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Knights of the Old Republic remake devs insist the game is “alive and well” after their split from Embracer Saber are now focused on ‘exceeding player expectations’ with the long-in-development RPG Image credit:BioWare/LucasArts/Disney Presumably, the remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic can’t hold up a newspaper with today’s date to prove that it is actually doing okay and hasn’t been quietly disposed of in a tax report somewhere, Warner Bros-style....

Koei Tecmo know your Rise of the Ronin save file might be borked, promises they’re trying to figure out why Not to mention the PC port’s other issues Image credit:Koei Tecmo Rise of the Ronin is just not having a very good time on PC. The game only launched on Steam just last week, where it was quickly discovered that, oh dear, there are a lot of issues. Just a quick look at the game’s reviews will let you in on its myriad of problems, but one of the biggest ones that’s cropped up is an issue where save files are being completely wiped , obviously quite an annoying bug especially if you’ve put a lot of time into the game....

Laid-off Humble Games staff found new indie-focussed publisher and are partnering with Ziff Davis again “A new course for the future” Image credit:Humble Games Back in July, the Powers That Be at Rock Paper Shotgun’s parent company Ziff Davis laid off all 36 members of Humble Games , in response to “challenging economic times for indie game publishing”. Now, Humble Games’s former general manager Alan Patmore and global publishing VP Mark Nash have founded Good Games Group , a new indie publisher who will work with many of the same development partners from their Humble days....

Larian boss responds to criticism of generative AI use: “it’s something we are constantly discussing internally” Other game developers join social media backlash Image credit:Larian / Rock Paper Shotgun A few hours ago, reports surfaced that Larian are making use of generative AI during development of their new RPG Divinity - specifically, to come up with ideas, produce placeholder text, develop concept art, and create materials for PowerPoint presentations. In the same Bloomberg article , Larian CEO Swen Vincke sought to balance these revelations with the promise that Divinity won’t directly contain any AI-generated materials, commenting that “everything is human actors; we’re writing everything ourselves....

LawBreakers is staging an unofficial comeback, five years after it (and its makers) shut down The gravity-defying debut FPS from Cliff Bleszinski’s studio Image credit:Nexon Five years after LawBreakers shut down, we’re getting to play the gravity-defying multiplayer FPS again thanks to fans. LawBreakers was the first game from Boss Key Productions, a studio co-founded by Gears Of Wars lead designer Cliff Bleszinski, and it had delightful ultraviolence beneath its uninspiring genric look....

Looks like Valve’s next game is Deadlock, a multiplayer shooter-MOBA mix of Overwatch, Dota and Team Fortress As screenshots from closed playtest leak ahead of apparent reveal soon Image credit:Tim Eulitz If you’ve been wondering what Valve’s been working on as their next game after Counter-Strike 2 , the answer may be at hand. Details and screenshots for Deadlock , a third-person hero shooter with MOBA elements, have seemingly leaked out of a recent closed playtest, revealing a blend of Overwatch , Dota 2 and Valve’s own Team Fortress 2 ....

Lorn’s Lure is the anti yellow paint game, a joyful and maddening exploration of sunken megastructures Gormenghasp Image credit:Rubeki Games Initially, Lorn’s Lure feels like an escape. A first-person spelunking sim, it takes place in a colossal, mournful extent of pipes and silos, ancient turbines and concrete cliffs, where emergency lighting and broken gantries form scrappy platforming routes into darkness. I came to it with treasured memories of similarly enveloping spaces in other artworks: the immensities of Gormenghast and Feersum Endjinn , the fractal pitfalls of Yedoma Globula , the living geography of Xenoblade Chronicles....

Master Of Command is a strategy game of crunchy musketry and Total War-style battles that tells the story of an army, not an empire You can choose what colour your hats are, also Image credit:Armchair History Interactive Armchair History Interactive would like to you know that their upcoming strategy game Master Of Command is full of smart, unforgiving systems. I know that because they emailed RPS saying that our “strategy features often spotlight smart, unforgiving systems”....

