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You might have seen a new name around the homepage this past week: Mark Warren. It might also be that you recognise the name if you’re a reader of RPS sibling site VG247, where Mark has already been plying his trade for several years. Well, we’ve adopted Mark here at RPS, as one might adopt a puppy if the puppy really liked mods, RPGs and Helldivers 2. Come say hello in the comments.
Does Elden Ring Nightreign‘s bird-bodied Guardian have a human face hidden somewhere on his feathery body? It’s a question people have been thinking about, and by “people” I mean a small subset of Elden Ring obsessives who like to watch the game being picked apart 3D model by 3D model.
Thanks to a prolific Souls modder/dataminer, I can provide you with an answer. In their latest video, Zullie The Witch – who’s previously solved various Souls mysteries and modded an Armored Core into Elden Ring – has unmasked Nightreign‘s crop of nightfarers like they’re Scooby-Doo villians. Most of their faces look how you’d expect, but there are a couple of noteworthy cases that I think it’s worth you knowing about.
Burden Of Command is a lot like me, in that it deserves a lot of love but it’s too frustrating and annoying to get it for long.
The concept is promising: tactical battles with a small batch of soldiers, but as a “leadership RPG” instead of a regular wargame. Occasional glimpses kept my hope alive over its long development, perhaps predisposing me to forgive more than usual when it finally arrived last month. I’m glad I did. But wow, did this game get me yelling for a while.
Back in 2023, Nintendo held one of those Direct thingies it likes to do, and as it often does the Japanese version of the stream had some games the western one didn’t. In particular, there was one game that drew my attention: Stray Children. It caught my eye in part because it has a really unique pixel art look to it, but also because Yoshiro Kimura was its director, one of the original designers of cult-classic Moon: Remix RPG Adventure. And now, after a bit of a wait, developer Onion Games have confirmed it’s getting its English release later this year, and it’ll even be doing so on PC.
Probably one of the most appealing parts of an RPG is bonding with other characters, right? Building up your player character’s relationships with various companions, like in games like the Persona series for example. What I wouldn’t say is particularly common is you, the player, having a direct relationship with the character you’re playing as. This is where Downhill comes in, a fourth wall breaking action RPG whose main character knows you exist and controls them, all the while having to figure out a way to save the world.
Last year, CD Projekt Red released their final update for Cyberpunk 2077. Version 2.2 of the game added in fixes, a few more customisation options for you and your trusty steed (car), alongside some secrets. This version itself got patched with a few more fixes, but 2.2 was meant to be the last big one. Turns out, they lied! As in a stream held earlier today mostly to do with that new video game console that just came out with the kart driving plumber on it (more like Switch 2 another channel, am I right), CD Projekt Red shared that a 2.3 version is on the way to the open world game later this month.
It is happening again. No Man’s Sky is getting another huge update filled with all sorts of new things to do, and because there’s so much, we’ll just jump straight into it. First of all, the space simulation game just lets you become a mayor of a town now. Or, I guess an Overseer as described in the patch notes (it says mayor in the trailer), a role that lets you look after four settlements by governing their inhabitants and investing in their infrastructure.
It’s been quite a while since Grasshopper Manufacture put out a completely original game, almost a decade in fact, with 2016’s Let It Die. Since then there’s been a couple No More Heroes, but during a presentation held last night from some company I’ve never heard of, PlayStation I think it was, the developer revealed something wholly new: Romeo Is A Dead Man. This was easily my personal highlight because of how balls to the wall stupid it looks, but it was missing an important thing known as a release date that a lot of other games actually featured for once. And that’s almost definitely because Grasshopper is a bit worried about GTA 6.
Helldivers 2 developers Arrowhead have revealed the new gear that’ll be arriving in the game with its next warbond on June 12, and there’s an armour set that seems inspired by another franchise high on authoritarian satire, Judge Dredd.
Honestly, I’m surprised it’s taken that long for one of the warbonds – which as plenty of people have pointed out often amount to giving players a way to look even more fascisty than you do by default in Helldivers 2 – to dip into something Dredd-ish.
Oblivion’s a notoriously buggy game, so it probably shouldn’t have been too much of a surprise that Oblivion Remastered was also pretty damn buggy. While a lot of those bugs are the kind of charming nonsense TES 4 is beloved for, Bethesda and Virtuos have now confirmed that the remaster’s got two updates incoming to fix its more serious problems.
Having scrolled through the patch notes for the first of these updates, which releases in Steam beta today, there’s one fix that’s stood out, because the thing it outlines has been haunting my dreams.
