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Last time, you decided by 72% against 28% that setting unit waypoints is better than receiving waypoints yourself. Given how loudly people decry receiving waypoints, I’m a little surprised it was that close. And that’s how we know we’re doing science. This week, I ask you to choose between mastery of place and mastery of time. What’s better: improvised environmental weapons, or skipping across a timeline flowchart?
Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.0 update arrived last week alongside new (and truly excellent) expansion Phantom Liberty, bringing a host of tweaks and improvements in an impressive climax to the originally technically-troubled and artistically-questionable game’s quite staggering redemption arc.
Horizon Forbidden West will follow its predecessor Horizon Zero Dawn away from former PlayStation exclusivity with a PC release early next year.
Chris Metzen, one of Warcraft’s longest and most influential lore-crafters for more than two decades before he retired back in 2016, has returned to work at Blizzard full-time.
A friend recently found her old floppy disks from the 1997, uncovering a treasure trove of poetry, MS Paint art, homework, screensavers, and fanfic. Delightful finds, and I feel privileged to have seen them. I very much do not have my old floppies. They’re all long-gone, chucked along with all my old websites and blogs and CDs and everythings in strict sentimentality purges. I don’t know if I now regret that. So with vintage Internet simulator Hypnospace Outlaw being our game of the month in the RPS Game Club, I’m wondering: do you have your old sites and stuff? Dare you share it with us?
Neowiz have released Lies of P update 1.2.0.0, a major patch for the puppet-ridden action-RPG which educated souls are describing as the closest we may ever get to a Bloodborne PC port. It introduces Dualshock 4 and DualSense controller support alongside a host of changes to enemies, the execution of the game’s Fable Arts or gear-specific special moves, item drop rates and the duration of stagger windows. The overarching aim seems to be to make the game easier, and as I’m sure you’re expecting, a few Lies of P fans – and, it turns out, RPS staffers – are ticked off about that.
Shadows Of Doubt is in many ways my ideal game: a procedurally generated detective sim set in an open, rain-slick noir city. I’m waiting for it to get further along in its Early Access journey, and to that end, its first major content update is here now.
The Cheats And Liars Update, as its called, adds new “infidelity cases” to investigate, alongside simpler lost-and-found side jobs.
It’s one in, one out this November. Don’t Nod’s Banishers: Ghosts Of New Eden has been delayed until February 13th, 2024 from its original November release date. That’s because its developer and publisher want to avoid the busy release season.
The Talos Principle 2, not so much. The philosophical puzzler is launching November 2nd.
We’ve already covered a few RX 6800 XT deals that have come across as a result of the recent release of the 7700 XT and 7800 XT, and now it’s time to look at the slightly smaller RDNA 2 card: the RX 6700 XT.
This model is a good option for 1440p gaming and examples are now significantly cheaper than they were a few months ago, including the ever-reliable Sapphire’s Pulse RX 6700 XT 12GB model. This used to go for $340, but is now available for $309 when you use code SSCW2574 at the cart at Newegg.
On the latest-but-one revision of their About page, Metacritic describe the process of calculating a videogame’s aggregate “Metascore” as a kind of “magic”. The FAQ cheekily invites you to “peek behind the curtain”, evoking the figure of the theatre conjurer beckoning the audience on-stage to inspect the props, before performing the trick. You’re only shown so much, however. There are tables for conversions between different review scoring systems, demonstrating how a B- becomes 67/100, but the “weighting” Metacritic gives to each source publication when producing the combined Metascore is a closely-guarded mystery.
You could argue that the secrecy is necessary to avoid heavily weighted publications being targeted and pestered by fans to deliver positive reviews of forthcoming games, so as to swing the average (though in practice, Metascore soothsayers have long since sussed out which outlets have the most votes). But I think it’s better understood as a mixture of basic trademark protection and a mechanism of enchantment, a means of both deterring imitators and keeping avid readers guessing about the output. After all, no professional magician seriously wants to give away how the trick is performed, much as no meat magnate wants to show you the inside of a sausage factory.
