If you've been following along with the big tiff rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake have been playing out via some pretty spicy diss tracks since things came to a bit of a head back in March, you'll be glad to know that you can now make the two settle their differences via a good old-fashioned brawl. Yup, a Mortal Kombat 1 modder has swapped out some of its fighters for the pair of feuding dudes. I'm not gonna even try and get you up to speed on the beef if you're not already, though the wikipedia entry about it is set out in a similar manner to the way the site does pages about actual wars between countries, and it should hopefully provide you with a decent rundown of proceedings, albeit one you wouldn't cite in an essay. Basically, some things have been said in songs that've made the opposing side go 'nuh-uh, I don't agree with that', and as of right now, it seems like most people feel Kendrick's won. If you don't think things are quite over yet and fancy settling them for youself, modder NegativeZoneNerd's 'Def Jam MK1 Pack 1 - Kendrick VS Drake' (thanks, Kotaku) might help with that. As you can see below, it helpfully swaps in models of the pair for the default skins of Kung Lao or Reiko (in the case of Kendrick) and Johnny Cage (in Drake's case). Read more View the full article
If you're a fan of cloud gaming, you may want to take a little look into Netris. The developers say it's a GeForce NOW alternative, one you can self-host with it being open source. They're also keen to highlight some Stadia-like elements of it too. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity Original Sin developers Larian today announced the opening of a new studio in Warsaw, Poland. This is RPG outfit Larian’s seventh studio worldwide, and the latest to contribute to their "24-hour development cycle" model. That’s even more hands on deck to a) keep Swen Vincke’s armour polished to a fine sheen and b) ensure smooth sailing for the two new games that Larian currently have in the works. Read more View the full article
Surge Engine is a 2D retro game engine with an included Sonic-like game (Surge the Rabbit) for anyone who wants to make their own platformers like classic Sonic. The developers just released a big new version. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
As weird as it is to write, Sony has said it's working very closely with Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto on the upcoming film adaptation. Ever since it was announced, it's felt strange that Sony is the one to help Nintendo make its live-action adaptation of The Legend of Zelda. But, it is, and for Sony Motion Pictures Group chair Tom Rothman, who spoke to Deadline in a recent interview with the outlet, "The Legend of Zelda is going to be huge for us. Massive." Rothman also spoke of how these days, "if you want a star, you’ve got to have great material," and that in turn brings you a great filmmaker, so you want something fresh and original to get an "exciting filmmaker." But, he also stressed that "big IP movies are going to stay big," seemingly trying to make it clear that IP is king at the box office over just having good material. "The Legend of Zelda is going to be huge for us," he went on to say. "Massive." Rothman also explained that "the movie is being developed and made in the closest possible collaboration with Shigeru Miyamoto. He’s a true genius in that world, and it’s really his strong vision that is motivating it. He created it and understands it thoroughly. You only [need] to look at the results of Super Mario Brothers to see." He did also go on to note how the "larger point" he's making is that "a healthy slate going forward is not going to be one side of the divide or the other. It’s going to have a balance of big IP solid sequels." Following that he listed off sequels for films like Across the Spider-Verse, a new Tom Holland Spider-Man, more Karate **** films, and the third and last Venom, so you can get the feeling how important those big names are for Sony. Read more View the full article
On May 19, Gen.G hoisted the Mid-Season Invitational 2024 trophy after defeating Bilibili Gaming. Two ********* teams, Fnatic and G2 Esports, participated in the tournament, but the former’s AD carry had a few issues during the event. Fnatic advanced to the Bracket Stage where they were disqualified after losses to Gen.G and Team Liquid. Their ADC, Noah, didn’t play his best in Chengdu, and revealed he cared too much about others’ opinions. This led to him having panic attacks during games, which encouraged him to delete social media, the player revealed on May 20 on X. View the full article
It seems 2024 truly is the year of Wayland on the Linux desktop huh? Even Canonical are now planning to have it by default for NVIDIA for Ubuntu 24.10. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
20 years after leaving Elder Scrolls, Starfield, and Fallout 76 makers Bethesda Game Studios, veteran writer and quest designer Douglas Goodall has returned to classic RPG Morrowind with an expansive new quest mod. Read more View the full article
It seems 2024 truly is the year of Wayland on the Linux desktop huh? Even Canonical are now planning to have it by default for NVIDIA for Ubuntu 24.10. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Pokemon fans are facing a bit of a dilemma right now. With the end of Nintendo 3DS online features and Nintendo's urging of players to transfer their catches off the platform, a very specific and special kind of pokemon are set to lose their quirks when they make the jump over to Pokemon Home. These pokemon are totem variants! These Sun and Moon exclusive creatures are notable for two main reasons: they're larger than usual and come with enhanced stats. These were a key feature in the Sun and Moon generation of Pokemon and made sense as part of its stories. There were twelve in total that you could grab, and they made for interesting, cool collectables for Pokemon players. However, when you try to transfer these totem pokemon off the 3DS via the Pokemon Bank, and onto Pokemon Home (a modern and current pokemon storage app that's being pushed by Nintendo right now), these totem pokemon lose their increased size and stats, leaving them as regular versions rather than special variants. Read more View the full article
