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Below you’ll find something a little different from our usual daily round-ups. For our last day at PAX, we’ve done a super, uber, mega round-up on the entire event. We list off our favourite panel moments, the best game demos we played, and our general opinion on how the overall convention went. Click play below to see one of our last videos from the event: If you’d like a complete list of all the videos we made, here is a complete list of everything complete with links to the relevant RPS pages....

In this beginner’s guide to Rumbleverse I’ll teach you some of the most important tips you need to bear in mind if you want to consistently win fights and matches. We’ll cover everything from looting to stamina management, from attack priorities to particular combos, and other useful little tidbits that may save your life on the punishing streets and rooftops of Grapital City. Use Playground Mode to learn the basics There’s a lot to learn about Rumbleverse’s combat system, and the best way to get to grips with it is to spend some time in Playground Mode when you first load up the game....

In a blog post, GSC Game World explain that we’ll again be romping around an irradiated wasteland full of mutants and spooky energy. “This is our most immersive world yet, and we are crafting it with the love and passion this setting deserves,” they say. They also talk about having “reimagined” the A-Life system which gave NPC people and creatures little lives of their own to live, saying that the new A-Life 2....

On this page we’ll go over some of the best ways to make fast cash in Saints Row. How to make money fast in Saints Row Saints Row is generous about letting you access almost everything from earl on, but Criminal Ventures are one of the few major features that require you to make a bit of progress first. If you’re looking for some cash to tide you over in the meantime, you can pull off some smaller jobs to keep you in the black....

The point I’m trying to get to is that this isn’t really a slim and sexy time of year for me. More of a fat and cuddly (but still sexy) season. On the other hand, this Alienware m15 R4 gaming laptop is both slim and sexy, as well as a full $500 off in Dell’s early Black Friday sales. Besides being an upgraded successor to the excellent, circa 2019 Alienware m15, this model is Alienware’s thinnest and most powerful 15....

Seasonal spooking from Squirrel With A Gun (coming to Steam): I always like dodging around a battlefield with NPCs fighting, and when those NPCs are giant robots? Yes, thanks V.A Proxy (coming to Steam): Good fog, good explosions, and a good horde in the PvP base defense game currently known by the working title Legion Souls: A whole lot of prettiness going on here: You have a few more days to vote on whether parrying projectiles or a customisable horn honk is better, so maybe this from Niamh will help: Fella-rescuing shoot-o-platformer Moons Of Darsalon (coming to Steam) looks dead charming, I’ll have to check out the demo that’s up on Steam: Our weekly dose of grappling hook violence comes courtesy of Cyber Combat: An extremely cute mouse house: Into tech corner, here’s a good melting effect from the first-person shooter Hellscreen (coming to Steam): This roguelikelike’s fluid simulation makes me think of Noita, and I am always happy to think of Noita: Speaking of red fluids, I appreciate this look at bloodcraft in isolation: Let’s close out with a fun little bug: What else caught your eye this weekend, reader dear?...

It’s dark and dreary in the woods tonight, but nothing that can’t be fixed with a light tune and lighter step. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings — Mads Vadsholt (@ItsMadsTalking) August 29, 2020 In development by Mads Vadsholt and friends, The Forest Quartet is an eerie woodland trail about a dead singer trying to bring the back back together. There’s a wonderfully otherworldly “melted” look to the way trees, fungi and undergrowth shift and throb, enhancing the all-too-static plasticity of later machinery - odd pipes and doodads that burst with life when brought back online....

The Seagate Barracuda Fast SSD comes in three sizes right now: 500GB, 1TB and 2TB. I was sent the middle 1TB drive to test, which currently goes for £121 / $138. That’s still quite a lot compared to an internal 1TB SSD, but unfortunately that’s the price you pay for being able to take your files and games on the road with you. Indeed, the entry-level 500GB Barracuda Fast SSD is a much more wallet-friendly £73 in the UK, putting it pretty much on par with Samsung’s excellent and slightly older T5 SSD....

The Freightliner is scooting from the boxy little town of Riverton to the slightly nicer looking Jackson. The highway cuts through some dramatic red gorges—very Martian—before settling into some classic American West scenery. You feel like cowboys could pop up at any moment to herd the bison that pepper the roadside. The roads are pretty quiet. Wyoming is the 10th largest state in the US, but also one of the least populated....

