A REAL ARTIST reviews our Dragon’s Dogma 2 Character Creations

They’re all beautiful Arisen, especially George Costanza.

Yeah, get a load of that headline, art people. With your paintbrushes, your easels, and your pointless degrees. We, a group of people with equally expensive degrees that might honestly be a tiny bit more useless have made some art using Dragon’s Dogma 2 ’s very nice character creator.

Obviously there’s more to DD2 than just trying to recreate your nan, or your cat, or your favorite member of the Bee Gees, but quite frankly, you can get lost in just picking your nose all on its own. So, that’s what we’ve gone and done.

Jim and his friend, er, let me look this up, Owen O’Donnell of The Infinite Review, teamed up to take a look at some of the characters us at VG247 and a couple of other people who either are or have been associated with Gamer Network at some point in time have created in Dragon’s Dogma 2. Every character showcased and analysed in the kind of depth you can only expect from a man who actively grimaces whenever he has to reveal his own pick on our podcast - despite the fact he’s in control of it - and one of that man’s mates was definitely created in Dragon’s Dogma 2.

Especially the one you see at about the four minute and thirty second mark. The rest of them are just the same, and definitely worth tuning in to check out, even if Jim didn’t use a little audio clip I sent him to help convey the beauty of one of my creations, not that it needed it. If you haven’t played DD2, it’s a fascinating, hugely compelling game. You can find our review, which says something to that effect in a very snappy manner, here , and if that’s not enough, you can watch Jim and Eurogamer’s Ian Higton play the first three hours of it here .

So yeah, check out our art in the video above, with commentary from Jim and The Infinite Review’s Owen O’Donnell, who’s also been on VG247’s podcast before, possibly mutiple times, but I can’t quite remember because my memory only acknowledges the episodes that feature a mention of the original Midnight Club or Football Manager.

Dragon’s Dogma 2

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Football Manager

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A REAL ARTIST reviews our Dragon's Dogma 2 Character Creations - 5

Midnight Club

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Wishlisted - Our 10 Best Steam Next Fest Demos

Another Next Fest kicks off soon, but we’ve already done the digging for you.

Welcome to Wishlisted, a showcase of our favourite demos from Steam Next Fest: June 2024. Check the video above or watch on YouTube .

Finding the Best NextFest Demos is all about the joy of discovery, but with so many Steam Next Fest demos getting released in such a short amount of time, it can be bewildering. So we’ve decided to show you our ten Best Steam Next Fest games which we think deserve your attention. These are all upcoming Steam Next Fest games that we’re genuinely excited for, and that we think should play nicely on PC handhelds too!

This is just the start of our Next Fest coverage. This week we’ll be previewing loads of upcoming demos across the entire network - right here on VG247, of course, but also over on our sister sites Eurogamer and Rock Paper Shotgun. Bookmark our Wishlisted Steam Fest hub to stay in the loop. And this is well before Next Fest actually starts, so you, dear reader, get to bask for a solid fortnight celebrating all the wonderful new games that are just around the corner. Enjoy!