Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

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RGG ends Like A Dragon Direct by proudly announcing they won’t charge for New Game+ this time, something most games don’t do anyway

“Oh, and one last thing…” teased the narration for yesterday’s Like A Dragon Direct showcase on Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii, before announcing that the RPG will be getting New Game+ mode as part of a free post-launch update. It then cut to Majima and his crew making celebratory noises on deck. This follows last year’s Infinite Wealth catching some backlash for the decision to lock the mode behind a £15/€15/$15 edition upgrade.

Unrelated, but I’ve decided to stop putting angry spiders through your letterbox every morning. I know, I know. Come on now. Hero is such a strong word.

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows release delayed to March as Ubisoft’s board consider a company sale

Ubisoft are delaying Assassin’s Creed Shadows again, but this time, not just out of concern about the quality of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. The French publisher are pushing back release of the new samurai-era open worlder from 14th February to 20th March 2025 while they look into “various transformational strategic and capitalistic options to extract the best value for stakeholders”, with news of a possible major “transaction” to follow.

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Beyond Citadel is a fascinating, melancholy FPS, but you’ll need a high tolerance for gore and titillation

The first time I died in Beyond Citadel, the game treated to me a close-up shot of my character’s scantily clad, bisected body lying in a pool of guts and ripped underwear. It turns out you can turn off a lot of the gore and nudity. You can also swaddle yourself in some nice, sturdy, PG-13 body armor. But you’re seemingly stuck with a certain base percentage of bulging, softcore gratuitousness in both the character portrait on bottom left, and in the mildly boobulent background art of the world. I’m not sure I can put up with all that, which is a shame, because Beyond Citadel is otherwise a promising, eerie FPS that mixes ideas from 90s shooters in pretty appealing ways.

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Dreams On A Pillow’s developer on the challenges of making games from the West Bank

“I sometimes joke about it, but it’s like I need a war to start a new game,” Rasheed Abu-Eideh tells me over a call. “The specific thing that made me make Liyla And The Shadows Of War is the attacks on Gaza in 2014, and the specific thing that made me make Dreams On A Pillow is the attacks on Gaza in 2023.”

Dreams On A Pillow is a stealth adventure that tells the story of a young mother during the Nakba – the 1948 ethnic cleansing, displacement, and cultural suppression of Palestinian Arabs by Israel. As its funding campaign puts it, it’s a game about “a land full of people being made into a people without land.”

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I’m sad to announce I’m considering playing League Of Legends again

A long, long time ago I became obsessed with watching people play rally games beautifully. It was a blessing to see those disembodied hands sling virtual cars around with grace and precision, kicking up dirt in a way I could only dream of.

Now, though, I am going through a different phase. A less blessed phase. One where I watched the popular streamer and influencer Ludwig attempt to climb to Platinum rank in League Of Legends, all because he wanted to prove another popular streamer, who thought he couldn’t do it, wrong. I know I’ve already put you off, so I don’t blame you if you stop reading. Just know that I couldn’t stop watching his streams, even as it conjured up terrible memories of a time spent doing the exact same thing at uni.

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Geoguessr-inspired detective game Locator is about puzzles, perspective, and empathy on an alien planet

One for Obra Dinn and Golden Idol fans, this, although also for anyone who just loves a gorgeous map of an alien environment. Locator is a detective puzzler where you play an interstellar cartographer tasked with tracking down a missing archeologist named Abigail Lidari on an alien world. It takes inspiration from browser geography game Geoguessr. You’ll be studying sets of photos and comparing them with notes from Abigail’s journal, then pinpointing her location on a series of lovely maps.

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Marvel Rivals patch makes Hulk less hulky, Hawkeye less shooty and the Goddess of Death deader, just in time for Season 1

Marvel Rivals Season 1 is about to begin, adding the Fantastic Four to the free-to-play hero shooter’s roster so that they can beat up Dracula, who has swamped the Earth in eternal night. It launches January 10th at 1 am PT / 4 am ET / 9 am GMT, and developers NetEase are paving the way in the traditional manner by rebalancing the character line-up so as to simultaneously win the adoration of certain player groups, while plunging others into apoplectic fury.

Do you like running rampage as Hela, goddess of death? Was that you who shot me full of crows on Klyntar last night? Well, how does 25 points off your base health suit you? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Screw you too.

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Future Creative Assembly games may “require blood thematically”, which sure sounds like a Total War: Warhammer 40,000 teaser

Over the Christmas break, I took a brief hiatus from reporting on every time a Total War developer breathes or spills tea on their shirt. The year ended, the world did not, and no Thanquol DLC was announced, but I did miss what I reckon is the strongest hint they’ve yet freely given that strategy game Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is both real and due an announcement very soon. Here’s the skinny.

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Transformers: Reactivate, the Autobot action game from the Gears Tactics devs, has been cancelled

Gears Tactics and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory developers Splash Damage have cancelled Transformers: Reactivate, the Hasbro action game they announced in 2022. They will also be “scaling down to refocus our efforts on other projects”, and “a number of roles across the studio are now potentially at risk of redundancy”.

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