Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Everything is IP, all of the time, everywhere you look now, because big wigs in suits have got it in their heads that original, uniquely appealing content just can’t win over a combination of pixels that resemble something someone already likes. Sea of Thieves is no stranger to crossovers, with big, thematically relevant ones like Monkey Island and Pirates of the Caribbean, as well as some smaller ones like Halo and Banjo Kazooie. Today’s crossover is one of the smaller ones, this time with, uh… Destiny. The sci-fi, first-person shooter. Huh.

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Well, there you have it folks. After months of uncertainty over share price falls, major game delays and squabbles with investors, Ubisoft have opened up a new subsidiary to look after their biggest-selling Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six, and Far Cry games, with Tencent chucking in a whopping €1.16 billion – meaning that the latter will have a 25% stake in the new spin-off business when all is said and done.

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Remember Secret Level, that Amazon show that came out last December? I wouldn’t blame you if you already forgot about it, for the most part it was pretty forgettable considering how much of it could be boiled down to “damn… video games are violent, huh?”, except positioning that as universally cool, actually (let’s leave that whole conversation there). Easily the weirdest of all the episodes was the Pac-Man one, given that it was only Pac-Man in the sense that there was a floating yellow orb thing that kind of looks like the titular, iconic video game character.

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When there’s as big a brand as Disney, that has enough money to just kind of throw whatever at the wall and see what sticks, eventually you wind up with something that might make you scratch your head a bit. Today, that thing is Disney Villains Cursed Café, a visual novel where you serve a bevy of potions to various Disney baddies, announced earlier today as part of the final Nintendo Direct for the OG Switch (but yes, it is on PC too – in fact it’s already out on Steam).

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A few months on from releasing into early access, Greedfall 2: The Dying World has received its first major update, and it certainly seems like a fairly big one. First up, there’s a whole new region to explore called “Olima, City of Stars”, and I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that it has nothing to do with that guy from Pikmin. Its name actually comes from the fact there’s a big ole observatory to be found there, though what that entails, you’ll have to find out for yourself.

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Samsung is kicking off “The Next Phase of Gaming”, and if you’re even remotely monitor-curious, now’s a good time to pay attention. If you reserve one of their brand-new 2025 gaming displays between now and April 8th, and you’ll get $50 off when pre-orders open. No codes, no fuss, just an easy win for thinking ahead. If you’re even remotely interested in the new tech, this is worth checking out.

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Rosewater is Francisco González’s latest adventure game set in the alternate history of Lamplight City. It swaps the murky Victorian gutters of its predecessor for cacti and lavender sunsets in a reimagined American West circa 1850. But as hard as I try to imagine myself as a ‘venturin’ cowpoke, I wind up feeling more like a prospector, sifting through dust in hopes of finding the gold that I see glimmers of out here

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If you’ve been waiting for the perfect time to build a gaming PC, the Amazon Spring Sale is delivering the goods. Whether you’re working with a tight budget or planning to max out performance, there are fantastic deals across every core component, from CPUs to SSDs and graphics cards. We’ve put together two builds to cover both ends of the spectrum: a value-packed budget build, and a no-compromises high-end monster.

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MicroProse or whatever currently prospers under the decades-old MicroProse banner have announced that they’re publishing Strategos, a real-time tactics wargame set in classical antiquity. I hadn’t heard of the game before, and my first reaction to the above screenshot was “oh hey, Total War: Rome”. Then I veni, vidi, vickied on over to the Steam page, and it turns out that might be a flawed comparison, not least because Strategos is the creation of a single designer and programmer with artists working on contract. Here’s a trailer.

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Pillars Of Eternity turns 10 years old this week, and developers Obsidian are celebrating with a patch that “addresses a wide range of fixes and improvements across visuals, combat, quests, and more”. Oh, and they’ve also announced plans to give the real-time-with-pausing RPG a turn-based combat mode.

What did you get for your 10th birthday? If it wasn’t a turn-based combat mode, then your parents officially love you less than Obsidian does Pillars Of Eternity. You might want to bring that up at the next family gathering. I’m already texting my dad.

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