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One thing the Assassin’s Creed series has always managed to do well is meet media fads with near-perfect timing.Whether the media landscape is currently obsessed with Vikings, the Renaissance, or Feudal Japan, this series of hooded boys and their neck-stabbing toys always meets the mood at just the right moment to capitalize on the interest. There is perhaps no greater example of this than when Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag was released in 2013, when the pirate aesthetic ruled our hearts, but there wasn’t much coming out to cater to that desire.The Pirates of the Caribbean series was going downhill…
Tomodachi Life Living the Dream personality types are what makes the game feel alive, and are important to pay attention to if you want a thriving island. They keep your Miis feeling unique, determine how they approach interactions with other island residents, their feelings, and their overall general attitude.Personality types also determine your “Island Vibe” in the island Info menu, and house colors. And if that wasn’t enough already, in my Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream review, I mention how collecting all of them is one of the best parts of Nintendo’s new social sim.That may seem stressful at first…
Unreasonably grand strategy game Europa Universalis 5 will get a Byzantine Empire-themed expansion called Fate of the Phoenix on May 6th, developers Paradox Interactive have announced. Not heard of EU5? Back in October, our reviewer Brendy called the game “a deep and intricate historical simulation that will overwhelm you with menus as much as it will compel you through centuries of global history.” Brendy is gone now (RPS in peace), reduced to a mocking cackle on the wind, and I alone stand in my ignorance between you and this very first EU5 “Immersion pack”, in which there is…
Verdict Mouse P.I. For Hire takes every noir trope and turns it into something new. A monochrome shooter with a delicious mystery at its core, the varied locales and wonderful voice cast make this one of the best games I’ve played all year. Noir fiction works best for me when it’s played straight: hardboiled, down-on-their-luck detective, trying earnestly to carve out a corner of the world where they can drink themselves into oblivion. I’m a simple man with simple tastes. A noir detective story where the protagonist (and the majority of the world, for that matter) are mice? I don’t…
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors (yes, that is the full title) is much better than you might be expecting.Vampire Survivors was great when it first dropped on the scene, but it can be tough to endure lengthy runs where success is measured by how little you have to actually play. Vampire Crawlers is totally different, putting control of each attack entirely in your hands as you delve into several deep dungeons.In a refreshing twist, runs aren’t particularly long, and will come to a defined and satisfying end point once you’ve made enough progress. And getting to the…
Things are rough gaming PC land thanks to RAMageddon, and while parts like graphics cards sitting at MSRP should be the norm, they are extremely few and far between. It’s for that reason that, despite not being massively into Nvidia’s 8GB 60-class cards, it feels like the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is worth a look while it’s under $400.The model in question is the MSI RTX 5060 Ti 8G Ventus, as it’s currently down to $379.99 at Amazon. Keep in mind that custom card MSRPs are a bit bananas compared to Nvidia’s recommended price, so the “90-day low” is based…
We called Mohawk’s strategy game Old World “almost the perfect blend of Civilization and Crusader Kings III” back in 2021. As such, the opinions of people who worked on Old World are of interest to me. Here’s one: designer and programmer Daniels Umanovskis would very much like to make a sequel to the undersung Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, because it is “the best game ever”. “It had top-level Civilization-like gameplay with an incredibly good atmosphere and game world,” Umanovskis told Norwegian site Spillhistorie in a recent interview, also featuring Mohawk studio boss and former Civilization 4 designer Soren Johnson. “The…
Vampire: The Masquerade is in a bit of an odd spot at the moment. While the franchise is starting to show renewed signs of life with Dimension 20’s new VTM chronicle, and The Chinese Room is slowly but surely fixing up the rickety Bloodlines 2, the franchise hasn’t quite managed to wriggle itself out of torpor just yet. With all eyes shifting to Teyon’s Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish, a new action-focused RPG from the dev team behind Robocop: Rogue City, Bloodlines 2 has faded into the background slightly, which some would likely argue is where it belongs. Yet, I’ve…
Practically every major game development studio uses AI in game development now, but not all them are comfortable disclosing it yet, a Google exec claims.In an interview with Mobilegamer.biz, Google Cloud’s global director for games Jack Buser said a lot of studios use AI-powered tools to help with development, but a number of them are unwilling to confirm this publicly for fear of backlash.Buser says Google’s own tools like Gemini and Nano Banana Pro are used by some studios to remove “the drudgery and repetitive, low value work” in game development, but that while many studios use them the fact…
The upcoming Switch 2 game Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is giving players the kind of freedom that’s usually best left out of Nintendo’s most child-friendly franchises. Gestures vaguely at the internet’s cursed Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream ships.Previews for the newest platformer featuring everyone’s favorite green dino went live earlier this week. Yoshi’s watercolor adventure looks expectedly gorgeous and innocent and cuddly, but one thing you might not expect is that players can seemingly name most of the platformer’s NPCs. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book – Exclusive Switch 2 gameplay – YouTube Watch On — Yoshi and the Mysterious Book…