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- Lost Ark's March update will bring a new story quest and end-game raid
- New World will get its storyline conclusion in its next update
- NPCs in Elden Ring don't laugh nearly as much as I'd like
- Steam Deck interview: Valve devs on prioritising performance, future features and the boon of a bigger screen
- Ghostwire: Tokyo is getting a prequel visual novel, on PC next week
- Aperture Desk Job will yet again make you wish Valve made more games
- Back 4 Blood gets its first major expansion in April
- The top 10 games on PC in March
- The Waylanders update roadmap outlines bugfixes, new quests
- Guardians Of The Galaxy is coming to Xbox Game Pass this month
- Far: Changing Tides sails into stores today
- Steam Deck engineer says part replacements still “best left to pros”
- Little Orpheus delayed 'in light of recent world events'
- FixFox is part puzzle game, part sci-fi adventure, all chill
- Two Point Hospital's Speedy Recovery DLC adds ambulance management later this month
- Proton update soothes Elden Ring stuttering on the Steam Deck
- Letter From The Editor #07: looking forwards by looking back
- Conan Chop Chop battles its way onto PC today, with publishers donating to Ukraine
- Elden Ring being the most welcoming Soulsborne game is a very relative term
- Valve’s Steam Deck prototypes: the best, the worst, and the utterly cursed
- Valheim's frost caves are now open for spelunking
- What's up with the rolling goats in Elden Ring?
| Lost Ark's March update will bring a new story quest and end-game raid Posted: 02 Mar 2022 09:16 AM PST  Amazon's Diablo-ish MMORPG Lost Ark has revealed a roadmap that will bring more content to the Western version of the game, starting this month. March will see the addition of more story, as well as a late-game activity called Abyss Raids, where players will need to work together to defeat a Guardian within a set time limit. |
| New World will get its storyline conclusion in its next update Posted: 02 Mar 2022 08:16 AM PST |
| NPCs in Elden Ring don't laugh nearly as much as I'd like Posted: 02 Mar 2022 08:14 AM PST  Some things are synonymous with Soulsborne games. Approachability, which Alice Bee thinks is a very relative term. Nail-biting combat, intricate worlds, a story that's drip-fed through it all. But it's the littlest bits that round off their identity. The dong of their menu sounds (I love a good menu noise) and their elevators operated by pressure plates. There's also one other big thing that Soulsborne games deliver on. As any seasoned player knows, it's not a FromSoft game without the laughs. While there's plenty of humour in the cliff falls and silly invasions, I'm talking in a more literal sense. The NPCs often round off their sentences with a chuckle. But so far, Elden Ring lacks the despairing "hahaha" of old. And it makes me sad. |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2022 07:51 AM PST  A few days before Steam Deck preorders began shipping out, I called up Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais and designer Jake Rodkin for a chat about the handheld PC. At this point I’d already been testing it for a while, and as you can now tell from my Steam Deck review, was already sold on both the promise and (mostly) the execution of this plastic go-anywhere gaming machine. Now, it was time to find out more about how it came to be, what new tricks we can expect in the future, and what work is already going to on ensure compatibility with as many Steam games as possible. |
| Ghostwire: Tokyo is getting a prequel visual novel, on PC next week Posted: 02 Mar 2022 07:38 AM PST  Upcoming action-adventure slash rain-soaked neon city simulator Ghostwire: Tokyo is getting a prequel in the form of a free visual novel. It'll be out on PC next week, ahead of the release of the main game later this month. |
| Aperture Desk Job will yet again make you wish Valve made more games Posted: 02 Mar 2022 07:34 AM PST  I'm replaying the first Portal at the moment, so maybe I'm just extra-susceptible to the Valve man coming around selling tickets for his hype-train, but playing Aperture Desk Job was like sitting in a nice warm bath. It's a "playable short" - basically a 30-minute tech demo designed for the Steam Deck, to show off how to use all the little flaps and controller bits on Valve's new handheld PCxGameboy toy (like the Aperture Hand Lab for VR from a few years back). Crucially, though, Aperture Desk Job is: a) free; 2) playable on a regular PC; and iii) set in the Portal universe. In fact, it has surprisingly large implications for said game series (no spoilers in this post, btw). And it just reminds me how good Valve are at, you know, making games. Please, Valve, make more games. |
