responsive it is to player choice. Part of this comes from having more consistent rules than any RPG I’ve ever played⁠. For…

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Explaining the post-credits scene in Dragon Age: The VeilguardNow that you have all three Mysterious Circles, you should be guaranteed to unlock the Dragon Age: The Veilguard post-credits scene. Of course, you still need to complete the finale section. This can take you a couple of hours or so, maybe more if you want to be a completionist to ensure that “most” characters survive.In any case, after the credits stop rolling, a cutscene will trigger showing different images–some reference events from Veilguard, while others talk about what had transpired from previous games. The scene ends when a black inverted pyramid…

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Much like its predecessor, Planet Coaster 2 is a theme park creative management game which lets you design and run your own amusement park and offers new features compared to its predecessor. The biggest and most obvious change to the sequel is the addition of water parks. You can now add swimming pools, lazy rivers, and a variety of water slides which all integrate seamlessly into your usual theme park staples of flat rides, shops, and, of course, rollercoasters. Speaking of rollercoasters, the game has added a bunch of new track elements including switching tracks, tilting tracks, and vertical drop…

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With ChatGPT’s new web search functionality, we’re seeing a game-changer in how we search for information online. OpenAI’s leap into integrating real-time web data into ChatGPT has sparked interest, excitement, and yes – even some healthy competition with the longstanding search engine giant, Google. Is ChatGPT really poised to shake up the search landscape? Let’s break down what makes this new search feature stand out, explore how it challenges Google’s search dominance, and give you a firsthand look at what this means for our daily web searches. A New Era of Web Search: ChatGPT’s Game-Changing Features What makes ChatGPT’s web…

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