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HomeFeatures Have You Played… Logical Journey Of The Zoombinis?m o r e t o p p i n g s m o r e t o p p i n g s Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.There are, these days, far too many games to play. Well, there were always too many games to play. But only since the advent of digital distribution, have their numbers so wildly and obviously exceeded my capacity to get through them all....

HomeFeaturesFinal Fantasy VII Remake The Final Fantasy VII Remake hype is realDa da da daaaaaa duh duh da da daaaaaaaaaaaaa! Da da da daaaaaa duh duh da da daaaaaaaaaaaaa! Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Cor, what a thing. Wasn’t that exciting? I’m particularly enamoured with the new Uematsu-composed theme song “Hollow” that plays in the first half of the trailer. That sounds rad, and the chorus sounds like it has some lovely little musical nods to other FFVII motifs, too....

HomeNewsThe Sims 4 The next The Sims game could have online elements, EA sayThe “next generation” of Sims is gestating The “next generation” of Sims is gestating Don’t panic. Or don’t get too excited, depending on your opinions on the long-deadThe SimsOnline from 2002. During a recent earnings call, EA’s CEO Andrew Wilson alludes to experimenting with social and competitive elements in a future Sims game but the word “MMO” was definitely not mentioned....

HomeFeatures Video games to play on Brexit DayAu revoir, mes amis Au revoir, mes amis I did not expect that I would ever Google something like “will Big Ben bong?” in service to an article for RPS, and yet here we are - and it turns out it will not. The big B day has arrived, not with a bong but a whimper. It’s a sore subject for a lot of us (stuff disappearing off of Netflix; my partner is European and won’t have to queue as long at airports), a genuinely frightening one for others (unknown economic impact; forced repatriation)....

HomeNews Wizards Of The Coast’s new studio is making a sci-fi RPG with ex-BioWare devsSend me back to space, Ohlen Send me back to space, Ohlen Last year, D&D & Magic The Gathering publishers Wizards Of The Coast hired James Ohlen to head up a new studio. He was the creative director/lead designer onDragon Age: OriginsandStar Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic, so naturally I am tracking his movements. We now know a teensy bit more about Archetype Entertainment’s debut project, which will be set in an “all-new science fiction universe that will send players on a story-driven epic where choices they make will have real consequences on how their story unfolds”....

HomeNewsOverwatch Blizzard cancel Overwatch League matches in China over coronavirus concernsFollowing a LoL tournament Following a LoL tournament Blizzard have cancelledOverwatchLeague matches scheduled to take place in China in February and March, owing to concerns about the new coronavirus going round. First identified in China in December,the virus has now killed 170 people. A Chinese League Of Legends tournament also recentlywas cancelled due to the virus. Blizzard say they plan to return OWL to China later this season....

HomeNews E3 organisers say they’re trying really hard not to leak media’s personal information againUh huh Uh huh Last summer, it came to light that the organisers of E3 had leftpersonal detailsofthousandsof media people (including some of our own) in a file anyone online could access. Welp. It didn’t exactly make anyone keen to return to that cacophonous hellhall. But this year they’re really trying not to leak addresses, phone numbers, or anything, for real....

HomeNewsFarming Simulator 19 Farming Simulator 19 is free on Epic right nowYou’ve seen the memes but have you sown the greens? You’ve seen the memes but have you sown the greens? You’ve seen the memes but have you sown the greens? All and sundry (and sundried) are today invited to playFarming Simulator 19for themselves for free, as it’s the latest giveaway on the Epic Games Store. Maybe you’ll try a 360 noscope furrow, or maybe you’ll be drawn into the quiet world of virtual agriculture....

HomeNewsFor Honor For Honor’s “Year of Reckoning” picks up a battle pass, hints at peaceOptimistic, aren’t we? Optimistic, aren’t we? I’ve not kept up with the plot ofFor Honor, a game where buff lads and lasses chop each other’s limbs off with elaborate pointy sticks. But as Ubisoft’s brawny fighter enters its fourth year, they’re putting down the swords - if only for a little while. While Year 4 might be the “Year of Reckoning”, Season 1 is entitled “Hope”, and sees all three factions holding nervous truce....

HomeFeatures Have You Played… ΔV: Rings of Saturn?Astrogeo drift Astrogeo drift We often get excited about a game doing more things. Who amongst us has not enthused about a game on the basis that “and you can x and you can y, wouldn’t it be cool if you could z as well”? ΔV: Rings of Saturnhas some more growing to do, principally in its promised story. But it’s already got this calming, almost hypnotic core of carefully, skilfully flying through hazardous space, and eating rocks....

HomeNewsOverwatch Overwatch wants to break the meta with Hero Pools and aggressive balancingJumping into the deep end Jumping into the deep end There are changes afoot inOverwatch. Blizzard, well aware of long-standing grievances against the state of high-level competitive play, and have come up with two bangers to help breathe some life into their multi-million-dollar team shooter.Overwatchwill soon host a new Experimental Card, letting the devs get wet n' wild with whatever balances changes they fancy....

HomeNewsCounter-Strike: Global Offensive Steam servers went offline for a few hours, but they’re back up nowDown, but not out. Down, but not out. Crikey, glad that’s over. It looked like we’d lost Steam for a couple of hours. Today’s outage not only affected store listings, community pages, friends lists and workshop access, but also took several of Valve’s lovely multiplayer gunshoots/wizard bashers/hat-acquirers offline. Countless poor Steam users were forced to do other things with their time - playing their Steam games alone, going elsewhere for their online kicks, or perhaps even stepping away from their computers entirely to make a nice cuppa....

HomeNewsThe Pedestrian The Pedestrian strolls outGo for a stroll Go for a stroll The Pedestrian popped out last night, and it oozes promise. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube It’s definitely one of those ‘if only I’d thought of that’ ideas. Every puzzle starts with you stepping back and figuring out how to stitch the level together, though the transitions between areas are so smooth I’m loath to call them levels....