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Let’s face it, most of the discourse on Elden Ring has been and gone. The consensus Game of the Year all the way back in 2022, it is FromSoftware’s magnum opus, a work of incredible artistic achievement, and one which stands at the pinnacle of the Souls genre the studio created.…
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There’s a funny appeal to truck simulators that many find solace in. Whether it’s the escapism from the fixed cycle of everyday life or just the childlike glee of piloting a great big truck, even truckers themselves have been known to play truck simulators in their downtime…
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Rockstar Games have put out a statement publicly acknowledging the ongoing GTA 6 leaks for the first time. Though they and parent company Take-Two have already gotten the ball rolling on hunting down the leaker, the studio had stayed silent in terms of public-facing comms up…
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This week, RPS took the downright heroic step of declining to live report on the latest Geoff Keighley trailer bonanza at Gamescom 2026's Opening Night Live. Under the wise guidance of editor-in-chief Julian "Walks Away From Omelas" Benson – and with the honourable…
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There’s plenty of stereotypes about the north that Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen does little to dispel. It’s cold up there, the people are a bit more unusual, there’s dragons, and it’s great for a bit of thrifting to find relics. Norgan is an icy region of the world,…
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Heroes of Might & Magic is having a moment. Not only are publishers Hooded Horse and Ubisoft backing the development of Unfrozen's Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era, the first new game in the series in more than a decade, but Ubisoft have revealed they're completely remaking…
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Since I’m apparently now RPS’ Radioactive Eastern Europe correspondent, I recently spent a couple of hours in Metro 2039, the gloom ‘n’ grit FPS sequel that Ukrainian developers 4A Games have explicitly styled as a return to the series’ roots. From…
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Hey kid, you want a free remaster? It's totally not a scam! No, really. While everyone knew The Witcher 3's sort of surprise new expansion Songs of the Past would be getting a look-in at Geoff: German Edition, CD Projekt Red had another surprise up their sleeve in the form of a…
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Can you hear a distant buzzing, my friends? No, it’s not the powerlines from that new data centre, or yet another wasp’s nest in the eaves; it’s the arrival of a different kind of hornet’s nest, led by Marcus Fenix. This is Gears of War: E-Day, a chainsaw-fuelled journey to the…
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The idea behind Humankind is a funny one, in that it pulls from real-world history to essentially let you craft historical fanfiction. I suppose that's true of many strategy games, but this one's all about mixing and matching different cultures throughout history. And now, it's…
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Urban Games has announced that Transport Fever 3 is scheduled for departure on 29th September, launching for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. Pre-orders are now live, and the studio and publisher Paradox Interactive have outlined a bunch of different editions and bonuses. For…
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You probably don't need me to recap the difficult life Cities: Skylines 2 has had since hitting the streets in 2023. Plagued by performance issues and prompting questions over whether its additions made it a worthy sequel right out of the gate, thus followed years of tweaks…
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Following leaks earlier in the week, Crusader Kings 3 and Hearts of Iron IV creators Paradox Interactive have officially announced Afterworld, a post-apocalyptic grand strategy game about wasteland tribes jostling for dominance of a procedurally generated North America. It's…
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Ubisoft have done the sensible thing and turned Rainbow Six into a turn-based tactical game. Nabbing the special ability-laden operators of Rainbow Six Siege and dropping them into the XCOM: Chimera Squad framework. The Mario + Rabbids developer have found a spin off that looks…
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Coming from the creators of Tinykin, Acornia: Mirror Worlds is a blend of top-down action RPG battling and running a shop, but to reduce it to such a description is to do it a disservice. There’s so much more invention and creativity that has gone into its world,…
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You might be surprised to hear this given the very indie vibe about it, but Penguin Colony features RTX. It's actually AAA too, and includes DLSS as well. Perhaps most shockingly of all, there's genAI in Penguin Colony. It's true! It's all true! You can see it in the game's…
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It continues to both amaze and concern me that a whole other internet ecosystem appears to exist within the realm of Roblox. Recently, a game by the name of Steal an Egg has blown up on the UGC platform, which is more or less what it says on the tin: you need to steal an egg.…
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Today, August 25th, Nvidia have released Ray Reconstruction for DLSS 4.5, with the aim of more swankily rendering ray-traced/path-traced shadows and lighting than was possible with previous Ray Reconstruction versions. Read more
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