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Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition and Baldur’s Gate 2: Enhanced Edition should be in good hands, as developer Overhaul Games features members of the original Baldur’s Gate team. This won’t be the first time Overhaul has updated a BioWare property, either – the studio is responsible for the Wii port of MDK2, as well as its PC counterpart, MDK2 HD. A note on the Overhaul website tells the story. According the the Baldur’s Gate website, the games will run on “a re-forged version of the Infinity Engine with a variety of modern improvements....

It may not be anything at this point, but a website has appeared online that features the original Baldur’s Gate logo, along with some cryptic text. Quick to know more about the site, a few gamers have cracked into its source code and discovered some very interesting things. Based on some sleuthing on the part of Baldur’s Gate fans, and an understanding of the property’s history, the current rumor going around is that Baldur’s Gate is gearing up for a reboot....

Following the winter release of Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition for PC, iOS & Mac, developers Overhaul Games looked better placed than most to land the lucrative Baldur’s Gate 3 assignment. That was until a whole host of legal wrangles forced an effective stop to the studio’s forward momentum. Last week saw Overhaul’s re-skinned update pulled from online circulation; the result of what company head Trent Oster called ongoing “contractual issues....

Bale has not featured for the Spanish and European champions since scoring in a 3-1 Champions League win at Borussia Dortmund in late September as a result of calf and groin injuries but had suffered criticism for his performances prior to that. Real 3/1 to win La Liga title Jonathan Barnett, his representative, says the 28-year-old finds this unjust but nevertheless does not want to leave the Bernabeu. “He wants to play the rest of his life at Real Madrid,” he told Fichajes....

As far as announcements and villain reveals for Batman: Arkham City go, Rocksteady has decided to remain silent with the little time left before the game’s release next week. In fact, the reveal for the Mad Hatter was discovered completely by accident. Of course, the dam could burst anytime now that the Xbox 360 version of the game has been leaked. However, the newly released launch trailer for Batman: Arkham City features some choice bits of dialog that, when combined with other information known about the game, paints an interesting picture....

[Rocksteady has unveiled the newest villain, and some of you may be surprised with their choice. Check it out here!] If there’s one superhero who is defined as much by his enemies as his own methods of crime-fighting, it has to be Batman. And with Arkham City, most if not all of the most beloved villains are on hand to appear. The Dark Knight is set to face off against the Riddler’s devious challenge rooms, take on the new alliance between Penguin and Solomon Grundy, and avoid being frozen to death by Mr....

Is Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition of better value than the less-expensive Game of the Year editions of the PS3/Xbox 360 versions and do the new GamePad features improve the experience? Read on for our review. We’ve already reviewed the original content and gameplay of Batman: Arkham City for its release on the PS3/Xbox 360 as well as its graphically-enhanced PC port, giving both the highest praise for its open-world, amazing combat and fun, character-filled story....

[HTML1] From details on the Batmobile to commentary on Rocksteady’s decision to end its now iconic run with DC’s brooding hero, the last month has been chock-full of news related to Batman: Arkham Knight. None of the screenshots or trailers have inspired quite the same kind of internet creativity that the reveal of the Ben Affleck batsuit for Batman vs. Superman did last week, but it has still been exciting stuff for fans of the franchise....

That said, even if hitting the Ultra tier wasn’t the goal, it’s still nice to know where one’s PC stands compared to what the game recommends. It’s in situations like that when seeing the PC specs early comes in handy, giving people time to prepare and decide if PC is the best option. Batman: Arkham Knight will be one of the upcoming games that will have many players comparing the PC, PS4 and Xbox One versions, if only because the game promises high quality visuals....

The issue of playable female characters is a little more complicated when it comes to modern military shooters like the Call of Duty and Battlefield franchises, which are tied to a certain level of realism (okay, quite loosely tied). Though a number of countries - including Canada, France, Israel and Sweden - already allow female soldiers in front-line infantry roles, the ban on women in combat was only lifted in the US earlier this year, and in the UK armed forces women are still prohibited from front-line combat....

