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UPDATE: Larian have now posted a full guide on how to prepare for 1.0 Update: Larian Studios have now posted adetailed guideon how to prepare forBaldur’s Gate 3’s launch. The Steam blog says that early access saves and profiles “aren’t compatible with the release version… and leaving them in your save folders may in some fringe cases cause issues.” Original Story:Baldur’s Gate 3is meredays away, and you may be wondering if you can prep in some way for the epic RPG’s release....

The Time Traveller’s Knife Dishonored 2is an immersive sim stealth ‘em up by Arkane and it’s been in my brain a lot more than usual. Partly due to this year’sRPS 100, but also because of the mess that wasRedfall. Arkane swung at the live service hero shooter and missed, with some comments writing off my sadness in thereviewas an inevitability. Sure, there’s definitely truth to Arkane having changed over the years, of course it has....

I’m definitely cool enough to know who that is Hitman 3turned into Hitman: World Of Assassinationlast year, grouping the entire trilogy of missions all under one roof and adding a roguelike mode. The murder sim has been relatively quiet since. Now a new elusive target is coming to the game this autumn, the first in two years. It’s about taking down a character called The Drop, played by real-world DJ Dimitri Vegas....

If your school supplies list has this monitor on it, I want to go to your school. When I was a kid growing up in rural New Mexico, I dreaded the first day of school. I had to give up whole days of biking in the desert with my brother and playing video games, sure, but the real problem was school supplies. My poor mom had to track down a huge list of supplies the school said we needed, from pencils and paper to expensive binders and calculators....

Including oh so many RPS favourites The Wholesome Games Celebration has kicked off on Steam, offering steep discounts on many, many cosy games that you’d typically see featured in variousWholesome Directs- downtempo puzzlers, non-violent explore ‘em ups, games starring cute woodland critters, and so on. Scrolling through all the good stuff might take a while since nearly 250 games are discounted, so let’s run through some highlights here. My personal pick from the sale is the recently releasedVenba(15% off at£10....

Starting on September 1st Puzzlebox solve ‘em upThe Roomentered the scene ten years ago, so developers Fireproof Games are celebrating the milestone anniversary with deep discounts across the entire slightly spooky series. From September 1st to September 14th, every single game in the puzzler series will enjoy a discount of up to 90% on Steam. Similarly big sales are taking place across the Nintendo eShop (until September 22nd) and the Google Play Store (until September 8th), if you wanted to take the lovely headscratchers on the go....

I already know I’d lose For a few evenings last year, a friend and I had fun playing escape room puzzlerEscape Simulator. He’s smarter than I am, which was a boon because we were playing coopratively. It might be less beneficial now, since Pine Studio have just released Escape Simulator’s “Versus Update”. It lets you race to solve escape room puzzles competitively, with a new “truly challenging room that takes place on a quiz show from the ’80s....

Studio will tackle it at a “later date” I have an affection for ’90s first-person shooter Sin I suspect the game doesn’t deserve, because it had a handful of good guns, ATMs you could press the buttons on, and a fight on the rooftop of a train. I am therefore always interested in each seemingly cursed attempt to revive the series. “You may have noticed that there have not been any updates on SiN: Reloaded in quite some time and there’s a good reason for that,” says the update, which was added todayto the top of Reloaded’s Steam pageand alsoposted to Twitter....

Find out if your PC is good enough to meet the minimum or recommended Starfield requirements Starfieldhas been turning a few heads thanks to Bethesda’s recent release of the massiveRPG’s system requirements for PC. Even the minimum requirements are quite steep, and given that Starfield is sponsored by AMD, players are quite rightfully concerned over whether or not the best upscaling technologies (DLSS 3, anyone?) will even be an option for Starfield....

The Amendment update also coincides with a big discount Text-based RPGSuzerainwas already great to begin with, but today’s 2.0 ‘Amendment’ update makes the game’s political spider web even stickier. Developers Torpor Games describe the update as a “massive overhaul” that adds much-requested features, tidies up the presentation, and expands on the base game’s corrupt scheming/diplomacy. I’m tempted to lead my country to ruin all over again. In a newSteam blog, the team say the Amendment update is “the culmination of a year-long endeavour… to refine and expand upon the original game,” although it’s apparently the first of several free updates in the pipeline....

This singular encounter really got its claws into me Citizen Sleeperis a game with lots of brilliant individual stories in it, even the ones thatend so catastrophically badlythat redemption seems nigh on impossible. But when I look back on this tabletop-infused RPG and think of my favourites, there is one that stands head and shoulders above the rest. It isn’t one of Citizen Sleeper’s more emotional story beats (I miss ya, Lem and Mina), nor is it its most thrilling (big love to my man Feng)....

But its tetchy crew just about rescues it The Expanse is one of those TV shows that I’ve started to watch about three times now. Matthew (RPS in peace) and I keep hearing great things about it, but every attempt we make has always ended the same way. We get a couple of episodes in, determined to make it a little bit further than we did before, but there’s just something about it that can’t quite hold our interest long enough to properly stick with it....

Time is inconsequential in my quest for a no-kill ghost run I can almost remember the moment in the originalDishonoredwhen I realised, “Crap. Chaos is coming, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.” It was around the halfway point of the game that the world of Dunwall was visibly starting to sour before me, and it was all because I hadn’t quite taken the time to truly understand how its chaos system worked....