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The Monday letters page asks whether datamining is ruing the fun of game announcements, as a reader tries to imagine Xbox without Microsoft.

In countries like Argentina, where physical games are exorbitantly expensive, services like Xbox Game Pass present an alternative to ownership, whether physical or digital.

Pentiment isn’t just an important Xbox game, it’s an important game full stop.

Earlier this week, I got the chance to talk to Obsidian about its brand new role-playing game Avowed. This is the game …

2024 will be yet another year loaded with amazing roleplaying games that have been in the works for a very long time

Larian's D&D epic introduces the moral and narrative ambiguity that's been missing from RPGs

The more I play of Baldur’s Gate 3, the more I realize how unsure I am of what I’ve done. This extraordinary, enormous game has me in deep, meticulously exploring its every tiny detail, getting involved in every aspect I can find, and the further I get, the less certain I am about every choice I’ve made. Which, it occurs to me, I’ve never experienced in any RPG of its like before. So why? What is it about Larian’s latest epic that makes it so hard to predict?

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A report on Obsidian Entertainment's fantasy RPG Avowed, which was originally pitched as a multiplayer game.

Obsidian had originally begun developing Avowed as a co-op RPG, even before Microsoft's acquisition of the studio. The studio later ditched this version to focus on single-player instead.