The Sins of a Solar Empire 2 campaign DLC is still coming, but it’s years away – “We have a duty to deliver” Release now scheduled for 2027 Image credit:Stardock Entertainment When Sins of a Solar Empire 2 launched from early access in September 2024, its premium edition and content pass promised something no other game in the series had delivered: a singleplayer campaign. The Times of War DLC would for the first time give you an authored story and set of missions for each faction....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for turning finally accepting it’s become Big Coat Weather by stripping off the nine-month-old dry cleaning plastic sheath from said Big Coat, slipping into the sleeves, and exhaling a relieved sigh upon discovering it still fits. Not this year, Popeyes Spicy Chicken Sandwich. Not this year....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for eating chocolate spread straight from the jar and rewatching Better Call Saul. Before that, let’s read this week’s best writing about games (and game related things!) Video Game Developers Are Leaving The Industry And Doing Something, Anything Else, writes Luke Plunkett for Aftermath . God I love Aftermath. You should be reading Aftermath. “The games industry is just such a mess”, she says....

The WRC games rally behind a new publisher weeks after being dumped by EA Going back to an old flame Image credit:Nacon The dirt-speckled WRC racing games that were dumped by Electronic Arts a few weeks ago have already found a new partner in Nacon. The French publishers are promising a “complete reboot” of the rally game series, and have exclusive rights on the grubby wheelspinners until at least 2032. This isn’t the first time the publisher have had stewardship of the WRC either, so it all kinda makes sense....

It’s time to upgrade Image credit:MSI and Sapphire RTX 5090 Image credit: MSI MSI Gaming RTX 5090 32G Ventus 3X OC Graphics Card $2,699.99 (was $2,949.99) See here This bad boy is packing 32GB of ultra-fast GDDR7 memory, a wide 512-bit interface, and boost speeds up to 2452 MHz—ideal for 4K and even 8K gaming. The triple-fan Ventus cooling keeps things frosty while you melt pixels, and the DisplayPort 2.1a + HDMI 2....

These racing game players are 11 days into an exhausting race to climb a deadly tower The winner gets $15,000 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Ubisoft Buckle up. A bunch of players are competing to cross the finish line of a brutally difficult tower of racetracks in racing game Trackmania , with a prize pool of $30,000 waiting for the first three drivers to reach the top. The course is a huge, winding gauntlet made of pieces suspended in midair, and even expert players have fallen from their positions over 1000 times, their cars hurtling back to the bottom of the tower to start again....

This delightful fantasy immersive sim somehow snuck its merry way into Steam’s FPS fest I have found the spoon of legend Image credit:Wild Mage Games Neverlooted Dungeon is an rpg game in which you can shoot a crossbow from a first person perspective. This, I imagine, was the pitch it used when trying to blag its way past the thermodynamically powered golem wearing a Daikatana t-shirt that guards the gates of Steam’s currently-running FPS fest....

Top specs on paper, but does this price drop make it a good option? Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / LG At under $200, this deal stands out for gamers looking for a high-performance monitor without spending a fortune. But let’s be real; slapping a discount on something doesn’t automatically make it a great deal. So, is this monitor actually worth it? LG 27GP850-B Ultragear Gaming Monitor $199.99 (was $379.99). Delayed Delivery (1-2-months)....

This ROG Ally deal would have me tempted to give up my Steam Deck for one reason Is ROG my Destiny? Look, I love the Steam Deck . In fact, we’re such big fans of it in our home that I have an OLED and my wife has the LCD model I had before it. It’s my main way of playing Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2 these days, and yet, I yearn for more....

This roguelike made me feel like a genius (I didn’t know what was happening but I was pleased with myself) Spells on spells on spells Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/bilibili We often get sent so many games from publishers and developers that we simply don’t have the time or capacity to play. But ’tis the start of the year and I felt like I had a duty to give some of them a proper whirl and see what’s what....

Today’s Total War Warhammer 3 patch has that large red Khorne dog you ordered, plus a new competitive multiplayer mode Ahead of tomorrow’s juicier DLC reveal Image credit:Creative Assembly A corn dog is something I’ve never eaten, because they’re not really a thing in UK. I am morbidly curious about them, although I cannot ascertain their texture just by looking, which worries me. A Khorne dog, however, is a texturally simpler proposition....

Tomb Raider IV - VI Remastered review It doesn’t belong in a museum Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Crystal Dynamics Developer: Aspyr, Crystal Dynamics Publisher: Aspyr Release: Feb 14th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam Price: £25/$30/€30 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 There’s something uncanny about dipping “classic” games in a tub of HD paint for the purposes of a remaster. A reboot can completely reinvent an old character, intriguing players in the same way an adaptation of Macbeth might excite a theatre dweeb....

Turns out a relatively important plot point in The Witcher games shouldn’t exist at all, so says the books’ author A different school of thought Image credit:CD Projekt The thing about an adaptation, is that sometimes you’ve got to twist things slightly to better do what you want to do. Whether that’s the right choice or not depends on how militant you are about the concept of faithfulness. When it comes to The Witcher series, however, I expect most people won’t care, except for the author of the original books Andrzej Sapkowski himself....

War Thunder devs apologise for using picture of Challenger shuttle disaster in artwork promoting latest update “The picture was part of an aerial explosion reference pack used by our artists and the context was lost” Image credit:Gaijin Entertainment The developers of multiplayer aerial combat sim War Thunder have apologised after a picture of the real-life Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, which killed seven crew members when it exploded just 73 seconds after launch in 1986, was used in artwork promoting the game’s recent Seek & Destroy update....

Warner and DC Smash ’em up MultiVersus joins the pile of dead live service games Bugging out Image credit:Warner Bros Warner Bros’ licensed free-to-play fighting game MultiVersus - aka, the one where Velma Dinkley and Arya Stark can team up to kick Superman’s face in - will no longer be playable online as of 30th May. It’ll be pulled from Steam, the Epic Games Store and the PlayStation and Xbox stores at the end of its next season, though you’ll still be able to get your fill of Bugs Bunny bashing offline against either friends or bots....

We already said 10 Dead Doves was great a few years back, but it’s really great so I’m saying it again Coo-dn’t believe it Image credit:Duonix Studios Rebecca Jones (RPS in peace) really liked 10 Dead Doves when she wrote about it back in 2022, saying it reminded her of why she “loves weird low-budget spooks so much”. Discovering such an interesting project speaks to curiosity and taste on her part, but me?...

What’s on your bookshelf?: author and narrative designer Heidi McDonald read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - the only regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books that has no conception of space, time, responsibility or consistency. Also, I can’t read. Still, I’m feeling confident we can get through this together. In that, I have no other choice....

What’s on your bookshelf?: Civilization, Old World, and Offworld Trading Company’s Soren Johnson read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com 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! I am still cross-referencing my way through Blood Meridian, both incredibly vivid prose-poetic alchemy of the profound and harrowingly mundane, and also a bit like if a bible ate a pulp paperback then shat out a second, stupider bible with at least twice the people getting severed dicks shoved in their mouths....

What’s on your bookshelf?: Leverage Head of IP and former Deck 13 narrative director Christian Fonnesbech read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com 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! I once read in a book that you shouldn’t really believe anything you read in a book until you’ve checked at least two other books....

What’s on your bookshelf?: QWOP, Getting Over It, and Ape Out’s Bennet Foddy read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com 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! “What’s with the politics? Stick to games!” is a common refrain you might hear from the sort of winning individual who thinks books are a communist plot to lower their sperm count....