Hero shooter Concord taken offline as Sony say its "initial launch didn't land the way we'd intended"

All in the space of a couple of weeks Concord, that 5v5 multiplayer first-person shooter about Guardians Of The Galaxy-like space persons, will be taken offline on the 6th September. Anyone who bought it is being offered a full refund and it’s been wiped off storefronts. All of this comes just shy of three weeks since the game dropped, with Sony citing a launch that “didn’t land the way we’d intended”....

September 4, 2024 · 2 min · 311 words · Hailey Wilson

How to complete Jet Kordo's Legacy in Star Wars Outlaws

Here is where to find the Holotracker location Looking for Jet Kordo’s Legacy in Star Wars Outlaws?After completing ‘The Wreck’ main quest inStar Wars Outlaws, ND-5 will give Kay a Holotracker containing a treasure map of sorts that leads to a legendary smuggler’s score. Without map markers to help you, it can be easy to get lost straight away when trying to track down Jet Kordo’s Legacy. Luckily, we have the treasure location listed below along with all the steps you need to take to complete this quest....

September 4, 2024 · 2 min · 418 words · Nicole Williams

Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation is a ferociously in-depth, empathic reworking of Civilization and other 4X games

Now out of early access, but still has a demo Nikhil Murthy’s Syphilisation is a “postcolonial 4X game”, which might sound like a contradiction in terms. While approaches to 4X and grandstrategyvary hugely between games, factions and players, the genre as a whole is firmly wedded to imperial conquest, both structurally and at the level of narrative aspects and set-dressing. Many 4X games are triumphal re-enactments of specific periods of colonial settlement and expansion....

September 4, 2024 · 3 min · 623 words · Pamela Avila

No Man's Sky's Aquarius update lets you go fishing across the galaxy

Shoop doop doop ahh Back in July,No Man’s Skyreached version 5.0 with the Worlds update, which refreshed its planetary generation to introduce more variety alongside more detailed water, clouds, and weather. We didn’t write about it at the time, because I suppose re-writing the very fabric of the galaxy seemed small-time. Today’s new update, however, adds fishing, and I can’t not write about that. The update is called Aquarius, and it makes use of the Worlds update’s fancy new oceans with their pulsing, reflective surfaces by allowing you to cast a line into them....

September 4, 2024 · 2 min · 283 words · Timothy Hunt

Shadowrun and Battletech creators unveil cyberpunk horror RPG set on a "dying space station" where upgrades change your personality

“You are the ship of Theseus” in Harebrained’s new game Graft When I catch word of a chocolate-and-peanut-butter blend of genres such as “cyberpunk survival horror RPG”, my eyes light up. Literally, they light up like the pilot lights of flamethrowers, like glyphs on a cursed monolith that has been exposed to fresh blood after a billion years of dormancy. When I hear that the aforesaidRPGis set on a “dying space station”, I begin to emit a monotonous reverberation, likethe mysterious banging recently heard aboard the Boeing Starliner....

September 4, 2024 · 3 min · 540 words · Jose Moore

The first Minecraft movie trailer looks expensively naff

Block-busted Warner Bros have released the first trailer for Vertigo and Legendary’sMinecraftmovie, the long-awaited or possibly, long-dreaded adaptation of Mojang’s industry-straddling block-builder. Quick disclosure: I worked with Mojang and Microsoft on a book about Minecraft’s first 15 years, shortly before joining Rock Paper Shotgun. As such, I am now obliged by the eternal laws of journalistic accountability to state that anything Minecraft-related is rubbish. But even if that weren’t the case, I would describe this as pretty dismal....

September 4, 2024 · 3 min · 458 words · Kristina Yang

The people behind amazing Brutalist parkour game Babbdi are making a free 1v1 FPS with over 100 maps

Tit for Straftat Technically, this isn’t news. Straftat has been public knowledge since last year - find some unedited WIP capture from March below. But this is the first time I’ve laid eyes onthe Steam page, and I adhere to the epistemological position that reality only exists when it is observed. As such, I consider it entirely logical and coherent to assert that Straftat hasonlyexisted as of the writing of this news post....

September 4, 2024 · 2 min · 366 words · Amy Holland

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 review: a devoted sequel of swords and spectacle

Grim lark It’s been 13 years since the firstSpace Marinecame out. While itwasn’t outstandingin the grander landscape of gaming, enough Warhammer 40K fans seem to have cherished the escapades of bulky blue boltgunner Demetrian Titus for the action game to merit a sequel a decade later. It left its story on something of a cliffhanger, with said hero being dragged away to face untold tortures by the Inquisition, the most zealous sect of this preternaturally paranoid sci-fi universe....

September 4, 2024 · 9 min · 1917 words · Sharon Espinoza

Wordle hints and answer (#1173): How to solve the Wednesday September 4 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for September 4? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Follow us as we provide a list of hints to help you get to today’s word without missing a beat. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

September 4, 2024 · 6 min · 1228 words · Dylan Rodriguez

All Black Myth: Wukong Chapter 5 bosses and where to find them

Track down all 18 boss locations in Chapter 5 of Black Myth: Wukong Looking for all 18 bosses in Chapter 5 of Black Myth: Wukong?Chapter 5 is generally more linear than the previous couple of regions inBlack Myth: Wukong, but it still has plenty of secrets and hidden boss encounters. It’s all too easy to miss out on bosses like theMother Of Flamlings, theFlint Vanguard, theBishui Golden-Eyed Beast… At least, without the help of a guide like ours....

September 3, 2024 · 17 min · 3410 words · Billy Bradley

Black Myth Wukong: How to open Pagoda Realm doors

Here’s how to open the sealed purple doors in Chapter 3’s Pagoda Realm Wondering how to open the purple Pagoda Realm doors in Black Myth: Wukong?Near the beginning ofBlack Myth: Wukong’s Chapter 3, the Destined One will be sent into a prison filled with a central titular pagoda, haunting chants, and extremely annoying enemies. Throughout this prison are a number of gates blocked by purple circles of energy. Opening these pathways requires you to take out one of the Pagoda Realm’s bosses, who is just as irksome as the dungeon’s regular foes....

September 3, 2024 · 3 min · 598 words · Robert Peterson

Connections hints and answers for Tue, September 3rd

Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #449. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Connectionsis a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), the hosts of the endlessly popularWordlepuzzle. Crafted each day by puzzle-maker Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly disparate words, and you have to group them together in four sets of four, where each group of four words has a common theme....

September 3, 2024 · 4 min · 645 words · Joseph Cruz

OneShot: World Machine Edition will bring the quietly beloved RPG to Steam Deck

Handy OneShot was originally made in RPGMaker, and pushed the scrappy DIY engine to strange limits that - at the time - felt novel and sometimes vaguely unsettling. It exists in the same realm as self-aware games likePony IslandorDoki Doki Literature Club, repeatedly breaking the fourth wall and reaching out to you as a player and controller of your computer’s environment. But these PC-centric quirks meant it wasn’t playable on consoles....

September 3, 2024 · 2 min · 248 words · Vincent Powell