is Billionaire Bill Ackman Admits Debate Conspiracy He Pushed Is Fake By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:00:19 GMT Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via GettyBillionaire Bill Ackman spent days after the ABC presidential debate promoting false claims that a network “whistleblower” had allegedly uncovered collusion between ABC and Kamala Harris’ campaign. Now, a month and multiple denials later, he sees the claims differently.“It seems pretty clear that the alleged @abc whistleblower debate story claiming that @KamalaHarris was given questions in advance and other advantages was a fake,” Ackman posted on X alongside a blog post by Megyn Kelly discussing the dubious claims.What Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, did not acknowledge, however, is that he was one of falsehood’s early boosters. After an X account named “Black Insurrectionist” claimed it had been in touch with a whistleblower who alleged the Harris campaign had been given debate topics ahead of the showdown with Donald Trump and had demanded Trump—and Trump alone—be fact-checked.Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article Media
is Harris Shuts Down Bret Baier as He Plays the MAGA Hits By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:56:37 GMT Fox NewsIn a contentious interview with Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, Fox News host Bret Baier spent no time going after the vice president with a laundry list of the subjects often highlighted by former President Donald Trump on the campaign trail.Immediately after the interview kicked off, Baier opened by asking: “How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released into the country over the last three and a half years?”Harris began a carefully worded answer, but Baier consistently interrupted her before she could finish a sentence.Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article Politics
is Fox News’ Bret Baier Whines About Harris After Bad-Tempered Interview By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 01:09:05 GMT Roy Rochlin/Getty ImagesFox News host Bret Baier recapped his Wednesday night interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, telling his colleagues that he got a sense early on that Harris “was going to be tough to redirect without me trying to interrupt.”The interview, Harris’ first on the right-wing network since becoming the Democratic nominee, was broadcast on Special Report after being filmed in the previous hour. According to Baier, the interview had been scheduled for 5 p.m., but Harris showed up 15 minutes late. This, he complained, was like “icing the kicker” in football.“We were supposed to start at 5 p.m. This was the time they gave us. Originally, we were going to do 25 or 30 minutes. They came in and said, ‘Well, maybe 20.’ So, it’s already getting whittled down. And then the vice president showed up at about 5:15 p.m. We were pushing the envelope to be able to turn it around for the top of the 6 p.m.. So that’s how it started,” Baier said.Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article Media
is ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’: Is Heather Gay a Hypocrite for Taking Ozempic? By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 02:00:51 GMT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/BravoThe Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is TV’s best soap opera, week after week offering twists more shocking than secret twins and characters returning from the dead. That’s because it’s all real, happening in the most haunted suburb in the continental United States.Where else do two women connect over knowing the long-lost birth father of one’s child? Is there another city where women squabble over body positivity in a parking lot off the side of a snowy mountain? Surely, there’s no other place on Earth where Lisa Barlow could come across anywhere near a voice of reason.But that all happens here in Salt Lake City. Five episodes in, Season 5 has continued to evolve into the most captivating season in modern Real Housewives history, carried by the ever-changing bonds between our OGs and a team of wonderfully bizarre newbies.Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article
is Chris Hayes Furious With Fox Over ‘Edited’ Soundbite in Harris Interview By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 02:19:50 GMT MSNBCMSNBC’s Chris Hayes called out Fox News for not showing the full context of Donald Trump’s “enemy within” comments during Vice President Kamala Harris’ interview on the network earlier Wednesday.The anchor of All In opened his broadcast by calling attention to something that Harris herself did in the sit-down with Fox’s Bret Baier. The clip that the right-wing network showed to Harris as part of Baier’s question was of Trump during his all-female town hall event in Georgia—the one where Trump bizarrely argued he was the “father of IVF.”In the clip that Fox aired directly to Harris during her interview, Trump wasn’t heard talking about how former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or Rep. Adam Schiff are the “enemy within.” Instead, Fox made it so Harris had to react to him talking more mildly about “phony investigations.” The network omitted Trump’s line about “the enemy within.”Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article Media
