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We Spoke To Developers About Steam User Reviews
Recent changes to Steam reviews, which filter out reviews from keys that weren’t purchased directly through Valve’s digital store, have caused all sorts of worry and concern. The intent is to remove...
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Divinity: Original Sin 2’s GM mode brings pen and paper RPGs to the screen
Last week I spent a day playing with Divinity: Original Sin 2’s [official site] Games Master mode, and now I want to force everyone I know to play pen and paper RPGs with me. If this is what I’ve been...
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 launching properly in September
As Divinity: Original Sin 2 [official site] charges screaming through early access, developers Larian have announced a release date for the full version: September 14th. For early access roleplayers,...
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Face-ripping & identity theft: Divinity Original Sin 2’s Undead
“And now we just use the Face Ripper on this elven corpse so we can polymorph into an elven form and learn more about what happened by eating the limbs we found earlier.” At Gamescom, Swen Vincke, CEO...
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 just killed my adopted cat, and I don’t know what to...
The random death of a cat might be the most shocking moment I can remember in a game. I’m playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 [official site], and it’s my first experience of the series as a whole. Not...
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 verdict – face-robbing, limb-chomping, heart-breaking
Divinity: Original Sin 2 [official site] is out of Early Access and fully released. Adam and John have both spent many, many hours with the alpha, and are now beginning to chew their way through the...
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 success makes Mac release strong possibility
Divinity: Original Sin 2 [official site] left Early Access less than a week ago and sales figures have been very good. Those are the kind of figures, Larian CEO Swen Vincke tells me, that he’d been...
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Podcast: The Electronic Wireless Show talk roguelikes, Rogue Islands, and...
Here, drink this potion. It’s called the Electronic Wireless Show and it’s a podcast. Yes, you drink it via your ears, unusual I know, but you’ll feel much better afterwards. This week, we’re talking...
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Wot I Think: Divinity Original Sin 2
We were supposed to be heroes. As you play through Divinity: Original Sin 2 [official site], your character and companions will be many things to many people: thieves, killers, saviours, fugitives,...
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Things I want to celebrate about Divinity: Original Sin II
While Adam has the definitive word in his Divinity: Original Sin 2 review, I’ve found myself unable to stop playing in every spare moment, and jotted down some of the very many things that make this...
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Podcast: The Electronic Wireless Show talks Divinity: Original Sin 2, Heat...
Oh no, you’ve tripped the alarm. Now the terrifying RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show, knows you’re here. It’s going to hunt you down and force you to listen to it. Quick! Think of a way out...
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 summons big patch
Larian have launched a honking great update for Divinity: Original Sin 2 [official site], now glurping down datapipes to a game near you. It’s a cracking RPG, our Adam’s Divinity: Original Sin 2...
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 dev on mod tools, accessibility and favourite mods
Divinity: Original Sin 2 [official site] is a fantastic game. But if that’s not enough, every copy ships with ‘The Divinity Engine 2’, which provides everyone with access to the same tools that the...
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Have You Played… Dragon Commander?
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. It’s the one where you can marry a skeleton and until Divinity: Original Sin 2 came along, it...
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Of grimoires and glyphs: the history behind RPG magic
Imagine you’re on a quest for a powerful artefact in Divinity: Original Sin 2. Perhaps you conversed with a ghost who pointed you in the right direction. Now you see demons close by. You cast...
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Divinity: Original Sin 2’s Definitive encore happens this August
If there’s one thing experience has taught me about prolific RPG powerhouse Larian Studios, it’s that they’re perfectionists. Early access really is just a foundational step, and even the ‘final’...
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Divinity: Original Sin 2’s Definitive changes are enormous
Not content with blowing everyone’s socks off last year with Divinity: Original Sin 2 (see Adam’s rightfully gushing review here), Larian Studios are putting in some serious man-hours on improving it...
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Clear 100 hours in your calendar, ‘cos CRPGs are here to stay
In the mid-to-late 2000s, publishers abandoned the CRPG genre – an acronym describing the very specific genre of video games adapted from tabletop RPGs to be played on computers – which a decade...
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Divinity: Original Sin 2’s voice acting credits include “pile of corpses”
“Hello, do you think you’d be able to perform the voice of a pile of corpses, a bull, a deer and a painting?” When the decision was made to have Divinity: Original Sin 2’s dialogue fully voiced, the...
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 launches Definitive Edition as free update, squirrel...
Larian’s fantastic fantasy RPG Divinity: Original Sin 2 has become even fancier with the launch of its Definitive Edition, a free update adding and refining loads. It brings a new ‘Story Mode’...
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