With Pathfinder: Kingmaker and its sequel, Wrath of the Righteous, publisher Paizo already managed two very successful adaptations of its popular tabletop game to the digital realm—but apparently it’s not stopping there. Where those two games were strictly faithful, Abomination Vaults uses the setting as the stage for a fast-paced, Diablo-like action-RPG.  

The footage isn’t just reminiscent of Diablo in gameplay—its gothic style and dark dungeons even make it look like the iconic series. With Diablo 4 on the way, it seems like a bold move for small developer BKOM to try and compete so directly with Blizzard. Abomination Vaults does have a lot of original material to draw on, at least—it’s based on the hit tabletop campaign of the same name, a series o…

Roccat is no more. The peripheral brand out of Germany, bought by Turtle Beach in 2019, is being retired and all of its existing product lines will be shifted over to Turtle Beach branding.

“We want to bring a greater level of integration to our family of products across console, PC and simulation,” a statement on the Turtle Beach, formerly Roccat, website says. “We felt that time and resources would be best spent focusing under a single brand and creating a range of products that matter most to gamers.”

First and foremost a PC peripheral brand, Roccat was bought by Turtle Beach for $19.2 million total in 2019. At the time the move was cited by Turtle Beach as a way to expand outside of the company’s existing console consumer base. It was also said at the time that Roccat wa…

In Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, it’s generally considered polite to check in with the DM before you build a character around summoning creatures—this is because the rules system doesn’t exactly handle large swarms of enemies well, needing you to laboriously roll through each of your minion’s turns one by one. Baldur’s Gate 3 doesn’t have a DM, however, so you can do whatever the hell you want—as Real-Business6593 on the game’s subreddit has.

When you take honor mode too seriously… from r/BaldursGate3

Under any other circumstance, I would’ve simply assumed this was some modding shenaniganry and moved on, but the master summoner in question laid out how they pieced together this army of the damned (and some elementals,…

Games Workshop collaborations have been common fare since the Dark Ages, but this one is a bit unique as it’s the first one that Secretlab has done with the company. And what you’re getting here is the Titan Evo Warhammer 40,000 Ultramarines Edition, replete with your very own purity seal.

We’re big fans of the Titan Evo and it’s been our recommendation for the best gaming chair for a long time, so that’s the first good bit about this news. There’s nothing worse than having a collaboration with your favourite gaming company, only to find the product is rubbish. 

Fortunately, Secretlab’s Titan Evo is anything but rubbish. It’s not cheap, of course, but it’s the bar against which all other gaming chairs are held.

The cold-cure foam in the back and base is firm but c…

It’s been one month since The Day Before got unceremoniously yanked from Steam and its developer, Fntastic, took to Twitter to announce that it had been removed “at the request of a private individual,” and promised to “definitely solve everything”. A little while later, with everything definitely not solved, Fntastic put out a statement identifying its new arch-enemy, declaring “The so-called ‘owner’ of the rights to the title is the creator of the calendar app, which has nothing to do with the games category”.

Well, two can play at the public statements game, because now the developer of TheDayBefore calendar app has spoken to Eurogamer. TheDayBefore points out that it “first distributed the app under the name ‘The Day Before’ in 2010″—a fact easily confirmed by checking i…

‘What if you could build Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory?’ is a question I’m surprised video games haven’t answered yet. It’s a natural next step for the factory-building genre, taking the fundamentals of a game like Satisfactory and theming it around the one fictional factory everyone knows about.

Chocolate Factory, developed by Tbjbu2 (who I presume was named by the developer’s cat walking across the keyboard), does exactly this. But it also asks a far less obvious, some might say unnecessary question, namely ‘What if Willy Wonka had a massive gun?’.

Watching the announcement trailer (which isn’t on YouTube for some reason, but it’s viewable on the game’s Steam page) Chocolate Factory is clearly heavily derived from Satisfactory. It has a similar visual style, building sys…

Anticipation for news on Starfield is white-hot, and this hasn’t been helped by the many delays the game has had. Everyone’s jonesing to get their Skyrim in space on, but maybe some of us are Jonesing too much. Eagle-eyed PCG reader Jean Carrasquillo noticed, when googling the game’s name, something suspicious: The top result is a sponsored link to a Starfield open beta that promises you can “play now.”

Needless to say, the wise Jean did not click on this link and instead dropped us a line. Because it’s absolutely bogus, a scammy scam from the scammiest scamsters. There is no Starfield open beta. If there was, it would be plastered across every gaming website and billboard you could see. 

The link connects to a website called bizongrow dot com (don’t go there!) which re…

Some Wordles can be trickier than others, but whatever happens, we’re always here to help. Skip straight to another win with the answer to today’s Wordle if you need to, or use our hint for the May 14 (1060) game to give your own ideas a nudge in the right direction.

Wordle really made me work for the answer today. Every new line seemed to throw up grey letters more than anything else, and the few greens I had uncovered weren’t especially helpful. It took a fresh approach and just a slight dash of mild panic to find today’s Wordle answer.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Tuesday, May 14

A large amount of something. A dragon’s hoard of gold. A great accumulation of wealth. The act of gathering up or collecting a lot of valuables could …

Update: Remember that launch date for AMD’s new 3D V-Cache powered Ryzen 7000 X3D processors has popped up on its own website we mentioned yesterday? The February 14 one? Turns out it was a mistake and it’s been removed from AMD’s website.

According to WCCFTech, the chips will still launch next month, but not on the 14th. That implies a launch later in the month. But the date has certainly been removed from AMD’s website.

We also still don’t know exactly how large a ransom you’ll have to pay for the benefit of the 3D-stacked cache memory. Currently, the Ryzen 9 7950X goes for around $570 and the 5900X for roughly $460. The X3D versions of those chips will obviously be more than that, but quite how much more isn’t clear.

The Ryzen 7 7800X3D, meanwhile, …

When Valve introduced the Steam Deck, the company was adamant that its handheld gaming device was, at its core, a PC, with all the customizability and user freedom that entailed. “You shouldn’t do any of this,” Valve said in a teardown video, before proceeding to show everyone how to take apart the Steam Deck. So when Valve now tells Steam Deck owners they shouldn’t be sticking their noses next to the handheld’s exhaust vents and taking a big, deep breath, I have to wonder if, y’know, they really mean it.

Okay, they probably do really mean it—but that’s not stopping people from huffing anyway.

In a now-viral Reddit post from Tuesday, a Steam user messaged Valve support to ask if it’s “safe to inhale the exhaust fumes from the top vent of the Steam Deck.” Valve…