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- Rocket League's Knockout Bash battle royale mode is available now
- Total War: Warhammer 3's roadmap lays out plans for Immortal Empires and mod tools
- Skull & Bones footage leaked, but it sounds like an official re-reveal isn't far off
- The making of The Gunk: how the SteamWorld devs went from mist balls to saving the planet
- A Fallout 76 theatre troupe are performing Romeo and Juliet live in-game tomorrow
- I stand with the excellent regicidal duelling robots of Hats Are Not Allowed
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt system requirements, PC performance and the best settings to use
- Dragon Age QA testers are joining the growing ranks of unionised industry workers
- Winkeltje: The Little Shop keeps things simple, but lets my imagination run wild
- Shotgun King is roguelike chess with a shotgun
- Respawn reveal the surprising backstory for new Apex Legends hero Newcastle
- Activision Blizzard shareholders approve the company's $69 billion acquisition by Microsoft
- Get an MSI RTX 3080 Ti OC for £1054 with code at CCL
- The super-fast WD Black SN850 NVMe SSD is going cheap at Best Buy
- An Elden Ring bug lets you do Getting Over It cosplay
- Analgesic Productions on exploring Sephonie, representation and accessibility
- Rogue Legacy 2 review: a dense roguelike you'll want to invest in
- Humankind’s Vitruvian update adds Leonardo da Vinci for a limited time
- The Electronic Wireless Show podcast episode 184: the best video game ideas on paper
- Microsoft set a date for 2022’s Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase
- Alice0 is evolving! Please congratulate her on her ascent to Associate Editor
- Is this the first horror game set in Sunderland?
- Microsoft Flight Simulator’s 1930s air-racers let you pretend there’s a new Crimson Skies
- Peggle goes roguelike in Peglin
- Dorfromantik review: the best strategy puzzler two years in a row
- Turbo Golf Racing's open beta will take a swing from tomorrow
- Kung fu brawler Sifu is adding difficulty options next week
- Crytek make working from home a permanent option for staff
- Raven Software QA staff win their fight for union vote
- What's better: romance, or de_dust2?
- £60.77 is an excellent price for a Corsair 240mm AiO - nearly £25 below RRP
- Here's where to find the cheapest Ryzen 5000 CPUs in the US and UK
- Warstride Challenges is an FPS where your greatest enemy... is yourself
- Call Of Duty: Warzone Season 3 is live, but we’re still waiting for its giant monsters
- The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe has a cursed awareness of its own weird, culty relevance
- Sega are delisting older versions of the classic games in Sonic Origins
- RPS@PAX 2022: We chat to TinyBuild about Hello Neighbor 2, killer vacuums, giant spiders and a very big bear
- Rocket Bot Royale is a free-to-play battle royale that captures the jubilant chaos of Worms
- Wave goodbye to Bethesda's terrible launcher as they start their big migration to Steam
- RPS@PAX 2022: The best cosplay we saw at the show
- Call Of The Sea dev's latest is a mix of The Truman Show and Logan’s Run
- Geometry puzzle game Tandis bends shapes and minds
| Rocket League's Knockout Bash battle royale mode is available now Posted: 29 Apr 2022 03:07 PM PDT  For me, the fun of Rocket League lies entirely in how its supersonic acrobat rocket-powered battle cars control. That means it's still fun even if you remove the ball and, say, turn it into a free-for-all battle royale about punting opponent cars out of bounds. That's what the time limited Knockout Bash mode does, which is available from now until May 10th. |
| Total War: Warhammer 3's roadmap lays out plans for Immortal Empires and mod tools Posted: 29 Apr 2022 02:39 PM PDT  Creative Assembly have laid out the 2022 development roadmap for Total War: Warhammer 3. It contains detailed descriptions of the fixes and balance tweaks to come over the next few months, but the exciting stuff will all land this autumn, including the series-spanning Immortal Empires, mod tools and the first of several revamps for the series' older races. |
| Skull & Bones footage leaked, but it sounds like an official re-reveal isn't far off Posted: 29 Apr 2022 01:56 PM PDT  Pirate 'em up Skull & Bones has been delayed and delayed, and is currently expected to reach port sometime this year or next. It's been a while since we last saw it in action, but four minutes of footage leaked earlier today, showing a walkthrough of the game designed to prime journalists or testers before they play the game. The seemingly old footage has already been taken down, but the official Skull & Bones Twitter account has tweeted a hint that it won't be long before we see something more official. |
