HomeNewsScourgeBringer Slashin' ‘n dashin’ roguelite ScourgeBringer left early access todayAnother lovely roguelite to sink your teeth into Another lovely roguelite to sink your teeth into The last month or so has been a delightful time for roguelite fans (hello). We recently had the excellentNoitaandHadesleave early access, and now the fast-paced action platformerScourgeBringerhas joined them. Today saw the dashing and blasting and slashing roguelite reach its 1.0 release. As with most games escaping their early access shackles,ScourgeBringergot a big update today, too, adding in a new realm with new bosses and enemies to take on....

HomeFeaturesRB: Axolotl The visual novel about axolotls is finished; is deeply weird and darkTank-bred Tank-bred When I first joined RPS two(!) years(!!) ago, one of thevery first things I wrote aboutwasRB: Axolotl, a visual novel about a bunch of axolotls living in different corners of a tank and having very intense, obsessive relationships with each other. At the time it was just a demo, but now it’s a full game. I’m still playing my way through it, but indications after several hours so far are that the completedRB: Axolotlis weirder and darker than I could ever have imagined from the demo....

HomeNews Ubisoft Connect will support cross-saves for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and other new releasesEivor everywhere Eivor everywhere Ubisoft’s PC game launcher Uplay is getting a makeover and a name change to extremely straightforward Ubisoft Connect for PC. It may not have a terribly cute nickname, but Ubisoft Connect is bringing cross-progression between PC and consoles, meaning your game’s save data, for new Ubisoft games when it launches on October 29th.The launch trailer goes over plenty of things you’ll already be familiar with if you’d been using Uplay previously....

HomeFeaturesMinecraft v1.17 Minecraft is getting even more complicated. However: axolotls.The incredible sculk The incredible sculk So, as you might already know, there is another bigMinecraftupdate on the way - version 1.17, a.k.a “Caves & Cliffs”. As the name suggests, it’s going to be focusing on the underground (with a lesser focus on mountains and such), and that’s welcome news for long-time players. Especially since the Nether, Minecraft’s weirdo hell dimension, got a makeover in version 1....

HomeFeaturesThe Sims 4 Add Hill House and the Bates Motel to The Sims 4 for the season of pumpkinsScares as iconic as Aiden’s cap Scares as iconic as Aiden’s cap As the nights draw ever closer, and the windows of the local Tesco grow ever more pumpkiny, I have been burrowing into blankets, putting a hot water bottle on my feetsies (because we don’t want to turn on the heating yet) and wallowing in some classic scares....

HomeNewsAmnesia: Rebirth Amnesia: Rebirth’s launch was a bit cursed oOooOooFirst it had no exe, then it vanished First it had no exe, then it vanished In my expert opinion, the best thing a horror game about amnesia and half-glimpsed horrors can do upon launching is disappear. Was it ever there? Am I crazy in the coconut? So it’s thematically splendid (if practically inconvenient) that today’sAmnesia: Rebirthlaunch went spooky on Steam. At first some owners found it didn’t have an executable so they couldn’t play, which is a solid jumpscare after paying £24, then the game promptly vanished from the store....

HomeNewsApex Legends Apex Legends raises wallrunning from the dead for this year’s Fight Or FrightOne hell of a Treat this year. One hell of a Treat this year. Alright, that’s one down. How long till our giant robots drop in the Apex arena, Respawn? They’re doing no good gathering dust over inTitanfall’s lobbies. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Fight Or Fright, ApeLegs' seasonal spook-mode, returns again this year. That means Shadow Royale is back....

HomeNewsDOOM Eternal Doom Eternal’s first story expansion is out nowDoom! Over the world! Doom! Over the world! It’s not Halloween until you’re knee-deep in the dead, so here comesDoom Eternalwith the start of its two-part story expansion. The Ancient Gods sends the angry fella back into the Maykr’s dimension to resume ripping and tearing, this time with some new enemies in the mix too. Curiously, the expansion is also a standalone game, not requiring you to own Doom Eternal to buy and play....

HomeNews Fallout 4’s New Vegas remake mod saddles up for a slick new trailerAin’t that a kick in the head? Ain’t that a kick in the head? F4NV has been in productionsince at least 2017- and while they’ve been posting work-in-progress tidbits for some time now, this week the collected mod-makers behind F4NV released a major “showcase” trailer for the ambitious mod, just in time for the Obsidian spin-off’s tenth anniversary....

HomeFeaturesCyberpunk 2077 Is your Cyberpunk 2077 merch cyberpunk enough?It is almost certainly not It is almost certainly not Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube First of all, we shall dispense with Cyberpunk’s spokesmodel. I’m counting Keanu Reeves as merch rather than a living, breathing human with autonomy because it was revealed that Keanu - sorry, Mr Reeves - was going to be inCyberpunk 2077as legendary cyberhero Crispy Aluminiumfoil, he has been popping up in the marketing more and more often....

HomeNewsManifold Garden Manifold Garden’s architectural puzzles are now on Steam and ItchUp and up and up and up… Up and up and up and up… Okay, yes, it’s been on theEpic Games Storefor the past year too. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Alice Bell might’ve reckoned it more a horror game than puzzler in herManifold Garden review, and that it maybe wears out its welcome a little too soon. Even so, she had to concede that it is indeed quite a stunner....

HomeNews Paper Beast’s origami ecosystem can now be explored without VRCardboard crocodiles and A4 alligators Cardboard crocodiles and A4 alligators Paper Beast’s folded menagerie should be right up my alley. Unfortunately, for the time being, Eric Chahi’s wonderful sandbox has been locked behind pricey, clunky VR headsets. Thankfully, Pixel Reef today releasedPaper Beast: Folded Edition, flattening the digital wilderness into something you and I can play on our non-head-mounted screens.Making its debut on PlayStation VR way back in March,Paper Beastmigrated to PC headsets in July....

HomeNews The Sims 4 hits the slopes in new expansion Snowy Escape, with a trailer reveal todayCowabunga, dudes! Cowabunga, dudes! EA have partially revealed the newest expansion pack forThe Sims 4- showing a modest glimpse of shoulder, if you will. But friends, it is acoldshoulder. The expansion is called Snowy Escape, and until a trailer is revealed later today, that’s pretty much all we have to go on. That, and a screenshot collage of cheery Sims doing winter sport activities like they’re all in an advert showing how being on your period doesn’t have to stop you living your life to the max....