Here we go folks, Best Buy’s Day 1 Black Friday Doorbuster deals are now live! Yesterday we featured the brand’s Black Friday sneak peak online ad as well as some of the early Doorbuster deals as part of Best Buy’s early access sale for Plus and Total ...
Apple finally included a telephoto lens in its iPhone 15 Pro Max last year, with the upgrade extended to the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. This is just one of the many examples of how the Cupertino firm adopts various standards much later than the competition, likely because it wants to offer the best configuration to customers. One other technology that the company is said to bring for the iPhone 18 that rivals like Samsung introduced years ago is variable aperture for the main camera, and according to one analyst, another supplier will provide these parts. Sunny […]
The use of TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process for the M4 series has made Apple’s latest chipsets more thermally efficient, but that does not mean that a capable cooling solution should be ignored from the rest of the hardware configuration. In fact, depending on how robust that solution is, we can actually get more performance from the M4, as demonstrated in the latest Premiere Pro 4K Export test, where the redesigned Mac mini is faster than Apple’s updated 14-inch MacBook Pro. However, one other hardware ends up taking the crown, and we will discuss why this is happening. The 24-inch M4 […]
A new Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix is now live, introducing a variety of tweaks and fixes that improve the experience on all platforms. Hotfix #16 kicks off the year for Larian Studios' successful role-playing game with a huge list of fixes, which include changes to cross-save functionality, which no longer syncs modded saves, and to Waypoints, the ability to access certain quest-related items even if they are in the camp chest, fixes for some texture issues and visual bugs, crashes and blockers, combat and balance tweaks and more. You can find the full list of changes here. While Larian Studios […]
Think the first week of January is a slow one for news? Think again. A 13-year-old Tetris phenom has boldly gone where no one has gone before, beating the NES version of the classic puzzler by reaching a “kill screen” on level 157. Steam announced the ...
Last week, Baldur’s Gate 3 players on Xbox found their accounts banned when their clips of the RPG’s spicy scenes were automatically uploaded publicly, as per the Xbox Series X/S’ default settings. It seems developer Larian Studios has had a chat with ...
Here’s something unironically wonderful. Via a post by Larian Studios writer Rachel Quirke, we’ve just learned of a deeply moving tribute to a player’s father that appears in the studios’ award-winning RPG Baldur’s Gate 3. In October 2020, a member of ...
Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios is in talks with Microsoft over Xbox players getting banned for uploading explicit in-game content. Several days ago we reported on a post from an Xbox Baldur's Gate 3 player who seemingly got banned for one year after explicit Baldur's Gate 3 gameplay clips were automatically uploaded to Microsoft's servers. After the user was banned, he/she asked Microsoft to look into the issue, but apparently, the enforcement was "warranted". At least, that's what Microsoft support is said to have said afterward. On X, Larian's Director of Publishing, Michael Douse (@Cromwelp), has now said that […]
Baldur’s Gate 3 has been on Xbox Series X/S for just under a month, and while there have been a few technical issues with the RPG since arriving on the platform, none has been more far-reaching than one that sprouted up over the weekend banning Xbox ac...
Back in July of 2023—the month before Baldur’s Gate 3 finally released after spending years in early access—Larian Studios’ director of publishing Michael Douse said that the Dungeons & Dragons-based role-playing game has some 17,000 possible endings. ...
After a period of some uncertainty, Baldur’s Gate 3 is now available on Xbox Series X/S, which begs the question – could the smash hit RPG ever end up on Xbox Game Pass? Baldur’s Gate 3 is exactly the kind of high-engagement title that could potentially drive long-term Game Pass subscriptions, so I’m sure Microsoft would love it, but according to Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke, it’s not happening. Vincke rightfully points out that Baldur’s Gate 3 delivers a ton of content without any sort of additional microtransactions or monetization, so he feels it’s only fair players should have to […]
Baldur’s Gate 3 director Swen Vincke believes the Dungeons & Dragons-based RPG is a big game worth paying for. I have to agree. The Larian Studios founder says that’s why the game isn’t coming to Xbox Game Pass. Read more...
During this year's The Game Awards 2023 event, Baldur's Gate 3 won The Game of the Year award, and here's what the CEO of developer Larian Studios wanted to say when accepting this precious award. During Keighley's event, award winners were given 30 seconds onstage before being told to "wrap" things up. After this music started playing, and those involved were kindly requested to leave the stage. Many devs openly criticized this short time, and producer Geoff Keighley took to X afterward to express his understanding by acknowledging that the speeches were too short. "By the way - I do […]
The 2023 Game Awards was full of new trailers and announcements but light on actual awards. Host Geoff Keighley ended up speedrunning through many of them, ultimately denying the winners an acceptance speech or cutting them off before they could finish...