| The making of The Gunk: how the SteamWorld devs went from mist balls to saving the planet Posted: 29 Apr 2022 09:00 AM PDT  Finding your niche can often be the key to success for smaller developers, but Swedish team Image & Form refuse to be pigeonholed. Over the last ten years they've tackled every genre, from tower defence to turn-based tactics, RPGs and action platformers. With their latest game, The Gunk, they've finally entered the realm of 3D adventure games. Released on Xbox Game Pass at the tail end of last year, The Gunk was a big step up for the makers of SteamWorld Dig. Not only was it their first game in 3D, and their first time using a new engine, but it was also their first title that had nothing to do with the series they'd built their name on. As it makes its way to Steam today, I sat down with director Ulf Hartelius to talk more about the creation of the game's titular goop, and how the timing of its environmental themes about cleaning up its gunked up planet was much more than just a Death Stranding-style happy accident. |
| A Fallout 76 theatre troupe are performing Romeo and Juliet live in-game tomorrow Posted: 29 Apr 2022 08:36 AM PDT  Rarely has the threat to bite your thumb at someone resulted in all-out nuclear armageddon, but one group of Fallout 76 players will prove the exception tomorrow when they perform William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet live in the game. The Wasteland Theatre Company has even built a stage they say is modelled after London’s Globe Theatre, renowned for its performances of the Bard’s plays. They’re a week late to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, but I won’t judge because I can’t even add up properly in Freddos. |
| I stand with the excellent regicidal duelling robots of Hats Are Not Allowed Posted: 29 Apr 2022 08:30 AM PDT  This is just superb. I'm not a fan of most fighting games. All too often they have too many elaborate moves, too much memory testing, or they feel like glorified puzzles you have to figure out the one solution to. Hats Are Not Allowed takes an approach I find far more interesting. Combat is pared down to a few basic principles, and the challenge comes from learning how to combine them, and timing is less about animations than about second guessing your opponent. I can't say it's one of the best dueling games ever, but it's the best one I've played for ages. |
| Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt system requirements, PC performance and the best settings to use Posted: 29 Apr 2022 07:30 AM PDT  Battle royale spinoff and subtitle collector Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt launched this week , following a delay to address feedback from its early access phase. That included ample reports of performance issues, but fortunately, what I’ve played over the past couple of days points towards a much more stable brand of last-vamp-standing shootery. Let’s take a look, then, at Bloodhunt’s PC performance, system requirements and the best settings to tweak. |
| Dragon Age QA testers are joining the growing ranks of unionised industry workers Posted: 29 Apr 2022 07:30 AM PDT  QA contractors working directly on the next Dragon Age with BioWare Edmonton have filed to unionise, just the latest in a string of such decisions affecting high-profile companies throughout the industry. The workers are employed by the internationally-operating contract services company Keywords Studios but contracted out to BioWare. They’ve now formed the KWS Edmonton United group and have named low pay and concern at being instructed back into the office while Covid-19 remains a danger as their reasons to seek collective bargaining. |
| Winkeltje: The Little Shop keeps things simple, but lets my imagination run wild Posted: 29 Apr 2022 05:30 AM PDT  A rooster calls, and the sun rises as I stock the shelves for another day in Winkeltje: The Little Shop, a business management game about running a little store in a fantasy town. I recently inherited Hefford’s Hovel and, after a manic start, have managed to become well-known for my loaves of bread. Each day customers charge into the store and raid the various displays, tussling over freshly-baked rolls before scrambling home to slap them on a plate. It’s mass hysteria, but what can I say? I make damn good bread. Fresh meals are just one of six item categories you can sell in Winkeltje, but I don’t need to worry about the rest. Over a few in-game days, your store starts to specialise in the goods you stock, so customers will visit expecting to find those same items. When you enter the Hovel, you’re greeted with the toasty warmth of the oven as the scent of baking dough drifts through the air. You won’t see us preparing potions or crafting clothes, no sir. For that, you’ll have to go elsewhere. |
