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Noita’s pretty great, isn’t it? The RPS gang couldn’t stop playing it for all that delightfully absurd arcane destruction. Far from complete game-changers, Noita’s updates since launch have simply added more tools to help bring the game’s subterranean world crashing down around you. To that end, Feast is no different. First off, the spells. Feast adds eight new incantations to plug into your wand - spells that surround you with tiny helpful ghosts, aim your attacks for you, unlimited spells that never stop firing, and spells that summon propane tanks like some sort of wizardly Hank Hill....

What? That’s the story according to the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Page Twitter account, which twote last night about a character they put in jail for 225,000 days. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings — UESP (@UESP_net) May 21, 2020 This has really tickled me. Oblivion is sort of consigned to the history bin these days, smothered by its monstrously popular sequel, 2011’s Harry And The Dragonsons....

Oculus made a quick announcement today about the upcoming 128GB version, also confirming that they will be replacing the former 64GB one. The Quest 2 doesn’t have expandable storage space, so getting a model with more internal storage is the only way to go if you find yourself needing more space. It seems to be a pretty decent new deal for anyone considering getting a first VR headset. Katharine praised the initial run of the new headset in her Oculus Quest 2 review, calling it a great intro to VR even with the original 64GB storage space....

Get the Logitech G Pro X for £62.99 with code FNDDGAMING (was £110) We’ve discussed the G Pro X here at RPS before, including in 2019 when Katharine dubbed the headset ‘our new best gaming headset’ in her review. That recommendation has persisted all the way into the latter stages of 2021, where the headset remains our pick for ‘best premium gaming headset’. There’s a lot the headset gets right, but I’m a particular fan of its ear cups....

It’s the linguistic Wild West, and it delights me. Spawns become Oreos. Bombs get “defrosted”. I asked Twitter for a peek into the private nomenclature of other friendship groups, and I’m very glad I did. I will lead with what other people have come up with, because honestly they’re far more inventive than us. Jason Coles (editor of The Indie Game Website) told me that his friends “call one of the areas BBQ”, even though “it’s definitely not a BBQ”....

On this page: Use SP restoration items Upgrade BOND Skills Switch party members Save your SP Leave the Metaverse How to manage and gain more SP in Persona 5 Strikers One thing I found tough in my time with Persona 5 Strikers was managing the amount of SP I had at any given time. I’d find myself running headfirst into boss battles without a care in the world, before running out of SP and losing my ability to knock down my foes....

So, Full Fathom isn’t out yet, or even has an official release date, but I just love the idea and look of this game. Being developed by Daemon House, this is an oceanic survival horror where you’re trapped in a derelict submarine that has sunken to the depths of an abyssal sea. You need to navigate your surroundings and keep the sub up and running to make your way back to civilisation, aka a rusty tin can is your last lifeline....

But specially designated duel servers, where players partake in one-on-one combat, offer a refuge from rogues and scoundrels, away from the roar of trebuchets and the maddening squawks of cruelly-lobbed murder chickens. No hard rules are in place. Instead, conduct is honour based. Such honour is fragile, however… On the fateful day Crown was martyred, he had been merrily dueling for an hour when a “half dozen dudes showed up and started griefing....

“Without human moderation, online communities can become unwelcoming, toxic, or in some cases, dangerous to the physical security of individuals,” Mojang’s statement said. “We need to provide safeguards that will help keep all of our players safe and welcome in the online environments where they play Minecraft.” However, the player reporting tool will include private servers. “We recognize that private servers function independently from Mojang Studios, and many use that independence to create remarkable Minecraft innovations that enrich the community,” the statement continued....

The devs had a free-to-play version of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds: Battlegrounds before, PUBG Lite, intended for low-spec computers. They shut that down in 2021. This here is just PUBG: BG open to all. Free-to-players don’t get everything, mind. They can’t play Ranked mode, partially because the devs are aware that removing the price tag removes one incentive to not get banned for cheating. They can’t create custom matches either. And they gain only half as much XP for the persistent progression jazz....

