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Baldur's Gate 3's Honour Mode world record drops under 19 minutes as two top RPG speedrunners battle it out

Will anyone be able to beat the current 18m 57s world record?

"And I took that personally": Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner has her time beaten by an obscene margin and then takes back the world record one day later

"And I took that personally": Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner has her time beaten by an obscene margin and then takes back the world record one day later

"Trying to take my Baldur's Gate 3 speedrun records may result in unforeseen harm and new gold splits"

Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner beats Ketheric Thorm to death with 11,000 pounds of invisible bear, shaves another 2 minutes off her Honour Mode world record

Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner beats Ketheric Thorm to death with 11,000 pounds of invisible bear, shaves another 2 minutes off her Honour Mode world record

And the dice rolls weren't even perfect.

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Baldur's Gate 3's leading speedrunner sets a new world record on the RPG's hardest difficulty, and it's only 12 seconds slower than the easy mode

Mae holds the speedrunning world record for several of Baldur's Gate 3's categories

Prolific Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner who turned Shadowheart into a 10,000-pound bear to set a 20-minute category record says the RPG's community spent months figuring the strategy out

It takes a village to turn god's favorite princess into a bear for glory

Baldur's Gate 3's quad world record-holding speedrunner dishes on the invisible bears, companion murdering, and moon jumping that changed her life

"It's super cool when people recognize me, but there are times where I'd rather just be 'Mae the Internet Stranger' and not 'Mae the Sex Speedrunner.'"

Minthara takes centre-stage as the new face of Sex% Baldur's Gate 3 speedruns: 'Larian tried to patch out sex speedrunning. Unfortunately for them, we are not so easily deterred'

Hey Minthara, that a drider leg in your pocket? Or are you just happy to—oh, it's a drider leg. Okay.

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This mind-boggling new Baldur's Gate 3 Honour Mode world record boasts so many elite tricks I'm now convinced its speedrunner is an actual wizard

This mind-boggling new Baldur's Gate 3 Honour Mode world record boasts so many elite tricks I'm now convinced its speedrunner is an actual wizard

"10/10 best speedrun ever!"

Baldur's Gate 3's champion speedrunner just smashed two world records in as many days through the power of friendly fire, invisible bears, and throwing a guy off a bridge

Baldur's Gate 3's champion speedrunner just smashed two world records in as many days through the power of friendly fire, invisible bears, and throwing a guy off a bridge

BG3 all-acts is now sub-20, while Mae beat the mondo-hard Honour mode in a brisk 21:17.

Freya Allan teases "incredible" Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, says it's the "proudest moment" of her career so far

Freya Allan teases "incredible" Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, says it's the "proudest moment" of her career so far

Exclusive: The Witcher star chats to GamesRadar+ about the all-ape epic that swings into cinemas later this year

Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner reverse-pickpockets a boss to teleport to the dev room, defeats another boss with 'Shadowbear'

Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner reverse-pickpockets a boss to teleport to the dev room, defeats another boss with 'Shadowbear'

Spoilers ahead.

Hilary Duff Is Pregnant With Her 4th Child: "Surprise Surprise!"

Hilary Duff Is Pregnant With Her 4th Child: "Surprise Surprise!"

Congratulations!!!

10 ways to show your support to someone suffering from baby loss at Christmas, with advice from the experts and those who have experienced it

10 ways to show your support to someone suffering from baby loss at Christmas, with advice from the experts and those who have experienced it

Advice on how to navigate the festive season when someone you know is suffering the bereavement of a baby

Derelict site on London’s Billionaire’s Row ‘has space for 300 homes’

Derelict site on London’s Billionaire’s Row ‘has space for 300 homes’

Award-winning architects draw up blueprint for affordable homes on Bishops Avenue site known for its array of abandoned mansions

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Baldur's Gate 3 sex speedrunners rejoice after Larian immediately reversed Lae'zel change - without telling anyone

A fix following Patch 4 has lowered Lae'zel's standards once more

Baldur's Gate 3's new patch made its thirstiest companion slower to warm up to you, with dire consequences for its beloved Sex% speedrun category

Lae'zel has suddenly developed much stricter standards.

Powered by spite, Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner cleaves 12 minutes off the world record with dozens of glitches—like trapping a villain in a child's body and knocking them out

Speedrunners are horrifying.

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Retirement day centre in London named UK’s best new building by RIBA

The centre provides care for the residents of charity Morden College

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Retirement day centre in London named UK’s best new building

Designed by Mae, who is the winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2023, the centre provides care for the residents of Morden College.

Baldur's Gate 3 horniest speedrunning category is heating up

Sex% is now an official Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunning category

Baldur's Gate 3 has its own subculture of sex speedrunning

Baldur's Gate 3 players are competing to see who can romance the game's companions the fastest in a brand-new form of steamy speedrunning.

Sex% is now an official Baldur's Gate 3 speedrun category and someone already did it in under 8 minutes

You read that right.

Baldur's Gate 3 has a new Gale-centric speedrun category that lets you 'beat' the game in 10 minutes by blowing yourself up

Hey, Ketheric, watch this!

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Six must-read summer fiction books – reviewed by our experts

Summer is here and many people have more time to read. Whether you’re looking for a steamy read for the beach, a twisty mystery to pass the time on a long train journey or an engrossing work of historical fiction to accompany you to the park, our experts in literature…

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Top 10 Sapphic love stories

The days when lesbian stories were always racked with anguish are behind us. As Pride month gets under way, here is some rather more joyful reading

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