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February 2017 Archive

    1. Snowden-em-up email thriller Top Secret out now
    2. A collection of dishonourable acts in For Honor
    3. Rogue Trooper, world's finest 7/10 game, gets a remaster
    4. Wot I Think: Stories Untold
    5. New Avatar game coming from The Division studio
    6. The Division launches Last Stand, big update, and demo
    7. Stomp-o! Turok 2 remaster coming in March
    8. Cities: Skylines getting blimps in Mass Transit DLC
    9. Yooka-Laylee is a more open take on the '90s platformer
    10. Total Warhammer DLC ended with Bretonnia as devs switch to sequel
    11. Steam Charts: guns vs swords
    12. The Sound of Silence
    13. Click me up: Thimbleweed Park coming March 30th
    14. River City Ransom: Underground resumes retro beatings
    15. Torment: Tides of Numenera capsule review
    16. Wot I Think - Torment: Tides Of Numenera (for Planescape veterans)
    17. Wot I Think - Torment: Tides of Numenera
    18. Wot I Think - Torment: Tides of Numenera (for series newcomers)
    19. Raised By Screens, chapter 17 - Planescape: Torment
    1. Epic Games announce tactical bosher Battle Breakers
    2. Premature Evaluation: Northgard
    3. Hearthstone’s next expansion coming April (with dinos)
    4. Total War: Warhammer’s campaign map is unreadable
    5. Trap remix: Wonder Boy shows off new-old switching
    6. EVE Online devs announce Tron-y futuresport Sparc
    7. Wot I Think: Night In The Woods
    8. Distraint 2 bringing more businessman horror this year
    9. Have You Played… Call of Duty 2?
    10. Stellaris: Utopia expansion blasting off on April 6th
    11. Wild N'Zoth Rogue deck list and guide
    12. The RPG Scrollbars: Great ideas more RPGs should steal
    13. ZeniMax seek injunction shutting down Oculus SDK
    14. Crew a ship with your pirate pals in Blackwake
    15. Middle-earth: Shadow of War announced [update]
    16. Adapt mechanic explained
    1. Bzzztroidvania! Hollow Knight released
    2. The Sunday Papers
    1. Mass Effect: Andromeda system requirements confirmed
    2. Now is a good time to return to Dark Souls 2
    3. Bosch 'n' click: Four Last Things released
    4. Free Loaders: What’s the draw of horror?
    5. What are we all playing this weekend?
    1. How SteamWorld Heist brought skill into turn-based tactics
    2. Where the Water Tastes Like Wine writer lineup revealed
    3. Subnautica is secretly a brilliant horror game
    4. XC'mon: Xenonauts 2 releasing free dev builds
    5. PSA: you should change your RPS password, just in case
    6. Ken Levine heads up Ghost Story Games
    7. Have You Played... Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery?
    8. Old Time Hockey brings blood to the ice next month
    9. Explore and colonise space in Genesis Alpha One
    10. The Flare Path: Flotsam
    11. The Foxer
    12. Hidden & Dangerous rescued and re-released by GOG
    13. Blitzkrieg 3 claims world's first RTS neural net, Boris
    14. Arena Tier List - Mage cards (March 2017)
    1. Best Long War 2 mods
    2. CKII’s Monks & Mystics (& Satanists) arrive in March
    3. Resident Evil 7's DLC returns to the best of Resi 7
    4. Steep adds Alaska in free update today
    5. Deus Ex: Criminal Past DLC sends Jensen to jail
    6. Wot I Think: Unexplored
    7. EVE Online's Project Discovery to help find real planets
    8. I bought a keyboard with coloured lights and I don't why
    9. In Genesis Noir, Earth is shrapnel aimed at a god's heart
    10. Prey is a game for mugs
    11. Have You Played... Fish!?
    12. Wild N'Zoth Control Priest deck list and guide
    13. Five hours with Mass Effect Andromeda
    14. Titanfall 2 launches new mode today, Live Fire
    15. Boo! Ghost Recon Wildlands open beta has started
    16. Dead Rising 4 coming to Windows 7 and Steam in March
    1. Cuteness overwhelming in Ooblets trailer
    2. Stellaris' New Horizons mod is the best Star Trek game
    3. Gunpoint meets Mavis Beacon in Rogue Process
    4. What point and click adventures could learn from hidden object games
    5. Draymond Green's Shut Up And Slam Jam Karate Basketball is exactly what it sounds like
    6. Narita Boy invokes the retro art of Superbrothers
    7. forma.8 has adorable animations and lovely palettes
