Rue Valley is sending the nattering inner voices of Disco Elysium to therapy How does that make you feel? Image credit:Owlcat Games In Rue Valley you role play a guy with poor mental health. He wanders around a crappy motel, stuck in the same old patterns of life, seemingly unable to escape his inner demons. When confronted with the premise for this upcoming RPG you may have one of two reactions....

Sega sell off studio behind Endless Legend and Humankind as part of “restructuring” - but it goes to the original owners Endless business Image credit:Amplitude Studios Amplitude Studios, developers of many a game with “Endless” in the name, have split with publisher Sega to become independent again, with ownership of the studio reverting to its original founders and “other members of the team”. The developers say everyone is parting “on good terms” and that the last eight years of getting published under Sega has been “amazing”....

Shinji Mikami thought Tango Gameworks would be safe from closure if they made Hi-Fi Rush games Says making a good game more important than making a popular game Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Softworks 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 at Gamescom last month....

Shockingly great soulslike Lies Of P is due a DLC by the end of the year Sources said to currently have regular-sized noses Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Neowiz Our Edders, the RPSer I’d most trust to help me gank a rival covenant member with hammers, reckoned Pinocchio soulslike Lies Of P was an “instant must-play” in his review , and I was pretty fond of it myself. We already know that we’re due a sequel at some point the future, thanks to impressive sales....

Shush, Helldivers 2’s Redacted Regiment warbond is all about being sneakily stealthy and silently suppressed Update: Warbond now set to arrive on Thursday, after being delayed to fix a “key issue” Image credit:Arrowhead Update: Arrowhead have announced that the Redacted Regiment warbond’s release - originally planned for January 20th, but delayed due to a “key issue” found during testing - is now set to take place on January 22nd. The gear’ll be going live at 1PM BST / 8AM ET / 5AM PT, following a patch at 10AM BST / 5AM ET / 2AM PT....

Silent Hill 2 Remake’s PC performance isn’t a total horror show, but low-end rigs will shudder This mysterious letter from my wife says “Lower the shadow quality” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Konami The Silent Hill 2 remake is only out today, but it’s been nearly two years since the first system requirements appeared , immediately distressing our PCs so badly that they started having their own nightmares of fog-smothered towns and James Sunderland in an uncomfortably high-poly nurse outfit....

Star Citizen’s ridiculous ship prices hit a new high with £46,000 DLC bundle You’ll need to cough up a grand for the pleasure first Seemingly not content with having raised over $650 million for a game in development for over a decade without a full release date in sight, Star Citizen is now offering a new way for those with too much money to spend it: a bundle of digital ships costing £46,000....

Star Wars Outlaws creative director admits forced stealth sections are “incredibly punishing”, says next patch will ease up on them A crate too far Image credit:Paradox Interactive Star Wars Outlaws’ next patch aims to tone down some of the action game ’s “incredibly punishing” insta-fail stealth sections, alongside adding tweaks for “narrative context” at other points in the story. That’s according to creative director Julian Gerighty, who recently spoke to GamesRadar+ about what players should expect in the next update, coming “maybe in 10 days....

Star Wars Zero Company looks like XCOM in a galaxy far, far away in its first trailer Only a vague release window right now though Image credit:Respawn/ Bit Reactor We’ve all known it’s coming for a long while now, three years in fact , but Star Wars Zero Company got a proper reveal today. In case you aren’t sure which one this was meant to be, it’s the strategy one from Respawn and Bit Reactor , led by former XCOM devs....

Steam briefly gets a Crap Dungeon, the devs of which are “hoping it’s not actually crap” “I’m fixing it now… but honestly, I’m still laughing” Image credit:Fix-a-Bug Naming things is often difficult. Accurately translating things is often difficult. Put the two together, and you get the situation roguelike dungeon crawler The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles has recently found itself in, when the Japanese translation of its name on Steam saw it accidentally re-dubbed “Crap Dungeon”....

SteamWorld Heist 2 review: a tactical trick shot across the bow of lesser strategy games Heist, heist, baby Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Thunderful Developer: Thunderful Publisher: Thunderful Release: Out now On: Windows From: Epic Games , Steam Price: £25/$30/€30 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 I’ve yet to discover a SteamWorld game I don’t like. Whether plundering the earth in SteamWorld Dig 2 or mucking about with magic in SteamWorld Quest , these are solid and approachable adventures that enthusiastically embrace whatever theme the developers have decided upon....

