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Returning with the much more SEO and annual-tradition appropriate name, The Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival (formerly known as Mayor Bones Proudly Presents: Ghost Town's 1001st Annual Pumpkin Festival) is here! Every October it pops up to make your Halloween season orange and flickery with a host of digital carved pumpkins on display in a lovely gallery you can take a calming walk around. I hope this comes to be a seasonal tradition on RPS as unshakeable as Skeal at Christmas. And it's pay-wh...

D&D, storytelling, and the pain of mixing the two in video games.

The goal of Mario’s credits is to catch ’em all!.

Time comes for us all. There's no escape from getting older and the inevitability of our bodies and minds slowing down. For many of us, that might mean having to re-examine how we tackle games, especially those that demand quick reactions. That thought has been at the forefront as I've been playing Ghostrunner 2. Like the original, it's a high-octane, first-person slasher with a big focus on traversal. It feels like a blend of Doom Eternal and a cyberpunk take on Mirror's Edge. Ghostrunner 2 is ...

We’ve rounded up some quick, clever disguises for the spooky season.

Frictional Games is celebrating Halloween with a free update for its acclaimed WW1 horror Amensia: The Bunker intended to make the already traumatic experience even more terrifying. And if you think your nerves are up to the challenge, the Shell Shock Update launches today. Frictional's creative lead Fredrik Olsson began teasing the Shell Shock Update last month, detailing a few of the sadistic features it would bring, but now, as it prepares to release fresh horror upon the world, the studio ha...

Between Cities Skylines 2, Civilization 6, Crusader Kings 3, and Europa Universalis 4, it’s a good time for strategy fans right now. From small-scale micromanagement to global domination, we’re almost spoiled for choice, with even more - like Paradox’s new and very exciting-looking Millennia - on the way. Right now, though, it’s Victoria 3’s turn. The empire-building, historically-driven strategy sim is about to get a sizable new DLC focusing on South America, and for some players, it’ll be avai...

A legend returns. For Nintendo fans, the Metal Gear franchise has long been just out of reach, with Konami dangling the metaphorical carrot with one-off releases such as Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes on GameCube, Ghost Babel on Game Boy Color, and Snake Eater 3D on the 3DS. After decades of neglect, however, Switch owners can now rejoice, as we’re not only getting one, but five games from Hideo Kojima’s Magnum Opus (plus a couple of fun non-canon extras thrown in for good measure). The quest...

“[Green Lantern] is the first time I, an out queer writer, have told a story with a lead character who’s gay,” says Tim Sheridan.

Honda and GM are abandoning their plan to develop a line of affordable electric vehicles together. Under the program, which was announced in April 2022, the two had committed to building compact crossover EVs that would start at less than GM’s upcoming $30,000 electric Chevrolet Equinox. The first models were expected to start releasing in 2027. Toshihiro Mibe, CEO of Honda, confirmed the project’s cancellation in an interview with Bloomberg, saying “we decided that this would be difficult as a ...

Could AMD give up on discrete gaming GPUs and stick to consoles and APUs?

The Pokémon Company has released a new short animation in which Detective Pikachu investigates who stole a flan from his human sidekick's fridge. While it's not quite the Detective Pikachu film sequel we and lead actor Justice Smith may be hoping for, it's a cute, six-minute video full of detective clichés and adorable Pokémon. Detective Pikachu begins his daily routine with a strong cup of coffee and a flick through the morning paper, filming his activities for his social media presence (even P...

We knew Netflix had snagged the iconic roguelike/metroidvania Dead Cells for its ever-growing games library, and now we know when it’ll release. Dead Cells: Netflix Edition will be available on October 31. That’s Halloween, to those who don’t mess with the dark pagan arts. This is the full game, along with every paid DLC release, including the Castlevania crossover. A standard Netflix subscription gives you access to the game on both iOS and Android devices, so you can finally see what all the D...

Sony has added a new icon to the PlayStation 5 UI to indicate which games can be streamed. Cloud streaming of PS5 games was recently added for PS Plus Premium subscribers, along with existing PS4, PS3 and PS2 games. Now, alongside this addition, a new icon can be found underneath any game that can be streamed - if you're a PS Plus Premium subscriber.

Egypt is on the edge in Creative Assembly's latest grand strategy. Can the gods help?

Time is running out to get its latest (and most promising) hardware at a backer discount.

Apple just announced a price hike for its popular Apple Arcade service effective immediately, and it's proportionally a rather sizable increase. 

