Unity say layoffs “likely” as they recover from disastrous pricing plan rollout and look to AI for growth (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Expects “interventions” - including cuts to products, office space and jobs - to be made in the next six months.
The Expanse: A Telltale Series episode one veers dangerously close to a slightly boring Dead Space | Rock Paper Shotgun (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Fallout 4’s free “next-gen update” has been pushed into 2024, putting it close to a decade after the original (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Biggest Baldur's Gate 3 update yet adds epilogue, new modes and Act 3 performance fixes (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
All of Half-Life's textures were created by a single person, new making-of documentary explains (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Cyberpunk 2 devs say Unreal Engine is a "challenge" (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Cities: Skylines 2 devs considered release delay to boost performance, but decided it's "not a dealbreaker" (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Cyberpunk 2077's Ukrainian localisation takes the piss out of Russia's war (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Reworked skill trees and new minigames aside, Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 update includes a Ukrainian localisation of the game…
"They don’t care": Inside the triumphs and failures of accessible gaming hardware (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Accessible hardware is on the rise, so why are so many disabled players being left behind? We investigate the state of …
Scientists use Age of Empires 2 to investigate how ants wage war (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
... researchers Samuel J. Lymbery, Bruce L. Webber and Raphael K. Didham use Age of Empires 2 to study how human shaping of the environment affects the balance of power between the indigenous Australian "meat ant", or Iridomyrmex purpureus, and the Argentine ant, or Linepithema humile, who are one of the world's more invasive...
Dune: Spice Wars review: a compulsive 4X that both nails and wastes its source material (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
This realtime 4X makes great use of Dune’s furniture in crafting a compulsive, busy, and well-made strategy game, and its new campaign is a great addition. But the soul of Dune remains elusive, leaving its desert planet feeling barren in the wrong ways....
Gearbox and Crystal Dynamics owner Embracer announce 900 layoffs after "one of our strongest quarters for new releases ever" (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
How Bit Reactor's Star Wars game hopes to do for strategy what Baldur's Gate 3's done for RPGs (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Payday 3's launch is another great advert for not making your game 'always online' (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
You can already guess the third sentence: the servers have been a disaster at launch, with players forced to queue for long periods just to play alone, if they can manage to play at all. It currently sits "Mostly Negative" reviews on Steam - that's 31% positive after almost 19,000 reviews....
"They don’t care": Inside the triumphs and failures of accessible gaming hardware (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Accessible hardware is on the rise, so why are so many disabled players being left behind? We investigate the state of …
Baldur's Gate 3 characters were super-horny due to a bug, Larian admit (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
I was a bit taken aback when almost every character in my camp was quick to jump my bones very early on, this explains it.
Vampire Survivors meets Diablo in Halls Of Torment (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
A fifteen year open source effort to remake Dungeon Keeper just hit 1.0 (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
How gun giant Remington used Call of Duty to promote weapons to younger players (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Cyberpunk 2077's Ukrainian localisation takes the piss out of Russia's war (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Reworked skill trees and new minigames aside, Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 update includes a Ukrainian localisation of the game…
Epic are hiring for a Fortnite open world survival game (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Nightdive Studios on a big 2023: acquired by Atari, begging for Dark Forces, and remaking System Shock (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Classic Fallout fans might enjoy Space Wreck, which launches out of early access today (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Why not try out this blissful oceanic Zelda-style puzzler (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Friend, are you weary of talk of blockbuster space-faring RPGs and blockbuster D&D adaptations and blockbusters in general? Do you yearn for the older, simpler days before the great Unrealification and the invention of sex scenes, when people called a spike pit a spike pit, and you could count all the different colours in a...
Valve bans thousands of Dota 2 smurfing accounts, threatens greater future punishments (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
"Smurfing is not welcome in Dota," say Valve, as they ban 90,000 alt accounts and say they've traced the main accounts …