is Trump Gushes Over ‘Fair’ Bret Baier After Fox News Kamala Harris Interview By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 05:07:11 GMT Fox News/Marco Bello via ReutersDonald Trump praised Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier for a “great job” in his interview with Democratic 2024 presidential hopeful Kamala Harris on Wednesday night, claiming Baier had “showed how totally incompetent Kamala is” while himself demanding she undergo a cognitive ability test.Trump joined his campaign in calling the interview a total disaster for Harris. During the interview, Harris and Baier engaged in multiple back-and-forths; at one point, on the topic of immigration, Harris clapped back at Baier as he interrupted her: “May I finish responding to you?”Immediately after the interview aired, the campaign—notably advisers Stephen Miller and Steven Cheung—took to X to decry Harris’ responses.Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article Politics
is Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Fox News’ Post-Harris Interview ‘Orgy’ By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 05:28:08 GMT ABCIn his monologue Wednesday, Jimmy Kimmel played a montage of Fox News anchors praising Bret Baier for his interview with Kamala Harris, where they described Baier’s performance as “incredible” and “a masterful job.”Kimmel responded, “Alright, save it for the post-show orgy, everybody! Come on now.”The late night host was skeptical that the Fox News pundits’ praise came from a genuine place of journalistic integrity. “They all sit there in fear, imagining Donald Trump on the toilet watching them,” he said.Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article Entertainment
is Tegan and Sara: The Pop-Rock Twins Driven Mad by a Wild Catfishing Scheme By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:00:00 GMT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/HuluOnline interactions are based on trust, since there are few definitive ways to certify the identity of the person with whom one is communicating. Naturally, this situation can lead to deception and manipulation, as it has—to tormenting effect—for Tegan and Sara, the popular indie rock duo whose lives have been turned upside down by a mysterious bad faith actor who, for more than a decade, has impersonated Tegan with fans, friends, and business partners.Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara is an investigation into the myriad means by which the internet can be wielded to nefarious ends. More than that, though, it’s an anatomy of a crime and the complicated wreckage wrought by it, not just for the famous artists but also for the innocent admirers who were tricked into believing that fiction was reality.Premiering on Hulu on Oct. 18, following its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Erin Lee Carr’s documentary is a chilling snapshot of the unholy marriage of corrosive fandom and online duplicity. At its center are Tegan and Sara, the identical twin songstresses who began making a name for themselves in the early 2000s both for their talent and for being openly gay. This earned them a loyal fanbase of queer women and men who saw themselves reflected in Tegan and Sara, and that bond was strengthened by the siblings’ active interest in interacting with fans in person—Tegan would chat with show attendees in line and at the merch table—and on LiveJournal and other budding message-board platforms that afforded a previously unavailable degree of contact.Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article
is Trump Calls Jan. 6, the Day His Supporters Led a Failed Insurrection, ‘A Day of Love’ By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:48:38 GMT Marco Bello/ReutersFormer President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Jan. 6, 2021— the day his supporters occupied Congress in a failed insurrection to try to stop lawmakers from certifying Joe Biden’s election victory—was a “day of love.”Trump made the baffling claim during a televised election town hall hosted by Univision.Ramiro González, a construction worker from Tampa, told the meeting he deregistered as a Republican because he found Trump’s “inaction” during both Jan. 6 and the COVID-19 pandemic “disturbing.” He asked Trump to square his controversial behavior during the attack on the U.S. Capitol—and the fact that many of his own former administration officials don’t support him any longer—with why he should be re-elected.Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article Politics
is Stormy Daniels Says Trump Is Trying to Silence Her Again By www.thedailybeast.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:30:21 GMT Phillip Faraone/Getty ImagesIt appears Donald Trump is once again attempting to silence Stormy Daniels, despite his recent convictions in that category.MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reports that Trump’s lawyers tried to “get another hush money deal” with the adult film star, to keep her from making any “public or private statements related to any alleged past interactions” with the former president. In exchange for her written agreement, Trump’s team reportedly offered to adjust the debt she owes Trump for the unsuccessful defamation case her lawyer brought against him in 2018.Daniels still needs to pay “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in legal fees, Maddow explained, and in hammering out the exact amount, Trump’s lawyers allegedly offered to “pretend” she owed their client “less than they actually believed” she did. Whereas they first estimated Daniels’ debt at $650,000, Maddow reported, they said they would settle her tab for $620,000, if she promised not to make any “defamatory or disparaging statements about him, his business, and/or any affiliates, or his suitability as a candidate for president.” They then adjusted the fee, asking $635,000 if she refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Daniels reportedly turned them down, paying $627,500 and declining to sign the NDA.Read more at The Daily Beast. Full Article Politics