    8. Have You Played... Hitman?
    9. Dragon Quest Heroes II will slime PC too
    10. How Morrowindy is Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind?
    11. Homestar Runner Favourites For No Real Reason
    12. Dungeons 3 keeps on keepin' on
    13. Berserk and the Band of the Hawk hacks 'n' slashes out
    14. Total Warhammer shows off free Bretonnia faction DLC
    15. Overwatch teases something new via robo-prodigy, Efi
    1. Let's Prey: the second part of our video playthrough
    2. Night in the Woods is out now!?!?!?
    3. Uurnog is a musical platformer from Knytt creator
    4. Wot I Think: Bucket Detective
    5. Half-Life 2: Episode 3 creator reflects on reception, one year after release
    6. Everything wrong with For Honor
    7. Strewth! Australia making Civ debut in next DLC
    8. Rogue Legacy devs announce Full Metal Furies
    9. Battlefield 1 mystery solved, spawning new mystery
    10. Have You Played… King of Dragon Pass?
    11. Wild Patron Warrior deck list and guide
    12. Resident Evil 7 serves Banned Footage DLCs on PC today
    13. Circles and the problem of sharing muscle feel
    14. Square Enix announce new JRPG: Project Prelude Rune
    15. For Honor launches PC hotfix, ahead of big patch
    16. Steam Charts: Four Honor
    17. Packing Up the Rest of Your Stuff on the Last Day at Your Old Apartment has a self-explanatory title
    18. The Mooseman looks like a beautiful wintry myth game
    19. Ghost Recon Wildlands open beta up for preloading
    1. Premature Evaluation: Smite Tactics
    2. Review: Alienware's latest gaming laptop is a monster
    3. Shovel Knight: Spectre of Torment leaping to April
    4. Barotrauma is a Space Station 13-y co-op sub game
    5. Oh no: help me decide what to write about
    6. Wot I Think: Halo Wars 2
    7. Wild N'Zoth Control Warrior deck list and guide
    8. Space Pirates and Zombies 2 scraps multiplayer plans
    9. Have You Played… Else Heart.Break()?
    10. Wild Freeze Mage deck list and guide
    11. NIS announce PC releases for Ys Vlll, Tokyo Tattoo Girls
    12. Yoku's Island Express is a gorgeous pinball platformer
    13. Circles combines hide and seek with a steady hand
    14. The RPG Scrollbars: Old Habitats Die Hard
    15. Blizzard phasing out Windows XP & Vista this year
    16. Portal funnyman Erik Wolpaw leaves Valve
    17. Seabed Prelude is a music VR game set beneath the waves
    1. Songbringer uses letters to generate RPG worlds
    2. My Memory Of Us is a Holocaust story with robots and hmmm
    1. Motorsport Manager revving up Gran Turismo DLC
    2. Ashes of the Singularity merges with Escalation expandalone
    3. Free Loaders: Catching up with your past self
    4. What are we all playing this weekend?
    1. The 11 bestest best apartments in gaming
    2. Let's chatter over... Prey
    3. Pew pew! Mass Effect Andromeda trailer details combat
    4. Wot I Think: Copoka
    5. Hearthstone boots Ragnaros from Standard play
    6. Have You Played... (with a) Steam Link?
    7. Dawn of War 3 trailer battles over mythical pointy stick
    8. Make War Not Love 4: Sega's cross-game non-Valentine's event brings discounts and rewards
    9. Cosmic Express: adorable train puzzler coming March
    10. The Flare Path: Amaxophobia
    11. The Foxer
    12. Dunk Lords is biffy basketball from Spelunky coder
    13. White Wolf release new Vampire: The Masquerade game
    1. Are the latest UHD TVs any good for PC gaming?
    2. Proteus composer's Oikospiel is a strange and delightful dog opera
    3. Raising the states: Realpolitiks is out now
    4. Wot I Think: For Honor
    5. Ghost Recon Wildlands open beta starts Feb 23, tontos
    6. Talk about: Epic's Paragon adding pop star warrior
    7. Bucket Detective combats writer's block with cult rituals
    8. Hitman reveals itself in layers
    9. Dean Hall to unveil new RocketWerkz game at Rezzed
    10. Time for a stroll! theHunter: Call of the Wild released
    11. Have You Played... 140?
    12. Tower of Guns dev announces Mothergunship
    13. Developers' ultrawide dilemma
    14. Semispheres is brilliant, and will break your brain in half
    15. Kathy Rain developer announces Whispers of a Machine
    16. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive learning to take on bots
