Cyberpunk 2077

‘s creators evidently had high hopes for their sprawling Keanu-toting RPG. But with the game lander rougher (read: buggier) than expected, CD Projekt executives have reportedly chosen to rethink their bonus structure, promising to pay developers their full share of their bonuses regardless of how well Cyberpunk reviews – even if, y’know, gating employee bonuses behind extremely high performance expectations is the sort of dystopian “Corpo” attitude you’d expect from Night City’s fictional CEOs.

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Even a winter gremlin like myself does, occasionally, miss the sun. Fortunately, Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is offering an unseasonable dose of vitamin D with its nostalgic summer holiday. Released this week, Ustwo’s latest is a sweet little island holiday filled with bird-spotting, activism, and restoring some life to this knackered old coastal town. Just mind you pack your sunscreen, kid.

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Hell of a racket behind door 12 of our Advent Calendar. Sounds like an entire building is being destroyed – but not wantonly. With a very intense purpose, in fact.

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So what does the B stand for anyway? Bomber? Best? Blurst? Because I’m looking at the ship right now, and that doesn’t look like any B I’ve ever seen. Semantics aside, the topsy-turvy heavy bomber has finally arrived in a free update to Star Wars: Squadrons alongside the TIE Defender, an Imperial fighter that looks like someone glued an extra pair of wings onto the Interceptor and called it a night.

Hey, even shipbuilders have slow days at the office.

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World Of Warcraft

‘s best story doesn’t concern old gods, banshee queens or gruff orc heroes. Rather, it involves one panda’s stubborn determination to drop the “War” from “Warcraft”. Having not once picked up a sword, left the starting zone or even pledged allegiance to the Alliance or Horde, WoW player DoubleAgent has now hit the Shadowlands level cap doing nought but pick flowers for eighteen days straight.

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Cyberpunk 2077 is predominantly a first-person game, with players seeing the world of Night City from the eyes of its protagonist, V. But many players are wondering whether it is possible to play the game in third-person mode instead. This guide will answer your questions about whether third-person exists in Cyberpunk 2077, and how much of the game you can play from this perspective.

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When you spend half your day glued to Twitter, you get used to the occasional double- or triple-take. But I don’t think anything’s ever made me stop and shout as much as stumbling upon Familiars – a browser-based monster-catching MMO that developer Loam has somehow managed to cram into a video embed, letting you embark on an honest-to-god online RPG without ever leaving Twitter.

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As we barrel towards the end of the endless yet at an alarming pace, we’ve now opened almost half the doors on the RPS advent calendar. Do check to see our favourite games of the year as we go. A lot of good games this year. I normally manage to cram a lot of my personal wee favourites in my rigging the vote, but this year had too many great games for my trickery. It’s good, I suppose, that there are so many good’uns going round.

What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’re clicking on!

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Loop Hero

is a nifty-looking Rogue-like game where you’ll strategically place enemies for your hero from your own hand of cards. Now, before anyone gets on me about calling it a Rogue-like, it’s got randomized adventures, gear, heroes that die, and an “infinite loop” that you’ll need to break out of. The deck-building bit is what somehow makes me personally more interested in it than more literal riffs on Rogue. It will arrive sometime in 2021 for your randomized dungeoning desires.

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CD Projekt’s Red’s newest open world RPG has so far opened a world of bugs at launch, but CDPR have now released a hotfix for PC and PlayStation players to begin addressing some of the biggest issues. Among today’s changes are reduced epilepsy triggers during braindances, copyrighted music issues, and a lot of quest progression bugs squashed.

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