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• Diablo 4's art style promises a "return to darkness"
• New World's Heart Of Madness update is live, concluding its main storyline
• E3's digital event has been cancelled, meaning there's no E3 at all this year
• Citybuilding spin-off Cities: VR will launch on April 28th
• The Electronic Wireless Show episode 180: the best games to adapt into a TV show special
• Total War: Warhammer is free on Epic this week
• The Fertile Crescent review (early access): a bite-sized chunk of phenomenal RTS design
• Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 review: a launch party of AMD hardware
• RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2014
• Warhammer 40K: Darktide should finally arrive in September
• Superfuse is making a violent play to be your next co-op Diablo-like
• Weird West review: a breathtakingly reactive spin on classic Fallout
• Loop Hero makers support piracy if sanctions stop you buying it
• Nightmare Reaper is a retro-FPS roguelike that's bloody fun

Diablo 4's art style promises a "return to darkness" Posted: 31 Mar 2022 02:21 PM PDT I remember when Diablo 3 was released. One of the (many) talking points around the game was its art style, and the perception that Blizzard had made the art style lighter and friendlier versus the gothic greys of the previous two games. The criticism seemed a little overblown and silly at the time, but here we are reading the latest quarterly update on the development of Diablo 4. It focuses on the new game's art, and the phrase "return to darkness" is used repeatedly. Read more

New World's Heart Of Madness update is live, concluding its main storyline Posted: 31 Mar 2022 01:45 PM PDT Heart Of Madness was announced back at the start of March, with promises of concluding New World's storyline. Then it was going to release on Tuesday of this week, but was delayed due to a last minute bug. Then it was going to release on Wednesday of this week, but was delayed due to a last minute bug. Well, it's here now, Thursday, and it also adds a new Blunderbuss weapon and endless balance changes to the MMO. Read more

E3's digital event has been cancelled, meaning there's no E3 at all this year Posted: 31 Mar 2022 01:05 PM PDT E3 2022's physical event was cancelled back in January, but at the time organisers said they were "excited about the possibilities of an online event". Now that digital event has been cancelled as well, meaning there will be no E3 at all in 2022. Read more

Citybuilding spin-off Cities: VR will launch on April 28th Posted: 31 Mar 2022 12:39 PM PDT Squatting among the cityscapes of Google Earth remains one of virtual reality's best experiences, and so there's an instant appeal in being able to build the cityscape yourself. Cities: VR aims to allow that as a spin-off from Cities: Skylines, and we now know it'll launch exclusively for the Meta Quest 2 on April 28th. There's a new video below, offering a look at how it all works. Read more

The Electronic Wireless Show episode 180: the best games to adapt into a TV show special Posted: 31 Mar 2022 10:56 AM PDT This week, the Electronic Wireless Show podcast is talking about TV adaptations of video games, specifically the best games that would make for great telly box shows, rather than what's already been turned into visual screen fodder (*cough* Halo *cough*). Alice Bee is away this week, adapting to life in a brand-new country, leaving Nate and Matthew to dwell on the merits of The Mandalorian, and whether a show following the life of a Halo grunt would be better than big flashy Master Chief quips. Matthew puts forward the idea of a Hitman TV show in the vein of Succession, focusing not on Agent 47, but the elite corporate villains he assassinates, as they deal with various cast members being offed in mysterious circumstances. Nate, meanwhile, wants to go all-in on a Dungeon Keeper sitcom, and The Office-like monster relationships therein. Read more

Total War: Warhammer is free on Epic this week Posted: 31 Mar 2022 10:42 AM PDT This week's big free game on the Epic Games Store might have two sequels by now, but it's still a good'un: it's Total War: Warhammer. You have one week to claim the start of Creative Assembly's strategy trilogy set in Games Workshop's fantasy world of WH0K. Epic have also brought back a previous freebie, the first-person stabber City Of Brass. A tidy haul for the small price of using the Epic Games Store. Read more

The Fertile Crescent review (early access): a bite-sized chunk of phenomenal RTS design Posted: 31 Mar 2022 09:00 AM PDT I’m not going to bury the lede here: The Fertile Crescent is, to my delight, a proper little belter of a real-time strategy game. Having just hit early access, this Mesopotamian pomegranate-’em-up is certainly no epic, and you can see pretty much everything it can do within a couple of hours of play. But it’s been under development for five years, and by Hammurabi’s majestic beard does it show. Read more

