report from The New York Times, Microsoft is expecting the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to oppose the deal, after EU regulators issued their own antitrust warnings last week. Microsoft reportedly believes it can convince EU and UK regulators to accept their concessions and eventually approve the acquisition.
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Spellbook Demonslayers is a wicked, witchy take on Vampire Survivors
best game of 2022. As I’ve said before, a lot of them can’t quite match the OG for all manner of reasons, but Spellbook Demonslayers is different. Despite only being in early access, it’s already got a solid foundation to work from. No, there isn’t an Old Testament that whirls around your person like a holy sawblade, but there is a revolving shield with a pistol glued onto it. Yeah, I thought that would convince you.
Spacefaring looter shooter Everspace 2 flies out of early access April 6th
Everspace 2 is ready to fly into full release for PC on April 6th. Last November, the open-world sequel received its last major update before release, adding in a rift-opening endgame. The game already has grappling hooks – which automatically makes every shooter better – so, now we’re just waiting for a few extra bits before it’s ready for takeoff.
RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2006
RPS Time Capsule returns for its first outing of 2023, and this time we’re casting our minds back to the hallowed year of 2006. Little did we know it at the time, but this is the year we start to see the birth of certain game series that are still alive and kicking today (just about), as well as the nascent beginnings of now beloved studios honing their craft on some of their very first titles. But which of those games have earned themselves a spot in the eternal RPS Time Capsule? Come and find out which ones have stood the test of time, and which, after reading this article, have been consigned to the smog-filled trashfire of future Earth.
Potion Tales is a creepy magical puzzle game with no wrong answers
Potion Tales a shop sim or retail management game, because the economics of running a figuratively and literally underground magic potion shop seems a secondary concern next to making the potions and deciding whether you want to screw people over or not. If the answer to that last part is yes, you need to move on to the question of how.
In practice, Potion Tales is a 3D puzzle game. People come to you – I use the term people broadly because the tutorial level involves helping a fire spirit and soon after you’re approached by what appears to be an aggressive daisy who is the local gravekeeper – and present you with a problem. They ask for a potion to solve the problem. That’s all the steer you get. It takes some getting used to, but the Steam demo shows an impressively flexible game with a good sense of humour.
Celebrate magical games of witchcraft and wizardry with Magic Week on RPS
Magic Week here at RPS, where we aim to highlight all manner of fabulous games about magic, witches, wizards, general sorcery and other spell-adjacent tomfoolery. We’re also putting special emphasis on magic games made by trans developers, too. Join us for a glimpse of what’s coming up.
Steam Puzzle Fest will offer discounts and demos on puzzle games in April
discounts on builders last month, and is is due to offer cheap mysteries from February 20th-27th. They’ve already announced the next genre-specific sale, though: Steam Puzzle Fest is coming in the last week of April.
Phantom Brigade will mech its way to Steam and 1.0 later this month
Phantom Brigade has been held by the twin prisons of early access and the Epic Games Store for a couple of years now, but it’ll soon be set free. Developers Brace Yourself say it’ll hit 1.0 and arrive on Steam on the same date: February 28th.
The Last Of Us: Part 1 has been delayed by a few weeks on PC
The Last Of Us on console, years after its original release. It stands to reason that there might be increased interest in the looming PC release, too, but you’ll have to wait a few extra weeks. Naughty Dog announced yesterday that their shroomy shooter has been delayed.
Have You Played… Duke Nukem?
Duke Nukem 3D burst onto the FPS scene in the Nineties, young CJ was a bit confused. This Duke wasn’t the purple-shirted acrobat I’d known from Apogee Software’s pair of platformers earlier that decade. He was brash, crude, and and didn’t side-scroll anymore. It wasn’t for me, so I moved on to other games. I still occasionally loaded up those earlier platformers though, wistfully remembering a time when Duke presumably used actual toilets when he needed to answer a call of nature.