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HomeNewsI Am Dead Take a look inside I Am Dead, a game about looking inside lots of stuffUse your spectral peeking powers Use your spectral peeking powers There are perks to being dead, it turns out. You can talk to your dog who is also dead, talk to other ghosts, and look inside just about anything to take a peek at what’s hidden within. Hollow Ponds gave folks a look insideI Am Dead, explaining how recently deceased museum curator Morris Lupton and his dog Sparky will save the Shelmerston with their new ghost powers....

HomeNewsUntitled Goose Game Untitled Goose Game’s vinyl soundtrack is double-grooved for random tracksHONK HONK The playful piano ofUntitled Goose Gamewill be inscribed in plastic, creating a physical record of the goose’s havoc. To hear the piano is to know the crimes it accompanied. The merchmasters at Iam8bit today announced that the soundtrack’s vinyl release will launch on September 29th, and that it has a clever little trick. Just as the game’s soundtrack is different every time, the physical pressing is on a dual-groove record, so two different versions are on the same side and you won’t know which it will play until you start it rolling on those wheels of steel....

HomeNewsValorant Valorant might be getting a replay system so you can rewatch all your cool stratsGifting is on its way soon, too Gifting is on its way soon, too Riot Games might be adding a replay system to their free-to-play tactical shooter,Valorant, so at some point you may be able to rewatch all your sick plays. Replay systems are so useful, not just for the cool strats, but for watching matches you’ve played from various perspectives and assessing how you play if you’re trying to improve....

HomeNewsBloodborne When the game starts, you’re plopped into the game’s hub, the Hunter’s Dream, complete with the Doll who levels you up, and the freaky little ghosty dudes that pop out of the ground. You don’t get to choose your weapon, you’re just given a regular sword and pistol to hunt with, though you can collect Bloodstone Shards to level them up, which is a nice touch that I didn’t expect....

HomeNewsAssassin’s Creed: Valhalla Relax and raid to the sounds of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Out Of The NorthBeats to study and slay to. Beats to study and slay to. Usually, when I’m working the news shift, I’ll pop on one of those lo-fi youtube mixes to keep my ears distracted. Today, however, I’m thinking about trying something a little more Nordic. This week, a snippet ofAssassin’s Creed Valhalla’s soundscape hit Spotify in the form of the Out Of The North EP, a seven-track mix of chanting, panpipes and warlike drums to study / relax / raid East Anglian settlements to....

HomeNews Twitch tells the US Army to cut out the fake giveawaysGamepad? What gamepad? Gamepad? What gamepad? Let’s be frank - the US Army’s presence on Twitch is a recruitment ploy in and of itself. Chummy military folks hop into a game likeCall Of Duty: Warzone, hang out with chat, maybe let slip a few words on just how great the Army has been to them. It’s a new ground for the service to get in contact with impressionable young’uns - one that leverages parasocial relationships between viewer and streamer as a way to sell military service....

HomeNews Who needs clothes to kill WoW Classic’s biggest dragon, anyway?Is it hot in here? Is it hot in here? Onyxia, Broodmother of the Black Dragonflight. If you’re a veteranWorld Of Warcraftplayer, that name will immediately conjure long-buried feelings of dread - from the precision play needed to take her down, to the hours spent grinding quests to even enter her lair. But Azeroth’s scariest dragon seems to have lost her touch, as a band of 40World Of Warcraft: Classicadventurers worked out how to fell Onyxia in nought but their undies earlier this week....

HomeVideos Can you get a perfect score on our Assassin’s Creed music quiz?Animus cracker Animus cracker Are you looking forward to theAssassin’s Creed Valhallasoundtrack just as much as the actual game? If so, then you should check out our latest music quiz, which focuses on all thingsAssassin’s Creed. Because the masses have been eating up online quizzes during lockdown, RPS' video wing has been testing the waters to see if you, the video game playing public, also enjoy them....

HomeNewsDeath Come True Death Come True is an interactive movie from the writer of DanganronpaM-m-mystery! M-m-mystery! To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings While that trailer doesn’t have subtitles, the game does. So there Makoto is, waking up in that hotel room, selecting different options as they’re presented, and likely ending up dying a lot, especially given that some ‘orrible person dressed a lot like a kooky killer is loitering....

HomeNewsDeath Stranding Death Stranding’s first PC patch addresses bugs and stabilitySam is king of performance and stability Sam is king of performance and stability Bridge man Sam Stranding or Die Bridgeman or whatever his name is has been trekking across post-apocalyptic America now thatDeath Strandingis out on PC. You’ll have an update queued up before you can get back to delivery mode though, as 505 Games have released the first quick patch for strand simulator before the weekend....

HomeNews GDC’s Covid-19 survey leaves room for optimism in the industryDevs speak up Devs speak up The organisers of the Game Developers Conference have released a report on the results of their latest “state of the industry” survey. Their usual annual survey happened in March, but this extra one was solely about the impact of the ongoing pandemic.The results are on the face of it rather grim, with some job losses and game delays and lots of struggling people....

HomeFeaturesFinal Fantasy X-2 Have You Played… Final Fantasy X-2?What can I do for you? What can I do for you? I am not ashamed to admit that it wasFinal Fantasy X-2, notFinal Fantasy X, that made me want to get a PlayStation 2. So fervent was my desire for this game that I even entered a text competition on the telly to try and win one. Needless to say, I was not successful....

HomeFeaturesDeath Stranding I like weird storytelling, but even I think Death Stranding is a bit muchGravitas notwithStranding Gravitas notwithStranding I am big into weird stuff. My tastes lean towards being surprised over being moved, and my favourite games and films and books reflect that. Give me wild fantastical sci-fi first, interesting character arcs second. So farDeath Strandinghas given me a very quiet yet very grumpy man while frontloading some of the most delightful nonsense I’ve seen in videogames....