You might remember Where Winds Meet as the open world Wuxia RPG that mixes scenes of exquisite calligraphy with scenes of hooligan sword masters subjecting blameless bears to sonic bombardment, paralysing whole gangs of chimney sweeps with chained Blink attacks, and getting chased by angry geese.

If you don't, you can watch the below trailer or read Ed Thorn's (RPS in peace) preview from 2023, in which he commented "I'm both excited to see more and a tad worried it could end up being a disjointed, overstretched mash". Then you can consider signing up to the game's next playtest, which runs from July 25th to July 30th.

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If you're eager to know what's new in EA Sports FC 26, your day is almost here; EA is giving its latest football iteration the full reveal treatment later this week. And it's also unveiled this year's Ultimate Edition cover star, so you got something to look at while you wait.

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Look, I don’t condone cheating on your significant other or swindling folks out of money. But as long as you’re not online hurting someone else’s gameplay experience, I say cheating in a video game ain’t so bad. Life’s short, after all. And for those diving into the Nintendo Switch 2's hybrid puzzler Puyo Puyo Tetris…

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Mario Kart World’s open world is filled with fun activities to find and do, including driving over question mark panels scattered around each track. These can be a lot of fun to track down, and they’ll reward you with stickers for finding them, so completionists won’t want to skip them.

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I'm writing up Astro Prospector for a couple of reasons: firstly, it reminds me of two childhood favourites, Atari's Asteroids and the less-known Crystal Quest for the Macintosh. And secondly, there's something appealingly perverse about a bullet hell of all gametypes that is always simulating the player nodding off at the keyboard.

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If you were previously excited about the impending arrival of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War's Definitive Edition release, there are now two additional reasons to be excited. Firstly, it's out very soon on the newly announced date of 14th August, and secondly, there's a nice chunky discount if you own the Anniversary edition of the game.

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2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi made a lot of money and reviewed very well. But it also created a firestorm online, one which still rages to this day, over some of its choices. So when The Rise of Skywalker came out and seemingly reversed some of The Last Jedi’s creative decisions, it was a whole new mess. However, Las…

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Amazon Prime Day might be over, but some of the best Ryzen CPU deals are still live right now. There’s still time to snag big discounts. We're seeing up to 39% off, which is rare for these processors. No Prime membership? No problem. Amazon’s free 30-day Prime trial still applies, so there’s really no excuse to miss these while they’re hot.

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Gun.

There are a lot of them in Helldivers 2, it being a shooter and all. HD2 players aren't happy for it to end there though.

They've been asked for their input in renaming the single city on Super Earth they've so far succeeded in rebuilding since all of that Illuminate invasion business, and they're voting for Gun.

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Mario Kart World’s free-roam feature has plenty to do, but finding the question mark panels located around each track is one that stands out the most. These are fun to find and they’ll even reward you with stickers, so you won’t want to miss them if you’re aiming to fully complete the game. And if you’re stuck on…

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Update, July 15, 2025: Airship Interactive's assets are confirmed to have been acquired by Airmergent, a successor studio to Airship Interactive and a new business entity.

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The Switch 2 has been out for over a month. Hype levels are starting to run dangerously low. While Donkey Kong Bananza is shaping up to be a big shot in the console’s launch window arm later this week, the rest of the Switch 2's first year is filled with question marks right now. Fans desperate for new shiny objects…

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Armchair History Interactive would like to you know that their upcoming strategy game Master Of Command is full of smart, unforgiving systems. I know that because they emailed RPS saying that our "strategy features often spotlight smart, unforgiving systems".

I imagine several other outlets also received this exact email but this didn't stop me thinking "you know what - they're right! I am strategy-clever and tactics-tough! And what better way to show that than by covering this game, completely of my own volition and with no outside influence from cleverly worded PR emails playing on my sense of strategy-knower's pride. That'll show those fatcats down at the community historical strategy club treasury committee. Who's "making too many explosiony noises during this serious reenactment of the Somme" now, eh?

