2022-03-15 20:50 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Tencent have bought a majority stake in Tequila Works, the developers of Rime, Deadlight, The Sexy Brutale, and forthcoming League Of Legends tie-in Song Of Nunu. No fee was disclosed with the announcement, but Tequila Works co-founder Raúl Rubio said the investment would allow the company to focus on "original IPs". Read more
2021-11-24 18:00 UTC · Community Announcements · lara.rodriguez
What's ever been made with more love than RiME? Show your love for Enu, Nana and Manu's story by voting for RiME at the Steam Awards as best Labor of Love. Thank you 🦊 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/27369829/bca1178c76fcc624d8824583e302608722705f55.jpg
2021-07-04 09:00 UTC · Eurogamer
In a dark room encircled by a 360-degree screen, Patrick Moran methodically leaps through a series of blue spotlights on the floor. The Barbican curator is showing me an internal cheat code to speed through a section of Book of Sand, a specially-commissioned work named for the Jorge Luis Borges short story about a book with infinite pages. The meditative scenes projected around us are from Tequila Works' 2017 puzzler RiME, reincarnated in a new form here at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore. Book of Sand is one of six new installations at Virtual Realms, an exhibition co-curated by the Barbic
2020-11-18 18:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)
Ultrawide gaming monitors are the kind of hardware that might seem too excessive, maybe even a bit too gamer to bother with for playing games on PC, especially when their demanding resolutions often require powerful graphics cards to make the most of them. Once you try one, though, there’s no going back. I’ve been a big fan of ultrawide gaming monitors for years now, mostly because supported PC games just look fantastic on them. And that’s why I’ve put together this list of the best ultrawide games on PC – to show you exactly what they look like in the flesh, complete with GIFs and photos of t
2020-10-22 14:05 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
Mental health charity Safe in our World has turned a whole one-year-old and, to celebrate, it's launching a Fanatical bundle featuring games that each "share a unique and relatable message about mental health". Called the Safe in Our World First Anniversary Bundle, the pack includes seven goodies across different game genres, and proceeds will go towards "tailored, games-focused mental health CBT courses" the charity's creating. First up, the bundle - which is available to grab as of right now for the low price of just £4.65 / $4.99 - includes a gorgeous title from the adventure games genre -
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
2019-07-16 06:30 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice Liguori)
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. What an unexpected journey that was. I certainly didn t expect the direction Rime went in. I don t want to spoil the ending, but washing up on an island as a small boy, with a beautiful fox friend to help guide the way as you solve puzzles, sounds absolutely lovely, right? But what a turn it took in the final couple of chapters. What. A. Turn. (more…)
2019-07-05 11:03 UTC · Eurogamer
Subscription gaming services such as Xbox Game Pass, EA Access and PlayStation Now have become a good deal for players - or at least, a good way of ensuring you never reach the bottom of your pile of shame. As this year's E3 festivities made plain, they are now central to platform holder strategy, with Microsoft releasing all its first-party titles on Game Pass, and Google Stadia to ship with its own, currently rather meagre subscription game service. But are they always a fair deal for developers? The details of these partnerships remain closely guarded, but in a panel discussion at Gamelab l
2019-05-23 15:04 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)
The latest game Epic are giving away free on their digishop is Rime, 2017’s nonviolent explore-o-puzzle-a-platformer made by Tequila Works. Y’know, the one that people may have tried to explain to you with comparisons to Ico or Journey, a great deal of handwaving, and the words like “kinda” and “sorta”. I still haven’t bought a game on Epic’s store but I sure am nabbing all the freebies. (more…)
2018-10-31 15:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (John Walker)
Video games, you may have noticed, are often a little bit horrid. All sorts of naughtiness, and a distinct lack of people just being kind to one another. What are we like?! But fortunately there are games that make an exception to the potty-mouthed meanies that dominate, and today I celebrate them and their cuteness with a collection of lovely screenshots. (more…)
2018-06-26 09:06 UTC · Eurogamer
Warning: this article assumes you have finished Rime. If you haven't, you should! It's only at the end you understand something very important about the game, which makes it very special - Rime is much more than the serene Mediterranean adventure it seems. If that sounds like a spoiler to you, look away, but please come back again when you're ready for more. On a porch warmed by the Mediterranean sun, Ra l Rubio Mun rriz, creative director of Rime, tells me the moment which changed his life forever. "It's pretty stupid," he says. "One day I nearly drowned." He was dating a girl who wanted to s
2018-06-04 15:48 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Dominic Tarason)
Maybe my perception of time is getting a bit wonky in my old age, but didn’t we just finish Spring Sale season a week or two ago? No matter – cheap games are always in style. GOG’s summer sale opens with a giveaway of Goldhawk Interactive’s solid X-Com tribute Xenonauts. GOG also asked us to pick a few favourites from the sale, so check out our list on GOG. (more…)
2018-05-10 17:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Brendan Caldwell)
The dadification of games continues. So we re going full Dad this week on the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show, as we ve been asked to talk about the games we play with our children. Alec s daughter is excited by the unlockable characters in Rayman Legends (and she s also strangely fascinated by Battletech). John s son is a bit younger and likes to watch his dad diving in Abzu and Subnautica (but also manages to sneak glimpses of God of War s quiet moments on the TV naughty!). Brendan doesn t have children, only a cat. She can t stand games and thinks they are a waste of time. (more&h
2018-01-26 17:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)
My nerves have been sufficiently jangled and my trigger-finger sufficiently itched by the glut of action games which landed in the closing months of last year. I crave an altogether more sedate beginning to 2018, and so my mind turns to games in which violence, reflex or any other kind of unblinking attentiveness takes a back seat. Primarily we’re talking violence-free games here, but I wanted to drill a little deeper than that – so nothing that generally requires a competitive streak. I’m chasing a certain feel rather than a certain category. Flying, walking, puzzling, drivi
2017-09-28 18:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Brendan Caldwell)
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