is In strategy game Sintopia you harvest a whole civilisation's souls for your own custom-built hell By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:49:53 +0000 One of my favourite satires is the Screwtape Letters, an epistolary novel by Narnia scribe C.S. Lewis. It consists of messages from an oily elder demon to his nephew about how to correctly groom the soul of an unsuspecting human being. It's a claustrophobic send-up of managerial politics and nepotism, with World War 1 unfolding in the background. A real pick-me-up. Sintopia is the Two Point incarnation of that premise - in other words, brighter and breezier and definitely more slapstick than Christian. It puts you in charge of a world divided between Earth and hell, and challenges you to ensure a steady movement of optimally sinful souls between one and the other. Say your prayers and watch the trailer. Read more Full Article Strategy PC Fantasy Sintopia Management
is The trick to Dragon Age's lore is that the lore is lying, says original "uber-plot" writer David Gaider By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:48:59 +0000 Part of the fun of Dragon Age's fantasy is that it's inconsistent - or at least, inconsistent by the standards of fantasy RPGs, which often break down into a million neatly organised and interlocking codex entries. It all rides on who you speak to. The humans believe one thing about the origins and workings of Thedas, the elves another, the qunari something else entirely. These differences are the basis for many factional disagreements and thus, many core series plot developments. According to former lead writer David Gaider, however, there's an "uber-plot" behind it all that may one day be resolved and bring the series to a close, assuming BioWare continue to refer to his original (and closely guarded) narrative documents. Read more Full Article Strategy Electronic Arts RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard Action Adventure Single Player Bioware
is Moida Mansion is the new free game from Return Of The Obra Dinn’s Lucas Pope, and it's out now By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 09:37:13 +0000 You remember Lucas Pope, right? He who casually dropped two of the most influential puzzle games ever then got distracted by yellow cranks for six years, occasionally popping up to drop a demake of Papers Please? Well, Pope has ceased hogging that crank, for now at least, and just released Haloween-y adventure game Moida Mansion. It’s on Itch here, and it’s completely free to play in your browser. Read more Full Article Puzzle Moida Mansion Free games Indiescovery Lucas Pope
is Showa American Story is Yakuza: Dead Souls meets Tokyo Gore Police, and it looks incredible By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:05:13 +0000 Some days, I wonder if every word written before a trailer is actually superfluous. It’s a visual medium, after all. What can a description achieve save to clumsily gesture at the true shape of something; a dog-eared tour brochure for a thrilling weekend spelunking in Plato’s cave? I can usually shake this feeling, but gory zombie action game Showa American Story is my breaking point. There is nothing I can impart about this thing that will not be conveyed better by allowing its new trailer to wash over you like a tide of sheer videogame. Here’s it: Read more Full Article Indie Third person RPG Action Adventure Single Player Showa American Story
is The Monster Hunter Wilds beta is live with an early glimpse of the new camping, wound and weather systems By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:17:07 +0000 Stroll on down to Uncle Capcom's garage, girls and boys, because it's time to meddle with a cat's voicebox, ride a combat peacock and meticulously injure a vast, blubbery teddybear. By which I mean, the Monster Hunter Wilds beta is now live on Steam through to 4th November at 2.59am GMT. That's 2.59am sharp. If you're hurrying along at 3am on Monday absolutely desperate to polish the aesthetics of a small enslaved catperson, you can sod off and play Dragon Age: The Veilguard instead. Read more Full Article Third person Monster Hunter Wilds RPG Single Player Hack & Slash Capcom
is Dragon Age: The Veilguard on PC is the surprise AAA tech success of 2024 By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:02:04 +0000 There’s plenty that you could justifiably expect from a Bioware RPG: chats with mates, opportunities to get those mates horribly killed, surviving mates turning to the side then walking offscreen. But I don’t think anyone expected Dragon Age: The Veilguard to be, at least on a purely technical level, one of the smoothest-performing, settings-rich AAA PC releases of the year so far. Read more Full Article Strategy Single Player FSR Hardware DLSS 3 Electronic Arts Dragon Age: The Veilguard Action Adventure RPG DLSS Bioware
is Pathologic 3 devs keen to avoid "premature promises" about bringing back the Changeling in Pathologic 4 By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:04:02 +0000 Like a plague doctor delicately administering another handful of leeches, Ice Pick Lodge have shared a bit more about the recently announced Pathologic 3, explaining how their plans for the cult epidemic-battling series have progressed since the release of Pathologic 2. Read more Full Article Pathologic 3 Story Rich Horror Indie Life Simulation PC RPG