| Back 4 Blood gets its first major expansion in April Posted: 02 Mar 2022 06:14 AM PST  Co-op zombie shooter Back 4 Blood will be back 4 more blood in April. Its first major DLC, Tunnels of Terror, will bring the a new cooperative PvE mode along with more playable characters, weapon skins, and so on. |
| The top 10 games on PC in March Posted: 02 Mar 2022 04:30 AM PST  February was a bumper month for PC games, wasn’t it? As if Elden Ring wasn't enough game to be getting on with, we also had strategy behemoth Total War: Warhammer 3 alongside surprise hit Lost Ark. You could argue that after a month as busy as February, we could all do with a bit of space to actually play these enormous games before we throw anything else onto our already bursting backlogs. Sadly, I come bearing terrible news. March is yet another jam-packed month for new releases, with huge titles such as GhostWire: Tokyo and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands threatening to tear our attention away from the wonderful Elden Ring. And that’s before I tell you about promising indie releases like Tunic and Weird West! |
| The Waylanders update roadmap outlines bugfixes, new quests Posted: 02 Mar 2022 03:59 AM PST  Developers Gato Salvaje have detailed planned improvements to Celtic-inspired mythic adventure RPG The Waylanders over the next few months. As well as some much-needed bug fixes, they're looking to make improvements to "gameplay, animations, and translations." Hopefully they can pull it off. |
| Guardians Of The Galaxy is coming to Xbox Game Pass this month Posted: 02 Mar 2022 02:51 AM PST  Guardians Of The Galaxy will be coming to Xbox Game Pass on March 10. Star-Lord for the cost of your subscription only. There are a handful of other games being added too. |
| Far: Changing Tides sails into stores today Posted: 01 Mar 2022 08:48 AM PST  I have to confess that I am waiting for the minutes to tick down to the end of my shift, because Far: Changing Tides is out today and I want nothing more than to take a rickety old sailboat out for an atmospheric glide across the seas. I can already smell the grease and the salt in the air. They're calling to me. |
| Steam Deck engineer says part replacements still “best left to pros” Posted: 01 Mar 2022 08:31 AM PST  Valve haven’t changed their collective minds on DIY Steam Deck upgrades and repairs; although the portable PC is finally on its way to the earliest reservers, it’s still the company’s stance that you shouldn’t open it up and make hardware changes yourself. That’s according to Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais, who spoke to us at length on the making of the Deck and its future prospects. Valve have previously made the peculiar move of showing exactly how to open a Steam Deck and remove individual parts, complete with video, while simultaneously declaring it something owners should refrain from. On pain of borking components, personal injury, and even death, apparently. |
| Little Orpheus delayed 'in light of recent world events' Posted: 01 Mar 2022 07:57 AM PST  Publishers Secret Mode have announced that they won't be releasing action adventure game Little Orpheus for PC today, as previously planned. The game features a Soviet cosmonaut, which Secret Mode wrote "may be upsetting to players at this time." |
| FixFox is part puzzle game, part sci-fi adventure, all chill Posted: 01 Mar 2022 07:27 AM PST  FixFox is a delighful name to say. I keep calling it Fikfok, once by mistake and then the rest of the time on purpose. You are Vix (vikfikfok), an fox wot fixes things in a distant future, where humans started to gene-splice themselves with animals for the convenience of having, for example, lovely warm fur. This is a step I would 100% take; even as I write this in the office I am wrapped in a blanket I brought in from home, and my fingers are still cold. I would be less able to repair things using bits of tape and coins I found in holes in the ground, but then I am not a mechanic. Vix is a mechanic, although they are laughed at by their compatriots for being quite a bad one. They have a sentient tool box called Tin, but misadventure means all Vix's conventional tools are lost. In the course of a pretty meaty preview build I got to explore a strange, cuboid planet, top-down stylee, and repair things for a buncha robots. But there are loads of other aspects to FixFox - a preoccupation with food, a kind of space-sokoban game, a story that hints at mystery and evolution and time. Part puzzle game, part sci-fi adventure, part fok. |
| Two Point Hospital's Speedy Recovery DLC adds ambulance management later this month Posted: 01 Mar 2022 07:00 AM PST  Sickroom simulator Two Point Hospital is getting a new mode in its upcoming DLC. Carry injured patients to see the appropriate healthcare professional, but forget the old fashioned ambulance. Instead, you'll be able to dispatch a fleet of modern alternatives, from the clown car to the Airloovator. But be quick, because other local hospitals have their own transport, and they're also trying to scoop up the hot commodities - er, I mean, sick people. |
