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HomeNewsFrostpunk Frostpunk’s final DLC, On The Edge, picks a frozen fight with LondonForget about London. Forget about London. Frostpunk’s final chapter has thawed, and it’s awful precarious. In part because On The Edge literally places your town on a cliffside, sure, but also because 11 Bit’s final DLC wraps its story on a political turning point - tasking you with no only surviving the bitter cold, but wrangling the rest of your frostbitten compatriots in determining a future outside of the oppressive gaze of New London....

HomeNewsHardspace: Shipbreaker Hardspace: Shipbreaker gets competitive with weekly scrapping challengesScrapheap challenge Scrapheap challenge Having already laid out a crushing capitalist future where debt is insurmountable and bodies are expendable,Hardspace: Shipbreakernow plans to pit its disposable workers against each other. Weekly challenges have arrived, delivering a new ship each week for gig-work scavengers to tear apart as efficiently as possible - proving once and for all who, exactly, is the best orbital vulture around....

HomeNewsHitman 3 Hitman 3 goes to England for a murder mystery in a manor houseKnives Out, 47 Knives Out, 47 The PC launch ofHitman 3will be a sneaky one, Io Interactive have announced, initially sneaking onto the Epic Games Store as one of those there timed exclusives. It’ll be a one-year scloosie, their PR peeps tell us, after which I imagine we’ll see it on Steam and such. Enough about stores: Io also revealed another of the game’s settings, England’s moody Dartmoor, where Ian Hitman will visit Thornbridge Manor....

HomeGuidesMicrosoft Flight Simulator Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 planes: every aircraft in the game revealedWhich is the best plane for beginners learning how to fly? Which is the best plane for beginners learning how to fly? Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020gives you a very healthy number of planes with which to soar about the world, ranging from training-friendly aerobic-capable aircraft to gigantic (and extremely aerobic-incapable) jet airliners.In this guide you’ll find out the names and stats of every single plane included in each edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020....

HomeNewsMicrosoft Flight Simulator Microsoft Flight Simulator’s long installation won’t block Steam refunds, Valve say"The time it takes your machine to download the additional content will not be counted against the Steam Refund Policy" “The time it takes your machine to download the additional content will not be counted against the Steam Refund Policy” Valve have addressed concerns aboutMicrosoft Flight Simulatorreturns on Steam, after players found that simply downloading the game was racking up their playtime on the platform....

HomeNewsPlanet Zoo Planet Zoo jets off to Australia next weekDingoes, koalas and ‘roos… but no crocs? Dingoes, koalas and ‘roos… but no crocs? Was only a matter of time beforePlanet Zoowent to Oz, eh? They’ve got all the cool animals down there, and some of them won’t even kill you for a bad look. Next week’s Australia update brings a small selection of Aussie fauna into Frontier Development’s zoo sim, along with a warehouse packed with down-under doodads and a host of free goodies for zookeepers who’d rather stay at home....

HomeNews Rocksteady’s response to sexual harrassment allegations is inappropriate and bizarreThis was not the way to address matter This was not the way to address matter Update: Rocksteady issueda full, proper responseon Friday. Follow recent reports thatRocksteady Studios failed to sufficiently address sexual harrassment, the Batman: Arkham developers have responded in a most curious way. While they have yet to issue a public statement themselves, they have posted an “unsolicited letter” from some of the employees behind the 2018 letter which first raised the issues....

HomeNews The Steam Game Festival will be a regular seasonal eventBringing demos and dev talks galore to your screens Bringing demos and dev talks galore to your screens We already knew about the next Game Festwhich will run from the 7th to the 13th of October. There was one back in spring, which had a 40 demos on offer. Then summer rolled around with the biggest one yet, shoving 900 game demos into our faces....

HomeFeatures We miss Rezzed so much that we turned it into a free tabletop RPGThe optional final boss is Geoff Keighley The optional final boss is Geoff Keighley Ah,EGX Rezzed. The Shed Of Dreams, they call it. We here at RPS truly love doing that show and having lots of silly fun every year, includingan Olympicsandour live podcastand playingall the lovely weird indie games. This year, unfortunately, Rezzed couldn’t happen because of all the everything (here I gesture at the world, futilely), and while we did do a crackingRezzed Digital, and have an even more crackingEGX Digitalcoming up, we missed, you know, theexperience....

HomeHardwareNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3’s early access PC requirements are hereAnd they may decrease over time, too. And they may decrease over time, too. Hot off the heels of announcing theearly access release date for Baldur’s Gate 3last night, Larian Studios have also unveiled the game’s initial PC requirements over on their freshly mintedSteam page. Larian head honcho and creative director Swen Vincke said the team are still in the process of optimising the game in theirPanel From Hell streamlast night, but they’re hoping they’ll be able to lower the requirements outlined so far so that more people will be able to play it come September 30th....

HomeNews Batman: Arkham devs Rocksteady accused of failing to address sexual harrassmentEmployees raised issues in 2018 Employees raised issues in 2018 Update: Many of the women who signed the original letterhave now saidthat Rocksteady have improved more than The Guardian’s account suggested, though the company have handled this in a weird and inappropriate way. Thennn on Friday Rocksteady finallyposted a proper response.In November 2018, the majority of the female employees atBatman: Arkhamstudio Rocksteady reportedly signed a letter raising issues of sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace....

HomeNewsBear And Breakfast Bear And Breakfast will let you manage an adorable forest B&B next yearThe puns are complimentary with your room The puns are complimentary with your room Throw in the towels, game developers. Someone’s already making the perfect game.Bear And Breakfastis an upcoming management game where you’re a teenage bear just trying to run a successful B&B in the woods. It’s due out in 2021, so you’ve got until then to release any other games you’re working on before I just call off gaming for good....

HomeNewsVampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Brian Mitsoda has been fired as narrative lead on Bloodlines 2"That this came as a shock to me is underselling it." “That this came as a shock to me is underselling it.” Brian Mitsoda has been “suddenly terminated” from his position as narrative lead onVampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. “That this came as a shock to me is underselling it,” wrote Mitsoda in a email statement given to RPS....