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October 2012 Archive

    1. XCOM: Diary Of A Wimpy Squad, Finale - 28Ish Days Later
    2. The British Are Coming! World Of Tanks Stiffens Upper Lip
    3. First Look: Omerta - City of Gangsters
    4. Dead Linger Has A Playable Alpha
    5. Will We Ever Get To Play "One City Block"?
    6. StarForge Falls Out Of Sky, Lands On IndieGoGo
    7. Wot I Think: Incredipede
    8. Afraid Of The Light? Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Trailer
    9. Cross-Media Halloween Special Edition Round-Up Bonanza
    10. Crime And Pun-ishment: First Person Shouter
    11. Starbound Will Let You Build Anti-Ape Lairs
    12. Larry's Mod: Divinity II - Developer's Cut
    1. Disney Acquires All Of Lucasfilm - Including LucasArts
    2. The RPS Verdict: HOTLINE MIAMI
    3. Wot I Think - King's Bounty: Warriors Of The North
    4. If You Kick Them, Do They Not They Bleed Pixels?
    5. Natural Selection 2 Jumps Its Own Gun
    6. Clumsy Treefingers: Organicraft
    7. So Mothhead Is A Weird Thing
    8. BioWare Force-Tweaks SWTOR's F2P Restrictions
    9. Ghost Recon Commander Commands No More
    10. Not Entirely Silent Assassin: The Sound Of Hitman
    11. Wot I Think - Viking: Battle for Asgard
    12. RPS's Position On The Eurogamer/Florence Debacle
    13. Dino Release Day: Primal Carnage Now On Steam
    14. Blood Money: Assassin's Creed III's Microtransactions
    15. Free Stomp: Mechwarrior Now In Open Beta
    16. The Song Of My People: Typing Karaoke
    1. Wot I Think: Elemental – Fallen Enchantress
    2. Foot-to-Ball Commander 2013 Demonstration Edition
    3. Prison Architect Is The Daddy Now
    4. Pagan Pricecuts: Steam's All Hallows' Eve Sale
    5. Tropical Tycoon: The Good Life
    6. Hanging On The Telephone: Hotline Miami DLC Planned
    7. Urban Unrest: Wildfire Worlds Tech Demo
    8. Anonymous Internet Men vs Zynga
    9. Lab In The Dark: Portal 2 - Designed For Danger
    10. Hawken Videos Show Garage And Basic Combat
    11. Wot I Think - Medal Of Honor: Warfighter Singleplayer
    12. Steamy Not-Windows - Valve's Linux Beta Begins
    13. Cheap And Fearful: Bundle Of The Damned
    1. Live Free, Play Hard: The Week's Finest Free Indie Games
    2. Cardboard Children: At The Wrestling
    3. An E-Sporting Chance: OSL
    4. The Sunday Papers
    1. MechWarrior Online Open Beta Starting Monday
    2. Chris Roberts On PC Gaming, Going To Space
    3. Kickstarter Katchup - 27th October 2012
    4. Rise And Shine, Mr Marsman: Waking Mars Out Next Month
    5. Downhill Battle: Rock Of Ages Free All Weekend
    6. Hotline Miami Aids Pirates Instead Of Murdering Them
    1. Impressions: Deadlight
    2. Attention, London! Tricks, Treats And The RPS Social Club
    3. A Pathological Inclusion: Indie Royale Halloween Bundle
    4. Fright Night: Lucius Creeps Up Behind Us
    5. Free To Zombie: Team Fortress 2's Halloween
    6. Heart Of The Storm: Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime
    7. Please, Sir, Can I Have Some Lore: City Of Heroes
    8. A Brief History Of The Battle Arena, Part Two
    9. Roberts On Star Citizen, Becoming A Space Crime Lord
    10. The Flare Path: Blows The Whistle
    11. What I Write About When I Write About Games
    12. Cutting Loose: Warframe Closed Beta Begins
    13. Unimpeded: Incredipede Available Now
    14. First-Person Platformer-er: Atum
    15. Huh: StarCraft II's Getting A Leveling System
    1. Let's Not Lose Sight Of The Future
    2. From A Nitronic Rush: Distance. Wait. That Didn't Work.
    3. Left 4 Dead 2 4 Free This Weekend
    4. A Brief History Of The Battle Arena, Part One
