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Planetary Annihilation's factory management spiritual successor has hit its Kickstarter funding goal
Published: September 7, 2024 23:11
Industrial Annihilation is a mashup Planetary Annihilation (big robot armies do battle on a planet) with factory management such as Factorio (conveyor belts conveyor belts conveyor belts). When we last checked in with it back in January, it was funding viaā¦
Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be
Published: September 7, 2024 22:31
Godus developer Peter Molyneux thinks that generative AI is going to be a "real game changer" in video games, and that everyone will be able to "create a game from one single prompt such as 'Make a battle royale set on a pirate ship.'" These were amongā¦
Shinji Mikami thought Tango Gameworks would be safe from closure if they made Hi-Fi Rush games
Published: September 7, 2024 21:13
Shinji Mikami, founder of Tango Gameworks, thought the studio would be "safe as long as they continued to make Hi-Fi Rush games." Mikami was asked about the studio's closure by Microsoft earlier this year, and its revival under new owners Krafton atā¦
What are we all playing this weekend?
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/what-are-we-all-playing-this-weekend-299
Published: September 7, 2024 07:00
How do you do, fellow humans? After a period of rather intense illness and staying indoors, I feel like an alien. Perhaps this weekend will be my chance to go outside, breathe in the rainy Glasgow air again, and engage in some general decrustation of theā¦
Warhammer modder's new strategy RPG Whispers Of The Eyeless is Darkest Dungeon, but you're running the dungeon
Published: September 6, 2024 17:36
After watching the announcement trailer for Whispers of the Eyeless, I have one request: please, do not have that voiceover in the full game. It is hammier than a hamster eating a ham sandwich in Hamburg during a performance of Hamlet. It starts with "Theā¦
Toddler horror sim Baby Blues Nightmares lets you doodle your own horror game NPC graffiti
Published: September 6, 2024 16:13
I'll admit it, I downloaded the free prologue for horror game Baby Blues Nightmares mostly because I couldn't stop giggling at the offer to "utilize the unique abilities of a toddler", encompassing "stealth gameplay", "survival elements" and "upgradeableā¦
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2's first patches to fix crashes and controller issues with ultrawide on the way
Published: September 6, 2024 13:25
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only widescreen. No ultrawide for the moment, sadly. As and when they add support for ultrawide monitors, perhaps they should call it "ultramarinewide". Ha ha! Ha. Anyway, here's what's coming in the firstā¦
Helldivers 2 is getting "significant changes" in September, as Arrowhead take inspiration from "player fantasies"
Published: September 6, 2024 10:50
Not too long ago, Arrowhead dropped a vague list of improvements coming to Helldivers 2, as they admitted "inconsistencies" in their "approach to game balance and direction". They've now published another blog post that torches the vagueness of theā¦
Risk Of Rain 2 slaps a patch on the bug-ridden DLC that accidentally made the final boss invincible
Published: September 6, 2024 10:43
The Gearbox developers working on Risk Of Rain 2 have released a patch for its poorly received expansion, Seekers Of The Storm. The recent DLC for the action roguelike came out of the oven a little doughy, with enough game-breaking bugs to thoroughly upsetā¦
Lone Survivor creator's gorgeous "Zelda x Demon's Souls" action-RPG is back in development, over a decade since reveal
Published: September 6, 2024 09:23
About 12 years ago, we drew our breath in pain to report that Lone Survivor developer Jasper Byrne's new "Zelda x Demon's Souls" action-RPG was no more. "It was too big for a single person to make," Byrne wrote at the time. "This is the root of theā¦
Openblack is a an attempt to recreate lost god game Black & White in a modern, open source game engine
Published: September 5, 2024 20:10
Black & White was a god game that frustrated more often than it delighted, but which was nevertheless delivered with enough verve and ambition to be worth playing. It's a crying shame that it's not currently available to buy anywhere digitally, presumablyā¦
Parking Garage Rally Circuit is an arcade racer designed like a "lost Sega Saturn" game and from the maker of JellyCar
Published: September 5, 2024 18:19
