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I have been dreaming of labour in Easy Delivery Co Outside cat Image credit:Sam C …And so the thick snow feels like a sweet variant of obscuration: an invitation to go make my own footprints. The signs are blanketed to invisibility or missing entirely, though I wouldn’t know the difference in weather this insistent. But: Easy Delivery Co. ’s map is very good. And by very good, I mean it tells me slightly less than what I want to know at all times....

I have spent the morning learning about a recently deceased horse thanks to Umamusume: Pretty Derby RIP Grass Wonder Image credit:Cygames, Inc Around a week ago, 146,000 people mourned the death of a horse they’d never met . This might be the best single thing that has ever happened in videogames, although I don’t imagine the horse would give a shit. Grass Wonder was a famous Japanese racehorse, but it’s likely the majority of those that mourned his death online are only fans of Japanese horse racing by proxy....

In horror puzzler Corporeal, you reassemble a cursed photo album from the 1990s The Pog decade continues to haunt us Image credit:Cold Out Interactive I don’t keep family photo albums to avoid the exact scenario described in Corporeal , a just-announced mystery horror game in which you piece together a haunted family photo album. Navigating “a series of immersive retro analog interfaces”, you will complete “tactile, minimalist puzzles” so as to combine eldritch snapshots and reveal new scenes....

In new open world game Lost Legions you are a Roman “rebuilding the empire” behind enemy lines It starts with you conquering the trees Image credit:Tarock Interactive The announcement trailer for Lost Legions opens with a Roman Emperor bellowing “GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS” like a kid who’s just had his pudding taken away. I’d just had a big swig of coffee before watching, and was instantly swept off by visions of an apoplectic Roman bigwig rampaging through the forests of darkest Germania, gluing abducted legionnaires together into a sort of Octavian katamari… and then they revealed that it’s another open world survival game, with no less than two trailer beats dedicated to the act of hacking down a tree....

Infinity Nikki 1.0 banner schedule: What is the next banner in Infinity Nikki? Details on the current and next banner in Infinity Nikki Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Papergames What is the current Infinity Nikki banner schedule? The Resonance system in Infinity Nikki should be very familiar to you if you’ve played other prominent gacha games like Genshin Impact or Wuthering Waves . From the Resonance screen, you can spend Resonite Crystals and Revelation Crystals to “pull” for unique clothing items....

Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material Also comment on the scale of their recent delistings Image credit:Itch.io Itch.io have announced that they are seeking out new payment processing partners who are more willing to handle the purchase of NSFW games, after delisting or removing a vast swathe of games in accordance with the content restrictions of companies such as Paypal and Stripe. They’ve also offered an explanation for why they’ve recently delisted so many more “infringing” games than Steam, which has carried out its own cull of sexually explicit games under pressure from finance firms....

Jump Ship’s demo grants a taste of its cheerfully shambolic space raids Fight robots and/or engine room fires Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Keepsake Games My personal pick of this week’s Steam Next Fest demos is Jump Ship , which you might already know as that co-operative, ’ Left 4 Dead meets FTL meets Sea of Thieves ’ space crew shooter previously known as Hyperspace. Godspeed, Captain Farts . All our previous looks at Jump Ship, including Edwin’s GDC 2024 preview , have seen it in varying states of unreadiness, with more missing parts than the game’s own spaceship after one of its many 1 vs....

Just Cause creators Avalanche lay off 50 people and close their Montreal and New York studios Cuts needed to ensure “a stable and sustainable future for the company” Image credit:Avalanche Just Cause creators, Mad Max developers and Rage 2 co-developers Avalanche Studios have announced that they will lay off 50 developers - nine per cent of their global workforce - and close their New York, USA and Montreal, Canada studios in order to “ensure a stable and sustainable future for the company”....

KIBORG: Arena is a free slice of Arkham-style combat starring a John Protagonist-ass punchy cyborg I typed ‘Killborg’ several dozen times Image credit:Sobaka Studio KIBORG: Arena feels like a throwback in several ways that I quite enjoy. It’s a free prologue to the upcoming cyberpunk puncher KIBORG . The titular arena is a large room in which you, a large man, bash a large amount of enemies. You have to punch a gong between waves to trigger the next, and this struck me as a nice pre-emptive nudge that every problem you face in Kiborg can be solved by rapidly moving your fist towards offending objects, which turned out not to be too far off the mark....

