I’ll serve my Blood Bar Tycoon customers when I’m through dumping exsanguinated bodies down the sewer Two points in the neck Image credit:Clever Trickster Studio It’s an oddly Halloweeny summer week for games, this one. Dragon Age: The Veilguard ’s October 31st release date leaked earlier , Steam have put together a Summer Fright Night bundle featuring RPS fave Hauntii , and I’ve got a strange urge to gorge on Haribo and mini Double Deckers until blood comes out of my eyeballs....

Immortals Of Aveum cost $125 million and “no one bought it” The magic FPS failed to find an audience Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Electronic Arts Magical first-person shooter Immortals Of Aveum launched last August and by the following month half its development team had been laid off due to poor sales . In a new report by IGN on widespread industry layoffs, developers who worked on Aveum say it cost around $125 million to make and “no one bought it....

In furious sci-fi RTS Warfactory you have to manufacture every piece of your killer robot army Image credit:Palaye We factory sim perverts have all known the joy of combing a mile of conveyor belt tagliatelle for that one empty hopper or unplugged furnace that’s stalled the entire production line. Now, imagine that the stalled production line is producing plasma swords for your army of murder droids. You need your army of murder droids to fight another army of murder droids, but unfortunately, all of your murder droids are now swordless, and therefore murder droids no longer....

In the absence of Bloodborne on PC, we get a snowy expansion for Lies Of P A puppetry prequel Image credit:NEOWIZ Slashy soulslike Lies Of P is not quite Bloodborne but it’s the closest we have got on PC so far. Now, developers Round8 have revealed a snowy expansion for the game. Lies Of P: Overture was shown off during last night’s State of Play showcase, in a trailer introducing the creeps and kittens you’ll be meeting in this puppety prequel DLC....

Infinity Nikki devs really want you to know how sorry they are about the state of the game, still keeping the increased banner costs Sorry, not so sorry? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Papergames Infinity Nikki has fallen from grace a touch, it seems. The dress-up RPG arrived on Steam last week, almost five months since it launched on the Epic Games Store, but it did so with quite a few caveats. For starters, the game’s latest update 1....

KCD2 For Whom The Bell Tolls walkthrough How to save Sir Hans from execution in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Deep Silver Wondering how to save Sir Hans in the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 main story quest, “For Whom The Bell Tolls”? This quest is the sixth main story quest in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 , and it’s one of the most interesting and complex quests in the whole game....

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s technical touch-ups include DLSS, “Experimental” visuals and far fewer bugs Performance and settings tested Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Deep Silver Several hours in, it’s become apparent that I lack the patience for much of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 ’s much-publicised historical accuracies , like needing to bathe yourself every six minutes or how 15th century Bohemians can take several consecutive sword swings to the neck without dying. Ah well!...

Last Epoch’s 1.0 release patch arrives with a full offline mode, Warlocks and controller support The changelog is only 32 pages long! Image credit:Eleventh Hour Games Last Epoch , a Diablo-like action- RPG from Eleventh Hour Games that’s been in early access since 2019, finally arrives tomorrow as a full release. And to celebrate, there’s a colossal 1.0 update that could take you an hour to read in its entirety. To spare you the time commitment, its highlights include new Acolyte and Rogue masteries, new Item Factions, a full offline mode, controller support, and plenty of visual tweaks....

Latest Azure Latch codes Earn thousands of free Cash for styles, emotes, and more with these Azure Latch codes! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Azure Latch Looking for the latest Azure Latch codes to redeem? As you likely know by now, Azure Latch is a 5v5 football (soccer) game in Roblox, where all the players assume the roles of superpowered anime characters inspired by the popular anime series, Blue Lock. It’s a team game with surprisingly deep tactics once you get into it, with well-timed dashes, slides, dribbles, and throws (from the goalie of course - no hand-balls allowed here!...

Leaked footage of Human Head’s long-buried Prey 2 reveals a cyberpunk shooter with a spring in its step Beanies at half mast Image credit:Human Head / Bethesda Softworks It’s never too late to get mad about the untimely fate of Human Head Studios’ Prey 2 . It helps that people keep leaking videos of the thing. The latest batch includes an opening sequence , a full mission playthrough from an open world, a flythrough of an undercity area, a prototype chase sequence, and scenes of combat....

