Developers Motive recently shifted to work on the Battlefield series alongside their Iron Man game Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/EA Update: EA have now denied Grubb’s claims that the Dead Space 2 remake was in development before being effectively cancelled, telling IGN: “We don’t normally comment on rumors but there is no validity to this story.” That report adds that the sequel wasn’t considered for development to begin with, despite the first remake having performed well in EA’s eyes, according to a source. Original story continues below A remake of Dead Space 2 – following last year’s return of the…
Introducing a new playable character Image credit: MegaCrit No one can see the future, but I’ve a fairly good sense of where at least 300 hours of my life will go next year. Slay The Spire II was announced during today’s Triple-i Initiative stream, returning to the towering fantasy city where Steam says I’ve spent more than 300 hours building decks and battling monsters. While the announcement doesn’t reveal much about the sequel, Slay The Spire is still my favourite roguelikelike deck-builder, so that’s just grand. Watch on YouTube 2019’s Slay The Spire is a roguelikelike deck-builder where you play…
The stream itself and our highlights Image credit: The Triple-I Initiative Today’s the birthday of the Triple-I Initiative, a 45-minute showcase of game announcements and trailers from the likes of Slay The Spire devs MegaCrit, Darkest Dungeon devs Red Hook and Dead Cells custodians Evil Empire. What makes a “triple-I” game a “triple-I” game, as opposed to (hawk, spit) a regular indie? I’ve given it some thought, and I think the answer is: “has more money and status than most indies, but not, like, Call of Duty levels, and also one of our partners is Gearbox Publishing, so this is…
If only other developers agreed Dragon’s Dogma 2 is seemingly a superb game, when it’s not buggy or surprising its players with microtransactions. CD Projekt Red are no stranger to releasing buggy games, but they’re less keen on microtransactions – at least for singleplayer games. In an interview with a Polish investor site, CDPR’s chief financial officer Piotr Nielubowicz said that they “do not see a place for microtransactions in the case of singleplayer games”, but they wouldn’t rule it out for multiplayer. The interview, conducted via Stockwatch.pl and machine-translated by Google, included a question about whether mictroasactions will be…
Cyberpunk 2077 team drops to just 17, which studio say is “enough” given no more big updates are planned Image credit: CD Projekt Red CD Projekt Red are continuing to bulk up the team developing The Witcher 4 – officially codenamed Polaris – with two-thirds of the studio now working on the follow-up to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Meanwhile, the team working on Cyberpunk 2077 has shrunk to fewer than 20 people, less than half the number working on its upcoming sequel. Cd Projekt Red Are Making A New Witcher Trilogy, A Sequel To Cyberpunk 2077 & More CD…
Assume more guns, more deserts, more unfunny jokes? Alongside announcing plans to buy Borderlands developers Gearbox from the collapsing wreckage of Embracer Group, Borderlands publishers Take-Two overnight casually mentioned that they are “in active development on next installment in Borderlands series”. This isn’t a formal announcement as much as a businessblast to hype shareholders, so it didn’t have anything specific to say about what Gearbox are up to with their wildly popular and deeply unfunny looter shooter series. It had seemed curious that the much-delayed Borderlands movie was coming out five years after the latest main series game and with…
“So along as people continue to give me money to make games, I think I’m going to make them,” says Levine. Good news for people who don’t cringe violently every time they encounter the phrase “Narrative Legos”! We’ve finally got some more details about the extremely Bioshock-adjacent Judas, courtesy of the Ian Games Network, who spent six hours playing the game and chatting to Levine at Ghost Story Games in Boston. It’s a massive interview, but very broadly, it’s an FPS game that gives you guns in your right hand and “various organic powers” in your left. It’s got a…
Sprucing up the early access survival sandbox Image credit: Keen Games Fantasy craft-o-building survival sandbox game Enshrouded today launched its first big content update, two months after entering early access. You can now enter the Hollow Halls, a series of challenging dungeons scattered around the world with new enemies and rewards. Or at the opposite end of the intensity spectrum, you can now decorate your home with loads of lovely potted plants then sit down on a chair to admire them. Come watch this video showing off these changes and many more. Enshrouded – Hollow Halls Update The devs show…
Doing the far future the old fashioned way Look up to the skyline, and tell me what you see. It is me, standing on a hill, uttering firmly with my dying breath: Mass Effect: Andromeda was pretty good. For anyone currently gathered around the hill, searching the pockets of their N7 hoodies for more heavy objects to fling at me, however, here’s some good news: the as-yet unnamed Mass Effect 5 is in the capable hands of “trilogy vets”, according to project director Michael Gamble, via Le Epic Musk Zone (OP didn’t steal), formerly Twitter. The team heading up the…
Command & Conquer, Dungeon Keeper, Sim City 3000 were already on GOG If you wanted to buy any of the games in the Command & Conquer Ultimate Collection, Dungeon Keeper, or Sim City 3000 – but didn’t want to do it on GOG where they were already on sale – then rejoice! EA has made these classics and more, and for some reason The Saboteur, available on Steam for the first time. You can see the full list of games here. I don’t have anything specific against The Saboteur, but I do think it’s very funny that the list goes,…
With new graphics features and controller options Image credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment Fans of curly wind FX and striking from a sheathed stance rejoice – open world samurai action game Ghost of Tsushima is coming to PC on May 16th via Steam and Epic Games Store. This is the Director’s Cut edition of the game, which includes the Iki Island story expansion and the co-op multiplayer Legends mode. It’s being developed by PC port specialists Nixxes, the studio behind the PC version of Horizon Forbidden West – Complete Edition, and features customisable mouse and keyboard controls plus unlocked frame rates…
