Songs Of Conquest 1.0 review: occasionally demanding but often rewarding fantasy warlordery
Two years of early access have been kind Songs of Conquest. Its strategy fundamentals were already strong enough to impress me in 2022 that it's been quite tricky to even remember what's changed. But there's more of it, and although after much reflection I think it's not quite, quite for ...
Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands’ greatest trick is making me enjoy turn-based combat
I may have winced a bit, initially, at Alice Bee’s choice of RPS Game Club game for this month. Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands looked funny and all, but it’s a turn-based RPG, a subgenre that usually elicits the same amount of enthusiasm from me as the phrase "by Ernest ...
MultiVersus Trailer Reveals First Look at Jason Voorhees From Friday the 13th and Agent Smith From the Matrix
MultiVersus has a new cinematic launch trailer that has revealed two new playable characters: Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th and Agent Smith from The Matrix.MultiVersus, which launches on May 28, is a free-to-play platform fighter similar in vein to Nintendo’s Smash Bros. series, but with characters from across Warner ...
Prison Architect 2 is coming up for release, but it’s hard to rehabilitate from years of 2D
There are management games and there are micro-management games. Prison Architect 2 is the latter. I don't mean this as an annoying thing, like when Harold from corporate starts commenting all over your document at 4.30pm on a Friday. I mean it as a distinction between those games that let ...
Atari’s First ‘Sprint’ Game In Three Decades Launches On Switch Next Month
Step up to the podium.Atari has announced that NeoSprint, the first 'Sprint' entry since 1987's Championship Sprint (well, technically 1989's Badlands), will be racing onto the Switch eShop next month on 27th June, 2024.As detailed in the newly released trailer, the game will feature modernised visuals with an updated isometric ...
The Wanderers – The Team Behind Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II’s Incredible Landscapes
The Wanderers – The Team Behind Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II’s Incredible Landscapes Published May 20, 2024 2017’s Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice was an exceedingly special game. A bold, brash direction for Ninja Theory, the decision to craft a short, narrative experience revolving around mental health was ...
Microsoft Destroyed Arkane Austin but the Studio’s Soul Is Indestructible
15 minutes into Prey, the 2017 sci-fi thriller crafted by Arkane Austin, protagonist Morgan Yu shatters their apartment window with a wrench. As hundreds of glass shards fall away, a newly revealed truth changes Morgan’s life forever. This genuinely shocking, perspective-pivoting opening is one of the most incredible introductions to ...
Captain Price seems to die in a cut ending from Modern Warfare 3, uncovered 13 years later
You remember the ending of 2011's first-person bullethoser Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, right? Everyone does! A big man kills another big man with a gun but then - then! - a third big man kills that first big man with a rope. It's dramatic stuff. Well, a data-diving ...
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone Season 4 Gundam Crossover Confirmed
Activision has confirmed a Gundam crossover is coming to Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone with the launch of Season 4.Season 4, due to start on May 29, will feature Bandai Namco’s famous sci-fi franchise in some shape or form, as confirmed by the Call of Duty teaser ...
Larian’s new Polish studio is a “match made in heaven” for the Baldur’s Gate 3 developer’s upcoming RPGs
Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity Original Sin developers Larian today announced the opening of a new studio in Warsaw, Poland. This is RPG outfit Larian’s seventh studio worldwide, and the latest to contribute to their "24-hour development cycle" model. That’s even more hands on deck to a) keep Swen Vincke’s ...
