Strobophagia | Rave Horror - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)

Screenshot Saturday Sundays! It’s been an absolutely roasting weekend, folks, so let’s chill out in the shade and crack open a refreshing can of work-in-progress screenshots, videos and ice-cold gifs. This week: cross-dimensional translation, precarious hangouts, neon zombie raves and (not quite) pong.

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Warframe - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Imogen Beckhelling)

Warframe Heart Of Deimos expansion contains giant mechs.Warframe

‘s gone and infested an entire moon with creepy crawlies for its Heart Of Deimos expansion. Shown properly for the first time during today’s Waframe fan event livestream, the expansion also includes other cool stuff, like customisable Warframe powers and a huge new open world area. But I’m more interested in the pair of gigantic worms endlessly warring to take control of the moon. At least, that’s what I think they’re doing. Guess we’ll find out when the expansion releases on August 25th.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)

Every so often, Dutch indie boyband Sokpop find themselves making an MMO. This time, however, they’re courting this boutique videogame website by nicking two-thirds of our name. Released earlier this week, Rock Paper Sock is a deconstruction of Old School Runescape that ditches sword and sorcery for three simple weapons – a rock, a sheet of paper, and a handy pair of scissors.

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Halo 3: ODST - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)

From weary old gorillas to graphical japes, we’ve all had our fun with Halo Infinite over the last few weeks. But haud on, we’ve still got the rest of Halo: The Master Chief Collection to get through before finishing that particular fight. This month, 343 will begin closed insider flighting for Halo 3: ODST, Master Chief’s moody, jazz-noir cousin that’s secretly the best of the bunch.

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Beyond Good and Evil™ - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)

Beyond Good & Evil 2 artwork.

Fresh off the heels of Tom Clancy goes anime, Ubisoft have announced yet another collaboration with their new pals at Netflix. This time, it’s a feature-length adaptation of Beyond Good And Evil from Detective Pikachu director Rob Letterman – and with the long-dormant game sequel still no closer to release, there’s a good chance this film may even hit screens first.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)

Halo: Infinite

‘s campaign might be torn between nostalgic throwback and open-world reinvention, but we’ve still got no ruddy clue what’s going on with the series’ multiplayer come November. Well, whatever form it takes, there is one thing for certain – jumping around with your Spartan-II pals won’t cost a penny. Following quiet rumblings earlier this week, 343 Industries have confirmed that yes, Halo’s multiplayer murderings are going free-to-play.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice Bell)

The face of a girl with wide eyes and wearing a flower wreath can be seen amid a circling vine housing elves or imps. From the book 'An old fairy tale: the sleeping beauty'

As I write this it is very, very hot, and I am not dealing with this fact very well. I’m not entirely sure that it is the weekend, actually, because apparently it is now August? I’m sorry, there must be some mistake. It has been March for about ten years now.

Luckily, because time is standing still, we have a lot of time to play all the video games our tiny hearts desire! We have a goodly spread of titles this week, with more than a few being drawn to diddy survival game Grounded. Ants. So hot right now. Like me.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

As promised, BioWare are starting to publish updates as they rethink their not-so-well-received online sci-fi shooter Anthem. Today’s update specifically talks about their goals for the loot system, which they want to be more reliable and respect a player’s time. It doesn’t sound like anything is set in stone yet, so this will definitely be a lengthy journey for Anthem as they previously estimated.

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Monster Crown - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Are we ready to fully accept Pokemon-like as a genre now? If so, this one probably takes the crown. Because it’s actually called—yeah you get it. For real though, Monster Crown does definitely have the most classic Pokemon vibes of the bunch compared with other recent critter catchers like Temtem or Ooblets. Just like those other two, Monster Crown is starting out in early access as of today.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Red Dead Redemption 2

Online just got a new update earlier this week adding the Naturalist role, but that certainly won’t stop folks from digging up secrets planned for future updates. My instinct is to holler “stop peeking at your presents and enjoy the update you just got!” but I’ll admit I’m very partial to in-game Halloween events so even I’m distracted by these rumoured leaks. (more…)

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