Our weekly news liveblog
Heres the very first of RockPaperShotguns new weekly news liveblogs.
Read more about the thinking behind them inour announcement post, if you dare.
This week’s soundtrack is Low Roar’sI’ll Keep Coming, from theDeath Strandingtrailer.
Our live coverage of this event has finished.
It’s been given that rating for violence, “inappropriate language” and for being “anti-society”.
BloodDome99, out 4th Dec, is a satirical Survivor ‘em up about deathgames in an alternative Reaganite USA.
The satire is a bit too heavy-handed for me, but I quite enjoy the visuals.
As spotted byPCGamesN, Inscryption creator Daniel Mullins comes off as teasing a new game.
Here’s a video.
Imogen (RPS in peace)really liked the early access release back in 2021.
Alonger write-upabout the new Daniel Mullins project.
Footage of a new Tribes gamefrom a recent playtest?
Don’t mind if we do.
Thanks for spotting, Dominic!
Well, that escalated quickly.
Alittle more about the new Tribes game, which is seemingly called Tribes 3: Rivals.
To do this, a collision box is computed.
In the remaster, these boxes are…pic.twitter.com/kaINus2WfN
Good evening!
I’m manning the RPS news cannons for the evening.
And Edwin has left me the pleasure of sharing this fairly-goofy-looking-but-in-a-fun-way (I think?)
Attack on Titan fan game.
I just RELEASED my new FREE#AttackOnTitanFan Game!Fight Titans!
Host your own Lobbys!
Play with your homies!
Still, it’s got tough competition in the excellent ODM gear from Fortnite.
Marvel Snap devs Second Dinner have responded to the reports by assuring that the game isn’t going anywhere.
A closer look at that promising Attack on Titan fan game!
By the gods, it’s hideous.
The Dragon’s Dogma 2 Showcase is imminent!
The game still has a Mixed user review consensus, with over 80,000 reviews posted.
Bethesda is responding to negative Starfield reviews on Steam.
Did you know that you could put points into different characters?
Did you know that planets are supposed to be empty?
(I do have a bit of sympathy for some of Bethesda’s points.)
Asteroids With Bad Musicis exactly what it sounds like and slightly more.
At the risk of sounding condescending, I think it’s very sweet.
Not so much a game as an opportunity to meet somebody.
Be sure to play for a bit after you think you’ve finished.
I’m going to giveSiheyuana try over lunch.
Eurogamer arereporting layoffs at Chorus developer Fishlabs.
Best of luck to everybody affected.
Here’sour story on the Fishlabs layoffs, which have now been confirmed.
The Maw shouldn’t eat right before bed, and yet it hungers.
Just-announced cyber-slasher Quantic River looks quite niceand has a Steam page.
Phantom Libertycrushed me and I loved it.
(King sized.)
It’s cute that Edwin thinks he can soundtrack the entire week.
New Games Journalism is referenced (Don’t mention the war.
-Ed), as is RPS.
The Anacrusis is due to launch on December 5th.
One of the worst interviews I ever did was with Faliszek.
Faliszek’s response was something along the lines of, “Really?
You want to talk about that?”.
I was mortified - although the rest of the interview was fine.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 will launch on March 22nd, 2024 and there’s anew trailer.
Zounds, the beast is almost fully manifest!
Power up the Lucent Archive and FEED THE MAW.
Vanity Fairhas some shots of Amazon’s forthcoming Fallout TV adaptation.
The feature includes some chat from Todd Howard about how the show fits in alongside the games.
I am sad about this.
Here’s the most recent trailer.
Sony haveteamed upwith Guild Wars publisher NCSoft to “collaborate in various global business fields, including mobile.”
Spare some love for PC, Jim?
More tasty space simulation #content: it’sthe system requirements for Homeworld 3.
Graham also cracked wise last night about my weekly music recommendations.
FINE - we’ll switch to daily ad hoc reccs.
