Month: September 2024

The Chaos Dwarfs are coming. That’s not the last, baffled whimper of my diseased mind, it’s a statement of fact: Chaos Dwarf DLC is finally coming to Total War: Warhammer 3 alongside the game’s 3.0 update on April 13.

The “Chorfs,” as they’re also known, have been a much-desired addition for a while now. If you’re unfamiliar, they’re, uh, pretty much evil dwarfs: A gang of malicious mechanics who use big, smoke-belching machines wrought of steel and sorcery to do war crimes. Naturally, players seem to love them, and everyone’s very excited they’re finally putting in an appearance in Total War: Warhammer 3. 

The Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs DLC will include “three ferocious and foul Legendary Lords,” meaning “Astragoth Ironhand, High Priest of Hashut; Drazhoath the Ashen, Sorcerer Prophet of Hashut; and Zhatan the Black, commander of the Tower of Zharr”. 

Backing them up is a new hero, the “one and only Legendary Hobgoblin Hero himself, Gorduz Backstabber”. With a name like that, I guess ‘frightful servant to the Chaos Dwarfs’ is one of the few career paths open to you. Old Gorduz will also “improve hobgoblins” around him whenever he’s on the board, like …

Baldur’s Gate 3’s Dark Urge is a major highlight of the story—putting the player character in the role of a barely-composed murderer with the choice to either lean into, or away from, the urge to slaughter.

Chief among the Dark Urge’s accomplishments is how it’s consistently gross with its narration, often managing to be both off-putting and just visceral enough to let your imagination do the rest of the mauling. Imagine my surprise when, reading through Eurogamer’s interview with the Dark Urge storyline’s lead writer, I discovered the Dark Urge’s writer wasn’t a fan of gore at all.

Baudelaire Welch was selected for the role by Swen Vincke himself because their “mother worked partially on the script for Silence of the Lambs, the movie”, they explain. “I think Swen got that in his mind a little bit like, ‘You’ll be good at this’.” As the interview reveals, however, Welch is a self-described “squeamish” individual (many sympathies, I can’t make it through horror movies myself) and, hilariously, that they “hate gore!”

Writing director Adam Smith, however, maintains that was exactly the point: “When you get somebody who is really into gore and horror…