Super Mega Baseball 4 will launch this summer with a roster of former pros

Each game in the Super Mega Baseball series strips the sport back to its fundamentals: pitching, batting, and making its big-headed players cry. That makes it a baseball series that someone with no understanding of the sport can enjoy – and I would know.

Now Super Mega Baseball 4 has been announced, and for the first time it’s got a roster of pros to play with – or former pros, at least.

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Game Pass subscribers can now give free trials to five friends

No one on RPS having much fun with Redfall so far, but perhaps you want to try Arkane’s open world vampire shooter for yourself. Game Pass would be a good way to do that, particularly if you have a free trial.

As of today, any Game Pass subscriber can offer up to five friends a 14-day free trial to PC Game Pass. So I guess it’s time to bug your friends.

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So far, Redfall’s campaign feels like a hollow, open world FPS that’s only partially congealed

So far, I wouldn’t say Redfall is a “mess”. A mess, to me, implies an excess of things that become a horrible, overwhelming tangle. Having played the vampiric FPS for a clutch of hours now, I’d say it feels more like an “absence”. Arkane’s latest strikes me as an open world shooter with a few simple strands that never seem to go anywhere. Occasionally, there are flashes of a team that – as we all know – are capable of brilliance, but Redfall has me following a path of irritation, and feeling a slight sadness for what might’ve been.

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Citizen Sleeper is getting turned into a tabletop RPG

One of 2022’s bestest games, tabletop-ish RPG Citizen Sleeper is now being turned into an actual tabletop game called Cycles Of The Eye, designed by series’ creator Gareth Damian Martin and long-time TTRPG smith Alfred Valley. Indie book publisher Lost In Cult have launched their latest campaign to crowdfund Cycles Of The Eye, as well as their next art book focused on the game’s dystopian cyberpunk world.

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The Jurassic Park: Trespasser team walked where no other developer dared, and paid for it

It was a Wednesday in March, and the Dreamworks dream team of Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen had flown into Seattle to join Bill Gates for a press conference. The four men, seated on tall Hollywood director’s chairs, were estimated to be worth a combined $11 billion – and that was in 1995 money.

Together, Dreamworks and Microsoft were going 50-50 on a new game studio, investing a total of $30 million. “I’m spoiled,” said Spielberg, as recorded by the LA Times. “I worked with the best studios and the best actors, and it would be silly to get into the interactive business without Microsoft. They’re the best company in the world. It does seem like a marriage that was destined to happen.” I was a marriage that would produce a famously strange child in Jurassic Park: Trespasser.

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Get this massive 2TB Kingston SSD for just £77.50

The Kingston NV2 is a budget PCIe 4.0 drive, designed to be assembled from the cheapest available components to deliver a decent baseline of performance. That makes it often an aggressively priced SSD compared to others at similar speeds, and today Box are offering the 2TB model for just £77.50. That’s the lowest price we’ve ever seen for a 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD and a deal worth writing up, IMO.

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Glitch Buster’s great co-op shooting silliness unsurprisingly falls apart in solo mode

I first played co-op third-person shooter Glitch Busters: Stuck On You at Summer Games Fest last year, and came away really impressed. I played with couch co-op with two members of developers Toy Logic, which was lighthearted, slightly chaotic fun; everything couch co-op should be, right?

So, I thought I’d give the game a whirl but as a solo player. How would a game built for up to four players cope when there’s just one person taking the reins? Well, sort of fine for a bit, then quite agonising, actually. That’s not to say it can’t be a fun time, but bots definitely aren’t a substitute for real people.

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Spooky fishing sim Dredge lays out plans for a passive mode, paid DLC and more

The underwater scares of Dredge are about to run even deeper. Developer Black Salt Games have revealed a roadmap for their spooky fishing game, promising four new bits of content coming over the next year including a chiller passive mode, nice quality-of-life additions, and a larger paid DLC pack with a new non-eldritch horror threat.

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