December 2012 Archive

    1. RPS Asks: What Are Your Big PC Hopes For 2013?
    2. FOLK Lore: RPS's ARMA Peeps Celebrate 2012
    3. The Player (Who Is Gillen) Of Games 2012
    4. Impressions: Hawken's Open Beta

    1. The Very Best Of RPS 2012: Campaigns
    2. Live Free, Play Hard: The Week's Finest Free Indie Games

    1. The Very Best Of RPS 2012: Diaries

    1. The Flare Path: Achtung, Panzer Poachers!
    2. The Very Best Of RPS 2012: Gaming Made Me
    3. Why Aren't We Discussing Videogame Violence?

    1. The Very Best Of RPS 2012: Interviews

    1. Love Everything: Our Honorable Mentions Of 2012

    1. The Complete Magnificent RPS Advent Calendar 2012!
    2. Magnificent & Important Advent Calendar: Bonus Door
    3. Merry Christmas: Here, Have A Free RPS Christmas Game!

    1. The Fifth To Twelfth (Board)Games Of Christmas
    2. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day 24

    1. Live Free, Play Hard: The Week's Finest Free Indie Games
    2. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day 23

    1. Of Yules And Rules: Banner Saga's Holiday Update
    2. A Lone Farmer At The End Of The World, Day One
    3. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day 22
    4. Oh Thank Goodness: Far Cry 3's Interface Patch Is Out
    5. Black Isle Asks For Your Money... Badly

    1. Tunnel Vision: Eyes-On With Metro: Last Light
    2. Getting Chippy: Potatoman Seeks The Troof
    3. Wot I Think: Drox Operative
    4. Cheap Shot: Pro Wrestling X - Uprising
    5. Crysis 3: Six Minutes More Man-Arrowing Footage
    6. Heart Of The Swarm Beta Opens To Order Of Pre-Orderers
    7. Air Buccaneers Sale & The Last Saga of Atland
    8. The Flare Path: A Stick For A Stone
    9. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day 21
    10. Rock Bottom: Groupees Bundle Includes La Mulana
    11. Black Hole Fun: Bit.Trip Void
    12. IDDQD: God Mode Announced

    1. January Jungles: Borderlands 2 DLC Goes Hunting
    2. Michael Brough Is Corrypting Us All
    3. Team Fortress 2's Seasonal Mecha-Engineer
    4. Steam's Holiday Sale Has Started Already
    5. Wot I Like Best About The War Z!!
    6. Hack And Therefore Slash: Van Helsing In The Forest
    7. Elite: Dangerous Gets A Teaser, Paypal Payments
    8. Deus Ex Writer Creates Tool For Teaching Development
    9. 'Tis The Season For Humble Bundle And Indie Royale
    10. 4 Hours With BioShock Infinite, Part 2: War In Heaven
    11. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day 20
    12. Wizards Of OS: Steam Linux Beta For All
    13. Hail Mary: Project GODUS Officially Funded
    14. Here's Another Episode Of Crysis 3's Not-Quite-A-Movie
    15. Achy Breaky Block Man: Apparatus

    1. THQ Filing For Bankruptcy, Selling Off Assets
    2. Gaming Made Me: Tomb Raider
    3. Start The Week: Randal's Monday
    4. The Fourth (Board)Game Of Christmas
    5. Zombie: The War Z No Longer Available On Steam
    6. Captain's Log: Woodcutter Simulator 2013
    7. How To Be Evil: Advice From The Official RPS Handbook
    8. GOG Squeeze In One Last Sale Before End Of The World
    9. Iron Sky: Invasion Demo Dogfights Moon-Nazis
    10. The Gaming Pulse: Dissecting Dishonored’s Heart
    11. SWTOR's First Expansion Raises Level Cap, Hutts
    12. The First Five Minutes Of BioShock Infinite, If You Want
    13. Far Cry 3's Jeffrey Yohalem On Racism, Torture And Satire
    14. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day 19
    15. The War Z 'Apologise' After Misleading Steam Customers
    16. Locked And Exploded: MechWarrior Deploys Conquest
    17. Perhaps Ignoring Far Cry 3's Multiplayer Was A Mistake
    18. Molyneux's Mighty Trash Talk: GODUS Multi Video

    1. How Hollywood Should Adapt Videogames
    2. Merry Sausage-Swipe & A Happy Door Sniff From EVE
    3. Some Early New Year's Resolutions
    4. Less Magick, More Muscle: Arrowhead's Showdown Effect
    5. Men Have War: Call To Arms Funding Drive
    6. Vox Populous: Molyneux Got Us A GODUS Video
    7. