No Man's Sky - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (John Walker)

If there’s one question echoing around the belly of the No Man’s Sky universe over the last few days, it’s these three: “What the bleeding heck is an Atlas Pass? And how do I get one? And what’s for tea?” Well, we can bring you the answer to at least two of these queries. Below are the possibly spoilery details of how you can open all those bloody locked doors and sealec containers.

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The Silver Case - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Jessica Famularo)

Polish your magnifying glasses, The Silver Case [official site] PC remake now has a demo. This bit of the remake was originally shown at this year’s BitSummit in Kyoto, Japan. The demo features the beginning of the first chapter of the game, Decoyman, giving you a brief chance to situate yourself in the story as a member of Republic, a Special Forces Unit. The Silver Case was Suda51’s first game, launched in 1999 on PlayStation.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Jessica Famularo)

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Aug 14, 2016
Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Graham Smith)

Sundays are for sleeping. One of the days has to be for sleeping, right? Eventually there will be sleep and Sunday seems good.

I gave this its own post earlier in the week, but let’s start with Vice’s write-up of Tibia’s locked door, which requires you to be level 999 to enter and only one player has ever passed through.

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No Man's Sky - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (John Walker)

A man, patching No Man's Sky, yesterday.

No Man’s Sky may well have been Steam’s biggest launch of the year, but there’s no denying it’s having a litany of issues on PC. Everyone at RPS who’s played it has had one problem or another, and clearly from the feedback we’re receiving, so are many of you. So below we’ve collected together all the current fixes and workarounds for the game until next week’s patch goes live.

And if you’re very keen, there’s now an experimental version of the game with untested patches applied. Details for how to access it are below.>

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Jessica Famularo)

Overwatch [official site] principal designer Geoff Goodman was quite active over on the game’s message boards this week, popping in to discuss some upcoming patches that might be coming to Blizzard’s bright and bold’em up. Read on for details of what buffs and nerfs are coming.

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Dota 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Philippa Warr)

After a week packed with phenomenal Dota 2 [official site] plays, combacks and upsets the winners of The International 2016 (and a casual NINE MILLION DOLLARS?????!!!!) are:

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No Man's Sky - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Jessica Famularo)

No matter what you think of the game, No Man’s Sky [official site] has gripped the games industry in a rare frenzy with its promises of nigh limitless space exploration. The game launched today on PC, and although things were a bit rocky, No Man’s Sky is already setting records, swiftly becoming Steam’s most successful launch of the year.

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Dota 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (James Archer)

This is it! The grand final of The International 2016, Dota 2’s [official site] ultimate world championship, is mere hours away. Two matches and three teams remain so if you’re still catching up with Friday’s action BEWARE SPOILERS!

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (John Walker)

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.>

If Commander Blood is one of the most bizarre experiences one could ever have in PC gaming, its predecessor Captain Blood is definitely one of the most obtuse. But you’ll love every minute of it.

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