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Dungeons and Deathstars - Editoral (NGN)

Role-playing games (RPG's) date back from a time well before the commodore 64 and other ancient home consoles squatted in front of your TV. The first inception of the RPG as we know it can be dated back to the first pen and paper (P&P) board games such as the well-known Dungeons and Dragons. When you mention D&D to your average attractive young lady it is considered a bigger social fopar than describing in detail the last time you made passionate love to your hand. So people may consider you a geek, but without these types of games the RPG genre would not have migrated over to the games console medium. So that we can be thankful for, and besides, at least the hand never has a headache. Women 0, Hand 1.

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Actually first Final Fantasy was heavily influenced by D&D. So if it wasn't for Gygax and his buddies, we wouldn't have FF as it is now, along with classic RPG goodness.

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World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria's Spell Gems Are Meant to Be Game-Breaking

In an interview with Game Rant, senior game designer Brian Dowling shared just how much Mists of Pandaria Remix's Spell Gems will shake things up.

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Baldur's Gate 3 PC Optimized Settings and Benchmarks

Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of the most replayable games ever made with a 1000-hour playtime or more. However, it can be quite taxing on modern CPUs. Let's have a look at how it performs on one if the fastest gaming processors and how to optimize it.

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Larian after Baldur's Gate 3: "We have ambitions to make really good RPGs, and that's sufficient"

"Treat your players as you would like to be treated, that's it," Vincke says when asked about how to maintain trust with a game's community.

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