| Shotgun King is roguelike chess with a shotgun Posted: 29 Apr 2022 05:13 AM PDT  Take chess, reduce one side to only the king, fill him with a terrible wrath, hand him a shotgun, then watch him go. That's Shotgun King, a roguelikelike turn-based shooter where units (mostly) move like chess pieces, only our lone king has a shotgun. It might sound like a throwaway joke game but Shotgun King is an interesting and fun challenge, especially when your upgrades also bestow different buffs upon the opposing army. And it has a free early version so you can have a go yourself. |
| Respawn reveal the surprising backstory for new Apex Legends hero Newcastle Posted: 29 Apr 2022 04:56 AM PDT  The latest backstory video for Apex Legends has arrived, but it turns out Respawn and EA pulled a fast one on us when they supposedly confirmed the identity of rookie Legend Newcastle as Jackson Williams. So Newcastle isn’t the Newcastle that's been in the Apex Legends backstory for ages, yet he is Newcastle. How does that work? Well, Jackson Williams is Newcastle now. He just wasn’t always. |
| Activision Blizzard shareholders approve the company's $69 billion acquisition by Microsoft Posted: 29 Apr 2022 03:57 AM PDT  Shareholders in Activision Blizzard approved overwhelmingly to accept Microsoft Corporation’s offer of $68.7 billion (£54.66 billion) to acquire the company at yesterday’s Special Meeting of Stockholders. More than 98% of the shares voted in favour of the buyout offer, Activision Blizzard confirmed in a statement released on their website. The largest payment for a technology company in recorded history, toppling Dell’s acquisition of EMC Data Storage from 2016, it’s now expected the deal will conclude during Microsoft’s fiscal year, which ends on June 30th 2023. |
| Get an MSI RTX 3080 Ti OC for £1054 with code at CCL Posted: 28 Apr 2022 12:35 PM PDT  Looking for a GPU? The RTX 3080 Ti offers comparable performance to the RTX 3090 while costing far less, and today there's an OC model available at the card's UK RRP. It's an Ventus 3X OC model from MSI, with a hefty triple-slot thermal solution that ought to keep the card cool and quiet even running at its factory overclocked 1695MHz. To get the discounted price, use code SAVE75 to knock a healthy £75 off the list price. That brings it down to £1054, just £5 more than the UK RRP and a great deal for an OC model. You also get free delivery, with the card slated to arrive just after the upcoming bank holiday. |
| The super-fast WD Black SN850 NVMe SSD is going cheap at Best Buy Posted: 28 Apr 2022 12:14 PM PDT  The WD Black SN850 is a fast PCIe 4.0 solid state drive, and the 1TB model with an integrated heatsink is going for $150 at Best Buy today - some $120 off the MSRP and a historic low price. This is one of the very fastest SSDs you can buy, with great sequential and random speeds, so it's a great choice for running your OS and loading games faster than ever before. It's also fully compatible with the PS5 thanks to its high speeds and integrated heatsink, making it a great plug-and-play solution for exanding your game storage on the Sony console. Either way, you should expect bleeding-edge performance thanks to high-end components and that extra cooling potential. |
| An Elden Ring bug lets you do Getting Over It cosplay Posted: 28 Apr 2022 09:30 AM PDT  Just a small daft fun thing: I'm delighted to see an Elden Ring player has realised you can use a bug to dress as the star of Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy, complete with his pot. Of all the strange outfits I've seen in Elden Ring, this is one of my favourites. What a joy to see that unlikely gaming icon again, and how gracious of him to visit an easy game for babies. |