is What are we all playing this weekend? By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000 Okay, look folks, I'm terribly sorry you've been trapped in the bubble of silence for this weekend while comments are still un-fucking themselves. I'm expecting some really juicy catch-up comments next weekend! In the meantime, this post will stay up as usual so you can at least hear what we're getting up to in the treehouse. Congratulations on making it to another checkpoint, fellow traveller. Please spend your hard-earned coin on one of the following bonuses: either a weekend of games but no sleep; a weekend of sleep but no games; or a weekend of health and activity but nothing to post in the comments below? Your choice! Here's what we're all clicking on this weekend. Read more Full Article Playing This Weekend
is What's on your bookshelf?: Solipsism Xtreme Edition By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 16:00:00 +0000 Sunday is cancelled. Book for now! Read more Full Article Booked For The Week Blockbuster
is The Maw: what's new in PC games this week? By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 07:53:31 +0000 SCENE. A Video Game Website At Sunrise. Enter A Reader Of News A Reader Of News I wonder whither there be'est any new PC games on sale this week, perchance? Enter A News Editor, With Alarums And Excursions Read more Full Article The Maw liveblog
is Thysiastery is an anime Legend Of Grimrock, and you can attack the dinosaur merchants if you’re a complete monster By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:14:28 +0000 One of my lesser quality tests for an RPG is whether the shopkeepers complain at you for not buying anything. Grumpy shopkeepers, good RPG. This most specific of litmus tests has served me well, although I must admit that I’d happily upgrade it to ‘shopkeepers you can attack’, would that not disqualify 99% of games. But not turn based dungeon crawler Thysiastery, it turns out. This “dungeon crawler RPG featuring traditional roguelike and turn-based gameplay” apparently trusts you enough to let you recklessly batter its friendly wandering lizard merchants. You’d be a monster for it, of course, but it’s nice to have options. Read more Full Article RPG: Turn-based THYSIASTERY PC Indiescovery
is Slitterhead review: body-hopping action horror that's best left dispossessed By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:01:00 +0000 I was excited for Slitterhead, an action adventure game by Bokeh Studio, a studio founded by none other than your boy Keiichiro Toyama: the creator of Silent Hill, Gravity Rush, and the Siren series. And within that first hour, Slitterhead's body-possessing and Hong Kong-inspired streets had me thinking, "Is this it, the sleeper hit of 2024?!" No, sadly not. It's no doubt built a compelling universe filled with brain-sucking aliens that masquerade as humans, and it attempts plenty else besides: bouncing between bodies as you stealth around dingy apartment blocks, fighting with blood katanas, and gorging on pools of red plasma to refuel skills, many of which require more body-flitting. Thing is, they are ultimately just attempts, attempts that fall victim to an emptiness and jitteriness that quickly reveals Slitterhead's true, irritating form. Read more Full Article Horror Bokeh Game Studio PS5 PC Wot I Think Slitterhead Xbox Series X/S Action Adventure
is Twitch introduce mandatory "Politics and Sensitive Social Issues" label, just in time for the US election By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:51:32 +0000 Twitch have introduced a new "Politics and Sensitive Social Issues" label for streams that "focus" on topics like "elections, civic integrity, and war or military conflict". As with the streaming giant's existing labels for M-rated material, sexual themes or depictions of gambling, the idea is that viewers can filter out such streams in advance by altering their settings. Advertisers, similarly, can "make better choices about the content they want to advertise next to" - in other words, pull their ads from a whole swathe of material if they don't want to be associated with anything controversial. Twitch's hope is that "the labels will allow advertisers to have more context to inform which types of streams they show their ads alongside, which we expect to increase brands’ confidence in running ads on Twitch, and could bring new advertisers to our service." Read more Full Article Twitch Streaming
is The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth celebrates 10 year anniversary with online co-op announcement and sale By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:06:38 +0000 Beloved roguelike traumatic-childhood-em-up The Binding Of Issac: Rebirth turned 10 yesterday, and it’s half off on Steam to celebrate. What’s more, maker Edmund McMillen has announced that the foretold online co-op update is due on the 18th of this month, alongside a “considerable” balance update. Consider me considering the considerability of said considerable update! Read more Full Article Indie Action Adventure Single Player Arcade Xbox One PS4 PlayStation Vita Edmund McMillen Nicalis Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative PC Nintendo 3DS Bird view / Isometric Mac RPG Shooter Nintendo Wii U The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
