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HomeNewsJourney Take another Journey when it comes to Steam in JuneGrab your cloak and scarf Grab your cloak and scarf Image credit:Annapurna Interactive Image credit:Annapurna Interactive Thatgamecompany’s lovely desert wandering game is floating through another barrier. It first arrived on PC via the Epic Store last summer and, as many games are wont to do when that exclusivity period is up,Journeywill land on Steam in June. It’s a personal favorite of mine, so I’ll gladly cheer it on to its new destination as I did when it finally made it to PC last year....

HomeNewsTerraria Terraria’s final update, Journey’s End, arrives in MayThe journey comes to an end The journey comes to an end We’ve dug far enough into the depths at last.Terraria’s big final update, Journey’s End, has been planned for quite a while, bringing a whole slew of new items, bosses, and baddies to the world. It’s been a bit longer in coming than originally planned, but Re-Logic have now announced that the 1....

HomeReviewsDisaster Report 4: Summer Memories Wot I think - Disaster Report 4: Summer MemoriesAll sowing, no reaping All sowing, no reaping Renowned children’s TV presenter Mister Rogers once said, “when I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would tell me to look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” The red-cardigan-rocking moral compass of a nation offered this small succour in the face of tragedy: that whenever disaster struck you would also find the irrepressible compassion of humanity not far behind....

HomeNewsMount & Blade II: Bannerlord Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord buffers itself against crashes with two test branchesBranching out Branching out For weeks,Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord’s biggest threat hasn’t been some rival army, amassing its forces. No, it’s been the nature of the game itself - crashing and crumbling and splintering apart, bringing feudal campaigns to a frustratingly abrupt close. This weekend, developers TaleWorlds decided to strengthen Bannerlord’s defences against this existential threat with two new test...

HomeNewsAtomicrops Nuclear farmer Atomicrops leaves early access next monthStardew Valley, but with guns Stardew Valley, but with guns I might only have briefly dabbled in farm work while travelling, butAtomicropssure ain’t how I remember it. I remember wellies and mud, yeah, but mutants? Shotguns? Seems suspect. With the turning of the seasons, Bird Bath Games' farm-person-shooter is ready to bring home the harvest, asAtomicropsprepares to leave early access on May 28th....

HomeNews Utopias pictures an optimistic future via nine acidic dreamscapesDreams of a better tomorrow Dreams of a better tomorrow Utopias is the work of Berlin / Moscow arts collective AAA Software. Each of the game(?)’s nine worlds is a self-described personal utopia - a collaborative work designed to explore each member’s individual vision for a utopian game-space. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube They’re bloody bizarre spaces, too, with even that short glimpse in the trailer flashing through fluid pools; the launch bay for definitely-not-a-Gundam, a stock third-person Unity character controller sprinting through colours and noise, and a cryptic android that could’ve stepped out of the box art for any graphics card released pre-2010....

HomeNewsValorant Ranked play may hit Valorant’s closed beta “in a couple weeks"The numbers must go higher The numbers must go higher Look,Valorantmight be fun and aw, but what’s the point if you can’t make the numbers go higher? Right now, folk are just cycling in and out of wizard gunfights, learning the game and having fun, without the very important business of pushing an arbitrary rank higher and higher. Disgusting. From the sounds of it, though, that may change sooner than expected, with a Riot developer hinting at a ranked matchmaking system arriving in the next few weeks....

HomeNewsSizeable Sizeable is a free collection of delightful puzzle-box dioramasEmbiggen. Embiggen. If the sun suddenly shrunk threefold, there’d be consequences. In the real world, that’d be total extinction through global freezing. But inSizeable, it’d probably just open a new opportunity to solve a clockwork puzzle-box. The work of Belgian student Sander Ambroos,Sizeable’s short demo offers four tiny worlds to poke and prod at, each with their own intricately-planned challenges toscale.Sorry.Sizeable has, admittedly, a pretty simple premise: scroll up or down on any item, and it’ll grow or shrink in kind....

HomeNewsCall of Duty: Warzone Caldera Trios return to Call of Duty: Warzone after only two daysFour’s a crowd Four’s a crowd Three really is the magic number, ain’t it? At least, that seems to be the case in battle royale, as theCall Of Duty: Warzonedevs discovered this week. Not two days afterbumping Warzone up to Quads, a playlist update rolled three-person squads back into the 150-player deathmatch. How many friends did you think I have, anyway?...

HomeFeaturesHeat Signature Have You Played… Heat Signature?Don’t get audacious Don’t get audacious Heat Signatureis about plans going wrong. Oh, you were going to burst into that room, grab the hostage, activate your slipstream and leg it past the guards? Tough luck, you’ve dropped him. Now there’s a bullet heading for your sternum, and no time to do anything but pick the hostage back up and throw him in the way. Now you’ve been shot down anyway, mission scrubbed, tossed out of an airlock with your tail between your legs....

HomeNewsThe Procession to Calvary Spank a Bishop in new Renaissance adventure The Procession To CalvaryCalvary ‘tis a silly place Calvary ‘tis a silly place The Procession To Calvaryis now out, allowing you to muck you way through Renaissance artwork with the irreverence that I learned to appreciate as a Monty Python-loving teen. It’s a point and click ‘em up “spiritual sequel” toFour Last Thingswhich was also a silly classic paintings romp....

HomeFeatures What are we all playing this Easter weekend?Well? Well? Hello to you, and happy Easter weekend! Here in the UK that means a four-day weekend for many. RPS will be run a reduced service until Tuesday, at which point we’ll roll away our egg-bloated bodies and attempt to rise again. If you’re looking to for some Easter exercise and consider P.E. With Joe frankly far too early in the morning, I have a hot suggestion for you: Egg Tennis....

HomeNewsAncient Enemy Bleak British card-battler Ancient Enemy is out todayOld grudges Old grudges In a way, I don’t blame the fallen wizard antagonising the world of deckbuilding RPGAncient Enemy. I’m sure I’d be fairly high-strung too if I’d slept in for a few hundred years. Well, the alarm bell’s finally rung. It’s time for the sleepy sod to get up and start facing an army of card-wielding warriors -Ancient Enemytakes the fight to Steam today....