Games industry investors are "sitting on the sidelines waiting for obvious slam dunks", says Undead Labs boss, with labour costs a key worry
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·1d ago
Last month, State of Decay developers Undead Labs bought their own independence from Microsoft, after a deal with unnamed buyers fell through.
ROTETRA is Tetris where the blocks fall from four different sides at once and lord almighty I don't have the brainspace to be good at it, but it sure is fun
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·2d ago
Look, I'm pretty reasonable at Tetris. I'm not one of those grand masters or anything, but I can both have fun and get a score that would at least make my hypothetical nephew impressed (assuming he...
You and I both know you're not sleeping well in this economy, so have a gander at Sheeps, a roguelite about counting sheep pouring out of a strange portal
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·2d ago
I've never really been able to do that whole counting sheep thing to get to sleep. Just doesn't work for me.
Cancelled MMO spin-off Borderlands Online is playable once again, and the team behind the unofficial project thankfully didn't use any genAI to get it running
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·2d ago
Where there's a will (and some talented, incredibly passionate modders), there is always a way in the world of video games.
Take out some monsters and then turn them into take-out in the post-apocalyptic tycoon survival sim Midwest 90: Rapid City, out in early access next month
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·2d ago
Surely Midwest 90: Rapid City isn't the first simmy, Fallouty game where you turn mutated monsters into grub and serve it up to customers in your own diner, is it? None come to mind right now.
"Your word is undeniable truth": Can't be bothered to find evidence in Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy? It's fine, because no matter what, you're always right
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·2d ago
If the promises that Owlcat are making of Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy aren't just PR fluff, it sounds like we might be in for a good bit of fun.
Jagex pull Runescape trailer and apologise for genAI use after complaints about six-fingered knights, pinning the blame on a "trusted external partner"
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Ashley Schofield·2d ago
I'm really tired of writing about genAI today. It's my first news shift with RPS, and within a few hours, I've written three stories that are solely about genAI use by modders, indie outfits and...
Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka dismisses the apparent inevitability of remakes, saying "you’re essentially providing the same experience again"
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Ashley Schofield·2d ago
At this point, you can't even open the Steam front page without stumbling over remake after remake (sometimes remasters, just to spice things up).
Question passengers with tarot-like cards in Dreadline Express, a train mystery with the most intriguing conversation system I've played since Her Story
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·2d ago
In Dreadline Express, you play a character who awakes in the cabin of a carriage on the last human train. It hurtles down the track, bathed in the red light of an alien sky.
Star Wars Galactic Racer review: now this is frenetically fun podracing with a totally unforgiving streak
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·2d ago
Becoming a boost junkie in arcade racers that offer such potent bursts of extra oomph is usually only a matter of time. Star Wars: Galactic Racer is no different. The hooks have been in deep.
PlatinumGames CEO pauses a discussion on Stellar Blade's Bayonetta costume crossover to casually infer more Bayonetta may be on the way
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Ashley Schofield·2d ago
It's been a bit since Bayonetta has had any time in the spotlight. 2022's Bayonetta 3 released to pretty good reception (although did earn ire for its depiction of the witch herself), but all's...
Management game Car Park Capital's cities are utopias of public transport networks and green living, or they were before I got done with them
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·2d ago
The streets of Baldtown City are nearly empty of traffic. It's not that it's a ghost town: up and down the pavements there are crowds of citizens bustling to and from work.
Retro platformer series Dizzy is back for a new game from its original creators, who are really happy for you to know it's made with AI
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Ashley Schofield·2d ago
For British people who were actively playing games in the late 80s and/or retro enthusiasts looking back at that period of the industry, the name Dizzy might ring a bell (it doesn’t for me, but...
Following through on their warning, Until Dawn and Directive 8020 devs Supermassive lay off "more than 70" staff
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·2d ago
Horror game makers Supermassive Games, the studio behind Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures Anthology, have followed through on plans to lay off staff not long after the launch of Directive 8020.
After 12 years, Ultra Street Fighter IV gets not one, but two connection-stabilising rollback netcode mods aaaand they're both made using Claude
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Ashley Schofield·2d ago
Street Fighter IV, the game that basically revived the fighting game genre back in 2009 and gave birth (not literally) to a new subset of players lovingly referred to as ‘09ers’, saw its final...
Noematica is a lucid dreamer's "n-dimensional" take on The Sims that proudly boasts it will never ever gouge you for DLC
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·3d ago
Over the course of my illustrious tenure as RPS news mangler, I have seen many Simslikes. Tragically cancelled Simslikes from publishers better known for feats of tactical incest!
Claims that genAI speeds up PC ports of classic games are either "false" or missing the point, says Banjo Kazooie: Recompiled developer
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·3d ago
The software developer behind an unofficial PC version of N64 platformer Banjo-Kazooie has posted an impassioned screed about the usage of generative AI tools for rush-job PC ports of classic...
"Even if I knew how it would end, I would do it again": Hellblade developers Ninja Theory appear to have kicked off the redundancy process
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·3d ago
Following Microsoft's recent reveal that Hellblade makers Ninja Theory would be facing closure, with two deals to buy them after their split from Xbox have fallen through, the studio look to be in...
GTA 6 writer says the series has never had "much focus on national politics" beyond GTA 4's war on terror, and the latest entry won't get "too specific"
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·3d ago
Details about and dev chatter concerning GTA 6 continue to drip out as part of the marketing push towards its console launch in November.
"Coders will never forgive me for this level": Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 has a rotatable "fleshmetal" puzzle map that drove its own development team crazy
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·3d ago
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is something far worse than war. There is: a level that is basically a huge, spinning lock full of tentacles, with your Space Marine or Sister of...
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