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Biff! Smash! Spear to the groin! Asteroid to the jaw! It must be a new gameplay video for Tides Of Annihilation, the Arthurian fantasy action game from Eclipse Glow Games that’s out to steal either Stellar Blade, Final Fantasy XVI or Bayonetta‘s lunch – do me a favour and pick one, because I can’t decide. I can’t stop comparing this game to things. I think there’s something wrong with me. Help.
80 Days and Heaven’s Vault developers Inkle are making a new “narrative deduction game” and audio drama called TR-49, in which you fiddle with a bunch of creepy old machines. It’s based – or so they tell us – on a family connection to World War 2 espionage, and takes inspiration from Return of the Obra Dinn and The Roottrees Are Dead.
Show me your quacking war face. Well, show the swarm of rubber ducks Arc Raiders devs Embark have seemingly unleashed upon your character’s living quarters your quacking war face. Otherwise you’d better be careful where you put your feet, lest you upset them and loose avian anarchy on the world. Also, a gun which might have been your favourite for decimating squads of poor shootery fools with other loadouts has been nerfed.
Open world Czech Bohemia-inspired orienteering game Prologue: Go Wayback! from PlayerUnknown Productions and PUBG creator Brendan Greene is out now in Steam Early Access – and that’s very inconvenient, because we still don’t have consensus on a nickname. Back in 2017, RPS jocularly renamed PUBG “Plunkbat” – a show of feistiness that surely resulted in no angry emails (genuinely, I don’t know if it did), and which I recently consecrated by writing it on the wall of a random shed in Scotland. We are still massaging our temples about the new game, however.
The messy Subnautica 2 legal dispute between publishers Krafton and three former lead developers on the game rumbles on. The lawyerly wranglings about Krafton’s decision to delay Sub 2’s early access, leaving a $250 million bonus to developers Unknown Worlds up in the air, then fire Charlie Cleveland, Max McGuire, and Ted Gill, are still wrangling.
A pre-trial briefing released earlier this week saw the three leads claim Krafton CEO Kim Chang-han consulted ChatGPT about ways the company could get around paying the much-discussed $250 million bonus, which the leads claim they would have shared with the rest of Unknown Worlds. Krafton subsequently said in a statement to Kotaku that this allegation from the ex-leads was “simply a distraction from their own efforts to destroy evidence”. Now, testimony from Chang-han has emerged, in which the exec concedes he did consult ChatGPT about aspects of the Subnautica 2 situation.
Ok, yep, it’s one of RPS’ biggest New Vegas/Fallout heads, here to tell you about some New Vegas mods that’ve recently dropped. Why? You might ask that. You’re quite right to. It’s because there’s a general Fallout modathon going on over on Nexus Mods right now, and I’ve spotted a few works released as part of it so far which I reckon are worth informing you of. Especially since next month’s gearing up to be pretty damn New Vegasy, thanks to a certain TV series.
Ho there, embarrassing Baldur’s Gate 3 fans! Not had enough D&D in your life lately? Pining for the Owlbears, is it? Feeling a bit shrivelled for lack of magic missiles? Baby want some Helldusk Armor? Perhaps you will be consoled by Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked. It’s a Forgotten Realms-themed adaptation of Resolution’s Demeo, a co-op tactical RPG co-created by former Left 4 Dead developer Mike Booth, which is itself a homage to tabletop.
A bit of creepy crawly, low-key city building? Ah, go on then. October and Halloween might be behind us, but Fangtopia is a puzzle game stroke city builder that still feels appropriate for late autumn. Having had a go with its demo, it’s deceptively simple, in fact it felt so simple I wasn’t entirely sure if I was doing anything at all. But when it clicked, all the pieces fell into place resulting in a pleasantly chill time.
Here’s a sentence I am very glad to write: the first Citizen Sleeper-like is here! Or at least the first one I’m aware of (and the actual genre is dice-driven RPG, no more something-likes, ok?). It’s called Dusk Punk, which mixes the narrative and mechanical framework established by Citizen Sleeper with the aesthetics and world of games like Dishonored, and it’s out today.
Anyone order a free Mafia: The Old Country update? Well, whether you did or not, a free update is what you’re getting. This one’s quite features driven, focusing a lot of challenges and cosmetics, but there’s a few new weapons and the like too. Let’s take a little look-see!
