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Elemental, My Deus: Reprisal Desktop
There are loads of games that I’ve continued to revisit over the years. I used to keep old PCs around the place, like time machines, always ready to conjure up a command line prompt, and autoexec.bat and config.sys files in need of tinkering. I never p...
reprisaluniverse.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 29 2012 15:00 GMT
Players And Devs Collaborate On Endless Space
How Amplitude Studios invited a world of gamers to build a galaxy of experience.
ign.com posted by IGN Jun 29 2012 14:25 GMT
The RPS Social Club Convenes Tomorrow
You, sir or madam, the one with the face; do you like to engage in social activity at but a moment’s notice? Perhaps you are pleased by the idea of meeting with readers of this fine periodical in an establishment well-suited to the enjoyment of light c...
maps.google.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 29 2012 14:00 GMT
Robot News Regarding: Sir, You Are Being Hunted
WARNING: SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION POST AHEAD. LOVE YOU GUYS! So for the past two years I’ve been multi-classing with game dev studio Big Robot, and we’ve been doing some stuff, which we’ve talked about before on RPS. The thing we’re most excited a...
big-robot.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 29 2012 13:00 GMT
The Flare Path: This Sporting Life
Gosh! I’ve just read the small-print in my RPS contract. It seems Flare Path’s remit includes sports simulations. Strictly speaking, for the last 45 weeks I should have spent as much time in dugouts and bunkers as dugouts and bunkers. My weekly scree...
rockpapershotgun.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 29 2012 12:00 GMT
The Repopulation Is About To Get Populated
Super-ambitious sandbox MMO The Repopulation has raised a bit of cash on Kickstarter, and that’s helping to propel them forward into their alpha test. The game is intent on doing things a little differently, allowing players to mess about crafting and ...
therepopulation.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 29 2012 11:00 GMT
Cute Things Dying Violently on the PC July 17
You may recall Cute Things Dying Violently being part of last year's Indie Games Summer Uprising event. It's debuting on the PC on July 17, in a new and improved "remastered" version available through digital distribution platforms Desura, Indievania and...
apathyworks.com posted by Joystiq Jun 29 2012 10:55 GMT
Killer Tunes: Symphony Looks Like Something Special
I’m a sucker for games that use my music to procedurally generate things. I could, for instance, go on about how great Audiosurf is for days, but that might be a better fit for my soon-to-be-launched video side project, Nathan Goes On About How Great A...
audio-surf.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 29 2012 09:00 GMT
Skyrim: Dawnguard Review
The first expansion pack for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim sucks big time -- in a literal, neck-biting, vampire-y way.
ign.com posted by IGN Jun 28 2012 23:26 GMT
Play the Offensive Combat Beta!
Join IGN Prime and enter the (offensive) madness of this browser-based shooter. Get in early; destroy your friends.
ign.com posted by IGN Jun 28 2012 20:08 GMT
Blizzard lifts Diablo 3's Act 1 restriction for new digital buyers
Patch 1.0.3a for Diablo 3 fixes an issue that restricted unverified digital purchasers to playing only up to level 13 and only in Act 1. Blizzard previously listed the restriction as a feature of patch 1.0.3, and later said it was an "unintended conseque...
us.battle.net posted by Joystiq Jun 28 2012 20:30 GMT
Wot I Think: Thomas Was Alone
Thomas Was Alone and he was also a Flash game but now he’s grown up and it’s time for him to meet some new friends and set off on a journey that will change them all forever. It’s a tale of friendship, co-operation, sentience and rivalry, but is it...
thomaswasalone.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 28 2012 18:00 GMT
Funcom working on LEGO Minifigures MMO
The Secret World developer will focus on creating "maximum accessibility" in the title.
ign.com posted by IGN Jun 28 2012 14:58 GMT
What Are The Odds: Man VS The World
The team of students at DigiPen who made spike-dodging, gravity-switching charmer A Flipping Good Time have another game on the way. Man VS The World places you in the muscular shoes of Man Lee Gunns, who then places himself into the metallic muscles of ...