| Analgesic Productions on exploring Sephonie, representation and accessibility Posted: 28 Apr 2022 09:00 AM PDT  Melos Han-Tani and Marina Kittaka, the dev duo that make up Analgesic Productions , seem to make games about scientists. Young, the hero of their Link’s Awakening-influenced debut Anodyne, may not technically be one, but he bears the coke-bottle glasses and white coat that may make you think he is. Aliph, the put-upon protagonist of the haunting, grief-stricken 2D side-scroller Even The Ocean, works as power plant technician. Nova, hero of Analgesic’s tour de force Anodyne 2: Return To Dust, labours as a Nano Cleaner, one with the ability to shrink inside the psyches of those plagued by Nano Dust, corrupting their thoughts. Even the word analgesic itself has a scientific background; the term means a pain-relieving drug. When the player begins Analgesic’s newest game Sephonie - part 3D platformer, part deep emotional story - three Taiwanese biologists make their way onto the titular island to explore. As the Steam page puts it: “Amy Lim, Taiwanese-American and bold leader, hails from the midwestern USA town of Bloomington. Riyou Hayashi, an analytically-minded Japanese-Taiwanese researcher, calls the bustling Tokyo his home. And Ing-wen Lin, a kind and considerate Taiwanese scientist, lives in Taipei.” |
| Rogue Legacy 2 review: a dense roguelike you'll want to invest in Posted: 28 Apr 2022 08:44 AM PDT  After a year in early access, Rogue Legacy 2 has born a 1.0 heir, and it's a game I've become well-acquainted with over the last few days. They're a complex individual with violent tendencies, but invest in them and they'll flower into a roguelike that you won't be able to detach yourself from. The game is a worthy successor to the original Rogue Legacy, and one that builds on it with a wealth of incentives to make your runs more rewarding. Upgrades up the wazoo, gold bursting from your breeches, double-jumps and air-dashes. Progression is a pleasure, basically, and it's something that never becomes a bore, no matter how good you are at staying alive. I mean, the game is built with death in mind, after all. |
| Humankind’s Vitruvian update adds Leonardo da Vinci for a limited time Posted: 28 Apr 2022 08:17 AM PDT  Humankind’s free Vitruvian update has arrived and it introduces one of history’s greatest inventors, artists and inspirations behind a Ninja Turtle: Renaissance legend Leonardo da Vinci. An avatar and persona of da Vinci are unlockable rewards for completing six new challenges in the game’s Da Vinci Event, running through May 16th. Sift through full patch notes for the Vitruvian update here for details of the bug fixes and some subtle changes to the UI, Beliefs system and, of course, trebuchets. |
| The Electronic Wireless Show podcast episode 184: the best video game ideas on paper Posted: 28 Apr 2022 08:00 AM PDT  We're a two-hander this week, as Nate has a sore throat, but Matthew and I have a jolly old time talking about the games that sound like amazing ideas on paper (whether they end up being great off the paper or not) and even manage to contrast them with games that sound like a bad pitch but end up great. We manage to talk about a lot of games in a sensible way, and even gesture at serious discussion of how prestige indies can dominate their niche to the detriment of other interesting games. Also we talk about holes quite a lot. |
| Microsoft set a date for 2022’s Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase Posted: 28 Apr 2022 07:35 AM PDT  This year’s Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase will take place online on June 12th, Microsoft have announced today via Xbox Wire. The announcement is light on details right now, as you might expect, but there’s the promise of a “diverse line-up of games coming soon to the Xbox ecosystem, including upcoming releases to Game Pass on Xbox and PC”. Personally, I'm hoping we'll see our first proper gameplay footage of Starfield, given it launches almost five months to the day from that date. There could also finally be some movement on in-development projects like the next Fable from Playground Games and Undead Labs’ State of Decay 3 too. Here's hoping! |
| Alice0 is evolving! Please congratulate her on her ascent to Associate Editor Posted: 28 Apr 2022 07:21 AM PDT  Exciting news today, folks. Our esteemed Alice0 is stepping into a brand-new role at the RPS Treehouse, morphing from News Editor into our very first Associate Editor. Alice0 has done an incredible job leading the news desk since she joined the site all the way back in 2014, but this new role will give her the space and freedom to step back from the daily news cycle and focus on writing the things she does best: the What's Betters of this world, elegies to exploding mouse mats, intriguing mod scene and esports stuff, and posts about more bikes in video games please. Come and congratulate her in the comments below. |
