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Still Wakes The Deep and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 developers The Chinese Room have laid off a number of staff, seemingly as part of parent company Sumo Digital’s wider strategic decision in February 2025 to move away from original game creation and “focus exclusively on development services for partners”.
Carcinisation comes for us all, in time. Today, it is Total War: Warhammer 3‘s turn. The crustacean nation mod adds four legendary lords, heroes, 27 crabulous units, new spells, plus custom tech and building trees for a complete crab-paign experience. It would have been shellfish of me not to share, if not downright altruistic to avoid any and all crab puns.
Good news if you’ve been a bit frustrated with how Dune: Awakening handles PvE and PvP, specifically in terms of its treacherous Deep Desert. The game’s creative director Joel Bylos has announced some changes coming in response to player feedback on both those and the Landsraad.
Basically, it looks like Funcom have switched up their plans to take the concerns folks have cited into account, aiming for a nice compromise between the original ideas and the practicalities of what’s been happening since the game dropped in full.
Sorry, we’re not done yet, CD Projekt has said about a Cyberpunk 2077 update that also represents that same phrase, it being about the third patch to be labelled the final one the game’ll be getting. Update 2.3 was originally set to be dropping on this week, but now it’s been delayed so the devs can make it about the same size as its predecessor.
Yeah, they’re probably adding more stuff to the pile of new things we never thought Cyberpunk’d still be getting at this stage. We’re multiple encores deep in the Samurai gig at this point, but hey, the crowd’s still having a great time.
Blood. Blood. Bloooooooooddddddd. Sorry, I’ve just watched Rebel Wolves show off the first look we’ve gotten at someone playing vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker, and I think it’s rubbed off on me a bit.
To be fair, you can’t blame the group of ex-Witcher 3 devs for having put together a game that looks to use the B word more often than someone who’s just gotten a nasty paper cut while handling some packets of the red stuff at a blood bank.
MindsEye developers Build A Rocket Boy have reportedly initiated a redundancy process that could result in cuts affecting over 100 people.
This would follow the game’s dire launch, which was plagued by bugs and performance issues, contributing to a largely negative critical and player reception.
Helldivers 2 players might have managed to stop the Illuminate from totally destroying their home planet towards the end of last month, but it still got pretty badly trashed. Enter the game’s latest mission – kick off the Super Earth rebuild by securing “reparations”.
How are those funds being secured, you ask? This is Helldivers 2, so it’s by killing a bunch more baddies.
The Drifter‘s titular speaks in the sort of rough Aussie accent that, alongside his first person, present tense commentary (“I grab the tarp”), lends this point ‘n click adventure the feeling of being a half-memory, relayed over dive bar drinks, possibly to a reluctant server. It’s dreamlike, isolated, at least until it erupts into pockets of panic.
A “fast-paced point ‘n click” is how the Steam page describes it. Sounds like a misnomer, but while there’s no time limits as far as I could tell, The Drifter’s scenario design and pacing is all about tension, danger, and desperate puzzles that feel grounded in the present moment. And, actually, I get the sense that the server’s pretty into the story by this point.
“Experts urge UK households follow tips to beat heatwave, Dread Spider Tide” screech the inter-tabloids. Sparkling pig-grade hogwash, I say. I’ve recently discovered that the only things you need to defeat the sun are a cheap space heater set to fan mode and a PC overworked to boiling point, the combination of which creates some sort of mysteriously blissful temperature vacuum. Also, I refuse to open my curtains. For those also working on their attractive monitor-glow sallow tan, here are this week’s new PC game releases.
Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! No cool industry person this week. Instead, a minor celebration. The RPS content management system tells me that I have used the ‘Booked For The Week’ tag….52 times! I have forgotten to post a few times and there was a brief hiatus, but in terms of volume at least, I’m declaring this the column’s official one year anniversary. Chin chin!
