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• This Tetris-y roguelike dungeon crawler looks like an excellent puzzle
• Doki Doki Literature Club Plus just launched with new stories and more
• No more kidding around, I just want another Screamer
• Silent Hill rumour #8003: Bloober Team might be making one
• The Last Spell is They Are Billions meets Final Fantasy Tactics, and it's brutally tough
• Apex Legends brings back the original Kings Canyon and World's Edge maps
• Return to a top-down Black Mesa in the unofficial Half-Life Loop
• Former BioWare manager Casey Hudson has founded a new studio
• PUBG's new map, featuring respawning, is out now on test servers
• This Mass Effect Legendary Edition mod lets you explore in first-person
• See the sights in this American Truck Simulator Wyoming trailer
• Fates Of Ort is a clever action RPG mashup
• Have you played... The Witness?
• Control is getting a co-op spin-off
• Death Trash's demo is still available after end of Steam Next Fest
• This RTX 3060 Ryzen 5800H gaming laptop is $1269 today at B&H
• Magic: Legends is closing down six months after entering open beta
• Forza Horizon 4's future updates will recycle old content
• Sony have bought Housemarque, developers of Returnal and Nex Machina

This Tetris-y roguelike dungeon crawler looks like an excellent puzzle Posted: 30 Jun 2021 10:54 AM PDT One of the great joys of digging through social posts for indie games in development is when one just clicks with you. I apologize in advance for not preparing a more proper Tetris pun because I just genuinely just think that Blocky Dungeon looks neat. You owe it to yourself to see it in motion. It made some part of my brain happy to watch even in one of its earliest prototype posts from yonks back in 2019. I'm thrilled to see it's popped up again, looking slicker than before, and with some plans to launch a full version by the end of the summer. Read more

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus just launched with new stories and more Posted: 30 Jun 2021 09:26 AM PDT As if high school romance weren't fear-inducing enough, Doki Doki Literature Club has just released its bigger, prettier version: Doki Doki Literature Club Plus. DDLC has long been one of the best free games on PC, though the new paid version comes with a visual upgrade, bonus content, and even some new stories on the side. You can now write poems for your school crush in extra-horrifying HD. Read more

No more kidding around, I just want another Screamer Posted: 30 Jun 2021 08:56 AM PDT I haven't played a car game in over a decade. Not out of spite, or because of some bizarre gaming diet where I am not allowed to consume anything with four wheels, but it's just that everything nowadays is too realistic, or trying too hard to be unrealistic. I desire a car game that slots nicely in-between the two without fanfare. A simple, unceremonious racing game is what I'm after; Screamer. That game is Screamer. A third one. It's just, would I actually like it? Read more

Silent Hill rumour #8003: Bloober Team might be making one Posted: 30 Jun 2021 08:08 AM PDT We’ve had a secret Silent Hill game (PT). We’ve had a game that the internet insisted was a Silent Hill game, but probably isn't. The insidious nature of the series means this post could technically be a Silent Hill game, and if it is I probably wouldn’t know until it was too late*. Here's another hint that the series is coming back: horror-focused developers Bloober Team just announced a “strategic partnership” with Konami. Of course, they didn’t mention anything else, but with Silent Hill, you don’t have to. It’s all implied. Read more

The Last Spell is They Are Billions meets Final Fantasy Tactics, and it's brutally tough Posted: 30 Jun 2021 08:00 AM PDT One of the most brutal frustrations in the world is the realisation that you have completely borked a meal with an overdose of salt. You taste a stew while it's on the stove and it's near-perfect: deftly spiced, neither too rich nor too light, and with the perfect levels of sweetness and acidity. It just needs a little salt, you think. And so you sprinkle in what you swear in the moment is a pinch, set it proudly on the table, and kerblammo: it tastes like it's been strained through a pirate's rancid beard. The Last Spell is a superb turn-based tactical defence game, overburdened with too much salt. Or rather, with the precursor element from which salt is derived: extreme difficulty. This is not a "game is too difficult" sulk for the same reason that I continue to use salt in cooking. The Last Spell is a game about desperate last stands. It needs to be difficult and its systems have been designed around that fact. But the calibration is just a little off, and where it should trigger satisfaction and compulsion, it more often prompts exhaustion. Read more

Apex Legends brings back the original Kings Canyon and World's Edge maps Posted: 30 Jun 2021 07:59 AM PDT Apex Legends' Genesis Collection Event started today, introducing lots of new cosmetics as Collection Events often do. But more importantly, this one has put the old versions of the Kings Canyon and World's Edge battle royale maps back into rotation. That means: Skull Town and the train have returned. Between now and July 13th, you'll be able to drop into some of your old favourite drop zones that have since been pulverised in the new map layouts. I played a few games on World's Edge last night, and it felt very strange being back. Read more