2024 update roadmap detailed Image credit: Starbreeze Payday 3 developer Starbreeze say their co-op heist ’em up is underperforming both in terms of sales and player numbers. They also say they’re committed to turning around that performance, with updates to come in 2024 which will revamp progression, the UI, add a solo mode and an offline mode, and more. “Payday 3’s sales and player activity are currently at significantly lower levels than we would like,” writes the company CEO in their year-end report. “Our biggest focus and absolute priority, both during and after the quarter, are the efforts needed to…
“Our overruling principle is to always maximize shareholder value in any given situation.” Image credit: Embracer Embracer have released their interim financial results for Q3, October-December 2023, in which they share details of the conglomerate’s on-going efforts to “restructure” and reduce their massive debts, to the tune of hundreds of layoffs over the past year. Amid the talk of revenues, profits and losses, we learn that Embracer have laid off 8% of their global workforce since announcing their restructuring program in June 2023. According to the report, Embracer’s total headcount has fallen from 16,243 in the period October-December 2022 to…
“We all are fighting on the same side!” Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/PlayStation If you’ve been yearning to take up arms against Super Earth as either an arachnid, a robot or a filthy (managed) democracy-hating human traitor, then I have bad news, roughneck. Helldivers 2 will “never” get a PvP mode, according to Arrowhead’s CEO Johan Pilestedt. The reason? They want to avoid encouraging any toxic behaviour in the new shooter’s multiplayer community. Given that Helldivers 2 is a game with mandatory friendly fire in which you can kill team-mates by respawning right on top of them, I fear the…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Image credit: 2K Sports Top Spin is returning. The 2K Sports tennis series last received an entry back in 2011, which didn’t come to PC, but while there’s no confirmed platforms for Top Spin 2K25, I choose to live in hope. You’ll find a teaser trailer below. The announcement trailer for Top Spin 2k25. TopSpin 2K25 is being developed by Hangar 13, the 2K subsidiary previously known for Mafia 3 and Mafia: Definitive Edition. Not much else is known about…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Three more characters will follow throughout this year Image credit: Bandai Namco Tekken 8’s first DLC character will be a familiar face: Eddy Gordo, the capoeira pro who has previously appeared in the mainline roster of the fighting game series since 1997’s Tekken 3. Publishers Bandai Namco announced that Eddy will be Tekken 8’s first DLC addition alongside a look at the game’s opening movie, which shows the likes of Jin Kazama, Kazuya Mishima and the rest of the game’s…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Being good seems to lead to more sales Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios Valve have put together their “Best Of 2023” lists on Steam. This is different from the Steam Awards, voting for which is ongoing, and instead is built from Steam data like revenue, peak concurrent players, and so on. It’s interesting every year as older games or indie obscurities do better than you expect. For any data based on revenue, the games are separated into buckets called…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. The malware was designed to steal passwords Image credit: Table 9 Studio Slay The Spire mod Downfall suffered a “security breach” on Christmas day which allowed hackers to distribute malware through Steam, the developers of the mod say. The malware attempts to steal users’ passwords from their internet browser, as well as passwords for messaging services Telegram and Discord. Affected users would have seen a “Unity library installer popup” upon launching Downfall during the hijack. The hack was reversed as…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. The publisher were bought by tinyBuild in 2021 Versus Evil, the publisher behind The Banner Saga and Pillars Of Eternity 2, among others, has been closed down and its entire staff laid off. Versus Evil were bought by tinyBuild in November 2021. “Entire 13 person company, Versus Evil, laid off today December 22 at the start our Christmas break,” wrote former director of product strategy Francis Fincke on LinkedIn. The Versus Evil account on X confirmed the news. “Today is…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Patch 1.4.0 is much chunkier than Konami’s previous updates Image credit: Konami Metal Gear Solid’s Master Collection was a fairly underwhelming package of some of the greatest video games ever made when it released back in October. While official updates since then have done little to address some of its most egregious problems – leaving modders to step in, as usual – the game’s latest patch has finally offered up a decent serving of improvements direct from the source. Patch…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Company “saddened and angered” by theft of employee information and dev materials Image credit: Sony Earlier this week, hackers published over 1.6 terabytes of data stolen from Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games, with files ranging from employee passport scans, Slack conversations and employment records to details of several forthcoming games. Totalling around 1.3 million files, the hack includes a fully playable WIP PC version of Insomniac’s Wolverine game, which has yet to be formally shown off beyond some initial concept images,…
Draft restrictions ban daily login rewards and limit digital wallet top-ups Image credit: Tencent Chinese regulators have announced far-reaching curbs on monetisation and reward systems for online games, in a move that has wiped almost $80 billion from the market value of the world’s biggest videogame publisher Tencent and their rival NetEase. Under the new government restrictions, which are pending final approval, online games in China will be banned from giving players rewards for logging in every day, spending money within the game for the first time, or spending money several times consecutively. As reported by Reuters, the rules further…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Image credit: Aurora Games If you’ve opted in to the Steam client beta, you can now mark games in your Steam library as private so that they’re invisible to other users. That means that if you’re – as a hypothetical – a games journalist who once had to buy and install some games with questionable names and subject matter for an article you were writing, you can now hide that so it’s no longer visible to your friends or -…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Nacon The Steam winter sale is now underway, with discounts across the digital storefront’s catalogue of games from now until January 4th. This also means that voting is now open in the 2023 Steam Awards, with the slightly earlier closing date of January 2nd. 50% seems like a decent discount for a relatively recent game like Star War Wars Jedi: Survivor. 