    5. Dishonored Starts Adding Bits On In December
    6. Wot I Think: Chivalry - Medieval Warfare
    7. Punching A Shark! Depth Hunter 2 Debuts
    8. Eyes On: Divining Data In SimCity
    9. And Beyond: Star Citizen Has Raised $2 Million
    10. More Bastardly: Stealth Bastard Deluxe
    11. Constructive: The Bridge Project
    12. Frog Fractions Might Be The Greatest Game Of All Time
    1. XCOM: Diary Of A Wimpy Squad #6 - Deacon Gray
    2. Wot I Think: A Game Of Dwarves
    3. SWTOR Free To Play Is Now Free To Play
    4. Your Daily Weird: Win Michael Jackson's... Hair?
    5. GOG's Two Cents On Retro Mania, DRM's Demise
    6. Avast! Air Buccaneers Floats Into Beta, Is Greenlit
    7. Star Citizen Whomps Its Kickstarter Goal In Five Days
    8. Diablo + Space = Starblo (Calm Down, It Doesn't Exist)
    9. The $6000 Eve Online Kill
    10. Dear Esther's Briscoe Teases "STALKER-like" Project
    11. Games Aren't Best When Things Go Wrong
    12. Here Is A Natural Language James Bond Text Adventure
    13. Not Much To Phone Home About: XCOM's First DLC
    14. Mod-ern Warfare: Non-BFG Doom 3 Yanked From Steam
    1. AdversityVille: Massive Layoffs At Zynga, Bigpoint
    2. Cyberpunk's A 'Sandbox,' But What Does That Mean?
    3. A Bridge Too Far? A DIY Starship Helm For Artemis
    4. Wot I Think - Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
    5. Wot I Think: HOTLINE MIAMI
    6. Shop 'Til You're Shot: Nuign Specter
    7. Muddle of Honor: Worf Fighter's Day-One Ultra-Patch
    8. Games Are Best When Things Go Wrong
    9. Mighty Morphine: Painkiller - Hell And Damnation
    10. An E-Sporting Chance: The Fates
    11. The Tamriel World: A Billion Elder Scrolls Online Screens
    12. Jazzpunk Is Retro Cyberpunk Meets Mel Brooks
    13. Less Pocket, More Monster: Dragon's Prophet
    14. Dragon Age III Going Big On Customization, Environments
    1. First Look: Wildfire Worlds
    2. Cognition: Bioshock Infinite's Industrial Revolution
    3. Mystifying: Kairo Is Out Now
    4. A Wealth Of Hallucinations: Montas
    5. Falling Foul Of A Disco Stomp: Darkfall Unholy War
    6. Snikt And Smash: Marvel Heroes
    7. Outta Dunwall: Thief Remake The Dark Mod Updates
    8. Gratuitous Tank Battles Expands To The Western Front
    9. Home Invasion: Rohrer's New Game The Castle Doctrine
    10. Terror On Tyria: Guild Wars 2 Halloween Event
    11. Curiosity Rebuilds The Cat: Mew-Genics
    12. Bioshock Infinite And The Beast of America
    1. Live Free, Play Hard: The Week's Bestest Free Indie Games
    2. Cardboard Children: City Of Horror
    3. Please Value Your Education In The School Of Games
    4. The Sunday Papers
    1. Wot I Think: Mark Of The Ninja
    2. Kickstarter Katchup - 20th October 2012
    3. Brathwaite & Hall Pull The Plug On SHAKER Kickstarter
    4. Interv-U: Lori and Corey Cole On Going Rogue
    1. Wot I Think: Retro City Rampage
    2. Hitman: Subtitle Disguises Agent 47 As A Murderer
    3. Creative Assembly’s Moddessy: Shogun 2 Unbound
    4. Headshotter Well Good: Sniper Elite V2 Expands
    5. Never Forget: Farming Simulator 2013 Release Date
    6. Unity Of Command DLC News, Steam Release
    7. Finger Peckin' Good: No, Birdie, No!
    8. Kickstar: Star Citizen Gets Supplementary Kickstarter
    9. Planetside 2's Handsome Third Continent Revealed!
    10. The Stealth Letters, Part Two
    11. Money Troubles: What Happens When Kickstarters Fail?
    12. The Flare Path: Ace Academy Dropout
    13. GOG Adds Mac Support, Witcher 2 Mod Kit Dated
    14. CDP Augments Cyberpunk's Name, Location, Combat
    15. Of Space Chickens And Men: Humans Must Answer