GOG has launched their own Halloween Sale full of sweet treats including big discounts on lots of games, and a big new release has landed on GOG with Days Gone.

How do you manage Cities Skylines 2 taxes? As you build your first city, you may notice that you're hemorrhaging money on expenses you didn't know you needed to pay for. So naturally, you're looking for ways to recoup some savings to pay for goods and services for your residents and workers. However, just like it would be for a real government, raising taxes is not a popular option. To raise taxes in Cities Skylines 2, you need to explore menus to get the data you need and change multiple slider...

When is the Persona 3 Reload release date? While Persona is a spinoff of the Shin Megami Tensei games that's over 25 years old, it's the third game that put Atlus's RPG series on the map. Its social life mechanics were the new unique hook, providing a palette-cleanser from its relentless turn-based RPG fights and procedurally generated dungeons. Now, a remake is on the horizon, updating the visuals and style to resemble the more recent Persona 5. This time around, however, Persona 3 Reload is co...

Apple is jacking up the prices of several of its subscription services. The price increases to Apple TV+, Apple Arcade and Apple News+ will take effect immediately for newcomers. It's not yet clear when existing subscribers will start paying the higher rates. In the US, the price of Apple TV+ is going up by $3 per month to $10. The annual TV+ plan has risen from $69 to $99. Apple Arcade is now $7 per month instead of $5. As for Apple News+, that'll now run you $13 per month for a standalone subs...

Most Americans already know what they need to know about Black Friday — it’s a day to use up all of that stored energy from consuming turkey and sides on Thanksgiving by shopping for as many deals as possible. What you might not know is that you can get some pretty good deals in the days and weeks leading up to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, thanks to retailers kick-starting the holiday shopping season earlier in recent years. And despite its gross show of consumerism that may make you cringe, B...

Zipp's Café is an upcoming “cozy café management sim” in the vein of Dave the Diver’s sushi-making side that also happens to be a prequel to one of the best story games and visual novels on Steam. Part of the Chicken Police universe and made by the same team, which has an average of ten out of ten on Steam, this game shows a lot of promise.

At Bethesda, the buck stops with Todd.

Chaosmonger Studio and Assemble Entertainment today released Three Minutes to Eight, a point and click mystery adventure game from the same developer behind ENCODYA and Clunky Hero.

Welcome to my crowdsourced city.

Xbox livestream promises ‘a fresh mix of indie games and familiar favorites’.

Alienware has teased two new, high refresh QD-OLED gaming monitors at TwitchCon 2023: the Alienware AW2725DF and Alienware AW3225QF. While details are scant — this was a tease rather than a full product announcement — there are a few (literally) eye-catching points to get excited about.

Metal Gear Solid has finally made its way to the Steam platform, thanks to the release of the brand-new Metal Gear Solid Master Collection 1. The collection brings the first three games and the NES titles to PC, along with some additional content, but Steam Deck owners have little to celebrate, as the performance of the games leaves little to be desired.

The Meta Quest 3 is finally out for all to see, and while the brand-new headset is a worthy addition to the Quest lineup, its battery life is already proving to be an issue. Luckily, the first post-launch software update, update v59, is already on the horizon, rolling out a new battery option which will hopefully extend the playtime of your favorite games.

Apple may be planning to launch new Mac models announced at its "Scary Fast" event on Wednesday, November 8, MacRumors has learned. At the start of the month, MacRumors reported that Apple was proceeding with plans to announce at least one new Mac model in October. Apple yesterday announced its "Scary Fast" event for Monday, October 30, featuring a Finder hint, which virtually confirms the arrival of new Macs. Now, related information provided to MacRumors suggests that new Mac models could laun...

Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) once again played host to Silicon Valley’s AI leaders on Tuesday as the US Senate reconvened its AI Insights Forum for a second time. On the guest list this go around: manifesto enthusiast Marc Andreessen and venture capitalist John Doerr, as well as Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute and NAACP CEO Derrick Johnson. On the agenda: “the transformational innovation that pushes the boundaries of medicine, energy, and science, and the sustainable innovation nec...

When two of a game's weapons are nailguns, you should probably expect players to be enthusiastic about construction. Following last year's excellent Brutalist Jam map pack, Quake mappers have reunited to release another free load of levels inspired by Brutalism and concrete. The 30 maps offer good honest fragging in everything from concrete cities to murderous mystical puzzle boxes. Honestly, I'd recommend downloading the pack even if only to see the hub level and marvel at quite how good Quake ...

Find the second flagpole in W2’s Outmaway level.

It’s a gibbon that this is the least ape-pealing game of 2023.