50% off Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth makes an already life-consuming game even better value. That…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Image credit: Bethesda Game Studios The nominees for the public-voted Steam Awards have been announced and they are, perhaps more than ever before, baffling to me. If I was being uncharitable, I’d say that’s because the list is overrun by games with large multiplayer communities that can be encouraged to vote for them – but who would want to be uncharitable? Let’s instead say that the list is certainly not boring, even if Starfield gets a nod for “most innovative…
Launching a live service would have required “all our studio resources” Image credit: Sony Naughty Dog have officially stopped development of The Last Of Us Online, a multiplayer game based on their celebrated McCarthyite (no, not that McCarthy – I mean the novelist) post-apocalyptic action-adventure. Announced in the dusty days of 2018 as a multiplayer mode for The Last Of Us: Part 2, it evolved into a standalone experience with new characters and a new setting, but Sony reportedly scaled the project back earlier this year. Naughty Dog have now formally called it quits, stating that supporting a live service…
“We see the confusion, the frustration, and the distrust of us across the community” Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Sega I haven’t been keeping up with player reaction to the latest Twar and Twarhammer games, but it seems players are none too pleased with Creative Assembly right now. In a rather dramatic open letter, the company’s vice president Roger Collum has acknowledged that Total War: Warhammer 3’s Shadows of Change add-on and the recent historical strategy outing Total War: Pharaoh did not ship in a desirable state, with complaints ranging from wobbly execution to overpricing. The studio will try to make…
Half-vampires abroad on the burning streets of Paris Image credit: Microsoft Arkane Lyon’s studio director Sebastien Mitton has shared three concept artworks for the Deathloop developer’s adaptation of Marvel’s Blade, a third-person action adventure set in Paris, which was announced last week during the Keighleys. On the surface the artworks give away little, but thankfully, I am a Vampire of News, equipped with supernatural vision and insight. Why not come inside my den and let me regale you with some speculations? Don’t worry about the red stains on the carpet, that’s just, er, strawberry jam from all the doughnuts I’ve…
“We understand that it may be a meme, but please refrain from this behavior for the safety of your health” Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun Valve have asked Steam Deck owners to stop inhaling the fumes from the Steam Deck’s air vent, after the portable PC’s uniquely moreish smell became an obsession among the community. Watch on YouTube Dozens of posts over on the Steam Deck subreddit show players discovering the aroma from their fresh Decks; I’ve seen posts comparing its scent to a new car, US DIY store Lowes and a fresh PlayStation 1 controller, among everything in-between. There…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Say they lack the funds to continue developing the zombie-survival game Image credit: Fntastic Less than a week after The Day Before’s disastrous launch on PC, following multiple delays and becoming the most wishlisted game on Steam, the makers of the zombie-survival shooter have announced their closure. Watch on YouTube The Day Before finally hit Early Access on Steam four days ago after a series of delays that saw it slide back from its original release date last year to…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Previously bumped back to 2024 to dodge a crowded October Image credit: THQ Nordic The reboot of survival-horror series Alone in the Dark has seen a second delay, with its release date now landing toward the end of next March. Publishers THQ Nordic ascribed the roughly two-month slip to their efforts in avoiding development crunch. Alone in the Dark came to light last summer as a reimagining of the 1992 psychological horror game set in the very haunted house of…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. “We are very grateful to users that are vocal about their opinion,” adds RE4 Remake director Surprise, surprise: Capcom are working on another Resident Evil remake in their successful series of ground-up rebuilds for the survival-horror franchise. As for whether we’ll barrel straight into Resident Evil 5 from this year’s RE4 Remake or jump back to Zero or even, uh, sideways to Code Veronica? They won’t say – yet. Resident Evil 4 Remake director Yasuhiro Anpo gave a definitive answer…
Possibly the weirdest set of patch notes so far Image credit: Larian Studios / Rock Paper Shotgun Larian have released Baldur’s Gate 3 patch 5, which they’re calling the fantasy RPG’s “most feature-filled” update so far, and glancing over the patch notes, it’s hard to disagree. It’s not just about shaving the cats, this time: the standout additions and fixes include a new story epilogue, two new modes, and some performance boosts aimed specifically at the game’s ever-divisive third act. Here’s are Larian’s own highlights for your avid consumption. No, I don’t know what a “PS5” is either. Some kind…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Resident Evil publisher breaks the $70 barrier for the first time Image credit: Capcom Capcom’s fantasy action-RPG Dragon’s Dogma 2 will sell for $69.99 – $70, if you disregard the usual “deduct one cent to fool silly left-to-right readers into thinking it’s significantly cheaper” gambit – when it releases in March 2024. If you’re in the UK, the figure is currently £53.98 on Steam. It’s the first time Capcom have sold the base edition of a game for $70 in…
