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The RPS Game Club pick for June is The Tartarus Key!

Following on from the lovely space highjinks of Citizen Sleeper, Katharine has unwisely allowed me to take the wheel on this month's RPS Game Club, and thus I am steering this baby right into fiendish puzzle town. Next stop: The Tartarus Key! It's only recently come out, so we're fresh ...
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Respawn Teases the Return of Everyone’s Favourite Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Character

Respawn's Jedi: Survivor included a ton of new and returning characters completely crucial to Star Wars Canon but perhaps none more important than Turgle.The giant froggy menace grabbed the attention of Star Wars fans for his strangely charismatic shenanigans, and now Jedi: Survivor director Stig Asmussen has teased his return ...
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Vampire Survivors meets Diablo in Halls Of Torment

Itching to click on skeletons but not sure about Diablo 4? Have a gander at Halls Of Torment, a game I'll broadly describe as 'Vampire Survivors meets Diablo'. It lets you click on: so many skeletons. Halls Of Torment launched into early access last month and I've had a few ...
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Pikmin 4 Will ‘Rise To The Occasion’ In Brand New Trailer

Character customisation is coming.If you were getting worried about the silence surrounding Pikmin 4 since its February 2023 Direct release date reveal, then fear no longer.Today, Nintendo has just shared a brand new trailer for the long-awaiting fourth entry in the Pikmin series. This new footage doesn't show us much ...
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Players’ Choice: Vote for May’s Best New Game

We guided humanity, hid from harmful humans, and saw what the world is like once people are gone. Which game gave you the best human experience in the month of May?  How does it work? At the end of every month, PlayStation.Blog will open a poll where you can vote ...
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Amnesia: The Bunker review: a grim yet refreshing horror bottle episode

More fool me for thinking the Amnesia story (a now-complex horror sci-fi epic about Cenobite-esque weirdos who gain immortality by drinking pain-milk extracted from people via torture at the hands of specially engineered torture-monsters) was done with Amnesia: Rebirth. Although, I suppose it actually is, because Rebirth is set in ...
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Homestead Arcana’s Removed Achievement Was Never Meant to Be in the Game, Says Dev

An Xbox Achievement removed from Homestead Arcana was never meant to be in the game according to developer Serenity Forge, leading to the perhaps unprecedented decision to delete it.Speaking to IGN, Serenity Forge founder and executive producer Zhenghua Yang apologised for the Achievement's removal causing frustration and confusion."The achievement was ...
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More Diablo 4 Log-In Issues Emerge as Launch Players Flood Servers

Diablo 4 is experiencing further log-in issues as new players flood the servers.Diablo 4: Ultimate Edition owners enjoyed four days of relatively smooth-sailing early access. Now Diablo 4 is available to all and launch players are flooding Blizzard's servers, further log-in issues are beginning to emerge.“Game servers are down again,” ...
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Random: It Turns Out That Bowser Is A Fair Bit Older Than Mario, After All

According to an official Nintendo 'How-To' video.The question of Mario's age bubbled back up to the surface with the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie earlier this year, but one topic that has never caused quite as much of a stir is for how long Bowser has been around.On ...
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Diablo 4 is barely out, but Blizzard already have two expansions in the works

This year's prettiest RSI machine Diablo 4 arrives on PC in full today, having spent the few couple of days in early access. But even though it's barely out the gates of Hell, Blizzard are already thinking about the future of their mega RPG, confirming not one, but two expansions ...
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