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• We're hiring a new Section Editor, and applications are open right now
• What kind of pot is Elden Ring’s pot boy? We asked an expert
• Cyberpunk 2077 works now, but its real strengths and weaknesses remain unchanged
• 2023 won't get a new main Call Of Duty, report claims
• The Joy of playing as Total War: Warhammer 3’s unpretentious foodies, the Ogre Kingdoms
• Valve’s new Steam Deck compatibility checker shows which of your games are handheld-ready
• Play 8 simultaneous Wordle puzzles in Octordle
• Guardians Of The Galaxy didn't meet Square Enix's sales expectations
• Final Fantasy 14 will make life easier for solo players
• Destiny 2: The Witch Queen is live and throwing errors
• The wonderful Far: Changing Tides has a demo in Steam Next Fest
• Bethesda binning their Launcher, will let you transfer games to Steam
• Tencent buying former BioWare general manager's new studio
• Horizon Forbidden West has an entirely pointless grappling hook, can someone please remove it
• Elden Ring's launch trailer reveals new things, so be warned
• The jolly co-operation of localising Dark Souls
• Gibbon: Beyond The Trees' demo has some real rad backflips

We're hiring a new Section Editor, and applications are open right now Posted: 23 Feb 2022 05:30 AM PST The RPS team is growing once again. This time, we're on the look out for a new Section Editor: someone who can come in and take the reins of our growing reviews section and use their expert editing skills to make sure all of our posts, whether that's news, reviews, features or previews, are all in tip-top condition before publication. It's a pretty experienced role, but if you're a staff writer looking to take the next step in your career, or an existing section editor looking to shift into the wonderful world of PC gaming, we want to hear from you - and you can apply right here. Read more

What kind of pot is Elden Ring’s pot boy? We asked an expert Posted: 23 Feb 2022 05:02 AM PST What truths await us all inside the enigma that is Elden Ring’s Pot Boy? Fermented veg, most likely. Not my hypothesis, but that of Adam Sutton, Iron Age and Roman Pottery Specialist at the Museum of London Archaeology. Do you hear me, Miyazaki? I simply will not stand for any more of your delightfully obtuse world-building, and so I’ve enlisted expert help to illuminate the shrouded past of the internet’s favourite boy whomst is also a pot (pictured above attending The Game Awards live and in person). Together, we will excavate his very soul. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Read more

Cyberpunk 2077 works now, but its real strengths and weaknesses remain unchanged Posted: 23 Feb 2022 04:35 AM PST Cyberpunk 2077 was an infuriating mess in so many ways when I reviewed it at the end of 2020, but a funny thing would happen every time I'd stop playing it. All the T-posed NPCs, floataway physics bugs and crashes-to-desktop would be lost in time, like tears in rain. What remained was the deep appreciation I had for its story and characters, and a longing to revisit Night City. So I have. After last week's patch 1.5 promised more fixes, a refreshed perk tree and improved AI, I wondered if I might finally be able to champion the first-person RPG without caveats. The answer is not a simple yes or no - but the list of caveats is definitely a lot shorter. Read more

2023 won't get a new main Call Of Duty, report claims Posted: 23 Feb 2022 03:00 AM PST Call Of Duty launching a new sequel every year is a tradition older than the CoD players who tell me they've had sex with my mother. But this tradition may break next year, according to an unconfirmed report. Supposedly Activision have delayed next year's game, leaving 2023 without a shiny new main series game. That doesn't mean 2023 won't have any new CoD, mind. Read more

The Joy of playing as Total War: Warhammer 3’s unpretentious foodies, the Ogre Kingdoms Posted: 23 Feb 2022 02:30 AM PST Back in 2012, the late great Antony Bourdain tweeted an impassioned defence of a fellow food writer, then 85 year old Marilyn Hagerty, whose recent positive review of her local Olive Garden had become the subject of widespread memery. I’ve never eaten at an Olive Garden because a.) we don’t have them in the UK, and b.) unlimited pasta sounds like a death sentence. But I understand it’s viewed as a faux-fancy chain for people who think Al Dente was the name of the man who invented spaghetti, and not somewhere you’d want to earnestly praise as a quote unquote ‘serious critic’. Big Tones was having none of it. He applauded Hagerty’s celebration of Olive Garden as a genuine expression of widespread American food culture, calling her detractors ‘snarkologists’, and then published a book of her reviews. A class act, no doubt. And it’s this championing of the everyman gourmand, this deep passion for non-exclusionary, unpretentious foodie culture, that powers Total War: Warhammer 3’s most joyfully silly campaign experience. Read more

Valve’s new Steam Deck compatibility checker shows which of your games are handheld-ready Posted: 23 Feb 2022 01:57 AM PST Time for another Steam Deck compatibility update from your Steam Deck compatibility correspondent. This time, Valve have launched a new tool that lets you check your entire Steam library for Deck readiness at once, sorting them into categories based on the results their ongoing compatibility testing programme. Read more

Play 8 simultaneous Wordle puzzles in Octordle Posted: 22 Feb 2022 03:17 PM PST Wordle is a daily puzzle game in which you've got six guesses to identify a word. Dordle doubled it, having you guess two words on two boards at the same time. Then Quordle doubled it again, making it four. Child's play. I'm here to talk about Octordle, in which your guesses are input into eight games of Wordle simultaneously. Read more

