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Promise Mascot Agency gets deep dive trailer, continues to be 2025’s most tantalising open world game Actually looks like quite a complex management sim, too Image credit:Kaizen Game Works I don’t think I’m capable of rivalling Nic’s enthusiasm for Promise Mascot Agency , the new open world game from Paradise Killer devs Kaizen Game Works, so I’ll settle for saying “EEEEE”. The developers have just released a nine-minute explainer video, which teems with scenes of gimp suits, winged vans, rocket-propelled pinkies, vicious card battles against small excited dogs, and a surprisingly in-depth management component....

Railroad Corporation 2 will begin laying track in front of its moving Early Access train on September 9th Like Shapez 2 but for dads Image credit:Corbie Games I am forever looking for a game to replace Transport Tycoon (or OpenTTD ) in my affections. I know there are several railway management sims kicking around Steam, but I haven’t found the one that does it for me yet. Could it be Railroad Corporation 2 ?...

Resident Evil’s multiplayer spin-off Re:Verse is shutting down later this year Will become unplayable in June Resident Evil Re:Verse , the multiplayer spin-off announced alongside Resident Evil Village , is being shut down. Capcom say that the game and its DLC will be delisted from stores next month and its servers will go offline in June. “Resident Evil Re:Verse was developed in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Resident Evil series, and your overwhelming support for the game has far exceeded our expectations since the time of its release....

RGG ends Like A Dragon Direct by proudly announcing they won’t charge for New Game+ this time, something most games don’t do anyway Sea change Image credit:RGG/Sega “Oh, and one last thing…” teased the narration for yesterday’s Like A Dragon Direct showcase on Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii , before announcing that the RPG will be getting New Game+ mode as part of a free post-launch update. It then cut to Majima and his crew making celebratory noises on deck....

Roblox is limiting access to social hangouts and unrated games for children aged under 13 New safety measures to “keep our younger users safe” Image credit:best tycoons studio Roblox is making changes in an attempt to keep younger players safe in the online platform. Beginning later this month, children under the age of 13 will no longer be able to search, discover or play unrated experiences within Roblox, and will be unable to access social hangout experiences....

Save over $800 on an NVIDIA RTX 5070 PC from Lenovo, now under $1,400 A pretty great rig for under $1400. Image credit:Lenovo If you’re looking for a new PC that’s packing a recently-released NVIDIA 5070 GPU , then Lenovo’s new ‘Doorbuster’ deal might be just the thing. The manufacturer is offering its Legion Tower 5 Gen 10 30L at a pretty steep discount, with a handy discount code netting you a new rig with great specs for under $1,400 ....

Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Side-dive, slide, and spin until you spew I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:Sprinkle Games Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by first-person stunt-o-shooting, retro-styled adventure games, an impressively unpleasant spider, and heaps more. Check out all these attractive and interesting indie games!...

Silkbulb Test’s demo is a fun quiz game as long as you ignore the noises and don’t look behind you Have a seat Image credit:oxblud / Rock Paper Shotgun Silkbulb Test is a game in which, going by its demo, you are strapped to a chair and made to answer questions projected onto a screen. You answer the questions by looking ponderously down and pressing the big red and yellow buttons on the desk in front of you....

Slay The Spire 2 announced, entering early access in 2025 Introducing a new playable character Image credit:MegaCrit No one can see the future, but I’ve a fairly good sense of where at least 300 hours of my life will go next year. Slay The Spire II was announced during today’s Triple-i Initiative stream, returning to the towering fantasy city where Steam says I’ve spent more than 300 hours building decks and battling monsters....

Snufkin: Melody Of Moominvalley review: a simple pleasure Put a spring in your step Image credit:Raw Fury Developer: Hyper Games Publisher: Raw Fury Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam Price: £18/€20/$20 Reviewed on: Intel Core i7-12700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3080, Windows 11 I didn’t really know anything about Moomins going into adventure game Snufkin: Melody Of Moominvalley , besides that their heads always looked palatable to me - like bleached kidney beans....

Sons Of The Forest 1.0 adds a new ending, proximity chat, creative mode, and Artifact answers Cute raccoons also feature Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games Sons Of The Forest launches out of early access and into 1.0 today, bringing with it a whole host of tweaks and improvements. Most notably, there’s a new ending, new mutants, new points of interest, proximity chat, a creative mode, and new uses for the game’s mysterious artifacts....

