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“Stop it. WTF?” Several game developers have called on their players to protestUnity’s recently announced new pricing structure, under which developers who reach a certain threshold of revenue or game installations will be charged every time somebody installs their game. A few teams have also announced plans to dump Unity and move their projects to other game engines, such as Godot or Unreal. Among those considering a trip to new pastures is Frogsong developer FrogteamGames....

(Ella, ella, ey, ey, ey) You can’t fault the pitch. InGunbrellayou’re a sort of cowboy dude with a shotgun that’s also an umbrella. You use the umbrella to deflect enemy projectiles, block attacks, fly up into the air like a furious Mary Poppins and zoom along ziplines. You use the shotgun, as you might reasonably expect, to do the majority of your big murdering. Gunbrella is a classic 2Dplatformshooter in the style of a steampunk western....

Just when you thought things couldn’t escalate any further One of my favourite TV shows is The Rookie, because you never have any idea what could happen next. No episode can go more than five minutes without some kind of twist, often with no relation to anything that has happened up until that point. Like, you think the stand-off between criminals and their victims in a courthouse nuclear bunker has been resolved, but it turns out that while the camera was off him, a lawyer got stabbed by someone else....

Get rid of these pesky machines with three different methods Wondering how to disable turrets in Starfield?Turrets can be nasty enemies to come up against inStarfield, because they just don’t back down until they’re taken out. Luckily, it’s not too difficult to disable them with the right strategy, and we’ve got you covered. Here’s everything you’ll need to know about disabling turrets inStarfield, including how to deactivate them using their respective consoles, how to change their target, and how to simply shoot them down....

Learn how to get Shielded Cargo in Starfield Want to know how to get Shielded Cargo in Starfield?If you want to smugglecontrabandinStarfield, then you’ll want toupgrade your shipto get a Shielded Cargo hold. Shielded Cargo allows you to hide items from scanners as you enter the orbit of planets across the Settled Systems, so that you aren’t apprehended and arrested by the police when returning to sell your ill-gotten gains....

Here’s how to make a killing selling Starfield ships How do you sell ships in Starfield?If you’ve been playingStarfieldand want to make a few extra bucks selling ships that you no longer plan to upgrade or use, there are a few things you’ll want to know. While you can make a chunk of change selling ships, there are a few loopholes you’ll need to jump through to be able to sell them — especially if they’re stolen....

I think you should all start a blog But it didn’t used to be like this! Obviously I don’t need to remind our regular readers about the glory days of the information superhighway because some of you are old enough to be my Dad (and I’mthirty-one) but just in case a member of Gen Z has stumbled upon this article by accident: the internet used to be fun. Like, really fun, andHypnospace Outlawis living proof of it....

After a small hotfix aimed at smaller bugs and stability Bethesda has detailed a number of incoming quality-of-life improvements and expanded graphical options headed toStarfieldin a regular series of updates. The “regular interval of updates” will follow a small hotfix due out first, which will aim to squish out bugs, improve stability and address some of the game’s “few top issues” affecting players, Bethesda said in ablog post. After that, the devs outlined plans to introduce some of the features requested most by the community, including a bevy of graphical options....

Attracts thousands of negative reviews less than a week after launch Less than a week afterNBA 2K24hit Steam, the latest annual instalment in the basketball game series is competing for an unwanted title: the worst-reviewed PC game on Steam. At the time of writing, just 9% of NBA 2K24’salmost 4,000 user reviews on Steamare positive, giving it an Overwhelmingly Negative consensus, surprise surprise. According toSteam 250, that makes the new release the second worst-reviewed game on Steam just five days after its launch on September 8th, behind onlyOverwatch 2....

And in the wake of last month’s major Echoes update Starfield’s success might bemaking headlines lately, but anotherspace gamealso seems to be reaping the benefits of Bethesda’s much-anticipated sci-fi epic:No Man’s Sky. Hello Games’ Sean Murray revealed on not-Twitter that No Man’s Sky is currently seeing its biggest month “in the last few years” across all platforms - including PC, Xbox, PlayStation and Switch, as well as VR and Game Pass - in the wake ofStarfield’s launch in early September....

Stig Asmussen said earlier this year that he had “always” seen the Jedi games as a trilogy The director of bothStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Orderand this year’sJedi: Survivoris departing EA after close to a decade at developers Respawn. “After careful thought and consideration, Stig Asmussen has decided to leave Respawn to pursue other adventures, and we wish him the best of luck,” said an EA representative. “Veteran Respawn leaders will be stepping up to guide the team as they continue their work on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor....

Ronzilla Asks RPS Cor, has it really been almost half a year since we’ve done one of these? Apologies, readers. I honestly don’t know where the time goes. It’s probably because we’re spending too much time with our favourite guilty pleasure games, which is the subject of this latestAsk RPScolumn. James:Yeah, tough one. I feel guilty about how excessively competitive I became playingApex Legends, but not for playing the game per se....

Vote now! Last time, you decided thatupgrading cards is better than fast travel. I think the outcome is partially from a love of cards, and partially a dislike of the impact fast travel has had on game design. Can’t deny it’s convenient, mind. This week, I ask you to pick between taking things you want and something that should always have been ours. What’s better: capturing enemy buildings, or hand grenades exploding on impact with enemies?...