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Rocketwerkz’s CEO alleges Unity are threatening to revoke studio’s licence over apparent personal licence usage Dean Hall claims the data used to support Unity’s claim is “bogus” Image credit:Rocketwerkz DayZ creator Dean Hall is alleging that Unity are threatening to revoke all licenses for workers at his current studio Rocketwerkz , the team behind Icarus . The developer made this claim in a lengthy post on Reddit saying that Unity are doing based on “bogus data about private versus public licenses....

RuneScape: Dragonwilds’ first deep-dive livestream announces that it’s out, uh, right now, apparently Wild! Image credit:Jagex RuneScape: Dragonwilds was announced just a couple of weeks ago , and today developer Jagex hosted a livestream where they showed a deep-dive of the game and revealed the game’s release date. Turns out, it’s today! As in right now, today, as in you can go to Steam to buy the game in early access if that’s something you’d be interested in....

Shark Dentist is about operating on a fool’s idea of a shark Fin de siecle Image credit:Alice Games. Former RPS sealife correspondent Nate once described the game Maneater as “an ecstatically violent simulation of being a fool’s idea of a shark”, which stuck with me. The Jaws Effect is a reasonably well known phenomenon coined in a paper that explores the impact the 1975 film had on Australian policy response to shark bites, although the term is now used a bit more broadly to refer to how sharks are villainised in pop culture - villainisation obviously being an absurdly human and dramatic concept to apply to a hungry or scared fish....

Six-armed octopuses and other abyssal horrors from Ark: Survival Evolved’s new AI slop trailer Call me AIshmael Image credit:Snail Games USA What’s the going rate for a flight to attend GDC these days? I ask because I’d have loved to be buzzing my merry way about the convention walls when Snail Games USA unveiled this doozy of an AI-generated trailer for Ark: Survival Evolved ’s Aquatica expansion. I’d give it a solid nine on the “we’re not even trying to disguise it any longer” scale....

Space Marine 2 devs push back on calls for a difficulty mode above Absolute - “we are almost at our limit” But are looking at a new system of modifiers Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Focus Entertainment Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 developers Saber Interactive are pushing back on player calls to add an even-harder difficulty mode, following the introduction of an Absolute difficulty setting this spring via game update. Apparently, some of you muscleheads have been finding Absolute “a bit easy”, or at least, not enough of a shake-up from the preceding Lethal difficulty....

Star Wars Outlaws Fathier Racing explained Here’s how to win Fathier Races and cheat with ‘Fixed Races’ Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Wondering how to win Fathier Races in Star Wars Outlaws? Fathier Races are one of many mini-games in Star Wars Outlaws that can earn you a nice supply of Credits. You can especially rely on Fathier Races if you come across tips for ‘Fixed Races’. These tips give out information on who the next winning Fathier will be, ensuring that you can reliably bet big and win big....

Star Wars Outlaws gangs will send hit squads after you if you upset them Very sensitive people, criminals Image credit:Massive Entertainment The open world action game Star Wars Outlaws is coming out next month and developer Massive Entertainment have already shown off some of the speeder biking and laser-trading in various trailers . But recently they’ve spoken a little more about the player’s scummy travels across the galaxy, including how big some of the explorable planets will be, and what happens when you piss off the Hutts....

Strategy game Bolt Action is a tabletop WW2 miniatures port with indirect fire, armour facings and overwatch Blood, toil, tears and plastic glue Image credit:Slitherine Today I became aware of Bolt Action, a historical strategy sim based on the World War II tabletop miniatures game from Warlord Games (founded by erstwhile Games Workshop staffers John Stallard and Paul Sawyer). It sees you fretting over questions of morale, line-of-sight and cover, while leading US, British or German armies across maps that range from beaches to churchyards....

Striden, a wintery looter shooter where you can be a moose with a tank sometimes, is holding an open beta this weekend Bloody elk Image credit:5 Fortress Have you ever woken up and thought to yourself “I’d like to be a bear, or perhaps a moose, just for like, a little bit”? Oddly specific thing to think about first thing in the morning, but Striden has you covered at least. It’s a looter shooter, yes, it’s a survival game, sure, it’s a team-based game, why not!...

Styx: Blades of Greed paints a nice stealthy picture in its latest trailer, even if its titular goblin can’t shut up Just because you can write a quip doesn’t mean you should Image credit:Cyanide Studio A nice, juicy nine-minute-long Styx: Blades of Greed gameplay trailer has been plucked from the tree of stealth games today. Juicy in the sense that nine minutes is plenty of time to help ascertain whether a game looks like it could be fun, yet if we’re sticking with this metaphor this is one of those apples that’s really good but has a nasty bruise on it you have to avoid....