Sorry, other game devs, but Rockstar are keeping quiet about a GTA 6 release date in the name of “anticipation” Keeping everybody sweating here, Rockstar Image credit:Rockstar Games There’s a lot we still don’t know about GTA 6 , but probably the most annoying thing that has gone unanswered is just when it’s coming out. Not annoying in the sense of, “oh golly gosh I’m so excited please I need to know”, more “come on now, just get it over with!...

Space Scum is a sci-fi strategy RPG take on Battle Brothers With very emotive space rats Image credit:Sole Survivor Games The gang’s all here. Turn-based battles. Procedural planets. Origins and character traits. Mercenary permadeath. Gear looting. Skill trees. The sci-fi setting does offer a few twists, though. I’m a fan of the enemy variety I’ve seen so far, for one. Space rats. Space lizards. Space bugs. All the stuff you don’t want to find in your sacks of space grain, basically....

Spacefaring RPG Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector gets a release date: January 31st 2025 Starward ho! Image credit:Fellow Traveller Ah, it feels just like yesterday when Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector had around a year of development time left . Actually, I’d say it feels like it precisely around February 2nd of this year. Well, would you look at that. It seems making excellent RPG s isn’t Jump Over The Age’s only skill....

Splitgate 2 is almost ready for you try it out, as the Portal with actual guns shooter sets a date for its open beta And there’ll be “infinite” maps apparently Image credit:1047 Games You know, I don’t think I’ll ever understand why, after finding a huge amount of surprise success, developer 1047 Games decided to stop working on Splitgate all so that they could make a sequel. Perhaps that’s just part of my general confusion towards live service games as a whole, but I do think it’s a bit odd all the same....

Splitgate 2 will add bum slides and time-altering bubbles to its portal-hopping shootsing Slidegate Image credit:1047 Games The first Splitgate was a cracker mash-up of Halo multiplayer gunfights and Portal ’s nifty spacetime windows. It was a gimmick that made flanking fun again, at least until you died to a distant rifle that was right next to you all along. Its sequel, Splitgate 2 is continuing that gimmick but is also sprucing up the free-to-play arena shooter with a few modern additions, like bum-sliding around corners and big deployable bubbles called “time domes” that slow down your enemies yet speed up your allies....

Stalker 2: How to examine the workshop in The Price Goes Up Here’s where to go if you’re stuck at the workshop in “The Price Goes Up” quest Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Stuck trying to examine the workshop in Stalker 2? Once you reach the second main region of Stalker 2 , Garbage, it won’t take long before you come across the Tech named Diode in Slag Heap. He sends you on a quest called " The Price Goes Up “, and everyone always gets confused at the same point in this quest: how to examine the workshop for any clues....

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown looks like a field day for micro managers in its first gameplay trailer Get the know-how on the unknown Image credit:Daedalic Entertainment Anyone fancy taking a journey across space? Last month , Daedalic Entertainment announced it is publishing Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown , a “story-based survival strategy game” from developer gameXcite. It was only a quick reveal though, so I’m sure they were quite Xcited to reveal a first look at gameplay in a trailer earlier today....

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic’s director unconvincingly attempts to dispel concerns over its release date “I’m not getting any younger,” Hudson says - me ’n’ you both, pal Image credit:Arcanaut Studios One a them Star Wars was announced at the Let Geoff Have This He’s Got Nothing Else Going On Awards this week, from none other than Casey Hudson. It’s called Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic , a name that will instantly make any Knights of the Old Republic oldhead point at their screen that’s Chappie style, which also happens to be a game that Hudson was project director on....

Starlight Re:Volver is an upcoming anime as hell Hades-esque, MMO inspired roguelite that already has the vibe You’ll know the vibe when you feel it Image credit:Pahdo Labs I’m not much of an MMO person, I’ve dabbled over the years like with RuneScape in my youth, and a bit of Final Fantasy 14. These days it’s the level of commitment that puts me off, even though I really do love being able to partake in what feels like living, breathing worlds, the hustle and bustle of actual people going to and fro....