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 laughing at your sat nav’s American voiceover lady when, as you’re visiting Northamptonshire for the first time, she pronounces Towcester as toaster. That can’t be how it’s said, you snort, surely everyone from there would have to follow-up revealing their hometown by insisting they weren’t born in a bread slot....
The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for more Space Marine 2 operations. Ah, I see you’ve combined incredibly slow progression XP with worthwhile upgrades, forcing me to play for hours. I hate you for this, but I will not stop. Before I pour yet more of my life into making a fake number go up, let’s read some of this week’s writing I personally found interesting about videogames (and game related things!...
The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for, I hope, upgrading my PC swiftly and successfully and then getting down to business. Think of all the games I can now play! But I’ll probably just play Dune Imperium. Gail Mackenzie-Smith in Electric Lit wrote a Dear John letter breaking up with Wordle . When our meetings dwindled from daily to once a week, then down to once a month, and then to nothing, I knew our love affair was over....
The UK games industry has a class problem - here’s how one organisation is trying to fix it Image credit:Coal Supper “Last year we ran a big games careers festival in Downham , on the border of Lewisham and Bromley in London, in a leisure center in the heart of a very deprived community that hasn’t seen anything like this in that space,” Into Games CEO Declan Cassidy tells me over a call....
The Video Game History Foundation is “not done fighting” after US Copyright Office refuses exemption to aid preservation Current circumstances force researchers “to explore extra-legal methods” say the VGHF Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Team17 Back in April, I wrote about a hearing that took place between representatives Video Game History Foundation , the Rhizome project , and the Software Preservation Network , in which they argued the case for a DMCA exemption that would allow researchers to remotely access out-of-print games in libraries and archives....
There won’t be a Persona 5 Royal-style expanded edition for Persona 3 Reload, Atlus promise Devs consider Reload “a complete experience”, despite missing parts of FES and Portable Image credit:Sega Persona developers Atlus have promised there are no plans to follow up Persona 3 remake Reload with an expanded re-release like Persona 5 Royal , giving us all a welcome break from the tyranny of the letter R. Persona 3 Reload is out today, overhauling the 2006 PlayStation 2 game with a style much closer to Persona 5 ’s flashy visuals, along with changes to the original game’s story and dialogue....
This ARPG based on a historical massacre is influenced by Diablo 4 and Path Of Exile - I think it’s better than either Vessel Of Happy Image credit:Rogue Snail When you shoot your beginner pistol in action RPG Hell Clock , it feels like someone slapped the foundations of the catacombs you’re standing in with a pork chop big enough to decapitate god. There is beefy gun feel, and there is this: a gun chutney so chunksome and tactile I had to check my mouse hadn’t suddenly sprouted haptics....
This new survival city builder feels kind of Dune-meets-Frostpunk Get some factor fifty ready Image credit:Bajka Games I like a city builder, me, and newly revealed Beware Of Light , from tiny indie studio Bajka Games, has a interesting hook (and a Ronseal-type name, which you know I appreciate). Your advanced colony ship has veered off course, and you’ve crashed on a dead, desert planet with no water or fossil resources like oil....
Toem 2 looks just as lovely as the first one, and a bit more 3D, in its first gameplay trailer Snap! Image credit:Something We Made Remember Toem ? That was a bloody lovely game. I’m always partial to a game where photography is the core mechanic, there’s such a specific joy in navigating a space attempting to capture a fracture of its essence. Photo modes just aren’t the same, I want someone to textually give me a camera and send me on my way....
Ubisoft push back “some of our biggest” games and announce further cost-cutting after a “challenging” year Assassin’s Creed Shadows was a “defining moment”, tho Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Stab-o-sneak merchants Ubisoft are pushing back the release of several unspecified big name projects in the wake of Assassin’s Creed Shadows , which CEO Yves Guillemot says “has reaffirmed the power of the Assassin’s Creed brand”. The tactical snoop ’n’ shoot peddlers are also looking to cut costs by at least €100 million across their organisation, following a difficult year in which they’ve partnered with Tencent to launch a new corporate subsidiary dedicated to their most popular games....
UFO 50 speedrunners complete its most opaque game in under five minutes Barbutton bashing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Mossmouth If you gotta go fast, you probably don’t want to be a stubby-legged spearman who climbs every ladder like a geriatric walrus. Yet that’s the challenge taken up yesterday by speedrunners at Awesome Games Done Quick . The UFO 50 speedrun includes an impressive dart through the retro collection’s most bewildering game, the ancient and mysterious Barbuta, in which your character is a frustratingly slow hero with a fearfully short attack range....
Walmart just dropped this 65W power bank to a crazy good $33, and it’s perfect for Steam Deck That’s mighty cheap. Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / INIU Walmart’s dropped the price of this INIU 25000mAh 65W power bank to just $32.99 , down from $59.99 when you sign in and clip the on-page coupon. That’s a seriously good deal for a high-capacity charger that’s perfect for the Steam Deck, plus phones , laptops , tablets, and more....
What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880 Lo! What’s that on the horizon? It’s another gigantic whale of an RPG soon to release. Good grief, there’s been a lot of those recently. Must be mating season. Here’s what we’re clicking on this weekend! Brendy I’m reviewing Assassin’s Creed Shadows at the moment, so I will likely be swingin’ steel and stabbin’ dirtbags....
What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Gustav Doré/Old Book Illustrations Nevertheless, they continue to try. Here’s what we’re clicking on this weekend. Brendy I would like to race and smash up some cars in Wreckfest , which is what I am increasingly doing as a little treat before bed on the weekends. They’re so cute when they crumple. D’awww. Ed A quiet one for me, my sofa, and my Deck this weekend....
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Who is the final boss in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? Here is where to find the final boss in the Elden Ring DLC Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Wondering who is the final boss in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? Shadow Of The Erdtree is perhaps the largest FromSoftware expansion we’ve ever had, with a total of 83 bosses altogether and 10 new Remembrance bosses. This Elden Ring DLC takes place on an entirely new map and follows the story of Miquella, an Empyrean God who was last seen in a cocoon within Mohgwyn Palace , guarded by Mohg ....
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