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Deliver Us Mars developers lay off all staff but plan to ‘rebuild brick by brick’ They “exhausted” all options to find a new project The developers of sci-fi action-adventure Deliver Us Mars have laid off all their staff. The news was announced by KeokeN Interactive’s leadership in a statement in which they state they have “exhausted all our possible options” of finding funding for a new project. They also say they plan to rebuild the company....

Despelote is a beautiful, “semi-autobiographical” football game set on the streets of Ecuador’s capital, and you can play it now Don’t give this one the boot Image credit:Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena A frustrating thing I frequently find myself thinking about games is that they very rarely try to be more than what they are, at least when it comes to AAA ones (or any kind of game that has enough money for a full blown ad campaign)....

Destiny 2’s not-quite-Star-Wars expansion Renegades gets a proper look-in and a release date The force is almost with you Image credit:Bungie Earlier this year, Bungie revealed a Destiny 2 expansion that I can still only describe now as a head scratcher. It’s called Renegades , a Star Wars inspired expansion (quite literally as it’s been made in collaboration with Lucasfilm) that was shown off properly for the first time in a livestream earlier today....

Devolver Digital reveals Mycopunk, a FPS where you’re a robot nobody wants trying to not get killed by fungus Of course I play games about mushrooms, I’m a fungi Image credit:Pigeons at Play/ Devolver Digital One of the quieter, more recent trends I’ve been enjoying is goofy extraction games. Whether Lethal Company is directly responsible for that trend, or everyone that spent countless hours playing games like Left 4 Dead 2 as teenagers just kind of all ended up taking similar interpretations, I couldn’t tell you....

Dragon Quest 3 remake might bring the whole Erdrick trilogy to HD-2D, if a fresh tease from Square Enix is anything to go by It’s the first glimpse we’ve had of the HD-2D do-over in three years Image credit:Square Enix It’s been three years to the day since we learned that Square Enix planned to remake Dragon Quest 3 , unveiling a revamping of the seminal 1988 JRPG in Octopath Traveler ’s HD-2D engine....

Dragon’s Dogma 2 has a free two hour trial for RPG fans who are tempted but not yet Arisen Why, that’s easily enough time to get bodyslammed by a griffon Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom. Let me continue the theme from our round-up of Steam sale reccs for under a tenner , while exchanging the concept of money for the concept of time: what can you do in celebrated open world “anecdote generator” Dragon’s Dogma 2 in two hours or less?...

Dragon’s Dogma 2 walkthrough: How to beat all the main quests A full walkthrough of every main quest in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Looking for a full walkthrough of Dragon’s Dogma 2? The sprawling world of Dragon’s Dogma 2 can be pretty daunting at first - as is so often the case with massive open-world RPGs . At times, we know it can be hard to keep track of where you’re going and what must be done to fulfil your destiny as the Arisen in a land teeming with threats and mysteries....

Dragon’s Dogma 2: Best armor The best armor for every vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Looking for the best armor in Dragon’s Dogma 2? Half of the joy of Dragon’s Dogma 2 is obtaining cool sets of armor for your Arisen to look the part as they lead their pawns around the world. Unfortunately, good armor is pricey, and not all of the best armor sets are purchasable in shops....

Dragon’s Dogma 2: Tale’s Beginning quest walkthrough How to reach the Borderwatch Outpost in Tale’s Beginning Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Wondering how to complete the Tale’s Beginning quest in Dragon’s Dogma 2? You begin this quest soaring through the sky on the back of a Griffin, but sadly things go downhill from here (heh heh). With neither your human nor your winged companion to rely on, this quest sees you accompany a soldier back to the nearby outpost, clearing out goblins along the way....

Dune Awakening’s devs are testing a patch that’ll let you deposit all of your blood and should help tackle ornithopter griefing Great news for Deep Desert Draculas Image credit:Funcom The next big patch for Dune: Awakening ’s now out there via Steam testing client , as devs Funcom look to test out its various tweaks before pressing go on full deployment next month. If you’ve been desperately screaming for the ability to slop out a bunch of blood and/or water at once, or have recently be chased by a swarm of griefy ornithopters, this is the patch for you....

