New Apex Legends trailer gets us another look at Alter, Season 21, and the return of solos-
An Apex Legends trailer released this past week shows off what to expect in Season 21, Upheaval, when it drops this week on 7 May. The trailer shows off Alter, the first evil character to get added in quite a few years, and the new
New Legend Alter is one of those cackling, clever, cutting evil people who delights in destruction for destruction’s sake, given her behavior in the trailer. She seems like she’d say something mean to you on your birthday, of all days. Terrible.
Perhaps more seriously, the trailer shows off her suite of abilities: Gift from the Rift, which grabs items from deathboxes at a distance, Void Damage, which lets you crack open a portal to move through walls and floors, and ultimate Void Nexus, which lets anyone on her team pop open a one-way portal…
Space Marine 2’s latest patch adds ultrawide support, private co-op lobbies, and battle buddies who will actually be useful for something
It took the better part of a month but Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, the tale of a boy and his buddies discovering a shared love of entomology, finally has support for ultrawide displays. And that’s not all: Private lobbies for the co-op Operations mode are also live and there’s a new Sparring Arena in the Battle Barge that lets players “compete in friendly PvP with the players in their squad.” Players who like to fiddle with their look will be happy to hear that a convenient option to reset custom armor and color presets to their default settings has been added to the customization menu.
Those are the highlights, but there are some pretty big changes happening under the hood too. Enemy aggressiveness at the Veteran difficulty level has been toned down for a “better singlepl…
Baldur’s Gate 3 head writer reveals we almost got to revisit the first game’s ‘academic dungeon’ prologue area, Candlekeep-
Remember Candlekeep? The monastic library-fortress was the first area of the original Baldur’s Gate, a place for introductory sidequests like curing a sick cow, finding a book in a haystack, and murdering rats in a storehouse. Classic stuff, most of which I managed to miss the first time I played it because I was naive enough to think I should get on with my quest instead of thoroughly rinsing the tutorial zone for every possible bit of XP. Oops.
While you do get to return to Candlekeep in chapter six of Baldur’s Gate, we almost got to revisit it again in Baldur’s Gate 3. “I had a bunch of ideas for it,” lead writer Adam Smith told Rock Paper Shotgun. “I think that it’s a good setting, partly because it’s going back to where it all began. So that was always compelling. But also be…
Skyrim remake of 24-year-old Vampire RPG shows off its modern London level, and the guns are way less janky than I expected-
Skyrim total conversion mod Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption Reawakened just got an updated look at its modern-day portion, with a 10-minute video showcasing London in the year 2000, as well as how the team’s managed to get firearms working pretty well in the battered warhorse that is Bethesda’s seminal 2011 RPG.
The original Redemption preceded its much better-known (and more beloved) CRPG sibling, VTM – Bloodlines, by a good four years. It has a fantastic premise and atmosphere, with half the game taking place in the late middle ages, while the second half sees vampire knight Christof as a fish out of water in turn of the millennium London and New York. Unfortunately, it falls victim to maybe every one of the worst trends of late ’90s, early ’00s RPGs, like Sideshow Bob steppi…