is the pen mightier than the Master-Sword?

While venturing in Act One of Baldur’s Gate 3, you come across a damsel in distress, Mayrina, whose gotten herself entangled in the twisted web of a hag. But you’ll plenty of decisions to make when you find her.

Larian Studios has updated Baldur’s Gate 3 today, and the highlights of the patch notes might just be a fix to some… general anatomy models, we’ll say.

If you’ve been working on the Necromancy of Thay quest, then you’ve probably run into the Spider Matriarch in the Whispering Depths. There’s loot and XP to be had for defeating it, but this will be a tough fight, and doing it at level three is not so simple.

The key to success is sometimes literally just a key—and in Baldur’s Gate 3, it might be the Old Key. To save your thieves’ tools or a spell slot, it helps to just look around to see if the key to a locked door or chest is simply lying around nearby.

Customization is a huge part of RPGs, and thanks to additions like mods you can play games like Skyrim as Robocop or Ronald McDonald—if that’s what you go for. In Baldur’s Gate 3 though, there’s plenty of customization built into the game itself, and there are plenty of tricks to switching up your character’s looks.

After waking up on the Nautiloid with a Mindflayer tadpole squirming around your skull in Baldur’s Gate 3, you quickly come across the opportunity for some impromptu brain surgery—just not on your own.

In a financial report published today, Nintendo disclosed that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has sold 18.5 million copies, a record high for the company, and the global box office of the Super Mario Brothers film raked in more than one billion dollars.

The Resident Evil 2 remake has recently surpassed Resident Evil 7 to become the franchise’s top seller, which is especially impressive when you consider the new RE2 edition only launched a few short years ago in 2019.