Let us indulge in some kneejerk reactions to Apex Legends Season 27’s biggest updates Don’t do it Respawn, don’t you take away my Friendship Car Image credit:EA Apex Legends is rolling out its Season 27 update next Tuesday, November 4th, and RPS has been furnished with an overview of its meatiest rejigging work. I haven’t playtested this megapatch so unlike with Season 25 , I can’t say from experience how any of these changes will get you killed....

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s PC performance and modernised settings make it a mostly smooth trip Victimless crime Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Sega Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth isn’t exactly spawned from the most hardware-bothering of game series. Most previous LADs, be they Kiryu’s Adventures in Punching or the more turn-based reboot have all been technically gentle affairs, and Infinite Wealth is ultimately another one. At the same time, it shares with Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name a newfound interest in PC-specific tricks....

Marvel Rivals unbans Steam Deck and Mac players wrongly caught up in cheater purge NetEase “sincerely apologize” for flagging compatibility layers as naughty business Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NetEase Games Steam Deck , Mac, and other Linux-based enjoyers of superhero shooter hit Marvel Rivals can once again play without fear of being pulped under an unlawfully swung banhammer. Developers NetEase had recently doled out bans of up to 100 years to players they suspected of cheating, but in their eagerness, failed to distinguish between legitimate compatibility layers – the software that non-Windows operating systems, like the Steam Deck’s SteamOS, use to run native Windows games – and actual hacks....

Microsoft are laying off even more of their staff, with potentially almost 7000 workers at risk It’s not clear if any of its gaming studios have been affected just yet Image credit:Microsoft More than two years on from Microsoft’s last mass round of layoffs, the company is laying off a huge amount of staff once again. As reported by CNBC , the tech giant is laying off 3% of employees across the entire company, meaning all levels, teams, and geographies....

Microsoft toss another 650 jobs onto the layoff pyre in the name of “sustainable future growth” No game cancellations or studio closures involved Image credit:Microsoft Not enough Microsoft jobs have been splayed and flayed atop the Altar of Growth, so High Priest Spencer must once again perform the Rite of Strategic Repositioning. According to a leaked memo, Microsoft are laying off around 650 people “to organize our business for long term success”....

Military Incremental Complex is freeware classic Dope Wars for arms dealing Technically you could only sell arms twice. Or you could sell other people’s arms I guess Image credit:Space Kraken Oh, Dope Wars ‘98, let me count the ways you moulded me into the man I am today, buying extra large trench coats in which to store my 100 units of acid. Military Incremental Complex riffs off that game’s unmistakably ‘98 interface, but instead of playing a cool and aspirational heroin entrepreneur, you play a dastardly bullet merchant....

Mixtape is a suave and syrupy retro music love-in with a useful undertow of hustle Too much in tune Image credit:Annapurna Interactive Mixtape isn’t entirely the retro 90s nostalgia piece you might be expecting from trailers - it’s also a playable job application. Protagonist Stacy Rockford is enjoying one last night in their east US hometown with childhood friends Slater and Cassandra, before Rockford sets off to chase a music supervisor gig in New York City....

Monastery escape tactics sim The Stone Of Madness is out now and has me thinking about time From the Blasphemous devs Image credit:Tripwire Presents Today is release day for The Game Kitchen’s The Stone Of Madness , an isometric tactical stealth game set in an 18th century monastery - “isometric tactical stealth game” being a pretty clinical way to describe the plight of sundry lost souls exploring a maze of hellish Catholic art populated by guards and ghouls....

Monster Hunter Wilds title update 1 will release on PC in April, adding a Grand Hub, Mizutsune and new quests Here’s the skinny Image credit:Capcom Monster Hunter Wilds will receive its first proper title update on Thursday, April 3rd PT and Friday, April 4th in the UK. The update adds a new social hub to the beast-bashing action-RPG, together with a new monster you might recognise from previous games, some tougher varieties of existing monsters, and a bunch of additional quest types and outfits....

Monster Hunter Wilds’ collab with Final Fantasy 14 looks like a neat way to do some digital cosplay I like to ride my seikret all day Image credit:Capcom/ Square Enix Capcom and Square Enix announced earlier this year that Monster Hunter Wilds and Final Fantasy 14 would be collaborating with one another, and the first trailer for the former’s collab received a proper look in today. It’s coming as part of the action game’s third title update, so there’s more included than just Final Fantasy bits, but that does seem to be the main thing here....