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If you've given The Blood of Dawnwalker a go, odds are you've got thoughts about the 30-day and 3-night timer it applies to Coen's quest to save his family from fate most vampy. Devs Rebel Wolves are very much aware of how divisive the feature's proven, and now the game's…
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Colin Johanson doesn't think the MMO is dying. He would say that: he's the studio head of Arenanet, the team behind the Guild Wars series. He's also talking to me directly after showing off combat and movement in the team's next MMO, Guild Wars 3. That said, what is more…
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In the build up to Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance release in 2027, Capcom has announced that they will remove one of the most obnoxious microtransactions you can currently find in video games. Character Edits will no longer require Character Edit Vouchers in Monster Hunter…
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Helldivers 2 and Horizon Forbidden West have disappeared from the Steam store in the UK, something that's happened rather out of nowhere and looks like it might've even taken publishers PlayStation by surprise. Said publishers have issued a statement noting that they've already…
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We’re big fans of Monster Hunter here at TSA. Between us, we’ve likely played every entry in the franchise. Naturally, we liked some games more than others, with Wilds getting a very respectable 9/10 back in 2025. There were some complaints that the game was too easy at launch,…
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As human populations have grown, we’ve had to come up with all kinds of strange naming conventions. The Icelandic tradition of adopting one’s father’s name as a surname is one I’m rather fond of, while the European one of having ancestral jobs, locations…
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Amplitude have always used early access for their games, even before Steam Early Access was a thing. Ahead of Endless Space's release in July 2012, players who preordered the game got immediate access to an alpha build that was steadily patched and updated on the lead up to…
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For the last few years I've been labouring to transform my terror of spiders into guarded appreciation, even wonder. I've been drawing pictures of spiders, and writing stories about them. When I spy a spyder (spider) in the wild, I make a strenuous display of hunkering down to…
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If the organisers of Crufts ever have to produce a season of Robot Wars, the results probably won't be a million miles away from Dog in the Machine - a new turn-based tactics puzzler that's sort of Into The Breach but with a greater emphasis on props and tricks. Read more
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Update: The IWGB Games Worker Union have issued the following statement to RPS from vice-chair Ben Newbon: We cannot add any further insight into the heartbreaking job losses at BARB, a company that we think has been slowly spiralling for a long time. We came together to fight…
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Former Doom: The Dark Ages producer Andrew Willis has shared tuppence on the state of the blockbuster videogame trade, arguing that the biggest companies and most popular series are going through a familiar "cycle" whereby the moneyfolk finally displace the creatives, and start…
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The Steam Frame, unfortunately RAM shortage-ravaged as it is, is unique among virtual reality headsets for its ability to run Steam games – VR or 'flat' alike – entirely on its own, internal compute hardware. It is, in effect, a SteamOS PC for your face. Yet as I…
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Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer has revealed that the studio behind recent FPS hit Wardogs check the social media accounts of prospective hires for public criticism of crunch practices, and deliberately prefer to avoid bringing such folks on board. In the exec's view, devs working…
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In the pantheon of Nintendo’s premier franchises, Fire Emblem is their god of strategy RPGs. Starting out on the 8-Bit Nintendo Entertainment System, Intelligent Systems took a simple grid layout, laid fields, towns and hillsides across it, and set a host of weapon-wielding…
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Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty sequel Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember will release in March next year, devs Koei Tecmo have revealed as they've whipped out an alpha demo that you can give a go right away. Expect plenty of samurai sword slashing and rolling around the mythological or…
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If you recently glanced at Total War: Shogun 2 and thought "gosh, lovely hip-and-gable roofs on that miniature of the temples in Kyoto, but this could really do with oh, let's say 50 additional groups of quarrelsome swordsmen", then congratulations, Creative Assembly are adding…
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Taking inspiration from Korean mythology, featuring 80 bosses and promising fast, brutal combat, it’s no wonder that there was a bit of buzz in the Soulslike fandom for The Relic: First Guardian. It certainly sounded promising at the time. Unfortunately what released is a…
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Skyblivion, that massive Oblivion remake mod which was originally set to release last year, finally seems to be on the verge of arrival. While they've still yet to put a full release date on it, the mod's creators have announced that they're looking for voluteers to join their…
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