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Say goodbye to birds and hello to dragons in Wyrmspan, a scalier take on beloved strategy card game Wingspan
2+ hour, 21+ min ago (346+ words) Rock Paper Shotgun Birds, as we all know, are dinosaurs. Yet there exists a higher being above birds that answer the question "what if dinosaurs really were birds?": dragons. I can only assume the exact same logic I've laid out…...
"You build a little squad of allied characters": Warhammer Survivors spin on bullet heaven brings a lovely touch of chaos to the battlefield
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (197+ words) Bring some friends to the end of the world Rather than control a single character, as you pick up weapons, you assemble a small squad, all of whom act independently of you. You can see a little of this in…...
Warhammer 40, 000: Mechanicus II releases next week, strategically spicing up Warhammer Skulls' barrage of battletool bignumber news
1+ week, 2+ day ago (113+ words) It's finally meching the move folks have been waiting for In good news for fans of little painted fellas who stand about menacingly, Warhammer 40, 000: Mechanicus II finally has a proper release date. It's out on May 21st, arriving alongside the annual…...
Oblivion's persuasion wheel has spawned another wacky gamejam, cue sentient cheese struggling to three-point turn gracefully past dancing French rats
1+ week, 5+ day ago (353+ words) Building on last year's edition, Wheeljam 2 took the goal of making a game that in some way incorporates Oblivion's persuasion wheel, and expands it to include TES 4's fiendishly annoying lockpicking minigame too. "YOUR GAME MUST HAVE EITHER THE LOCKPICKING…...
Family Reunion is a dinnertime simulation game that captures the wonder and boredom of being a loosely disciplined 7-year-old
2+ week, 1+ day ago (113+ words) A food fight against time itself I went with the Introvert, because a) it's all I know and b) I liked the idea of covering my empty plate with an army of imaginary aliens. That opportunity came almost immediately: more grounded actions…...
Ho MM: Olden Era - All Units and Upgrades
2+ week, 1+ day ago (226+ words) Rock Paper Shotgun Between the six playable factions in Heroes Of Might And Magic: Olden Era, there is a grand total of 126 playable Units (also known as Creatures) to recruit, upgrade, and take into battle. Each faction has seven basic…...
Choose between Buddhist Star Trek, rad vinyl music, and forest fire deathgames in this week's PC releases
2+ week, 4+ day ago (449+ words) Choose between Buddhist Star Trek, rad vinyl music, and forest fire deathgames in the latest PC releases'Rock Paper Shotgun How dare you condemn me without knowing the facts! SHUT UP " I'm having a rhetorical conversation with myself. True, there was…...
Total War: Warhammer 40, 000's map destruction is "the biggest mental shift" for the strategy series in years, but "we've kept it to areas where it it really works"
3+ week, 1+ day ago (233+ words) Why shoot the Space Marines when you can drop houses on them "One of the really big and exciting things that we're doing here is the destruction now is going to come into play," observes David Petry, the game's battle…...
The War to End all Wars is a colony sim now, with an Acceptable Losses gauge
3+ week, 4+ day ago (359+ words) Rock Paper Shotgun If Dig In were called a 'historical wave defence strategy base-builder' or similar I wouldn't have been jarred by it. Odds are I'd have skimmed right past. Instead, Icelandic developers Vitar Games are calling it "a WW1 trench…...
Shatter Rush is obviously an indie take on Titanfall, but considering the lack of threequel, I'm sure you won't mind
3+ week, 6+ day ago (378+ words) Rock Paper Shotgun There is a Titanfall-shaped hole in this world that could be filled by Respawn, yet won't be, for silly reasons like money. I hate money! It is a scourge we must do away with. Until that point,…...