HomeNewsNexus 5X Lunchbreak-friendly space 4X Stellaris Nexus is out now in early accessIt’ll be around six months till the full release It’ll be around six months till the full release Image credit:Paradox Arc Image credit:Paradox Arc Whatboy and Paradox Interactive’s 4X spin-offStellaris Nexushas boldly gone where many other games have gone before and entered early access. Apologies, I realise that reference is more appropriate to Paradox’s other recentstrategyrelease,Star Trek: Infinite, but I don’t know theStellarisfiction well enough to think of an appropriate in-joke....

HomeNewsMetaphor: ReFantazio Metaphor: ReFantazio’s developers explain how it compares and differs from PersonaA different kind of political fantasy A different kind of political fantasy Image credit:Sega Image credit:Sega I’m not normally in a rush to post marketing videos in which developers talk about how great their new game is, but I need all the help I can get in understandingMetaphor: ReFantazio. The new RPG from the makers of Persona looks stylish, dense, exciting, and almost entirely baffling in its trailers, so 14 minutes of the folks from Atlus just describing it is welcome....

HomeNews Microsoft and ZeniMax union reach “first of its kind” agreement over usage of AI tools in gamedev"It is crucial that all workers have a voice in what role AI plays in their work." “It is crucial that all workers have a voice in what role AI plays in their work.” Image credit:Microsoft Image credit:Microsoft The videogame union ZeniMax Workers United have come to a “tentative”, “first of its kind” agreement with ZeniMax parent company Microsoft over the company’s usage of the latest “artificial intelligence” tools in the workplace....

HomeFeaturesTribes 3: Rivals Notes from the Tribes 3: Rivals playtest – it’s fun, but is it Tribes?Faster, faster Faster, faster Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Prophecy Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Prophecy Games Of course I was going to insert myself into the recentTribes 3: Rivalsalpha playtest – as aTribes: Ascendplayer who’s mourned its demise for years, the reveal of a new, heavily Ascend-inspired ski-shooter was like seeing a long deceased pet rabbit miraculously come back to life....

HomeNewsDusk Original “boomer shooter” Dusk gets free HD remaster, five years in the makingNew and expanded modding tools “a few weeks away” New and expanded modding tools “a few weeks away” Image credit:New Blood Interactive Image credit:New Blood Interactive New Blood Interactive have released a free HD DLC remaster for their reputation-making retro FPSDusk, almost five years to the day since the originalshooterlaunched on Steam. Honestly, the idea of remastering an alt-history “199X”-style homage toHalf-LifeandDoomdoes a number on my sense of time - which multiversal branch are we in now?...

HomeNewsStarfield Starfield will get city maps and “new ways of traveling” next yearAs well as mod support As well as mod support Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Game Studios Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Game Studios Open your map inStarfieldand you won’t see much more than a height map, even in cities. If you want to then travel around, you’re limited to walking huge distances when on planet surfaces and using fast travel spaceship hops when in outerspace....

HomeReviewsThe Day Before The Day Before early access review: you won’t be missedWorstest Worst Worstest Worst Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mytona Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mytona Now, days after releasing into early access, developers Fntastic have shut down and you can’t purchase the game anymore. Does it come as a surprise? Not really, considering the final product wasn’t what they promised - not even close. Instead of an MMO, it wasbarelyan extraction shooter....

HomeFeaturesStreet Fighter 6 The RPS Advent Calendar 2023, December 12thReady? Fight! Ready? Fight! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun You’ll need to limber up and do some warm-up stretches before attempting to open today’s door on the RPS Advent Calendar, otherwise you’ll risk getting an instant KO from the burly brawlers waiting inside. That’s right, today’s finalist in the Advent Calendar knockout is… Ready?Street Fighter 6! Jeremy:Street Fighter 6 is thebest Street Fighter in years, and leagues ahead of the two entries that preceded it....

HomeDeals AMD’s best-selling 7800X3D CPU drops to just £330 in the UK or $358 in the USAMD’s best gaming CPU with a free copy of the new Avatar game. AMD’s best gaming CPU with a free copy of the new Avatar game. As of today, the best prices available in the UK and US are at Overclockers (£330) and Amazon ($358). Both retailers offer the CPU with a free copy of the truly stunningAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora game....

HomeFeatures Apollo Justice Trilogy is an even better glow-up than the original Ace Attorney TrilogyNo objections here No objections here Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom In just over a month’s time, the entire mainline Ace Attorney series will finally be playable on PC with the arrival of theApollo Justice Trilogy. Launching on January 25th 2024, this collection bundles together the fourth, fifth and sixth games in Capcom’s excellent lawyer ‘em up -Apollo Justice,Dual DestiniesandSpirit Of Justice- which originally launched on the Nintendo DS and 3DS across a ten year period between 2007 and 2016....

HomeFeaturesBanishers: Ghosts Of New Eden Banishers: Ghosts Of New Eden wants to be a thoughtful blockbuster on a budgetA chat with Don’t Nod about moral choices, world design and life after Vampyr A chat with Don’t Nod about moral choices, world design and life after Vampyr Image credit:Focus Entertainment Image credit:Focus Entertainment A spiritual (hah) follow-up of sorts to 2018’s fairlywell-receivedVampyr, it takes place in the alt-historical realm of New Eden, which is kind of 17th century colonial North America through the lens ofDragon Age: Inquisitionwith a pinch ofHellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice....

HomeNewsFinal Fantasy XVI Final Fantasy 16’s PC release will require an SSD, hints producer Yoshi-PWill consider letting us play as Cid or Jill if it sells well enough Will consider letting us play as Cid or Jill if it sells well enough Image credit:Square Enix Image credit:Square Enix It’s been a good few months sinceFinal Fantasy 16wasproperly confirmed as coming to PC. While we’re yet to get a release date, development of FF16 on PC clearly continues apace, as the game’s producer has teased a few more details - including the fact you’ll need an SSD to play....

HomeNewsThe Day Before Just four days after The Day Before finally launched, devs Fntastic have closed downSay they lack the funds to continue developing the zombie-survival game Say they lack the funds to continue developing the zombie-survival game Image credit:Fntastic Image credit:Fntastic Less than a week afterThe Day Before’s disastrous launch on PC, followingmultiple delaysand becoming the most wishlisted game on Steam, the makers of the zombie-survival shooter have announced their closure....