HomeNews Everything that happened in the final day of court between Microsoft and the FTCThe Elder Scrolls 16 gets a surprising namedrop The Elder Scrolls 16 gets a surprising namedrop Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Five days of verbal jousting and juicy internal documents later, the court battle between the US Federal Trade Commission and Microsoft is over. The FTC haveworked to preventMicrosoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard in court, and now the overseeing Judge will look back on the proceedings to make their final decision in the next few days....

HomeNewsTo a T In Katamari Damacy creator’s charming next game, T-posing is a feature, not a bugThe perfect shape! The perfect shape! Image credit:uvula/Annapurna Interactive Image credit:uvula/Annapurna Interactive Katamari Damacycreator Keita Takahashi has unveiled his next game - and it’s about as charmingly offbeat as you’d expect.To a T is an episodic adventure game in which players control Teen, a teenager who is permanently stuck in a T-pose. In other words, they can’t move their arms from being fully outstretched at both sides....

HomeNewsMosa Lina Mosa Lina is a “hostile interpretation of the immersive sim” with a large dose of chaosPrepare to die, a lot Prepare to die, a lot Image credit:Stuffed Wombat Image credit:Stuffed Wombat Good immersive sims are hard to beat. Almost nothing matches the feeling of creatively using all of your abilities to find a scrappy and sometimes unintentionally hilarious solution. EnterMosa Lina, a pixel platformer that calls itself a “hostile interpretation of the immersive sim, where nothing is planned, and everything works....

HomeFeaturesPowerWash Simulator PowerWash Sim’s SpongeBob DLC confirms it as the king of crossoversWho lives in a pineapple under the sea and does not maintain his edging? Who lives in a pineapple under the sea and does not maintain his edging? Image credit:Square Enix, Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Square Enix, Rock Paper Shotgun I only had four TV channels growing up, and thus do not knowing anything about Bob L’éponge other than what is required to understand Tumblr posts (and that he lives in a tropical fruit)....

HomeFeaturesThe Pegasus Expedition The narrative outranks you in The Pegasus Expedition, and it worksEarth angle Earth angle Image credit:Fulqrum Publishing, Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Fulqrum Publishing, Rock Paper Shotgun Alright, sure, so we technically assassinated your leader, and detonated a populated planet, and wiped out the first clan we ever met. But that was all self defence and we’re not here to cause trouble. We just… have a lot going on okay....

HomeNews Yes, video game loading bars are fake, indie devs admit100% baloney 100% baloney Image credit:stock.adobe.com/backup16 Image credit:stock.adobe.com/backup16 Indie game developers decided to shatter one of the worst-kept secrets in gaming this week, after admitting that loading bar progress is faked. But, they insist, you really wouldn’t have it any other way. The bombshell came in the wake of ajokey tweetfrom comic Alasdair Beckett-King, who posited - tongue firmly in cheek - that devs should focus on perfecting a smooth-moving loading bar that accurately tracks the time left to load before they move onto other less important stuff like graphics and controls....

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3’s release date jumps up to August 3rd, providing precious breathing room from StarfieldLarian’s “astronomical” RPG is also 4x the size of Divinity: Original Sin II Larian’s “astronomical” RPG is also 4x the size of Divinity: Original Sin II Image credit:Larian Studios Image credit:Larian Studios Rare news, folks! RPG threequelBaldur’s Gate 3is now coming out on August 3rd - almost a month sooner than itspreviously planned dateof August 31st....

HomeNewsCities: Skylines II Cities: Skylines 2’s traffic simulation includes car crashes, better pathfinding, car parksAnd no hardcoded limits on resident numbers And no hardcoded limits on resident numbers Among the new additions: car crashes, much improved pathfinding, and car parks. I find all of these as exciting as each other. You can watch the videoabout roadsfor a look at construction tools, sound-blocking walls, roundabouts and more, but let’s embed the traffic AI video:...

HomeNewsFlock Don’t worry, cute co-op adventure Flock is “totally playable as a single-player game"“The trailer has done almost too good a job of selling this as a multiplayer game,” devs tell us “The trailer has done almost too good a job of selling this as a multiplayer game,” devs tell us Image credit:Annapurna Interactive Image credit:Annapurna Interactive Duringtonight’s Annapurna Interactive Showcase, we got another lovely look atFlock, the latest game fromWilmot’s WarehouseandI Am Deaddevs Hollow Ponds and Richard Hogg....

HomeNewsPioneers of Pagonia Here’s our first look at Pioneers Of Pagonia, the new citybuilder from The Settler’s original creatorHustle and bustle factor: very high Hustle and bustle factor: very high Image credit:Envision Entertainment Image credit:Envision Entertainment Earlier this year, Volker Wertichannouncedthat he was returning to the citybuilding genre 30 years after he headed upThe Settlers. We now have our first in-game look at his new projectPioneers Of Pagonia, which seems to dial up the economic management and actual building-of-towns side of the formula, rather than the RTS combat machinations....

HomeDeals Need 64GB of DDR4 RAM? This $99.99 Newegg deal is worth looking atMushkin Enhanced Redline Stiletto 2x32GB DDR4-3200 CL16. Mushkin Enhanced Redline Stiletto 2x32GB DDR4-3200 CL16. Yup, it’s another DDR4 deal post - but this time, it’s for the US market and covers a 64GB dual-channel kit, for all of you video creators, game server operators and high-number-likers out there. Newegg is offering a 64GB kit of Mushkin Enhanced Redline Stiletto DDR4-3200 CL16 for $99....

HomeNews Steam Summer Sale 2023 has launched and the Steam Deck is up to 20% offPlus some games are cheap too Plus some games are cheap too Steam’s summer sale is live now and will run until July 13th. As always, there are discounts across all kinds of games, including 30% offElden Ring, 70% off Need For Speed Unbound and 40% offValheim. Of particular note: there’s also up to 20% off the Steam Deck....

HomePodcastsMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2024 The Electronic Wireless Show S2 Episode 21: PC Gaming Podcast Simulator 2023Wait, is it still about PC gaming if sims aren’t games Wait, is it still about PC gaming if sims aren’t games Image credit:Xbox Game Studios Image credit:Xbox Game Studios When is a game not a game? When it’s a sim,according to the head developer of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. While we quickly agree on a “fair enough” response to this assertation of non-gameyness, we also can’t help but spend much of this latest Electronic Wireless Showpodcastremembering the most fun we’ve in the diverse world of sims, be it someactual flight simulatingor merely bullying smaller dinosaurs....