Hang out to chat spooky puzzles on Monday 3rd This month’s pick for ourRPS Game Clubis the nails sort-of-horror puzzle gameThe Tartarus Key, and we’ll be doing another funtabulous liveblog to chat about it with you nextMonday July 3rd at 4pm BST / 8am PDT. Is that a different month to the current one? Yes. But do I make the rules? Also yes. And, like Katharine waslast time, I’m travelling right now, so Monday it is....
As studio vows to ultimately make good with players. Cyberpunk 2077was better than reviewers gave it credit for when it first released, but it struggled to overcome a “a critical mass of negativity”, the VP of PR and communications for studio CD Projekt Red has said. As you may remember, 2077 faced multiple delays - amidstreports of heavy crunchdespite CDPR promising it wouldn’t happen - before eventually launching towidespread complaints of bugsranging frompoor performance,corrupted savesandcamera problemsto silly things likevanishing penisesand much more serious issues likeepilepsy triggers....
Microsoft’s Game Pass is “unanimously” disliked by publishers, according to the head of PlayStation. Ryan claimed that the “Game Pass business model appears to have some challenges, and Microsoft appears to be losing a lot of money on it”, adding that the service that offers free games across Xbox and PC is widely disliked by publishers. That directly clashes with Xbox boss Phil Spencer’s assurance toAxioslast year that Game Pass is “very, very sustainable”, along with his insistence that the service wasn’t “burning cash”....
Cheaters have been a persistent problem Free-to-play extraction shooterThe Cycle: Frontieris shutting down servers and going offline on September 27th, developers Yager have announced. “Despite our best efforts and meaningful improvements brought to the game since launch,” they wrote in a Steam blog post, “the reality is that The Cycle: Frontier is unfortunately not financially viable,” leading to the game’s shutdown twelve months after launch. In that sameSteam blog, the team look back on the game’s successful launch and the problems that lead to its eventual sunset....
Try it for free until July 3rd Death maze construction shooterMeet Your Makeris now free to play until July 3rd to celebrate the release of its first major content drop. Entitled Sector 1: Dreadshore, the big free update adds a new coastal location that has an appropriately grim lighthouse in it. It also doubles up as a research facility used to experiment on prisoners, which sounds like the perfect place to build hard-to-enter mazes....
Don’t go in the water. Or do, but take a gun Player-versus-player-versus-nightmare monstrosity shooterHunt: Showdownhas patched in its latest boss, a flippin’ great big gator called Rotjaw who looks as nasty as she sounds. Rotjaw is Hunt: Showdown’s first ‘wild’ target, meaning instead of squatting inside a dilapidated barn/prison/sawmill/whatever, the female alligator will be encountered outside in the bayou map’s open water during the Thundershower, Serpent’s Night and night times of day....
Indie games fresher than Geoff’s brand new trainers Indiescovery is recorded a week before we release it, and never has this small time delay been more apparant than in our latest episode. Last week the temperature in the UK was (pardon my french) bonkers boiling. As we are professionals we recorded this episode with all of our windows closed and our fans turned off in order to avoid any unwanted background noise....
That’s £50 below its normal UK price, and it comes in a lovely white/grey colour too. I’ve tested the keyboard for PC gaming, and I’ve found it quite lovely - so I thought I’d let you know that this model is down to £99.99 at Currys, which is £50 less than its usual price and a good deal for high-grade wireless mechanical. There’s a lot to like here. The mechanical switches used are the same ones found in Logitech’s awesome G915 and G915 TKL gaming keyboards, but arranged into a more compact 75% layout....
“We are confident that this will provide a more sound foundation for Skullgirls that we can all be proud of as we continue to grow and expand the universe in the years to come.” The developers behindSkullgirlshave made a number of changes to the decade-old 2D fighter in order to correct elements they now believe to be in “poor taste”. The outcome? Hundreds of negative reviews on Steam, of course....
With a free mousepad. I’ve mentioned SK Hynix before, the flash memory giant that made Intel’s SSDs and is now making their own SSDs under the Solidigm brand. The Korean company has pursued an aggressive pricing strategy for these drives, and evidence of that is this latest deal on their flagship P44 Pro 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive. The P44 Pro is now down to $117 at Newegg when you use code SSCT2827, a price that also includes a free mousepad - nifty....
Vote now! Last time, you decided thatsnap-to construction is better than fighting a little beastie then meeting the giant adults. I can respect that. It’s practical. It’s not bullying. Maybe you don’t enjoy getting your comeuppance. But the alternative is still pretty funny. Onwards! This week, I ask you to pick between helping people find things in an environment and using part of the environment as a weapon. What’s better: Tagging locations for teamies, or door violence?...
Stuck on the Wordle word for June 28? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordlereturns with yet another brainteaser, and trust us when we say this one’s tough. If you’re struggling in the summer heat and aren’t prepared to solve today’s tricky puzzle, then you’re in the right place. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...
Creative director tells us about the making of Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew Ever since the makers of Desperados 3 and Shadow Tactics announced their brand new squad tactics game, I’ve been dying to get my hands onShadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew. While Mimimi’s previous games took place in mostly grounded historical settings, Shadow Gambit is about magical undead pirates hunting for mysterious booty and fighting a persecutive Inquisition. This shift into the supernatural is quite the change for Mimimi, which creative director Dominik Abé tells me was partly to challenge themselves as designers, but also so players could have a bit more fun with how they approached its plentiful stealth encounters....
