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GTA 6's Fast Food Restaurant, Burger Shot, Is Coming to Real Life in the Miami Heat's Arena Rockstar Games har omdøbt en burgerrestaurant i Miami Heats Kaseya Center til Burger Shot fra GTA-universet som del af markedsføringen af GTA 6. Arenaen får også Vice City-plakater, og Miami Heat skal spille en GTA 6-tematiseret kamp 18. november. GTA 6 udkommer 19. november til PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X|S, mens en pc-version er rygtet til næste år.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's Bigger and Better Version of Its DMZ Extraction Shooter Mode Makes a Great First Impression - Review IGN giver en foreløbig vurdering af DMZ-tilstanden i Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 efter omkring fem timers spil. Den store Hajin-region understøtter udforskning med dynamiske missioner, fjendtlige NPC’er, køretøjer og andre spillere, mens spillets velkendte skydemekanik fungerer godt i den åbne verden. Anmeldelsen fremhæver en konstant spænding, men bemærker også, at spillerinteraktionerne endnu er begrænsede under early access.

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From Baldur’s Gate to Star Wars: KOTOR to Mass Effect, BioWare Was the Best RPG Developer Ever IGN ser tilbage på BioWares mere end 30 år lange historie og argumenterer for, at studiet var den største udvikler af rollespil nogensinde. Artiklen fremhæver blandt andet Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire og Mass Effect som milepæle. Samtidig beskrives studiets aktuelle situation efter et opkøb fra en privat investeringsgruppe som afslutningen på en epoke.

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Former BioWare Executive Producer Mark Darrah Says EA Might Be 'More Likely' to Sell IPs Like Mass Effect and Dragon Age After Studio’s Closure, but There's a Big Catch Tidligere BioWare-producer Mark Darrah vurderer, at EA muligvis bliver mere tilbøjelig til at sælge rettighederne til serier som Mass Effect og Dragon Age, efter at studiet er lukket. EA ejer fortsat alle BioWares varemærker, men kan enten sælge dem eller lægge dem på is. Der er endnu ingen beslutning om et muligt salg, og fremtiden for Mass Effect 5 er usikker.

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'SWTOR Outlives BioWare. What a Strange Timeline.' – Star Wars The Old Republic Fans React to BioWare's Closure Fans af Star Wars: The Old Republic mindes BioWare, efter at EA har lukket det kendte rollespilsstudie. BioWare udviklede og skrev hovedparten af spillets historie, selv om MMO'et siden 2023 er blevet vedligeholdt af Broadsword Games. På sociale medier udtrykker spillere sorg over lukningen, men også lettelse over, at The Old Republic fortsat lever videre.

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It Sounds Like We Could Be Getting a Brand New Sims PC Game Soon EA har sat udviklingen af det mobile multiplayerprojekt Project Lotus på pause for i stedet at fokusere på Project Evergreen. Det nye spil beskrives som en mulig videreudvikling eller efterfølger til The Sims 4, men EA har endnu ikke offentliggjort detaljer. Ifølge oplysninger omtalt af Sims Community sigter projektet mod lancering på PC og optimering til håndholdte enheder i efteråret 2027.

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Mass Effect 5 Was Supposed to Redeem the Series After Andromeda, and Now We'll Never Get That En IGN-kommentar ærgrer sig over, at det næste Mass Effect-spil efter sigende aldrig bliver til noget, efter at EA har lukket BioWare. Skribenten havde håbet, at spillet kunne genoprette seriens omdømme efter Mass Effect: Andromeda, men fremhæver, at projektet forblev omgærdet af få konkrete detaljer. I stedet peges der på kommende alternativer som Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, Exodus og The Expanse: Osiris Reborn.

