Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

During tonight’s Annapurna Interactive Showcase, we got another lovely look at Flock, the latest game from Wilmot’s Warehouse and I Am Dead devs Hollow Ponds and Richard Hogg. In it, we get to see exactly how its adorable creature herding works in co-op, which you’d probably hope to see, given its own Steam page also describes it as a co-op multiplayer game. But rest assured, Flock is still very much a game you can play on your own, without the need to have a pal along for the ride, the devs tell me.

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Annapurna Interactive have announced their first internally developed game at their publishing showcase this evening, and it’s an all-new Blade Runner game. Exciting! It’s called Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth, and it’s set “squarely between” the original Blade Runner film and its more recent sequel, Blade Runner 2049, say Annapurna. The reveal trailer doesn’t give too much away at this stage, but I’m getting very big Her Story and Immortality vibes from it. Come and have a gander below.

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Steam’s summer sale is live now and will run until July 13th. As always, there are discounts across all kinds of games, including 30% off Elden Ring, 70% off Need For Speed Unbound and 40% off Valheim. Of particular note: there’s also up to 20% off the Steam Deck.

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World Of Warcraft Classic is introducing Hardcore realms where death is permanent. Blizzard say testing of Hardcore will begin on the Public Test Realm today, June 29th, and have outlined how it’ll impact PvP, Battlegrounds, quests and more. In short: they’re all being changed to try to stop your death being random or cruel.

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Cities: Skylines often felt more like a traffic management sim than a city simulator, as I spent hours tinkering with my road networks to try to clear jams. Cities: Skylines 2 looks like it’s going to support an even deeper level of tinkering, judging by two feature spotlight videos released on roads and traffic AI.

Among the new additions: car crashes, much improved pathfinding, and car parks. I find all of these as exciting as each other.

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When is a game not a game? When it’s a sim, according to the head developer of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. While we quickly agree on a “fair enough” response to this assertation of non-gameyness, we also can’t help but spend much of this latest Electronic Wireless Show podcast remembering the most fun we’ve in the diverse world of sims, be it some actual flight simulating or merely bullying smaller dinosaurs. Also: we chat about how big a deal it is that the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection might not support mouse and keyboard on PC, and discuss what we’ve been playing this week.

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Non-linear friend ‘em up Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island is now coming out next summer after a slight delay, and the team have debuted a new trailer to mark the news. Mythwrecked comes from Polygon Treehouse, the studio behind 2020’s gorgeous adventure Röki, only this time the Norse mythology has been switched for some Greek dressing, and the snow has all melted away into sand. Come take a look at the friendly/ethereal/hot deities below.

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Earlier this year, Volker Wertich announced that he was returning to the citybuilding genre 30 years after he headed up The Settlers. We now have our first in-game look at his new project Pioneers Of Pagonia, which seems to dial up the economic management and actual building-of-towns side of the formula, rather than the RTS combat machinations. Take a look at the lush fields and construction down below.

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Don’t look now, but we’re almost halfway through 2023. How is that even possible? I hear you cry. Well, I’m not entirely sure either. The last time I checked it was freezing cold outside and the sun went down at 3pm, but here we are with long, sunlit evenings and that sticky sheen of an early, muggy summer. Or at least it’s been quite clammy in the RPS Treehouse this month, as we’ve all been sweating over our favourite games of the year so far.

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Yup, it’s another DDR4 deal post – but this time, it’s for the US market and covers a 64GB dual-channel kit, for all of you video creators, game server operators and high-number-likers out there. Newegg is offering a 64GB kit of Mushkin Enhanced Redline Stiletto DDR4-3200 CL16 for $99.99, a great price considering the same RAM kit cost $169.99 for Black Friday last year.

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