Space! The final frontier. These are the voyages of the USS Rock Paper Enterprise. Or they will be, once I’ve worked through my launch checklist. OK, says here I start by activating the APU. There’s no “APU” on the bridge display, but I’m guessing they mean “auxiliary power unit”. Done! Now I have to wait…

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Crimson Desert‘s first proper expansion, not be confused with any of the ten million things Pearl Abyss have added to their vast expanse of stuff to do via free updates, is set to release next month. It’s called Charting the Unknown, is out on October 15th, and looks to be set into a new realm…

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CD Projekt Red and Fool’s Theory might have used Gamescom to make clear that they’ve got a Witcher thing in the pipeline for this year and the next two, but they’ve also had to put one of their previously cat-eyed projects on hold for the time being. The remake of the first Witcher game is…

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Gawd, everyone’s doing an XCOM these days. Star Wars is doing an XCOM. Rainbow Six is doing an XCOM. Warhammer 40K has done, like, four XCOMs. Those squeaky wiggletubes of Worms are at it too, with Worms: Galactic Tactics, a turn-based grid battler coming sometime in 2027. It’s a busy genre, then, though there might…

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Planet Zoo and Jurassic World Evolution creators Frontier Developments have signed a deal with Disney to make a game based on one of Disney’s many entertainment worlds. Some immediate possibilities occur. You know what Frontier have a lot of? Theme park and resort management games. You know what Disney also have a lot of? Theme…

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Creative Assembly have themselves a particular constraint when making Alien: Isolation 2. The sequel to their 2014 horror title would only reference their first game and the original 1979 Ridley Scott Alien film. It ignores all the other films that came after. That includes James Cameron’s Aliens, the immediate sequel to Scott’s film, which, like…

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When Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Soma developers Frictional announced Ontos, their philosophical horror game set in a mad science hotel on the moon, the internet’s jimmies were rustled by the presence of an AI server made out of rats. I have several questions for Frictional regarding that talking rat wall, based on my peerless…

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Why the rush, The Blood of Dawnwalker? Your protagonist Coen’s family have only been kidnapped by a vampiric dictator who’s slowly draining them of blood. Let the kid take his sweet time in finding a way to deliver them from the castle dungeon. After all, he’s got a tonne of bandits he could be killing…

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On my final day of Gamescom, strolling (running) around the indie area to make sure I don’t miss anything good, I stumble upon Wrong Organ’s upcoming Carcass Clad. Set in a wartorn Soviet city, empty of people but littered with tanks wearing coats of Frankensteined cattle corpses (light stuff!), Carcass Clad is a three-player co-op…

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Not content with just adding to the questlines and interactivity of Baldur’s Gate 3‘s established gang of companions or working on their own for custom campaigns, modders have even started turning other characters from the game into recruitable buddies. The latest to get this treatment is Mizora, bane of regular party member Wyll’s life and…

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