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After laying off around 1600 people and parting ways with a number of studios back in July, Microsoft-owned Xbox are reportedly set for another round of job cuts and internal upheaval this week. Read more
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While Jackbox Games is in the near constant pursuit of new ideas and fresh twists on familiar ones to stuff into their Jackbox Party Pack each year, there’s always that hankering for a nice little dose of nostalgia, a re-run of a fan favourite from yesteryear. That’s…
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Nighthawks, the 1942 painting by Edward Hopper, is generally described as portraying loneliness. The four people at the diner counter are dwarfed by the empty, cold openness of the street. But the inside of the diner looks warm. One man sits apart, but the other two patrons…
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Remember when, a couple of weeks ago, the singer of American band Breaking Benjamin was filmed promoting a Fallout 4 first person he'd made via a mid-gig speech about modding community drama? Well, according to Benjamin Burnley, that wasn't some planned tirade, but rather an…
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I feel like I saw Stick it to the Stickman during its Early Access period, but for whatever reason, just forgot it existed. it was announced Luckily for me (and hopefully for you), it landed in my lap to review anyway, and I can say my life is objectively better with this game…
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Uncle Microsoft's efforts to keep inventing the Torment Nexus proceed apace with a patent application for an in-game advertising system that might use machine learning to read your activities, and work out when you'll be least apoplectic about being suddenly served a giant…
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I dug The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood. It's a game about a fortune-telling witch on an asteroid who designs tarot cards and eventually gets sucked into politics. It also has its own special dildo. The devs behind it, Deconstructeam, are set to release their next game on October…
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I loved 2024's Lorn's Lure, the megastructure exploration game with the handsome climbing axes, but it took me a while to get the better of the whole "repeatedly falling and dying" element. I imagine a few megastructure lovers were deterred by this. Fine, says developer Rubeki,…
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Hideo Koijima and his studio Kojima Productions have offered a more in-depth version of their side of the story after action espionage game Physint switched publishers from PlayStation to Xbox earlier this month. Kojima claimed PlayStation had tried to cancel the game, with a…
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Having launched though the same system of reservations and waitlists as the Steam Machine, the Steam Frame is still navigating that inscrutable void betixt "on sale" and "actually out." Nevertheless, it’s had its first software update, SteamOS 0.3.0, which brings –…
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Hello all! Welcome to another week of feeding the Maw, the gluttonous cosmic sinkhole we must keep topped up with videogame news, lest it expand and masticate the entire universe. We're up against it this week, because no less than two RPS writers are taking holiday, leaving the…
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There still might not yet be a release date for GTA 6's PC port, but Rockstar appear to be preparing for the massive uptick in mods for their games that'll inevitably accompany it. In new modding guidelines posted this month, the studio have expressly warned against a bunch of…
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HoYoverse has revealed version 4.6 of Honkai: Star Rail, titled Dance With the Beast Before Moonrise, will launch on 28th September 2026. The update brings a new main mission, a new character and Warp banners, while some extras including a crossover with another HoYoverse game,…
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Once a fictional town in Maine, Silent Hill has broken containment and become a transferable oral history mechanism, offered to videogame developers worldwide as a way of investigating, even celebrating local culture. I'm still in two minds about whether this licensing outreach…
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Even having played the game through twice, Silent Hill: Townfall is full of so much mystery that I’m gagging to dive back in for a third, fourth and fifth run if I have to. It’s the kind of game where I don’t just want, I need to understand everything. There are two…
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If you’d told me fifteen years ago that Turtle Beach would now be considered amongst the most prestigious peripheral makers in gaming, I’d have snorted into my plasticky, uncomfortable Xbox 360 headset and started another round of Gears of War 3. While I definitely still snort…
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Sundays - well, very early Sunday mornings - are for watching a whole queue of hungry wild animals pass your kitchen window, because a neighbour has decided to leave a bollard-sized catfood dispenser outside the block entrance while they're away on holiday. I'm pretty sure the…
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It's well and truly not summer now. I'm writing this with the lights on because the screen's backlight is suddenly too bright for these eyes grown weak and lazy by the abundance of natural illumination. Read more
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