Baldur's Gate 3 is a phenomenal game—noteworthy not just for being a very good RPG, but also several brilliant performances and a heck of a lot of mocapping. Having spoken to some of its cast myself in the past, I can speak to the thought and weight they've put behind their work.

As can Alix Wilton Regan, voice of the female inquisitor in Dragon Age: Inquisition, who recently spoke with GamesRadar+ at the BAFTA game awards: "Video game acting is, at times, hard, demanding, and also challenging, and it's also joyous, and it's filled with, literally, blood and sweat and tears, especially if you're on the [performance capture] stage."

That can be hard for certain videogame companies (cough cough, Amazon Games) to remember, especially during the industry's current obsession with AI, which could cut out all sorts of creative "middlemen" such as writers, actors, artists, and QA testers. Heck, let's get rid of developers while we're at it—you get the picture.

"Video game actors, they deserve their flowers, because we help pull the audience in to elevate the writing, the animation, the direction, the tone," Regan continues. "I give a massive shout-out here to the Baldur's Gate 3 crew, because they were the ones who made all the other video game actors sit up and take note and realize, 'Yeah, actually, we are loved, our work does have value, and we too deserve to stand up and be counted.'

"I've literally said this to, like, Jennifer English's face, or Neil Newbon. I've been up to Ben Starr, and I'm like, 'You changed the game.'"

The unwarranted disrespect towards videogame actors isn't anything new, mind. Take this quote—fittingly, from BG3 star Neil Newbon himself—speaking to Entertainment Weekly last year: "I had conversations about, 'That's going to look really good when we get the real actors in.' I was like, 'What do you mean real actors?' I'm a real actor. I went to the f*cking Edinburgh Festival, man!"

And while I don't think actors aren't appreciated by people who are into videogames—if you've played enough, you almost certainly have favourites—I will admit, it's nice to see Baldur's Gate 3 doing well enough for Neil Newbon to snap up an award while competing in the same category as movie star Idris Elba.

I'm pretty sure everyone has a group of friends they actively avoid playing Minecraft with, solely because you know the second you leave your chests or base unattended it will be wrecked and ruined. Don't get me wrong, I love a little giggle with my pals as much as the next person, but the number of times I've lost an inventory full of valuables because of a prank my friends have pulled have been enough to stop me from playing for a while in the past.

From elaborate piston traps to good old-fashioned TNT, the creative bounds of messing with your friends have no limits in Minecraft, and the upcoming Chaos Cubed update will inherently make this worse through adding the ability to craft geysers. With a magma block, a potent sulphur block, and a little pool of water, you can now create a blast of water that will send an unsuspecting player hurtling into the air.

This could be incredibly useful if you want to build some sort of launch point so you can take flight with the Elytra equipped, or if you need to send mobs away from your base in a flash. But I just know I'll step out from my home after spending hours preparing for an expedition only to be sent flying into the air before hearing my friends cackle down their mics. It's inevitable at this point, and I've already come to accept it before the update releases.

Outside of launch pads and pranks, I'm sure there are plenty of ways you can make use of geysers too, and frankly I'm excited to see how they're used by players once they roll out officially. There's bound to be plenty of elaborate machines I'll desperately try to recreate before failing miserably and no doubt losing all my XP in the process. That's part of the fun of new features like this though.

You don't even have to wait to see what the geysers are capable of if you don't want to. All of the features previously shared from the Chaos Cubed update, alongside the geysers, are available for testing in both Bedrock and Java editions, so if you want to start playing around and see what you can create, you're free to. Maybe I need to start mastering the geyser before my friends have a chance to, that might stop me from meeting my demise time and time again.

To celebrate Star Wars Day, streaming data company Nielsen has released a load of data from the galaxy far, far away. It released a list of the most-watched shows and movies from the franchise on Disney Plus – and there are a fair few surprises.

Topping the list was Andor, the Rogue One prequel that's proved itself as a huge hit with both critics and audiences. The 18-episode show was one of only three series that featured in the top 10, with both animated shows Tales of the Underworld and The Clone Wars taking the ninth and tenth slots.

The figures reveal that the most watched properties by far are the movies, with A New Hope coming in second and The Phantom Menace in third. The remaining spots are taken up by other entries of both the original and prequel trilogies, with Rogue One sneaking in at number eight, likely thanks to Andor's popularity.

However, none of the movies in the contentious sequel trilogy feature in the top 10. The films, released between 2015 and 2019, focused on Rey and her work with the Resistance amid the growing threat of The First Order. Their reception was mixed at the time, especially with the second and third movies dividing viewers, but it is surprising to see them not make an impact at all here.

None of the Star Wars live-action shows outside of Andor feature either, including The Mandalorian and Ahsoka. However, the former does appear in Nielsen's breakdown of the most popular shows and movies with each generation.

Apparently, The Mandalorian is most popular with both Gen Alpha (2-13 year-olds) and Baby Boomers (62-80 year-olds). The Clone Wars was the biggest hit with Gen Z (14-29 year-olds), while Andor topped the charts for both Millennials (30-45 year-olds) and Gen X (46-61 year-olds).

Next up for Star Wars is The Mandalorian and Grogu, which Disney is hoping will connect with all ages when it hits the big screen on May 22. For more, check out our list of all the upcoming Star Wars movies and TV shows on the way in 2026 and beyond.