Manor Lords is obviously this week’s big survival citybuilder game release, but I suspect Diluvian Winds is more my pace. It’s a relaxing management game about building a town for anthropomorphic animals around the foot of a lighthouse, although exactly how relaxing will depend on your ability to...

   We haven’t written much about Korean MMO ArcheAge since reviewing it nine years ago, and there won’t be many future opportunities to write about it, either. Its developers have announced that its European and North American servers will shut down on June th. Read more

   People Can Fly, the developers of Bulletstorm and Outriders, have cancelled development of a co op action RPG codenamed Project Dagger. The Polish company informed investors of the decision to cancel the game, which was initially to be published by Take Two, earlier this month. Read more

   BlizzCon, Blizzard’s annual get together for fans of their games, was halted by the pandemic in and only returned as a physical event last year. One year later, it is cancelled again, Blizzard have announced. Read more

   I never expected to feel genuine affection for Dr Robotnik, whose various level ending wrecking balls and spiked doodads have killed me a million times over, but here I am sobbing like a banshee over the release of Dr Robotnik’s Ring Racers, a free Mario Kart alike created by Kart Krew, the...

   This week saw the first small look at the new and upcoming Hobbit themed cosy life sim Tales Of The Shire, plus the news that Embracer group is splitting into three, including a Middle earth And Friends group. We thus use this as an excuse to spend some time talking about The Lord Of The Rings...

   The announcement trailer for Lost Legions opens with a Roman Emperor bellowing GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS like a kid who’s just had his pudding taken away. I’d just had a big swig of coffee before watching, and was instantly swept off by visions of an apoplectic Roman bigwig rampaging through the...

   I think the stronger your interest in white goods becomes, that’s how you know you’re transitioning from a youngster to a slightly oldster. The first thing I did recently when I stepped into my friend’s house was compliment him on his new washing machine. A Samsung Nice dials on this, eh, I...

   Pine: A Story Of Loss, which stars a bereaved woodworker and thus may be a play on the double meaning of ’pine’, is a gorgeously animated interactive fiction game that sees you performing farming chores and wordlessly reminiscing upon cherished memories. It’s short designed to be played in a...

   As genre mash ups go, I didn’t see this coming. But maybe I should have, knowing how once things like battle royales pop off, they will always spawn curious mutations. Inferni: Hope And Fear is one of these curiosities, being an online co op, deckbuilding, battle royale, with a s theme. Read more

   To keep the ball rolling with this month’s Game Club pick, we’re asking what you, the readers, think of Lethal Company By now, I can confidently say that the RPS team are scrap collecting experts and can easily meet the quota set by the enigmatic Company. Much to James’ chagrin, who prefers the...

   Fallout ’s next generation update goes live today. Timed to capitalise on the Fallout TV show’s mad popularity, it’ll encumber the released open world wasteland RPG with widescreen and ultra widescreen support, Creation Kit fixes, and a variety of quest updates across Steam, Microsoft...

   Most of my time in Lethal Company is full of tomfoolery, panicking, and ultimately letting the quota down. As I run back and forth from the ship, only able to carry four things at a time in my puny arms, I frequently see the various monster inhabitants of the game excelling at pretty much...

   The closest I have come to having any interest in sport is when I got really into reading about football hooligans, or like, Blood Bowl, but I do absolutely recognise the romance of it all. SUDDEN DEATH is a delicious free slice of playable art pie that celebrates that romance. It is says dev C...

   Alien infested submarine sim Barotrauma has received a chunky update, bringing two new ish monsters into its lethal aquatic world. The shrimp looking Mantis may be recognisable to veterans it once appeared in pre Steam builds . And the Viperling is a venomous variant of the existing Spineling a...

   As an Assassin’s Creed girlie, I enjoyed Assassin’s Creed Mirage, a pared down but still big game, which is really just proof of how bloated AAA games have gotten, but I’ll stop because it’s not time to take my personal bugbear for a walk Ass Creed game that was closer to the simplicity of the...

   My experience with actual flight simulators typically amounts to approaching the runway far, far too quickly at far, far too perpendicular an angle, so perhaps I’m better off just flying folded up bits of A . Happily, that’s exactly what Paper Sky, a semi open world paper plane adventure from...

