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Welcome to day 11 of the RPS Advent Calendar! We’re going to have a great time: singing songs by the fire, kayaking in the lake, and definitely none of the camp counselors are going to be brutally murdered by monsters! Read more
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A whole bunch of classic Civilization leaders are coming back for Civilization 6’s upcoming Leader Pass, devs Firaxis have confirmed. You can expect 18 more leaders spread out over six DLC pack releases between November 21st and March 2023, 12 of whom are new leaders. Another six will be “new takes” on existing leaders from previous games in the Civ series. The Leader Pass’ existence was leaked by accident last week when promo art for the DLC appeared on the mobile version of the Civ website, before it was removed. Read more
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If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. New leaders, new takes on older ones. After it leaked late last week, 2K Games has announced the Civilization 6: Leader Pass, a new season pass that adds 18 new playable leader selections to the game. The Leader Pass features 12 new leaders and six new leader takes across six DLC packs. It is included at no extra charge for new and existing Civilization 6 Anthology owners on Steam and Epic Games Store. Each leader arrives with a suite of…
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I’ve been experiencing Marvel fatigue for, oh, around seven years now. To compensate, I decided to watch Marvel’s Midnight Suns latest trailer while pretending it wasn’t about Marvel superheroes, but just a Firaxis-made tactics game with character classes who have wildly divergent skillsets. The video focuses on the spider-powered class – and heck, it does look pretty cool. Read more
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Experience the Wonderlands on Steam. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands will arrive on Steam Thursday, June 23. Alongside the main game, all DLC will be made available, and this includes the latest content release, Molten Mirrors. For a limited time, Steam users will be able to pick up the game for a special launch price, and receive the Golden Hero Armor Pack until July 7. If you plan to move your game to Steam from the Epic Games Store, your save data can be transferred, but you will need to do it manually. By doing so, you risk potentially losing game save…
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The latest free game to arrive on the Epic Games Store is BioShock: The Collection. The second of four freebies coming over the next few weeks, the offering is a celebratory present marking the second week of The Epic MEGA Sale. In BioShock: The Collection, you will journey to the cities of Rapture and Columbia across BioShock Remastered, BioShock 2 Remastered, and BioShock Infinite: The Complete Edition. Along with the aformentioned games, the collection includes all single-player add-on content. In BioShock Remastered, you will travel to the undersea city of Rapture, once a haven for society’s greatest minds. Unfortunately, it…
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The first of four freebies being handed out over the next few weeks. The Epic MEGA Sale has kicked off on the Epic Games Store, and the first of four free games being offered during this time is Borderlands 3. You can download Borderlands 3 from today through May 26 at 11am ET. If you have never played the looter-shooter before, it’s free, so now there is no excuse. Borderlands 3 is set on the planet Pandora seven years after the death of Handsome Jack. In the interim, twin siblings Troy and Tyreen Calypso form the Children of the Vault…
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With the big PS Plus relaunch on the horizon (get your Zero Dawn jokes out of here), we finally have an idea of what exactly to expect. Today, in a blog post, Sony outlined everything—games, streaming offerings, a partnership with Ubisoft—coming to the service. It’s a lot. Let’s break it down. PS Plus 2.0, first officially announced in March, is a total revamp of the long-running PS Plus service, essentially folding all of PlayStation’s disparate subscriptions into one. It’s available in three tiers, which you can read more about right here, but the general breakdown is:Though the option to play…
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The report comes after studio head Haden Blackman leaves the studio after seven years. A new report claims that a new Mafia game is in development, as multiple bosses leave the studio Hanger 13. According to Kotaku, Hanger 13 studio head Haden Blackman is departing the studio after seven years at the company, as announced by 2K Games earlier this week. The report states that 2K Games wrote in an email to staff that Blackman is going to “pursue his passion at a new endeavor,” and Kotaku believes that the move comes with a new Mafia game in development, supposedly…
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How do you want your ending to play out? The Quarry, the upcoming narrative horror game from Supermassive Games, will have multiple endings. And when we say multiple, well, we really mean 186. Each ending will depend upon choices you make in the game with the non-playable characters. These endings could result in life or death, as the story will change depending on said choices – all of which are included in a 1,000-page script. Speaking with IGN, the game’s director, Will Byles, discussed the amount of work that goes into such a “mathematical nightmare”. And the large amount of…
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The sequel will be developed in-house by Gearbox and feature fresh characters. The episodic, story-driven Borderlands spinoff, Tales from the Borderlands, is receiving a sequel. The follow-up is to be expected later this year, with an official announcement for the game coming in summer. The teaser came from Gearbox CEO, Randy Pitchford, at PAX East 2022. Pitchford spoke of the affinity players have for the games’ characters, and how the team at 2K and Gearbox have an “interest in developing the Borderlands universe in new ways.” More specifically, Pitchford shared, “I’m talking about an all new Tales from the Borderlands…
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In maybe the swiftest escalation of 2022, gaming YouTuber and experimental rapper IShowSpeed was banned from Valorant (and other Riot Games titles) and potentially YouTube for demeaning a female player in Riot’s tactical hero shooter. IShowSpeed has since apologized for his behavior, saying he was “not having a good day” in the clip that went viral and appears to have sparked the ban. While moderation was speedy, the entire debacle has sparked discussion around trash talk in games, and who gets a second chance when they’re young and reckless.
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Tiny Tina runs her own TTRPG campaign where you are the hero in a fully-fledged Borderlands spin-off, but the fun falls flat rather quickly. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is – to both its benefit and to its detriment – a Borderlands game in shiny new packaging. The concept was promising, but given all that Gearbox had to work with, it didn’t really deliver. I have to admit that in the lead up to Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, I didn’t actually feel that hyped. The introduction of dragons and magic caught my interest, for sure, but I was still riding the Elden Ring…
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It’s the last day of Summer Camp, and instead of a fun-filled night of partying, a group of teens face a night of terror. 2K and Supermassive Games have announced The Quarry, a new horror narrative game where your every choice, big or small, shapes your story and determines who will live and who will die. The game takes place on the last day of Summer Camp and the teenage counselors of Hackett’s Quarry decide to throw a party to celebrate. Unfortunately for them, things take a turn for the worse as blood-drenched locals and something “far more sinister” turns…
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Here’s a few things you’ll want to know about ahead of the game’s release next week. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands will feature crossplay support and split-screen options, and today, Geabox has provided more details on both alongside the PC specs. With crossplay, the feature will be supported across all release platforms. Regardless of which platform you choose to play on, you’ll be able to party up with friends through SHiFT Matchmaking. How to enable crossplay can be found here. With split-screen, you and your buddies can play in-person together with local split-screen multiplayer on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S with up…