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This week in PC games: Marathon, Slay The Spire 2, a promising Disco-like RPG and a monastic garden mystery
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This week in PC games: Marathon, Slay The Spire 2, a promising Disco-like RPG and a monastic garden mystery

Happy this week all! Some weeks, I do a couple of paragraphs of preamble before listing the new PC releases, but this week, there is no time, for the videogames are many, curious and capacious. Bungie's latest shooter and the return of Spire are among the larger drops in a deluge that makes me yearn for the quieter, pre-broadband period when the global economy could only support one videogame a month, and they were all delivered to your PC by horse and cart. Without further ado, FEED THE MAW.

Rock Paper Shotgun 02.03.2026 13:57 Uhr
Meet the man who stuffed as much Deus Ex into Fallout 3 as was "humanly possible"
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Meet the man who stuffed as much Deus Ex into Fallout 3 as was "humanly possible"

Here, put on this pair of reflective sunglasses. Now regard the 21st century so far. Doesn’t it look as if the ideas of Deus Ex have spread into the mainstream? Like fire propagating across a dry hillside, the prevalence of emergent action with cascading consequences has spread throughout the gaming medium. Much of this movement towards Ion Storm-style thinking may be coincidental. Were the Nintendo team behind The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild making injokes about the Denton brothe

Rock Paper Shotgun 02.03.2026 13:00 Uhr
Nearly a year on from release, Stardew Valley Baldur's Gate 3 modders provide a rare update on their Halsin romance
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Nearly a year on from release, Stardew Valley Baldur's Gate 3 modders provide a rare update on their Halsin romance

The creators of Baldur's Village, a Stardew Valley mod revolving around a community of characters from Baldur's Gate 3, have been pretty quiet since their work escaped being "mistakenly" zapped out of existence by Wizards of the Coast last April. Now, ahead of Baldur's Village's first birthday, they've provided a progress update on the Halsin romance arc they've been working on in the interim. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 02.03.2026 11:48 Uhr
Bungie share top feedback from Marathon's playtest, including PC performance, UI issues and ammo shortages
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Bungie share top feedback from Marathon's playtest, including PC performance, UI issues and ammo shortages

DANGER DANGER, you now have 30 minutes till the RPS Monday morning meeting. 30 minutes till Julian asks us what we got up to this weekend, with the deceptively cuddly air of King Lear asking his daughters which of them doth love him most. What can I get written and published inside 30 minutes? Ah, here’s Bungie with thoughts on this weekend’s Marathon reboot “server slam”, a server slam being a playtest that is designed to deliberately overload the online functionali

Rock Paper Shotgun 02.03.2026 10:33 Uhr