After much waiting and uncertainty, Baldur’s Gate 3 finally arrived on Xbox Series X/S last week, and plenty of folks are eagerly playing on the platform, but a few have run into a fairly serious issue. Apparently, some Xbox players have experienced crashes that resulted in their save files disappearing, which is obviously a pretty big problem. Thankfully, according to the official BG3 X account, a fix may have arrived… “Xbox players, we’ve pushed a small update to Baldur’s Gate 3 containing stability fixes. We're aware of the issue of saves disappearing after a crash. An update is available from […]
A new Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix is now live, introducing a variety of tweaks and fixes that improve the experience on all platforms. Hotfix #16 kicks off the year for Larian Studios' successful role-playing game with a huge list of fixes, which include changes to cross-save functionality, which no longer syncs modded saves, and to Waypoints, the ability to access certain quest-related items even if they are in the camp chest, fixes for some texture issues and visual bugs, crashes and blockers, combat and balance tweaks and more. You can find the full list of changes here. While Larian Studios […]
Think the first week of January is a slow one for news? Think again. A 13-year-old Tetris phenom has boldly gone where no one has gone before, beating the NES version of the classic puzzler by reaching a “kill screen” on level 157. Steam announced the ...
Last week, Baldur’s Gate 3 players on Xbox found their accounts banned when their clips of the RPG’s spicy scenes were automatically uploaded publicly, as per the Xbox Series X/S’ default settings. It seems developer Larian Studios has had a chat with ...
Here’s something unironically wonderful. Via a post by Larian Studios writer Rachel Quirke, we’ve just learned of a deeply moving tribute to a player’s father that appears in the studios’ award-winning RPG Baldur’s Gate 3. In October 2020, a member of ...
Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios is in talks with Microsoft over Xbox players getting banned for uploading explicit in-game content. Several days ago we reported on a post from an Xbox Baldur's Gate 3 player who seemingly got banned for one year after explicit Baldur's Gate 3 gameplay clips were automatically uploaded to Microsoft's servers. After the user was banned, he/she asked Microsoft to look into the issue, but apparently, the enforcement was "warranted". At least, that's what Microsoft support is said to have said afterward. On X, Larian's Director of Publishing, Michael Douse (@Cromwelp), has now said that […]
Baldur’s Gate 3 has been on Xbox Series X/S for just under a month, and while there have been a few technical issues with the RPG since arriving on the platform, none has been more far-reaching than one that sprouted up over the weekend banning Xbox ac...
Back in July of 2023—the month before Baldur’s Gate 3 finally released after spending years in early access—Larian Studios’ director of publishing Michael Douse said that the Dungeons & Dragons-based role-playing game has some 17,000 possible endings. ...
After a period of some uncertainty, Baldur’s Gate 3 is now available on Xbox Series X/S, which begs the question – could the smash hit RPG ever end up on Xbox Game Pass? Baldur’s Gate 3 is exactly the kind of high-engagement title that could potentially drive long-term Game Pass subscriptions, so I’m sure Microsoft would love it, but according to Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke, it’s not happening. Vincke rightfully points out that Baldur’s Gate 3 delivers a ton of content without any sort of additional microtransactions or monetization, so he feels it’s only fair players should have to […]
Baldur’s Gate 3 director Swen Vincke believes the Dungeons & Dragons-based RPG is a big game worth paying for. I have to agree. The Larian Studios founder says that’s why the game isn’t coming to Xbox Game Pass. Read more...
During this year's The Game Awards 2023 event, Baldur's Gate 3 won The Game of the Year award, and here's what the CEO of developer Larian Studios wanted to say when accepting this precious award. During Keighley's event, award winners were given 30 seconds onstage before being told to "wrap" things up. After this music started playing, and those involved were kindly requested to leave the stage. Many devs openly criticized this short time, and producer Geoff Keighley took to X afterward to express his understanding by acknowledging that the speeches were too short. "By the way - I do […]
The 2023 Game Awards was full of new trailers and announcements but light on actual awards. Host Geoff Keighley ended up speedrunning through many of them, ultimately denying the winners an acceptance speech or cutting them off before they could finish...
After much waiting and uncertainty, Baldur’s Gate 3 finally arrived on Xbox Series X/S last week, and plenty of folks are eagerly playing on the platform, but a few have run into a fairly serious issue. Apparently, some Xbox players have experienced crashes that resulted in their save files disappearing, which is obviously a pretty big problem. Thankfully, according to the official BG3 X account, a fix may have arrived… “Xbox players, we’ve pushed a small update to Baldur’s Gate 3 containing stability fixes. We're aware of the issue of saves disappearing after a crash. An update is available from […]