Stop Killing Games’ proposals would make online-only games “prohibitively expensive to create”, argue EU lobby group But SKG’s Ross Scott says these are “bad faith arguments” Image credit:Ubisoft The Stop Killing Games campaign’s petition to the European Commission surpassed a million signatures last week , meaning EU policymakers may soon be debating whether developers and publishers should have the option to render online games unplayable by shutting down their servers. Video Games Europe, a trade association who represent publishers and devs, have responded by outlining why they think that choice should stay on the table....

Studio known for anti-capitalist games shut down by their publisher just two weeks before their newest game comes out Thunderful <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/say-no-more_y7krV55.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“Say No! More - The player character sends a co-worker flying through the air with the power of their “no!” while another co-worker runs towards them through a broken door. - 1”> The developers of workplace comedy Say No! More and anti-establishment roguelike Reignbreaker are closing down, and the news comes just two weeks before their final punky action game is due to come out....

Suika Shapes adds co-op multiplayer and a polygonal twist to the viral Watermelon Game Plus a whole lot of modes and modifiers to play with Image credit:Zankai Suika is the puzzle gift that keeps on giving. The viral Watermelon Game that launched a thousand non-Switch-exclusive clones has added another promising offering to its line-up of Suika-like twists on the simple fruit-merging game. Developer Zankai’s Suika Shapes swaps out fruit for the polygonal comforts of squares, hexagons, pentagons and more awkward shapes such as zig-zagging Tetrimino-like L, W and T-pieces....

Tactical Breach Wizards is refreshingly unlike XCOM despite wearing the same tactical underwear Necro-Clancy Image credit:Suspicious Developments We’ll never know exactly what sort of fiction Tom Clancy would have written if he was less interested in the calibre of specific bullets and their effiency at dismantling burgeoning socialist governments, and more so in the specific sigils required to blast a riot cop through a third story window. While charity shops across the land mourn this devasting loss to their paperback shelves to this very day, we do at least have a glimpse into what such a literary venture may have looked like....

The Maw - 5th-10th February 2024 Our weekly newsblog with this week’s top videogame releases Image credit:Wikimedia Commons/José Guadalupe Posada The clouds over London have settled into the shapes of loading icons. The birds are singing old Celtic ditties. There are extinct species of fern growing through the vents of my i7 12700F. All these troubling signs point to but one, dire outcome: it’s time for another week of new videogame releases, and another week of feeding videogame gossip and reportage to the Maw, our weekly news liveblog....

The Maw 29th April-4th May This week’s most magnetic game releases, plus our weekly newsblog Image credit:Hartmann Schede/Wikimedia New week, new videogames! When will it end, etc. There aren’t many obvious headliners out in the next few days, but there are a lot of tantalisingly bleak games. Let’s see here, we’ve got a survival shooter that’s essentially set in Black Mesa , a sardonical adventure about questing Russian Orthodox nuns, a game about running the company that starts the zombie apocalypse, and a cosy village grower with an atypical emphasis on disease and death....

The ninth RPS Christmas Cracker 2024 This almost works Image credit:RPS The fell moons rise, and in their cold glare emerges a parcel from the dirt. Bloat and gangrene, crimped as if by tourniquet. A dark promise wriggles within. Grip the fibrous handles, feel its jagged soul imprint upon your palm. Now pull! Rend the sinew, tear muscle from bone, hatch their fetid gift! The yoke draws near! Take up the slip and read the words upon its face....

The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 6th This door is hot to the touch Image credit:RPS The RPS Advent Calender 2024 is underway! Each day reveals one of our favourite games from this year, leading up to our Game Of The Year on the 24th. Check the main calendar post to see the full list. Open a door, then back here again, open a door, then back here again. It’s as if we’re caught in some infernal loop....

The Subnautica 2 developers are hiding teaser images in the first game’s time capsules Sea any? Image credit:Unknown Worlds / heath A time capsule is a boxful of objects from today’s world, buried or otherwise hidden away so that people from the future can rediscover and understand current Hot Trends such as wearing mismatched socks or electing washed-up businessmen with fascist tendencies. Unless, that is, it’s a time capsule in sci-fi ocean survival game Subnautica , in which case it contains: THE FUTURE....