Game Informer has seen boobs—specifically, the magazine has seen a topless character in Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s character creator, which it previewed as part of a recent slate of exclusive articles. It’s the most overt nudity the Dragon Age series has featured so far.
“This is a mature RPG,” game director Corrine Busche told the magazine.
The character creator didn’t show any below-the-waist private anatomy, however, and Game Informer reports that when it asked BioWare whether the RPG will include full nudity—say, during romance scenes—the developer said that it wants fans to discover that for themselves.
I had to read that a couple times to be sure I’d understood it correctly. BioWare wants players to discover for themselves whether or not there are penises and vaginas in Dragon Age: The Veilguard? What a weird and whimsical answer! Game Informer itself noted that it was an “interesting answer, considering we’re talking about genitals,” but d…
Earlier this month, Polish game devs, including several from CD Projekt Red, formed the Polish Gamedev Workers Union (PGWU). This came in the wake of further layoffs at the company in July, to the tune of 9% of its workforce. At the time, CEO Adam Kiciński explained the move as something to help make the teams more “agile and effective”, but agile and effective doesn’t pay the rent.
“This event created a tremendous amount of stress and insecurity,” explains the union’s website, “affecting our mental health and leading to the creation of this union in response. Having a union means having more security, transparency, better protection, and a stronger voice in times of crisis.”
The devs at CD Projekt Red have shed more light on the situation during an interview with IGN, saying that the aftershocks of the game’s crunch culture problems—both with the Witcher 3 in 2017 and Cyberpunk 2077 in 2019—led to that unnerving climate.
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Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties, one of the worst games ever made, is getting a remaster. This crime against nature was announced by Limited Run as part of their recent showcase which, among other things, included a remastered GEX trilogy and a spiritual successor to Zelda CD-i.
I’m going to have to turn to my colleagues’ opinion on this one, because I’ve never played Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties—and after a bit of research, I’m grateful. Nonetheless, I’ve thrown on the marigolds to dive into what exactly this fully motion-captured thing is, so you don’t have to.
Here’s an excerpt from the back of the box: “Greed, sex, spirituality, white-knuckled chases, shameful propositions, a nun, humour, true love, jaded love, taut action, comedy, a bad guy, a good guy, a hero, spine-tingling suspense, a hot babe, a damsel in distress, and a hollywood ending!” This is quite a lot to take in.
What Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties appears to actually be, however, is a god-f…
Friends, I have a confession to make. You might have seen one or two stories on our website about Baldur’s Gate 3, an overall pretty solid RPG that practically everyone on staff here has been pouring hours and days of their lives into. But not me. I’ve been distracted by another venerable series, a contemporary of the original Baldur’s Gate games and the first game I ever remember laying my hands on. I’ve been playing Quake 2.
Nightdive’s Quake 2 remaster, to be specific—an incredibly thorough and caring touch-up of the original id game from 1997, and the follow-up to the studio’s equally excellent Quake 1 remaster from 2021. It’s fantastic, and—unsurprisingly—Nightdive has no intention of stopping there. Over on Twitter (X, whatever), studio CEO Stephen Kick is (once again) angling for Epic to let him give Unreal the same treatment.
Kick’s tweet came after former Unreal designer Cliff Bleszinski jokingly lamented the absence of a…
Keep your impressive Wordle win streak going with our daily clue, confidently start a new one with the help of our hints and tips, or simply scroll down to the answer to the February 21 (612) Wordle and secure today’s victory in record time. With our Wordle help, you can win your way.
My opener didn’t exactly set the world alight—grey was definitely the main colour there—but at least the follow up produced some good, solid, guess-producing results, enough for a little glance over the available letter and one brave (and admittedly a little lucky) stab in the dark to reveal a full row of greens.
Wordle hint
A Wordle hint for Tuesday, February 21
Something described as today’s answer will have a reddish sort of colour to it: the sky at dawn or dusk might be this colour or the face of someone whose cheeks are glowing after exercise or hard work.
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Is there a double letter in today’s Wordle?
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Before we get into this, there’ll (naturally) be spoilers for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree‘s final boss within.
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree’s final boss, Promised Consort Radahn (apart from being hard as a mouthful of nails doused in acid) has proven to be something of a contentious choice from a lore perspective.
Some argue that other candidates from Elden Ring’s panoply of blood-relative demigods, such as Godwyn the formerly Golden, might’ve been more fitting, though there’s plenty of debate as to whether his soul’s even a viable candidate for being jammed into Mohg’s puppeteered corpse.
Whether you’re on team Edward or Jacob—sorry, I mean, Godywn or Radahn—it turns out the latter might have also been more talkative, once upon a time. On r/eldenringloretalk (thanks, Eurogamer) user LaMi_1 has dug up some “cut” voice-lines via the time-honored tradition of datamining. LaMi_1 found the following three lines:
- “I…
There’s a hint for today’s Wordle waiting just below if you’d like to give your guesses a little push in the right direction without completely giving the game away. You’ll also find the answer to the February 3 (959) Wordle if you’d love to have today’s solution served up in an instant.
My first row wasn’t in any danger of filling me with confidence—staring at five grey boxes will do that to you first thing in the morning. But thanks to a few careful pokes around the alphabet, and one surprising flash of a good idea, I was able to quickly turn today’s Wordle around. With a bit of luck I’ll do even better tomorrow, or at the very least recover from a poor start as well as I did today.
Today’s Wordle hint
Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, February 3
This word refers to really tiny things, so small they probably can’t be seen with the naked eye. Today’s answer’s can also be used as a prefix too, to indicate when something is much s…