On which note, here’s one fromPanzer Dragoon Saga.
Here’sour storyon the Witcher Polaris news, in which I take a stab at decipher various CD Projekt codenames.
I donewrote up that Quantic River gamefrom last night - it’s a thoroughly non-whimsical cyborg katana combat sim.
Here’s our report on theUnity layoffs.
Jarvis here, checking in for the evening shift!
(The rest is anime OPs and K-pop.)
TheTPR covers of FFIXare especially lovely, mind.
Just for mobile for now, it seems!
(Edwin here, sliding in before Matt notices to say thatI wrote up that Wizordum game.)
In other words, expect a lot more Total War games.
Here’sthe deets on that Beyond Good & Evil remastertoo, which is due out in early 2024.
So expect it sometime in 2025, if series history holds.
It’s, ahem,coming next year.
All News Writers gain +5 Loathing.
It was on our radar!
I played an old demo yonks ago and loved it.
But then we had Other Stuff To Attend To and the full release fell through the cracks.
I am keen to return to it.
Today’s warm-up music is theChainsaw Man OP- Kenshi Yonezu’s “KICK BACK”.
Nightdive’sTurok 3: Shadow of Oblivion remasteris out today.
BothRemnant 1andRemnant 2are now on Game Pass.
Private servers and singleplayer are apparently unaffected, and they’re hoping to re-enable everything next week.
Get ‘em, lads!
As noted, Capcom is selling Dragon’s Dogma 2’s base edition for $70/54-ish.
It’s ano thanksfrom me.
Hey, how’s about a new vampire…house-building sim?
It’sVampire Dynasty, announced this week for 2024 release.
The first DLC for Wartaleshas been announced.
This is the one from ex-BioWare devs.
What is it with puzzle games being set on islands?
Islands Of Insight is a “shared world” puzzle game and it’salso coming in February of 2024.
I played the original Adventure modeback in 2014if you want the flavour of it.
This was my most played song on Spotify this yearand that seems justified to me.
Homeworld 3 finally has a specific release date: March 8th, 2024.
There’s a making-of documentary coming this December too and ashort clip to watch now.
Very odd:
It’sFRIDAY, it’sFRIDAY.
Today’s “getting it done” music is Sonic Adventure 2’sGreen Forest theme.
Won’t stop, just go!
Trailers, trailers, trailers!
Premise: “One day, Finn Flynn wakes up in the body of a housefly”.
Speaking of sickos - nautical commerce ‘em upSeaOrama: World of Shippinghas a release date: 14th December.
A couple of RPS trailer-and-release-date write-ups: one forPacific Driveand one forFlintlock, both of which seem promising.
And so it begins:GTA 6’s first trailer has a release date and time.
What do you all make of the teaser art, here?
I can’t work out whether it’s brand new or adapted from GTA 5.
It could be designed to suggest arriving in a new city - or leaving one.
pic.twitter.com/BguwiJokQt
Capcom still have more Resident Evil remakes on the way, according toIGN.
Warhammer 40k FPS Darktide will drop thesecond part of its free The Traitor Curse updatebefore the year is out.
Expect a bunch of new items (Stimms!)
and a couple of new bosses to take down in the form of the Karnak Twins.
Oh, there’s a combat shovel in there, too.
Some fairly obvious but still pleasing news:expect another Resident Evil remake at some point in the future.
RE5 (with, uh, some changes, probably), Code Veronica or Zero, perhaps?
What would be on your wishlist?
More of this, games industry!
The latestIndiepocalypsefeatures a pretty nifty-looking danmaku-style shooter, Touhou: Lonely Lovely Bonfire.
“A uniquely circular bullet hell” that reminds non-genre-expert me a little of Resogun.
Remedy are teasing aNew Game+ mode for Alan Wake 2, possibly to arrive later this month.
The Maw is dead; long live the Maw - here’sthe new liveblog for the week 4th-9th December.
