“I wish I could do that”: A developer on The Sims has been eyeing up Paralives’ characters’ asymmetric shoes and their wider possibilities | Gaming

Asymmetric shoes may not seem like a big deal. I mean, if we look past the cultural mountain that was climbed to turn the faux pas of odd socks into…

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Xbox Owners Get Free PC Copies Of Select Ubisoft Games | Gaming

Ubisoft is giving Xbox players free PC versions of select games they already own digitally on console, at no additional cost. Currently the offers extends to thirteen titles in total,…

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17 Years Ago, Green Lantern Led the Perfect Zombie Story And It Still Needs an Adaptation | News World

Zombies are a horror concept that has been around for a while now. They trace their origins and name back to Haitian folklore, being popularized in media by the classic…

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Toxic yuri story Kaschei is a marvelous free visual novel that turns your Downloads folder into a little labyrinth of mirrors | Gaming

I too often default to thinking of videogames as singular, monolithic things, rather than hives of collectively made functions and assets, secreted behind a launcher icon. Kaschei, an experimental…

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Monster Hunter Wilds’ latest patch makes online-only missions playable offline, alongside some other useful updates | Gaming

Things have been quiet on the Monster Hunter Wilds front since the announcement of its major Ascendance expansion earlier in June. While the base game continues to receive updates, this…

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GSC Game World Responds to Founder’s Xbox Exclusivity Deal Comments | Gaming

Recently, Sergiy Grygorovych, the founder of the GSC Game World, the studio behind S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, shared that the Xbox exclusivity deal surpassed the game’s development budget. The…

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Zach Cregger may have made the best Resident Evil movie yet, but a faction of fans aren’t happy about it | Gaming

RESIDENT EVIL – Official Trailer (4K) – YouTube Watch On Opinion Opinion Tyler Wilde Editor-in-Chief, US I’m in such a bubble of positivity for Barbarian and Weapons director Zach Cregger’s…

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Xbox explains outage preventing players from accessing games, CTO says it will “do better” | Gaming

Xbox has provided an explanation for yesterday’s hours-long outage, which prevented players from signing in, accessing their libraries, and playing games. In a statement on social media, CTO Scott Van…

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This week in PC games: a battle royale detective game, a broken Y2K metaverse, a laptop tycoon sim, and a new Company of Heroes RTS | Gaming

Hello all! Welcome to another week of sordid digital diversions, aka new PC games, dumped upon the innocent wanderer like a chamberpot upended over your head by a Victorian maid,…

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Xbox Game Pass users praise ‘awesome’ free RPG that was quietly dropped this month | Gaming

Xbox Game Pass users are praising a recently released RPG which just hit the service this month. Rogue Factor’s Hell Is Us released last year on PC, PlayStation 5, and…

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DC officially announces two highly-anticipated series (and fans are ready) | News World

Around the beginning of 2026, DC Comics was criticized for the lack of ongoing series starring Black characters. There were mini-series, such as Mr. Terrific Year One (written by Al…

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Xbox Executive Explains Today’s Outages Across the Xbox Network | Gaming

Xbox has been struggling for the last few days, with major outages for players all day today. Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet took to social media to explain what happened…

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Shigeru Miyamoto thinks people don’t care about console specs that much anymore, believes Nintendo instead provides “gameplay that only we can create” | Gaming

A new interview with Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed he thinks people don’t care about graphics and performance that much anymore, compared to consumer priorities in generations gone by. As…

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Cringe ’90s stoner icons Jay and Silent Bob are getting a cosy farming sim, but wait for it: you farm weed | Gaming

Jay and Silent Bob first appeared in the 1994 grunge film Clerks as eccentric weed dealers. Jay was the sweary, loquacious, long haired slacker, and Silent Bob was the silent,…

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STALKER 2’s Cost of Hope expansion, and its free but still hopeful 2.0 update, get an August release date | Gaming

