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More layoffs Roll7, developers of bright skateboarding gamesOlliOlli Worldand dual-wielding bloodsportRollerdrome, are being closed down as part of large scale layoffs by parent corp Take-Two Interactive, according todocuments seen by Bloomberg. The British studio has been responsible for some great stuff over the years but the report says they’ll be following thefate of Kerbal Space Program 2 developersin being laid off. Aside from the memos seen by Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, there isn’t much else to know at the moment....

In this lush sci-fantasy RPG adventure, min-maxing is a sin Leonardo Da Vinci’sVitruvian Manis a legendary drawing of a nude with his arms and legs reaching towards the rim and corners of a circle and square. It’s often invoked as an archetype for the humanist worldview of Man the Measure and Centre of all Things, holding a perfectly proportioned universe in shape. Rin D’Lorah, the heroine of new narrativeRPGSky Of Tides, is a bit like the Vitruvian Man, and the result is a game I find at once bewitching and powerfully offputting in its refusal to satisfy the conventions of the genre....

This is canon I can prove it Star Wars: The Old Republic’s ongoing developmentswitched last year from creators BioWare to Broadsword, with promise that the 13-year-old MMO would continue to receive new story content and improvements. The approaching update 7.5 looks to bring both, alongside a Spring Abundance festival that includes “seed collecting, dancing, pie-baking, animal rehabilitation, and a galactic egg hunt.” Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised at this point by any game that introduces cosy or farming-adjacent activities, and yet here I am, surprised all the same....

Think it’s over at launch? Oh no. This is never over. Over the past while a few games have had post-launch patches, the exemplars beingStarfieldand Stardew valley, which have post-launch patches of different kinds and for different reasons. We take some time on the Electronic Wireless Showpodcastto talk about this patch of patches, and what it was like in the good ol' days, where a broken game came out and stayed broken, gosh darn it!...

Get the TKL model for just £100 That list includes one the currentbest Wireless gaming keyboard, the G915 Lightspeed wireless, which is now on sale at Currys with two different form factors on offer: the full size model and the more compact tenkeyless (TKL) version. If you opt for the TKL version you save £30, though you lose the numpad, the dedicated profile keys and five programmable G-keys on the left side of the keyboard....

Hellsurvivors If I was writingWhat’s Better, it would be a short series. The first entry would declare that the best thing in video games, obviously, was watching NPCs fight among themselves. It’s this which most interests me aboutThe Forever Winter, which takes place in a “PvEvE conflict” in which enemy factions - including enormous, stomping robots - are constantly fighting one another while you and your squad try to scavenge and survive in their shadow....

Publisher CEO also stresses the value of in-game footage in trailers Medieval city builderManor Lordswas Steam’s most-wishlisted game prior to release, and has now managed the feat of transmuting that anticipation into broad enthusiasm andvery healthy sales. Not too shabby, considering that it’s mostly the work of just one person, Grzegorz Styczeń of Slavic Magic, who has hopefully found time to sleep now and then between fielding bug reports and preparingthe game’s first patches....

A great SSD for PC and PS5 Amazon’s Gaming Week sale has lots of deals on gaming accessories and hardware, including a decent discount on the heatsink version of the 2TB WD Black SN850X SSD, which is still thebest SSD for gamingyou can get. Buy now Buy now The SN850X pretty much pushes the limit of the PCIe 4.0 interface with sequential speeds of 7300MB/s reads and 6900MB/s writes. It also has superb random performance, with 1....

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My kingdom for a Scorched A player-run troupe of actors will be performing an adaptation of Richard III inFallout 76, featuring a “ghoul” in the lead role. They’re partly inspired by the recentFalloutTV show, which puts a jaded cowboy ghoul in a pivotal role and has led toan increase in playersof the online multiplayer RPG. This production will likely be more faithful to the bard than to Amazon Prime. It will open with the line: “Now is the nuclear winter of our discontent....

Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 release date demoted to subheadline in outrageous snub A new Gears game, eh? By gar, it’s been a while. The series has been at low ebb sinceGears 5and frankly, I’d question its on-going relevance - everything Gears did well has long since been nicked and incorporated into a bunch of other shooters, not least its legendary (yes, I know Kill.Switch got there first) cover system. I do love me a good Gears campaign, though - that atmosphere of perpetual imminent ambush, the winding canyon level design, “destroyed beauty”, etc - and it’s been a while since Gears 5, which Matt Castle (RPS in peace)liked, and which remains one of ourbest PC co-op games....

Forgive me, Father Last week a Catholic media ministry (not sure what that is but okay) called Catholic Answers created agenerative AI priest chatbotcalled Father Justin. Fr. Justin used a large language model to answer questions about the Catholic church and Catholic orthodoxy, and if you have any familiarity with how people love to test AI chatbots - or you read the headline of this article - then you know where this is going....

Video games will apparently be a big part of Hasbro for the next century While they ponder which developers should face the difficult task of following up one of the most acclaimed games in a long time by making a sequel byBaldur’s Gate 3, the makers of Dungeons & Dragons are also putting their own money into making video games themselves. Over a billion dollars of their own money, in fact....