LOVE alt delete is a Y2K horror visual novel where you use one AI chatbot to help you date another that, don't worry, doesn't use the nasty generative stuff
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·14d ago
I would hope that for most of you it would not be a controversial thing to hear me say I hate generative AI. It stinks!
I definitely suck at Iron Bramble's metroidvania grappling hook platforming, but its cyber-gothic megastructure world has me hungry for more
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·14d ago
If it ain't broke, why fix it? That seems to be the thought process behind Iron Bramble, the next game from the devs behind Rusted Moss.
The future of Marathon includes a fungus-filled Perimeter, a social hub, and a shift "beyond extraction"
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·14d ago
Marathon will be "growing beyond extraction." That's what Bungie say in a new blog post outlining the future of the shooter, after announcing earlier this week that they'll be bringing back vaulted...
Once upon a time The Blood of Dawnwalker's timer mechanic was a lot tougher, and it's because of all those pre-release complaints that it was made easier
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·14d ago
Right, I need you lot to pipe down for a minute because you're making games less interesting. Last week, The Blood of Dawnwalker director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz shared that the game's timer mechanics...
Control: Resonant is only just out of the door, and Remedy have already put out a hotfix with some stun-buffing combat tweaks and more
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·14d ago
Control: Resonant is out today, and wouldn't you know it, there's already a hotfix. Though, day one updates aren't exactly new in this day and age now, are they?
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader's final DLC is now coming in December, with an "unsanctioned psyker" companion who cries tears of blood
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·14d ago
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader's story-concluding final DLC has been pushed back to December, developers Owlcat have announced.
Discord roll out revised age verification following delay due to pushback, pledging to be "safer for teens, same Discord for Adults"
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·14d ago
Discord have rolled out a revised global age verification system, having delayed deploying one earlier this year following largely privacy-based backlash.
Steam Frame-ready VR rhythm game Beat Saber is adding hand-tracking and a punchy new mode in its "biggest update ever"
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·14d ago
I’m not saying that the reveal of Beat Saber’s "biggest update ever" was timed to coincide with a swell of VR interest induced by the new Steam Frame.
Bethesda say new underlings Obsidian will retain their "distinct" creative identity, despite no longer being as free to work on their own creatively distinct series
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·14d ago
Obsidian will remain a "distinct" Obsidian with their own "creative identity and strengths", despite no longer operating independently of fellow Xbox-owned RPG makers Bethesda.
After eighteen years of jaggedy bowling, a new mod bestows GTA 4 with DLSS and FSR support
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·14d ago
Rockstar’s modding guidelines, recently updated in advance of GTA 6, say much about how you can’t dream up unofficial story missions, or give the upcoming instalment a cheeky unofficial PC port.
Following id layoffs, Quake Champions drops free-to-play nonsense and becomes a £9 game on Steam
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·14d ago
After nearly a decade as a free-to-play game, Quake Champions is dropping all that nonsense in favour of being a nice and simple premium release on Steam.
The Steam Machine handles Control Resonant capably, but the promised Steam Deck support is a letdown
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·15d ago
Control Resonant is almost everything I wanted from a Remedy-flavoured character action game, including several sub-things I didn’t initially believe it would pull off.
"This one is especially bad": Steam game about mistreating ragdolls suffers second bout of mod-based malware this year
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·15d ago
People Playground, a Steam sandbox game about torturing or otherwise messing with innocent ragdolls that work like crash test dummies, has had its Steam Workshop disabled over a "malicious mod"...
Microsoft want to record your face and feed it to a generative AI, telling it to go off and design a game from your frown
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·15d ago
A new patent from Microsoft shows how they want to record your facial expressions, show them to an AI, and have it redesign the game you're playing.
Dark Souls 2 seamless co-op mod is out now in alpha form, paving the way for more boss battering with mates
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·15d ago
The latest FromSoft game multiplayer mod is here, with Dark Souls 2 seamless co-op finally out in the wild.
State of Decay 3 studio Undead Labs lay off "a significant number" of "exceptionally talented developers" after gaining independence from Xbox
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·15d ago
Less than 24 hours after confirming they've managed to secure a future outside of Xbox by going independent, State of Decay 3 studio Undead Labs have announced that they've had to lay off "a...
Age of Empires studio World's Edge reportedly lose nearly half their staff and a new game project in mass Xbox layoffs
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·15d ago
Further details have emerged of the impact that Microsoft’s Xbox consolidation and job cuts programme is having on affected workers.
Stuntboost is a Tech Dech, skateboarding platformer all about doing sick flips on cardboard constructs in your bedroom, and it's out now
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·16d ago
I was not a child that was built for skateboarding. Child me was a tad too wimpy to ever do anything so wicked cool as that. What if I scuffed my knee a little bit, or worse, embarrassed myself?
Furries, magical girls and slick hack 'n' slash combat blend promisingly together in the late 2000s inspired Break The Night
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·16d ago
Despite not being one myself, I do seem to write about furry-adjacent games for this ole webbed site, don't I? And I've got another one for you today!
Packed Lair, out today, is a Tetris-adjacent base builder about cramming as much as you can into a tiny evil lair to aid your army in conquering the world
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·16d ago
Real estate these days! No matter where you look, there's never enough space any more. I imagine this was the impetus for designing Packed Lair, a dungeony fusion of base building, auto battling...
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