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HomeNews The next Ubisoft Forward showcase is coming in SeptemberWake me up when E3 ends Wake me up when E3 ends Don’t look now, FakE3 isn’t over just yet. We’ve still got the nextXbox event tomorrowand yet another Ubisoft Forward too. The latter, it turns out, will be coming in September. The news came during Ubisoft’s quarterly earnings call. At what point do we stop calling it unofficial E3 and just admit we’ve bled into holiday reveals season?...

HomeNewsYakuza: Like a Dragon Yakuza: Like A Dragon reveals its English voice castThe Ichiban’s out of the box The Ichiban’s out of the box The next mainlineYakuzagame is treading a lot of new territory.Yakuza: Like A Dragonis ditching series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu in favor of new hero Ichiban Kasgua. They’re shuffling up the usual punch ‘em up combat in favor of a turn-based system. Oh, and there’s going to be English voice acting....

HomeNewsCaves of Qud Caves Of Qud’s biggest update ever also has the best patch notesQaves of Cud Qaves of Cud I really haven’t givenCaves Of Quda fair chance. It’s a bizarre roguelike, an open-world exploration RPG, and a sort of sandboxy world simulation. A big reason I haven’t given it the time it deserves is because there’s so much to it that I fear I’d never come out again. Fortunately, on Saturday its developers Freehold Games released its “biggest update ever”, the Tomb Of The Eaters....

HomeFeaturesA Total War Saga: Troy I sold loads of rocks during A Total War Saga: Troy’s campaignThe face that sold a thousand units of stone The face that sold a thousand units of stone If you see the name “Menelaus” and find yourself scratching your head over how to pronounce it, then have no fear: play any more than eight seconds ofA Total War Saga: Troy, and you will never forget....

HomeFeaturesMetamorphosis Kafka’s Metamorphosis makes a great whimsical platformerIt’s a feature It’s a feature If you’d told me before today that it’s possible to make an upbeat and friendly 3D platformer based on the works of Franz Kafka without undermining the nature of either, I would have found it hard to believe. And yet here we are. I’ll confess that it’s been a long while since I’ve read TheMetamorphosis, and I never had particularly strong feelings about it (save for borrowing a friend’s: “Why apples?...

HomeReviewsNecrobarista Necrobarista reviewOrdering up a nice steaming cuppa feelings Ordering up a nice steaming cuppa feelings That’s the game’s backstory. Here’s mine: for the past year I’ve been in cancer remission, which I always have to immediately caveat is less scary than it sounds because it was a very unthreatening form of cancer, but still, it involves spending a lot of time in hospitals playing a particularly unfun game of Schrödinger’s cat where there’s always the small chance your own body has become the lethal box....

HomeGuidesOoblets Ooblets guide: tips for beginnersChoosing your Ooblet club Choosing your Ooblet club Monster collecting games have been very popular for decades, but there have been few examples on PC. I first heard ofOobletsmany years ago, but it is now in Early Access on Epic Games Store, complete with dancing plant-like creatures. But what is Ooblets? How do you farm your creatures, and how do you raise your dance troupe to be the best movers and shakers in all the land?...

HomeGuidesOoblets Ooblets items: where to get Clothlets and FroobtoseDetails on all the crops and every location for hidden items. Details on all the crops and every location for hidden items. To meet newOobletsand have dance battles with them, you need specific items. Some items need to be grown in your farm, while others require to be processed in other facilities. It can all be very confusing, so I thought I’d put everything you need for all the items into one place....

HomeGuidesOoblets Ooblets locations: how to find gleamy OobletsEvery Ooblet requirement explained Every Ooblet requirement explained There are 40Oobletsin the Early Access version of Ooblets. Finding all of them will take a lot of work in making items, but also locating and battling the enemy Ooblets.OurOoblets locationsguide has all of the Ooblets we’ve found so far in the game and how to encounter them. It will also have all of the items required to initiate a dance battle and everything you need to know about the elusive “gleamy” Ooblets....

HomeNews Rock Of Ages 3: Make & Break crashes out todayRock n' roll n' make n' break Rock n' roll n' make n' break Naturally, Ace pushed things off with a new launch trailer - hurling yet more boulders, cheese-wheels, meatballs and other assorted spherical nonsense down precarious, Monty Python-esque pathways. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube The big difference this time ‘round is a level editor, letting you piece together your own bespoke descents in all manner of themes - including a delicious-looking spaghetti land demonstrated in the launch vid....

HomeNewsTemtem Temtem got a new island and bunch of new Tems to tame todayAlong with a new chat feature so you can talk to the folks around you Along with a new chat feature so you can talk to the folks around you New features, new monsters and, of course, a brand new island are what await you inTemtemtoday, as the Kisiwa Island update has arrived. Crema’s early access Pokémon-like MMO has introduced a whole new area to explore, with 23 new Tems for you to add to your collection....

HomeFeaturesCyberpunk 2077 Corpo is clearly the coolest Cyberpunk 2077 lifepath, let’s all sell outWell I know you can’t work in fast food all your life Well I know you can’t work in fast food all your life When Video Matthew, Brendy (RPS in peace) and Idiscussed the very first Cyberpunk 2077 demo, way back in 2018, Brendy made fun of Matthew and I for being suits. We said we’d be interested in finishing the game, a massive first-person sci-fi RPG from the people who brought you The Witcher 3, as a big corporate sellout....

HomeNewsMundaun Pencil-drawn horror game Mundaun will launch in spring 2021The hills are alive, indeed The hills are alive, indeed Pencil-drawn games aren’t unheard of in 2D games, but seeing monotone pencil textures on 3D models is more uncommon. They’re uncanny really, which I suppose is a great fit for horror.Mundaunis an indiehorror gameset to folk legends in a secluded valley in the Alps. It’s shown up again in a new trailer to announce a spring 2021 release date....