Cyberpunk now on the backburner as work on the new fantasy RPG spins up Image credit: CD Projekt Red I hope you’ve had your fill of cyberpunk, because we’re heading back to Rivia, baby. Almost half of CD Projekt’s development staff – around 330 people – are now working on the next Witcher game, the mysterious project Polaris. The news comes from CD Projekt’s latest earnings report, as passed on by IGN. According to the company’s CEO Adam Kiciński, over 400 developers will be working on Polaris by the middle of 2024, with some currently transferring from development of Cyberpunk…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. There’s a new trailer, too Image credit: Capcom Dragon’s Dogma 2’s release date seemed to leak via European ratings board PEGI a little over a week ago, and sure enough, it’s now confirmed. Capcom’s fantasy sequel will launch on March 22nd, 2024, and there’s a new trailer. Two new minutes of Dragon’s Dogma 2. The news was confirmed during this evening’s Dragon’s Dogma 2 showcase, which was around 13 minutes long and included the above trailer. Game director Hideaki Itsuno…
House of Skyrim quietly goes to war with detractors Image credit: Bethesda Game Studios Bethesda’s heaping plateful of space-spaghetti Starfield presently rejoices in the status of a Mixed Steam user review rating, with over 80,000 such reviews posted to date. Bethesda High Command are clearly displeased with this, and several unnamed but platform-verified developers have begun replying to and rebutting individual Steam reviewers, giving apparent priority to complaints about the game’s loading breaks during fast travel and when moving between maps. “While there may be loading screens in between fast travelling, just consider the amount of data for the expansive…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Current players will upgrade to a new Anniversary Edition as its base game goes free-to-play Would you believe the reboot of classic fighting game Killer Instinct is now a decade old? Well, it is! To mark the occasion, developers Iron Galaxy are taking it free-to-play – but not before they give existing PC players the game’s entire roster and premium DLC for free. A new Killer Instinct: Anniversary Edition will join a free-to-play version of the fighter’s base game, allowing…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Release date will be announced next month Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 had no confirmed release date beyond the vague “2023” still listed on its Steam page. In a business update released today by publishers Focus Entertainment, however, it seems the third-person boltgunner has been delayed into the “second half of 2024”. “The game is now poised to ship in the second half of 2024, to provide the time needed to properly polish the game and to ensure the best…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Image credit: Valve Software Half-Life came out 25 years ago tomorrow and to celebrate Valve ahve released an anniversary update. It includes four new multiplayer maps, updated graphics settings, and fully verified Steam Deck support. It also includes some new multiplayer models and skins, including proto-Barney and the original design for Gordon Freeman, pictured above. “We finally put our game through our own “Verified” tests, and… we failed super hard,” says Valve’s microsite on the update. “So we fixed it!…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Promise it’ll remain business as usual for 24 Bit Studios Image credit: Annapurna Interactive Beloved indie outlet Annapurna have made their first-ever acquisition in the video game space, snapping up the studio responsible for co-developing a number of their biggest hits. Watch on YouTube South Africa-based 24 Bit Games boast credits across much of Annapurna’s catalogue, ranging from credits on Gone Home – helping to patch the beloved narrative game on PC, as well as upgrade it to a newer…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Rocket Arena, the third-person hero shooter published in 2020 by EA, has been removed from sale without much warning. So far neither EA or developers Final Strike Games have given a reason for the delisting, but you can no longer buy it from its Steam or EA store pages. There was an easily-missed mention from EA a few days ago that Rocket Arena would be removed from game subscription service EA Play on November 14th, but at the time there…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. With new helicopters, logistics and fast travel Arma Reforger, the latest game in the long-running milsim series, has been in Early Access since May last year. No longer. It’s 1.0 update arrived today, adding helicopters, a totally revised supply system, and as close to fast travel as the relentlessly realistic shooter will allow. Arma Reforger’s 1.0 release trailer. Reforger now includes the UH-1H and Mi-8MT, two real choppers, which have been created with functional cockpit instruments and all-new flight model.…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Though expect the see-through Limited Edition to go quickly Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun Don’t mind me, just pressing my face through the bars of my Black Friday cell to bark a reminder that the Steam Deck OLED is on sale now via the Steam Store. Unlike with the original Steam Deck’s launch, Valve say the much-upgraded OLED version arrives with ample stock, so buyers can hopefully get theirs posted out without delay. The familiar reservation system is “ready to…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Image credit: CD Projekt CD Projekt have announced that they’re working on a free mod editor for The Witcher 3, allowing you to write entire new quests for grizzly Geralt, or just make him walk around with no trousers on, which he spends every other cutscene doing anyway. There are already many mods for the venerable fantasy RPG, of course – the options range from mods that give you Henry Cavill’s face to mods that simulate the effects of long…
Once they’re done adding a million things to Diablo 4, anyway Image credit: Blizzard I do not greatly enjoy the playing of Diablo 4, but I do rather enjoy its hellish setting, which I would characterise as a Warhammer table-top diorama dunked in a bucket of frozen offal. As such, I’m tickled gall-bladder-pink to hear that Blizzard consider the action-RPG series “a wonderful platform” for different types of game, now that they’ve made the leap to an open world format. For the most part, said experimentation will occur in the course of Diablo 4 expansions – the first of which,…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Modern controls, 4K and multiplayer included Image credit: KeeperFX Dungeon Keeper is a stone cold, never-bettered classic of the management genre, no matter how many other games try to mimic its devilish setting and moreish progression. The only issue is that the 1997 original is a little ugly and constrained by modern standards. Enter KeeperFx, a long-running open source project to make the original Dungeon Keeper run at higher resolutions, with widescreen