What are we all playing this weekend?
Surprise, Friday WAP attack! No, I've (hopefully) not mucked up the time the WAPs are posted, as I did last time this particular RPSponsibility was trusted to me. It's a long weekend here in the UK thanks to the bank holidays around Easter. More time for playing games, in theory. Assuming you don't…
A former GameStop exec thought building its Steam competitor would be his 'forever job,' but the retailer bet the house on digital distribution being 'a passing phase'
This Picasso hack will never make it as a painter!
Mega Crit co-founder says he wasn't bothered by the Steam backlash to Slay the Spire 2's beta balance patch: 'It's difficult for players to feel like they're heard'
Casey Yano says that, ultimately, reviewers are just using the tools they're given.
The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical is a deeply committed April Fool's joke from Games Workshop, and I don't care if it's a day late because it's just that good
"Just because there is only war, doesn't mean there can't also be music."
Warren Spector's Thick as Thieves gets a bit less interesting as it ditches PvPvE for solo and co-op play
In the summer of last year, during Day of the Devs, immersive sim legend Warren Spector said that at his studio OtherSide Entertainment, "we don't play it safe. We take chances." He was talking about his upcoming game Thick as Thieves, a multiplayer immersive sim that's basically Thief, except…
Revisiting the last truly great Call of Duty
Why a lot of people are playing a seven-year-old CoD again.
Skyblivion isn't "dead in the water", the Oblivion remake mod's lead says, a recent call for extra hands is about maintaining "good momentum"
Earlier this week the team behind Oblivion remake mod Skyblivion put out a call for some "final" and "vital" veteran help to get their work over the line in 2026. Given the mod's delay late last year and the fairly lengthy list of roles the post on Nexus Mods cited the Skyblivion crew as looking to…
Xenonauts 2 hits 1.0 after almost three years of early access and paves the way for mods galore
"The year is 2009," opens the 1.0 launch trailer for Xenonauts 2, a sentence that tickles me greatly considering the game's alternate future vibes. It presents a vision of the world that differed greatly from my actual experience of worrying about swine flu and whether or not Yu-Gi-Oh! was cool any…
43% of you have, or will be switching to gaming on Linux this year, but more surprising than that over a quarter of you actually don't mind Windows
Aww bless, Windows is really not that bad after all is it? But Linux is fun.
A contributor to GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'
In hindsight, who would have guessed that Valve would win against the likes of Microsoft, EA, or Ubisoft?
An architect of GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'
In hindsight, who would have guessed that Valve would win against the likes of Microsoft, EA, or Ubisoft?
Warren Spector's multiplayer Thief successor changes direction: Instead of PvPvE, it's now focusing on 2-player co-op and singleplayer
Otherside says that as development has progressed, it's become clear that singleplayer and co-op is just more fun.
Slay the Spire 2's team is already cooking on 3 ideas for new game modes, each offering 'ways to interact with Slay the Spire that don't exist right now'
Can you deduce precisely what Mega Crit is working on?
Mega Crit are working on three new Slay the Spire 2 modes, just don't place any bets on them all making it in
I've not had a punt at Slay the Spire 2 myself yet, I've been too busy coming up with an excuse for not having played the first one, but the general read I've got on it is "it's more Slay the Spire!" This can be interpreted much the same as a vote for Bart being a vote for anarchy, as far as I can…
Open-world crime game Samson had to be pared back mid-development, which led to its unusual structure: 'It's become more unique'
After "the reality of the industry hit," the studio pivoted to a new structure and fist-focused combat.
MechWarrior studio Piranha Games lays off 30% of its employees
Work on MechWarrior 5 DLC will continue, but the long-term future is less certain.
Marathon game director says Bungie's rebalancing 'god-like' knife damage, buffing Vandal and Recon shells, and knocking bubble shields down a peg
Maybe Recon's tracker drone will start terrorizing someone else for once.
Raise up the decapitated head of the goddess of love in a flower pot in the charmingly silly Tomak: Save the Earth Regeneration
I've never really been able to wrap myself around raising sim games such as the Princess Maker series. The framing of them feels like it could quite easily teeter over the edge into something uncomfortable, and in more modern entries such as Umamusume outright parasocial (and often exploitative).…
What will Slay the Spire 2's final ending be like? 'I do want it to be more extravagant when you win,' says Mega Crit
What lies after The Architect? Slay the Spire 2's finale will be shaped by player feedback to some extent.
The most hardcore Jak & Daxter heads in the world have finished their native PC ports of the entire trilogy
Aughts excellence.