Every week of late I seem to pop up here with another new arcade racer to talk about, and well, I wouldn't want to break the streak. This week's new hotness is Parking Garage Rally Circuit, which is about powersliding around multi-storey car parks and isā¦
Arcane season two gets a new, substantial trailer ahead of its November launch on Netflix
Published: September 5, 2024 17:22
The second season of animated show Arcane is due to arrive on Netflix this November. After an initial teaser trailer back in June, Netflix have now released a more substantial two-minute trailer that you can watch below. Read more
In pensive browser game Agentia, you can explore and assemble poetry as a beetle, a dinosaur or an island
Published: September 5, 2024 16:49
Every time you load up Agentia you are reincarnated as a different creature. "Creature" is perhaps too narrow a word - the game's "playable characters" range from geese, microscopic life and triceratops to menhirs and small rocky islands. Each forms theā¦
Heed the Dark Urge and check out Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7, which adds 13 new evil endings plus official mod tools
Published: September 5, 2024 15:25
Did you forget about Baldur's Gate 3? Because Baldur's Gate 3 did not forget about you. Specifically, it did not forget about the incorrigible evil-doers amongst you who've been gunning for some additional plot catharsis. Larian's very bestest RPG has beenā¦
In space sim Tin Can, you are a janitor in an escape pod and all the red lights are flashing
Published: September 5, 2024 15:06
"Do not forget to turn the system off before touching anything," says my astronaut colleague over the radio. I grab the faulty power transformer without listening, and am immediately electrocuted. Worse still, I have to hammer a quick-time button toā¦
Gimmick! 2 is out now, which is great news for fans of difficult platformers starring fun lil' green guys
Published: September 5, 2024 15:00
Pssst. You into hardcore 2D platformers? And do you like lil' green guys, just like, gooby wooby lookin' orbs of green? Then I present to you Gimmick! 2, which has an unexpected exclamation point before the "2" and all of the above. It's out now and willā¦
Black Myth: Wukong's first DLC is aiming for a Shadow Of The Erdtree-style second wave of popularity
Published: September 5, 2024 14:28
Not very shockingly for a game that set Steam records within hours of release, Black Myth: Wukong is getting DLC, the first in a series of follow-up projects that continue the action epic's explorations of Chinese mythology. Read more
Play Japanese platformer Bakeru if you want to get better at pub quizzes
Published: September 5, 2024 14:00
Full disclosure: I hadn't heard of Bakeru until Graham mentioned it to me. Graham always has his hands on the video game pulse, gliding them over Xwitter or Steam or wherever and waiting for that "ker kun, ker kun" of a new Cool Thing. And that cool thingā¦
The bloody battles of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 make for a great photo mode
Published: September 5, 2024 13:27
I've already said my piece on the hulking bugstomper in our Space Marine 2 review, but I'd like to celebrate one more thing about it - the photo mode. This is a fairly standard feature for a lot of blockbuster games, but in the world of Warhammer 40K thereā¦
Sightings of Helldivers 2 Illuminate faction on Galactic War map are "fake news", says Arrowhead boss
Published: September 5, 2024 10:44
Helldivers 2's third enemy faction is maybe definitely possibly probably almost certainly about to be released, as players report sightings of the mysterious menace on the game's Galactic War map. Development studio Arrowhead, aka the glorious governmentā¦
Smite 2 early access review: prettier, snappier, but not spicy enough
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/smite-2-early-access-review
Published: September 5, 2024 09:30
Bear with me on this, but I adore how swordfighting works in Dune. Ubiquitous wearable sci-fi shields repel any attack that comes in too fast, so everyone has to learn this unique, overtly dance-like form of close-quarters combat where every thrust andā¦
Blue Protocol's western release has been cancelled and its Japanese servers will shut down early next year
Published: September 4, 2024 19:10
Blue Protocol is a Bandai Namco-developed anime MMO which released in Japan last year, and was meant to arrive in the west at some point this year courtesy of Amazon Games. Alas, that's no longer the case - and the game is also shutting down in Japan earlyā¦
Europa Universalis IV is folding four of its dozens of DLCs into the base game
