Nintendo and Intelligent Systems have released an expansion pass for Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, introducing a string of DLC additions to the tactical RPG starting today, and through into 2027. Read more
Category: Gaming
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The rumoured Steam Frame OLED would fix one of the Frame's minor weaknesses and do nothing for its major ones
Good catch by SteamFrameHub here: snippets of the recently released Steam Frame kernel source code contain references to a possible variant of Valve's new VR headset with upgraded OLED lenses. A failed prototype, ditched during development? Maybe not – one of the related code branches, which codename the device 'Planar,' was updated on October 2nd, weeks after the LCD-lensed Frame opened for reservations.
There's details, too. The OLED lenses seem to have a native resolution of 3,552×3,840 and a max refresh rate of 90Hz, suspiciously identical to the MicroOLED lenses used by Samsung's Galaxy VR headset. In standalone VR play, this would be much harsher on the (allegedly unchanged) Snapdragon SoC than the current Frame's 2,160×2160 eyescreens, but then the code also hints that Valve are getting around this with a cousin of the Frame's foveated rendering and foveated streaming tech: foveated scaling, where higher pixel density is used where your eyes look, and lower, less demanding pixel density is applied where they don't. Interesting! Even if right now, the whole idea of a Steam Frame OLED doesn't make much sense.
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007 First Light gets Switch 2 release date, with IO Interactive saying time for "optimisation and performance" was needed
The Switch 2 version of 007 First Light will be released 18th March, 2027, IO Interactive has announced. The game had originally been expected this summer but IOI announced a delay to an unspecific date in March roughly a month ago. Read more
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Monumentally expansive roguelike Caves of Qud is getting even bigger in December with an early access expansion that lets you play as messed up dogs and trees
Caves of Qud is a game well liked over here at RPS; Brendan gave it the coveted Bestest Bests badge back when it launched into 1.0 a couple of years ago, and all! It's a game I still want to reckon with more deeply, and perhaps with the reveal of its first expansion I'll be more enticed to. It's called Diaspora, and its biggest feature is probably the fact that you'll be able to play as plants and animals. Interestingly, much like the base game before it, developer Freehold Games will also be releasing Diaspora into early access, a unique step to take for a bit of DLC.
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Big Walk devs House House announce support for BDS Microsoft boycott, say the co-op puzzler isn't coming to Xbox
House House, creators of breezy co-op puzzle adventure Big Walk, have become the latest high-profile game developers to express support for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement's ongoing Microsoft boycott. The developers, who also made avian mischief sim Untitled Goose Game, wrote in a post that they've been observing the boycott – called in 2025 in protest of Microsoft's business ties with the Israeli military – for a while, citing it as the reason why Big Walk went without an Xbox console release alongside its PC, PS5, and Switch 2 versions.
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"We are here to give you something to believe in": the former Disco Elysium devs of Summer Eternal reveal new RPG Red Rooster, a game of fire, water and alternate selves
Earlier this month, the former Disco Elysium developers of worker co-operative studio Summer Eternal sent me a 500-page anthology describing their new game Red Rooster. It's a 3D, real-time, third-person RPG you could broadly style as a spiritual Disco successor, working in the tradition of Planescape: Torment and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, but which also owes much inspiration to Baldur's Gate 3 and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. It takes place in a magic realist, "our-world-adjacent", mightily flammable and divided river city called Arta-Trantor, created with Unreal Engine and housing a "physics-powered sandbox of objects you can individually move, manipulate – and burn." Read more