Return to a top-down Black Mesa in the unofficial Half-Life Loop Posted: 30 Jun 2021 04:59 AM PDT The probably soon-to-be-renamed Half-Life: Loop is an unofficial HL twin-stick shooter set in Black Mesa. It locks Gordon Freeman into a series of challenges to prove to the G-Man he’s the right man for the job, using the classic Half-Life enemies and crates to craft an endless, violent job interview. No wonder he was so handy with a crowbar. He’d already passed the test! Read more

Former BioWare manager Casey Hudson has founded a new studio Posted: 30 Jun 2021 04:53 AM PDT Back in December, Casey Hudson left his role as general manager at BioWare, after having been with the Mass Effect and Dragon Age developers on and off for two decades. With a big departure like that, it was a wonder what he'd get up to next. But now Hudson has revealed he's founded his own company, Humanoid Studios, and is currently working on a new game. Read more

PUBG's new map, featuring respawning, is out now on test servers Posted: 30 Jun 2021 04:43 AM PDT Around a month ago PUBG Corp teased "Tiger", a new map which would allow players to respawn if they died early. Well, that map's called Taego (I see what they did there), and it's out now on test servers. Seeing as I spend most of my time dead in PUBG, it has my attention. Read more

This Mass Effect Legendary Edition mod lets you explore in first-person Posted: 30 Jun 2021 04:32 AM PDT It's a wonder why I enjoy Mass Effect so much considering I think third-person games are a bit rubbish. Would it be the perfect game if it were all in first-person? I don't know, but someone has made a mod that adds a first-person mode to each game in the trilogy in the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, so now we can find out. Read more

See the sights in this American Truck Simulator Wyoming trailer Posted: 30 Jun 2021 04:29 AM PDT As RPS safety officer and unofficial nonsense warden, I have to warn you to not operate heavy machinery while watching this video of someone operating heavy machinery. That would be silly. This first look at American Truck Simulator’s Wyoming update is a 24-minute jaunt along the chunky landscape of the American West. It’s a backdrop that can be both distractingly dramatic while still feeling like a brain massage. Read more

Fates Of Ort is a clever action RPG mashup Posted: 30 Jun 2021 04:00 AM PDT There was a time when actual arguments were had over the validity of "real time with pause" as a design choice. A foolish time we ought not to revisit. I bring it up because I've been playing Fates Of Ort, a light-hearted action RPG that's more like "pause with real time". Everything is frozen in time until you move, swing a sword, or cast a spell, replacing the usual reflex-based clickfest with a measured pace. Combined with its intriguing magic system, it lets you combine conditions and spell effects without becoming a test of how many button sequences you've memorised. There's even a hint of bullet hell, an experience I evidently enjoy more (ie: at all) when I can pause, and a tiny pinch of Dark Souls in its respawning/healing system. It's fun stuff. Read more

Have you played... The Witness? Posted: 29 Jun 2021 11:30 PM PDT I know, I couldn't believe nobody had done The Witness before either. But here we are. The Witness is a 3D, first-person puzzle game in which you, presumably someone trapped in an ironic punishment after making an ill-advised deal with the devil, explore an island made of puzzles. And solve those puzzles. Read more

Control is getting a co-op spin-off Posted: 29 Jun 2021 03:29 PM PDT Remedy are making a four-player co-operative spin-off to Control. Codenamed Condor, it's a long ways off and only the concept art above has been shown so far, but it's in the works alongside another new "bigger-budget Control-game." Read more

Death Trash's demo is still available after end of Steam Next Fest Posted: 29 Jun 2021 02:09 PM PDT We've been writing about Death Trash since 2015, and it'll launch in early access at last on August 5th. You don't have to wait five weeks to play it, though. The demo - one of the best of the Steam Next Fest - has been made permanently available. Read more

This RTX 3060 Ryzen 5800H gaming laptop is $1269 today at B&H Posted: 29 Jun 2021 01:28 PM PDT If you're in the market for a gaming laptop and you're in the US of A, we've got a great deal for you. The Lenovo Legion 5, one of the best reviewed gaming laptops on the market, has been discounted to $1269 at Newegg, compared to $1549 elsewhere. That's for a model that comes with an RTX 3060 graphics card, Ryzen 7 5800H processor and 512GB NVMe SSD storage - a very solid spec! Read more

Magic: Legends is closing down six months after entering open beta Posted: 29 Jun 2021 01:23 PM PDT Magic: Legends is closing down. The action RPG entered open beta just three months ago, but its servers will be switched off for good three months from now, on October 31st 2021. Read more

Forza Horizon 4's future updates will recycle old content Posted: 29 Jun 2021 01:06 PM PDT Forza Horizon 5 was announced during E3 2021 and is due this November. In the latest Forza Monthly update, developers Playground Games have spoken about future plans for the previous game in the series, Forza Horizon 4. Mainly, that the next update will be the last to add new content to the three-year-old game. Read more

Sony have bought Housemarque, developers of Returnal and Nex Machina Posted: 29 Jun 2021 12:39 PM PDT Housemarque are best known for developing PlayStation exclusives like Returnal, Matterfall and Resogun, but among those they also released stellar arcade shmup Nex Machina on PC. Now the Finnish developers have been bought outright by Sony. Read more

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