Rainbow Six Extraction S New Spillover Mode Lacks Punch

But after spending a little hands-on time with Extraction’s new game mode Spillover, it seems it does away with what makes the base game tick. You plant bombs, then fend off hordes of aliens. There’s something missing here. Spillover is a free, limited time game mode arriving as part of Rainbow Six Extraction’s post-launch Crisis Events. Each one will introduce a new operator, some new REACT tech, and cosmetics too....

January 8, 2023 · 3 min · 627 words · Rita Washburn

Red Dead Online S Halloween Pass Is Here

You can catch some of the rewards from the Outlaw Pass in the new trailer below. As ever, there are clothing items and other cosmetic effects. There’s a spooky knife, spooky eye bandages, and so on. Unlike past Outlaw Passes, the Halloween Pass is just 20 ranks, meaning you should have plenty of time to get through them before mid-November. It costs 15 gold bars, RDO’s premium currency. There are been some other free updates to the game for Halloween as well....

January 8, 2023 · 1 min · 190 words · Kim Munoz

Redfall Arkane S Co Op Vampire Shooter Has A May Release Date

Before revealing the release date, Redfall’s Arkane offered a pretty thorough breakdown of the game: The key points are: it’s an open world game with story missions and side quests to be undertaken, and those missions can be approached in different ways. It doesn’t look like it’s quite as flexible as Arkane’s own Dishonored, but you can stealth your way through some missions using gadgets and distractions to help take down enemies rather than charging in hot....

January 8, 2023 · 2 min · 229 words · Michael Ellis

Report Shares More Tales Of Dysfunction At Amazon Game Studios

The article also alleges that he would demand developers “chase a new trend” he’d just read about, and that this lead to the company’s attempts to replicate other, already successful games. Several examples are given, including a game inspired by League Of Legends called Nova that was cancelled in 2017, and a game called Intensity inspired by Fortnite and cancelled in 2019.

January 8, 2023 · 1 min · 62 words · Lucia Chavez

Rimworld S Ideology Expansion And 1 3 Update Are Out Now

This trailer introduces some more of what’s possible: The belief systems work around a core of “memes” - in the traditional sense, not the keyboard cat sense. A meme is something like, “Tree connection: Trees are the essence of life, and we must be near them.” This leads to precepts which shape behaviour. Colonists can also convert their beliefs or attempt to convert others, and you can assign them specific social roles such as “leader” and “moral guide” depending upon their beliefs....

January 8, 2023 · 2 min · 247 words · Peggy Locke

Riot Deny Seraphine Is Based On A Real Person

In her blog post yesterday, Stephanie said she believed Seraphine’s look and interests were inspired by her. They certainly do share a physical resemblance. A League player herself, she said that in early 2019 she briefly dated a Riot employee, who she referred to with the pseudonym “John”. She says while they only met in-person twice, he’d invited her for a tour of the office, got a Riot artist to draw a version of her as League wizard Ahri, said he’d shared some of her writing about League internally, and implied her relationship with League could go beyond being a player....

January 8, 2023 · 4 min · 724 words · Earnest Steiner

Road 96 Review Fun And High Jinks On The Campaign Trail 96

It’s also nearing the ten year anniversary of a terrorist attack at that same border, which exploded the side of a mountain and killed hundreds of bystanders. In a move that only makes sense when tidy plotting demands your seven intertwining personal and political stories need to come to a head all at once, the totalitarian government of Petria have decided they will hold the upcoming election on the same day as the big anniversary event....

January 8, 2023 · 6 min · 1140 words · Adam Soto

Robocop Rogue City Looks Unimpressive In First Gameplay Trailer

Here it is, as shown during this evening’s Nacon Connect: At a glance, it certainly looks like Robert Cop, but the more closely I flick through its frames the more it comes apart. The “targeting” feature doesn’t look like it’s from the game so much as added in post, the lip-synching during cutscenes is terrible, the player seems to be shooting at wooden boxes purely to create distracting particle effects during quick cuts…....

January 8, 2023 · 1 min · 195 words · Harold Sexton

Rocksmith Is Done With Dlc And Onto A New Project

Rocksmith still touts itself as “the fastest way to learn guitar,” like the Duolingo of headbangin’ and shredding. My only point of reference is a beat-up Guitar Hero set which I suppose is the kiddie pool version of guitar games, whereas in Rocksmith you plug in your actual six (or four) string. I never properly learned to play the guitar and I’ve not tried Rocksmith, so that’s science by my book....

January 8, 2023 · 2 min · 238 words · Shirley Whitfield

Runeterra Ranked Mode How It Works

Runeterra ranked mode guide Our Runeterra ranked mode guide will explain how the ranks work. There are rewards for ranked mode performance, though little of this has been confirmed. You’ll likely be facing the same decks over and over that are part of the current meta. If you want to know how they are made, have a gander at our Runeterra best decks guide for deck codes you can use to import the best decks....

January 8, 2023 · 4 min · 760 words · Rose Coggins

Saints Row 2022 Character Creation How To Customise Your Boss

On this page we’ll give you an overview of every aspect of your Saints Row character which can be customised, and when and how you can edit or change your character after the initial character creation screen. Saints Row character creation You’ll first encounter the Saints Row character creation screen a few minutes into the opening cutscene. Here, you’ll be able to completely customise your Boss’s physical appearance under the following categories:...

