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Larian has released the anticipated Patch 6 for the winner of some awards, Baldur’s Gate 3. This patch improves the most important feature of the game: kissing. Actually, we basically covered this patch before, but now that it’s out in the wild, we can cut it open and see what’s inside. As I lead with, the biggest addition is a tonne of new kissing animations. Beyond just kissing, the patch notes say that they’ve “improved” some of the final cinematics to “better reflect the connection between players and their…

Researchers have delved into the ancient past to discover when romantic kissing likely originated and the pathogens, such as the herpes simplex virus, that have followed the practice from then until now.Troels Pank Arbøll and Sophie Lund Rasmussen examined cuneiform writings from Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq and Syria, looking for references to kissing.The pair differentiate between two types of kiss: the "friendly-parental" kiss and the "romantic-sexual" kiss. The former is the kind of kiss a mother gives her child when…

What is a man? A miserable pile of smooches! It might be Valentine’s Day, but we’re going to have to wait a bit longer for that love blood to hit the water. The Deep End Games and 2124 Publishing has announced that Romancelvania, their unholy cross-breed of Metroidvania and dating sim, will be hitting the bedsheets March 7, 2023. Romancelvania introduces us to a Dracula whose confidence is still laid up after a savage beating at the hands of the Van Helsing clan. Their lover left them, their minions don’t respect…