There are even some extra gameplans to go for if you don’t manage to draw your shank, like your Self-Sharpening Sword which always presents a scary threat to your enemies’ face. Here’s how to do Poison Rogue like the best of them. Poison Rogue deck list and strategy Here is the best version of Poison Rogue available to play in Hearthstone right now. Select and copy the long ID string below, then create a deck in Hearthstone to export this deck into your game....

Slightly Mad made the announcement on Twitter: “Due to expiring car & track licenses, both Project CARS and Project CARS 2 will be delisted from sale in the coming months,” starts the message. “The games remain fully playable, and our players will still be able to enjoy all the game features, including multiplayer.” CARS 1 was released in 2015 and CARS 2 in 2017, making it somewhat interesting that both games are being delisted at the same time....

Haven’s a dense, dingy industrial hangout and from the screenshots, it certainly looks like it: there’s a big crane, some factories, and some trucks, all coated in a thick brown smog. As a lapsed PUBG player, the miserable aesthetic isn’t filling me with desire to get stuck back in. I suppose it being a close knit 32-player affair will get me into the action a bit quicker, which is what my impatient self is after, but Haven certainly hasn’t got the appeal of Paramo (an entire volcano) or Sanhok (a lush jungle)....

QuakeCon At Home is currently live over on Twitch, and fellow newsie Craig Person’s highlighted some of the best sessions to check out during the weekend’s festivities. While Quake itself rarely headlines Bethesda’s annual showcase, they’re giving away the landmark 1996 shooter for free until 11pm EST tomorrow night (that’s 4am on Monday morning for us Brits). Log into the Bethesda.net launcher before then, and you’ll be able to snag your copy of Quake - and as a bonus, you’ll get Quake 2 thrown in for free....

The Ultimate edition includes the base game, ye olde Kombat Pack 1 of new fighters and skins, the Aftermath story expansion, and this new Kombat Pack 2. The character pack will be sold separately too, and packs Mileena (her in the purple with the sai and the gaping face-biting mouth), Rain (the purple one of those Scorpion-lookin’ ninjas), and yup good ol’ John Rambo. This version of John has Sylvester Stallone’s face and voice, much like the Terminator T-800 borrowed Arnold Schwarzenegger’s face and RoboCop has Peter Weller’s face and voice....

VGC say they’ve been told by their shadowy sources that the game is several years away, possibly looking at 2024. Supposedly the departure of creative director Simon Woodroffe led to a big ol’ overhaul of its direction, and the design has basically been “restarted from scratch”. And as VGC noted, VentureBeat’s Jeff Grub relayed similar gossip in a video podcast over the weekend. Grubb said “they restarted production on that game, they rebooted it” and he’d heard it would come in 2023....

Good grief, though. Nate wasn’t kidding about the birds on this one. Ring Of Pain is a creepy roguelite styled in the vein of games like Slay The Spire or Monster Train. Placed in a sort of pseudo-first-person perspective, you trudge through the grim lair of this malevolent canary, looting new items to build up a loadout you can use to escape this wretched place. Spoons, swords, whatever works really....

Robocop: Rogue City was announced by Nacon, from the developers of Terminator: Resistance, a game I did not enjoy. It won’t be out until 2023, and though it’ll be based on the first three movies in the series, it’ll also be a new story. Nacon said: “Nacon and Teyon will work with MGM to develop an authentic RoboCop game experience that is faithful to the franchise’s DNA, while immersing gamers in an original story that enables them to play as none other than RoboCop himself....

So yeah, we dropped the ball on Rock Of Ages 3. But c’mon, what were you expecting? Cubes? If you’ve been living under a rock (sorry) for the last nine years, let me get you up to speed. Rock Of Ages is like if someone turned the Gloucester cheese-rolling festival into a tower defence, by way of some delightfully crude Monty Python-esque cut-out gaffs. ACE Team haven’t taken a wrecking ball to the formula for this third entry....

In fact, I think I could take her Portal revisited intro, replace every instance of “Portal” with “Minecraft”, and call it a day. It’s Minecraft! Of course it was game of the year. It was arguably the game of the decade, an absolute all timer. I won’t spend many words explaining why it is good, because those words would be redundant fodder, like the bloke fighting a soaring dragon by poking the ground under his feet with a sword....