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GTA 6 Preorders Are Up to $11 Off If You Follow These 3 Simple Steps (Today Only) IGN beskriver et tidsbegrænset tilbud, hvor amerikanske kunder kan købe PlayStation- eller Xbox-gavekort med rabat hos Newegg og bruge dem til en forudbestilling af GTA 6. Rabatten er 11 dollar på PlayStation-versionen og 10 dollar på Xbox-versionen, hvis de angivne koder anvendes. Spillet udkommer 19. november til PS5 og Xbox Series X|S.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on PS5 Drops to a New Low Price at Amazon With 31% Discount From a Coupon on Its Store Page Amazon sælger i øjeblikket den fysiske PS5-udgave af Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 til 34,65 dollar mod normalt 49,99 dollar. Prisen kræver, at købere aktiverer kuponen på produktsiden, og tilbuddet gælder frem til 26. oktober eller så længe lageret rækker. Rabatten er kun tilgængelig for PS5-versionen, mens Xbox-udgaven fortsat koster fuld pris.

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'PLEASE Sell Your IPs to Another Company' — The Internet Reacts to the Cancellation of Mass Effect 5 and the Death of BioWare EA har annonceret, at BioWare lukker, og at udviklingen af det næste Mass Effect-spil er indstillet. Beslutningen er en del af en større omstrukturering hos udgiveren og har udløst stærke reaktioner blandt fans og spiludviklere. Flere prominente branchefolk har fremhævet BioWares betydning for rollespilsgenren og kritiseret udviklingen i den moderne spilindustri.

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EA Sports Is Working on a Brand New Open-World Football Game EA Sports har bekræftet, at selskabet udvikler Project Gridiron, et nyt socialt og åbent amerikansk fodboldspil. Det beskrives som et selvstændigt projekt, men detaljerne om historiefortælling, onlinefunktioner og forholdet til Madden NFL og College Football er endnu uklare. EA oplyser, at der kommer flere oplysninger i løbet af de kommende måneder.

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Humble’s Double Fine Bundle Features 11 Games From the Publisher That You Can Add to Your Steam Library for As Low as $8 Humble Bundle tilbyder 11 spil fra Double Fine for mindst 8 dollar, herunder Psychonauts, Brutal Legend og Broken Age. Pakken har en samlet angivet værdi på 146 dollar og kan indløses til Steam. Et billigere niveau til 5 dollar giver adgang til syv spil, mens en del af betalingen går til blandt andre velgørenhedsorganisationen Day of the Devs.

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Diablo Is Getting a New Board Game Adaptation You Can Play Solo or With Friends, Set to Release Early Next Year Glass Cannon Unplugged har annonceret Diablo: Unbound, et samarbejdsbaseret brætspil for én til fire spillere. Spillerne vælger klasse, udforsker fangekældre, bekæmper monstre og samler udstyr i jagten på en boss. Spillet benytter blandt andet et hex-grid, kortbaserede evner og detaljerede spillerbrætter. En crowdfundingkampagne på Gamefound ventes lanceret i første kvartal af 2027.

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You Have a Couple More Days to Play WoW Forever as Blizzard Extends Beta to October 23 Blizzard har forlænget beta-testen af World of Warcraft: Forever med tre dage, så den nu slutter 23. oktober kl. 19 dansk tid. Den 27. oktober åbner navnereservationer, hvor spillere kan reservere navne til op til tre figurer. Den fulde udgave udkommer 4. november, og al fremgang fra betaen bliver slettet ved lanceringen.

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EA Adds Fuel to the Star Wars: Battlefront 3 Rumors By Confirming DICE and Respawn Are Working Together on a New Game EA har bekræftet, at studierne DICE og Respawn samarbejder om et kommende projekt, der skal styrke udgiverens skydespil. Meldingen giver nyt liv til rygterne om Star Wars: Battlefront 3, men EA har ikke bekræftet, at det er spillet, eller oplyst detaljer om udgivelsen. Samtidig har EA annonceret, at det næste Mass Effect er aflyst, og at BioWare lukker.

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BioWare Shutting Down, Next Mass Effect Canceled Electronic Arts lukker BioWare og aflyser det næste Mass Effect-spil som led i omfattende besparelser, hvor omkring 400 medarbejdere mister jobbet. Cirka 50 af de berørte stillinger er hos BioWare, der også lukker sit studie i Edmonton. EA vil i stedet fokusere på blandt andet sportsspil, Apex Legends, Battlefield samt kommende spil baseret på Star Wars og Marvel.

