Robert Purchese (Page 16)

A bright pink podcast microphone with a yellow circular background and funky shapes dotted around. It's a party podcast picture if ever I saw one.

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We've had some wonderful people on the podcast this year

A bumper recap special.

Dec. 19, 2022 Robert Purchese

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What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

Dec. 16, 2022 Robert Purchese

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Popular Baldur's Gate hero Minsc is seen here, up close, escaping from the bloodied jaws of a mimic chest.

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Baldur's Gate 3 early access to get paladin in maybe the last significant update before release

Holy.

Dec. 14, 2022 Robert Purchese

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Geralt of Rivia, glowering at the camera, hand on the hilt of a sword. It's the game's cover art.

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On the day The Witcher 3 next-gen update arrives, we remember our favourite stories about it

Eager to go Crookback?

Dec. 14, 2022 Robert Purchese

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Diablo 4 antagonist Lilith, close up, looking imperiously down at the camera, huge horns spiralling back and away from her head. The background is hell-red. She's not messing around.

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Season passes, the in-game shop, the shared world: the big Diablo 4 interview

"It's meant to last a long time."

Dec. 9, 2022 Robert Purchese

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Signalis review - a character whose robotic arm is being blown apart against a bright red background

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What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

Dec. 9, 2022 Robert Purchese

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Bald, tattooed, iconic Baldur's Gate character Minsc wrestles with the teeth of a mimic chest as he climbs back out of its grip. He is now a companion in BG3.

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Baldur's Gate 3 has a sort-of release date, finally

And a €260 Collector's Edition.

Dec. 9, 2022 Robert Purchese

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The mother of humanity, Lilith, in Diablo 4, looking imperiously down at the camera, with huge horns coming out of her head.

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I've spent 10 hours with Diablo 4 and I'm sold - it's been worth the wait

Hell, it's great.

Dec. 7, 2022 Robert Purchese

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Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer "had to go away" after game's rocky launch

Priorities changed.

Dec. 5, 2022 Robert Purchese

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The next-gen update doesn't transform The Witcher 3, but it does make returning to it a pleasure

All Velen good.

Dec. 5, 2022 Robert Purchese

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The game Geralt but clad in the Netflix Witcher armour, all sexy black leather and smoulder.

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Here's everything we learned about The Witcher 3 next-gen patch while at CD Projekt Red

Roach can now walk backwards, and kick!

Dec. 5, 2022 Robert Purchese

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What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

Dec. 2, 2022 Robert Purchese

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It's a mistake that games don't use mistakes more

Unless I'm mistaken.

Nov. 29, 2022 Robert Purchese

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Pentiment cover art. A figure sits hunched over a middle-ages drawing board, but where their head should be, there's a great plume of orange, illustrative smoke instead.

Podcast

The unexpected side of Pentiment's Josh Sawyer

"I was always goofing around."

Nov. 28, 2022 Robert Purchese

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What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

Nov. 25, 2022 Robert Purchese

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The Blackbeard-like skeleton pirate enemy LeChuck in Return to Monkey Island, standing over a table in a spooky cabin, glaring at the camera.

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What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

Nov. 18, 2022 Robert Purchese

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A photo of Geralt voice actor Doug Cockle, standing in front of a white brick wall.

Podcast

What The Witcher voice actor Doug Cockle did next

This world doesn't need a hero, it needs a professional.

Nov. 16, 2022 Robert Purchese

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Fire roaring across a dark image, with the words The Witcher Remake printed in the middle of it. Scorchio.

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Doug Cockle and the case for re-recording voice overs in The Witcher 1 remake

C'mon CDPR.

Nov. 16, 2022 Robert Purchese

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A detailed illustration of game-Geralt and Netflix-Geralt standing side by side with swords drawn, ready for action. That sounds rude now I think of it.

News

Geralt voice actor sad about Henry Cavill leaving The Witcher Netflix show

"I just felt he did a fabulous job."

Nov. 16, 2022 Robert Purchese

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A photo of the Dice Men Games Workshop history book. It's red with two characters fantastical characters playing dice on the front cover. It's the classic Ian McCaig illustration that was on early Games Workshop bags.

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Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop is the quintessential coffee table book

A treasure trove of nostalgia.

Nov. 12, 2022 Robert Purchese

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A colourful image showing a PS5 and an Xbox Series X, with smiley faces and power icons above their 'heads', feeding into a bulging, round, energy meter that has a face and looks a little stressed out.

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Here's how much power your consoles use, and how much that costs in the UK

UPDATE: All three Switch models re-tested.

Nov. 12, 2022 Robert Purchese

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PvP MMO Crowfall to be taken offline for a redesign - but will it ever come back?

We ask the company behind it.

Nov. 11, 2022 Robert Purchese

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Screenshot of angry Kratos in God of War Ragnarok

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What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

Nov. 11, 2022 Robert Purchese

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A grizzled warrior holding a chonky glowing sword in front of them to deflect an incoming attack. He has a rag over his eye, suggesting he cannot see.

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Beneath Oresa evolves and beautifies the Slay the Spire experience

Cease your resistance.

Nov. 8, 2022 Robert Purchese

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A very simple line drawing of a human figure, on a black backdrop, but their hands are holding their face, and their hands are bloody and red. All that can be seen on the face is a crudely drawn white eye peeking out, and it too is bleeding. It's a disturbing image.

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When retro aesthetics wrongfoot you

Great expectations.

Nov. 5, 2022 Robert Purchese

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