Guitar hero Man, do I love the feeling of jamming out a guitar riff in games. Sure, in reality, I’m slumped on my couch in a position that my body will give me payback for when I’m thirty, but in my fantasy, I’m a musical prodigy whose guitar licks are so epic it would make Slash cry. My joy for virtual jamming came as a direct result of playing hours and hours ofGuitar Hero....
Bad company A short animated sequence kicksThe Last Workerinto gear, reeling off the game’s backstory with breezy efficiency. It’s an apt start for this first-person satire set in a fully-automated dystopia, in that it underlines a very human aptitude for artistic communication. It’s surprising, then, that as The Last Worker continues its story, it takes less graceful turns, electing for verbosity over economy. For a game that takes critical aim at the future of work, frankly, it’s all a bit laboured....
Wildcard Wildfrostis excellent at creating moments of triumph. Early on in my playthrough while I was still getting to grips with the game, I came face-to-face with a boss who got stronger when hit. Its card art had become bigger, juicier, more tauntingly malevolent, and easily could have taken out any of my team with a single hit. Thankfully, three of my team members were due to act one turn before it....
A good day to get snowed in Layer up with your thickest snow coat and a pack of cards becauseWildfrostis coming to PC soon, on April 12th. One of the standout games we played at last year’s EGX, this roguelike deckbuilder has a healthy dose ofSlay The Spireabout it as you venture out to defrost an eternal winter, battle baddies, and expand your card collection with elemental items stronger, cuter companions and elemental items....
The K70 Pro Mini Wireless, Sabre RGB Pro and HS65 Surround are all strong options. A trio of Corsair peripherals has gone on flash sale at the company’s US web store, making it a nice time to pick up a matching all-Corsair setup for about 50% off. There are three items included; the HS65 headset, the Sabre RGB Pro Champion Series mouse and the K70 Mini Wireless 60% mechanical keyboard. I’ve tested all but the keyboard, and they’re fantastic pieces of kit - and now at surprisingly low prices....
Sand in their eyes The folks behind The Surge games - Deck13 - had only announced a release date for their next action RPGearlier this month, but it seemsAtlas Fallenneeds more time to cook. Publisher Focus Entertainment today announced a three-month delay to August 10th - an appropriately summery window for a game set in sandy fantasy deserts. “Our goal has always been to create a memorable A-RPG experience in a unique setting, with exciting gameplay and the option for fully playable seamless co-op with a friend,” reads theTwitterdelay announcement....
“Such games are not appropriate for children” The federal government in Australia have today proposed a number of changes to their National Classification Scheme as they seek to crack down on digital gambling and video games that promote it. The proposed changes would apply an R18+ (over 18s) rating to any game with simulated gambling, and an M for “mature” (over 15s) rating to any games with paid loot boxes, potentially changing the classification for games such asFIFAwhich were previously G-rated (for everyone)....
Learn how to get into the Counter Strike 2 beta Want to get into the Counter Strike 2 beta?Counter-Strike 2is live in beta, but it’s unfortunately closed to the majority of the public. The surpriseCS:GOreplacement will bring plenty of changes, with new smoke grenade tech, revamped maps, and a sub-tick system that, according to Valve, means “tick rate no longer matters for moving, shooting, or throwing”. If you’re eager to gain access to see all of those improvements with your own eyes, then you’re in the right spot....
“If we were trying to make it cheesy, it probably wouldn’t have worked” There’s always been something quaintly practical about the nameCommand & Conquer. Sure, there’s a touch of Julius Caesar’s ‘veni, vidi, vici’ in there. But less romantically, the title evokes Internet Explorer or Acrobat Reader - sitting comfortably alongside the clearly and sensibly labelled Windows software of the mid-90s. It’s a reminder of just how early Westwood happened upon the blueprint for real-time strategy, right as many PC users were buying their first trackball mice....
Put down the shovel, pick up the staff Just in time for the upcoming film, Mojang announced thatMinecraftis getting an ambitious Dungeons & Dragons crossover. Like any D&D campaign, the crossover begins around a blocky table with an open pizza box, and then it escalates into a roughly ten-hour, action-RPG take on Minecraft as you trek through the classic tabletop’s fantasy world. If you still have an appetite for more blocky dice-rolling, Wizards Of The Coast and Mojang are also collaborating on theMinecraft Monstrous Compendium, laying down stats for Minecraft’s iconic slew of beasties....
A Pokémon-like where you transform into the monsters Are you a fan ofRPGswhere you make friends with adorable critters? Not a fan of trapping said friends into small balls, only letting them out to fight gangs and other Godlike creatures? Well,Cassette Beastsmight be the game for you. It’s a Pokémon-like where you’ll still be beating up wildlife creatures in turn-based combat, but rather than capturing them, you record their likeness on the titular tapes and then transform into those same street cone-wearing crabs and metal-clad wolves....
RPS readers can’t be wrong, right? The Razer Naga Trinity is the RPS MMO mouse of choice, or at least it was the highest-ranking MMO optionthe last timewe did some Reader’s Choice polls, so I thought you might like to know that this popular rodent is more than half-off on Amazon at present as part of the firm’sSpring Sale. That makes it a great time to pick up a mouse that’s like three models in one…...
Foggy stuff Bloober Team have issued astatementabout their upcomingSilent Hill 2 remake, clarifying rumours about the project’s release schedule and sales expectations. Last week, Polish siteBankierspoke with Bloober Team’s CEO Pitor Babieno in an interview that was mistranslated and began to circulate online. The mistranslations mentioned the remake was “technically ready” for launch, but Bloober Team have clarified these “statements have been taken out of context, due to inaccurate translations.”...
