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The Rally Point: Dusty survival builder New Cycle struggles for a coherent identity in a busy genre I told you flares were back Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Daedalic Entertainment Calling dusty post-apocalyptic city builders a trend is probably a stretch, but not by much. I suppose it’s a natural extension of the post-2000s explosion of the survival sim from “literally about 3 ever made” to “does your tetris remake really need the hunger meter”....

The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 12th Open today’s door - then run 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. Today’s advent calendar game is already inside your head, for this is not a game you stop playing, merely one you step away from between rounds....

The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 4th We really dig it 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. If you’re the naughty sort, legend has it that on Christmas Eve a portly bearded chap will descend down your chimney and leave behind a lump of coal....

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 waking up and remembering you said you’d help your sister-in-law move house. A burning fear flares in your gut, not of the manual labour, but of how she said it was fine because she’d bought a flatbed trolley off a Chinese website for £40. The fear fades into sad resignation that you’ll end the day picking up splinters of shattered plywood out of a carpet....

The Witcher 4’s tech demo featured a familiar voice from The Witcher 3, and there’s an interesting extra wrinkle Holding all the Carduins… Image credit:CD Projekt Update: CD Projekt have confirmed to RPS that it was Richard Hawley who played the merchant, whose name is Frewin, in The Witcher 4’s tech demo. “As for the full game,” they added, “we don’t have anything to share about any voice actors beyond the ones we’ve already confirmed....

These portable Samsung SSDs are the perfect companion for my ASUS Rog Ally X, and on sale today Free MicroSDXC 256GB or 2000mb/s read/write speeds? Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / Samsung If you’re rocking the ASUS ROG Ally X , you already know internal storage won’t take you far. Big games, emulators, mods, and media add up fast. Instead of juggling what to uninstall next, a solid external SSD gives you room to breathe, no matter where you are....

They have been racing for a month Getting over dip Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Ubisoft It’s been one month since the sound of engines began. The hardest track ever created in Trackmania was published by a team of mappers on May 4th, bringing an intimidating 16-floor tower called Deep Dip 2 into the racing game. It became a magnet for competitive drivers after a prize pool of over $30,000 was offered to the first three players to conquer its hellish heights....

To understand the future of generative AI, we need better language to describe it Our new series about generative AI and its use in games suggests some words to use Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun If you’ve ever tried to play a hardcore RPG that’s way above your brain’s pay grade, or got lost in tutorials that use complicated words and bizarre jargon, then you’ve probably felt right at home reading headlines about AI recently....

Today’s Wordle hints and answer (#1117): How to solve the Wednesday July 10 Wordle Stuck on today’s Wordle word for July 10? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Wordle hint and answer for Wednesday 11th February ! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer? Wordle is an addicting but challenging test of word acumen....

Total War: Warhammer 40,000 reveal likely after telltale word “40K” spotted in Creative Assembly video For the Geoff Awards! <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/40k-in-Creative-Assembly-Warcore-videp.png?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=“An image of Creative Assembly’s Warcore gamedev tools, containing a model of a stone house and some filenames including the telltale term “40K”. - 1”> Image credit:Sega / IGN / Knavbot If you’re staying up all night to watch The Game Awards 2025, follow along with our live coverage ....

Total War: Warhammer’s Rich Aldridge on roleplaying, iteration, and lessons from nearly a decade on strategy’s most ambitious series “There’s good energy” for the team right now, says game director Image credit:Creative Assembly In more ways than one, today’s Total War: Warhammer 3 expansion marks a milestone for game director Rich Aldridge and his team at Creative Assembly. Omens Of Destruction’s three headline legendary lords each bring new campaigns and units for their respective factions, but it’s the fourth lord - a Khorne champion free to all players - that I imagine Aldridge will end up remembering the most fondly....

Trombone Champ: Unflattened brings the tooting simulator to virtual reality this autumn Via Steam and Meta Image credit:Flat2VR / Holy Wow Studios I’ve got a real soft spot for Trombone Champ , a rhythm game about tooting along to music that works perfectly with the mouse. I’m also a huge fan of Beat Saber , a rhythm game in which you slice at blocks that whizz towards you in VR....

Typing dungeon crawler Cryptmaster’s demo is a delight With jokes I actually laughed at Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Akupara Games One of the best things in games is the freeform ability to type commands for another character, then having them respond with voiced dialogue recognising your weird directions. That’s one of the joys of Cryptmaster , an upcoming typing-driven dungeon crawler where one of the first things you can do in the demo is get your disembodied necromancer pal to lick a mysterious metal object to help identify it (it’s a helmet)....

Ubisoft revealed an AI NPC prototype at GDC and everyone online made fun of it NEO NPC is currently showing off some not-so-great dialogue <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/ubisoft-neo-npc-reveal.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=“An example of Ubisoft’s prototype NEO NPC using generative AI. An NPC called Bloom spouts nonsense about wanting to “spend time together to check if we have a compatible vibe.” - 1”> Image credit:Ubisoft It’s GDC week, and conversations are being had about AI....

Upcoming visual novel Vampire Therapist mixes vampires and dark humour with CBT This potentially spicy meatball is out in June this year. Image credit:Little Bat Games As we all know, I like vampire stories , and I like different takes on vampire stories . Yesterday Edwin dangled an upcoming visual novel called Vampire Therapist in front of my nose. I am intrigued, also because I appreciate a Ronseal approach to titles....

We’ve learned the hard way that ganging up on Deadlock doesn’t make it more digestible But maybe that’s the point Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Valve The mystery surrounding Deadlock , Valve’s work-in-progress MOBA shooter, has largely evaporated. Its freely extendable invite system is about as effective at controlling player headcount as a disinterested football steward , meaning pretty much anyone with a clued-in Steam friend can get in and start poking around its secrets....

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/London: John Murray, 1848 Let’s celebrate by telling one another what we’ll be doing this weekend. Brendy I want to play Threshold on the back of Ed’s review , hoping for more PS1-like dread after the excellent sci-fi disastering of Mouthwashing . But Foxhole has also recently grabbed me by the scruff of my neck and thrown me into its compelling war....

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Chapman and Hall / C. Gray Saturdays are for waking up, having a big stretch, and wondering where the hell you packed the electric toothbrush charger. In that first three day grace period, I could tell myself ‘Not to worry, there are only so many removal boxes. It will turn up!" By day five, the little red flashing light had come on....

Wildermyth’s developers are going into hibernation, with no sequel or new project planned The may return from the wilderness one day, they say Turn-based tactical RPG Wildermyth is one of the best games Sin has ever played . It got a second DLC, Omenroad, which turned it into a roguelike earlier this month . Omenroad turns out to be the end of the road, however, both for Wildermyth and - for now - for the team that made it, Worldwalker Games....

With Battlefield 6 beta queues stretching around the block, a “substantial increase in server capacity” should just have helped Reinforcements inbound, early accessers Image credit:EA If you’ve tried to hop into the Battlefield 6 ’s open beta’s early access period this morning and have ended up sitting a queue behind thousands of other folks in camo gear, then don’t panic. Or at least that’s what EA say, as their wrenches slam against the game’s servers in an attempt to let more people in....