January 8, 2023 · 4 min · 725 words · Minnie Mathews

Screenshot Saturday Mondays Flann O Brien And A Celebrity Reality Show

I’m very up for Flann O’Brien foolishness (and have been since a time when it was neither profitable nor popular): (Former RPS columnist) Leigh Alexander is working on something with the co-creator of Caves Of Qud, with a concept which makes me double-take every time I read it. See this follow-up tweet for more on the people you’ll meet, and how they’ll behave. Lil Gator Game (coming to Steam) is a cutie: Certainly a mood: Rollerblading game Miszou has an attention-grabbing pitch and chill vibes, and apparently it’s set atop giant turtles: This ice cream is merely a wee tech demo but it’s cool (and looks good too): I am interested in the puzzle potential of things not moving?...

January 8, 2023 · 1 min · 207 words · Valerie Lopez

Screenshot Saturday Mondays Shrimp And A Swiss Army Plasma Rifle

A perfect existence in slice-of-life game The Garden Path (coming to Steam): A veritable Swiss Army plasma gun in Selaco (coming to Steam, with a demo available now), an FPS with traces of immersive sims being made, impressively, in the Doom-based GZDoom engine: I don’t know what Precursor is, but I fully believe one of the main reasons to have a fancy modern gaming PC is rendering unnecessarily cool clouds: I do want to be the boss in V....

January 8, 2023 · 1 min · 201 words · Thomas Dressler

Screenshot Saturday Sundays Alpine Beasts And The Village Across The Sea

Given the absence, you’ll forgive me if I push the rules a bit to grab this clip of Austrian fantasy Hinterberg from last week’s lineup. It’s just too much of a looker to pass up. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings — Microbird (@MicrobirdGames) September 26, 2020 A contemporary fantasy quest from Philipp Seifried and Regina Reisinger, Hinterberg already looks gorgeous. This week’s gloomy Alpine forests are a long way removed from the blinding oranges of past urban landscapes, our plucky sword-swinging student already looking out of place when this brutish horn boy emerges from the woods....

January 8, 2023 · 3 min · 464 words · Wendy Asuncion

Sea Of Thieves Finally Adds Checkpoints To Tall Tales

Before now, players had to complete the Tall Tale quests all within one session because there was no way to save your progress and come back to it later. But now Rare have put in checkpoints, so if you’re midway through one and have to stop for whatever reason, you’ll be able to propose a Tall Tale straight from your inventory in your next session at the chapter you left it at....

January 8, 2023 · 3 min · 470 words · Tracey Vulich

Seagate Game Drive For Xbox Review

Yep, that’s right. Despite having “for Xbox” in its name, Seagate’s Game Drive works just as well with PC when it’s plugged in via its bundled USB cable. It supports the USB 3.2 Gen 1 standard, so not super brand-new like the cutting-edge USB 3.2 Gen 2 standard, but still pretty modern. It draws its power from its USB connection, too, so you don’t need to plug it into the mains for it to work, and its bundled cable should be long enough to rest it on the top of your PC regardless of whether you plug it in on your motherboard....

January 8, 2023 · 4 min · 799 words · Elizabeth Aris

Shovel Knight Studio Announce Mina The Hollower

The eponymous Mina is a member of the Hollowers, a group who study the earth and have special burrowing techniques. Something’s gone wrong with the generators she invented to bring her world posterity, evil is spreading, and Mina will need to go adventuring to restore the generators by exploring and bashing baddies. Yacht Club say, “Smooth 60fps action combat, a world full of mystery and horror, and top-down adventuring combine in a mix that may remind you of classic titles like Castlevania, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, or even Bloodborne....

January 8, 2023 · 2 min · 229 words · Billie Reynolds

Silent Hill 2 Remake Will Take A Very Safe Approach To Any Changes

“We are focusing on bringing the distinct, visceral atmosphere back in the modernized Silent Hill 2,” said Jasińska, Bloober’s chief marketing officer. “Longtime fans shouldn’t worry about us ‘missing the point’ while we’re livening up the title. We faithfully stick to the traditional story canon while remaking the gameplay and updating the graphics from the ground up. These are the reasons why Konami entrusted us with the remake in the first place....

January 8, 2023 · 2 min · 414 words · Barbara Muncy

Slashing Dashing Roguelite Scourgebringer Entered Early Access Today

Graham called ScourgeBringer his next roguelite crush when he took a stab at it last July. Now, I might still be in a long-term relationship with Nuclear Throne, but going by this gif I nicked from his coverage last year, your man might be onto something. Flying Oak cite Celeste and Dead Cells as inspirational works. And yes, those influences are glaring in the look and flow of ScourgeBringer’s single-room bloodbaths....

January 8, 2023 · 2 min · 232 words · Virginia Chappell

Sony Are Buying Destiny Devs Bungie For 3 6 Billion

“We believe it makes sense for [Bungie] to sit alongside the PlayStation Studios organization, and we are incredibly excited about the opportunities for synergies and collaboration between these two world-class groups,” Ryan said in a PlayStation blog post. He also told our sister site GI.Biz that the acquisition will be “an important step in our strategy to expand the reach of PlayStation to a much wider audience. We understand how vital Bungie’s community is to the studio and look forward to supporting them as they remain independent and continue to grow....

January 8, 2023 · 3 min · 492 words · Jacques Dietrich