    16. Now With More Jumping Puzzles: 14 Minutes Of Far Cry 3
    17. It's A Plan: PlanetSide 2 Launching November 20th
    1. Hotline Miami Is Hiding Behind A Mask
    2. Incoming! AI War: 6.0 And Ancient Shadows
    3. A New "The Iconoclasts" Alpha Is Out - Go Play!
    4. Battlefield 3's Aftermath Will Appear December 18th
    5. Kentucky Route Zero!
    6. Aerofly FS Lands On Steam. Lands! Get it?!
    7. Doom 3 BFG Throws Its Launch Trailer Into The Ocean
    8. The Stealth Letters, Part One
    9. BioWare's Schubert On MMO Past Vs MMO Present
    10. Gaming Greeks: Capsized Creators Show Apotheon
    11. In Outlast, The Greatest Horror Enemy Of All... Is Man
    12. Power To The (Solo) Players: SWTOR's F2P Restrictions
    13. Steam Greenlight Adds Non-Game Software Support
    14. Defiance Dev Diary Details Deadly Dalliances
    1. XCOM: Diary Of Wimpy Squad #5 - Bucket List
    2. Hide And Go 'Aaaarghwhy' - AC III's Multiplayer
    3. Guild Wars 2 Halloween Pretties
    4. Give 'Em A Hand - Chivalry: Medieval Warfare Launches
    5. Minecryft: The Official Far Cry 3 Mod For Minecraft
    6. Feeling Vulnerable? Steam's Protocol Could Allow Attacks
    7. Wot I Think: Of Orcs & Men
    8. Have A Stare At Star Command
    9. Hands On: Platformines
    10. Smedley's Meddling: Planetside 2 Changes Incoming
    11. Interview: Unmasking Dishonored's Harvey Smith
    12. Where Am I? - Black Ops 2's Launch Trailer
    13. Hack This: Memory Of A Broken Dimension
    14. Vault A Lot of Borderland 2 Trailers
    15. MechWarrior Online's Made $5m Before It's Even Out
    16. Project Eternity Made An Awful Lot Of Money
    17. Lore And Behold: Neverwinter Helm's Hold Trailer
    1. A Prologue To Talisman Prologue
    2. Hands-On: Card Hunter
    3. Postal Dad: Stanliest Gnome - 21 New Games Greenlit
    4. Skyrumour: Dragonmounts, Morrowind Locales?
    5. Indie Royale Fall Bundle Is Quite Good
    6. GOG Are Up To Something, Teasing Things
    7. The Mystery Of Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
    8. Star Citizen's Big Influences: Demon's Souls, Real Life
    9. WoW's J. Allen Brack On What Lies Beyond Pandaria
    10. Here Is What Standalone Day Z Will Look Like
    11. Krate News: Krater Getting Co-Op As Free DLC
    12. Piranha Wants Single-Player MechWarrior, But It's 'Tough'
    13. Farewell To British Game Design Legend Mike Singleton
    14. This Game Has A 'Quip' Button: Major Hertz
    1. XCOM: Diary Of A Wimpy Squad #4: The Grilling
    2. Sword Of Fargoal 2 Is Surely The Closest Kickstarter Yet?
    3. Disclaimer! Gunpoint Has A Level Editor
    4. Serious Sam 3's Big Fat Expansion
    5. SimCity Trailer Is A Disasterpiece
    6. More Of The Roses
    7. No Rage Against The Dying Of Metro 2's Multiplayer Light
    8. Star Citizen: 730,000 Space Dollars Funded Already
    9. Waking The Dead: Sleeping Dogs Zombie DLC
    10. LOTRO’s Riders of Rohan Expansion Trots Out Today
    11. UK Charts: Dishonored 2, XCOM 7, Scunthorpe United 0
    12. Transformers Universe Footage Rolls Out
    13. EA's Origin Leaves The Doors Unlocked, Looting Ensues
    1. Live Free, Play Hard: The Week's Best Free Indie Games
    2. Cardboard Children - Kickstarter (Sigh)
    3. The Sunday Papers
    1. Diablo III's 'Monster Power' Makes Old Zones Hard Again
    2. PlanetSide 2, EQ Next, And SOE's Player-Driven Future
    3. Hmmm: The Green Light Bundle
    4. XCOM: Diary of a Wimpy Squad #3 - Coinky-Dink
    5. Aria Of (Mass) Effect: ME3's 'Omega' DLC
    6. Kickstarter Katchup - 13th October 2012
    1. Ravaging: Ravaged Set To Ravage From October 17th
    2. CCP Talk Bounty Hunting In Retribution Video
