The Sunday Papers

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Silent Hill: Townfall's devs say they're purposefully playing against your nostalgic tech feelings, but I'm not sure it'll work on me

Crimson Desert's latest patch is good news for all you moneygrubs, as it adds in a bounty of new trading posts and goods to pawn off

Got a spare $10? Net yourself almost 150 games and help support laid off game devs with the game industry hardship fund bundle

"I sense immense expectations": Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's director on ending the remake trilogy and DLC

What if Stop Killing Games win? Anthem, SpaceCraft and Warframe devs on the "massive undertaking" of preserving an always-online game

What are we all playing this weekend?

All the RPS Supporter rewards for July 2026: space battles, messy desks, and puzzling dreams

Massive Fallout: New Vegas mod Fallout: New California hits GOG, offering another way to get some "proper, story-driven Fallout" in your belly

Nexus Mods update their generative AI-made mod tagging policy, dividing one label into three for more specific search filtering

20 years ago, Dead Rising showed a different path for open worlds, and more games should pinch its ideas

EA expect their $55 billion sale to Saudi Arabia and private equity firms to close next week, with "all regulatory approvals required" in place

A former Assassin's Creed dev is making a ghost-hunting horror mystery based on visits to abandoned convents, in which your greatest weapon is a chunky instant camera

Midnight Moments is a cyberpunk diorama builder for the neon sign and drizzly rain lovers

Rideshare "Stimulator" is an Uber driver sim set in a city full of weirdos that I'm hoping is satirical enough to pull the concept off

Machine Party, out now, is masochistic Mario Party from the dev that brought you Buckshot Roulette

RuneScape: Dragonwilds revamps the agility skill and gives you Wipeout style courses to test your mettle on

Thimbleweed Park 2 is "not really a sequel, not really a prequel," but it is in development and due out in 2028

Your most powerful Necron unit in Dawn of War 4 is a sentient shard of a dead star god, and boy does he hate you

Helldivers 2's Warhammer 40k warbond finally gets a release date, will let you bust out the meltaguns and meltamines

To escalate its relationship-straining putting contests, Golf With Your Friends 2 is turning to chaos and custom courses

Halo on helium has arrived less than a week after modders got their hands on Campaign Evolved, though AI might've been used to chipmunk Chief and Cortana

"Our business did not grow with our audience": post-layoffs, Xbox execs are trying to sell a gaming division bounce back by summer 2027

BeamNG.drive, Steam's finest car pancake maker, gets its biggest update yet with overhauled graphics, fresh rally stages and a sporty new coupe

I'm not going to 100% roguelite strategy spinoff Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand, but it does breathe new life into some of the series' oldest features

Stealth and armour placement rule supreme in Tyr, the new tank shooter from former Destiny and Valorant devs, with a public playtest now live

"The Case of the Golden Idol-style deduction meets The X-Files": Former BioWare devs unveil supernatural detective game The Eventide

Krafton have big plans for Subnautica, after the second game's once-divisive co-op "confirmed the potential to expand beyond the existing fan base"

Serve refreshments and spot demons in Night Plane, a PSX-style horror job sim about being a flight attendant in 1999

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers sequel in the works from original director's new studio, which bears the wonderful name Indolphinity

"Dragon Age: Origins wasn’t the most attractive game": BioWare's old series producer still thinks a DA remaster trilogy is worth it, but the knowhow isn't there

GTA Online in-game gambling reportedly blocked in Australia, leaving folks down under locked out of Diamond Casino games

"I genuinely think there's awesome potential": Mike Bithell on his "im-slim" Vampirium: 1997 and the power of quick verbs

After gaining independence from Xbox, Double Fine are laying off a quarter of their staff

Inviting beaches and delightful physics await you in literal sandbox game, Sandcastle

Two years on from taking the role, Wizards of the Coast's president is stepping down

Mistfall Hunter looks like legally distinct Elden Ring but with a faster paced, extraction spin

"I didn’t fully appreciate the scope of it": a year on from taking over, Nexus Mods owners reflect on the challenges of their push to minimise modding hassle

"I wish I could do that": A developer on The Sims has been eyeing up Paralives' characters' asymmetric shoes and their wider possibilities

Nioh 3's Hell Rising DLC will sword thrust the soulslike's yokai-battling action into decimated Keian era Edo when it arrives next month

Toxic yuri story Kaschei is a marvelous free visual novel that turns your Downloads folder into a little labyrinth of mirrors

Civilization 7's latest update adds more depth to peace deal brokerage and leader relations, as Firaxis gear up for "bigger additions"

Overthrow the Kaiser in Red Echoes: Berlin, a Weimar-era turn-based strategy game in the style of Suzerain

That evil Car Park Capital tycoon game is only getting more evil with MicroProse as publisher, but it still looks gorgeous

Dragon Age: Thedas at War is a BioWare RPG-inspired Crusader Kings 3 total conversion mod that's here to keep the series alive while it sits in EA limbo

"I dunno why they chose Crashphalt": forgotten Steam game suddenly becomes a hit after players start using it for Undertale online multiplayer

STALKER 2's Cost of Hope expansion, and its free but still hopeful 2.0 update, get an August release date

Myst devs Cyan Worlds show off prototype for Project Anglerfish, a canned entry in the noted long-time RPS favourite series

This week in PC games: a battle royale detective game, a broken Y2K metaverse, a laptop tycoon sim, and a new Company of Heroes RTS

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls open beta beaten and bashed by PC performance issues, Arc System Works "apologise for the impact this has had on your experience"