is Here’s a new launch trailer for Attenborough-em-up RTS Empire Of The Ants, out this week By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:25:01 +0000 Much the same as anyone with a soul, I find ants deeply fascinating and, much the same as anyone who occasionally drops small pieces of sandwich on the floor, I will continue to uphold my respect for them as long as they come nowhere near my feet. Yes. I admit it: I am a bug hypocrite, loudly extolling their virtue and beauty at a distance then getting irritated if they decide to come sit on me. Fortunately, real time strategy Empire Of The Ants understands that the best place for insects to be is inside a screen, where they can be appreciated but cannot under any circumstances touch you. It’s out this week, as it happens, and here’s a new launch trailer to celebrate. Follow your pheromone trail to the video below. Read more Full Article Strategy Simulation PC Empire of the Ants Single Player Strategy: Real-Time Strategy
is This bite-size free horror game has you study an ancient artefact that holds a dark secret By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:36:52 +0000 I have zero archaeology experience or knowledge, but I bet archaeologists really love their jobs (for the most part). They get to analyse and discover cool artefacts and educate us on the histories of forgotten civilisations. That's dreamy stuff, that is. But I do wonder what it's like for archaeologists to discover and study something they shouldn't have; something with a disturbing secret - a curse, maybe. Bite-sized horror game The Children Of Clay explores this idea and I'd like more of it, please. Read more Full Article Horror The Children Of Clay Indie PC Balazs Ronyai Point and Click Free-to-play
is Hori’s spiritual successor to the Steam Controller is up for preorder on Amazon today By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:14:17 +0000 Hori's latest addition to its controller lineup, the "Horipad Wireless for Steam," is now available for preorder on Amazon. After already releasing in Japan at the end of October, now the gamepad is coming to the US. Read more Full Article PC
is Bambas! is Untitled Shoes Game By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:14:37 +0000 The trailer for Bambas! starts off innocently enough. It's an "innovative urban walking simulator" in which you play a disembodied pair of shoes, individually moved with a controller's analog sticks and trigger buttons. The first half of the trailer is all whimsy and playground fun - kicking a football, standing on a climbing frame, riding a skateboard. But then a note of darkness creeps in, as the player begins to channel the sheer nihilistic inconsequentiality of a world in which shoes have no thinking human bodies to restrain them. Read more Full Article Puzzle Exploration PC Comedy Walking Sim Bambas!
is Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Veil-good on the Steam Deck By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:50:07 +0000 Discourse? Look mate, I’m just here to test the Steam Deck. Dragon Age: The Veilguard runs like a tap on any halfway decent desktop hardware, so was naturally going to be worth trying on the weaker Deck. And sure enough, Bioware’s RPG (which is really more of an action game with the occasional verbal spar) settles comfortably into handheld life. In fact, Valve have festooned its Steam page with a Verified medal, a seal of approval for any game that performs and controls well on the Steam Deck without any glaring weaknesses or impractical annoyances. It’s still worth playing around with the settings – more on those later – but I’ll back up that official assessment, having played for several hours without so much as an undersized tooltip. Read more Full Article Steam Deck Strategy Steam Deck Academy Third person PS5 PC Hardware Electronic Arts RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard Action Adventure Xbox Series X/S Single Player Bioware
is Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign review: a military shooter that comes disguised as other, better games By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000 As a yearly blockbuster, Call of Duty, through sheer expense and effort, would like you to think it is the Die Hard of video games. Or, depending on the setting, the Saving Private Ryan of video games. But it is barely Black Hawk Down. This latest campaign in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 reminds me more of the forgettable Netflix shootfests that thumbnail their way across your TV screen as you try to find some gritty nothing to aid you in zoning out of life. Still, there is an anecdotal contingent of casual sofa sitters for whom Call Of Duty is the game. A balls-to-the-wall shooter to return to every winter and rinse through in a weekend. Ed has already gestured at its multiplayer, announcing: "yup, it's COD", like a deeply tired Captain Birdseye inspecting the day's catch, wondering when his life will change. But never mind that. How does the single player story mode hold up? Some are calling it the best campaign in years. And I guess that's true, in the sense that it is the least worst. Read more Full Article Raven Software Wot I Think Treyarch Xbox Series X/S Action Adventure Sledgehammer Games Single Player Xbox One PS4 Infinity Ward Activision PS5 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative PC Shooter: First Person Blockbuster First person Shooter