Published: September 4, 2024 18:33
Paradox are integrating four of Europa Universalis IV's DLCs into the base game. The Rights Of Man, Art Of War, Digital Extreme Upgrade and Common Sense DLCs will be free to all current and future players of the eleven-year-old grand strategy game fromā¦
No Man's Sky's Aquarius update lets you go fishing across the galaxy
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/no-mans-skys-aquarius-update-lets-you-go-fishing-across-the-galaxy
Published: September 4, 2024 17:40
Back in July, No Man's Sky reached version 5.0 with the Worlds update, which refreshed its planetary generation to introduce more variety alongside more detailed water, clouds, and weather. We didn't write about it at the time, because I suppose re-writingā¦
Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation is a ferociously in-depth, empathic reworking of Civilization and other 4X games
Published: September 4, 2024 16:53
Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation is a "postcolonial 4X game", which might sound like a contradiction in terms. While approaches to 4X and grand strategy vary hugely between games, factions and players, the genre as a whole is firmly wedded to imperialā¦
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 review: a devoted sequel of swords and spectacle
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/warhammer-40000-space-marine-2-review
Published: September 4, 2024 16:00
It's been 13 years since the first Space Marine came out. While it wasn't outstanding in the grander landscape of gaming, enough Warhammer 40K fans seem to have cherished the escapades of bulky blue boltgunner Demetrian Titus for the action game to merit aā¦
The first Minecraft movie trailer looks expensively naff
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-first-minecraft-movie-trailer-looks-expensively-naff
Published: September 4, 2024 15:28
Warner Bros have released the first trailer for Vertigo and Legendary's Minecraft movie, the long-awaited or possibly, long-dreaded adaptation of Mojang's industry-straddling block-builder. Quick disclosure: I worked with Mojang and Microsoft on a bookā¦
12 things to do while you're a meatshield in Black Ops 6
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/12-things-to-do-while-youre-a-meatshield-in-black-ops-6
Published: September 4, 2024 14:05
If somebody grabs you from behind and turns you into a human shield in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6, they can drag you around for about five seconds before you die, assuming they don't execute you early. Here are 12 things you can do in those five seconds: ā¦
The people behind amazing Brutalist parkour game Babbdi are making a free 1v1 FPS with over 100 maps
Published: September 4, 2024 10:41
Babbdi was a game of stark and severe Brutalist aesthetics, and also, a game about playing scales with a trumpet, walljumping with a baseball bat and using a leafblower to fly. Snuck out over winter 2022, it was a sombre but delightful freebie with immenseā¦
Hero shooter Concord taken offline as Sony say its "initial launch didn't land the way we'd intended"
Published: September 4, 2024 09:56
Concord, that 5v5 multiplayer first-person shooter about Guardians Of The Galaxy-like space persons, will be taken offline on the 6th September. Anyone who bought it is being offered a full refund and it's been wiped off storefronts. All of this comes justā¦
Deeply destructive driving game Deliver At All Costs will see you smashing 1950s America to pieces
Published: September 4, 2024 09:29
It is 1959. The cold war is in full swing, television is taking over, and environments have just become fully destructible. What a time to be alive. Deliver At All Costs is a chaotic courier sim set in those heady days that sees the player barrellingā¦
Shadowrun and Battletech creators unveil cyberpunk horror RPG set on a "dying space station" where upgrades change your personality
Published: September 4, 2024 09:20
When I catch word of a chocolate-and-peanut-butter blend of genres such as "cyberpunk survival horror RPG", my eyes light up. Literally, they light up like the pilot lights of flamethrowers, like glyphs on a cursed monolith that has been exposed to freshā¦
Star Trucker review: sci-fi escapism and oil-stained mundanity make for a muscular, purposeful driving sim
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/star-trucker-review
Published: September 3, 2024 14:00
Keeping your eyes on the road isnāt easy when the horizon hosts crackling azure nebula; when the voluminous nightglow from the planet below makes even the gargantuan industrial indicators look like so many tiny, twinkling cat eyes. I, a terrestrial chump,ā¦