support, improved AI, online multiplayer, modern controls and…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. The original Risk Of Rain was a chaotic, 2D sidescroller about turning a tiny character into a wandering projectile swarm. It’s sequel mimicked the systems but switched from pixel art to 3D – and in my eyes lost a little of its readability in the process. Enter Risk Of Rain Returns, a full remaster of the 2D original with higher resolution artwork, new survivors, and slicker multiplayer. It’s out now. Risk Of Rain Returns’ launch trailer. Each life in Risk…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Update: Co-founder Sam Houser rubber-stamps earlier reports Update 8th November 2023: Rockstar have confirmed that a GTA 6 trailer will release before 2023 is out. Posting on Xitter, the developer’s co-founder Sam Houser wrote that “we are very excited to let you know that in early December, we will release the first trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto.” Original story: Rockstar will make a quick Grand Theft Auto 6 announcement as soon as this week ahead of the first…
“What about S– nevermind, you get the idea.” Image credit: EA/RockPaperShotgun Years of anticipation finally became reality last night when a videogame company posted a video of somebody in a sharp trench coat and mirror visor walking down a dim hall, swivelling dramatically to eyeball the viewer, then casually drawing a pistol and walking into a roomful of unfocussed Potential. This is Mass Effect 5, actual title possibly Mass Effect: Epsilon – “epsilon” being the Top Secret Codename of this hidden page on the Mass Effect website. What does it all mean? I don’t know. It’s a nice coat, though,…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. One drop of blood at a time Image credit: Paradox/The Chinese Room Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has named its first playable race: the Brujah, who love to settle brouhahas with brutal melee combat. A brief, fifteen second trailer showed a little of that combat in action in The Chinese Room’s rebooted take on the RPG sequel. Find it below. A brief Brujah introduction in Bloodlines 2. I almost titled this post “Video game announces marketing beat,” because that’s…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Image credit: Treasure Radiant Silvergun is a little less well known than its successor Ikaruga, but it remains a shmup classic from Treasure, the masters of the genre. It was released in Japanese arcades in 1998 and it arrives on Steam today. The Steam trailer for Radiant Silvergun. A vertically scrolling shmup, you’re given three primary weapons, three secondary weapons created by combining them, and a sword with which to take down enemies. While Ikaruga is better known for its…
Someone over there really doesn’t like Thomas the Tank Engine Modding Resident Evil with Thomas the Tank Engine in place of Mr. X/Lady Dimitrescu/Nemesis/the monster of your choosing is so much a tradition at this point that Capcom may as well set the inevitable Resident Evil Zero remake aboard the interior of the chirpy children’s TV character. While players might be having fun modding Thomas, Shrek and Barney the Dinosaur into its survival-horror series, Capcom has expressed concern that some mods may cause “reputational damage” to the company and their games. That’s per an internal presentation from Capcom’s R&D department…
Will the open-world zombie MMO’s ‘Final Trailer’ really be its last? Image credit: Fntastic Will it ever be The Day Of for much-delayed and gossip-laden zombie MMO The Day Before? We’ll apparently find out in just over a month, as The Day Before’s release date has now been announced as December 5th following yet another slide back from its previous date of November 10th. That’s after developers Fntastic previously promised that there wouldn’t be any more delays – something its latest ‘Final Trailer’ presumably vows once again. It’s the latest in a series of delays for the open-world survival game…
Image credit: Paradox/The Chinese Room Your character in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 isn’t a blank slate and will speak during dialogue scenes. New developres The Chinese Room introduced the protagonist in a new video, in which they show a couple of interactive conversation and then layout the backstory underpinning the troubled narrative RPG. Here’s the video, with the example conversations at 1m 25s and 12m 15s: A video introducing Bloodlines 2’s protagonist. Bloodlines 2’s protagonist is called Phyre, and they’re an Elder vampire first turned in the 17th century and now awoken in a modern world they don’t…
Pour one out for R.U.S.E. Image credit: Ubisoft Ubisoft are “decommissioning” another slate of games next January, including Assassin’s Creed Revelations, R.U.S.E., and Trials Evolution. These games will remain playable, but their online services will be switched off meaning leaderboards, online multiplayer, co-op and other features will stop working. Here’s the full list of PC games which are impacted by the switch-off: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Mac) Assassin’s Creed Revelations Ghost Recon Future Soldier Heroes of Might and Magic VI NCIS R.U.S.E Trials Evolution “Decommissioning such services for older games is not something we take lightly, but is a necessity as…
Alan Wake 2 devs also touch on Control spin-off Condor and the mysterious Codename Vanguard Fresh from the release of Alan Wake 2 – and apparently with a view to driving me nuts, because I haven’t had a chance to play Alan Wake 2 yet – Remedy have shared some titbits about future projects. These include the modestly-known about Control 2, a sequel to the paranormal Brutalist telekinet ’em up that is seeing “good progress”, and the forthcoming remakes of Max Payne 1 and 2, on which Remedy are collaborating with GTA and Max Payne 3 developer Rockstar. Further afield,…
Planet S is out after a year of early access, and it seems well worth playing Image credit: TeamJA You know what’s pretty great? Good video games. You know what makes good video games even better? Not having to pay a penny for them. Well, I come bearing great news for lovers of good video games you can play without paying a penny: Planet S is totally free and by all accounts pretty darn good. Planet S plonks players in a solar system made up of 14 procedurally-generated planets, each varying in their terrain and resource availability. As a spacefaring…