is Enshrouded's "largest update so far" is out with a new mountain region, pets and single-player pausing By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:16:08 +0000 Enshrouded has received what developers Keen Games are calling the survival game's "most sizable" update yet, sizable being an appropriate word for mountains. Expect a new playable area, the Alabaneve Summits, with its own enemies, resources, non-threatening wildlife and quests. The maximum character level has risen to 35! There are new townsfolk to find and place in your poorly built houses! You can tame animals, and make them live in poorly built houses too! You can get hypothermia! Read more Full Article RPG: Action Indie Third person Action Adventure Open World Single Player Realism Exploration Simulation Sandbox Survival & Crafting Keen Games Full product Fantasy Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative PC Social Enshrouded RPG
is Total War: Warhammer 3’s next DLC is brought to life with porridge, yoghurt and real bones By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:41:48 +0000 Ogres, Orcs, and Khorne are all on the way in the upcoming expansion for strategy game Total War: Warhammer 3, and Creative Assembly have just released their latest dev vlog with a few more details on what to expect. There’s still no word on the exact title, although given the established naming convention (Shadows Of Change, Thrones Of Decay), I’m tentatively calling it “Sniffers Of Glue” in honour of the No Think, Only Krump faction selection. You’ll find the vlog in its full glory below. What’s interesting about this one is that vlog mainstay director Rich Alridge has brought along some new faces: battle designer Josh King and audio director Chris Goldsmith. And, yes, so no-one can accuse me of burying the lede: that audio design involved the enthusiastic, deeply disgusting slurping of porridge and yoghurt, and the jangling of real bones. The source of the bones is not revealed. Read more Full Article Sega Strategy Total War: Warhammer III The Creative Assembly Multiplayer Cooperative Multiplayer Competitive Bird view / Isometric Single Player Strategy: Real-Time Strategy
is Oh thank Horace, our comments system is up and running again By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:32:26 +0000 "Never read the comments," is a truth much-rehearsed by senior games journalists, but I have long since levelled-up past this axiom and entered into a new world of benevolent narcissism. I always read the comments, for all commenters are my children. They exist to glorify and preserve me in my dotage. True, occasionally my children say things like "I think your writing and opinions are appalling, and that you deserve to be repeatedly run over by a herd of deer", but it is the nature of children to rebel. Read more Full Article comments
is Metal Slug Tactics, the surprising genre-twist of the classic run-and-gunner, is out now By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 20:34:43 +0000 I would never have predicted there'd be an isometric tactics game based on run-and-gun series Metal Slug, yet here Metal Slug Tactics is, and I am here for it. We've been following its development for a while but it's out now on Steam, and seemingly as strong as its demo suggested. Read more Full Article Fighting Strategy Nintendo Switch Indie PC Leikir Studio Metal Slug Tactics RPG Bird view / Isometric Single Player DotEmu
is Planet Coaster 2 is out now, adding water slides and pools to the theme park construction sim By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 20:50:22 +0000 We'll have a review of Planet Coaster 2 soon, but I keep making Brendy do other tasks so he's not had enough time yet to ride the rails. That means it falls to me to at least let you know that Frontier's theme park builder is out now. Read more Full Article Simulation PC PS5 Xbox Series X/S Planet Coaster 2 Management
is Foxhole is getting planes next summer and an infantry combat overhaul later this month By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:06:13 +0000 Foxhole is one of my favourite games to read about, even if I don't play it. It's a massively multiplayer World War 2 game, viewed from above, where battlefield logistics matters as much as aiming and flanking. Its developers have just announced a major new update coming next summer, Foxhole: Airborne, which adds planes to the game for the first time. Planes, in a topdown MMO? It makes a little more sense if you watch the trailer. Read more Full Article Strategy Indie Foxhole MMORPG Multiplayer Competitive PC RPG Shooter Bird view / Isometric Strategy: Real-Time Strategy
is Alan Wake 2’s The Lake House is a dark, brilliant parable on the devaluation of art and artists By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 09:20:06 +0000 There must be hundreds of typewriters in the hall, their collective clacks a tidal wave of soulless automation, rising up to greet agent Kiran Estevez as she enters, pistol and flashlight in hands. Exploring rooms to the side, Alan Wake 2: The Lake House’s star finds whiteboards and documents revealing the typewriter’s purpose: to mimic Wake’s writing. Pages are graded along criteria such as ‘style’, ‘tone’, and ‘content’, then “fed into the algorithm” as references until “near-identical stories” to Wake’s can be produced. “If Jules could simply cut the painter open and pull the painting out of him, he would,” reads one of the real Alan’s typewritten pages. That’s Jules Marmont, the obsessive head of the titular FBC centre. The Marmonts - Jules and his wife Diana - are running experiments to forcibly and synthetically create works of art, aiming to mimic creative passion convincingly enough for the paranatural entity inside Cauldron Lake to respond, as it has in the past. Read more Full Article Epic Games Horror Third person PS5 PC Mystery Shooter Xbox Series X/S Action Adventure Single Player Alan Wake 2 Remedy Entertainment