| Is this the first horror game set in Sunderland? Posted: 28 Apr 2022 06:32 AM PDT  You've survived Silent Hill and escaped Raccoon City, but are you ready to visit Sunderland? A pleasantly unpleasant new free horror game goes down inside the real Sunderland metro station of Park Lane, and I can't think of any other game set in the Northern English city. I am delighted when hyper-local mundanities appear in video games. |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator’s 1930s air-racers let you pretend there’s a new Crimson Skies Posted: 28 Apr 2022 04:41 AM PDT  Two more aircraft have dived into Microsoft Flight Simulator’s roster in its second Famous Flyers pack of paid DLC, the 1930s Gee Bee Super Sportster air-racers. The stubby-winged, compact Model Z and Model R-2 arrive as the game sees its ninth update, with plenty of bug fixes, a new Spotlight Event landing challenge and an authentic vapour cone for when you go supersonic in the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. Developers Asobo Studio have also patched in their own office in Bordeaux if you want to fly past and wave hello. |
| Peggle goes roguelike in Peglin Posted: 28 Apr 2022 03:44 AM PDT  Combine the peg-pinging action of Peggle with the roguelikelike dungeon crawling of Slay The Spire and you get Peglin, a delightful game which launched into early access on Monday. Off your cute wee peglin goes on an adventure, battling baddies and claiming treasures, but damage is dealt by pling-plonging orbs down Peggle/pachinko boards and you have a bag of different orbs instead of cards. I like it, and it has a demo you can try for yourself. |
| Dorfromantik review: the best strategy puzzler two years in a row Posted: 28 Apr 2022 01:00 AM PDT  Until last year, the idea of having a 'forever game' never really clicked with me. I'm too old and thin-skinned to enjoy the competitive nature of most online FPS games, and rallying together a regular squad of buddies to tackle the world of games as a service always seemed too much like hard work. Heck, even the allure of daily challenges in some of my favourite single-player games has never quite hooked me in the same way I've seen them take hold in friends and family. But with Dorfromantik, the chill, pastoral village builder from Toukana Interactive, I finally understand the journey towards that mythic 'forever' status. |
| Turbo Golf Racing's open beta will take a swing from tomorrow Posted: 27 Apr 2022 02:33 PM PDT  What's with all the golf, Alice B asked recently, much as I did when I turned 13 and suddenly all my friends took up the pastime. I had no answer then and I have no answer now, but Turbo Golf Racing is the most interesting of the recent crop of wacky walk-spoilers. It's golf with cars, or Rocket League with golf, and it's launching a cross-platform beta tomorrow. |
| Kung fu brawler Sifu is adding difficulty options next week Posted: 27 Apr 2022 02:09 PM PDT  In his Sifu review for us, Jai found the kung fu brawler difficult enough that at one point he thought he "was going to eat" his controller. He didn't, thankfully, and enjoyed the game a lot overall. If you have ingested your controller, you might want to sick it up again quick, because a free update coming to Sifu next week will add new difficulty modes and training options. |
| Crytek make working from home a permanent option for staff Posted: 27 Apr 2022 01:51 PM PDT  Crytek, developers of Hunt: Showdown and the Crysis series, have announced that "the company has adopted a remote work option for employees who prefer it." The decision comes after the studio initially switched to work-from-home during the Covid-19 pandemic and found that development didn't slow down, and follows a similar decision made by Destiny developer Bungie last month. |
| Raven Software QA staff win their fight for union vote Posted: 27 Apr 2022 12:38 PM PDT  The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have ruled this week that Raven Software's 21 QA staff can vote on whether to form a union. The decision comes after months of arguments by Raven and Activision Blizzard management that the employees' petition be either denied or amended in such a way that, QA staff say, would have drastically reduced the chances of the vote being successful. |
| What's better: romance, or de_dust2? Posted: 27 Apr 2022 12:00 PM PDT  Last week, our mission resumed after a wee hiatus and you decided that parody in-game brands are better than photo modes. Or are less bad? Some of you have a lot of pent-up frustration because you lack the dexterity to keep your fingers from fumbling photo buttons. But it is decided, and we must move on. This week, it's a question of love versus a battlefield. What's better: romance, or iconic Counter-Strike map de_dust2? |