“Other products in the Hunt franchise” would be “brand extensions”, says general manager Image credit: Crytek Crytek have no plans to make a sequel to sweaty monster-culling FPS Hunt: Showdown, and will thus hopefully avoid the publicity problems currently faced by Activision-Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 and Valve’s Counter-Strike 2 – both presented as sequels with fancier technology, but in practice, more like service-game content seasons arbitrarily upgraded into replacements, with the ‘previous’ games, Overwatch and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, being taken offline to avoid splitting the playerbase. Speaking to me in an interview about Hunt’s evolution since its launch out of early…
Now shooting for a late November release after “abundant feedback” from this month’s Steam Next Fest demo Image credit: Appeal Studios/Nacon Gangs of Sherwood, the co-op PvE game inspired by the English folk hero but set in a gritty neo-medieval future closer to the grimdark world of Warhammer, has seen its release date pushed back by almost a month. Gangs of Sherwood first stalked out of the shadows last summer, unveiling a distinctly different take on the classic story of the heroic outlaw stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Gone were the verdant forests of Sherwood and…
Don’t make me a liar, Remedy Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Remedy Entertainment You haven’t even downloaded Remedy’s Alan Wake 2 yet, assuming you’re planning to, which means it’s already time to start thinking about what you’ll do once you’ve finished it. Apologies, the news beat is a cruel mistress and the present is always past, but in my defence, jumping irresponsibly around the timeline does make sense for a supernatural horror game that follows two characters through different dimensions. Remedy’s plans for the game include a chunky New Game+ mode, aka “Final Draft”, which will hopefully arrive in late November,…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Image credit: Embark Studios Destructible money-grabbing multiplayer shooter The Finals is now available to play in open beta. The beta runs until November 5th and includes three maps, a new mode, and sixteen unlockable rewards that will carry over to the full launch. Here’s a new open beta trailer: The Finals open beta launch trailer. The three maps include Monaco and Seoul and a new third map, Skyway Stadium, that wasn’t available in previous closed betas. Part of The Finals’…
Teamwork and death at sea Image credit: Siege Camp Foxhole is a massively multiplayer battlefield in which players can be frontline soldiers or part of a rear detachment providing supplies and logistical support. A major free update is out today, Naval Warfare, which as the name suggets brings that persistent online war to the sea, with gunboats, destroyers and beach landings to contend with. Here’s a launch trailer: The launch trailer for Foxhole’s Naval Warfare update. Players will be responsible for every part of running their ships, from maintaining its engines, sonar and navigation systems, to delivering ammunition, firing the…
Ubisoft’s multiplayer Jolly Rog ’em up Skull and Bones is caught on the reefs once again. Recently tipped to appear in early fiscal year 2023-2024, it’s now due to make landfall in the publisher’s FYQ4 – sometime between January and March 2024. What’s the Golden Age of Piracy equivalent for “vapourware”? I’m picturing a spectral vessel like the Flying Dutchman, crewed by glum-faced producers and with a big grimacing statue of company CEO Yves Guillemot affixed to the prow. The troubled naval combat sim isn’t the only Ubisoft project experiencing misadventures. As revealed in their latest earnings report, the publisher…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Following on from Deck and Big Picture changes Image credit: Valve Valve have spent the past year or so gradually updating the Steam interface, partly to bring parity across its various forms such as the handheld Steam Deck and on-the-telly Big Picture mode. Now it’s virtual reality’s turn, with the launch of SteamVR 2.0. SteamVR 2.0 includes “most of the current features of Steam and Steam Deck”. There’s an updated keyboard with new languages and emojis, integrated Steam Chat and…
But sadly not in playable form Image credit: Epic/RockPaperShotgun This isn’t a Mega-Scoop for the Ages, but it’s a fun little story. Tucked away in one dark corner of Remedy’s latest horror extravaganza Alan Wake 2 you’ll find an arcade cabinet machine dedicated to the very first game the Finnish developer ever made. The project in question is Death Rally, a top-down combat racer for MS-DOS in the spirit of Micro Machines, which graced CRTs all the way back in 1996. Published by Apogee, it sees you looping around toytown courses, peppering your rivals with bullets or pranging them with…
Image credit: Image credit: Konami Snake? Snake?! SNAAAAAAAAA – Oh, there you are, Snake. This is just a quick Codec to let you know that Konami’s stealth blockbuster bundle Metal Gear Solid – Master Collection Volume 1 is now available to buy. Did you ever play Metal Gear Solid, Snake? It’s this sprawling philosophical epic about war, surveillance, AI, nationalism and anti-heroism, a baroque metafictional saga spanning generations that is also a complex series of videogame design experiments. I know – it’s a lot to take in, Snake, but you can sort of boil the series down to the difference…
“You can’t throw away everything, you can’t keep everything, you can’t update everything.” The Elder Scrolls 6 is going to be a mixture of new ideas and RPG systems that go all the way back to The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, according to Bethesda’s former design director Bruce Nesmith, who was lead designer on The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim and senior designer on Starfield. In particular, Nesmith reckons it will “absolutely” continue with Skyrim’s approach to levelling and progression, whereby you improved skills by performing the associated actions. He also thinks the game will “probably” retain elements of the magic…
Heartworm developer looking for a new publisher If you’ve been looking at the current crop of Silent Hill sequels, remakes and remasters and pining for the foggy streets and busted doorknobs of yesteryear, I recommend trying the demo for Heartworm. This is survival horror just the way Mother used to make it – before Mother read all those forbidden books and decided to sacrifice you to Samael, Lord of Serpents and Reeds. You’ve got your 3D engine with fixed camera perspectives, your thick coating of TV static, your sluggish vehicular control scheme, your enemies that could be either demons or…
