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Microsoft have reportedly set in motion the wave of layoffs the company were said to be gearing up for last week – the fourth round of major job cuts to hit Xbox in 18 months.
Look, EA and Maxis, did you really have to do this? The Sims 4‘s virtual humans, who’ve long been able to take solace in the fact that random virtual people in the street couldn’t see absolutely everything their despotic overlords force them to do indoors, no longer have that privilege. The game’s latest update has made glass walls for houses a thing.
You can also stick plants on roofs, to give your prisoners something nice to stare at through their transparent cells when you inevitably delete all of the doors and watch them die. Yep, I know the myriad crimes that’ve been perpetrated with pool stairs over the years, and this looks like it’ll start a terrifying new chapter for sim cruelty.
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Copper golems and new types of copper equipment are coming in the next big Minecraft update, which is available to test now in Minecraft Bedrock and available shortly as a Snapshot for the Java edition. The golems actually date back to Minecraft’s 2021 Mob Vote – players cruelly snubbed them in favour of the musical, item-fetching Allay. Classic case of robophobia, if you ask me. What can some fairy jukebox junkie do that a golem can’t. Luckily for you nay-sayers, Mojang have seen fit to add the oxidisable automatons to Minecraft anyway, in keeping with the idea that Mob Vote outcomes are more of a guide for development than a rigid prescription.
Nexus Mods is set to introduce age verification for folks in the UK and EU attempting to gander at NSFW add-ons, as part of incoming changes to how the site handles mods containing adult or “illegal” content.
In a news post, Nexus Mods content team lead SlugGirl outlined that these changes are being made in response to the UK’s Online Safety Act and the EU’s Digital Services Act, along with guidance being issued by UK regulator Ofcom. Site founder Robin ‘Dark0ne’ Scott has commented on the post in an effort to reassure users that these policy adjustments aren’t a result of Nexus Mods’ recent change in ownership, and would have had to happen regardless.
Publishers Krafton have removed multiple senior staff at Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds in a sudden shift that swaps the leadership team for a single head honcho from the studio who made sci-fi horror game The Callisto Protocol. It’s not clear why. At Unknown Worlds, co-founder Charlie Cleveland, CEO Ted Gill, and technical director Max MacGuire have all been “replaced” by Steve Papoutsis, CEO at Striking Distance, the creators of the Dead Space-ish game.
We all have things we liked that we didn’t realise were considered a bit naff at the time, and for me that thing was FMV games. Well, I win. FMV games are back and cool again. Which, by extension, basically means Dragon’s Lair was good. I don’t make the rules. Here’s the latest trailer for Dead Take.
It’s the Fourth of July this week, and that means there are deals to be had on the other side of the pond.
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Alienware’s Black Friday in July sale just dropped a wave of serious gaming hardware deals. Desktop beasts with RTX 5090s are now hundreds off, and the latest Area-51 and Aurora systems are pushing 4K frame rates with ease. On the portable side, Alienware’s newest 16- and 18-inch laptops are loaded with 4080s and 4090s, making high refresh 1440p gaming look effortless. There are deep M.2 drive discounts too, including a Crucial T500 1TB with heatsink for under $85. And over at Green Man Gaming, the entire Final Fantasy series is up to 70% off, with big cuts on Rebirth, Remake, and classic bundles. Let’s get into it:
It’ll soon be time for another season of Marvel Rivals, the super-duper Overwotlike and thirsty delivery vehicle for every variation of Marvel character known to the human mind. What’s coming in season three? Wesley Snipes and a bloody great burning bird lady. By which I mean, Blade and Phoenix. They’ll be matching wits with Hera, goddess of death, who has palled up with Knull, god of symbioties, aka the wriggly black pyjamas sported by Venom.
All of this may seem frightening and bizarre if you’re here because you accidentally hit auto-complete while googling “Marks & Spencers opening times”, so here’s a swift trailer to fill you in.
I love it when a machine whirrs and clunks and bzzts in just the right way. Kaizen: A Factory Story is the next mechanical puzzler from the people who made Opus Magnum and Exapunks. A demo hit Steam a few weeks ago, but it fell down the wrong side of a conveyor belt here at RPS and we all forgot about it until it jammed up our meticulous assembly line of articles and I had to jimmy it out with a big salad fork. “Ah,” I said, “there’s yer problem. Nobody has played this excellent developer’s new game yet.”
Let’s solve that problem.
