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Rust’s latest update adds mortars but ‘no visual guide to help you land shells,’ so get ready for some chaos

Facepunch Studios may have only just released S&box, but the launch of its spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod has done nothing to slow down its monthly Rust update. It is as predictable as the tide, or having your base raided by your half-naked neighbours. This month’s “Upgrade hard, raid harder” patch brings a major overhaul…

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The next World of Darkness game to be revealed is a Werewolf metroidvania, and I respect the hustle

While it’s great to see tabletop RPGs get turned into videogame RPGs—that’s how we got Planescape: Torment and Shadowrun: Dragonfall after all—it’s also interesting to see them be adapted into other forms, shapeshifting like some kind of, I don’t know, werewolf? What I’m saying is the newly announced Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Rageborn takes the…

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Riven co-creator defends his use of AI art: ‘Any artist can take a brush and, without thinking, an artist can create slop’

Fangamer’s videogame tie-ins have drawn our attention multiple times in the past, from the Stardew Valley boxed edition complete with farm-ownership deed, to the angry psychic squid from Into the Breach in huggable plushie form. They recently released a fancy vinyl edition of the soundtrack to Myst sequel Riven, but this time the response has…

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Pearl Abyss marketing director says Crimson Desert’s rapid ‘live service’ patch cadence is business as usual for an MMO studio: ‘That is not normal in the industry. That is normal here’

Crimson Desert is a solo RPG, but you’d be forgiven if you mistook it for a live service MMO just based on the headlines it generates. It’s morphed and added features rapidly in response to player feedback—as PC Gamer features producer Mollie Taylor put it, “the playerbase says jump, and Pearl Abyss says how high.”…

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain once proposed a first-person time-travel RPG where you could assassinate historical figures and create paradoxes

Fallout co-creator and prolific RPG programmer Tim Cain’s YouTube channel is a treasure trove of what-if stories. What if WildStar had shown up to the MMO craze just a few years earlier? What if Interplay made Fallout 3 instead of Bethesda? What if THAC0 wasn’t so egregiously confusing that Cain’s encyclopedic knowledge of it didn’t…

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