    3. Happy Birthday: Project C.A.R.S. Is One Year Old
    4. Mindcraft: Notch Releases Early 0x10c Footage
    5. Windows 2013: Gorogoa
    6. Free Horror Game Erie Is Certainly Eerie
    7. HOTLINE MIAMI
    8. Robot Rock: Hawken Closed Beta Dates, Sign Ups Open
    9. The Flare Path: Slightly Dead
    10. XCOM: Diary Of A Wimpy Squad #2 - First Blood
    11. Hell Yeah? There's A Hell Yeah! Demo.
    12. A Little Needy: Need For Speed Most Wanted
    13. WRC 3: FIA World Rally Championship "Glory Mode" Demo
    14. Project Eternity Releases Image, Aims For $3.5m
    1. Jim Wants To Show You Some Lost Planet 3
    2. Classified Information: Cube World
    3. Hands On - Painkiller: Hell & Damnation
    4. From Bad To Vaas: Far Cry 3
    5. Captain Scarlett DLC For Borderlands 2 Lands Oct 16th
    6. Under Construction: SimCity In-Game Footage Shown
    7. Hands On: Medal Of Honour Warfighter
    8. Windows 8 Marketplace Will Not Carry PEGI 18+ Games
    9. Wuh Oh: PlaySpan Got Hacked, World Of Tanks Affected
    10. Medal Of Honor: Warfighter Goes Too Far
    11. The Creative Assembly's Viking Heading For Steam
    12. Star Citizen's "Pledge For Your Ship" Is Open
    13. Mechwarrior Online Beta Opens Up Next Week
    1. Settling The Score: Eurogamer Expo Panel Talks Reviews
    2. Flailing OnLive Sold For Only $4.8m
    3. Carry On Up The: Future Soldier: Khyber Strike
    4. Watch That Spectacular Squadron 42 Trailer
    5. Hands-on: Far Cry 3 (Single-Player)
    6. XCOM: Diary Of A Wimpy Squad #1 - Meet The Team
    7. Wing Commandeered: Chris Roberts' Star Citizen
    8. Fallow: Competitive Farm Machine Championships 2013
    9. No Oceans: Dishonored UK "Launch" Trailer Is Cruel
    10. Cut-Price Gold: A Game Of Dwarves Will Be $10
    11. Selected For October 31st: Natural Selection 2
    12. Cold Hearts: East vs. West: A Hearts of Iron Game
    13. Of Orcs And Men And Launch Trailers
    14. Silent Hunter Online Hunts Quite Silently In A Browser
    15. Shepherds of A Solar Empire
    1. Wot I Think: Cortex Command
    2. Life And Limb Loss: Epilogue
    3. Far Cry 3's Tribe Goes To War
    4. Hue & Cry: Crytek Talk Crysis 3 Multiplayer
    5. Watch Dean Hall's Day Z Presentation From The EG Expo
    6. Trendspotting: How Gaming's Changing In 2012 (Sez I)
    7. Procedural Hero: A New Zero
    8. The RPS Verdict: Dishonored
    9. Inter-Play: Project Eternity Adds Wasteland 2 Pledge Tier
    10. Madness: Entire World Of Warcraft Recreated In Minecraft
    11. Business' End: Zombies Stars The Undead, Bureaucracy
    12. PreLC: Borderlands 2 Mecromancer Out Early
    13. Bamf! - Warframe's (Surprisingly Clever) Class Powers
    14. Highly Scripted - Battlefield: Bad Company's TV Show
    15. Next Walking Dead Episode Just Around The Corner
    1. Dishonored: The Onion
    2. Cold Steel: East Vs West - A Hearts Of Iron Game
    3. Sunder Lizards: Primal Carnage Beta Open
    4. I Can't Think Of A Headline Gag: Harvey's New Eyes
    5. Ghost Town: World of Warcraft's Accidental Genocide
    6. A Chip To The Past: FM 2013 Classic Mode
    7. Wot I Think - XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Singleplayer)
    8. Veni Vidi Vendi: Vitrum Is Out
    9. Hail To The Chef: Cook, Serve, Delicious Demo
    10. 12 People Haven't Backed Project Eternity Yet
    11. Fiddle Me This: Total War - Rome II
    12. Wot I Think: Dishonored
    1. Live Free, Play Hard: The Week's Best Free Indie Games
    2. Cardboard Children: X-Wing Miniatures
    3. The Sunday Papers
    1. Intriguing: Old-School RPG's Sci-Fi Fantasy World
    2. Pandaria's First Big Patch Brings War Back To Warcraft