is The Raid homage Acts Of Blood is Sifu’s jankier, snackier cousin By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 09:35:13 +0000 Calling a game ‘no frills’ or ‘no nonsense’ is always a back-handed compliment, because it sounds like you're saying it's a bit straightforward and simple. And yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying here. Acts Of Blood feels like a spiffy PS2 action brawler; a slightly tighter old Yakuza game, or a stripped-back Sifu. It’s snacky and a bit janky, but it’s also great coffee break fodder, assuming you want to spend your break breaking a selection of heavy objects over the crumbly skulls of ne’er-do-wells. I mean, they might have done some things well, I don’t know them. But they aren’t doing any well to my character in the game, so violence it is. Read more Full Article Fighting PC Indiescovery Arcade Acts Of Blood
is Take-Two are selling Private Division and closing Roll7 and Intercept, because they're in "the business of making great big hits" By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 12:20:03 +0000 Take-Two Interactive have sold their publishing label Private Division to an unnamed party, along with five of Private Division's "live and unreleased titles". The GTA 6 publisher have also finally confirmed that they have shut down OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome devs Roll7 together with Kerbal Space Program 2 creators Intercept Games, months after performing mass layoffs at both studios. Read more Full Article
is Some guy complained this fishing game only caters to queer players, so the dev added a "straight" title - it costs $9999 By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:36:16 +0000 When multiplayer fishing game Webfishing came out last month, it offered a relaxing hangout zone for cats and dogs. Everything revolves around catching, selling, and collecting the fish that gather in the rivers of a small island. It also lets you customise your character with clothing. Mostly simple hats and shorts, but some options let players celebrate their sexuality, such as a rainbow-adorned t-shirts, or titles that hang above your character which simply say "Trans" or "Bi". All this led one player to complain there was no "Straight" title. So, the developer added one. It costs 10 grand. Read more Full Article lamedeveloper Indie Sports PC Social Sandbox Webfishing
is VED: Purification is a free prologue to the full hand-drawn RPG, complete with Stetson hats and Evil Dead trees By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:47:45 +0000 Got an email about this. Looks cool. Is free. “I’ll write about that,” I thought. “I’ll write about that for Rock Paper Shotgun, a place that semi-regularly posts articles about cool and free games.” So here we are. If you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop, assuming the only reason I’d open an article in a superfluous and straightforward manner is because I’m about to deliver some sort of third sentence twist, you’re completely wrong! There’s no twist at all. I’m simply going to deliver some information about the game in a neutral tone. You can find VED: Purification, a free prologue demo to RPG VED, here. Read more Full Article RPG PC Free games VED: Purification
is Sega are delisting over 60 'classic' games from Steam, including Crazy Taxi and Streets Of Rage By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:55:29 +0000 Sega are delisting several bundles of 'classic' games from digital stores, along with "select individual" games. On Steam specifically, this adds up to over 60 games in total, including several actual classics including the original Streets Of Rage trilogy, Crazy Taxi, and Jet Set Radio. The games will be removed on December 6th but will remain playable to those who already own them. Read more Full Article Nintendo GBA Third person Crazy Taxi Streets Of Rage 2 Single Player Arcade Acclaim Games Racing SEGA Corporation Android PS2 PS3 Empire Interactive Platformer Xbox 360 Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative PC Side view iOS Sega BlitWorks Hitmaker SEGA of America Atari Jet Set Radio Hack & Slash
is Roblox is limiting access to social hangouts and unrated games for children aged under 13 By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:48:30 +0000 Roblox is making changes in an attempt to keep younger players safe in the online platform. Beginning later this month, children under the age of 13 will no longer be able to search, discover or play unrated experiences within Roblox, and will be unable to access social hangout experiences. Read more Full Article Roblox Corporation First person Roblox Third person Virtual Reality Simulation Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative RPG Action Adventure Single Player Arcade Platformer
