Jason Schreier
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Oh No I’m Playing All Of Persona 5 Again
Two weeks ago, I jumped into an early copy of Persona 5 Royal, expecting to maybe play a few hours to check out some of the new stuff. Now I’ve finished the game’s second dungeon and have begun to accept a new reality: I am, somehow, going to replay all of Persona 5.
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13 Things You Should Know About The Excellent-Looking Baldur’s Gate 3
“This is a DC 5,” said Swen Vincke, the charismatic CEO of Larian Studios, during a recent press event for his company’s newest game, Baldur’s Gate 3. In Dungeons & Dragons parlance, “DC” stands for difficulty class, and it represents some sort of obstacle, like climbing a mountain or deceiving a stranger. You roll a…
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Game Delays Cause More Crunch
These days, most video game fans are sympathetic to delays. They recognise that more time makes for better games, and that game development is too complicated for anyone to accurately predict release dates very far in advance. So after a string of high-profile delays this week, including the role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077 and an action…
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The Next Smash Bros. Character Is Fire Emblem’s Byleth
During a special presentation this morning, Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai said that he had been working on the fifth downloadable character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in secret, and that only a few people at Nintendo knew about it. What kind of twist could it be? A Mario NPC? Waluigi? Reggie Fils-Aime? Nope—it’s just…