After two years ferrying tiny passengers around in early access, Tracks – The Family Friendly Open World Train Set Game (to use its full name) left pre-release station earlier today. Forget you’re well into adulthood for a moment and settle down on the digital carpet, tip open the toybox, and indulge in a long-forgotten nostalgia while you put together a fun-sized wooden village. Isn’t that nice?
We all know Red Dead Redemption 2 is a gorgeous looking game (at least when it’s not crashing and freezing), but holy moly does it look stupidly> good in ultrawide. Specifically, the kind of ultrawide made possible by Samsung’s new CRG9 monitor, which is an even higher specced version of last year’s ludicrous 49in, 32:9 CHG90.
Whereas the CHG90 had a resolution of 3840×1080 (making it effectively two 1080p monitors stuck together), the CRG9 bumps that up to 5120×1440, increasing its pixel count to the equivalent of two 1440p monitors strapped together instead. It’s a mad thing to behold, and man alive if there was ever a screen tailor-made for Red Dead 2’s cinematic cowpoke antics, this is the one. Let me tell you, it is stunning>.
Five years after launching This War Of Mine, developers 11 Bit Studios today gave the grim besieged survival sim a honking great free update they’re calling the Final Cut. It adds new locations and a new scenario to the base game, it retouches old locations, and it polishes a few technical bits and pieces, all for free. Tidy.
Stare at the abyss, they say, and the abyss stares back. Stare at Korean publishers Pearl Abyss, and they’ll announce a handful of new MMORPGs. The company behind Black Desert Online unveiled no less than four new online games at Korean convention G-Star this morning. While two high-fantasy adventures keep well within their wheelhouse, Pearl Abyss also announced two radically contrasting games: a high energy kid-friendly monster catcher named DokeV and Plan 8, a grim n’ bloody shooter from one of the minds behind Counter-Strike.
Stephen “thecatamites” Gillmurphy is a familiar presence in RPSland. In the past years we covered many of his games, from the blood-soaked RPG Space Funeral to the Kafkaesque Murder Dog.
His latest game, 10 Beautiful Postcards, is a wandering simulator about exploring hotels and like all his games, it’s wonderfully weird. But where does this developer get inspiration for his ideas? Are DRUGS the answer? Or does he use something even more morally dubious, like COMICS? Rock Paper Shotgun, here to bring you answers.
Age Of Empires 2 is, as far as I m concerned, the greatest real-time strategy game of all time. And with the release of Age Of Empires 2 Definitive Edition, it s well, it s still that. But now, there s a lot more of it. It s brilliant. Still, virtually every design decision its quality rests on was made twenty years ago, and what few changes have been to its inner workings are fairly conservative. Make no mistake: this is much more of a compilation job than it is any kind of reimagining.
But then, crucially, there s also nothing added that dilutes the success of the original, either. While its early-2000s successors, Age of Mythology and Age Of Empires 3, were both good games, they suffered from their attempts to innovate on a proven formula. Altering the formula of a classic is always a risk – and in Ensemble Studios case, it was one that didn t pay off. Bravo then to former modders Forgotten Empires, who tinkered with the game they loved long enough to inherit it, and yet never went too far. While the king of RTS games still doesn t have a successor, he s looking bloody good in his old age.
There are just five days to go before Google Stadia launches on November 19th, but after answering a bunch of questions via a Reddit AMA yesterday, it would appear Google’s cloud gaming platform will be launching without a number of key features. Chief among them is no streaming in 4K, HDR and 5.1 surround sound for those logging on via a PC, meaning the only way to make the most of what Stadia has to offer (which is the entire point of paying for a Stadia Pro subscription in the first place) is to hook one of Google’s Chromecast Ultra devices up to a TV.
It’s good to be King. This week, Crusader Kings 3 game director Henrik F hraeus donned a crown and cloak to lay out his vision for the big ol’ threequel. It’s the first in what Paradox say will be a monthly series of video diaries diving into the creation of a political powerhouse. Episode one is all about the big picture, and how the team want to bring some contemporary grandeur to the sprawling, occasionally awkward series.
That kinda thing requires a certain regal flair, don’t you think?
Red Dead Redemption 2 hasn’t had the smoothest of starts on PC, but now that most of its crashing issues and unexpectedly quitting launcher problems appear to have been resolved, it’s time to take a closer look at Red Dead Redemption 2’s PC settings and how you can get this beaut of a game running as smoothly as possible. In this article, I’ve focused on what kind of performance you can expect to see from Red Dead Redemption 2’s recommended PC requirements (that is, with a GTX 1060 in your system), but you can also hop over to my separate PC performance article on what you really need to get Red Dead 2 running at 60fps for a more detailed look at what other graphics cards are capable of (and surprise, you don’t need an RTX 2060 like Nvidia previously suggested).
So, without further ado, here’s everything you need to know about Red Dead Redemption 2’s PC settings, including which of its many dozens of graphics options you can turn down to help boost your frame rate, as well as how to wrangle its 21 different quality presets (yes, you did read that correctly) into something playable.
Did you miss it? Legends Of Runeterra, a League Of Legends CCG spin-off, debuted last month by briefly opening up access to a lucky few. Runeterra won’t start its proper closed beta in earnest until early 2020, but you’ve got one more chance to try your hand before Riot’s card-shuffler enters hibernation. Runeterra’s next preview patch kicks off today at 4 pm UK time, introducing new drafting mode Expeditions.