Truthfully though, I probably would have covered this without the email. It looks suitably grand, and I really dig the idea of a strategy where the management isn't about empires, but the personal journey of your army on campaign. Plus, you get to play uniform dress-up. Here's a trailer.

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Developer Iron Galaxy is “investigating” an Easter egg fans spotted involving a trash can and a Guitar Hero clone in the recently released Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4.

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Last week, I had the urge to go back to Destiny 2. Once a staple of my gaming diet, my legendary Warlock has sat, unbothered, in his little ship in orbit around the Tower for over two years, now. I didn't even go back for the assumedly spectacular ending, and the final expansion to the 'Light & Dark saga', in the form of The Final Shape. I just didn't care. Lightfall had put a pin in the game for me, nearly 10 years after my initial flirtation with my 'forever game' in Destiny 1's mind-blowing alpha.

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James Gunn’s Superman has officially had the best opening weekend of the Man of Steel’s film career, and with millions of people seeing David Corenswet don the red cape, there’s a lot of debate surrounding the movie. Are DC Comics movies back after floundering for a decade? Can you kickstart a new shared cinematic…

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Deep beneath the smog of a plausibly denied planetoid, there lurks a space hulk full of dessicated hand monsters, shorn dreadlocks and long-emptied Pulse Rifles. The vessel mostly lies silent, but every so often, an ancient server deep within the core crackles awake, beaming an ominous signal far out into the void, and the chitinous corridors come alive with flamethrowers and squelchy stabbing noises and oh, so much screaming. Also, the coveted chirping of Steam achievements.

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"Fine" is a funny word. It can mean something is sublimely crafted, but it can also be used in a withering sense. It's fine. This is fine. But there's another, calm and casual sense in which you can say something is fine. Like when a friend handing you some tea apologises because they "only have semi-skimmed milk". S'fine. Or when they say "nah, let's go to a different pub". Sure, fine! You're just happy to hang out. Kaizen: A Factory Story is a fine game. It is a puzzler that makes me feel OK about not finding the perfect solution.

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At the end of the Develop:Brighton talk 'Product/Market Fit – What Does it Mean and How Do We Achieve it?', there was a question from the audience for speaker Martin Wein from GameFlex Consultants.

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Xbox's principle development lead for its graphics department has put out a LinkedIn post announcing some new job opportunities. The catch? He used a cringey AI-generated graphic to do so, drawing ire.

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Following the Federal Bureau of Investigation's widely reported seizure of pirate ROM site Nsw2u.com last week, the US government agency has confirmed the move was part of an operation that impacted "multiple" targets.

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The era of Pokémon Scarlet & Violet is about to draw to a close. While the mainline video game series may have broken from its traditional three-year cycle, the trading card game has not, and the run of Gen-IX-led packs comes to an end with this month’s release of Black Bolt and White Flare. Oddly, it’s a celebration…

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Summer Games Done Quick 2025, this year's week-long, 24-hour speedrunning marathon, ended yesterday after raising more than $2.4 million for charity. More specifically, SGDQ 2025 brought in $2,436,614 for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières.

This year, over 2600 attendees gathered at the Hilton Minneapolis in Minnesota from July 6 through July 13 to watch speedrunners blaze through games like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Balatro, Super Mario Maker 2, Blue Prince, Mario Kart World, Beat Saber, AEW: Fight Forever, and more. 

Those 2600 attendees, alongside the thousands of others who tuned in to watch on the SDGQ Twitch channel, raised $2.4 million for Doctors Without Borders, which cares for people affected by conflict, disease outbreaks, natural and human-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.

This year's event featured the new Arist Alley, where artists and craftspeople sold products and more at booths, a live concert by the band The Megas, and more. 