[HTML1] Tomorrow marks the day that all Battlefield Premium subscribers gain access to the second batch of new downloadable content for Battlefield 3. We’re not counting Back to Karkand since it came before Premium to those who pre-ordered the Limited Edition of the game and it’s comprised of remakes of maps from previous games in the franchise. PS3 players could explore the large vehicle-centric maps of Armored Kill last week thanks to the timed exclusivity deal EA signed with Sony for the game’s additional content and as such, there are already early positive reviews to go along with gameplay videos, including some that feature some fun and interesting Easter eggs that players have found in the first few days of gameplay....

So what exactly is DICE looking into to patch in Battlefield 3? Senior gameplay designer, Alan Kertz lays it out for us: Firstly, the tactical light will be receiving a nerf. Yes, no longer will you be blinded from what seems like 100 feet away when someone is pointing a flashlight at you. The light will still function as normal, except the effectiveness of the brightness will be determined by how far away players are from one another....

Madrid claimed what could prove to be a crucial 2-1 win away to Athletic Bilbao on Saturday courtesy of goals from Karim Benzema and Casemiro, either side of an Aritz Aduriz header. Team effort helps Madrid through title test The result puts the European champions five points clear of Barcelona ahead of their trip to Valencia on Sunday and guarantees that they will head into the international break as leaders....

But these days the real Linda Richman is a fast-rising star in the world of personal growth. For the last two years she has been giving “self-hope” seminars at the tony Canyon Ranch spa in Arizona. Soon you’ll be able to see her lectures on public television. And she has written a book, released in January, called “I’d Rather Laugh: How to Be Happy Even When Life Has Other Plans for You,” in which she dismisses what she calls “woo-woo spirituality” in favor of some straight talk on living with loss–all told from the no-nonsense perspective of one of America’s most famous Jewish mothers....

Benzema has gone on to be one of Real’s greatest ever goalscorers since moving from Lyon in 2009, with 272 goals in 545 appearances. However, he was initially unsure whether his future would lie in Madrid and, according to former Juventus and Italy midfielder Marchisio, he very nearly chose to continue his career in Turin instead. What did Marchisio say? Interviewed by the YouTube channel ‘Cronache di Spogliatoio’, Marchisio said of Benzema: “He is a great player....

First and foremost, the story in Beyond: Two Souls, like its predecessor Heavy Rain, is shaped by the player, who must make some tough and life-changing decisions for its protagonist Jodie Holmes. And while we would have liked to discuss some of those decisions in our review, we felt it was better to leave the story relatively unspoiled to preserve the experience. At the same time, the story in Beyond: Two Souls is still worth discussing, as there are so many ways the narrative could go....

Spurs came from two goals down to draw 2-2 in the first leg in Turin, but were given a taste of their own medicine at Wembley on Wednesday. Gonzalo Higuain and Paulo Dybala scored in the space of three second-half minutes to turn the last-16 tie around after Son Heung-min put Pochettino’s men ahead before the break. And the Tottenham boss felt slack defending proved the difference as last season’s runner-up Juve moved into the quarter-finals 4-3 on aggregate....

The Reds recorded a joint-record Premier League win at Anfield against the Cherries, with the Brazil international stealing the show. Firmino arguably would not have started the game if it weren’t for Darwin Nunez’s red card against Crystal Palace. The Uruguay international missed Liverpool’s trip to Old Trafford on August 22 as a result, which the Reds lost 2-1. Firmino was at the end of a lot of criticism that day, but he fired back at his critics by scoring a brace and providing a hat-trick of assists against Bournemouth....

Keemstar, also known as Keem, host of the popular YouTube celebrity news show DramaAlert, rallied against the entire collective of K-Pop lovers and reported a multitude of fan accounts for spam. The video blogger dedicated the early hours of the morning on Monday just to flag accounts on Twitter. “Drinking a coffee at 10pm cus I’m staying up all night to do community service. I will be flagging every Kpop stan account for spam for the next 12 hours....

The Argentine icon has won five Ballons d’Or in an esteemed career that has seen him become Barca’s record goalscorer – he has also earned the right to be labelled one of the greatest players ever to grace the game. Messi 11/5 to score 1st vs. Valencia Sylvinho, a former Barca defender, vividly remembers Messi’s first day with the club, and says his talent was immediately obvious. “How the time goes by,” he said in an exclusive interview with Goal....