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… read more
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… read more
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… read more
Days after a report emerged about them imposing an "AI-first" production model on the devs of a new Disney shooter, Epic Games have released a new version of their launcher in preview form. It's been "vibe coded" with aim of making it "faster than the other guy". That other guy is Steam, something the yacht… read more
As part of Microsoft's ongoing, physics-ignoring push to do more business with thousands fewer staff, games chief Asha Sharma has announced Xbox Labs: a new umbrella for Xbox's R&D into the kind of game remixing and rejigging most visibly characterised by viralities like Halo for browsers, or Mario in Elden Ring. Both enabled, perhaps tellingly,… read more
Microsoft is surveying Xbox Insiders about making franchises like Fallout, Minecraft and The Elder Scrolls (but not Call of Duty) Xbox exclusives. Read Full Article read more
Epic Games isn't lifting its foot off the gen-AI pedal. The company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine has now vibe-coded a new Epic Games Launcher in an attempt to outrun Steam, by far the most popular digital games marketplace on PC. Read more Read Full Article read more
The employment tribunal between the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) and GTA 6 maker Rockstar games was due to conclude this Friday, but the legal case has now been extended into November. It's like everything Rockstar touches gets delayed… Read more Read Full Article read more
Rockstar Games has revealed the original codename for Grand Theft Auto 6 was Project Americas, and that its intention was for the game to cover large areas of land in both the north of the country and the south. Read more Read Full Article read more
The ongoing employment tribunal between Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar Games and IWBG union members laid off from the studio has been extended into November.. Read more Read Full Article read more
They're all here now. The post Resident Evil’s Nintendo return shines brightest with stellar Switch 2 remake trilogy appeared first on Destructoid. Read Full Article read more
Retro gaming is going through a wild time at the moment, thanks to decompilations and recompilations that are letting gamers port classic titles to new devices, or merge code from two different games into a single new experience. Microsoft has witnessed skateboarding being modded into Call of Duty and Halo being played in a web… read more