G2 Esports had a valiant run at Mid-Season Invitational 2024. After sweeping PSG Talon and Top Esports, they were defeated by T1 and finished fourth. But, despite not reaching the podium, one of their players finished the event in third place in terms of KDA. Surprisingly, it’s not one of the G2 carries, but their jungler Yike, who climbed all the way to third place in KDA ratings. He finished the tournament with a 5.6 KDA score, according to League of Legends stat site, Oracle’s Elixir. View the full article
Wine 9.9 was released Friday as the latest development release for the Windows compatibility layer to run more apps and games on Linux. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
It’s not too long now until Wuthering Waves becomes available for the 30+ million pre-registrants to ***** into, but the Wuthering Waves release times can be a tad confusing, depending on where you live. Fortunately, while waiting for developer, Kuro Game, to launch the latest gacha RPG to rival Genshin Impact, one content creator has detailed the exact time players can expect to access the game, including when you can pre-load it. Wuthering Waves features characters known as Resonators, who - as is usually the case in these games - are trying to tirelessly save their home from the looming threat of danger and destruction. Combat looks to be pretty satisfying, and I don’t know about you, but I’m keen to see what some of these monstrous bosses look like on launch… Either way, here’s the Wuthering Waves release times for every region, so you know exactly when you can expect to start playing the RPG. While the release date for Wuthering Waves is listed as 22 May on the game’s official X account (formerly Twitter), most players can expect to actually be able to play the game from 23 May. Read more View the full article
After Fallout 4's next-gen update forced its creators to abandon their planned release date of April 23, Fallout: London has been left in what's felt like a bit of a purgatory. Behind the scenes, however, the modders have been working very hard to get it ready to release in a form that'll work with these latest changes to Fallout 4. Thankfully, it sounds like Bethesda's latest tweaks won't cause too much of a hold-up. If you're out of the loop, Fallout: London's a full conversion mod for Fallout 4 that's set to let us explore a post-apocalytic version of the English capital, complete with fresh factions and quests. We've been getting regular updates from the team behind it over the past couple of years, and now things are slotting in place to finally let us take to the streets of London, whenever those streets are deemed 100% ready. Speaking to TheGamer on the same day the second part to Fallout 4's next-gen update dropped, Fallout: London project lead, Dean 'Prilladog' Carter seemed to outline that he didn't think it'd pose too much of a hurdle for the mod - at least in comparision to the much heftier first part of the update. Read more View the full article
Diablo 4 players have praised a major change introduced in the season four update for providing a new lease of life to the title. Blizzard’s latest entry in the long-running series launched in June 2023 to great fanfare, but Diablo 4 has struggled to retain players in the long run despite introducing new seasonal content and big changes. View the full article
An Elden Ring fan discovered that their mother bought a poster of Ranni the Witch despite the parent not knowing anything about the game. A major expansion for the critically acclaimed title is set to drop very soon. View the full article
Marvel is seemingly going for broke in the gaming world with a host of upcoming releases, and rumors are circulating regarding a title closely tied to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Fans of Marvel have been treated well recently, with the exceptional Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 in 2023, the first alpha ******* for Marvel Rivals, and a leaked Fortnite roadmap teasing a new crossover event in Chapter Five, season four. View the full article
Ghost of Tsushima might have had a slightly slower start than **** of War on PC, but over the weekend it took the top spot for PlayStation's biggest PC launch. Sony has slowly but surely been bringing some of its biggest names to PC over the past few years, and **** of War has kept the top spot in terms of launch numbers since it arrived on the platform in 2022. That is, until last week, when Ghost of Tsushima finally arrived on PC. The ******* Punch developed game didn't quite manage to reach **** of War's heights at first, only hitting just under 58,000 concurrent players the first day after launch compared to Kratos' peak of just under 74,000 players. However, it turns out that all Ghost of Tsushima needed was a little bit of time, as over the weekend quite a few more players flocked to it, helping it reach a peak of 77,154, a good amount higher than **** of War's own record (via SteamDB). That weekend boost has dethroned **** of War's long-held record, knocking down Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered to third place too with its own peak of 66,436 concurrent players. Of course, all of this is ignoring Helldivers 2, though that one's a bit of a special case given it launched simultaneously on PlayStation and PC, whereas titles like Ghost of Tsushima, **** of War, and Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered released on PC years after their PlayStation launches. Read more View the full article