    17. Wotcha, Cherry Hogs: Watch Dogs drops London hint
    18. Make your own space face in Elite Dangerous
    19. Humble Freedom Bundle adds even more games
    20. Year of the Mammoth guide
    1. IF Only: dressed for the party
    2. Ama's Lullaby is a cyberpunk adventure influenced by Westwood's Blade Runner
    3. Wot I Think: Hidden Folks
    4. League of Legends adds long-awaited practice tool
    5. Have You Played… Fate of the World?
    6. Why don't I pay attention to cutscenes?
    7. Prey: watch the full first hour here
    8. Prey: hands-on with Arkane's shapeshifting shooter
    9. Hearthstone trimming Spirit Claws, squishing Small-Time Buccaneer
    10. The Riftwalk: A quasi-museum for League of Legends
    11. Watch the world end in Defcon VR's virtual war room
    12. Ubisoft offer big list o' For Honor bug workarounds
    13. Path of Exile: Fall of Oriath expansion going godslaying
    14. Steam just made it HARDER to find new releases
    1. The origins & future of Rainbow Six Siege
    2. Giveaway: 280 games from GOG's Valentine's sale
    3. VA-11 Hall-A adds remastered Prologue chapters
    4. Well BOOR Is Rather Lovely
    5. Deus Ex: Breach launches random daily networks
    6. Senran Kagura Estival Versus brings booby brawls to PC
    7. On its fifth anniversary, a toast to the humour and humanity of Crusader Kings 2
    8. Have You Played...ABZU?
    9. Help an old lady and bug a cat in quiet short story Reel
    10. The Botanist brings green fingers to Greenlight
    11. Gilmore Girls (part 2): Graham and Pip's verdict
    12. Elite Dangerous's Arena no longer sold separately
    13. Steam needs to stop asking its customers to fix its problems
    14. Warlock decks
    15. Steam Charts: Conangratulations
    16. Boardvideogame Sumer is hopping into Early Access
    17. For Honor released, but where's the love?
    1. Premature Evaluation: Quarantine
    2. The Humble Freedom Bundle is a ridiculous bargain
    3. A year in Stardew Valley: life, labour and love
    4. Procedural cop RPG No Truce with the Furies sounds so very odd and exciting
    5. Fights, right? Battlerite new character due Wednesday
    6. Free Loaders: Rock out with the Lonely Geologists
    7. Tea break! Constructor HD delayed into April
    8. Rebellion to open licensing for 2000 AD, including Dredd
    9. Gilmore Girls (part 1): Graham and Pip's verdict
    10. The RPG Scrollbars: Notes On Writing A Universe
    11. Wot I Think: Sniper Elite 4
    12. Dear Esther's Landmark Edition wandering out Tuesday
    13. Ghost Recon Wildlands taps The Cartel's writers to punch up its narco-state playground
    1. Jump-o-stab-a-shoot-y-dodge: Bleed 2 released
    2. Syberia 3 release date announced for really reals
    3. Sci-fi romance adventure Alone With You out now
    4. Ni No Kuni 2 trailer shows lovely friends and ugly murder
    1. Humble launches own publishing label with solid lineup
    2. Starbound to go proper interplanetary in spacey update
    3. Make yourself at Rome: Caesar I and II now on GOG
    4. What are we all playing this weekend?
    5. Super Lovely Planet going platforming in summer
    1. Why road-building in Cities: Skylines is a pleasure
    2. Best total conversion mods
    3. "We're building 3 full VR games, not experiments"- Valve
