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We write about PC games, and things to do with PC games, at http://t.co/Um01p3Ndtd.

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Trans rights are human rights. We strive to create an inclusive space for all people. Earlier this week, a freelancer used the RPS comments section to express views that failed in that goal. We will no longer be working with this freelancer or publishing their column.
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Valorant's next agent is star-slinging space lady, Astra -
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Makers of RPG Maker make Visual Novel Maker -
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Quake goes Brutalist in a new map pack that's all about concrete -
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If you're a fan of The Sims, you should care about Paralives. We spoke to developer Alex Massé to learn more about this ambitious indie life-sim game -
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This astonishing new Doom mod will let you send Margaret Thatcher back to Hell next week -
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This Among Us-like is huge on Steam thanks to a BTS member:
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The Paralives character creation tool lets you make people with amazing and terrifying fashion sense -
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Fallout 76 is out - but what happened to Fallouts 5 through 75? We've asked games historian @frogcroakley to take us through all seventy of these forgotten gems - so keep an eye on this thread to learn about #AllTheFallouts
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We spoke to Slime Rancher 2's game director Nick Popovich, who told us that the slime-coralling sequel will have a bigger world, and (somehow) even more colour than the original -
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Fallout 76 paid subscribers have formed "The Apocalyptic Aristocracy", a clan who flounce around in fancy clothes while looking down on non-paying "peasants" -
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Stray fans are modding their own cats into the game. And, uh, Garfield, and CJ from GTA San Andreas?
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"The narrative had to be baked into the corridors": Marc Laidlaw tells all about writing Half-Life, Valve's pre-Alyx VR project, and his regret over posting that Episode 3 story -
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Fallout 76's Nuclear Winter battle royale is the next logical step in Bethesda's trend of erasing any thoughtful commentary from the Fallout series -
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The voice of Yakuza's Kiryu has a Christmas single and it is magnificent -
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Branching off from the Hypixel Minecraft mega-server, Hytale is an upcoming block-building sandbox backed by Riot Studios, and designed with mod support in mind -
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No Players Online is a free horror tribute to letting the past die, set on the empty servers of a fictional abandoned multiplayer game -
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is real! Our Alice saw it and spoke to the makers of this bitey RPG that we thought would never exist -
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Dontnod's Captain Spirit reminds us that we've become old and dead inside -
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Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is re-elected to the board for another year -
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Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 has revealed its game list and there are some absolute belters on the cards, including Hades, Sekiro, Left 4 Dead 2 and more -
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Cyberpunk 2077's in-game context doesn't matter if its marketing contributes to transphobia right now -
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Industries of Titan, a sci-fi city-building strategy game from the Crypt of the NecroDancer studio, looks wild -
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After five years in early access, Satisfactory will finally launch into 1.0 later this year
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Gears Tactics isn't just good - it's arguably the new gold standard for turn-based tactics games. Our full review:
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GTA Online has added player-run nightclubs in its After Hours update. As well as crimehubs they're social spaces to dance, chill, and maybe go so hard you wake up somewhere else entirely...
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The NPCs of Half-Life 2 have been unable to blink for five years, until yesterday -
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Life is Strange is our game of the month for November -
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Procedural building toy Townscaper will let you construct darling seaside villages in June -
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Free game Pineapple On Pizza asks an important question: can a video game convey flavour?
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"After playing Mandela, it's very hard to read a script that doesn't have any of the qualities that man has," said Idris Elba in 2013. Elba will next play Knuckles The Echidna in the Sonic The Hedgehog 2 movie:
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Little Kitty, Big City looks like an adorable game about doing cat things -
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Mineko's Night Market is a gorgeous game about running a market stall on a Japanese island and meeting so many cats:
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The Fallout 76 players who started an art gallery in the wasteland -
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Terraria's massive final update, Journey's End, is out today -
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Concerned Ape is taking a break from Haunted Chocolatier to work on Stardew Valley’s next update -
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Escape From Tarkov shows off its next map, heading off to the big city -
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Little Nightmares is a macabre, sinister delight.
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Citizen Sleeper 2 is real and we couldn't be happier. Find out all about it in our extensive interview with @JumpOvertheAge -
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An exclusive chat with the lead artist on Warframe: The Jovian Concord, the game's next update -
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Indie gaming is on the verge of an immersive sim eruption -
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Doki Doki Literature Club is the perfect horror game for 2017 and it's hiding in plain sight.
