World’s biggest mod site shows no patience for bigoted mod that erased a queer relationship from Baldur’s Gate 3, will keep banning mods that are ‘deliberately against inclusivity and/or diversity’

Nexus Mods, likely the most popular mod site on the planet and a place you’re definitely familiar with if you’ve ever had cause to tinker with a Bethesda game, has banned a user for attempting to mod a same-sex pairing out of Baldur’s Gate 3. Beware there are some very mild spoilers ahead for some…

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Oops! Blizzard accidentally nerfs every Diablo 4 player on the same day its brutally hard new dungeon releases

Today, Blizzard opened the gates to Diablo 4’s hardest endgame dungeon, a seasonal event called the Abattoir of Zir. Experienced players have been gearing up for this moment for weeks, perfecting their builds to tackle the first tier of a dungeon that the developer teased might be completely impossible at its highest difficulty level. But…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 tool discovers there’s around 1,888 characters with dialogue in the game—though ‘justice for Karlach was actually the main reason’ it was made

Baldur’s Gate 3 has a lot of words—and even ‘a lot of words’ is a major understatement. In a Steam post before the game’s release, it was revealed the game’s total script is about 2 million words long. For context, all five books in the current Game of Thrones series add up to about 1.7…

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Cyberpunk 2077’s surprise 2.1 update aims to make Adam Smasher live up to his name, adds new racing missions, and gives love interests a life with you after their questlines

I was expecting 2.0 to be Cyberpunk 2077’s last big update—which made me pretty dang surprised and excited to hear that a follow-up patch, 2.1, actually has some good meat to its bones.  A fully-functioning metro system, a radio you can listen to on-foot, and some further gameplay tweaks—which we now know about because 2.1…

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