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The Long Game: The Best Upgrades for Each Vehicle in Star Wars: Galactic Racer - IGN Guiden gennemgår de bedste opgraderinger til de tre køretøjer i Star Wars: Galactic Racer. Landspeederen anbefales især opgraderinger til fart og evner, mens Speeder Bike bør fokusere på drifting, sving og forsvar. Skim Speeder kan med fordel bygges til offensiv kørsel med forbedret ramning, modstandskraft og bedre håndtering i sving.

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MW4 Players Are Frustrated Over Server Issues Causing Lost Loot in Game's New DMZ Extraction Mode Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4s nye DMZ-tilstand har været ramt af servernedbrud, som har fået spillere til at miste bytte indsamlet under kampe. Infinity Ward siger, at en rettelse er udsendt, men spillere beholder kun deres startudstyr og efterfølgende progression – ikke loot, der blev samlet før afbrydelsen. Nogle brugere rapporterer fortsat problemer.

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This Rare Pokémon TCG ETB Costs $130 on the Market, but Best Buy Has It for $49.99 Best Buy sælger Pokémon TCG: Prismatic Evolutions Elite Trainer Box til den vejledende pris på 49,99 dollar, markant under den aktuelle markedspris. Købere skal have en Best Buy-konto og anmode om en invitation, hvorefter udvalgte kunder får 24 timer til at gennemføre købet. En invitation garanterer ikke, at man bliver udvalgt, men anmodningen gælder også ved fremtidige lageropfyldninger.

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Everything Coming to Cyberpunk 2077 With the 2.5 Update, Including New Side Quests, New Double Trouble Perk, and Much More CD Projekt Red har offentliggjort indholdet i Cyberpunk 2077-opdatering 2.5, som udkommer i forbindelse med Netflix-serien Edgerunners 2. Opdateringen tilføjer blandt andet nye sideopgaver, Edgerunners-udstyr, en radiostation, tilpasning af håndimplantater og Double Trouble-fordelen, der gør det muligt at bruge to pistoler eller revolvere. Der kommer også modsupport på tværs af platforme, konsol-FOV-skyder og tekniske forbedringer.

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Exclusive — See 7 New Cards From Magic: The Gathering Star Trek, Including 1 That Remembers the Most Iconic Drink of TNG IGN har eksklusivt offentliggjort syv nye kort fra Wizards of the Coasts kommende Magic: The Gathering-udvidelse baseret på Star Trek. Blandt kortene er artefaktet “Tea, Earl Grey, Hot”, der refererer til kaptajn Picards foretrukne drik, samt kort med figurer og motiver fra flere Star Trek-serier. Udvidelsen udkommer 13. november 2026.

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Nintendo Switch Sports Resort's $10 Preorder Discount Almost Certainly Ends Today at Amazon and Walmart Nintendo Switch Sports Resort udkommer til Nintendo Switch 2 den 22. oktober med 12 sportsgrene og bevægelsesstyring via Joy-Con 2. Fysiske eksemplarer kan frem til udgivelsen købes for 49,94 dollar hos Amazon og Walmart, hvilket er 10 dollar under den forventede normalpris. Der findes også en Switch 2-pakke med en digital udgave af spillet og tre måneders Nintendo Switch Online.

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Fallout Day Continues: The World of Fallout Museum Exhibit Expands, Choose the Flavor of Nuka Twist, and More Bethesda markerer Fallout Day med nye samarbejder og udvidelser i den virkelige verden. World of Fallout-udstillingen i Las Vegas får to nye gallerier med rekvisitter, kostumer og interaktive installationer, mens Fallout Cafe vender tilbage i Tokyo. Fans kan også stemme om smagen på Nuka Twist, og Bethesda antyder samtidig flere kommende Fallout-projekter, herunder nyt indhold til spilserien og den kommende tredje sæson af tv-serien.

