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HomeNewsSplitgate 2 Splitgate 2 will add bum slides and time-altering bubbles to its portal-hopping shootsingSlidegate Slidegate Image credit:1047 Games Image credit:1047 Games The firstSplitgatewas a cracker mash-up ofHalomultiplayer gunfights andPortal’s nifty spacetime windows. It was a gimmick that made flanking fun again, at least until you died to a distant rifle that was right next to you all along. Its sequel,Splitgate 2is continuing that gimmick but is also sprucing up the free-to-play arena shooter with a few modern additions, like bum-sliding around corners and big deployable bubbles called “time domes” that slow down your enemies yet speed up your allies....

HomeNewsWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 PvP multiplayer certainly has that old timey Gears Of War energyWho wants toast? Who wants toast? Image credit:Focus Entertainment Image credit:Focus Entertainment Yesterday, Nic took James and I on a tour ofWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2’s co-op campaign. A merry old time was had, romping through fortress cities like a small herd of crusader buffalo, using the game’s absurd jetpack functionality to pancake invading Tyranids, and getting our screens so slathered in gore we couldn’t work out who was killing what....

HomeFeatures7 Days To Die 7 Dos and 7 Don’ts in 7 Days To DieA sorta review A sorta review Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / The Fun Pimps Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / The Fun Pimps 7 Days to Die - 1.0 Gameplay TrailerWatch on YouTube 7 Days to Die - 1.0 Gameplay Trailer Don’t expect a revolution in survival game tropes If you’ve been gaming at all in the past decade, you know how this is going to go....

HomeNews In dark kingdom sim My Lovely Empress you run an empire with the help of summoned demon ladiesFaust never had a therapist Faust never had a therapist Image credit:Neon Doctrine Image credit:Neon Doctrine At some point every proud ruler must ask themselves the question: what should I do with all this stupid, tiresomecivilisationI’ve built? Do I let it spin on forever, a gleaming machine of prosperity bathed in an eternal twilight, or do I, as the case may be, unleash a horde of voluptuous hellwomen to gather spirit energy for the resurrection of my tragically slain beloved?...

On reflection I probably won’t be writing the words ‘fits’ again Image credit:Richard Khoo/Paradox Image credit:Richard Khoo/Paradox Watch on YouTube “Two weeks before launch we were told we wouldn’t be launching, and just now that we’ve all lost our jobs,”wrote Delventhal on LinkedInthe following day. “We were only informed of this via a public announcement. This industry has become a place in which you can deliver more than expected, have AA money behind you, and still have the rug pulled two weeks before launch....

HomeNewsShapez 2 Shapez 2’s Early Access should run smoothly with factories 12x bigger than the first gameAnd it’ll offer a polished 40-hours at launch And it’ll offer a polished 40-hours at launch Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Gamera Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Gamera Games Shapez 2will launch inEarly Access on August 15th, bringing the relaxing, shape-cutting factory builder into 3D. “We’ve spent a lot of time polishing the game already and are really happy how it turned out....

HomeNewsSliding Hero Sliding Hero turns a contentious puzzle type into an otherworldly jaunt through a cursed Venetian carnivalScorrevole! Scorrevole! Image credit:Silent Chicken Image credit:Silent Chicken I’d initially assumed thatpuzzlegameSliding Herocounts was a Sokoban-like, until I realised that it’s actually you, not endless boxes, that do the sliding here. Still, I wasn’t entirely convinced. The only thing that’s fun to slide back-and-forth indefinitely is a lounging cat on a smooth kitchen worktop....

HomeFeaturesKhaligrad The Rally Point: Messy urban wargame Khaligrad is this year’s low-intensity strategy game for when it’s blisteringly hot outShtrafbattle brothers Shtrafbattle brothers Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Orbi Universo Team Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Orbi Universo Team I was partial to a scrappy littlestrategy gameeven before idiot billionaires doomed the planet, and the UK to brain-steaming heat just when you thought we’d escape it this year.Khaligradis plenty scrappy. Its edges are rough and you have to figure it out yourself, but it’s more intuitive than it appears, and easy to operate once you discern some basics....

HomeNews WolfEye’s new first-person RPG is “an evolution” of Prey and Dishonored featuring mechs, magnets and a continuous worldThe Weird West devs on becoming the “alt-Arkane” The Weird West devs on becoming the “alt-Arkane” Image credit:WolfEye Studios Image credit:WolfEye Studios “The structure is very freeform, and you can explore whatever you want,” Colantonio tells me over videocall. “But the mobility and the type of gameplay is very reminiscent of games that we’ve worked on in the past, like Prey or Dishonored....

HomeNewsFallout: London Fallout London’s developers working on “huge” patch to come after its hotfixesMassive mod has many mugs… Er, bugs Massive mod has many mugs… Er, bugs Image credit:Team Folon Image credit:Team Folon Fallout Londonlaunched late last month, but the huge, long in-development mod is so buggyNic had to abandon his attempts to play it. Its developers have already promised hotfixes, and now say a “huge” update is also on the way....

HomeNewsThe Callisto Protocol There should be a Callisto Protocol 2, says Dead Space creator Glen Schofield: “we had to cut two and a half bosses"Former Striking Distance CEO shares details of cut material, disagreements with Krafton and Covid losses Former Striking Distance CEO shares details of cut material, disagreements with Krafton and Covid losses Image credit:Krafton Image credit:Krafton Dead Spacedeveloper and Striking Distance co-founder Glen Schofield left Striking Distance last September, following lower-than-hoped sales and mixed reviews for the studio’s debut projectThe Callisto Protocol....

HomeNewsBalatro Despite all predictions, the house has lost this one Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Playstack Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Playstack Balatro - Short TrailerWatch on YouTube Balatro - Short Trailer Back in March, Balatro wastemporarily taken downfrom digital console storefronts after European ratings board PEGI changed the age rating from 3+ to 18+ after deciding the game encouraged gambling with “prominent imagery”. One reply to LocalThunk’s tweet about the will was from Purple Moss Collectors, the developers of the upcomingDungeons & Degenerate Gamblers, who asked LocalThunk to pass on the wording used so they could do the same....

HomeNewsNocturne Chrono Trigger meets Guitar Hero was not on my bingo card, but I’ll take it regardlessLimit breakcore Limit breakcore Image credit:Pracy Studios Image credit:Pracy Studios You’re dead at the start of rhythm-combatRPGNocturne, just arrived in some sort of afterlife waiting room after the apparent extinction of humanity. You get your bearings, and you soon meet up with another, only slightly irritating, small child. His name is Kimothy, which sounds like something you’d only say as a joke to annoy friends named Kim, and then only once because it would be stupid to say it again....