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A black and white illustration showing a werewolf hand silhouetted against a full moon.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Shape changes or shifts

Be were.

15 May 2024 Robert Purchese

A photograph of a white man with a pointed, Van Dyke white beard, and long white hair neatly swept back over his head, holding a magnifying glass up to some ancient document or other in the background.

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From creating D&D to making Baldur's Gate 3: meet the man who coined the term XP

"We were inventing a whole art form at the time."

5 May 2024 Robert Purchese

A paper map unfolded to show an island scene, with volcanos and ships and sea monsters, and hands holding it either side.

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Long read | Who is qualified to make a world? In search of the magic of maps

"You're travelling with your imagination..."

27 Feb 2024 Robert Purchese

A vampire framed by a large full moon, with arms outspread towards the camera, red cloak billowing, and a flock of ravens around them.

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What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

26 Jan 2024 Robert Purchese

A stock photo/illustration showing a straight road narrowing into a sunny distance, flanked on either side by dense forest. On the ground at the beginning of the road, nearest the viewer, are the numbers 2024, and an arrow in the middle pointing ahead.

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Our gaming ambitions for 2024

And how we did in 2023.

11 Jan 2024 Robert Purchese

An illustration showing the three friends of Mediterranea Inferno's story adopting a saintly pose, each with his own halo, amid a thick tangle of shadowy cacti.

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Our personal top-five games of 2023

Mediterranea Inferno! Dredge! Hi-Fi! More!

26 Dec 2023 Robert Purchese

A portrait of A Plague Tale heroine Amicia, at the end of Requiem, eyes closed, serene, contemplating, as golden afternoon sunshine warms one side of her face.

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How do you end a game?

Fin.

11 Nov 2023 Robert Purchese

A photograph of the stage-like playing area for Life-Size DND. We, as the viewer, peer over a vine-dense wall to see a great sword in a stone before us, some crumbling walls, and a large cut-out of an owlbear. The roof of the playing area is a vine-like mesh, and the floor is taped into a grid.

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What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

3 Nov 2023 Robert Purchese

An illustration of a beholder enemy in Dungeons and Dragons - the big floating eyeball that has many eyeballs on stalks coming out from it. It's presented here in a kind of gold, embossed way, with only gold lines on a deep red background. It's a very fetching image!

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Dungeons & Dragons and the thrill of nearly losing everything in a game

Dicing with danger.

7 Oct 2023 Robert Purchese

Baldur's Gate 3 promotional screenshot showing Shadowheart ponder a mysterious device.

Review

Baldur's Gate 3 - a critical success, with critical failures

Front-loaded dice.

16 Aug 2023 Ruth Cassidy

A red, feminine hand with pointed and painted black nails, holds a glowing ball of blue flame.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Spells

Casting cool.

9 Aug 2023 Robert Purchese

A pink and purple, curly-haired half-orc player character in Baldur's Gate 3. It's Bertie.

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Why Baldur's Gate 3's faithful recreation of Dungeons & Dragons is so exciting

Roll, play.

3 Aug 2023 Robert Purchese

Baldur's Gate 3 screenshot of Astarion rubbing his chin looking pensive

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Where's our Baldur's Gate 3 review?

Bear with us.

3 Aug 2023 Chris Tapsell

A slender female warrior with pointed ears thrusts a curved sword towards the tentacled head of a mind flayer.

Interview

Larian on signing Baldur's Gate 3, approaching a new era, and games you've never heard about

Past, present and future.

14 Jul 2023 Robert Purchese

A fair-haired and very handsome elven character lying on the sand, looking up at the camera, with a concerned look on their face.

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Don't worry, you won't see 170 hours of Baldur's Gate 3 cinematics in one playthrough

"It does feel like a screenplay that is really specifically for you."

11 Jul 2023 Robert Purchese

2023 displayed in a pixelated font with a retro loading bar underneath.

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2023 will be the year I... Our gaming ambitions for the year ahead

What are yours?

5 Jan 2023 Robert Purchese

Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance

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Dungeons & Dragons owner Wizards of the Coast reportedly cancels at least five unannounced video games

Scaling back.

4 Jan 2023 Wesley Yin-Poole

Bald, tattooed, iconic Baldur's Gate character Minsc wrestles with the teeth of a mimic chest as he climbs back out of its grip. He is now a companion in BG3.

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Baldur's Gate 3 has a sort-of release date, finally

And a €260 Collector's Edition.

9 Dec 2022 Robert Purchese

A photo of the Dice Men Games Workshop history book. It's red with two characters fantastical characters playing dice on the front cover. It's the classic Ian McCaig illustration that was on early Games Workshop bags.

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Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop is the quintessential coffee table book

A treasure trove of nostalgia.

12 Nov 2022 Robert Purchese