| £60.77 is an excellent price for a Corsair 240mm AiO - nearly £25 below RRP Posted: 27 Apr 2022 11:39 AM PDT  Corsair make a particularly fine selection of AiOs, also known as all-in-one liquid coolers. They use off-the-shelf designs for their pumps and radiators, as do many other companies, but distinguish themselves with good-quality fans, optional lighting and low prices for a major brand. That last point is particularly pertinent today, as their H100X 240mm AiO has dropped to nearly £60 on Amazon UK - a significantly lower price than any alternative that I'd rate as highly and some £25 below this AiO's original launch price. |
| Here's where to find the cheapest Ryzen 5000 CPUs in the US and UK Posted: 27 Apr 2022 10:52 AM PDT  A new raft of Ryzen 5000 processors has hit virtual and physical shelves, making it a good time to pick up a new AM4 CPU at a discounted price. The appearance of the lower-end Ryzen 5500, 5600 and mid-range 5700X have pushed prices for their more expensive counterparts way down, while the 5800X3D remains hard to find due to its relatively low supply and impressive gaming performance. If you were thinking of upgrading, you might be interested to know which retailers in the US and UK are selling each of these processors, and for how much. I was interested myself, so I put together a couple of small spreadsheets to find out - and the results suprised me. |
| Warstride Challenges is an FPS where your greatest enemy... is yourself Posted: 27 Apr 2022 09:30 AM PDT  Warstride Challenges is a retro-inspired FPS that's also a rally game at heart. The game rules and I am smitten with it, mainly because it puts my FPS acumen through its paces: aim, movement, and shrimp-back are all subject to rigorous testing. But the game also appeals to a primal, competitive side of me. The one that's desperate to beat my rival Patrick, a bot who's literally programmed to be really good, and Edders, a ghostly version of myself who either strokes my ego or shatters it to pieces. |
| Call Of Duty: Warzone Season 3 is live, but we’re still waiting for its giant monsters Posted: 27 Apr 2022 09:14 AM PDT  Raven Software’s military battle royale Call of Duty: Warzone sees the arrival of Season 3, Classified Arms, today, which just went live at 9am PDT/5pm BST. The update is also dropping for Call of Duty: Vanguard. In addition to new guns and a special timed event featuring Godzilla and King Kong (because of course), this season also sees the debut of some new types of private matches - although Raven have qualified that the latter are temporarily disabled due to “stability issues”. At least that gives us time to download the 39GB update for Warzone, but remember to leave 13GB extra room for the patch to copy. |
| The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe has a cursed awareness of its own weird, culty relevance Posted: 27 Apr 2022 09:00 AM PDT  The Stanley Parable is a game about a man who leaves his desk one day to discover that all of his most difficult to animate colleagues have vanished. First released in 2011 as a Half-Life 2 mod, it is a wild fantasy about what it might be like to not be in front of the computer for a while. There’s also some bonus themes in here about determinism in narrative fiction and the illusion of choice, framed as a satire of contemporary game design, but also as an incisive commentary on the notion of free will in general. But most of all, I think that The Stanley Parable is a game about not being in front of the computer for a little while, as a treat. There’s an achievement you get for not playing the game for five years, and in The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe – a remastered version for consoles that adds some new content – there’s another achievement for ten. If they could implement an achievement for feeding all of your worldly belongings into a woodchipper and staggering naked into the forest to live with the animals, they probably would. |