Yoshi-P remains a “huge” Blizzard fan Image credit: Blizzard Entertainment Final Fantasy 14 has crossed over with everything from Monster Hunter and Nier to Yokai Watch and Fall Guys. But there’s one video game crossover that remains at the top of director-producer Naoki Yoshida’s list: Diablo. Watch on YouTube Yoshi-P revealed his love of Diablo a few years back, telling TheGamer in 2020 that he was keen to do some kind of collaboration with Diablo or fellow MMO World of Warcraft. That ambition hasn’t diminished in the three years since, with Yoshida reiterating at this weekend’s Final Fantasy Fan Festival…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Alan Wake 2 is out in a little under a week, and Remedy have just announced its PC system requirements. Things I learned: I probably can’t play Alan Wake 2. The requirements were shared the traditional way, with an image you have to click to embiggen on X (formerly Twitter): Hey PC gamers! Here you have a full list of PC system requirements for Alan Wake 2.🔦 #alanwake pic.twitter.com/7whRbJoVK5— Alan Wake 2 (@alanwake) October 20, 2023 The minimum requirements, needed…
Will Shen was also a writer on Skyrim and multiple Fallout games Image credit: Something Wicked Games It sounds like quite the team of RPG talent is assembling behind upcoming open-world game Wyrdsong, the debut title from newfound studio Something Wicked Games. On top of its existing staff made up of former Bethesda, Obsidian, Respawn and BioWare devs, the lead quest designer for Starfield has joined the team. Before heading up quest design on this year’s sprawling sci-fi adventure, Will Shen also worked as a quest designer and writer for other Bethesda games including Skyrim, Fallout 4 and Fallout 4’s…
Image credit: GrabTheGames/UpgradePoint David Moralejo Sánchez’s Outpath, a blend of island base-building game and idle clicker, is now out on Steam with a launch discount and a rapidly growing sackful of positive reader reviews. The gist, for those who missed out on the demo: you walk around small islands punching resources out of the landscape, building crafting stations and dwellings, and slowly amassing the means to access other islands. Or, you ignore all that, and treat the whole thing as an idle clicker, with no time limit and no real opportunity to fail. Graham had a look at Outpath’s free…
Image credit: Blizzard Entertainment Ahead of Diablo 4’s jump from Battlenet onto Steam in just a few days’ time, Blizzard has confirmed that its demon-slaying action-RPG will be fully Steam Deck Verified when it lands. Watch on YouTube Diablo 4 releases on Steam next Tuesday, October 17th – the same day that its second season, Season of Blood, also kicks off. That update will bring a new questline investigating pesky bloodsuckers – plus the chance to wield their vampiric powers for yourself using a new potent blood resource – fresh enemies to mow through and a host of quality-of-life improvements,…
And Bobby Kotick is staying on through the end of 2023 Image credit: Activision-Blizzard/Microsoft Microsoft have finally, finally, finally bought Activision Blizzard after many months of haggling with regulators in several countries. The total figure for the company behind Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch and Hearthstone, to say nothing of whopping mobile game publisher King and Candy Crush Saga? $68.7 billion, making this the biggest buyout in videogames industry history. This follows the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s provisional approval of the acquisition last month, which the CMA upgraded to non-provisional just this morning, pronouncing themselves satisfied with…
Platform owner reports “an uptick in sophisticated attacks” on Steam devs Image credit: Valve Valve are introducing text message verification for game developers using Steamworks, following what the platform-holders describe as a limited incident which saw hackers taking over several Steamworks accounts and adding malware to their games. Reportedly, fewer than 100 Steam players have been affected by the malware – I hope you’re not among them. It’s not clear which and how many projects have been affected by the hacks, but the incident appears to date back to late August, and victims include NanoWar: Cells VS Virus developer Benoît…
DirectX 9 and 32-bit PC support also canned Image credit: Valve Are you a Mac player who’s been hungrily looking forward to the eventual Mac port of Counter-Strike 2, released last month, after sinking many hours and much pocket money into the preceding Counter-Strike: Global Offensive? Fantastic news, it’s been binned off! In the course of making what they’re calling “the largest technical leap in CS history”, Valve have decided to discontinue support for MacOS. They’re also doing away with support for older PCs, including DirectX 9 and 32-bit operating systems – in future, the game will be exclusive to…
Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Rocket Rat Games We recommended a dozen Steam Next Fest demos out the gate but that barely scratched the surface of the demo-o-rama. So after diving back into the demo pile myself, I have another recommendation for you: adventuring across the galaxy in roguelikelike spaceship deck-building dungeon-crawler Cobalt Core. If you enjoy Slay The Spire and FTL, do have a look, though I might argue that FTL’s follow-up, Into The Breach seems a stronger influence. Ah, play the demo and see for yourself! So, you’re a rag-tag spaceship crew in a time loop, adventuring across the…
Daedalic apparently knew the panned Lord of the Rings spin-off was a “total loss” long before release Image credit: Image credit: Daedalic Entertainment / Nacon / Rock Paper Shotgun The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is one of the more notable video game messes in recent years, with the Tolkien spin-off releasing earlier this year to universally negative reviews and claiming the unwanted position of being the worst game of 2023 so far on Metacritic and OpenCritic. A new report has delved into some of what went wrong behind the scenes at developers Daedalic, alleging a combination of overstretched resources,…
Truman Show anxiety and 2.5D platforming collide in American Arcadia Image credit: Raw Fury We’ve all imagined ourselves as the stars (or the villains) of a reality show, right? What could we say, how could we act, or who could we woo to bag the ultimate prize? Everyman Trevor Hills – with his office getup, dad-sized ‘tache, and lanky build – isn’t quite so lucky in the upcoming American Arcadia. You see, he’s unknowingly stuck in a reality TV show where the penalty for unpopularity is death, and considering he has the personality of a pencil, his only option is…
