2024-01-09 10:56 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
Between Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and smaller, independent hits like The Mortuary Assistant, some of the most terrifying moments in videogames are also the most subtle. The Licker crawling past the window in RE2. The steady swell of static on James Sunderland's radio. The little smile on the cadaver's face. You don't need big jumps and loud music cues - it's the excruciating psychological moments that really get to you. Mixing a smart story, unique visual style, and fine-drawn moments of pure terror, one of the best indie games of the last decade is now available at a historical low of less
2021-12-21 22:51 UTC · Community Announcements · burbo
* Fix issue where some third party software would capture mouse input and block it from reaching the game. Also allow simultaneous gamepad and mouselook input without fully switching between keyboard and gamepad controls. * Fix issue preventing some users from launching the game.
2021-12-16 06:27 UTC · Community Announcements · burbo
Sony DualShock 3, DualShock 4, DualSense, Microsoft Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series controllers will now be auto-detected (without need of any third party software). Nintendo Switch Pro controllers are also supported (wireless only). Pressing buttons on an input device will automatically switch in-game controller icons to match. Pickup items such as turtles and beer cans should no longer fall through the world. Several rare save/load bugs have been addressed. Graphics performance improvements. Rendering, performance, and battery-life improvements when running on a Metal-supported device.
2021-03-10 10:00 UTC · Eurogamer
Hello! Welcome to a Someone Should... with a Music Week twist. A classic album tangled with a classic piece of hardware. We all have a sound which reminds us of our gaming childhood. For me, it's the Artisans theme in Spyro The Dragon. For Frank Ocean, evidently, it's the Street Fighter 2 opening beep. It's this sound which opens his debut album Channel Orange, a narrative album about a conflicted adolescence whose only constant was video games. This beep follows the distinctive start up sound of the original PlayStation, before Ocean takes us on a journey of unrequited love, drug addiction, c
2020-08-17 23:15 UTC · Eurogamer
Firewatch, developer Campo Santo's acclaimed 2014 first-person narrative mystery, is getting a second chance at getting the movie adaptation treatment. Word of a Firewatch film adaptation first broke in 2016, when it was reported that Campo Santo had signed a deal with production company Good Universe. However, the movie rights zipped back to the developer when Good Universe became a subsidiary of Lionsgate in 2017. The celluloid dream never died, though, and The Hollywood reporter now writes that indie production company Snoot Entertainment - responsible for the likes of Blindspotting and Lit
2020-04-09 06:30 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice Bell)
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. One of my favourite game-related anecdotes to tell – y’know, to get out at the fancy dinner parties we have where games journalists get together to collude and decide which games will be reviewed well over the coming months – is about Firewatch. (more…)
2019-12-19 13:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)
There’s an old saying in gaming monitor circles that once you’ve gone ultrawide, there’s no going back. Indeed, having had the vast Samsung CRG9 hogging my desk for a bit last month, I’m inclined to agree. But what do games actually look like on a screen this wide? It’s one thing looking at lovely wallpapers, but another thing entirely to have a game occupy your entire field of vision. To find out, and more importantly show you, I’ve rounded up all the very best ultrawide PC games, complete with pictures of what they actually look like in the flesh, plus o
2019-12-04 10:44 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Matt Cox)
It is a sad day for pretend archaeology. Firewatch developers Campo Santo have placed In The Valley Of Gods on hold, instead choosing to work on Half-Life: Alyx, Dota Underlords, and other Valve projects. This follows their move to Valve last year, which John (RPS in peace) quizzed them on at length in 2018. That means we’ve got a weird, melancholy portal into when Campo were excited about what the move would mean for their new game. Half-Life with a sprinkling of Firewatch sounds neat and all, but I was looking forward to filming pyramids. (more…)
2019-07-09 08:00 UTC · Eurogamer
At the moment I live on the border of two councils, which means I have two sets of library systems and two library cards. Both library systems are a delight. The Jubilee Library in Brighton is a vast airy place with three light wells in the roof and an upper floor that seems to almost float, unattached to the nearby walls. Then there's the library on the Lewes side - not Lewes itself because it's a bit of a slog, but just ten minutes away on the bus. Small and clean with a lovely sort of reading tube for my daughter to sit in. This tube's padded surfaces and close curves remind me of the futur
2019-05-06 12:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Chris Wallace)
It s a long-observed fact that the phenomenon of the YouTube let s play has benefits beyond just entertaining viewers and gradually introducing teenagers to neo-Nazism via YouTube’s algorithm. For developers, for example, getting a popular YouTuber to play their latest title can be a significant boost to sales. Ryan Clark, developer of roguelike rhythm game Crypt of the Necrodancer told the New York Times that he had seen a $60,000 boost in sales after PewDiePie showcased his game. What gets overlooked is the (perhaps unwitting) contribution these YouTubers are making to the preservatio
2018-12-20 09:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alan Wen)
First-person walking simulators can be pretty low-budget. That isn t to say that they can t look beautiful, as the Hebrides does in Dear Esther, which pioneered the ‘walking here for a bit of story there’ sub-genre. Making super detailed character models and animations? That s complicated and resource-heavy. It s no surprise that an indie developer doing a walking sim might eschew giving their characters actual walk-on parts. You often find yourself exploring a world where the story has already finished and you re putting the pieces together, or following what feels like a very el
2018-11-26 16:50 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (The Dealer)
Is… is it over yet? Are the Black Friday and Cyber Monday PC gaming deals finally finished? Just a couple more hours to go now, you can do it deals herald, you can get through this. You’ve got a week and a half holiday coming up soon, just get through the afternoon and then you can go and lie in a dark room and not dream about Cyber Monday graphics card deals you might have missed for the seventh night running. Ahem. Sorry, I don’t know what came over me there. Probably the Cyber Monday PC gaming deals fatigue settling in, or the Black Friday fever dream I seem to have been
2018-11-26 06:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)
Hurry, hurry. There are only 37 Steam sales each year – miss a bargain now and you’ll regret it for the rest of your days. (Until the next one). As always, the latest Steam Autumn sale is a sensory overload of cut-price delights. We’re here to guide you through the white noise and make a few informed choices. (more…)
2018-11-25 18:32 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)
I’m sure everyone’s feeling a bit of Black Friday fatigue by now (trust me, I want this all to be over just as much as you do), but in the interests of those after that one, last, final deal to end all deals, I present to you our newly refreshed Black Friday and Cyber Monday PC gaming deals hub. I’ve cleared away all the deals that have been swept into oblivion by the almighty wave of discount-grabbers, leaving you with the best of the best PC gaming deals that are still available. Whether you’re after a new graphics card, monitor, SSD, gaming headset or even a new CP
2018-11-23 09:53 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)
Black Friday is almost over here in the UK, but the deals train is still going strong for all you folk over in the US. It seems like forever ago that I boarded at Deals Station Central, but there’s still a fair old time before we all reach our final destination that is the culmination of November’s online deals frenzy, Cyber Monday. Thus, it falls to me, your ever faithful deals herald to continue striving away at the deals-based coal face to bring you the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals around. Now, I’m not saying you should just spend a load of money for the sake
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