Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Oblivion is really a game about the Imperial Watch. Forget all the Mehrunes Dagon stuff and that Hero of Kvatch – the real stars of the show are the stupid guards who pop out of the ether to tell you it’s time to pay the fine for your long list of misdeeds or head off to jail.

One Oblivion Remastered modder clearly feels the same way, as they’ve just fleshed out the Imperial Watch and Forestry divisions into joinable factions, via the addition of some new radiant quests and systems. These kinds of mods have become a bit of a hobby for the modder in question, ColdTyrant, and I spoke to them about it pretty recently.

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I currently do not have time to play Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, the game Katherine (RPS in peace) called a “spiritual successor” to (unbelievably good stealth tactics game) Invisible Inc. So, I’m writing about its release from early access as a sort of vicarious joy substitute. Because, boy, does it tick several big honking megaboxes for me. The idea is that you’ll be pulling off cyberpunky heists with a squad of mercs, planning and executing while keeping the future fuzz off your backs. There’s also lots of dense RPG multiclassing stuff I’ll talk about in a second. Here’s a launch trailer.

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Tron is a world that I feel constantly surprised by its perseverance in just flat out still being a thing all these years later. And yet, I never feel upset about it given that the vibes of Tron just absolutely rule no matter the context in which they’re being delivered, the upcoming Jared Leto led film notwithstanding because of that guy’s whole vibe. In terms of what’s actually next for the fictitious video game world, there’s Tron: Catalyst from the folks over Bithell Games, and as it so happens, there’s a demo out for it today!

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Last week, I questioned whether MindsEye was a real game or not. This week, that question lingers. Why, you ask? Well, as spotted by our good friends over at Eurogamer, two executives at the studio behind the game, Build a Rocket Boy, have now departed the company. Let me just check when MindsEye is coming out… oh, that’s right, literally one week from today. Surely this is only good news!

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Let’s start this one with a definition: Lethal Company is “one of those kinda games.” By that I mean it’s a four player co-op title that doesn’t really adhere to a particular genre, predominantly prioritising mechanics that allow you and some friends to get up to some shenanigans. Like Content Warning, or REPO, you know, one of those kinda games! Now we’ve got that out of the way, let me introduce you to Roadside Research, one of those kinda games, except this time you are an incredibly poorly disguised alien running a gas station in order to research humans. See what I mean?

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How do you follow up a game like Umurangi Generation? Maybe move from photography to videography, or go full shooter (which developer Origame Digital do appear to be making too, that one’s just not had a full reveal yet). Perhaps instead of either of those things, you’ll make a game about penguins, which, yeah, no more beating around the bush, that’s exactly what they’ve done. Introducing: Penguin Colony, a narrative adventure game based on H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness.

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Earlier this year, Palworld developer Pocketpair announced their intent to get into games publishing using some of that Scrooge McDuck-size swimming pool of money they’ve acquired over the past year. They already had a game signed up too, from Tales of Kenzera: ZAU developer Surgent Studios, and today said indie dev has offered a small tease of a reveal at their upcoming psychological horror game Dead Take.

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The State of Unreal 2025 showcase has just offered us a first glimpse at what playing The Witcher 4 might look like, via an Unreal Engine 5 demo build that featured Ciri exploring the wilds and a village in Kovir. Kovir was also confirmed to be a location you’ll visit in the final game, so start packing your bags.

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Every few moments in the current build of arcade space shooter Nova Drift there’s a chance the game will spawn a Cargo Train. Whenever the game decides to spawn a Cargo Train, there’s a 1/7777 chance it will spawn a Space Whale instead. “Nonsense,” you bellow. “Space Whales are a myth. Designer Jeffrey Nielson has been telling us they’re not real ever since the original Kickstarter in 2017.” Ah, you poor, unsuspecting mooncalf. You chirpy little starfish. Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide treacherously hidden inside downloadable software packages. Nielson has been telling you porkies.

He did, in fact, surreptitiously add a Space Whale to the game shortly before Nova Drift’s 1.0 release back in August 2024, after years of conspiracy theories. This, friends, is the good kind of lie, the kind of lie that makes combing through a million changelogs for potential headlines worthwhile.

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The battle for Super Earth that kicked off with Helldivers 2‘s Heart of Democracy update concluded last week, with players managing to fend off an Illuminate invasion of their home planet. One of the two cities that ended up holding out against the hostile squids was Equality-On-Sea, located in the in-game map’s version of China, and it’s led the shooter to make a local news report in the country.

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