There will be many ways to play Dishonored 2 [official site], rewarding players for stealth and more brazen maneuvers both. We got a glimpse of some of Corvo’s more aggressive skills at QuakeCon. Now, with Gamescom festivities well underway, Arkane gives us a glimpse at what empress Emily Kaldwin has up her sleeve, and she is easily just as vicious. Take a look!
Game Freak, the studio who brought you little games like Pok mon, have a new game out this week on Early Access. It’s a 2D action puzzle’em up called Giga Wrecker [Steam page], in which you take on the role of an aqua-haired cyborg lady exploring a world invaded by a host of malicious robots.
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.>
Get thee to a tavern house. The Yawhg puts you and some friends into a fantasy city on the brink of a mysterious disaster and asks you to roam around doing whatever the hell you like. You don t know anything about this looming apocalypse (and you never will) except the name the Yawhg. You have six weeks before it comes. What will you do? Spend the whole time drinking and gambling, clearly.
It s the end of times. The sky darkens and there is only one dreaded prospect for us all. We are to be consumed by an angry snake that eats its own tail.
Only joking! It s just a free game.
Hurry! Engage the hyper thrusters! Blast the boosters! We’re going into warp drive. EVE Online [official site] is free to play until 9pm BST this Sunday. Listen, if you’re new to this, you’re probably not going to get very far. You’ll probably still be puttering around in your rickety space canoe come Sunday night.
But if your little fledgling spacefarer heart dreams of epic space battles, or navigating interstellar trade in an economy that is all but real, or commanding your own fleet of ships, maybe, just maybe, EVE Online is for you. In that case, you’ll be pleased to know that the EVE Online Starter Pack is 75% off on Steam right now too.
Wotcha, me old cock sparrows. I’m back from my holiday and whatever it is Alec claimed I was up to. Oh. He is a scamp, isn’t he. Well then! Back to the usual business: what are you playing this weekend? Here in the RPS treehouse, we’re mostly clicking on Devil Daggers, Deus Ex, and No Man’s Sky.
Ridealong is our monthly feature where Brendan travels deep into game worlds to meet, question and journey with the inhabitants that dwell within.> This time, he meets a flight instructor for a virtual airline and sweats as he learns his way around the cockpit in Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
We are at 2000 feet when we begin to stall. I am absolutely certain I am going to crash this plane. We are tumbling to earth and all I can hear is the harsh buzz of the stall warning, telling me everything about this is wrong. But then I hear it, the voice of Dan TX Hills . He has a calm voice. As far as he s concerned, everything has gone exactly the way it was supposed to.
I don t mean that as a totally unprovoked British insult. I mean you really will become a mug when you play Arkane Studios revamp of Prey [official site]. A gameplay trailer shown at Gamescom has given us a glimpse of the powers available to protagonist Morgan, and one of them is to turn yourself into inanimate objects say, a coffee mug and then wobble around like the dancing toaster in Ghostbusters II, enough to launch yourself through small gaps. Come see it in action.
Unofficial Minecraft VR has been around for a while, but earlier this month Mojang launched official support for these future-glasses everyone keeps banging about. Minecraft‘s VR bolt-on is a free install from the Oculus store which, for the time being, only works with the Windows 10 Edition. And with a Rift, although a well-established non-official option exists if those are your cybogogs of choice, or if you prefer the Java version of the game. I’ve been looking at the official option, and hey, it’s a good time. … [visit site to read more]
It’s been over ten years since the ninja of N first got torn to shreds in your incapable, flabby hands. Now, you can put your fist through your screen all over again because N++ [official site], the sequel once exclusive to PlayStation, is finally getting a PC release next Thursday. This one has got a level editor, so that you may torture the rest of humanity with mine-filled challenges never intended to be possible. See it in the trailer below.