Indigo Park, the horror indie game that took YouTube by storm over the weekend, completed its funding goal for its next chapter in record time and shows no signs of stopping. Indigo Park: Chapter 1 launched on Steam on May 18, letting players try the first chapter for free. The devs wanted to raise just over $50,000 on Kickstarter to create the second chapter. As of May 20, it has smashed that goal, and the total and the amount are only getting higher as the community rushes to finance their latest horror fix. View the full article
Even with one of the industry’s best anti-cheat systems, VALORANT isn’t exactly free of hackers. While Riot Vanguard manages to punish most offenders in the tactical shooter, the community isn’t satisfied with its nonchalance by letting those fueling the practice—players who pay to get boosted by cheaters—run free. On May 19, a player shared their concerning experience against an ****** Jett who dropped 54 ****** with 97 percent headshots in a ranked VALORANT game. Interestingly, while the cheating was “obvious,” they noted the cheater was grouping up with four other players not just once, but regularly. View the full article
The League of Legends developers often ship patches that don’t produce the best results. The same applies to Draven, whose win rate has plummeted seven percent after Riot Games nerfed his passive—and players aren’t happy. The Glorious ************ has seen better days in League. His 53.25 percent win rate in Diamond descended to 46.39 percent in just four days, according to stats site Lolalytics. View the full article
A Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 player has pointed out an important detail about the M16 ******** rifle in multiplayer, sparking a mix of excitement and debate among fans. In a recent update, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 added the new M16 function to its multiplayer mode. This marks a significant change to the *******'s traditional three-round burst ***** mechanism. Fans are expressing mixed reactions, with some celebrating the new addition while others debate its impact on gameplay balance. View the full article
This week on RPS: secret plans and clever tricks. Also, a bunch of new videogames, none of them particularly Enormous or Crocodilian. We open on Monday 20th May with the extremely Alice B-friendly combo of Little-Known Galaxy, aka Stardew Valley meets Star Trek, and A Tower Full Of Cats, a hidden object puzzler featuring a tower full of dogs, I mean cats. All very upbeat. Well, hold that thought, because on the 21st, it's time for Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2, another slice of Celtic sort-of-psychosis from Ninja Theory, which is as grim as the accompanying Paper Trail is *checks Nic's review* incredibly annoying? Read more View the full article
It's hard to understate how much the biggest ****** in all of gaming is time. It doesn't matter if it's a fast-action arcade game needing cutting-edge reflexes or a turn-based RPG, the biggest trick is always going to be time management. In an action title this is obvious, seeing as it's your reflexes against theirs plus a knowledge that needs to be ingrained on a near-instinctual level as to how long the powerful fancy skills take to ********, but even with all the time in the world in a turn-based game it's still a matter of dispatching the ****** in the fewest moves so they have less opportunity to inflict damage. Some games go out of their way to make this obvious, like SuperHot's "time moves when you do" mechanic or the Mysterious Dungeon games where everyone's turn happens simultaneously. Enter the Chronosphere is a little more Mysterious Dungeon than SuperHot, but borrows far more from the action-roguelike genre than turn-based RPG. View the full article
Australia’s biggest FGC celebration is back with a bang as Battle Arena Melbourne (BAM) shapes up for its return in late May, complete with a massive lineup of titles, huge prizes, and qualification to one of the world’s biggest tournaments at the Esports World Cup later this year. A staple of the *********** FGC calendar, BAM14 makes a move to the Moonee Valley Racecourse for 2024 and will play host to thousands of competitors across nearly 50 tourneys. BAM14 runs from May 31 to June 2 and will also feature seating for spectators, room for the more casual gamers to play, an Artist Alley for creators, and more. View the full article
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If you've been following along with the big tiff rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake have been playing out via some pretty spicy diss tracks since things came to a bit of a head back in March, you'll be glad to know that you can now make the two settle their differences via a good old-fashioned brawl. Yup, a Mortal Kombat 1 modder has swapped out some of its fighters for the pair of feuding dudes. I'm not gonna even try and get you up to speed on the beef if you're not already, though the wikipedia entry about it is set out in a similar manner to the way the site does pages about actual wars between countries, and it should hopefully provide you with a decent rundown of proceedings, albeit one you wouldn't cite in an essay. Basically, some things have been said in songs that've made the opposing side go 'nuh-uh, I don't agree with that', and as of right now, it seems like most people feel Kendrick's won. If you don't think things are quite over yet and fancy settling them for youself, modder NegativeZoneNerd's 'Def Jam MK1 Pack 1 - Kendrick VS Drake' (thanks, Kotaku) might help with that. As you can see below, it helpfully swaps in models of the pair for the default skins of Kung Lao or Reiko (in the case of Kendrick) and Johnny Cage (in Drake's case). Read more View the full article