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One Piece: Grand Gourmet Often Feels as Shallow as the Lovestruck Chef It's Based Around IGN anmelder One Piece: Grand Gourmet, et restaurant- og byggespil med Sanji i centrum. Spillet byder på mange kendte figurer, lokationer og referencer fra serien, men historien er begrænset, og både indretning og madlavning føles overfladiske. Anmeldelsen fremhæver fanservicen, men vurderer, at spillet primært henvender sig til inkarnerede One Piece-fans.

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First Permanent Pokémon Store Outside Asia to Open in London by 2029 The Pokémon Company vil åbne den første permanente Pokémon-butik uden for Asien i London senest i 2029. Butikken skal sælge merchandise og tilbyde fællesskabsområder samt særlige oplevelser, men den præcise placering og navnet er endnu ikke offentliggjort. Åbningen indgår i en bredere international ekspansion, efter at en tidligere Pokémon-butik i New York eksisterede fra 2001 til 2005.

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From Baldur’s Gate to Star Wars: KOTOR to Mass Effect, BioWare Was the Best RPG Developer Ever

IGN ser tilbage på BioWares mere end 30 år lange historie og argumenterer for, at studiet var den største udvikler af rollespil nogensinde. Artiklen fremhæver blandt andet Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire og Mass Effect som milepæle. Samtidig beskrives studiets aktuelle situation efter et opkøb fra en privat investeringsgruppe som afslutningen på en epoke.

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BioWare is dead, and my feelings are a strange cocktail of anger, sadness, and Jack’s Complete Lack of Surprise. The legendary RPG studio was bought by a private investment group earlier this year, and history shows that venture capital frequently kills what it touches, extracting whatever value out of it that it can before moving onto the next victim. It’s a hell of a contrast to the beginning of BioWare, which started out as such a pure thing. Two practicing doctors, Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, quit medicine to pursue their dream of making computer role-playing games. Sure, the studio was bought and sold a couple of times between then and now, and yes, BioWare’s recent results haven’t lived up to its venerable past, but my goodness, what a legacy this studio leaves behind.

Everyone knows Baldur’s Gate now on account of Larian Studios’ Game of the Year-winning, 10 out of 10 Baldur’s Gate 3 from 2023, but what younger gamers might not know is that the first two Baldur’s Gate RPGs were built by BioWare in the late ‘90s. While they weren’t the studio’s first games – that honor goes to the 1996 mech action-sim Shattered Steel – they were the two that put BioWare on the map. Each was an incredibly deep and sprawling RPG based on the Dungeons & Dragons ruleset that was good for upwards of 200 hours of gameplay. At the time, they reset the bar for what a CRPG could be. Let me put it this way: Baldur’s Gate 1 took home IGN’s Game of the Year award in 1998… over Half-Life. That’s how good Baldur’s Gate was.

After another action-game pitstop in the form of 2000’s excellent MDK2, BioWare returned to role-playing with Neverwinter Nights, another CRPG that arguably brought video games closer to the pen-and-paper, pizza-party-at-your-best-friend/DM’s-house version of D&D than any game before it. It was the runner-up for IGN’s Best Role-Playing Game of 2002, finishing behind just one game: a little project you might have heard of called The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind.

Up to this point, BioWare had primarily been known in PC circles as a prominent CRPG developer. And then Microsoft made a deal with the studio and LucasArts to develop an exclusive new Star Wars RPG for the fledgling Xbox console. You already know what the result was: the absolutely unimpeachable Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which happens to be my personal favorite role-playing game of all time. My biases aside, it is unquestionably one of the best RPGs ever made. It’s also a lock for top-3 Star Wars games of all-time, and it has a strong case for No. 1 on that list. It told an incredible story in Star Wars’s ancient past and truly let you embrace the Light Side or Dark Side of the Force. I went fully evil just because KOTOR let me do so! And not only that, it embraced those choices. At one point, I distinctly remember triple-crossing someone – double-crossing the guy that I’d already double-crossed. Its plot twist is legendary, and on the off chance that the long-in-development-hell remake ever comes out, I won’t spoil it for you here. But whether it was visiting plenty of planets (including Kashyyk!), bonding with your party members (shout-out to my favorite droid, HK-47!), or planning out my evil Force attacks by stacking up my attacks in the turn-based combat system, KOTOR was the ultimate pairing of a beloved IP and an industry-leading developer.

