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Baldur's Gate 3's Maggie Robertson Opens Up About Her Next D&D Role

Maggie Robertsonβ€”of Orin the Red and Lady Dimitrescu fameβ€”is well-accustomed to playing cunning and dangerous women. This trend is set to continue with her role in Hasbro's upcoming Dungeons & Dragons game, Warlock.

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A special weapon was forged to create Onimusha: Way of the Sword's brutal blade sound effects: "We wanted that very raw, kind of rough feel"

During my exclusive hands-on with Onimusha: Way of the Sword at Capcom's HQ in Osaka, I sat down with the game's audio director, Shunichi Suwa, to talk about how the music, environmental and character audio, as well as weapon sound effects were designed.And, for a game that has a huge focus on duelling with blades, I i...

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Name That Game (August 6, 2026)

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GameRant Daily Crossword (August 6, 2026)

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GameRant Daily Crossword Mini (August 6, 2026)

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"If Quantic Dream wants to destroy jobs, it must pay": French union call strike as they demand extension to layoff negotiations with Star Wars Eclipse studio

The French Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (STJV) union have called for an open-ended strike at Star Wars Eclipse developers Quantic Dream, as negotiations over the laying off of staff following the decision to end development of MOBA Spellcasters Chronicles rumble on. The union say around 115 workers...

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Modder Announces New Skyrim-Style RP Servers

You’ve probably heard of the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 co-op mod, an ambitious undertaking by fans to make the entire game playable with up to three friends. However, there’s an even more ambitious mod in the works by Reddit user F02K β€” roleplay servers.

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AI worms? In your Copilot PC? According to this AI researcher, it's more likely than you think

Though I write a fair amount about AI agents, I do not use them. This is because agentic AI applications often introduce a more than medium-sized headache in terms of cybersecurity. For instance, one security research recently explained how a Word Doc could be leveraged to get Copilot to spread an AI worm.AI researcher...

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There are a few gooduns in August's Xbox Game Pass line-up, including a surprisingly sexy, and funny, furniture dating sim

A beleaguered Xbox has revealed the next batch of games coming to the Game Pass subscription during the first few weeks of August, and there are a few eye-catching additions among them. Read more

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Chinese RAM is reportedly landing in laptops from HP, Asus and Acer but it won't change the memory crisis overnight

Chinese memory manufacturer CXMT is the fourth-biggest memory maker in the world, and, chances are you've only heard of it recently. That's because, just last week, its shares saw a 466% surge as it made its initial public offering, becoming one of China's most valuable companies in the process.It seems like CXMT could...

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Dragon Ball Officially Has a New Strongest Z-Fighter

Goku is not only Dragon Ball's main character, he's the series' strongest Z-Fighter, more often than not. The Z-Fighters are Earth's greatest warriors, made up of the most talented and powerful martial artists in Universe 7. Time and time again, Goku and his fellow Z-Fighters face impossible odds, protecting their worl...

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Big Walk isn't an open world hangout sim, it's a secret Predator game, or it would be if House House would quit fixing the voice volume

You may have heard that Big Walk, the 12-player open world bumble-a-thon from Untitled Goose Game developers House House, is "a cooperative multiplayer adventure about teamwork and talking". You may have been tempted to call it a "hangout game", or the "antidote to friendslop". You may have read that it's a "sleepy, po...

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