Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

I have thus far in my life avoided playing any factory automation games because I only ever see them recommended in the same breath as dire warnings and laments. “Play Infinifactory! It ruined my life! “, “I now exclusively play Opus Magnum inside the skip that is now my home after my family kicked me out. 10/10!”, etc etc. But the way Number Machine‘s extendo-arm hex pushes sets of tiles has awakened something in me. Taking a sprawling genre and making it tiny and a bit pastel is basically a genre unto itself now but one I’m a supporter of. Here’s a trailer.

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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! We’re doing tabletop designers now, firstly because I think tabletop is cool and secondly…nope, that’s it. Every week we stray further from videogames, and every week we regain feeling in body parts we’d forgotten we had. Ten toes, you say? Marvellous.

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Yes, yes, you’re reading that headline right. Yet another Battlefield 6 leak has taken place, if you can believe it, showing 15 whole minutes of the game that we all know exists but hasn’t really been shown off in an official capacity. This follows on from the leak in March, and even just last week, which might have confirmed the presence of a battle royale mode. This latest leak offers something new though: the return of Rush mode, a mode that’s appeared in a number of previous Battlefield entries.

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You can put the Terraria in Palworld, but can you put the Palworld in Terraria? Well, uh, yes, apparently. Earlier this week Palworld’s Tides of Terraria update was released unto the world, adding in things like fishing, a new trust mechanic, and obviously some Terraria themed bits like monsters to fight and items to get. Now, in a post shared on the Terraria forums, a new look at the survival game’s next update, version 1.4.5, showed off its own Palworld update.

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Arc System Works are a developer who more likely than not, you’ll think of as a fighting game studio. I wouldn’t blame you, they’re the folks behind Guilty Gear, BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena, all really beloved fighting games. That doesn’t paint a full picture though, and in a showcase held yesterday, they showed off a bunch of upcoming games, some of which they made themselves, others they’re serving as publisher for. And not one fighting game in sight! Which plenty of people made comments about, but I think those people maybe need to play anything other than a fighting game for once.

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Back in April, Stray Gods: A Roleplaying Musical developer Summerfall Studios launched their Kickstarter for Malys, a roguelike deckbuilder where you play as a “former priest turned demon-hunter” that certainly looked quite atmospheric. This is the same studio co-founded by Dragon Age writer David Gaider, so it’s not like they came out of nowhere. However, it fell a bit short of meeting its goal, something that quite often guarantees that death of a game. Except it just launched into early access this week. Go figure!

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Right now, I can’t really tell you much of what A Short Hike developer adamgryu is working on. He shared a little look at whatever is next last week, and it certainly looks adjacent to A Short Hike vibes wise – we’ll come back to this one with the tiniest of details in a bit. At the very least, I can certainly tell you what he’s not working on: a game called Untitled Paper RPG.

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Steam’s Summer Sale is legendary, but it doesn’t always mean you’re getting the lowest price. As much as we all love watching our wishlist light up with discounts, some of the best deals are actually happening off-site. Fanatical and Green Man Gaming have been busy undercutting Valve’s storefront with bigger savings on the exact same Steam keys.

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A quick one to end the day. While Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has done a fair-to-miraculous job of reviving enthusiasm for the despised QTE, players remain suspicious of minigame-style mechanics in combat systems – and when I say players I mean you, the people who fretted in the comments for my recent article on Pragmata.

Capcom’s upcoming space-me-daddo-shooty-doo has a debuff mechanic whereby the android girl riding on your back hacks the robots you’re fighting – a process of moving a cursor around a grid of glyphs to deactivate shields and so forth.

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Riot Games are going to let their top League Of Legends and Valorant esports teams receive sponsorship from gambling companies, in a bid to snaffle up some of the billion dollar unofficial sports betting scene that surrounds both games.

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