The new Superman movie has two post-credits sequences. The first shows Superman and Krypto sitting on the moon looking down at Earth. The second is a goof between Superman and Mister Terrific about trying to patch up Metropolis after the third-act catastrophe. There are no surprising reveals. No teases for new…

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Great stealth games are basically forever games. Whether or not they're boosted with regular live service jabs like a Hitman, it always feels like it's worth returning to a Dishonored, or a Metal Gear, or a Desperados 3. Always ways to finesse or experiment or utterly style on encounters you've slipped your way through dozens of times before. If you love stealth, you've likely got a library full of such games you've been meaning to get back to at some point. If you don't, you've likely been put off somewhere along the line by the sort of tired and punishing design tropes Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream is full of. Naturally, I don't think it's worth your time either way.

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The stealth strategy genre lost one of its great studios two years ago when Mimimi Games, developers of Shadow Tactics, Desperados 3, and Shadow Gambit decided, after that string of absolute bangers, to call it a day. In lieu of a new Shadow game from the masters, River End Games - a new group of industry veterans whose CVs cover everything from Unraveled 2 to Battlefield - have stepped into that void with Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream, and it makes a fairly good crack at scratching that itch.

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Square Enix is reportedly working on a full remake of Dragon Quest 7, following the success of Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake last year.

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Nicolae Ștefănuță, Romanian poliician and vice president of the European Parliament, has spoken out in support of Stop Killing Games, saying, he "stands with the people" behind the initiative, and that "a game, once sold, belongs to the customer, not the company."

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A battle between three former Subnautica 2 developers and their publishers at Krafton intensified over the weekend, after an internal document appeared online showing how the scope of the survival game has reduced during development. The source of this document remains unknown. In fact, quite a lot of facts about the document remain unknown. Nevertheless, Krafton have since leapt at the chance to confirm its authenticity.

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Five years after its Early Access release, it might feel like you've seen everything Phasmophobia has to offer, but there's an update in the works that is so significant that when it launches, the game's creator told Eurogamer, it will feel like you're playing a new game.

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The mysterious firing of Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds’ founders earlier this month keeps taking unexpected turns, and the latest is that the veteran game developers are now suing publisher Krafton over the dismissals, which occurred with a $250 million payout on the line. Caught in the apparent crossfire is the…

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Donkey Kong Bananza started development after Super Mario Odyssey was finished, Nintendo has said, and work first began on the original Switch console.

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James Gunn’s reboot of the DC Cinematic Universe is off to an appropriately flying start. Superman has had a stellar opening weekend, hitting $122 million in the U.S. alone, making it the third-biggest box office launch of the year.

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It can be difficult keeping track of the various comings and goings in the games industry, which is why we compile them in semi-regular round-ups.

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One of the European Parliament's vice presidents has voiced his support for the Stop Killing Games campaign, and said he's signed the group's petition to the European Commission to stop publishers rendering online games unplayable by shutting down their servers.

The petition surpassed a million signatures recently, though there are concerns that some of the signatories are fake. It has received some pushback from bodies representing game publishers, so it's no surprise the organisers have welcomed an endorsement from Nicolae Ștefănuță.

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Uma Musume: Pretty Derby fanatics have come out en masse to send packages of delicious ryegrass to their favourite horse from the game: Haru Urara.

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Nintendo’s move into movies has certainly been a cautious one. So far, it’s amounted to a single released film, 2023's astoundingly successfulThe Super Mario Bros. Movie. Where some would have then rushed to ride that success, pumping out releases based on its vast range of characters, Nintendo is taking a calmer…

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Morning all! The working week once again looms above us like a bulldozer driven by raucous and somehow loveable sheepdogs in top hats and cufflinks. Quickly now, lob a few new PC game releases under the caterpillar treads to slow its passage. It's not clear where those sheepdogs are going, but your and my wellbeing are clearly of secondary importance.

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Phasmophobia creator Kinetic Games will be creatively involved in the recently announced film, and, the studio has told Eurogamer, it will begin seeding lore across the game in order to develop a story for it.

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Nostalgia is a wonderful thing, especially when it involves Tony Hawk.

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