Grab your Geiger counter and your copy of The Arbinger Institute’s seminal conflict resolution handbook The Anatomy of Peace, because STALKER 2’s faction war-y story expansion Cost of Hope has…

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“I dunno why they chose Crashphalt”: forgotten Steam game suddenly becomes a hit after players start using it for Undertale online multiplayer | Gaming

Released back in 2018, Crashphalt is a free and eccentric multiplayer game in which players do ground-pounds to send out seismic ripples, striving to punt each other off-screen. It’s got…

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Xbox outage turns ugly as players use Xbox App glitch to download and play titles for free | Gaming

Xbox servers have gone down just days after the PlayStation Network was hit by its own outage, and Microsoft has officially recognized the problem in a recent statement, but left…

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Video Game History Foundation releases major new E3 archive collections | Gaming

The Video Game History Foundation (VGHF) has published new collections documenting the history of E3, the industry trade show that ran from 1995 to 2021. The largest is the Carolyn…

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2026 Eisner Awards Announced | School Library Journal | News World

YA graphic novel This Place Kills Me by Mariko Tamaki and Nicole Goux earned two awards. The 2026 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced on Friday, July 24 at…

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Halo: Campaign Evolved Handheld Performance Review | Gaming

Introduction Almost a quarter of a century after Halo: Combat Evolved—one of the most important FPS games of all time—we’re getting a full-on remake titled Halo: Campaign Evolved, developed by…

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That evil Car Park Capital tycoon game is only getting more evil with MicroProse as publisher, but it still looks gorgeous | Gaming

Car Park Capital is a triumphantly unwholesome tycoon game in which you try to make an entire society utterly dependent on cars. You start with a relatively green-ish map,…

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This cat-themed PC case has the best power button I’ve ever seen | Gaming

I’ve been watching Colorfire’s cat-themed Meow product line with much interest over the years. While I’ve already got a kitty-eared headset, I’m sure a full feline-themed set-up would help me…

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Overthrow the Kaiser in Red Echoes: Berlin, a Weimar-era turn-based strategy game in the style of Suzerain | Gaming

Red Echoes: Berlin is a narrative-driven turn-based strategy game in which you join the German “November Revolution” across 1918 and 1919, during the final days of World War 1. Over…

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Rockstar Games and GTA co-founder chimes in on the raging physical games debate: “If people want that, companies should provide it” | Gaming

Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser and longtime Rockstar writer Lazlow Jones have chipped in on the physical video games debate. This topic has been raging ever since Rockstar Games announced…

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How Much Has The Xbox Outage Affected You? | Gaming

Xbox servers have been down for most of the day (July 27), impacting thousands of players, myself included, and leaving me unable to play most of my games. Sifting through…

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CodeDev launches optimisation division The Performance Guys | Gaming

UK co-development house CodeDev, also known as The Unreal Guys, has launched a specialist optimisation division called The Performance Guys, built explicitly to tackle project-critical optimisation work. It contains exclusively…

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Dragon Age: Thedas at War is a BioWare RPG-inspired Crusader Kings 3 total conversion mod that’s here to keep the series alive while it sits in EA limbo | Gaming

Who knows when or if BioWare’ll ever be allowed to make a follow-up to Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Whatever ends up being the future of a series EA’ve left in…

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Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company | Gaming

Every gamer has dreamed about having an infinite library of games to choose from. Perhaps that began with envy of that one friend you had growing up who seemed to…

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EXCLUSIVE: Read Oni Press’s ‘Skin Police Vol. 2’ #1 Free | News World

Skin Police by Jordan Thomas and Daniel Gete is a wild sci-fi ride, and so is the sequel series. Now, Skin Police 2 is getting collected by Oni Press, and…

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Myst devs Cyan Worlds show off prototype for Project Anglerfish, a canned entry in the noted long-time RPS favourite series | Gaming

We famously love a bit of Myst here at RPS. Always have. So, naturally, Cyan Worlds deciding to bust out a teaser for a new game in the Mystverse that’s…

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