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The developers of Hollow Knight say the secret to building their world was very simple: consistency -
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Have You Played... Attack On Titan: Wings Of Freedom? -
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We've now got the first video of Warframe's Gas City remaster from The Jovian Concord update -
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VR sign language communities are building their own language to make up the limits of their tech, bringing hearing and deaf people together -
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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is already mere pickaxe strokes from striking autoshooter gold -
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Malkavians confirmed for Bloodlines 2: we talked to Brian Mitsoda on the new clan reveal -
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Warframe players are refusing to let Fortuna instance number 69 end, maintaining a round-the-clock vigil (and party) so it doesn't empty and automatically shut down -
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No, *this* is your next console http://t.co/mI9xrXKQr5
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Persona 5 Strikers is the spin-off you didn't know you wanted. See it in action here -
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Baldur's Gate 3 characters were super-horny due to a bug, Larian admit - "we're still fixing a few of them"
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It's faster to earn Overwatch 2 skins through playing WOW than the actual game, players suggest -
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Devolver Digital somehow sold an NFT that made the world less awful -
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Telltale's Batman series has one of my favourite romantic scenes -
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Brian Mitsoda has been fired as narrative lead on Bloodlines 2, and the creative director has departed also -
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Union survey alleges culture of mistreatment at Paradox Interactive -
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This claymation game makes me deeply uncomfortable so of course I need to play it -
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Cyberpunk 2077's E3 demo has weak gunplay and unimaginative stereotypes -
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Temtem, everyone's favourite Pokémon-like MMO, is planning this year to add 50 new critters and two new islands to catch them on -
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RuneScape is adding Storage Wars-style auctions for banned players' possessions:
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Riot Games says Riot Games' investigation into Riot Games CEO found "no evidence" of alleged harassment and discrimination -
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The new System Shock is a breathtakingly beautiful and astonishingly faithful remake that proves the enduring power of Looking Glass design. Our review -
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Jurassic World Evolution 2 comes out this November -
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A lovely new Cyberpunk 2077 mod adds trains you can ride around Night City, making the decorative monorail functional -
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New stealth RPG Abermore has big Thief meets Dishonored vibes -
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Norman's Sky, that procedural space exploration game you're always on about, is out for free
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A perfectly normal abyss has appeared in Microsoft Flight Sim -
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“All year we’ve worked on this and it’s finally paid off.” We spoke to Bethesda about adding NPCs to Fallout 76, and the making of Wastelanders -
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Eve Online has booted one of their Council Of Stellar Management members and banned his in-game accounts over allegations of corruption. The twist: He's a US political lobbyist -
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Fortnite's Creative Mode is getting an Unreal upgrade next year -
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Bad North is a gorgeous tactical game about defending islands from viking raiders.
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Deus Ex's official desktop wallpapers were so delightfully 1999 and damn, that poster! -
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Roblox Portraits is a short series of articles exploring the quiet success of the MMO. In the first instalment, Alex Wiltshire talks to two successful creators who have been making games in Roblox since its early days -
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The Sonic movie has revealed his promised makeover, and it's disappointingly familiar. Please, Hollywood, show some integrity and bring back Sonic's ratty fur and sinister human mouth -
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Watching Henry Cavill build a PC gave me a heart attack -
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Minecraft is changing the way voting for new mobs works, and polls open today -
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D&D makers are spending $1 billion on their own video games, promising they’ll be ‘quality and authentic’ like Baldur’s Gate 3
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Hylics 2 is looking flipping amazing. Watch this new trailer for Mason Lindroth's sequel to his surreal handcrafted RPG -
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But *why* can we pet the dog? Ruth Cassidy talks to three indie devs, and the man behind @CanYouPetTheDog , to find out if virtual dog snuggles are worth it -
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After seven years of work, a mod to recreate Oblivion within Skyrim has a new trailer, and its creators say "the end is almost in sight" -
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Age of Mythology Retold, remastered Age of Empires spin-off, will be out this year
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The new game from FTL's devs is gorgeous, strategic kaiju defence sim Into the Breach -
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Visual novels are helping LGBTQ+ video game stories prosper. Aimee Hart spoke to the developers to ask how and why -
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Deus Ex is 20 years old today. We spoke to its developers and publisher - including Harvey Smith, John Romero, Ian Livingstone, Sheldon Pacotti, Austin Grossman and more - for the story of how it was made -
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Building cute little villages and castles looks easy in upcoming indie game Tiny Glade -
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Skate Story is probably the most gorgeous game of not-E3 so far:
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15 minutes of Radio The Universe's grim cyberpunk world in motion -
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Fortnite Battle Royale brings Gotham City to its murder island for an 80th anniversary Batman crossover event -
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Deathloop concept art shows its characters being absolute fashion icons, so I think it's time Arkane started their own designer brand -
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Stardew Valley's multiplayer might be the perfect game for hanging out with friends -
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Indiana Jones'y tactical FTL-like Pathway is out next week, blending XCOM-ish tactical squad combat with exploration, tomb-raiding and lots of Nazi-stabbing -
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Check out this wild-looking follow-up to one of 2021's weirdest games -
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Tonight We Riot is an unashamedly socialist side-scrolling brawler -
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The amazing, surprising browser game shows the Internet can still be magical -
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Microsoft have open-sourced 1995's 3D Movie Maker by popular demand, as part of a wave of source releases which some hope might lead to Carmageddon code (no, really, it makes sense) -
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The Evil Within 2 is a definitive, well-produced classic survival horror experience -
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