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2: All Fast Travel locations Find every Fast Travel location in Trosky and Kuttenberg Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Deep Silver Looking for all 33 Fast Travel locations in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2? Warhorse’s sprawling new RPG sequel is quite a beauty, and it’s a strong contender for one of the best games to just walk around in and soak up the atmosphere of Middle Ages Bohemia. But in reality, plenty of us just don’t have enough time for that....

Knights In Tight Spaces kicks the Tight Fight formula in the direction of fantasy role-playing New Steam demo introduces clerics and rogues Image credit:Raw Fury / Rock Paper Shotgun The existence of Knights In Tight Spaces , sequel to Fights In Tight Spaces , implies the existence of an unknown quantity or perhaps, an infinity of follow-up games that rhyme with both of those. Frights In Tight Spaces is the obvious horror spin-off....

Last Epoch: Best Primalist builds and skills Learn the best builds and skills for the Primalist class in Last Epoch Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Eleventh Hour Games Wondering what the best Primalist skills and builds are in Last Epoch? From the depths of the harsh frontier comes the Primalist, the barbarian, berserker, and druid of Last Epoch . With the ability to summon animal armies, elemental fury, and a wide variety of different totems, the Primalist embodies the best traits of the wandering nature warrior trope present in many sword and sorcery stories....

Layers Of Fear dev’s next original game will be revealed this year Bloober Team are working on the Silent Hill 2 remake and another secret IP project Image credit:Bloober Team Twitter user pl_evil has helpfully translated a recent letter to shareholders from Bloober Team, showing that their new game " Project C " will be revealed later this year. This will be the studio’s next original game, after they wrapped up Layers Of Fear last year with, confusingly, Layers Of Fear (the natural progression for a series: Layers Of Fear, Layers Of Fear 2, and then Layers Of Fear again, although it was going to be called Layers Of Fears at one point)....

League of Legends: Wild Rift exec producer says AI slop-looking anniversary video “did not hit the mark” Sorry, I mean “aniversary” video Image credit:Riot League of Legends: Wild Rift executive producer David Xu has said Riot “can and will do better,” after sharing an anniversary video to the game’s account on Chinese social media site Weibo that very much looks to be AI slop. However, Xu hasn’t confirmed that the video did use AI in this sort-of-apology, instead claiming this was a “creator-made” video that’d found its way onto the League of Legends ’ spin-off’s official channels....

Little Devil Inside resurfaces with new trailer: “we’re still here, have been and always will be” Nearly ten years since successful Kickstarter Every few years, gorgeous action adventure Little Devil Inside re-surfaces with another stunning, exciting trailer. We last saw it at a PlayStation State Of Play back in 2021 , where it was seemingly on track for a 2022 release. It’s been radio silence ever since, but it has now once again resurfaced, with another gorgeous trailer and a promise that the development team, now smaller, is back “with the duty and conscience to fulfill what we set out to do....

Lone Survivor creator’s gorgeous “Zelda x Demon’s Souls” action-RPG is back in development, over a decade since reveal “i never fell out of love with it” Image credit:Jasper Byrne 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....

Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders is a slick ski ’em up, if its demo is any indication It’s a slippy slidey ice world out there Image credit:Megagon Industries One of the most important lessons in skiing is, presumably, to look where you’re going. You wouldn’t want to ski with your eyes closed or while viewing yourself from a drone pointed back at the mountain from above. That’d be daft. Or maybe not....

Mask Quest review: the cops don’t have to breathe Canabalt from the blue Image credit:increpare games / undef / Rock Paper Shotgun Developer: increpare games/undef Publisher: increpare games/undef Release: October 17th 2024 On: Windows From: Steam , Itch.io Price: £9/€10/$10 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7 12700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3060, Windows 11 When I was a competitive long-distance runner at school, breath control was paramount. We were never really taught this, mind....

Metaphor: ReFantazio almost has me sold on its bonkers bad guy designs alone Army of eww Image credit:Sega Having played the opening hour of Altus’ Metaphor: ReFantazio – now mere weeks away from its October 11th launch – I think it’s high time to correct a games previewing injustice. Namely, that the majority of its pre-release buzz has centred around its proximity to Persona , and not its far more entertaining quality of having the most gleefully bizarre RPG enemy design this side of Elden Ring ’s horn-tooting orbpeople....

Metro 4 will “inevitably” be shaped by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “The horrors of tyranny, and the price of freedom have become part of our lives” Image credit:4A Metro 2033 turned fifteen this month, prompting a blog from 4A Games celebrating the FPS horror series’ past while looking forward to the next entry. The unnamed Metro 4 surfaced again last January as part of a reveal for VR title Metro Awakening , following a 2023 blog detailing the studio’s experience under the Russian invasion....