tries desperately hard to emulate its hero Dark Souls, while also attempting to carve out its own weird niche. Expect a big toad NPC to blurt out something like “Apocryphal intestines lie in the heart of darkness!” while you’re being smacked in the bum by a crazed villager wielding a lute. But scrape away all the spooky-big-words dressing and you’ve got a fairly strong Soulslike beneath the gubbins.
The PC Gaming Weekspot, RPS’ weekly look at PC games news, returns this very night (right now, in fact, 6pm BST) for the RPS VidBuds to entertain you live and on your screens. This week Colm and Matthew will be taking a look at the Halo Infinite delay announced last week, new details on Dead Space developer Visceral Games’ cancelled Star Wars game, Epic Games taking on Apple and Google over Fortnite, and more! All with interaction and input from you, the viewer, as you get involved in the chat.
If you’ve played Fallout: New Vegas a handful of times you’ve almost certainly done a double take once or twice when you recognise the voice of a character. Wait, didn’t I meet you already? You had a different face then. The voice talent in New Vegas can be spread a bit thin at times, with some actors portraying quite a few characters. This overhaul mod several years in the making is now available to fix that by adding a heck of a lot of new voice talent to the western wasteland.
The skins in Fall Guys are excellent. Mediatonic’s Total Wipeout-like battle royale will let you wobble round its obstacle courses dressed as all manner of silly things – from cacti and hotdogs, to Half-Life’s Gordon Freeman and Team Fortress 2’s Scout. Now a leak claims that more cutesy crossover outfits are on the way, ones that will let you dress up as Pedro (the banana) from My Friend Pedro, and Chell (the human) from Portal.
I was looking through my crate of ancient technology when I rediscovered my oldest possession: my Frontier: Elite II game box. It has been with me for 27 years. Jobs, houses, relationships, pets, and my waistline have all been left behind, but it has not. When I got rid of the system it was played on, my trusty Amiga CD32, I kept the game. Somehow, 22 years after harassing my mum to buy it for me, I got to show it to Frontier’s creator David Braben. We went through the lore books, the manual, and the small piece of paper on which 14-year-old me had scrawled a formula that allowed me to skip across the light-years as if they were stepping stones.
If I didn’t have that grey crate of Things I Must Keep, I’m not sure it would have survived. The vessel of wires, power supplies, four mostly dead gaming mice, and more, kept it safe. Let’s celebrate everyone’s crate of weird and forgotten things. So tell me, what have you kept?
Today is the 75th anniversary of the first publication of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, perhaps the most distressing book for a kid to pick from their parents’ shelves when looking for a nice story about horses. In celebration, an official video game adaptation was of Animal Farm has been announced. News of a beloved work of literature becoming a video game should inspired a wariness (thanks, Dante’s Inferno) but this one does sound promising. For starters, Orwell’s Animal Farm is being made by the creators of Reigns with Failbetter’s Emily Short.
Buying a gaming monitor can often take up a huge part of your PC building budget, so finding yourself a good deal on your next gaming monitor can be a real help to try and keep costs down. The good news is that you’re in exactly the right place, as we’ve rounded up all the cheapest gaming monitor deals we’ve been able to find from around the web in both the UK and US. You’ll find gaming monitor deals on 144Hz screens and 240Hz displays, as well as G-Sync, Freesync and ultrawide monitors, too. Whatever you’re looking for, these are the top gaming monitor deals of the week.
It’s exciting enough when Rainbow Six Siege gets a new operator, let alone one that’s a well-loved sneaky boy from Splinter Cell. Ubisoft revealed last week that Sam Fisher would be making an appearance in the tactical team-based shoot ’em up, and last night they showed the gadgets and abilities he’ll be bringing with him to the game’s next update, Operation Shadow Legacy.
He’s not the only exciting thing on the way, though, because there are a bunch of reworks and changes coming to improve how you play Siege across the board.
The Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 is quite possibly one of the most ludicrous gaming laptops I’ve ever come across. Specs-wise, it has all the bells and whistles you could possibly want. There’s a brand-new 10th Gen Intel Core i9 processor in here, along with a massive 32GB of RAM, an RTX 2080 Super Max-Q graphics chip and a pair of 1TB NVMe SSDs RAIDed together to form one enormous 2TB storage bank.
Normally, the specs alone would have been enough to put it squarely in ‘overkill’ territory, but that’s not even the tip of this mad iceberg. On top of all that, this laptop has not one, but two screens, and is one of the first dual-screen laptops to make its way to the UK (with a US launch to follow shortly). The first is a fairly traditional 15.6in 4K IPS panel with full-fat Nvidia G-Sync support. The other is a skinny 14.1in 3840×1100 touchscreen that rises up from the top of the keyboard automatically as soon as you open the lid. It is, in short, bonkers. Best of all, Asus want a cool £4000 for it.
Tuesday will bring the long-awaited launch of Microsoft Flight Simulator, the first proper new entry in the revered aeroplane sim series in over a decade. It looks quite fancy. When exactly you’ll get to play MS Flight Sim is a bit of a complicated matter, depending on which store you’re going through. Get the game on Steam and bish bash bosh it’ll unlock for everyone in the world at the same time. Play it on Microsoft’s Store (which includes getting it through Xbox Game Pass) and you’ll find 25 launch times spread across the globe.