War did change, actually Speaking to RPS regular Jeremy Peel ina new feature about RPG design, Amazon’s Fallout TV show and his time working on Pentiment and Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian’s Josh Sawyer has reflected a bit on whatFallout: New Vegasowes to Black Isle and Interplay’s very firstFalloutfrom 1997. “A lot of the philosophy that I approached New Vegas with was the philosophy of Fallout 1, or how I interpreted it,” Sawyer observed....

The Obsidian design director on Pillars of Eternity II burnout and living with dead projects What’s it like to watch a smash hit TV show set in the backyard of a game you’ve made? It’s a question whichFallout: New Vegasproject director Josh Sawyer is uniquely qualified to answer. “The show really does capture the aesthetic ofFallout 4and76, while also feeling like it is set on the West Coast,” he says. “If you’re a fan, then you can see where the plot elements have been pulled from in previous entries....

Stuck on today’s the word for April 24? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Follow us as we provide a list of hints to help you get to today’s word without missing a beat. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Pre-registering doesn’t entail much. Head to theofficial site(or follow a link on itsEpic Store Page) and you can press a button to sign-up for a HoYoverse account, or sign-in with an existing one, and I guess express your interest in playing the game by doing so. ZZZ will be free-to-play when it launches. Collectively, the number of pre-registered players will unlock in-game rewards for players, with the top reward requiring 40 million pre-registered players....

You can play Rising Up in about fifteen minutes, possibly during company time Rising Upis afree, sub-fifteen minute browser game that’s a bit like Streets of Rage, where you play a balding office worker and beat a giant scanner to death within the first 30 seconds. This, I believe, should be enough to tempt you into dunking it enthusiastically into your next break coffee, but if you need more convincing, let’s do it....

Spooky retro adventure gets new trailer and release date! At the end of last year I played the demo forAn English Hauntingandgot very excited. I like horror that has a generally spooky, creeping dread vibe rather than being wall-to-wall cheap jumpscares and gore, and that sort of stuff is thin on the ground. But it’ll be less so from May the 15th, cos that’s when this ghosty point and clickpuzzleadventure is out!...

Cellar door I’m currently trying to find a new flat in London. This is not much fun, though it’s a great opportunity to meet and bond with other would-be tenants over a shared, grinding resentment of landlords who will literally stuff a bed in a toilet and call it a “studio apartment”. It’s also left me powerfully invested in the premise ofBlue Prince, a first-person puzzler which looks like a graphic novel and starts with your character inheriting a huge, weird, isolated mansion, Mt....

Lars Wingefors to carry on as “a long-term, active, committed and supportive owner” Famed mass-layoff-manufacturing corporation Embracer Group are dividing into three companies, which will be listed separately on Sweden’s stock exchange. Those companies are: Asmodee Group, which comprises Embracer’s tabletop games biz; Coffee Stain & Friends, an evolution of the existing Coffee Stain publisher, who will pursue “a dual focus on indie and A/AA premium and free-to-play games for PC/console and mobile”; and Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends, “a creative powerhouse in AAA game development and publishing for PC and console, as well as the stewards of The Lord of the Rings and Tomb Raider intellectual properties, among many others”....

No adventures here, please Perhaps you are fatigued by orcs and swords. Maybe you yearn for a simple life of bucolic betterment to recover from your addiction to spicy wedding bands but still fear to stray too far from your beloved fantasy franchise. Oh look, it’sTales of the Shire, a game set in Middle-earth which features not a single ounce of stabbing nor - as far as I can tell - any gigantic spiders at all....

Here’s where to find all the Sacrament merchants in No Rest For The Wicked Looking for merchants in No Rest For The Wicked?As you exploreNo Rest For The Wicked, you’ll encounter your first major town, Sacrament. Here, many different merchants offer services like weapon upgrades,Runes, crafting materials and more. Join us as we go through where you can find each of the merchants in Sacrament and detail the services they offer....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #316 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

Uncapped Games will reveal the untitled project at Summer Game Fest The former multiplayer lead for RTS giantStarCraft 2is working on a new real-timestrategy gamethat he promises will mark a “paradigm shift” for the storied PC genre. Part of what Kim believes marks the game out is its renewed focus on being approachable and fun rather than highly demanding on players’ reflexes and memorisation skills - something I appreciate on behalf of those of us formerBrood Warplayers now over 30 whose APM often measures in the single-digits these days....

It’s not time to make a change Until I playedTales Of Kenzera: ZauI figured people had run out of ways to make originalplatformers, but an Afrofuturist story-in-a-story framing for a mythological platformer about healthy ways to deal with grief sure did teach me to not underestimate human creativity. I really liked a lot about Tales Of Kenzera, and got annoyed by a bunch of stuff too - and the division seems to be that a lot of the former falls on the story and design side, and the latter on the mechanical side, which I guess isn’t ideal for a platformer....