Next week we’re gonna party up like it’s 2006 with the launch of World Of Warcraft Classic. The official vintage version of Blizzard’s MMORPG (as opposed to the unofficial pirate servers which for years have sustained interest in vintage WoW) will roll the game back to shortly before the launch of its first expansion, inviting old people to jack in and briefly pretend they haven’t gained too many responsibilities over the past 13 years. In a new video, a number of Blizzard’s own old people sit down to play WoW Classic and reminisce about making the dang game in the first place. It’s quite nice.

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During the opening of Gamescom in Cologne, we found out we ll be getting a remake (or spiritual successor ) to 2001 s management landmark Startopia. Named Spacebase Startopia, to underline the fact that the game is about bases in space, it looks well, it s got potential? No, it s not made by the people who made the original, but that s not necessarily an obstacle. And sure, the trailer was a crash-course in how not to do comedy, which is admittedly worrying, given how much the original Startopia s appeal leaned on charm and silliness. But still, it s about building a settlement on the interior of a big metal doughnut, and that was a lot of fun the first time round.

With a release vaguely planned for “mid-2020”, here s the top five things I m hoping to see when I inevitably purchase this game.

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There weren’t that many changes to Teamfight Tactics items in the latest patch. In fact, only the one got a nerf, while a second got fixed so that Hextech didn’t permanently disable it. It’s a bit underwhelming to be honest, but it does make listing the changes and the TFT items ranking a bit easier I suppose. (more…)

Teamfight Tactics had the lighter TFT 9.16b patch notes drop over the last day or so. There’s not a lot here, but there have been some changes to strong champions, bug fixes, and only the one item nerf. There’s also a bug fix for Ionic Spark as it doesn’t do well with Hextech champions, but not a lot to go over this time around.

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I am on a quest to make a chocolate cake. Not a real one I could do that in half an hour downstairs. No, this is a No Man’s Sky cake; an item which has arrived in the game after the Beyond update as part of a new food crafting system. After carting refined flour (which I crafted from Heptaploid Wheat), churned butter (Wild Milk), bittersweet cocoa (Impulse Beans) and processed sugar (Sweet Root) around the galaxy map for days I gave up on trial and error and consulted the wiki. Turns out I need Creature Eggs.

Prior to Beyond, the thing which kept me exploring No Man’s Sky was the photo mode. I’d bounce from planet to planet, solar system to solar system in search of stunning vistas and weird creatures to record. This time, as a result of the food crafting, I’ve found myself more engrossed in the game itself rather than its aesthetic, seeking out ingredients and unexpected combinations.

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When I was a kid, Fridays were the best. Not just because it prefaced a whole two days before I’d have to go back to school, but also because Friday nights meant Robot Wars. To my youthful eyes, watching giant robots flip and tear and saw through each other was the greatest thing in existence. That is, until the game Robot Wars: Arenas Of Destruction came out, and suddenly I could create my own robots – or better yet, play as my familiar favourites from the TV series – and live the dream myself.

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A lot of Shenmue happens in the spaces between the game. I remember my time in Yu Suziki’s sprawling RPGs not as some grand unveiling of my destiny, but as a dude collecting capsule toys, getting a job as a forklift driver, and hanging out at the arcade. I lived a rich little life playing it, though because of it I horribly failed my forklift driver exams in the real-world.

Shenmue 3 has time to fill as well, and here s how you ll do it.

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The first of Metro Exodus‘ two DLC expansions arrives on PC today, so I thought it was high time to revisit my jumbo graphics performance test to tell you how to get the best settings on even more of today’s best graphics cards. After all, there have been several new Nvidia RTX and AMD Navi cards released since Metro Exodus came out in February, so regardless of whether you’re starting the game for the first time or jumping back in for a bit of Two Colonels action, here’s how to get Metro Exodus running at a smooth 60fps.

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There s a lot more to it than the headline suggests, but as I write this my cat Layla is on the windowsill next to my head, snoring away without a care in the world, and I got to write this story by typing CAT! over and over in the Forbidden RPS Slack of Mystery. So they’re giving me this. You can play as a cat in Hytale!

Developer Hypixel made their start as Minecraft custom server operators, letting players play it as a murder mystery, or as a kart racer, or even as a vampire hunting party game. They made good from that platform but wanted more from their own game, so Hytale is being built to be rebuilt by the community. Modding is integrated into the game, enabling you to change a huge swathe of things in real-time. Take a look.

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If I was really lazy I would just write “you know Her Story? It’s like that but more,” and call it a day. But I’m not lazy. I am a diligent and enthusiastic employee of Rock Paper Shotgun, and that sentence would be a bit of an oversimplification of Sam Barlow’s new watch videos ’em up Telling Lies.

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