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Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 15, 2026

What are we all playing this weekend?

Bit of a quiet one this week, gang. Half the RPS team are on holiday, ill, or off at some preview event, maybe in a less melty part of the world like Scandinavia, the lucky bastards. Games, however, must be played, and if it happens to be over a weekend, well... Read more

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Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 14, 2026

The Watcher is a creepy surveillance thriller with shiny Unreal Engine props - I just hope it's not as talkative as its trailer

Some pressing personal context: I live in a very small flat with huge windows and curtains that only ever seem to cover about 80% of the view, no matter how ingeniously I yank them around. Every laundry day, I have to decide between letting the sunlight in, and hiding my drying underpants from the eyes of the commuters walking to the bus stop. But it could be worse. I could be living opposite the protagonist of The W

PC gaming
Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 14, 2026

Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game music

Update, 17/8: Former Rideshare Stimulator writer Stella Sacco says, via BlueSky, that she's receieved and accepted an apology from Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch for the disparaging comments detailed in this article. "None of this changes my stance on AI," Sacco adds. "Matt and I obviously differ on this, and as a CEO the consequences of its use fall on him, and unfortunately also on his employees." Read more

Live service
Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 14, 2026

I love the Dark Soulful architecture of The Canon of Balls, a rolling open world game inspired by Sega, Fumito Ueda and Minecraft parkour

What do Dark Souls, Super Monkey Ball, Shadow of the Colossus, and Minecraft have in common? They are all explicit inspirations for The Canon of Balls, a spooky and unforgiving new open world platformer in which you are a horrified statue's face with a fleshy pink tongue, floating inside a rolling cage. You can use your tongue as a springboard. Look, stay with me on this. I think The Canon of Balls could be good. Yes

MMO
Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 14, 2026

Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting a big free vampiric update in September, alongside the epithet-stuffed Lords of the End Times DLC

Creative Assembly have announced a release date for Total War: Warhammer 3 expansion Lords of the End Times. Consisting of four new legendary lords, each with a distinct retinue, campaign and battle map abilities, it's billed as "the biggest DLC that we’ve ever released in the series 10-year history". It'll accompany another, reportedly gargantuan free update with yet another legendary lord, the Vampire Queen Nefer

Live service
Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 13, 2026

Five years after acquiring Oxenfree developer Night School Studio, Netflix are shutting them down

In 2021, in their bid to get more of a hold on the games industry after dominating film and television streaming, Netflix acquired Oxenfree and Afterparty developer Night School Studio, the first developer they had ever acquired. Now, five years later, the streaming giant is shuttering Night School Studio, as well as Moonloot, another developer they owned that was yet to put out a game. This comes six weeks after the

Industry
Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 13, 2026

Phasmophobia devs Kinetic Games mosey into publishing with a witchy delivery game, a parasitic Metroidvania, and more

Kinetic Games are keeping busy! You may have heard yesterday that the Phasmophobia developer is publishing the next game from Her Story and Immortality's Sam Barlow (who's roped in Brandon Cronenberg this time around). That's not all that was announced however, as there's a bevy of other, not even scary at all, actually, games that are coming up from the new publisher. Read more

MMO Indie Industry
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MassivelyOP / Aug 13, 2026

Pantheon’s early access saw another wipe this week thanks to a ‘major update’ to itemization

Here’s your irregular reminder that early access may mean losing everything and starting over. Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen performed another full character wipe this past Wednesday due to a major overhaul of the game’s itemization. Visionary Realms said that players can avail themselves of level skips if desired but, y’know, shouldn’t. Ideally. “This week […]

Live service Indie
Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 13, 2026

Amiga strategy classic Defender of the Crown is back with both old and fresh graphics, and an all new roguelite mode

What's old is new (and also old) again! It's been 40 years since the release of the classic Amiga strategy game Defender of the Crown, and to mark the occasion it has received a new PC port called The Legend Returns that packages in the original game alongside a complete visual revamp and a totally fresh roguelike mode. Read more

PC gaming Community
Game Developer / Aug 13, 2026

UNC Greensboro game preservation project back on track after Trump funding cuts

Dr. Colin Post, assistant professor of information, library, and research sciences at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, was well into research for a project exploring how libraries can preserve and provide access to digital video games when the Trump administration rescinded already-awarded funding from science, arts, humanities, and museum grants. That grant, he told Game Developer, was supposed to fund a

Industry