2026-06-16 09:54 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Xbox are reportedly closing or spinning off Psychonauts developers Double Fine, Hellblade studio Ninja Theory, and South of Midnight creators Compulsion Games, as Microsoft commence efforts to yet again "reset" their billion dollar gaming business after already laying off thousands of staff, cancelling games, and closing several studios over the past couple of years. Read more
2025-06-23 17:33 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
"Wait, it's a survival game?" That was the prevailing question surrounding We Happy Few when it launched in early access in 2016. Having lowered jaws industry-wide with the rich world and narrative clout it demonstrated in previews beforehand, it felt almost like a bait-and-switch that Compulsion's hype magnet was not, in fact, from the Bioshock mold, but more of a DayZ-alike in Andrew Ryan's clothing. Here was a game pulled straight from the sort of books you'd expect to find on Ken Levine's bedside table: Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984, novels rich in social allegory and poetic r
2020-09-01 18:07 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)
Ray tracing is the big buzz word of 2020 in PC gaming, and more ray tracing games have just been announced during today’s big RTX 3000 reveal. To help you keep track of them all, we’ve created this list of all the confirmed ray tracing games you can play on PC right now, as well which this year’s will get ray tracing support in the future. And because ray tracing tends to go hand in hand with Nvidia’s performance-boosting DLSS tech these days, we’ve also listed all the current and upcoming games that support DLSS, too. (more…)
2020-07-02 16:25 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)
Ray tracing is the big buzz word of 2020 in PC gaming, so we’ve created this list of all the confirmed ray tracing games you can play on PC right now, as well which this year’s will get ray tracing support in the future. And because ray tracing tends to go hand in hand with Nvidia’s performance-boosting DLSS tech these days, we’ve also listed all the games that support DLSS, too. (more…)
2019-12-19 17:32 UTC · Community Announcements · Captain Scarlett
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6699463/1e5f368207d72745ee320cc6cfe45f44900b1c6e.png When you go from a handful of indies to the world stage, it's not all Joy. In The Cost of Joy, Compulsion Games takes you on the studio’s origins, the development of We Happy Few, and their introduction as a Microsoft studio through archival footage and new in-depth interviews.
2019-12-03 18:11 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Today's Deal: Save 60% on We Happy Few!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Thursday at 10AM Pacific Time
2019-11-19 18:32 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)
You can only keep a population subdued by state-enforced drugs and totalitarian policing for so long. 60s Brit-hell adventure We Happy Few received its third and final story DLC today, We All Fall Down, and it’s tearing the whole cheery facade down. Everything’s quite on fire, and new heroine Victoria brings a little bit of Dishonored to the mix with grappling skills that’d make and self-respecting Kaldwin proud. Merry old Uncle Jack might be feeling the burn, but there’s still some room to squeeze those last drops of Joy out of Wellington Wells’ dystopian hell.
2019-11-19 16:42 UTC · Community Announcements · Captain Scarlett
Hi all, Here we are, the last DLC for We Happy Few, We All Fall Down. We are really excited to bring you all this final chapter. Victoria Byng has been a part of the We Happy Few journey ever since she first appeared in the E3 gameplay trailer in 2016. This our farewell to Wellington Wells and to all of you. We sincerely hope you enjoy it. I'm afraid we've come to the end of our time.
2019-11-11 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Captain Scarlett
Hi all, We are glad to present the trailer for the final DLC of We Happy Few, We All Fall Down, coming November 19th. You’ve taken your Joy, but now it’s time to tear it all down in this final piece of handcrafted Season Pass content. Play as Victoria Byng, get a grip on her whip, and get the last word on the story of Wellington Wells. As Victoria reckons with her own withdrawals, the city slides deeper into Joy shortage and disorder. It’s always been Victoria’s duty to help keep things proper, but the closer she looks, the deeper the rot seems to run. We All Fall Down climbs to the highest he
2019-11-08 20:29 UTC · Community Announcements · Captain Scarlett
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/6699463/47078c9936274be554009a97c76b4382024fe4f0.png Hi all, On Monday, November 11th at 11am ET, update 1.9 of We Happy Few will drop on all platforms along with a little something else! We Happy Few 1.9 Release Notes Patch Summary This patch addresses general gameplay issues, and a few bugs that were happening in some encounters. General Bugs/Stability • When crafting with weapons as reagents, they no longer appear as fractions. Partial items can now be used to craft. • Fixed the bug that caused systemic NPC conversations and POI interactions to not trigger properly, not p
2019-08-30 21:23 UTC · Community Announcements · Captain Scarlett
The final chapter of We Happy Few. Coming soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rgfay7oRV8&feature=youtu.be
2019-08-19 09:30 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)
It’s Gamescom this week, which can only mean one thing – more confirmed ray tracing games for Nvidia’s RTX and selected GTX 16-series graphics cards. Indeed, the big one that’s just been announced is Minecraft, which (like Quake II RTX) is getting full, real-time ray tracing support for everything from water reflections to its entire lighting system. That’s not all, though. Dying Light 2 will also be getting real-time ray tracing, while Tencent’s freshly-announced action survival game Synced: Off-Planet will be getting ray-traced reflections and shadow sup
2019-07-30 15:06 UTC · Community Announcements · Captain Scarlett
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6699463/f24b80a72a0543e9ec54c70d56f7a2df2c3b1ffa.png Hi everyone, We are excited to announce that Lightbearer, our second DLC is now live on Xbox One, PS4, Steam and GOG! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65HH7Bga0Y4&feature=youtu.be In this second piece of handcrafted Season Pass content, you play as Wellington Wells’ most beloved rock star, Nick Lightbearer, in a brand-new story! Heartthrob, artist, and personal trainwreck Nick Lightbearer is adored by legions of fans—until disaster strikes when a Nick-centric fan convention is
2019-07-26 15:17 UTC · Community Announcements · Captain Scarlett
Hi everyone, We are happy to announce that update 1.8 is now live on Xbox One, PS4, Steam and GOG! We are aware of a specific issue that was specifically affecting PS4 users where there was a chance of the game crashing upon arriving in the Parade District, this issue has now been fixed with this update. Patch Summary This patch contains performance optimizations, crash fixes, fixes for progression blockers, fixes for gameplay and UI bugs, and localization fixes. Most importantly, this patch includes a significant improvement to the memory used in the game, fixing crashes and bugs that were ha
2019-07-23 20:20 UTC · Community Announcements · Captain Scarlett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgnQox24hAo Hi everyone, We hope you enjoyed this little teaser trailer, stay tuned for the full trailer on July 30th when Lightbearer launches on Steam, GOG, Xbox One and PS4! In this groovy thriller and second piece of DLC for We Happy Few, you play as Nick Lightbearer, notorious Wellington Wells rockstar and Joy aficionado. But Joy, sex and rock n’roll comes with a killer price. Stay also alert for update 1.8 launching later this week on all platforms! Update 1.8 contains an array of significant fixes for the main game across all platforms but most importantl
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