Devs behind Steam wishlist hit The Day Before defend use of unpaid volunteers

We consider all team members, including employees, volunteers, they said in the statement provided to RPS. This idea comes from our own experience and aspiration. You’d think a good place to start might be to pay all of their staff. In addition to tests, external volunteers (supporters) help localize products into different languages, they said. And not in cool rewards, participation certificates, and free codes, as detailed on theirwebsite. I’ve asked Fntastic for more details on that....

June 29, 2022 · 1 min · 84 words · Cameron Bartlett

Get a Kingston Fury Renegade 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD for £110

A super-fast NVMe drive with an integrated heatsink. These were capable of around 5500MB/s, while these newer drives are closer to 7500MB/s.

June 29, 2022 · 1 min · 22 words · Bradley Chase

Hell Is Us wants to make its action-adventuring even more "old school" than Elden Ring

Lo and behold, I think it worked! Instead, it sounds like it’s opting for a more inter-connected approach where you move in-between zones. With varying sizes, some can be quite small and some are much bigger", he says. “But they’re contained. It’s never been our intention to make an open world.” Jacques-Belletete is clearly passionate about going “old school” when it comes to adventuring. “Even the level design to some degree just becomes aesthetics, you know?...

June 29, 2022 · 1 min · 187 words · Brian English

Disney Dreamlight Valley will launch in early access this September

Watch the latest trailer for the Disney-themedAnimal Crossing’em up below. Which I absolutely want to do. How much will I have to pay to unlock Wall-E, or to place bunting in my Magic Kingdom? I guess we’ll see.

June 28, 2022 · 1 min · 38 words · Doris Cordova

Get a 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD for $185 with this discount code

FREEDOM15 gets you $15 off an already great value SSD. Adata’s Premium SSD for PS5 might be the most misleadingly titled storage unit on the market.

June 28, 2022 · 1 min · 26 words · Keith Johnson

Harvestella looks like Square Enix's take on Stardew Valley

It was just announced today, but it’s also launching this November. All credit to Alice0 for the Bloodborne joke, but really the fifth season is called the Quietus. You’ll solve that mystery by going into dungeons and bashing monsters to bits. There are various character classes (called Jobs here) including Fighter, Shadow Walker and Mage. Harvestella will launch November 4thvia Steam, where you’ll find a handful more screenshots and other details....

June 28, 2022 · 1 min · 71 words · Tracy Lane

Hearthstone’s next expansion invites us to a murder mystery party in August

Prepare to venture once again into Warcrafts home of the afterlife, the Shadowlands. Just remember to grab your rhyming dictionary and your fanciest deerstalker before you watch the trailer below. Murder At Castle Nathria is Hearthstones 21st expansion, introducing 135 new cards to acquire. The new expansion brings with it an equally new card jot down dubbed locations. Reach enough anima and theyll morph into more powerful forms. There are more details about the expansion’s features in the announcement video, which you could watchhere....

June 28, 2022 · 1 min · 133 words · Dr. Frank Greene

Endless Dungeon is a rigorous blend of tower defence and tactical roguelite action

Lots of things with no end, basically. You start in a hub area populated by a few aliens and robots having some drinks near the bar. Once you enter the abandoned space station, the game’s less than typical rogueliting kicks into gear. Much like The Binding Of Isaac, Hades orRogue Legacy, you move through procedurally generated rooms. Sometimes these rooms have loot chests in them or house a shopkeeper who sells you wares....

June 27, 2022 · 2 min · 241 words · Mr. Jesus Davis

Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition on Steam now includes the better ScummVM release

That’s a good thing, because Alice O has looked at the remaster andsays it’s a mess. Thomas Fach-Pedersen, a developer on the ScummVM release, is none too pleased about that. “Now @NightdiveStudio has released their ‘Enhanced’ version. They even forgot to credit me for the subtitles we let them use.” He returned to the thread after the ScummVM version was included on Steam. Technically legal, morally decrepit," Fach-Pedersen tweeted. Fach-Pedersen calls the harassment “completely unacceptable”, which of course it is....

June 25, 2022 · 1 min · 95 words · Jason Adams

An extremely thorough grading of the best rain in video games

The answer is, it can’t. The time has come, fellow pluviophiles. It’s time to grade the very best rain that PC gaming has to offer. Below you’ll find our eight worthy contenders. Each has been chosen for their spectacular rendition of one of nature’s greatest phenomena. Each one shall be marked according to my patented and cutting-edge WIPERS grading system for digital rain. So drop what you’re doing. It’s time to frolick....

June 24, 2022 · 6 min · 1273 words · Heather Price

Buy 2357 bees for £3 then find them in these new hidden object games

It’s quite fun to find the bees. “The brief was simple,” the blurb explains. Now it’s your job to find them all!" The levels in 1 with dense geometric designs might be more of a challenge, mind. But yes, the sequel. And it’s too easy to accidentally click-drag and pan around when trying to choose a bee. And some levels just spray bees everywhere and it’s not a challenge. But I will click these bees all the same....

June 24, 2022 · 1 min · 121 words · Michael Jordan

A Plague Tale: Requiem reveals October 18th release date in grim new trailer

10 minutes of stealth misery A Plague Tale: Requiemis a stealth game with several fantastical elements. The first fantasy is that you’re free to consistently remember how to spell “Requiem”. The second is ‘What would it be like if you had the power of rats?’. The third is, ‘What if rats had any power to have?’. A Plague Tale: Requiem is upon Steamif you want to look at more screenshots.

June 23, 2022 · 1 min · 70 words · Laura Thomas

Assassin's Creed developer reveals horses were people

Whose ass in steed? Former Ubisoft developer Charles Randall has been spilling the beans about the originalAssassins Creedon Twitter again. Thats some genuinely nightmarish imagery to contemplate first thing in the morning. It’s still there, but wriggling around inside him. The gist: the CEOs kid thought it was boring. To be honest, I kind of agree with Guillemot the younger about much of the first game. What are you even doing, Ubisoft?...

June 23, 2022 · 1 min · 88 words · Manuel Williams