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It begins. Starfield is out and while its official modding tools aren’t yet available, that hasn’t stopped its community from getting to work. For example: if you’re getting distracted by Bethesda’s latest throwing up XP and location-discovery messages in big fonts at the centre of the screen during combat, the BetterHUD mod should help.
Earlier this week, Dota 2‘s summer update was released and included new tools for filtering toxic and unwanted players fromy our matches. Now Valve have taken an extra step of their own by declaring that “smurfing is not welcome in Dota,” and permanently banning 90,000 accounts involved in the practice
This week’s news that the amazing Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew will be Mimimi Games’ last hurrah has left me absolutely devastated. As the kids might say, I am shook. Besides being a bestest best in class tactics game with great characters, a witty script and deviously designed stealth puzzles to blast and backstab through, Shadow Gambit did that very rare thing that’s seemingly eluded both other types of strategy game I’ve played recently (*cough*The Lamplighters League*cough*), and even Mimimi’s own work in the past – and that’s teaching you how to actually have fun with its large cast of murder pirates through its brilliantly-conceived bespoke tutorial missions.
Crusader Kings 3 is somehow three years old, and Paradox’s grand strategy game is celebrating in style – and with a lot of stats – by dropping the news that it’s sold over three million copies in that time.
Gunbrella continues to look top-notch, the side-scrolling action-adventure serving up a does-what-it-says-on-the-tin approach to combining the floaty platforming of an umbrella with the shoot-everything-in-the-face simplicity of a gun. Now we know when we’ll be able to actually play it – and it’s soon!
Throne of Bone has a name that just rolls off the tongue and, from the look of it, this roguelike-cum-deckbuilder-cum-autobattler will roll off the ol’ mouse-clicking finger plenty nicely when it releases into Early Access next month, too.
I wasn’t too hot on Lies Of P when I played its first demo way back when. I felt it was so close, too close, to Bloodborne in everything from the cadence of the Chalamet puppet’s jog, to the “duhhnng” noise of pickups, and the gothic sheen of its streets. At the time I thought it was a bit of a duff pretender, honestly.
But a good chunk of time with it at this year’s Gamescom has swivelled my head back in its direction. Having clacked through some dingy streets, fired blue gloop from my arm, and fought the literal King Of Puppets, I’ve come to realise it has the potential to be a magnificent Soulslike in its own right.
Since joining the good ship RPS I’ve had to readjust to the daily reality of a corporate inbox, overflowing with internal Reedpop messages about Best Practices, expense claim guidance and other fiendish gambits designed to keep me from the holy labour of finding new games and telling you about them. On absent-mindedly firing up one such new game this morning, Heretic’s Fork, there was a terrible moment when I thought Reedpop had outsourced its middle management to Pandemonium.
A quick heads-up for those you hopping aboard the Starfield interstellar express today: there is a non-zero possibility that one of the game’s elevators has a shark in it. That’s according to Bethesda’s head of publishing Pete Hines, who encountered the displaced piscine trouble-maker while playing the game before release. He’s “almost positive” the shark isn’t there any more – and just like that, my understanding of Starfield has been transformed. This isn’t a 150 hour RPG treadmill of resource extraction, artefact investigation and base-building, wherein you give spaceship tours and put +5% on your accuracy, or what-have-you. It’s an extremely slowburn horror game, with every innocent elevator potentially housing a Great White jumpscare. All of which, Hines feels, is true to how Bethesda “embraces chaos” in their games, though he does feel the company’s popular association with jank and bugs isn’t “particularly fair”.
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