Metaphor: ReFantazio review: like a brilliant fantasy Persona, only with one major catch It’s wonderful but… Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Sega Developer: Atlus Publisher: Sega Release: October 11th 2024 On: Windows From: Steam Price: £60/€70/$70 Reviewed on: Intel Core i7-12700F, Nvidia RTX 3080, 16GB RAM, Windows 11 Graham asked me if I’d discovered what the metaphor in Metaphor: ReFantazio might be, and I replied, “I don’t know haha”, or something along those lines....

MindsEye developers Build A Rocket Boy deny using bots to promote their game about bots going bad Getting goosebumps in your brain peeper Image credit:Build A Rocket Boy Well, in a twist that’d be strange for other games, but feels pretty par the course for this one, developer Build A Rocket Boy’s now denied that it’s been using bots to say nice things about MindsEye. This wasn’t totally out of the blue....

Mirror’s Edge players with a taste for Brutalism should bookmark VHOLUME, the new parkour game from a Babbdi dev You can’t outrun bureaucracy, but please do try Image credit:IronEqual Last year, myself, Brendy and Graham got fearfully excited about Straftat , a bountiful free 1v1 FPS with map designs calibrated to nostalgiafuck anybody who ever played Quake over an LAN or hoarded shareware CDs. Our fever burned all the hotter for knowing that Straftat is the work of them wot did Babbdi , the amazing Brutalist exploration game from 2022....

Monster Hunter Wilds patch stamps on DLC performance bug Among other PC-specific optimisations Image credit:Capcom Y’know that Monster Hunter Wilds bug where close proximity to a talking DLC vendor cat would drop your framerate ? Gone. Dead. Done like a kipper. Do kippers exist in the Monster Hunter universe? Maybe not, but then neither does this bug, following a new PC patch for the troubled RPG and confirmed by my testing....

Monster Hunter Wilds title update 1 is live, adding the Mizutsune, Grand Hub and PC VRAM improvements New monsters to bosh, new pants to craft Image credit:Capcom The first big title update for Monster Hunter Wilds is upon us like a large, iridescent squirrel dragon covered in bubbles, and when I say a large, iridescent squirrel dragon covered in bubbles I am, of course, referring to the Mizutsune – a new Wilds monster last seen in Monster Hunter Rise ....

Nightmare Kart, the Bloodborne-inspired PSX-styled racing game, is out now With a campaign mode and boss fights Image credit:LWMedia I haven’t played Bloodborne and so references to its world or characters mean little to me. Kart racers, meanwhile? There I’m in my element due to a lifetime of Mario Kart, Diddy Kong Racing and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed . It’s those games that make me interested in Nightmare Kart , a PSX-aesthetic racing game which was formerly known as Bloodborne Kart , and which is out now....

Nioh 3: All 34 main story missions Every main mission, organised by era and mandatory bosses Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Koei Tecmo Looking for a list of the main story missions in Nioh 3? Koei Tecmo’s newest Nioh game is expansive, with multiple time periods and open world maps designed to soak up a hundred hours of your time. However, to complete the game as quickly as possible, you actually only need to run through 34 key missions....

Nioh 3: How to beat Yamagata Masakage How to beat the first boss and finish Nioh 3’s tutorial Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Koei Tecmo Struggling to beat Yamagata Masakage at the end of Nioh 3’s tutorial? The first boss before Nioh 3 ’s open world becomes available is Yamagata Masakage, a mighty red armour-clad samurai with a huge blade ready to skewer you right through your middle. Yamagata Masakage serves as a wall of sorts to mark the end of Nioh 3’s first hour, ensuring that you have the skills required before progressing further into the game’s large map....

Nuclear Throne developer Vlambeer returns, now solely owned by co-founder Jan Willem Nijman Ultrabugs will finally release Vlambeer, developers of Nuclear Throne , Luftrausers and Super Crate Box , among others, called it quits back in 2020 , so that co-founders Jan Willem Nijman and Rami Ismail could work separately on other projects. Now Vlambeer is returning. Nijman announced today that he is now the sole owner of Vlambeer, and he’s going to release new games under the name while continuing to support their older releases....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Friday, June 7) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #362 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Friday, March 15) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #278 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Monday, April 15) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #309 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....