Guardians Of The Galaxy didn't meet Square Enix's sales expectations Posted: 22 Feb 2022 02:35 PM PST Despite being a critical hit and one of our favourite games of last year, Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy hasn't met publisher Square Enix's sales expectations. Just like Marvel's Avengers before it. Read more

Final Fantasy 14 will make life easier for solo players Posted: 22 Feb 2022 01:54 PM PST Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker brought a close to some of the long-running MMO's story arcs, but it's far from the end for a game that proved so popular Square Enix briefly removed it from sale. In a live broadcast earlier this week, producer and director Naoki Yoshida outlined future ambitions, including making it possible to play all "main scenario dungeons of A Realm Reborn" with NPC pals instead of other players. Yoshida also mentioned the game's first planned graphical update, and a partial roadmap of new content to come in future patches. Read more

Destiny 2: The Witch Queen is live and throwing errors Posted: 22 Feb 2022 01:05 PM PST Destiny 2's latest expansion, The Witch Queen, is live now. It brings the arrival of Savathûn, the Hive god of cunning and lies, who has blessed her followers with the same power as Guardians. It's also bringing queues, because it's a big new live service game. Read more

The wonderful Far: Changing Tides has a demo in Steam Next Fest Posted: 22 Feb 2022 10:22 AM PST If you can't wait a whole week until the launch of Far: Changing Tides, good news: it has a demo right now in the Steam Next Fest. The post-apocalyptic sailboat adventure is a good'un, our Far: Changing Tides review will tell you, but maybe you need a little more convincing? That's what demos are for. Read more

Bethesda binning their Launcher, will let you transfer games to Steam Posted: 22 Feb 2022 10:14 AM PST After six years, Bethesda Bethesda today announced they're scrapping their Bethesda Launcher, closing it down in May. I imagine it's because not a single person in the world uses the client doodad by choice, only because they were railroaded by a Bethnet exclusive. Bethesda are instead re-embracing Steam, letting people who own games on the Launcher transfer them to a Steam account. You know, Steam, the platform they rejected and tried to fight in their delusions of grandeur. They could've just not, and saved everyone six years. Read more

Tencent buying former BioWare general manager's new studio Posted: 22 Feb 2022 09:20 AM PST Three months after the new studio of former BioWare general manager Aaryn Flynn announced their game Nightingale, they're being bought by Tencent. The media conglomerate are buying the studio, Inflexion Games, off tech company Improbable, who say they're too busy with the metaverse nowadays. So far, the plan remains the same: launch the multiplayer Victorian fantasy craft-o-survival game into early access later this year. Read more

Horizon Forbidden West has an entirely pointless grappling hook, can someone please remove it Posted: 22 Feb 2022 08:20 AM PST Over the weekend, I played Horizon Forbidden West on my big Sony box, a game I spent several hours in before reaching said titular region. I still appear to be untold miles away from the cool kind of jungley beachy bits from the promo screenshots. So far, though, I'm having a lot of fun, riding around on my big metal robot cow in its stunning world - a very beautiful game, is this, with lots of lens flare and dripping water and waving grass. A big and interesting world, and I am very much looking forward to playing more and reading insightful criticism and analysis of it. I would also like someone to explain the Pullcaster to me, because it's one thing in Horizon Forbidden West that, as far as I can tell, does not need to exist whatsoever. Read more

Elden Ring's launch trailer reveals new things, so be warned Posted: 22 Feb 2022 07:03 AM PST While Elden Ring doesn't launch for another few days, the launch trailer launched today. Like many people, I'm trying to avoid the new grim adventure from the makers of Dark Souls as much as possible, because I want to go in innocent, wide-eyed, full of surprise, and wholly unwarned of the many deaths awaiting me. So I'll share the launch trailer with you but I won't watch it myself. Even the game's marketing team warn that it shows things we've not seen before. Read more

The jolly co-operation of localising Dark Souls Posted: 22 Feb 2022 05:30 AM PST Dark Souls begins by creating the universe. “In the Age of Ancients, the world was unformed, shrouded by fog,” intones the opening cinematic. “A land of gray crags, archtrees and everlasting dragons.” Those two sentences do a lot of heavy lifting. “We needed to conjure an image of the world in its previous static state, where concepts that we take for granted - the finite nature of life and all conceptual contrasts - were nonexistent,” says Ryan Morris, lead translator at Frognation, the Tokyo and London-based consultancy that has handled the majority of From's Souls or Souls-type projects, from the original Demon's Souls to this year's Elden Ring. “I think of the singularity that existed before the Big Bang.” Read more

Gibbon: Beyond The Trees' demo has some real rad backflips Posted: 22 Feb 2022 04:49 AM PST When Broken Rules announced their colourful 2D swingathon Gibbon: Beyond The Trees at the beginning of February, I was immediately on board. Finally, I could live out my dream of sliding down tree branches like Disney's Tarzan, all while playing another gorgeous adventure from the makers of Old Man's Journey and Secrets Of Raetikon. Admittedly, I was surprised when I saw it was going to be part of this week's Steam Next Fest. The developers have said upfront that the game is only around an hour long, and with this week's demo stretching to a generous 20 minutes, part of me's now quite sad that I've already seen a third of it in action. The other part of me, however, is absolutely thrilled, and it's all down to my gibbon's sick, speed-boosting backflips. Read more

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