Sweet Transit is a loveable city builder for model train nerds, out of early access now You choo choo choose me? Image credit:Team17 Afternoon, conveyor belt fans! Good news, I think I may have discovered the first genuinely cosy automation game. Attempts have been made at cosy automation and automated cosiness in the past – Satisfactory is on the sunnier side, providing you enable the right settings, and Shapez 2 has lots of rounded edges....

Tango Gameworks deserve to be remembered for more than Shinji Mikami The evil within and the evil without Image credit:Microsoft When I asked Tango Gameworks creative director John Johanas whom he’d give Hi-Fi Rush ’s Best Audio trophy away to at this year’s GDC Awards, he said he’d split it between the game’s audio team and “the person who taught me everything I know” - Shinji Mikami, Tango’s founder and one of the erstwhile Capcom and Platinum big brains behind Resident Evil, Vanquish and much more besides....

That lawsuit against Steam’s 30% cut of game sales is now a class action, meaning many other developers could benefit Lawyering intensifies Image credit:Valve An on-going lawsuit against Valve about Steam’s “anti-competitive” practices and especially, its infamous 30% per-game revenue cut, has taken an interesting twist. According to a report, it’s now a class action suit that could benefit any developers or publishers who have sold a game over the Steam store on or after 28th January 2017....

The end of merch culture is upon us with an official Death Stranding exoskeleton You’ll never need another [INSERT PROUDCT] ever again Image credit:Dnsys/ Kojima Productions I am sure that, if I were a porter of any kind in the material world, I would find an exoskeleton quite helpful. Probably, anyway, I might also be too afraid that one would crush my bones, or fuse to my body in a horrendous accident that results in the government stealing me away to send me on top secret missions thanks to my strong part-robot body....

The Eternal Life Of Goldman is a gorgeous, nightmare throwback to classic 16-bit platformers From the devs behind This Is The Police Image credit:THQ Nordic THQ Nordic have announced The Eternal Life Of Goldman , a hand-drawn platformer from This Is The Police and Hollywood Animal devs Weappy. I caught a brief presentation earlier in the week and yeah, this seems promising. On the one hand, it reminds me of cheery 16-bit hop ’n’ boppers like, say, the Mega Drive adaptation of Disney’s Aladdin ....

The first Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree trailer is hours away, as last February release date hopes fade FromSoftware’s open world RPG expansion to get first proper showing Image credit:Bandai Namco/FromSoftware Shadow Of The Erdtree is getting a trailer today and it’ll last for three whole minutes, which is more than enough time for folks to tear all of its finer details apart for several hundred hours. I for one, hope the trailer includes a hint of gameplay and not just like, a long cinematic with some croaky fella explaining how there’s been another “downfall” or similar....

The Great Fluctus is No Man’s Sky with beans, slug milk, alien volleyball, egg arguments, and a massive flying frog (In space) Image credit:Dmitriy Vasilyev In case you skipped the headline, I’ll repeat myself. Among the wonderful sights contained in space -poking adventure game The Great Fluctus are: beans, slug milk, alien volleyball, egg arguments, and massive frog. Additional screenshots suggest this frog later acquires wings. Like a captive Generation Game host, I am helpless but to shout out more incredible sights as they flutter past on the conveyor belt of pure flippin’ videogame before me....

The NYT Crossword answers for Monday, September 15th 2025 Get a bit of help with the NYT Crossword puzzle Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Crossword answers for Sunday, October 19th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s NYT Crossword on Monday, 15th September? A new week is upon us, and you know what that means: a whole new week of NYT Crosswords to test your vocabulary, commitment, and knowledge on all things!...

The people behind amazing Brutalist parkour game Babbdi are making a free 1v1 FPS with over 100 maps Tit for Straftat Image credit:Lemaitre Bros Babbdi was a game of stark and severe Brutalist aesthetics, and also, a game about playing scales with a trumpet, walljumping with a baseball bat and using a leafblower to fly. Snuck out over winter 2022 , it was a sombre but delightful freebie with immense though well-hidden imagination, in which your only explicit objective was to find a way out of a small concrete city....

The Splitgate 2 open beta is here, complete with a map maker and dev hunting What is it you’re meant to be thinking with again? Image credit:1047 Games As much as I’m up for trying a new one whenever one arrives, I’m not particularly good at shooters . It just gets too sweaty for me, I prefer a good single-player shooter above all else because I can actually take down my opponents without the fear of embarrassing myself somehow....