EA FC 25 review: ol’ familiar football, even if it does encourage a different style No matter what, I’ll be there Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Electronic Arts Developer: EA Vancouver Publisher: EA Sports Release: Sept 27th On: Windows From: Steam Price: £60/$70/€60 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-9700K, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 TI, Windows 10 Something feels off. I’ve brought an utterly improbable Champions League title to Aston Villa, built an enviable Ultimate Team and developed a formation that keeps at least outright humiliation at bay in online matches… And yet, my heart isn’t bursting with the joy of joga bonito....

ECHOSTASIS’s curious and thoughtful horror doesn’t overlook the importance of an excellent shotgun [DOWNLOAD DEMO] Image credit:Enigma Studio ECHOSTASIS is the third entry in Enigma’s Studio’s horror trilogy, and it’s one of the more interesting games I’ve played this year. There’s a demo on Steam , and you should grab it if you’re interested, since everything I have to say about it is going to be a spoiler of some kind....

Elden Ring DLC will have a fight that’s just as hard as Malenia - and a poison swamp too It’s FromSoft’s biggest expansion yet, according to director Miyazaki Image credit:FromSoftware If you enjoyed the challenge of being sliced into ribbons by infamously difficult boss Malenia in Elden Ring , good news: upcoming expansion Shadow Of The Erdtree will have an encounter that’s just as hard, according to Souls mastermind Hidetaka Miyazaki....

Embracer shut down Alone In The Dark rebooters Pieces Interactive, creators of Magicka and Titan Quest DLCs “Thanks for playing with us” Image credit:THQ Nordic The perpetually scarlet-faced and jovially maladroit folk of Embracer have done their usual vaudeville comedy routine of spinning around with negative-dollar signs in their eyes and trampling on another game development studio - in this case, Pieces Interactive, creators of the recent Alone In The Dark reboot....

Ex-Assassin’s Creed lead sues Ubisoft for around $1 million, alleging his exit was a disguised dismissal Marc-Alexis Côté maintains that his departure from the company last year wasn’t as simple as him opting to leave Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Ubisoft Former Assassin’s Creed series lead Marc-Alexis Côté is suing Ubisoft for damages, alleging that his abrupt October departure from the company after 20 years wasn’t a matter of personal choice, but a case of “constructive dismissal”....

Excellent 4X strategy sim Endless Legend is free on Steam for a week Amplitude and SEGA giveaway ends 23rd May Image credit:SEGA Being offered a 4X game for free is definitely one of those cursed-monkey-paw situations. Sure, you’re saving physical currency, but at what price in terms of that most treasured and least tradeable of commodities, time? In the hours it takes to properly clean out a 4X game, you could probably build an empire yourself....

Final Fantasy 14 producer teases “secret” Final Fantasy 9 connection in Dawntrail expansion Kuja believe it? Image credit:Square Enix On top of announcing the release date for Final Fantasy 14 ’s next expansion, Dawntrail, at PAX East over the weekend, producer Yoshi-P set Final Fantasy tongues wagging even further by mentioning the words " Final Fantasy 9 " and “secret” in the same sentence. Many of the pre-order and special edition bonus items players can get with the upcoming Dawntrail expansion are suspiciously FF9-themed, you see, but when pointing this out to PAX-goers, Yoshi-P said “the reason is a secret” for now, sparking fresh rumours about Square Enix’s supposed Final Fantasy IX remake/remaster....

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth director thinks mods “breathe life into the PC market”, following previous request to please not give Cait Sith a dump truck ass Midgar after dark Image credit:Square Enix After making headlines last December for what was, in context, an entirely fair and even-handed request to Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth modders to “not to create or install anything offensive or inappropriate,” director Naoki Hamaguchi was recently asked to clarify his stance by Automaton ....

Fishing games don’t come much cuter than the Animal Crossing style island of Webfishing From scritches to riches Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / lamedeveloper What is the cutest type of eyeball? This question has plagued the games industry since Nintendo first allowed millions of unsupervised children to play god with Mii avatars and their customisable peepers. In low-stakes fishing game Webfishing , you can give your fuzzy avatar one of 33 styles of eye (I counted)....

Flying city-builder Airborne Empire hits early access today with a new military element Laputa shooter Image credit:Stray Fawn Publishing / The Wandering Band LLC In 2020’s Airborne Kingdom , you cobbled together a flying city from sailcloth, smokestacks, wings and flippers, striving to meet a growing population’s need for food and shelter while dealing with the more exotic problem of levelling your streets out and generating enough lift. In the process, you explored a beautiful, Orientalist world map of faded mosaic tiles and dusty gold fittings....