| Sega are delisting older versions of the classic games in Sonic Origins Posted: 27 Apr 2022 08:38 AM PDT  Not content with confusing people with the Sonic Origins collection announcement last week, Sega are now delisting old versions of the games included within it from May 20th. That means Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Sonic CD will bid farewell to Steam in their standalone form. Oh well, there’s always emulation. Or forking out literally twice as much for Sonic Origins, I suppose. |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2022 08:30 AM PDT  If you thought Larian's walled castle booth at this year's PAX East was impressive, wait until you clap eyes on TinyBuild's full-on PAX carnival. It was here where we saw Potion Craft's delightfully detailed little magic tent, for example, as well as the world's largest luminescent, inflatable spider, who was on hand repping their new arachnid-based multiplayer lightsaber game, Spiderheck. To talk more about the stand and the publisher's upcoming slate of games, we spoke to CEO Alex Nichiporchik, all in the company of his good (and grizzly) friend Larry the bear. |
| Rocket Bot Royale is a free-to-play battle royale that captures the jubilant chaos of Worms Posted: 27 Apr 2022 08:12 AM PDT  Damn. I really have my work cut out for me with this one. I've given myself the span of a fairly short post to try and convince you, dear reader, to give Rocket Bot Royale a shot. It looks like a browser-based game, and it is. It looks like it's probably not worth anyone's time except schoolkids playing on computers in the IT department during their lunch breaks. But goodness me, is there more going on here than meets the eye. As I've made abundantly clear ever since I joined RPS, battle royales are my jam. I'll happily bulk out my Steam library with reams of half-baked ideas and clunky combat systems in the hopes of finding the next big time-sink for me and my squadmates to get lost in over the next several months. I fully expected Rocket Bot Royale to be left at the bottom of my most played games on Steam list after a few weeks, but after a few hours of play, I'm starting to think eventually it might arrive at the top. It's Worms, but with tanks. It's free to play. And I absolutely cannot stop playing it. |
| Wave goodbye to Bethesda's terrible launcher as they start their big migration to Steam Posted: 27 Apr 2022 06:47 AM PDT  Today’s the day Bethesda crack open the humongous blast shields at their base in Rockville, Maryland, finally taking the brave step of plonking their back catalogue and future games fully onto Steam after six years of trying to make their own launcher happen. Don’t worry, you’ll have the option to transfer over your games, saves and Wallet balance until May 11th. You'll have to redownload everything unfortunately, but any game you happen to own via the Bethesda.net Launcher should appear as a free purchase on a linked Steam account. |
| RPS@PAX 2022: The best cosplay we saw at the show Posted: 27 Apr 2022 04:39 AM PDT  PAX East 2022 may be done and dusted for another year, but we've still got plenty more PAX-related goodies coming down the content pipes - and what better way to kick off our post-PAX offering than by rounding up all the best cosplay we saw down on the show floor? After all, it wouldn't be PAX, or indeed any kind of convention, without attendees showing off their incredible handiwork, so come and celebrate their sewing needle and glue gun skills by watching the video below. |
| Call Of The Sea dev's latest is a mix of The Truman Show and Logan’s Run Posted: 27 Apr 2022 04:09 AM PDT  The studio behind the 1930s supernatural mermaid-filled adventure Call Of The Sea have announced their next game, and it looks like a tonally bang-on pastiche of reality shows, social media saturation and 1970s dystopian sci-fi. Published by Raw Fury, American Arcadia centres on Trevor Hills – an average bloke in flares, tank top and ‘tache – who is a bit too boring to survive the unwitting reality-show metropolis of Arcadia where he lives. Cue a mysterious guide who may or may not be trying to help Trev escape. It's good to hear that Yuri Lowenthal and Cissy Jones are back on voice duties, presumably as Trevor and his new pal, after their top-notch performances in Call Of The Sea. |
| Geometry puzzle game Tandis bends shapes and minds Posted: 27 Apr 2022 03:19 AM PDT  I respect shape-making puzzle game Tandis, though I am terrible at it. It's a game about bending and distorting shapes by applying mathematical transformations, starting with a simple flat sheet and aiming to replicate elaborate 3D shapes which look like blown glass sculptures. It's done cleverly and simply by dragging shapes through zones which distort them in real time but alas, I myself am simple too. Some of the shapes I've accidentally made in Tandis are downright reality-breaking. |
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