HomeFeatures Slay The Spire’s new character, Destiny’s new secret, and more of the week’s updatesPatch me up Patch me up This week, Slay The Spire added its fourth character, Star Wars Jedi gave everyone the pre-order shinies, andDestiny 2added a big new secret - but spectacularly failed to fix a balance problem. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming patches in The Weekly Updates Update.Slay The Spire added The WatcherAfter a stretch in public beta testing, the fourth wizard has properly arrived....

HomeNews Ubisoft’s revamped editorial board want to stop stagnation in their gamesBreaking point Breaking point As it happens, having a select group of designers and producers in a France deciding your multi-national publisher’s every move results in a bunch of games that may feel a little too familiar. In an attempt to fix an arguably tired formula of sneakin', climbin' and stabbin', Ubisoft are revamping their editorial team to give their catalogue a shake-up....

HomeFeatures 2020’s most exciting new PC games2020 vision 2020 vision Over the break we had a chance to do some serious scientific study of this business we call games, and it turns out that games are actually good. 2020 in particular has a healthy mix of big budget bonanzas and smaller indie plates to suit everyone’s discerning tastes. And, as you know, the RPS treehouse is the most discerning, so to make it easier for you we’ve got a big ol' list of the games we’re most looking forwards to this year....

HomeNewsShenmue III Shenmue 3 will let you play as two new characters in its first DLC next weekTest your mettle in the Battle Rally Test your mettle in the Battle Rally “Battle Rally offers fresh gaming activities in a race unlike any other, as contestants engage in head-to-head battles whilst racing their way through the course,“they tweeted. “In addition to playing the hero of our story Ryo Hazuki, players can also choose the treasure-seeking ‘Wuying Ren’ and making her first appearance in this game, Ryo’s sparring partner, ‘Wei Zhen’....

HomeFeatures The 11 worst years of our future, according to gamesOne Off The List One Off The List Here we stand in the dark neo-year of 2020. The spam bots have risen to prominence, the governments of the world are bickering over follower counts, and history class has been renamed “meme studies”. Somewhere, in a dusty room in the RPS treehouse, a rogue human is compiling a list article for a crumbling PC games website....

HomeNewsApex Legends The Apex Legends Grand Soirée lacks for wholesome bonding activitiesApex leg friends Apex leg friends Here is my alternative lineup of pleasant and wholesome activities. 14th to 15th: British Museum of History promotion event 16th to 17th: Noughts and Crosses tournament 18th to 19th: Caustic’s weekend of poison Every player is given a speed and damage enhancing power up, courtesy of Caustic’s “special cola”. The gang spends the next two days slowly choking on their own intestines....

HomeNewsDisintegration Disintegration beta testing takes off at the end of the monthHedz up Hedz up Fancy yourself the best biker/commander/gunship pilot in town? Sci-fi shooterDisintegrationmight not be swooping in for a good while yet, but you’ll have your chance to prove your chops sooner than you’d think. For four days this month, V1 Interactive’s FPS-turned-tactics dogfighter will be playable, thanks to two multiplayer beta sessions kicking off on January 28th....

HomeNews Dystopian food truck simulator Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! arrives in early access this monthService! Service! It’s nearly time to take your place in the Iron Cook National Food Championships and serve up some scrumptious meals to dystopian war-torn America, asCook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!heads to early access on Steam and GOG on January 29th.Away from your static restaurants from the previous two games, CSD!3?! (which I’ve double checked is the correct acronym and I’m not having a seizure) takes you on the road in your very own food truck with two robot sidekicks, and a brand new story-driven campaign to beat....

HomeNews GamesIndustry.biz’s Academy site has all sorts of serious game-making adviceBUSINESS! BUSINESS! People always ask me, “Alice0, how do I get a job in the video games industry?” I tell them: find a way to travel back two decades then make a good mod forQuakeorHalf-Life. People always tell me, “Alice0, there’s no need to be a dick about it.” “We will have advice on getting a job in the business, on how to build video games, and how to fund, monetise and promote them,“GI....

HomeDeals Get Stardew Valley plus six more games for less than a tenner in the Sweet Farm Humble BundleThere’s no room for corny farm jokes here There’s no room for corny farm jokes here Pack your bags, reader, we’re sending you to live a simpler life in one the many farm games Humble are offering in their new Sweet Farm bundle. Okay, so not all of the games involved in the bundle strictly revolve around farms, but the best one does and it completely works with that “simpler life” thing because that’s exactly what the game is about....

HomeNewsTotal War: Three Kingdoms Total War: Three Kingdom’s Mandate Of Heaven brings a new starting timeBroing out with the bros Broing out with the bros Creative Assembly roll back the clock ofTotal War: Three Kingdomsin the new expansion released today, letting players start eight years earlier in a wee prequel campaign then keep that same save on rolling through regular history. Mandate Of Heaven is its name, and getting stuck into the Yellow Turban Rebellion is its game....

HomeFeaturesFoundation Turns out I was the one starving my Foundation villagers all along, my badAlso I’m about to start taxing everyone Also I’m about to start taxing everyone Regular readers will know that for a while now, I have been quietly playingFoundation, a lovely medieval citybuilder in early access, and every so often I pop in to give you an update. The last update was a stroppy one, because as part of my food production chains I was pumping out more bread than Jesus and his miracle, andyet the villagers were a) not eating it and b) complaining that they were hungry....

HomeFeatures Videogame subtitles could learn a lot from comic book letteringThe shape of sounds. The shape of sounds. This notion is, of course, wrong. You never notice when a letterer has done a good job, because their goal is to remain unseen. They work hard so your eyes can fly effortlessly over the page, always knowing who said what and where to look next. Explore a lettering site likeBlambotand shudder in fear at the number of rules needed to make a single balloon look good, from the distance between text and balloons borders to the shape of the balloons themselves....