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Ashes Of Creation director quits over decisions he "could not ethically support" as staff report mass layoffs
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Ashes Of Creation director quits over decisions he "could not ethically support" as staff report mass layoffs

Nine years after securing $3.2 million on Kickstarter and mere weeks after launching into Steam Early Access, MMORPG Ashes Of Creation is in humongous difficulties. The game’s entire leadership team have allegedly quit “in protest” at decisions made by the board of Intrepid Studios, with creative director Steven Sharif accusing board members of “directing actions that I could not ethically agree with or carry out”. Other staff have announced that they've been laid

Rock Paper Shotgun 02.02.2026 11:00 Uhr
Cities: Skylines 2's UI is getting an "extreme makeover", as new developers Iceflake take the reins
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Cities: Skylines 2's UI is getting an "extreme makeover", as new developers Iceflake take the reins

The new custodians of Cities: Skylines 2 have announced that they’re giving the city builder’s UI an “extreme makeover” in the game’s next patch, while tuning up the day/night lighting, and ensuring that snow actually sticks to the ground. I had an “extreme makeover” once and ended up with ginger hair for several months. Being a redhead didn’t really pan out for me, but I'm cautiously enthusiastic about Skylines 2’s new toolbar. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 02.02.2026 10:30 Uhr
Nioh 3 is this week's samurai RPG steamroller, but don't forget the mercenary charms of Menace
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Nioh 3 is this week's samurai RPG steamroller, but don't forget the mercenary charms of Menace

This week in new PC games: some new PC games. Look, sometimes I have the energy and fortitude to write a 500 word overture about four dimensional tapeworms, and sometimes I look upon the intro as nothing but a hateful chore. I just want to list some games, but internet etiquette requires that I occupy your eyeballs with a proper paragraph or two before we break out the bullet points. Is this enough of a preamble yet? No? How about now? Come ooooon, there’s a tasty new tactics RPG at the b

Rock Paper Shotgun 02.02.2026 10:00 Uhr
One year on from Citizen Sleeper 2, I'm tempted back into its world with a physical release of its TTRPG spin-off
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One year on from Citizen Sleeper 2, I'm tempted back into its world with a physical release of its TTRPG spin-off

Crafting a world that begs to be explored is a tricky thing to do, especially when the world is kind of sucky, doubly so when it's woven mostly through words with only supplementary imagery to provide a broader context. Yet Citizen Sleeper's is one I'm often thinking about because amongst all the grand sci-fi concepts is a grounded sense of reality that you'll always find in the best of the cyberpunk genre. And here I am, a year on from the second game's release, tempted to return once more, b

Rock Paper Shotgun 31.01.2026 23:55 Uhr
Trust Me, I Nailed It is a turn-based strategy game where you make sick video edits of a really rubbish hero
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Trust Me, I Nailed It is a turn-based strategy game where you make sick video edits of a really rubbish hero

There are not enough games in the world where it feels like the initial concept was born from the thought, "wouldn't it be funny if…" I'm no fool, I know this is because developing a video game is akin to getting hit by a car, miraculously coming away from it unscathed, only to be hit by six more cars as you continue your journey. In any case, this is still how I would like to imagine Trust Me, I Nailed It was born, a turn-based strategy game where you have to make cool video edits of s

Rock Paper Shotgun 31.01.2026 22:35 Uhr
The Sims 4's next expansion looks perfect for all your reality TV show fantasies
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The Sims 4's next expansion looks perfect for all your reality TV show fantasies

You know, I'm surprised that EA has never made a Sims reality show where contestants have to act out odd, Simish challenges on a Truman Show-esque production lot, given how much the games themselves feel like simulators for the trashiest (said lovingly) TV show genre. In the meantime, while it isn't at all themed reality shows, The Sims 4's next expansion, Royalty & Legacy, seems like a perfect fit for a fictitious one of your own making. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 31.01.2026 20:06 Uhr
RuneScape: Dragonwilds's next big update ups the level cap to 99, even though it's literally pointless right now
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RuneScape: Dragonwilds's next big update ups the level cap to 99, even though it's literally pointless right now

RuneScape: Dragonwilds just held its 2026 summit this week, and with it came a bevy of details about future updates and plans for the survival game. Oh what joy for you scaper or runes! The main thing that got a look-in was the game's next big update, Dowdun Reach: Madness of Zamorak, which certainly has an air of someone looking at any section of a given Dark Souls and thinking "yeah, I want a fortress like that." Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 31.01.2026 19:01 Uhr
Jeffrey Epstein was banned from Xbox Live
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Jeffrey Epstein was banned from Xbox Live

An agreement between game companies and New York State to ban registered sex offenders saw the human trafficker kicked off of Xbox Live in 2013.

PC Gamer 31.01.2026 18:15 Uhr
While the jury's still out on it, Highguard gets a temporary new mode that ups the headcount in matches
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While the jury's still out on it, Highguard gets a temporary new mode that ups the headcount in matches

I'm sure there's been many a Dweet and forum post about Highguard is already a dead game or some such silly thing to say about a game that's not even a week old, but it does at least seem like developer Wildlight is paying attention to some of the more constructive bits of criticism about the game. Namely, that many aren't fond of the shooter's 3v3 Raids simply because it feels like there aren't enough people for such large maps. So in turn, there's already an update adding in an experimental

Rock Paper Shotgun 31.01.2026 17:52 Uhr
Tonies im Sale! - Außerdem sind drei neue besondere Figuren da! [Anzeige]
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Tonies im Sale! - Außerdem sind drei neue besondere Figuren da! [Anzeige]

Tonies sind eigentlich nur für Kinder ab drei Jahren. Ist das wirklich so? Nein! Einerseits hat mein Kleiner schon mit einem Jahr Spaß daran, andererseits gibt's jetzt auch die neuen "My First Tonie"-Figuren für Kleinkinder. Außerdem sind auf Amazon gerade richtig tolle Tonies günstig im Angebot!

GameStar Hardware 31.01.2026 17:44 Uhr