And RPS premium supporters will get exclusive videos direct from the show floor After a couple of years away,PAX Eastreturns to Boston this week, and a couple of us from RPS are going to be there making exclusive videos for RPS premium supporters. Myself and vid bud Liam will be jetting out in time for when doors open on Thursday April 21st, covering the entire event until it shuts up shop on Sunday April 24th....
Welcome news After months of searching, I’m pleased to announce that we’ve finally found our new news reporter. Please say hello and welcome to CJ Wheeler, the latest addition to the RPS hivemind. The eagle-eyed among you may have first spotted CJ’s name in the RPS hallways a couple of months ago, when he wrote aboutthe joy of going for a swim in Tomb Raider. He’s also written about the joy of playing the best season ofStar Trek: Voyager in the Raven Software’s 2000 classic Star Trek: Voyager -EliteForce, but we’ve been a teensy bit slow in getting it live on the site - apologies CJ!...
Crank up the feel good On paper, Panic’s Playdate doesn’t have a lot to do with PC. It’s a standalone handheld console that fits into the palm of your hand (yes, even palms as small as mine), and is controlled via a d-pad, two face buttons and its unique, standout feature, the crank. But inside this dinky yellow wafer, the spirit of PC gaming has never been stronger. It’s there in its eclectic first season of indie games, a series of 24 titles that not only delight in the minutiae of its hardware but are delivered weekly for free in batches of two direct to your console over Wi-Fi....
Ahead of the next expansion It’s been a while since we’ve checked in on the Elder Scrolls Online, Bethesda’s take on a Tamriel you can play with pals. If you’veneverchecked in on it, now is a good time: the base game and its Morrowind DLC are currently available to play for free until April 26th. If you fancy giving it a go, you can grab the free trialfrom Steam. It includes four classes, Battlegrounds and Alliance War PvP, as well as the region of Vvardenfell....
They remain independent, he says Earlier this week, thePlayStation Studios websitewas updated so that the banner image included an picture of Sam Bridges fromDeath Stranding. Yesterday, Death Stranding designer and Kojima Productions founder Hideo Kojima tweeted a picture said banner. People then got excited, thinking this wordless tweet meant that Sony had acquired Kojima Productions. It caused enough of a fuss that Kojima did a follow-up tweet saying, hey, sorry, that hasn’t happened....
Travis touches down No More Heores 3 is headed to PC. The excessive, rude ‘tude hack-and-slash from Suda51’s Grasshopper Manufacture released on Nintendo Switch last year, and now publishers XSEED say it’ll splash onto our favoured platform this autumn. That’s more or less all they say, sharing the news viaa tweet: Our favorite otaku assassin returns! Travis Touchdown has been forced out of retirement to defend not only Santa Destroy, but Earth itself!...
For when your typing fingers are tired Waffle is a free, browser-based word game with a single puzzle each day and plentiful green and yellow squares. Beyond that, it has some pretty major differences from Wordle. It doesn’t require you to type the letters, for one. Instead, Waffle presents you with a grid of five intersecting words with all of the letters already present. Most of the letters are jumbled up, and it’s up to you to identify the correct words and spell them out by swapping the letters with each other using as few moves as possible....
From game jams to indie horror publishing powerhouse Regular RPS readers may already be aware that (a) I’m a hugehorrornerd, and (b) I think the games published under the DreadXP banner are something pretty special. I was equal parts grossed out and charmed by the Lovecraftian dating simSucker For Love: First Datewhen Ireviewed itback in January, and was pleasantly surprised by my time with theMy Friendly Neighborhood demoat the recent Steam Next Fest....
Well? Hello, reader dear! Easter means most of us have a four-day weekend, so we’ll mostly be quiet until Tuesday. Alice Bee will be with you on Friday, mind, and have the run of the RPS treehouse to put her feet up where she pleases and scarf the best biscuits. But what do you plan to do with all this extra leisure time? Here’s what we’re playing this weekend! Alice BeeI’m still having a fun, chill (if not exactly chilling) time inGhostwire: Tokyo....
Fore! Would you believe Good Friday isn’t a bank holiday in Ireland? I didn’t, until I found myself living it. I’m here driving the RPS bus alone, nobody to stop me as I careen down the motorway screaming and trying to slam on the brakes. But I can’t, because a golf ball has rolled under the pedal! You ride this bus long enough, you see games move in cycles similar to fashion designers, or those big ferris wheels at fairgrounds....
Multiplayer Cluedo Social deduction games are all the rage, but CrimeSight brings a lot of absurd, scifi anime energy to the idea. It’s a player-vs-player murder mystery in which a murder is going to take place and players must uncover who-will-dunnit, unto-whom-it-dunn, and work either to prevent the crime or to make sure it takes place. It’s out now and there’s a launch trailer below. Does a game need a scifi plot to explain its contrivances?...
The high life Early on in my playthrough of CD Projekt Red’s 7/10 NFT screensaverCyberpunk 2077, I realised you could climb washing lines. I’m a real sucker for verticality, so normally I’d be immediately trying to see how high I could get, but after tentatively scaling a few floors I decided to give the urgent main quest the benefit of the doubt. There would probably just be a disappointing invisible wall anyway....
With news to come this year Cyberpunk 2077’s expansion was publicly acknowledged prior to the game’s release, but work on it was delayed while CDPR instead focus on patching the game. They’ve done that several times in the past 17 months, with version 1.5 launching back in February with the biggest changes yet. It includes a revamp of several of the RPG’s skills, new apartments to buy, and vastly improved AI....