is Apex Legends is revisiting the past, but it should be prouder of its present By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 09:49:08 +0000 Nostalgia, when you think about it, is bollocks. There has never been a better time than right this second – averaged out, and despite repeated attempts to the contrary, humanity has never been healthier, freer, or more enlightened by knowledge. It’s true of games too. For every by-committee platter of passionless map markers, there are thousands of more personal, more creative, more interesting works, all adding to the decades' worth of great stuff we can still play today. What isn’t bollocks is the emotional pull that nostalgia, for all its lack of cold, hard reason, still manages to wield inside our warm, squishy brains. Hence, the centrepiece of Apex Legends’ Season 23 update is a mode that recreates the battle royale FPS as it was back in 2019, defaulting back to the original map and weapon arsenal while cutting the 26-strong legend roster to the earliest ten. It’s a Fortnite-style rolling back of the clock, and a passably enjoyable one, but also a reminder that the good old days weren’t always that good. Read more Full Article First person Nintendo Switch Respawn Entertainment PS4 Multiplayer Cooperative Multiplayer Competitive PC Electronic Arts Shooter Xbox One Apex Legends
is The co-creator of magic puzzler Hidden Folks is making a sumptuous, spaced-out tower defender By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:06:29 +0000 Could tower defence be the ultimate "it's Friday and I am here in body only" genre? I haven't really thought about it before, but Rift Riff's effusively laidback crowd control has me pondering those optimal moments in any tower defender when the incoming horde hits the flamer-MG triangle just right, and you can settle back comfortably into the role of clockwatcher. Rift Riff encourages this behaviour by being nice to look at. Created by a trio of developers including Hidden Folks designer Adriaan de Jongh, it's a world of spacey, sun-carved mountains, forests and monoliths. The towers resemble the sacred architecture of Monument Valley, and the colour scheme and general ambience remind me of Cocoon. There's a demo, if you fancy it. Read more Full Article Strategy Indie PC Fantasy Rift Riff
is Toads Of The Bayou is Into The Breach but with aristocratic, pipe smokin’ toads (of the bayou) By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:32:50 +0000 In all honesty, Toads Of The Bayou could have been several notches less ribbet-ing than its Steam demo ended up being, because its stylised pixel fly-snatchers are just that good. There’s only one of the three characters available in the freebie (one of the others is a toad nun with a shotgun), but he’s got a little cutlass, a flintlock pistol, and a can-do attitude - at least when it comes to either stabbing or shooting things. The game itself is a little bit deckbuilder, a little bit Into The Breach: turn based strategy with perfect information and various tricks you can pull to make enemies hit each other instead of the thing you’re trying to protect. Indulge yourself on the gourmet tray-tray below. Read more Full Article Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy Fireshine Games Toads Of The Bayou PC
is Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6's first multiplayer season promises new maps, modes, and a hefty Hand Cannon By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 17:18:30 +0000 Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 has been out for a little while already, what with me giving its multiplayer largely a thumbs up. Still, it's an ever-evolving thing and Activision have announced the game's first seasonal drop. It's a hefty one with a lot of additions, so I'll try my best to break down the good stuff. TLDR: there's some new maps for multiplayer and zombies, new modes, and a few extra bits. I'm mildly excited for more. More in this case is good. Read more Full Article First person Activision Single Player Raven Software PS5 Multiplayer Cooperative Multiplayer Competitive PC Shooter Treyarch Xbox Series X/S Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Xbox One PS4
is What are we all playing this weekend? By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000 Alright everyone, let's put this new comments section through its paces. I want to hear deep and detailed roundups of everything you've been playing over the past two weeks this time! We're gonna make our tech team weep. Here's what we're clicking on this weekend! Read more Full Article Playing This Weekend
is Rise Of The Golden Idol launches November 12th, with four DLC planned in 2025 By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 21:55:46 +0000 The Rise Of The Golden Idol will crack its new case wide open on November 12th, but the detective sequel is just the beginning. Color Gray Games are planning another tranche of DLC akin to that received by the first game, The Case Of The Golden Idol: four standalone mysteries that introduce more mysteries to solve. Read more Full Article Puzzle Single Player The Rise Of The Golden Idol Indie Playstack Point and Click Color Gray Games
is What's on your bookshelf?: Liminal biscuit filling edition By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 16:00:00 +0000 My brain is still thawing for the comment freeze, and thus there is sadly no cool industry person to talk to us about books this week. I'm currently reading Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection. Jia Tolentino wrote about it for the New Yorker. Jia Tolentino also writes very good books. But enough about books, tell me about books! One's you've read, preferably, but I will also accept books you've formed opinions on based on their covers, as is good and proper. Book for now! Read more Full Article Booked For The Week Blockbuster