aflippinggoodtime.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 28 2012 14:00 GMT
Guild Wars 2 Launch Date Revealed
True to its word, ArenaNet will release its MMO before the year is out.
ign.com posted by IGN Jun 28 2012 13:26 GMT
Living On The Pledge(s): The Banner Saga
I’m sure that many of the people reading this have pledged their hard-earned to at least one Kickstarter project and it may be of interest to see where that money has gone. Not into an actual game in most cases, not yet, but what happens when a project...
kickstarter.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 28 2012 13:00 GMT
Go Minifigure: Funcom To Work On Lego MMO
The Secret World will be ready to reveal all of its enigmas soon enough but Funcom are already looking to the future, announcing that they are to begin work on another MMO. …the company has signed a license agreement with the LEGO Group, one of the wor...
funcom.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 28 2012 12:00 GMT
Keeping Dungeons: DarkForge Talk Nekro
A recent notable Kickstarter success was Nekro, which is an action-strategy hybrid sort of thing in the classic vein of playing as the badguy. Referencing the likes of Dungeon Keeper and Myth, the Nekro team seem to have sparked a great deal of interest i...
kickstarter.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 28 2012 11:00 GMT
J.Lo's Carmen Sandiego Movie Update
The writer of Shrek Forever After and Jack the Giant Killer will script the live-action Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? movie for producer-star Jennifer Lopez.
ign.com posted by IGN Jun 28 2012 01:51 GMT
It’s Time to Take Notice of The Secret World
Funcom’s new MMO is one of the most fascinating games of the year. Why aren’t more people talking about it?
ign.com posted by IGN Jun 27 2012 23:55 GMT
Add Ores, Biomes and RPG Gameplay to Minecraft
From new quests to more ore types and biomes, here are a few inspired user-creations that might just make your Minecraft experience a bit more exciting.
ign.com posted by IGN Jun 27 2012 23:41 GMT
IGN Live Presents: The Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut
Is the Extended Cut the ending you wanted all along? Let's discuss.
ign.com posted by IGN Jun 27 2012 22:24 GMT
The Evil Eyes of Symphony
Take Back Your Music's Soul
ign.com posted by IGN Jun 27 2012 20:15 GMT
Tribes: Ascend Comes to Steam
One of the year's best shooters comes to the PC's biggest marketplace.
ign.com posted by IGN Jun 27 2012 19:44 GMT
A Spell Of Good Fortune: Quest Of The Wordsmith
Oh my goodness, this is bursting with potential. Lying somewhere between Scrabble and Minecraft, cross-bred with Scribblenauts, is Quest Of The Wordsmith. A terrible name for a really interesting game. A spell your own survival sim. (more…)
cheersgames.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 27 2012 19:00 GMT
Bizarre Violence in Valve's Meet the Pyro Video
Valve has finally completed its Meet the Team video series for Team Fortress 2 with the launch of Meet the Pyro.
ign.com posted by IGN Jun 27 2012 18:24 GMT
Inevitable Hot Stuff: Meet The Pyro
It’s been a long time coming, but finally…(more…)
rockpapershotgun.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 27 2012 18:15 GMT
Endless Space blasts off July 4
Endless Space is set to launch (har har) next week on July 4. Created by Amplitude Games - a Paris studio made up of ex Ubisoft and EA vets - Endless Space is a 4X strategy title. In other words, players expand their outer space empire, building relation...
joystiq.com posted by Joystiq Jun 27 2012 17:40 GMT
Endless Space About To Begin, 4th July
My plan is to release a 7X game. eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate, eXasperation, eXboyfriend, eXit ab urso actus. But until my great day reaches us, you’ll have to put up with just the four Xs, and as soon as the 4th July. That’s the date thatâ€...
The Giant Stirs: Zynga Shows Social Network, Farmville 2
If ever today gets turned into a television special, it will be called A Very Zynga News Day. The social Godzilla with the real social skills of an actual Godzilla went announcement mad during its Zynga Unleashed briefing – which sounds like it was na...
facebook.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 27 2012 12:00 GMT

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