   In a rare case of a wild Nintendo being spotted having somewhat of a point, actually, in regards to being protective over their IP, Facepunch announced yesterday that they’re removing all Nintendo stuff from Garry’s Mod’s Steam workshop, following takedown orders sent straight from ninty...

   I can feel some kind of sore throat bug coming on. It must be the baleful influence of Creative Assembly’s latest free update for bellowing strategy bonanza Total War: Warhammer . Out th April, the update introduces Epidemius, Proctor of Pestilence a new Nurgle Legendary Lord who gains rewards...

   PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds aka the game that inspired and then was overtaken by Fortnite’s Battle Royale mode is seemingly borrowing a leaf from its cartoony cousin’s playbook by resurrecting its original map. Read more

   The developers behind Fable card game spin off Fable Fortune and the digital adaptation of dungeon crawling board game Gloomhaven have revealed a new upcoming co op RPG... only to announce at the same time that the upcoming game’s development has been put on pause amid layoffs at the studio and...

   As a somewhat deflating example of the money churning might of GTA Online becoming the sole focus of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto efforts over the last decade, the actor who played Trevor in the ridiculously well selling crime epic has teased some details of planned story DLC that would have...

   Dark Souls, one of the most widely acclaimed video games of the last two decades perhaps all time and progenitor of one of modern video gaming’s most influential and oft copied rarely bettered genres, the Soulslike, would’ve been a better game had it launched into early access. That’s the...

   Welcome back to Should You Bother With, the RPS hardware column that combs away the fluff surrounding PC gaming gear to reveal a smooth, hairless core of pure consumer advice. This time: Hall effect keyboards, a relatively fresh flavour of desktop peripheral that’s been gaining traction with...

   Lots of Soulslikes have about as much joy, and the same colour palette, as a burning cowpat. They are grim and dark and often have gimmicks that are a bit middling: mechanical arms that spew gunk, or turning to stone. Or they stand out with incredibly deep combat, with dense menus and rainbow loot....

   Sand Land is like a sanitised manga ish Mad Max Fury Road, where there are fewer explosions and nobody huffs paint and screams Witness me . So, arguably, a less cool Mad Max. In this incarnation it’s an open world action game with light RPG elements; in previous incarnations it is a manga and...

   I went to see Civil War this weekend. I liked a bunch of it, didn’t like a bunch of it. One thing I thought was very obvious is that it sanitises its titular conflict of any political context. On the one hand, I understand this as part of the theming, said almost directly into the camera by Kirsten...

   When, in town building simulation Manor Lords, you erect your first manor, it feels natural to place it in the center of your humble th century European settlement. It presents as a locus of power, where your character avatar resides. Also, it’s right there in the title. I built mine down a side...

   Armadillos, the grumpy pistachio nuts of the animal kingdom, have been added to Minecraft in a recent mob update. You can brush them to harvest scutes , the boney armour plating of the animal’s back, which you can then use to craft armour for pet wolves. Speaking of wolves, this update also sees...

   Lords Of The Fallen, an action RPG that was a mixture of fun and infuriating when it first launched, has received its final free update. It introduces the Advanced Game Modifier System , which sounds like something creepy bachelors would pay an extraordinary monthly fee for. No, it doesn’t provide...

   Players that put more than two hours into pre purchased or advanced access games will now be exempt from Steam’s refund policy, says Steam, the maker of said policy and thus the final word on how it is implemented. As spotted by the Verge, this change is intended to combat a loophole where filthy...

   If only you could talk to these creatures is never more funny or true than in games like Rotwood, where you play cat people and orcs sent to biff snail worms and flies with scythes. From Klei Entertainment, the gang behind Don’t Starve, Invisible Inc. and Oxygen Not Included, to name but a three...

   Zenless Zone Zero is the next action RPG from Genshin Impact developers HoYoverse. Where Genshin is all Zelda style pastoral greens, Zenless is an urban fantasy. It’s expected to release sometime in the first half of , and you can now pre register on all platforms. Read more

   Songs Of Conquest is a strategy RPG with some of the most handsome pixel art around. Steam tells me I’ve played its Early Access release for . hours, which was long enough to know that I wanted to play more and would wait for version . . I won’t have to wait much longer. It’s now got a May th...

