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This “gamified focus tool” lets you construct your own lofi girl/boy to chill/study with
I’ve worked from home for most of the past decade, but it was during the pandemic lockdowns that I was finally indoctrinated into the world of co-working streams, pomodoro timers and lofi beats to chill/study to. I’m better now, but I absolutely see the appeal of Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, a “gamified focus tool” that just launched on Steam.
Gigantic: Rampage Edition is out now, offering a second chance to fans of the shuttered hero shooter
The original Gigantic blended MOBA and hero shooter ideas together at the height of the gold rush in both genres, but failed to carve off a large enough audience of its own and sadly shut down in 2018.
As of today, it’s back as Gigantic: Rampage Edition, with new characters, a new mode, and an upfront fee in place of its former free-to-play model.
Star Wars Outlaws story trailer dates Solo open worlder for August release
Ubisoft Massive’s open world action-adventure Star Wars Outlaws will release on 30th August 2024, according to a new story trailer which introduces us properly to “emerging scoundrel” Kay Vess, aka Hannah Solo. If you haven’t had the pleasure, Kay is a budding crook on the run from her underworld boss, a journey that sees her tangling with several other Star Wars crime syndicates on various planets. It really feels like they’re keeping a lot of the headline Star Wars stuff at a respectful distance for this one: yes, Jabba the Hutt makes an appearance, but there’s nary a whiff of The Force, Jedi or Sith in the trailer and not once does anybody build a Death Star.
Deathsprint 66 is Mario Kart by way of The Running Man by way of Squid Game
If you’re from the USA, Britain or France, and also possibly a Victorian time-traveller, you might be familiar with the dunce cap – a conical humiliation bestowed on struggling or misbehaving schoolchildren, who were then told to go sit in the corner and think about their sins. Well, get ready for the dunce cosmetic. In Sumo Newcastle’s Deathsprint 66, an 8-player on-foot racing game based on Stephen King’s dystopian novel The Running Man, players build a Hype multiplier by combo-ing stunts such as railgrinds, and also, murdering each other.
Children Of The Sun review: an intense and stylish puzzle of ultraviolence
In many ways Children Of The Sun is a highly relatable game. I do not have telekinetic powers that allow me to control the path of a bullet from a sniper rifle, and I was not part of a murderous cult that killed my father-figure. But if I did and I were, you can bet that I’d go on a rip-roaring rampage of revenge! Stepping into the be-grimed trainers and unwashed jacket of the protagonist – a misused girl whose vibe is that of a member of Gorillaz – you shoot a single bullet from your gun and control it in first-person as you zip it through the heads, hearts and hands of cultists placed around a level. It’s a satisfying Sniper Elite meets Superhot puzzle of ultraviolence, and it’s neat.
Genre-bending horror dating sim sequel Sucker For Love: Date To Die For unleashes a sexy goat mommy this month
Rebecca (RPS in peace) was our resident monsterfucenjoyer for a while, and she was well up for Sucker For Love: First Date, but was slightly disappointed that as a horror-themed dating sim it leaned away from the dating and well into the horror. Now the sequel, Sucker For Love: Date To Die For has revealed a release date of April 23rd, and seems to be leaning into horror even more, while also still being a dating sim featuring an eldritch goat god with massive cans. Yet the presser also says “no scares this time”. I am confused, which is why it’s probably good there’s a demo on Steam to sort of give you a taster.
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds: Battlegrounds has added destructible terrain
The multiplayer FPS which fools would tell you is named PUBG: Battlegrounds has added destructible terrain in an update today, letting you dig your own hole or punch through to enemies. Some might tell you this is inspired by Fortnite or Minecraft, especially considering you can dig with a pickaxe, but in my heart it’s further confirmation that Plunkbat is a stag & hen weekend simulator. After all, you can have your stag do at Diggerland. Awright lads, where we digging?
The time of the mecha-shark is upon us in upcoming Besieged expansion The Splintered Sea
The Splintered Sea is an upcoming expansion for beloved battlements blasting building game Besiege, taking its so far decisively land-based action to the high seas for some aquatic anarchy. You’ll be able to pit your custom war machines rudder to fin with enemy fleets and underwater nemeses when it launches May 24th on Steam.
League Of Legends is getting a Vampire Survivors-like PVE mode
Ahhh League Of Legends, a MOBA that occupied my university years. While I’d argue climbing the ranked ladder with my housemates were some of the best game moments I’ve ever had, I’d also argue giving up League was necessary. I became too involved, too close to the toxicity. But now League’s threatening to drag me back in with something I hadn’t seen coming – a Vampire Survivors-like PVE mode. No! I must resist (I will be on it immediately when it arrives).