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As I’ve said many times, management is a necessary part of any successful business, especially any large business. After all, someone has to set the goals, make all the mundane decisions, and do all the politics that would bore an engineer to death. That said, there’s a certain type of…

Open world Czech Bohemia-inspired orienteering game Prologue: Go Wayback! from PlayerUnknown Productions and PUBG creator Brendan Greene is out now in Steam Early Access - and that's very inconvenient, because we still don't have consensus on a nickname. Back in 2017, RPS jocularly renamed PUBG "Plunkbat" - a show of…

Who dares enter my domain!? Don’t you know who I am? You think a lowly peon such as yourself is worthy of my precious time? Because, jeez Louise, I am absolutely slammed right now.

Tremble before me: I am the judge, jury, and executioner! I could slap a death sentence…

The messy Subnautica 2 legal dispute between publishers Krafton and three former lead developers on the game rumbles on. The lawyerly wranglings about Krafton's decision to delay Sub 2's early access, leaving a $250 million bonus to developers Unknown Worlds up in the air, then fire Charlie Cleveland, Max McGuire,…

Ok, yep, it's one of RPS' biggest New Vegas/Fallout heads, here to tell you about some New Vegas mods that've recently dropped. Why? You might ask that. You're quite right to. It's because there's a general Fallout modathon going on over on Nexus Mods right now, and I've spotted…

Ho there, embarrassing Baldur's Gate 3 fans! Not had enough D&D in your life lately? Pining for the Owlbears, is it? Feeling a bit shrivelled for lack of magic missiles? Baby want some Helldusk Armor? Perhaps you will be consoled by Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked. It's a…

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A bit of creepy crawly, low-key city building? Ah, go on then. October and Halloween might be behind us, but Fangtopia is a puzzle game stroke city builder that still feels appropriate for late autumn. Having had a go with its demo, it's deceptively simple, in fact it felt so…

Here's a sentence I am very glad to write: the first Citizen Sleeper-like is here! Or at least the first one I'm aware of (and the actual genre is dice-driven RPG, no more something-likes, ok?). It's called Dusk Punk, which mixes the narrative and mechanical framework established by…