Another Xbox console exclusive followed, albeit from a different team within BioWare. While KOTOR director Casey Hudson was planning something even bigger for his team’s next project, another crew at BioWare delivered the sublime and historically underrated Jade Empire, which was steeped in Chinese mythology. IGN gave it a 9.9 out of 10 (on a 100-point scale!) back in 2005, and while it was nowhere near the commercial success KOTOR was, it was every bit as big a hit with critics and fans.

And then came Mass Effect. BioWare promised us a space opera – a trilogy in which our choices in each game would carry over to the next and ultimately affect the ending to the whole story. Microsoft had wisely signed it as a console exclusive, and boy oh boy did it pay off. Mass Effect was one of the core memories most people have about the Xbox 360. It was released in fall of 2007, the greatest stretch in Xbox and quite possibly gaming history – and it actually delivered on its space-opera promise. As your custom Commander Shepard, the first in the trilogy introduced us to the universe and humanity’s place within it – including Shepard’s path to becoming a galaxy-protecting Spectre. It introduced the Reapers, and so many phenomenal companion characters from Wrex to Garrus to Liara among many others. And like KOTOR, it too allowed you to be a Paragon of good or a Renegade of evil. (And yes, I once again tested the limits of how bad BioWare would allow me to be.)

The first is my personal favorite of the trilogy, but for many that honor goes to Mass Effect 2, which leveled up your relationship with Shepard’s companions and more or less built the entire campaign around them. As promised, your save file imported into the sequel, bringing with it your Shepard’s look and choices from the first game. It also evolved Mass Effect’s gameplay from light turn-based, semi-tactical combat to more of a pure third-person cover shooter while sacrificing none of its role-playing elements.

The controversial trilogy-capper is best remembered for its ending, which upset fans so much that BioWare tried to improve it in a post-launch patch. But forgotten alongside that is how great the rest of it was. It took the time to really let you – and your Shepard – say goodbye to the friends you’d made along the way (or at least, the ones you hadn’t chosen to kill or sacrifice), and its combat was improved further over Mass Effect 2, making Mass Effect 3 a truly world-class third-person shooter alongside its well-established role-playing bonafides.

Whatever your thoughts of Mass Effect 3’s ending, BioWare had done what they said they’d do: They built a three-game space opera that spanned more than 100 hours of gameplay over the course of the five years it took to get all three games out the door. We developed meaningful bonds with its characters, in part because they’d been written so well. It was a bold RPG experiment, and one that, for my money, hasn’t been replicated or even attempted since.

The Mass Effect trilogy was, in hindsight, probably BioWare’s peak by just about any measure, but the studio kept going. Another original IP, Dragon Age, saw four RPGs released over a decade and a half – with the third of those, 2014’s Dragon Age Inquisition, taking home IGN’s Game of the Year Award. Anthem was a bold but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to bring BioWare’s storytelling talents to the hot-at-the-time live-service space. The studio cleaned Mass Effect up nicely for an excellent remaster of the trilogy in 2021 after the BioWare Montreal team’s disappointing Mass Effect Andromeda in 2017. Heck, BioWare even made a full-blown RPG starring Sonic in a team-up with Sega in 2008’s Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood!

And after announcing a fifth Mass Effect game that fans hoped would redeem the series after Andromeda, that project is now canceled alongside the studio being shut down. As sad as this day is – for both fans and BioWare employees who were there at any point during its 31-year history – I am left with a fulfilling sense of gratitude to this studio for all of the memorable gaming experiences it’s given me. With respect to CD Projekt Red, Larian, and Bethesda Game Studios, there’s never been a better RPG developer over a longer period of time than BioWare. It won’t be forgotten.

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From Baldur’s Gate to Star Wars: KOTOR to Mass Effect, BioWare Was the Best RPG Developer Ever

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