   Against The Storm’s latest update adds a a River Kelpie, a legendary water demon that can mesmerise villagers in your rain slick settlements. I’ve been mesmerised myself by another part of the update, however: the ability to zoom out further than before. Read more

   Royale battler Fortnite will soon allow players to hide a handful of emotes the developers concede are sometimes used in confrontational ways . This includes the emote reported as the most used in Fortnite’s seven year history. That’s either a worrying indictment of the game’s players, or a more ...

   Stand by for a missive from RPS corporate parent ReedPop. Transmission begins Ah, it’s about gaming events. So, Reedpop’s EGX expo and MCM Comic Con are joining forces. They’ll both take place side by side in the ExCel London this year, on th th October. EGX, of course, will feature a...

   I’m the kind of awful person who looks at the background actors in TV shows and wonders what life is like for e.g. the old woman who sells birdfeed in Trafalgar Square in Mary Poppins when said upper middle class domestic isn’t singing about her. What fate the Warcraft grunt when he is too old to...

   Nestled within a seemingly ho hum patch for Horizon Forbidden West’s PC edition is a change I’ve been crossing fingers and ritualistically sacrificing metal dinosaurs for since release. At last I can behold those glorious words: Resolved performance regression when enabling Nvidia Reflex On Boost....

   Afternoon, conveyor belt fans Good news, I think I may have discovered the first genuinely cosy automation game. Attempts have been made at cosy automation and automated cosiness in the past Satisfactory is on the sunnier side, providing you enable the right settings, and Shapez has lots of...

   Sometimes, I hear critics describe something as ’actively hostile’ to the act of playing it, but with something close to admiration in their voices. I’ve always felt that I, too, would like to one day find an artwork that I could describe in the same way. Partly because it sounds like an...

   Were we to pluck up a passing stoat, or wandering pigeon, and inspect their entrails for omens as regards the quality of mythical roguelike Hades, we would find ourselves covered in blood and perhaps a little wiser. But I have been given strict editorial directions not to kill any more small...

   No Rest for the Wicked launched into early access as a bit of a fixer upper, even by the standards of its ’buy now, play finished game later’ model. The good news is that the grim action RPG’s wonky performance is already being straightened out, with two of its three hotfixes thus far delivering a...

   Speaking to RPS regular Jeremy Peel in a new feature about RPG design, Amazon’s Fallout TV show and his time working on Pentiment and Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian’s Josh Sawyer has reflected a bit on what Fallout: New Vegas owes to Black Isle and Interplay’s very first Fallout from . A lot of...

   So far, my main problem with Lethal Company this month’s RPS Game Club game is that I’m getting better at it. I’m more efficient at clearing up scrap, less prone to fear spasming inside out when a monster attacks, and have become wise to most of the haunted houses’ deadliest tricks. All of...

   Last week, a government hearing took place between representatives of the Video Game History Foundation, the Rhizome project, and the Software Preservation Network among others, with legal representation for the Entertainment Software Association ESA and the AACS among those in opposition. The...

   As one of the Treehouse’s resident Atlus sickos, I was incredibly happy to wake up to minutes of Metaphor: ReFantazio’s director Katsura Hashino talking us through some new footage. We get a look at a new rural town and the activities you can get up to, like bounty hunting. Travel on your magic...

   What’s it like to watch a smash hit TV show set in the backyard of a game you’ve made It’s a question which Fallout: New Vegas project director Josh Sawyer is uniquely qualified to answer. The show really does capture the aesthetic of Fallout and , while also feeling like it is set on the...

   I often regret that I didn’t get into football as a kid note for people across the pond: football is what we call soccer in these here accursed, eternally post imperial isles . The trouble was, all my friends liked football and I have an abiding hatred of popular things, a hatred that has...

   The former multiplayer lead for RTS giant StarCraft is working on a new real time strategy game that he promises will mark a paradigm shift for the storied PC genre. Read more