    3. Kickstarter Katchup - 6th October 2012
    4. Brand Theft Auto: Retro City Rampage Out Next Week
    5. Collect 'Em All: Mass Effect 3's 'Retaliation' DLC
    6. PlanetSide 2's Ice Continent Dropping This Weekend
    1. FTL: The Fatal Frontier - The Last Stand
    2. Skipping The Greenlight: Deadlight Coming To Steam
    3. Hands On: Mechwarrior Online
    4. Lucid Screaming: Deep Sleep
    5. A Galaxy Away: Planetside 2's Spawn Bus Victory
    6. Skyrim's Hearthfire Gets Cosy On PC
    7. The Flare Path: Wrecks And Rectification
    8. Hands-On: Hitman - Absolution
    9. Obsidian On Project Eternity, Old-School Innovation
    10. So, What's The Deal With AC III's Connor?
    11. The War Z Beta Iz Ztarting Zoon
    12. Wow: MaK Is Minecraft Meets Mario Galaxy In Space
    13. Choose Your Own Stabventure In Dishonored's New Trailer
    1. Impressions: Colour Bind
    2. Hidden Marketing Movement: XCOM
    3. Primary Concern: Strategery 2012
    4. A Bunch Of Hacks: Quadrilateral Cowboy
    5. Historically Accurate: AC III's 'King Washington' DLC
    6. Try A Gaea Mission: Carrier Command Demo
    7. The Green Party: Of Orcs And Men
    8. Urbane Living: SimCity
    9. FOR SCIENCE! UK Game Jam ExPlay 2012 This Weekend
    10. Go Quest: Talisman Finally Coming To PC
    11. Kicking It Old School: The Peril Of Kickstarter Nostalgia
    12. Disco Demolition - Killing With Style In Hitman: Absolution
    13. The QWOPlympics: Realistic Summer Sports Simulator
    14. Wizardry, Anachronox Devs Kickstart Old-School RPG
    15. Back To Reality: Cliff Bleszinski Leaves Epic
    1. Dredging Up The Secrets Of Banner Saga's Story
    2. SOE Revise Planetside 2 "Membership" Benefits
    3. Wot I Think: Army Of The Czech Republic
    4. SMITE Be A Good Game: Say Hello To Ares
    5. Make Something Unreal Live Is "Genetics and Genomics"
    6. I'm Rolling, I'm Rolling, I'm Rolling, I'm Rolling-nerrrr: InFlux
    7. Bod A Kliknite Na Tlačidlo: Gomo
    8. Starcraft II: Where's Me Warhound?
    9. Apt: Guns & Robots Will Feature Customisable Gunfighters
    10. Wot I Think: McPixel
    11. Feeding The Machine: Gas Guzzlers Demo
    12. The Many Hilarious Deaths Of Tyrion Lancaster
    13. The End: NCsoft Responds To Save City Of Heroes
    14. Hulk Bug Smash: Marvel Heroes Beta Sign-Ups Open
    15. Super Slash Brothers: Samurai Gunn
    1. Post-Gaming: Steam Now Selling Useful Things Too
    2. Of Banners, Sagas, Microtransactions, And Balance
    3. Typeface: 2012 Interactive Fiction Competition
    4. Size Five On Stealth, Story & Swearing In The Swindle
    5. FTL: The Fatal Frontier, Sector 7
    6. Of Frying Pans And Fire: Walking Dead Episode 4
    7. UK Tax Breaks For "Culturally British" Games Only?
    8. A Sack Of Cats: A Guild Wars 2 War Story, Pt.2
    9. Dungeons And Dreamscapes: Anodyne Demo
    10. Wot I Think: Carrier Command: Gaea Mission
    11. Fall Off A Skycraper In CSGO's Latest Big Update
    12. League Of Legends Deploys Community Honor System
    13. Cry-Fi: StarCry Takes Crysis To Spaaace
    14. Happy Stalktober: Survarium's First In-Game Footage
    1. The Tamriel Deal: Morrowind Overhaul 3 Is Out
    2. A Valley With A New Look In A Valley Without Wind 2
    3. Wot I Think: The Amazing Spider-Man
    4. People Vs Predators: Crysis 3 Hunter Mode
    5. Special Stages: WRC 3 Adds Boss Battles
    6. Wish You Were There? EG Expo Session Vids
    7. Wot I Think: The Testament Of Sherlock Holmes
    8. Don't Have Nightmares: EVE's Crimewatch & Punishment
    9. Fresh Meat: Oddworld Abe's Oddysee New N' Tasty
    10. Whatever Happened To The Other XCOM Remake?
    11. Pane In The Glass: Stained Demo