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Last time, you decided that petting the dog is better than entering cyberspace. I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed. And you probably don’t even notice me sulking here in cyberspace because you’re so busy tickling some lousy stinkbag with the mind of a toddler. Fine, fine, whatever. This week, it’s all about self-imposed challenges. What’s better: fighting your double, or optional challenges giving rewards upfront?
Universal Pictures have dropped the first teaser for their Five Nights At Freddy’s film adaptation, based on the hit horror series. Ten years ago, I’d hear schoolmates chatting about the games’ ghosts, purple people, and dismembered heads stuck in animatronics. Now, we’re old enough to buy R-rated cinema tickets, and Hollywood’s ready to capitalise on some teen nostalgia – essentially the film industry’s version of min-maxing. Check out the first teaser here:
My ever-growing backlog of farmlife sims gives me a judgemental side-eye every week, as I crawl back to my scarily silent husband in Stardew Valley. That list of Stardew-likes is becoming harder and harder to ignore, though. I’m very much looking forward to Grave Seasons (aka Stardew meets murder mysteries). I was looking forward to Roots Of Pacha (aka Stardew meets the Stone Age) before its publisher woes. And now, I’m incredibly excited about Mirthwood (aka Stardew meets Fable). Check out its announcement trailer below:
Strategy sequel Jagged Alliance 3 is coming out on July 14th, publisher THQ Nordic have announced. The last numbered entry in the series was released almost 25 years ago, and Jagged Alliance 3 continues the tradition of eccentric mercenaries who politely wait for their turn before shooting people. Take a look at the latest trailer below to see what the game is and is not, plus some pumped-up voicework ripped straight from an early 2000s MTV reality show:
Whoooo we’re officially in the double-digits gang! We’ve somehow managed to make it to episode 10 of Indiescovery without going completely feral and wrecking the joint. I say that, but this week’s episode is a little, shall we say, unhinged? Rebecca, Liam, and Rachel hadn’t really had a proper chat all week so there’s a lot of Friday energy and catching up, and the energy levels only increase when we start to talk about our main topic of this episode: Eurovision! And indie games, of course.
When Overwatch 2 was first announced at Blizzcon 2019, Blizzard promised an ambitious “highly replayable” PvE component that somewhat justified the ‘2’ at the end of the title. Last night, the Overwatch 2 development team announced that they’ve scrapped most of their ideas including the Hero Missions mode which had skill trees, levelling up, and other light RPG elements shown off in the trailer below. Instead, they’ll be gradually releasing co-op story missions and integrating them into their ongoing seasons, similar to how PvE operated in the first Overwatch.
Steam’s latest genre-specific sale is entirely about sports games. From yesterday – this post was postponed due to frozen pitch, sorry – until May 22nd, you can find discounts on everything from skateboarding to golf, wrestling to fishing, and of course lots of fitba.
It’s long been possible to download demos of some games on Steam, particularly during periodic Steam Next Fests. It’s also technically possible to buy a game, play it for under two hours, then refund it if it’s not for you.
As of yesterday, you can experience a marriage of both these ideas on Steam via a time-limited 90 minute trial for EA’s Dead Space remake.
EVGA’s Kingpin motherboards are some of the most bonkers out there, proper slabs that are designed for extreme overclocking with hugely impressive power delivery, multiple BIOSes and some unique features. They’re also hugely expensive, normally costing close to $1000, but a deep discount on their Z690 model over at Newegg brings it to $400. That’s still pricey, but a reasonable pickup given the feature list for anyone designing a top-end gaming rig around Intel’s 12th-gen or 13th-gen Core processors.
It’s been a little while since we covered a prebuilt gaming PC here at RPS, but there’s a good deal today on a RTX 4070 system over at CCL.
A configuration that includes a Ryzen 5 5700G, 16GB of DDR4 and 500GB NVMe SSD is available for £960 when you use code GAMER20 – and you even get a free copy of Diablo 4, which debuts on 6/6 and looks quite promising!