The team are still undecided when it comes to Codename Orion Image credit: CD Projeckt RED Cyberpunk 2077 – now redeemed and somewhat rebuilt after the car crash that was its initial launch – is looking ahead at the even further future. CD Projekt Red have expressed that they have “no regrets” about switching from a third-person camera to a first-person one in the transition from The Witcher to Cyberpunk, however, for future games in Night City, the studio are still undecided. That’s according to CDPR’s quest director Paweł Sasko, who discussed the changing perspectives in an investor Q&A (Good…
The monsters aren’t just in Silent Hill anymore Image credit: Konami Pre-registrations have gone live for Konami’s Silent Hill: Ascension, an interactive drama for mobiles – I know, shush, I’m sure it’ll come to PCs eventually – which follows a cast of characters around the world who are being tormented by monsters from the eponymous Town of Woe. My enthusiasm for Silent Hill these days is approximately that of a dog returning to his vomit (or better, a depressive male protagonist with repressed memories that keep reeling him back to the same, misty high street). There have been so many…
Quality-of-life upgrades galore, plus vampires Image credit: Activision Blizzard Diablo 4 has been on the back-burner amid the chaos of Baldur’s Gate 3 and Starfield’s launches, but much like an arch-demonness putting together the pieces of an inter-planar conspiracy, Blizzard have been doing a lot of work behind the scenes. The action-RPG’s next big round of additions, the Season of Blood, launches on 17th October alongside the Steam edition of the game. It introduces a new season journey and questline, a new season event, and some skulking new enemies of the Nosferatu persuasion. The new quest sounds quite fun from…
That hot dog stand is no longer a prison Image credit: CD Projekt RED CD Projekt have released the full patch notes for Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.01 update, which as you might recall, stops people tumbling through certain elevator floors when the frame-rate drops. Out now on PC, the update spans many other technical fixes and improvements, some of them specific to the recently released Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty DLC. The highlights include performance enhancements when roving Phantom Liberty’s new Dogtown area, a fix for magically disappearing traffic during the Moving Heat quest, and fixes for a smattering of progression blockers,…
Ada and Wesker also headed to Mercenaries mode in a free update Image credit: Capcom Resident Evil 4 Remake’s Separate Ways DLC – following the adventures of Ada Wong while Leon Kennedy is busy fighting giant fish monsters and escorting presidents’ daughters – has been fully revealed, and it’s out soon. Next week, in fact. Separate Ways was originally introduced to OG Resident Evil 4 when it released on the PlayStation 2 in 2005. It sees Ada become the player character, revealing what the mysterious spy is up to in-between the moments where her path crosses with that of Leon…
With HD graphics and modern controls Image credit: Aspyr/Crystal Dynamics The first three Tomb Raider games are being remastered and re-released. The awkwardly named Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft refreshes the graphics, adds quality-of-life features, and will release next year on February 14th. Announcement trailer for the Tomb Raider trilogy remake.The collection contains Tomb Raiders 1 and the Unfinished Business expansion, Tomb Raider 2 and the Gold Mask expansion, and Tomb Raider 3 and The Lost Artifact expansion. The visual look of all three games has been revised, with crisper textures, a more detailed Lara Croft model, and…
And a trip down memory lane Image credit: Valve Today marks 20 years since the release of Steam, as we wrote about earlier today. Valve have now posted their own reminiscence about the history of their digital distribution platform over on the Steam site. And in typical Steam fashion, it’s also a sale. The 20th anniversary page runs down the last twenty years of the platform, briefly noting the major changes that year – and some of the wider pop cultural trends of the moment. “The year is 2003. MySpace launches, Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes the governor of California, and ‘In…
And nu-Wake will be Remedy’s longest yet Image credit: Image credit: Remedy Entertainment Alan Wake 2 outfit Remedy Entertainment have “always” felt pressured to make their games longer, creative director Sam Lake has observed in a new interview which also picks apart the differences between the forthcoming midwestern spookalot, out this October, and the 2010 original. Lake added that, Remedy’s sense of audience expectations notwithstanding, he himself has difficulty setting aside hours for longer games. “[It’s] just struggling with finding time and you know, being interested in a story, wanting to see it through,” he said. “So it can even…
Sphinx and you’ll miss it Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Sega The Creative Assembly and SEGA’s Total War: PHARAOH has a release date, 11th October 2023. There’s also a physical limited edition coming to Europe on 23rd October, for those of you who revel in such things as portraits of faction leaders, packs of cosmetics and posters of the game’s campaign map, which you can also check out in the new campaign flyover video below. In case you’re wondering, I’ve checked with the authorities and yes, PHARAOH should be written in all capitals, making a laughing stock of all previous RPS…
WWII RTS had been due out this month Men of War 2 is moving its release date back to next year so that developers Best Way can add some extra technical polish to the upcoming World War II RTS. Men of War 2, which marks the return of the veteran strategy series launched with 2009’s original Men of War, had been due for release later this month. Ahead of its planned release date of September 20th, Best Way ran three beta weekends for the game, the latest giving a peek at its Classic and Realism modes last month. Men of…
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Developers Motive recently shifted to work on the Battlefield series alongside their Iron Man game Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/EA Update: EA have now denied Grubb’s claims that the Dead Space 2 remake was in development before being effectively cancelled, telling IGN: “We don’t normally comment on rumors but there is no validity to this story.” That report adds that the sequel wasn’t considered for development to begin with, despite the first remake having performed well in EA’s eyes, according to a source. Original story continues below A remake of Dead Space 2 – following last year’s return of the…