    4. Valve to abolish Steam Greenlight, open up with Steam Direct
    5. White Wolf and the World of Darkness revival: "Asking 'when will you rage?' has never been more relevant"
    6. The Wild Eight lights its campfire in early access
    7. FTL devs announce tactical kaiju battler Into The Breach
    8. Server issues for Hitman as Elusive Target 20 arrives
    9. Star Trek: Bridge Crew delayed again but getting TOSsy
    10. Have You Played...Banished?
    11. What is best in life? Conan Exiles launches mod support
    12. Ice to meet you! Next Street Fighter V character is Kolin
    13. The Foxer
    14. The Flare Path: Sings The Unsung
    15. Blood Bowl 2 Legendary Edition to add solo career mode, Goblins, Tame Bears and more
    16. Rocket League getting flashy Hot Wheels cars in DLC
    17. Gang Up Rogue deck list guide - February 2017 (Standard)
    18. John Wick Wicky Wah gets VR FPS, new Payday 2 DLC
    19. South Park: The Fractured But Whole further delayed
    20. Darkest Dungeon launches shorter 'Radiant' mode
    1. The fallen price of indie games
    2. Bohemia blast Take On Mars out of early access
    3. Good Coop, Bad Coop: Ghost Recon Wildlands
    4. The Walking Dead S3's episode 3 rising in March
    5. Dodging the long-armed horrors of Little Nightmares
    6. Call Of Cthulhu's horrors might be too familiar
    7. The House Abandon creepers announce Stories Untold
    8. Torment: Tides of Numenera trailer sets up the story
    9. Have You Played… Crown and Council?
    10. Minecraft 1.12 introducing pretty new blocks and tiles
    11. Project Cars 2 trailer spares no thought for cold, wet cars
    12. EVE: Valkyrie exploring Wormholes from 15 Feb
    13. 10 things you didn't know about writing for games
    14. The Elder Scrolls Online: Wherever you hang your cheesewheel, that's your home
    15. Netflix Castlevania series penned by Warren Ellis
    16. Don't watch this Dark Souls 3: The Ringed City trailer
    1. Premature Evaluation: Avorion
    2. Induction is a time-travel puzzle game that's out now
    3. Styx: Shards of Darkness is a vomit-y fantasy Hitman
    4. The Surge brings limb-theft to the Dark Souls party
    5. Crew a sub with your chums in We Need to Go Deeper
    6. E3 opens its doors to the public with 15,000 tickets
    7. Wot I Think: Alwa's Awakening
    8. Hill-raiser: Old Man's Journey demonstrates how to deform gorgeous terrain
    9. Compucrypts: Resident Evil 7 now supports older CPUs
    10. Have You Played... Styx: Master Of Shadows?
    11. Transformers: Cinema In Disguise Part III: Oh Why
    12. Princess Maker 1 revamp coming this month
    13. Necromunda has bullet casings the size of tower blocks
    14. Greedfall is Spiders' colonial fantasy RPG
    15. A Plague Tale: Innocence has gaming's best rats
    16. inXile show off combat in The Bard's Tale 4
    17. League of Legends taking Worlds 2017 to China
    18. Star Wars Humble Bundle 3 is full of stars, wars
    19. Overwatch adding server browser so you can share your hideous/amazing custom creations
    1. RPS discusses... the gruesome glories and nonsensical excesses of Resident Evil 7
    2. The Pedestrian sees toilet man puzzle across the street
    3. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds hits closed beta on 24th
