HomeFeaturesFallout 76 I met the Fallout 76 Fun CopIf you build it, they will thumb If you build it, they will thumb People inFallout 76are decent enough, in my experience. I forget whether I’ve related my first encounter with another player, where I accidentally blundered into their camp, then backed away in the panicky assumption that they’d attack me, only for them to instead drop a gift bag with a level-appropriate hunting rifle and some ammunition in it....

HomeNewsSkull and Bones Skull & Bones may become a live service gameAll about the crew All about the crew In all this talk about Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s viking blokes in boats, I’d almost forgotten about Ubisoft’s other boats game. Ships, pardon me.Skull & Bonesis the pirate-themed naval combat game they announced yonks back in 2017. It’s not scuttled yet, apparently, but may be changing course to a live service game....

HomeNews Valorant’s anti-cheat has a hidden message to recruit hackers If you’re looking to build a team to stop people hacking your game, why not reach out to the people who are trying to hack your game? That’s an idea Riot Games had withValorantandLeague Of Legends, hiding a little recruitment message inside part of their anti-cheat system. If you’re poking around in their gameguts, they might be interested in your skills....

HomeNewsYakuza Kiwami 2 Yakuza Kiwami 2 comes to Xbox Game Pass this month Earlier in the RPS treehouse, I was explaining to Nate that theYakuzagames are wonderful and kindhearted, not just serious crime drama (though they are also serious crime drama). Then as if my love of gaming’s best dads is able to shape reality, mere hours later Sega have announced thatYakuza Kiwami 2will come to Windows 10 and Xbox Game Pass on July 30th....

HomeNewsAssassin’s Creed: Valhalla Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will launch on November 17thYarrr! Yarrr! To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Assassin’s Creed this time stars a Viking chieftain come to build a settlement England, who seems to be neither Assassin nor Templar or tied up this that mess at all? But our Eivor, in male or female form, has a knife on their wrist so I guess that’s good enough....

HomeNews Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Frog parkour, flimsy trigger fingers and a lover’s quarrelDon’t call it a “Hellevator” Don’t call it a “Hellevator” Screenshot Saturday Sundays! Our weekly ritual returns, gathering us all to summon gifs, screenshots and work-in-progress videos from the murky depths of the game development community. This week: Satan’s personal elevator, wibbly-wobbly firearms, a late-night conversation and powerful amphibious tongues. Flying in first this week isFrog Island- a name that doesn’t quite hit the tongue-twisting ambitions of the game proper....

HomeNewsWatch Dogs Legion Watch Dogs: Legion launching on October 29thHack the planet! Hack the planet! To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings That’s the broad idea: everyone around you could be an ally. After one awfulWatch Dogsprotagonist and one fun one, Legion skips to having hundreds, with every NPC out and about in the word potentially an operative, if you can recruit them. A bit likeMetal Gear SolidV, but with a softer touch....

HomeNews Watch Ubisoft Forward here todayValhalla, Watch Dogs, and more Valhalla, Watch Dogs, and more NotE3 continues today with Ubisoft Forward at 8pm (noon Pacific). Ubisoft’s notE3 stream promises more on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla,Watch Dogs: Legion, anHyper Scape, plus “a few surprises”. One of those surprises is already blown, asthe existence of Far Cry 6 leakedon Friday. Heaps ofAssassin’s Creed Valhalla gameplay footagehas leaked too. But hey, you can get a free copy ofWatch Dogs 2for watching the stream....

HomeNewsDevolverland Expo Devolver have released a free game visiting a cancelled games show, Devolverland ExpoOut now on Steam Out now on Steam To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Devolver describe the game as “a first-person ‘marketing simulator’ set within an abandoned convention centre after the annual Devolver Digital game expo was mysteriously cancelled.” The show’s cancelled but security bots are roaming, so you might want to grab a t-shirt cannon to thwomp ‘em down....

HomeNews I woke up too early to enjoy the Oregon Country Fair In The CloudsTickets, please? Tickets, please? If there’s a downside to living in the middle of the city, it’s that fairs just really aren’t a part of my life. But then, with the whole Covid-19 pandemic going on, it’s not like there are many being held this year anyway. In place of their usual mud n' music happenings, however, theOregon Country Fair In The Cloudshas taken the 50-year-old folksy festival online, constructing an endearingly makeshift (and somewhat surreal) virtual arts fair that’s free for everyone, local or not....

HomeNewsRocket Arena Rocket Arena’s first season fires off later this monthFire up the canon cannon Fire up the canon cannon Cannae be having a hero shooter without heroes, can we? Ahead of its launch date next Tuesday,Rocket Arenahas shown off more of its bouncy blasty gunfights with two new trailers - one for the expected, eccentric cast of rocket-toting characters, the other for the maps they’ll be blasting each other out of - alongside plans to add even more maps and a new hero when the first season kicks off a few weeks after launch....

HomeNewsSerious Sam 4 Serious Sam 4’s new trailer looks like Serious Sam to meAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA The new trailer forSerious Sam 4coming out of Devolver Digital’s notE3 stream today didn’t show much of the game, but what it did show looks likeSerious Samto me. Wacky cartoon monsters roaming around arenas in real-world-ish locations? Yup. Quite a few of those monsters at once? Quite. Unnecessary story? Seriously. Explosions, lasers, and gibs? Oh my!...

HomeNewsShadow Warrior 3 Shadow Warrior 3’s first gameplay trailer is bursting with bloodSQUISH SQUISH Followingits announcementearlier this week, Devolver Digital today pumped out the firstShadow Warrior 3gameplay trailer. It looks: good. Yeah I was already expecting swords, big guns, and buckets of blood, but ooh I am extra-interested in swish new movement options like the grappling hook little you dramatically slingshot around arenas. Here, see the trailer yourself below.To see this content please enable targeting cookies....