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 review: a launch party of AMD hardware Posted: 31 Mar 2022 08:56 AM PDT Aha, another gaming laptop that conveniently lets me do a three-in-one review. The new Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is a more mature-looking replacement for the 2021 version, while also introducing two brand new components from AMD: the Ryzen 9 6900HS CPU and the Radeon RX 6800S graphics chip. Much like the key internals of the MSI Raider GE76, then, these components are up for first-time testing as much as the rest of the laptop is. Read more

RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2014 Posted: 31 Mar 2022 08:01 AM PDT Welcome back to the third edition of The RPS Time Capsule, a monthly feature in which the RPS Treehouse puts their hivemind together to pick their favourite, bestest best games from a specific year to be preserved until the end of time. In the spirit of keeping you on your toes, this time we've set our sights on the best games from 2014. Which games will make the cut and ascend to the realms of the PC gaming elite? Find out below. Read more

Warhammer 40K: Darktide should finally arrive in September Posted: 31 Mar 2022 07:09 AM PDT The makers of cooperative Warhammer FPS Vermintide today finally announced a release date for the far-future follow-up, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Its ragtag gang will start rooting out Chaos on the 13th of September, which, yes, does mean the game is delayed again. But this time they're committing to an actual date. Read more

Superfuse is making a violent play to be your next co-op Diablo-like Posted: 31 Mar 2022 07:00 AM PDT Diablo meets The Boys is the four-word elevator pitch of Stitch Heads and Raw Fury's new isometric hack and slasher - and judging from the amount of loot, blood and minced limbs I saw in my hands on demo last week, I'd say they're pretty bang on the money, albeit with an extra dash of Borderlands thanks to its cel-shaded comic book visuals. Whichever way you slice it, though, Superfuse makes a striking and violent first impression. Perhaps it's because I'm playing as its Berserker class, a large walking slab of man muscle whose axe and (comically large) fists can pulverise anything and everything standing in its way. Or maybe it's because the devs have given me free rein of the game's extensive skill tree, letting me pile in dozens of points into attacks, abilities and power-ups normally reserved for later on. Superfuse may be a loot-driven hack and slash with hundreds of different weapons and armour components to pick from, but its skill tree is equally vast, giving you as much flexibility in how your attacks play out onscreen as your various wardrobe choices - and some of its effects are deliciously gory. Read more

Weird West review: a breathtakingly reactive spin on classic Fallout Posted: 31 Mar 2022 06:00 AM PDT “Graveyard’s full,” says Timothy Hall, the man prodding the bones of the piano at the saloon in Grackle. It’s a concise expression of everything the town’s been through: the rampaging bandits, the cannibal kidnappings, the swirling tornados. Filling the graveyard has been a solemn bid for order in the wake of so much chaos. It’s not that way in Bripton, the next town over. The graveyard there is uncannily empty, save for a similarly bare tree. But you can change that, should you so choose: shoot up the bank or fight a duel and, the next time you return to that settlement, new plots will have appeared for every life snuffed out. Weird West even suggests you head to the local cemetery to loot any bodies you’ve missed - though its reputational system implies you should ensure nobody’s watching first. Read more

Loop Hero makers support piracy if sanctions stop you buying it Posted: 31 Mar 2022 05:16 AM PDT The Russian studio behind Loop Hero have encouraged would-be-players to pirate their game if they're unable to buy it due to the sanctions against Russia. Access to some payment systems has been lost following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, so the devs say if you can't figure out a way to buy it, hey, just download it. The route-building dungeon-crawler's publishers, Devolver Digital, have supported this. Read more

Nightmare Reaper is a retro-FPS roguelike that's bloody fun Posted: 31 Mar 2022 03:25 AM PDT Nightmare Reaper is rad, which is something I didn't think I'd say. DOOM and its DOOM-like spawn don't often do it for me. Bouncing around an arena and carving demons into hunks of meat gets a bit repetitive for my tastes. Which is weird! I love FPS games and repetitive things, like dying in Hades over and over again. I'm into Nightmare Reaper because it's repetitive... but not. It's a roguelike DOOM-inspired shooter where you blast through procedurally-generated levels and their demonic denizens, earn cash, put points into a skill-tree, and get as far as you can. The quest for loot has elevated this from a potential "Meh" to a solid, "Oh yeah". Read more

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