Risk Of Rain creators wind down work on unannounced project and take jobs at Valve
Published: September 3, 2024 11:20
Hopoo Games, the studio who made chewy roguelike Risk Of Rain and its moreish 3D sequel Risk Of Rain 2, are shutting up shop and taking jobs at Valve. They're no longer working on a previously unannounced game called "Snail", say the developers on Xitter.ā¦
OneShot: World Machine Edition will bring the quietly beloved RPG to Steam Deck
Published: September 3, 2024 10:35
I can't read the title of OneShot without hearing Eminem singing "do not miss your chance to blow" immediately afterwards. But this mental deficiency is probably not shared by the thousands of folks who fell in love with the purple-tinted puzzle RPG inā¦
1TB Lexar Play Micro SD Card Gets a Significant Price Drop at Amazon
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/amazon-steam-deck-micro-sd-card-lexar-play-deal-new
Published: September 2, 2024 13:46
Amazon is currently offering a significant discount on one of the best microSD cards for the Steam Deck. The Lexar 1TB Play microSDXC Memory Card, an ideal storage solution for portable gaming devices like the Steam Deck, ROG Ally X, and others, is nowā¦
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 announces global release times, wonāt use DRM software such as Denuvo
Published: September 2, 2024 09:54
Weāre a week out from Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2ās release date, and Saber have put out a final roundup of details in a Steam blog. Alongside a global release time map (or two maps, technically, since theyāre pulling that pay-more-to-play-earlyā¦
Bicycle delivery sim Parcel Corps is delayed but at least it's funny about it
Published: September 2, 2024 09:18
We've been negligent in our duty as watchkeepers of extreme sports games. Parcel Corps is a light-hearted bicycle courier sim set in a colourful totalitarian regime where the police do not like things to be delivered in time, or at all. Perhaps that's whyā¦
Risk Of Rain 2 creators āstill believe that Gearbox is heading in the right directionā despite troubles with recent DLC
Published: September 2, 2024 09:17
Risk of Rain 2: Seekers of the Storm released last Tuesday, and hasnāt gone down too well with fans of the co-op roguelite. How not well, you ask? To shreds, I say - itās currently sitting at 79% āmostly negativeā rating on Steam. Among the chiefā¦
The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-maw-whats-new-in-pc-games-this-week-10
Published: September 2, 2024 07:28
Strange omens abound as late. Chickens are born with four wings, like horrible feathered dragonflies. Cows scream at the sky, then produce bile instead of milk. Most chilling of all, Aldi have discontinued their Village Bakery Seeded Medium Sliced Loafā¦
What's on your bookshelf?: Still Wakes the Deep, Little Orpheus and Robocraft's Robert McLachlan
Published: September 1, 2024 15:00
Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! Iāve moved on to Wolfeās Sword Of The Lictor this week and, readers, Iām starting to think thatā¦
The Sunday Papers
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-papers-733
Published: September 1, 2024 10:00
Sundays are for more cat. Sheās reached the āfollow me into the bathroom when I go downstairs at night for a weeā stage, but still wonāt come upstairs - which means I have to leave her alone for long periods while I work, which makes me feel bad. Before Iā¦
Steam's Space Exploration Fest kicks off deals and demos on September 2nd
Published: August 31, 2024 22:33
Another week, another Steam Fest looms. From September 2st until the 9rd you'll be able to find intergalactic discounts and demos in the Steam Space Exploration Fest. Read more
Against The Storm is getting frogs and a new biome in its first expansion this September
Published: August 31, 2024 21:50
Against The Storm already contains a zoo's-worth of animal-people to order around as you attempt to build a town that can survive the perma-rain of the Blightstorm. That doesn't stop new expansion Keepers Of The Stone from adding one more. Come Septemberā¦
Fallout 1 and 2 (and Tactics) are currently free-to-keep from the Epic Games Store
Published: August 31, 2024 21:23
Todd Howard recently said that he wanted people to experience Fallout 1 and 2 as they were, rather than remake them. Well, this'll make things easier: both games are currently free to keep as part of the Fallout Classic Collection over on the Epic Gamesā¦