| Proton update soothes Elden Ring stuttering on the Steam Deck Posted: 01 Mar 2022 06:53 AM PST  Elden Ring is clearly going down well, but it also has bigger problems than unexplained rolling goats. Even with a day-one patch, problems with frame rate drops, crashes, and visual glitches have been widely reported by players; I myself encountered some suttering while putting together our performance and settings guide. However, if you’re lucky enough to get a Steam Deck in the first round of order fulfilments, you could see improvements that have yet to materialise on Windows. |
| Letter From The Editor #07: looking forwards by looking back Posted: 01 Mar 2022 06:00 AM PST  Hello folks. I'm sorry this month's Letter From The Editor is a bit late. February sure has been one of those months, what with two of the biggest games of the year so far, not to mention a whole new piece of hardware launching in the space of two measly weeks. If I'd had my act together, I could have used this letter to give you a glimpse of all the exciting things we've just done - things like our freshly-concluded Souls Week, or all the neat Steam Next Fest bits we had planned, and (maybe) even a sneaky peek at all the excellent Steam Deck stuff we've written about as well. Alas, my time management skills have been a bit of a dumpster fire this month - although if you haven't checked out everything I've just mentioned, please do go and have a read. The RPS team have been very busy bees this month, and it would be a shame to miss out on all the great stuff going on. Of course, the question now becomes, how do we carry on this kind of momentum when literally nothing has a confirmed release date past the end of March? The answer is... complicated. |
| Conan Chop Chop battles its way onto PC today, with publishers donating to Ukraine Posted: 01 Mar 2022 06:00 AM PST  Co-op roguelite Conan Chop Chop brings its barbarian action to Steam today. Die a lot, alone or with friends or strangers, on the couch or online. (Probably don't invite strangers to your house to play though). Then get stronger, improve your equipment, and hopefully die less until you can triumph over an evil wizard and prove once and for all that brawn is better than brains. |
| Elden Ring being the most welcoming Soulsborne game is a very relative term Posted: 01 Mar 2022 05:00 AM PST  I have seen chat about Elden Ring being the most accessible (as in, welcoming to newcomers and easy to pick up) game yet of the collected FromSoft oeuvre. I haven't played nearly as much Elden Ring as Ed or our guides team, but I do feel this statement, while not an exact a lie, definitely needs a lot more qualification than people are giving it. In relative terms, one would say that a bowl of hot sick was more enjoyable than eating a bowl of cold sick, for example. Elden Ring is, of course, much better than sick at any temperature, obviously - I'm just saying that so far, I have not found it to be much easier or less opaque than any other FromSoft game, except it has clearer tooltips and sometimes an NPC will say, "You should do this thing." In fact, the open world - the thing that people say is the most good bit - is having the opposite effect on me. |
| Valve’s Steam Deck prototypes: the best, the worst, and the utterly cursed Posted: 01 Mar 2022 04:12 AM PST  Within the Steam Deck press pack lies an unexpected treasure: a collage of abandoned prototype models. Dozens of them, from clear progenitors of the final handheld to some truly mad, unreasonably pointy and sometimes blindingly colourful designs. And one that’s literally held together with tape. |
| Valheim's frost caves are now open for spelunking Posted: 01 Mar 2022 03:23 AM PST  Viking survival saga Valheim gets even chillier today as players gain access to some mysterious ice caves up in the mountains. Apparently, there's something howling out there? Probably a friendly dog trying to say hello and absolutely nothing to worry about. The patch also optimises for Steam Deck and controller support, perfect for when you want to get cosy in your bed before spelunking into the frosty depths searching for your definitely friendly new companion. |
| What's up with the rolling goats in Elden Ring? Posted: 01 Mar 2022 03:00 AM PST  Elden Ring is an action-RPG filled with untold horrors. Tentacled masses that writhe on shores, goblins that'll hack at your knees, corrupted priests that sling fireballs. They are mysterious, to a degree, but they're also quite easy to read. Your innards? Their tea. But what makes the game great is its capacity for surprise, the deep well of lore – the gaps left for us to fill. The goats. What's up with them, huh? Can anyone tell me what's up with the goats in Elden Ring? |
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