In June, not long after Zaimont had made a ghastly joke referring to the killing of George Floyd on a Skullgirls stream (for which he apologised), several members of the fighting game community accused him of inappropriate sexual comments and behaviour. “We are aware of the allegations made about Mike Zaimont,” Lab Zero said in response on Twitter on July 3rd. “We are listening and we’ll make a full statement soon....

For a brief, beautiful moment last night, Sony were good to PC gaming. Their PlayStation 5 Showcase focused on their new console, sure, but they did let the Final Fantasy XVI announcement confirm a PC release, and they did reveal the Demon’s Souls remaster is coming to PC too. For a company cagey about even acknowledging the existence of other platforms, this was delightful. Then Square Enix and Sony both said ’lol whoops typo, didn’t mean to say that lmao’ and walked back the PC announcements....

Spelunky 2 blasts off to the Moon to explore more levels of caves and ruins, down and down through different biomes with strange wildlife and stranger mysteries. It’s a roguelike sorta thing, with procedurally-generated levels and all sorts of secrets and surprising interactions between systems to discover, learn, and ultimately use to your advantage. And lots of deaths that make you start a new run, obvs. As our Graham has written about before, the process of discovery is a joy....

As part of the update, the base game has been renamed Spiritfarer: Farewell Edition, containing the latest and all previous additional content. This final update adds two new spirits you can bring aboard your boat (and carry towards their end): Jackie the Hyena and Daria the Bat. Jackie is a caretaker of a rundown hospital, and Daria is his “most notable patient.” Thunder Lotus put out a trailer for Jackie and Daria last week, seen above, which shows the characters as well as the new Overbrook island and what I’m guessing is the new event, called “Mind Palace....

Any trailer will reveal at once how it works. At its most vanilla, you’re racking up kills in a team deathmatch using carbines, plasma rifles, shotguns, SMGs, rocket launchers - all the usual suspects (most of them with a familiar Halo “pop”). But you’re also flicking out portals with a tap of a button. You can only place portals on certain blue mesh surfaces. But there’s no cooldown for the ability, and you can close portals with a tap....

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Second Sister guide Second Sister location How to beat The Second Sister - boss fight walkthrough (Jedi Master) Second Sister location Like many other bosses in Jedi: Fallen Order, you’ll encounter the Second Sister on the planet Zeffo - but only the second time you return there as part of Cal’s overarching story. The good news is that once you’re at this stage of the campaign, all you need to do is head straight to the mission marker on the map, and it’ll take you straight to the Second Sister, who is lying in wait in the Imperial Dig Site region of Zeffo....

Running from today through November 2nd, The Steam Halloween Sale 2020 is back, with bone-chilling discounts on countless games regardless of how scary they may be. If you are in the mood for a scare, though, then this year’s event does conveniently offer different lineups for Horror games, plus non-horror works that just happen to contain terrifying themes. As well as sorting by genre or features (co-op, third-person, VR), there’s a special carousel slot for games currently running haunting Halloween events....

On the 25th of December, 2021, reports went round the Internet that the Steam storefront and community pages were not accessible in China. Many assumed that authorities had finally banned the global version of Steam. Some subsequent reports claimed that it was ‘DNS poisoning’ preventing people from accessing the store, which some people took to mean it was an attack by wrong’uns rather than censorship. Steam is not outright down in China, mind....

The major addition is that of two new campaigns: Barony Of Loth, due to arrive in the spring, and the Barya campaign, aiming for release in the autumn. Those will bring the game’s total campaigns up to four. Songs Of Conquest will receive a new ‘Battlegrounds’ mode this year, which will allow players to skip the kingdom management and building parts of the game in favour of pure turn-based battling....

Well, allow me to dispel your illusions right away: Sucker For Love: First Date is not an H-game. It is, in fact, the most chaste dating sim I think I’ve ever played, while also managing to be the most obscenely graphic. You often hear games that straddle different genres accused of not knowing what they’re trying to be. Sucker For Love does not suffer from this issue: it knows exactly what it wants to be....

Staff told Eurogamer that the meeting went into detail about pay, bonuses, workloads and company culture. That included the announcement of an immediate pay review for QA staff, who were a focus of the allegations regarding low pay and overwork in last week’s report. Pattison said that their aim was to pay people in line with the market rate. “We’ll make necessary changes there where we see any deltas - where we’re off in terms of competitive pay....