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Dune Awakening has soared past 142,000 concurrent players on Steam following its full public release. Read more
MindsEye released last night, and within a matter of hours gameplay footage was going viral online. However, this was not because players were sharing their positive experiences. Rather, it was because they were sharing a multitude of glitches and error screens which were appearing as they attempted to make their way through the game. Read more
Splitgate 2 game director Ian Proulx has apologised for causing "division in the community" following his controversial Summer Game Fest appearance, in which he wore a MAGA-style "Make FPS Great Again" hat while onstage. Read more
Herdling is an odd little game. How do you begin to sell the idea that a (presumably emotional) herding simulator might be quite interesting? Yes, people love their farming sims as a band aid form of escapism, but a lot of those games are in the first instance much more about farming and not farm animals, nor the way you interact with said animals. Herdling is all about that, as the whole goal is to guide a group of strange horned beasties up a mountain. Read more
We don't really get to write about Playdate, that bespoke games console with a built in crank, here on RPS very much because it is very much not a computer (though former EIC Katharine did review it back when it launched). Well, not in the way we need it to be for our purposes. But I have an excuse to do so today! Over the weekend at the PC Gaming Show, a trailer for the Panic-published, faux-streaming service Blippo+ was shown off, one that captured my attention quite quickly. Read more
It's that time again! You might have noticed that MindsEye, the new game from former Rockstar North studio head and GTA producer Lezlie Benzies and his studio Build a Rocket Boy, is out in the world and available to buy, while we don't yet have a review. Read more
When you have a game that is so run focused like Elden Ring Nightreign, balance is the key to not getting someone to throw their controller at a wall, cursing their own birth as they do so. Up until now, there were parts of Elden Ring Nightreign that certainly weren't balanced, though that mostly came down to a few bugs. As of today though, there's a new update you can download for the roguelike which brings in some much needed fixes. Read more
Dune Awakening is out at last, and it's a strange, wonderful blend of an MMORPG and an open world survival game. This melding of genres results in a game of two halves, weaved together with a rich and deep care for the source material. Funcom, somehow, has managed to juggle these components expertly. The result? A game unlike any I've really played before. Read more
Finding Lies of P: Overture a bit too hard? Don't worry, I'm not going to tell you just "get good" like those randos you see littered all over Twitter. I'm actually here to say that you're not alone on this one. The story expansion for the conceptually weirdest Soulslike in town dropped during Geoff's Onslaught Of Generally OK Announcements (aka, Summer Game Fest) as a surprise release, and it seems like the general feedback so far has been "please make it a bit easier so Twinkocchio doesn't get battered so hard." Read more
Rhythm action game No Straight Roads is set to receive a sequel across PC and consoles next year. Read more
Brandon Adler, The Outer Worlds 2's director, tells me the team at Obsidian knew exactly what would and wouldn't go down well with the original. "Before the first game even shipped, I did a full breakdown of: here's what I think people are going to like and dislike about the game," he says. "And here's what I think the press is going to like and dislike. And I think we should address these things in the next one." Read more
Helldivers 2 developers Arrowhead have unleashed the latest twist in the game's Galactic War, with urban battles against the Terminids now on the cards. Rather than defending cities on Super Earth, this time the task is swatting bug invasions of population centres across multiple planets. A tough assignment, but to be fair, successfully protecting their home planet against the still-at-large Illuminate should have given players plenty experience of street fighting (not the Ryu and Chun-Li kind). Read more
Esports pros aren’t the only gamers who need higher frame rates these days, with advancements in GPUs squeezing more and more frames out of games. Read more
Switch 2 has been Nintendo's biggest launch here in the UK, but sits behind the launches of Sony's PS5 and Microsoft's Xbox Series X/S. Read more
Early access life sim InZoi will be releasing on Mac this August, the team has announced. Read more
Nintendo has announced Splatoon Raiders for Switch 2. Read more
Wizards of the Coast knows the people thirst for more more Baldur's Gate 3-ish CRPGs, and the company's president has made it clear they still plan on making those kinds of things, even if the D&D action game they recently announced will be a different kettle of magic frogs "Don’t get me wrong," said President John Hight when speaking to Polygon about the different possibilities making a D&D game offers being a factor in going that route with this latest game, "we are going to do CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3." Read more
After reports that Microsoft is "sidelining" its own first-party developed handheld, the new Xbox Showcase revealed two new mobile devices - Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X. These machines are hardware collaborations with Asus, bringing Xbox hardware design ideas to the table in combination with a revamped version of Windows that puts gaming first. There are profound, welcome changes here - but one big question needs to be addressed. Is this the first new Microsoft offering no backwards compatibility with the Xbox digital library? Is this an Xbox that doesn't play Xbox console games? If so, this is a bump in the road in Microsoft's journey forward - and must be addressed. Read more
UPDATE 4.26pm: Build A Rocket Boy has confirmed to Eurogamer that launch day patches for MindsEye are now available across all platforms, ready for the game's 6pm release. That's PlayStation, Xbox and PC. Read more
UK actors' union Equity has applauded the "tenacity and persistence" of SAG-AFTRA video game performers, following news the US union has reached a tentative agreement after almost a year on strike. It now calls upon the industry to negotiate for UK performers too. Read more
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