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The Creative Assembly’s Hyenas – a sci-fi extraction shooter about robbing Martian billionaires, which Ed deemed “a surprising amount of fun” when he saw it at Gamescom – is no more. Sega have cancelled the forthcoming looter FPS together with several unannounced titles – a stripping-down of the publisher’s European business in response to financial losses Sega are blaming partly on Covid.
There’s been a certain amount of confusion and alarm over the announcement of Nakwon: Last Paradise, a dingy third-person zombie survival adventure with a big emphasis on stealth, from the creators of Dave the Diver, a bright, breezy uramaki roll of a game that mixes restaurant management with side-on undersea exploration. Is this kind of like when Prince of Persia went all edgelord with Two Thrones? Do I need to call Mintrocket’s parents and ask for an intervention?
Thing is, if you take a step back from each game they’re actually very similar. Both are fundamentally about scouring dangerous places for resources and ferrying them back to a safe area where you can sell them off. Both pit you, a mediocre human, against strange and unearthly creatures. Both are sort of about redeeming scenario concepts we all hate – in Dave the Diver’s case, the water level, and in Nakwon’s case, the stealth mission. See, this is practically a remake! Let’s have a look at the trailer.
Look alive, jarheads! Grab your Glocks and drop your – well, whatever you’re holding that isn’t a gun, unless it’s a kitten or something, in which case tuck it gently under your arm and brace yourself for the news that Valve have finally released the public version of Counter-Strike 2, the long-awaited free-to-play technical upgrade (and replacement) for perennial Steam chart-topper Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, after six months in limited access. You can download it here.
Last time, you decided by 72% against 28% that setting unit waypoints is better than receiving waypoints yourself. Given how loudly people decry receiving waypoints, I’m a little surprised it was that close. And that’s how we know we’re doing science. This week, I ask you to choose between mastery of place and mastery of time. What’s better: improvised environmental weapons, or skipping across a timeline flowchart?
Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.0 update arrived last week alongside new (and truly excellent) expansion Phantom Liberty, bringing a host of tweaks and improvements in an impressive climax to the originally technically-troubled and artistically-questionable game’s quite staggering redemption arc.
Horizon Forbidden West will follow its predecessor Horizon Zero Dawn away from former PlayStation exclusivity with a PC release early next year.
Chris Metzen, one of Warcraft’s longest and most influential lore-crafters for more than two decades before he retired back in 2016, has returned to work at Blizzard full-time.
A friend recently found her old floppy disks from the 1997, uncovering a treasure trove of poetry, MS Paint art, homework, screensavers, and fanfic. Delightful finds, and I feel privileged to have seen them. I very much do not have my old floppies. They’re all long-gone, chucked along with all my old websites and blogs and CDs and everythings in strict sentimentality purges. I don’t know if I now regret that. So with vintage Internet simulator Hypnospace Outlaw being our game of the month in the RPS Game Club, I’m wondering: do you have your old sites and stuff? Dare you share it with us?
Neowiz have released Lies of P update 1.2.0.0, a major patch for the puppet-ridden action-RPG which educated souls are describing as the closest we may ever get to a Bloodborne PC port. It introduces Dualshock 4 and DualSense controller support alongside a host of changes to enemies, the execution of the game’s Fable Arts or gear-specific special moves, item drop rates and the duration of stagger windows. The overarching aim seems to be to make the game easier, and as I’m sure you’re expecting, a few Lies of P fans – and, it turns out, RPS staffers – are ticked off about that.
Shadows Of Doubt is in many ways my ideal game: a procedurally generated detective sim set in an open, rain-slick noir city. I’m waiting for it to get further along in its Early Access journey, and to that end, its first major content update is here now.
The Cheats And Liars Update, as its called, adds new “infidelity cases” to investigate, alongside simpler lost-and-found side jobs.