    4. Dwarf Fortress and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Interface
    5. A clutch of lovely gifs and art sketches
    6. Island paradise? Stranded Deep reaches its not-so-terrible twos
    7. The islander robots of State Machine prep for doomsday
    8. Warning whistle: beware a possible Steam security hole
    9. Have You Played... Grim Fandango?
    10. WWE 2K17 powerbombs PC today
    11. Gust's Atelier Sophie and Nights of Azure released on PC
    12. Overwatch's Lúcio brings wheeling and healing to HotS
    13. Rock out with your goggs out in Rock Band VR in March
    14. Steam Charts: All About The Johnsons
    15. Fallout 4's official high-res texture pack is out
    16. WoW Tokens can now be used to buy Overwatch items
    1. Saturday Supplement: Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life
    2. Wot I Think: Tales of Berseria
    3. YouTubers plead guilty to FIFA gambling offences
    4. A closer look at Rainbow Six Siege's new update, Operation Velvet Shell
    5. Rocket League launching official pull-back toy cars
    6. This Minecraft map packs a full new Pokémon game
    7. Oh my goodness, I completely love Raft
    8. Mobius Final Fantasy's failure to launch on launch day
    9. Psychonauts 2 peeks at pretty plants, picks up publisher
    10. Have You Played...rymdkapsel?
    11. Ronin creator reveals tiring soulslike Immortal Planet
    12. Co-op puzzler We Were Here released free
    13. Vigilist smashes her way onto Mirage's battlefields
    14. The RPG Scrollbars: Richard Garriott's autobiography
    15. R6 Siege launching Operation Velvet Shell tomorrow
    16. Burn, baby, burn: Inferno replaces Dust2 in CS:GO
    1. River City Ransom: Underground kicking off this month
    2. The Sunday Papers
    1. Project Highrise going to Las Vegas in first expansion
    2. Conan Exiles war on lag continues
    3. Hex the planet! CD Projekt RED old forum hacked
    4. Free Loaders: Dictator tower defence & hookshot cars
    5. What are we all playing this weekend?
    1. Hitman Season One: RPS discusses favourite levels and what we want from season two
    2. Resident Evil 7: the texts are coming from inside the house
    3. Desync's stunt-kill shooting kicks off this month
    4. Valve's Destinations is the best and worst of VR
    5. Have You Played… Discworld Noir?
    6. Takume is a five minute parable with beautiful pixel art
    7. Super Hydorah revamping ace freeware shmup
    8. The Flare Path: Infinite Horace R.I.P.
    9. The Foxer
    10. His Story: What Her Story dev Sam Barlow's doing next
    11. Skyblivion looks even more like Oblivion rebuilt in Skyrim
    12. American Truck Simulator honking to New Mexico next
    13. Robots in the Wild combines Pipe Mania with Tetris
    14. Rainbow 6 Siege free weekend is on
    15. Wot I Think: A House Of Many Doors
    1. The dumbest multiplayer fight I’ve ever had
    2. For Honor getting Siege-y with free post-launch content
    3. Mod me up! Isaac: Afterbirth+ and Antibirth future plans
    4. Resident Evil 7 has a door problem
    5. Have You Played... AM2R?
    6. Stellaris: Utopia expansion to blast off with Banks update
    7. Superhot The Card Game reworks FPS for tabletop
    8. 39 new PC games a day: what can the games media do?
    9. Final Fantasy XV director dreams of PC port with mods
    10. Club Penguin adds fabled iceberg Easter egg to farewell
    11. Bug your pals: Ghost Recon Wildlands beta pre-loading
    12. New-new BioWare 'action-adventure' due by March 2018
    1. Bitter Rift: Oculus has to pay $500 million to ZeniMax over VR headset, rules court
    2. IF Only: Thaumistry and Southern Monsters on Kickstarter
    3. Dontnod Eleven's Battlecrew Space Pirates blasts into early access
    4. Game Swap: Hexcells Infinite
    5. Wot I Think: Linelight
    6. Kentucky Route Zero, Fez on sale fundraising for ACLU
    7. Sunless Skies launches Kickstarter, talks combat improvements, spacefaring Victorians, warm cardigans
    8. Doom helpers Escalation Studios join ZeniMax
    9. Have You Played... Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes?
    10. Double Dragon 4 brings throwback beatdowns
    11. Transformers: Cinema In Disguise Part II: Please Kill Me
    12. Linelight offers zero-jump minimalist puzzles
    13. Torment: Tides of Numenera addresses stretch goal cuts
    14. Use tiny time loops to lift a curse in Minit
    15. Ready quick go! Constructor free for another few hours