Get ready to update your itinerary because Euro Truck Simulator 2 is making some new travel plans. The trucking sim is still scheduled to visit Iberia in April, but SCS Software have let on where they're headed after. They'll be venturing further east again in the Heart Of Russia DLC that's just been revealed. It's a ways off, but they've shared some details and quite a few screenshots of the next DLC.
If you enjoy intrigue and strategy but prefer spaceships to horses, here's a contender for you. Star Dynasties confirms what I think we all secretly fear: that no matter how far humanity progresses we're all just one major catastrophe from throwing up our hands and reverting to feudalism. It looks a lot like Crusader Kings in space, which isn't a bad thing. Star Dynasties enters early access this month with plans for a full release later this year.
GTA Online has historically been a stingy game. Making money s largely a grind to afford better tools to grind more efficiently, with the dream of one day maybe actually buying something fancy just for funsies. That grind became a bit friendlier in December with the launch of the Cayo Perico Heist, a mission to rob the party island of drug lord Juan "El Rubio" Strickler. It's so lucrative that many players can now buying the game's novelty superyachts, and as thanks (or insult to injury?) to El Rubio, some name them in his honour. Not a huge thing, but always makes me smile.
Crusader Kings 3 is a great strategic romp that lets you play out your kingmaking fantasies of intrigue and plotting. When it comes to pulling out the swords though, wouldn't it be cool if you could actually get down on the battlefield to fight your way to victory? Hold up, there's definitely a game for that. Well several, really, but this is about Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord. An upcoming mod will let you play out your crusading wars on Bannerlord's battlefields and then send the results back to your Crusaders campaign to continue strategising.
Well hot dang, if it isn't another TFI Friday. Over the past couple of weeks I've been trawling the underbelly of Steam new releases to find some fun new indie games for you to check out. And let me tell you, there's nothing like spending several hours at a time on the platform to remind you how much grim hentai ends up on Steam these days.
It's not that it's there, so much as how sometimes it's disguised and I'm not prepared for it. I clicked through to a game that described itself as being about looking after a friendly sheep. "Cute!", I thought, much like a fool would think. From the screenshots, I can't say I believe she shares much of the anatomy of a sheep, but she sure was friendly. Anyway, the boob-cannon of new releases aimed right at my face shunted my psyche towards a lot of aggressively wholesome> things this week.
As more of us spend time staring at our gaming monitors all day, protecting your eyes from the blue light they emit has never been more important. If you've bought a new PC screen in the last couple of years, chances are there's probably a blue light filter built right into your display. Windows 10 has its own night mode you can toggle on and off, too. But would you go as far as spending $200 on a special pair of blue light filtering glasses? That's what Razer's new Anzu smartglasses are primarily all about, although they do double up as polarised sunglasses, too, and come with a built-in mic and speakers so you can take phone calls on them and listen to music. I swear I'm not making this up.
The first proper look at some Aliens: Fireteam gameplay has surfaced, showing a bunch of xenomorph-splatting in the upcoming third-person shooter. Announced earlier this week, Aliens: Fireteam is a three-player co-op game set 23 years after the Alien trilogy. Judging from this gameplay footage players will be pitted against hordes upon hordes of various aliens, which is far too many for my liking. Uh, not because I'm scared of them or anything. Actually, I think they're rather un-scary when so many are attacking at once.
Hello everyone. It's a strange new frontier we're dropping into this week. James Law and I have produced words from our throats on the topic of Call Of Duty: Warzone. Yes, Warzone Audio Bang joins the Electronic Wireless Show and The PC Gaming Weekspot as Rock Paper Shotgun's third podcast. It's our hope that you can enjoy our fortnightly Warzone-related ramblings while you're doing things like cleaning the oven, or walking your cat.
Earlier this week, Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi unveiled his next RPG, Fantasian. Described as a "diorama adventure", as it uses real, handcrafted dioramas for its various locations, Fantasian looks pretty neat. There's still a lot we don't know about it at the moment, but one thing that really stood out during its initial reveal was its cool-looking battle system, in which you can send any monsters you encounter to an alternate dimension and biff them altogether at a later date so they don't interrupt the flow of exploration. Sakaguchi calls it the "Dimengeon Battle" system, and it sounds absolutely genius>.
Alas, the game is only coming to Apple Arcade at the moment, so it may never appear on PC, but the way Sakaguchi describes Fantasian's battle system has been stuck in my head all week. He talks about it specifically as being a "quality of life improvement to the classic JRPG genre," and it got me thinking. When did "quality of life" become such an important part of modern JRPGs, and will it change our relationship with our favourite JRPGs of yore?
Do you love products? I know I do. You can eat products, you can wear products, you can smear products all over your body. Products are terrific.
Publishers and developers have heard that you enjoy products, so they've taken to advertising some in their games. That's why we've centred this week's MSR on those video games that are trying to sell you stuff, like Lilt. Mmmmm, Lilt. The totally tropical taste.