is a Series X launch title no more. Following a seemingly shaky transition to working from home, developers 343 Industries have cited Covid-19 woes (and the extra time and polish needed following last month’s somewhat shaky showcase) in their decision to postpone Johnny Halo and the war gorillas’ trip to the great big hula-hoop in the sky ’til next year.
For many of us, Winter couldn’t seem further away right now. Nevertheless, it’s coming unseasonably, soon should Minecraft: Dungeons be believed. Mere weeks after lurching out of the jungle, the Minecraft hack-n-slash is bracing for its Creeping Winter DLC, and it’s bringing more than just a touch of frostbite when the cold rolls in on September 8th.
Despite being off work and mostly offline the past fortnight, I couldn’t help but be caught in the cultural phenomenon that is Blaseball. It’s a browser game simulating a supernatural baseball league, where players place bets on teams like the Chicago Firefighters (motto: “We’re from Chicago”) and Charleston Shoe Thieves (“Your kicks are my kicks”), vote on rule changes, and pray that players like Jessica Telephone or Blood Hamburger aren’t struck by a peanut allergy or incinerated by a rogue umpire. While I wasn’t online to play last season, I did spent a lot of time cooing over fan art on Twitter. The fan art community is: very good.
“If you’re a ghost, and you walk through a wall…” asks Richard Hogg, in the tone of a man confronted with a real head-scratcher, “…do you get to see the inside of the wall?”
It’s a good question. The kind which, for most people, might fuel a good half hour in a pub, or a 2am chat with a partner who can’t sleep. But for Hogg and his long-term collaborator Ricky Haggett – who last year spun a thought about the simple pleasure of stacking shelves into the phenomenal Wilmot’s Warehouse – it’s a question worth writing a game about. That game is I Am Dead, and after watching Hogg and Haggett play for half an hour, it looks like exactly the tonic I need in the middle of this long, dark year.
hasn’t got off to the best start on PC. While we’ve had minimal performance issues here at RPS, others have found it downright unplayable due to frequent crashes, stuttering and more. Guerrilla Games have said that they’re investigating these technical problems as a matter of top priority, and we expect another patch to be forthcoming very soon.
In the meantime, though, I’d thought I’d make use of my relatively problem-free Horizon Zero Dawn experience to take a closer look at how the game runs across a variety of different graphics cards when it’s not> misbehaving, detailing what kind of performance you can expect from nearly all of today’s best graphics cards, and how to improve your PC’s performance if you find your graphics card’s struggling a bit.
Storm’s finally here, folks. Over a year since it hit Steam Early Access, Risk Of Rain 2 is popping on its wellies to brave the rocky seas of a full release. Fortunately, The Captain’s on deck as a new playable survivor, steering the frenetic third-person shooter through an ocean of new items, enemies and custom servers to reach its ultimate conclusion – a massive alien brawl on the moon.
Just when you think video games are done throwing battle royales at you, they find a way to slip another new one in. The most recent on the scene is Hyper Scape, Ubisoft’s fast-paced take on the last-man-standing game mode. After a few weeks of betas galore, the game properly launched today, kicking off its first season. Now, a first season wouldn’t be very good without new toys to play with, so it’s bringing with it a new weapon, new Hack and even some limited-time game modes to keep you interested.
There’s a new Ebay voucher code doing the rounds in the UK today that will take up to 15% off a bunch of products from selected sellers until August 14th. For PC gamers, you’ll want to head to Box Deals, the discount arm of Box.co.uk, which I’ve highlighted good stuff from in the past. There are loads of deals to be had on all sort of PC components, but the ones I wanted to highlight today are its various [cms-block], nearly all of which beat the current prices you’ll find over on Amazon. If you’ve been hankering after a Samsung 860 Evo or a WD Black SN750, now’s the time to pick one up on the cheap.
Getting into a new MMORPG is always a little daunting, never mind one as huge as Final Fantasy XIV. Fortunately, Square Enix have made that hill a little easier to climb. Closing out Shadowbringers’ story may be Patch 5.3: Reflections in Crystal’s headline act – but if you’ve only just started dipping your toe into the massive online JRPG, today’s update gives you a hell of a lot more content to prod at with 2015’s Heavensward expansion.
has always kind of been The Truman Show as god game, hasn’t it? You make your little puppet people, you control every aspect of their lives and personality from birth until death, you make them get in the pool and then remove the ladder. I am become Ed Harris, destroyer of worlds, right? And now, thanks to an incredible build creation shared by Sims community member “Simoniona“, your Sims game can be The Truman Show both metaphorically and> literally.
She’s created a version of Truman’s neighbourhood from the movie, so your Sims, too, can wish their neighbours good afternoon, good evening and good night. And, even more impressively, there are two versions of it. One is the street from, as it were, Truman’s point of view at the start of the movie – a suburban paradise. The second is when the scales have fallen from his eyes. The lot is bordered with big movie set surrounds, a light has crashed onto the set, and we even have the iconic steps and door for your tiny Trumans to make their own escape.
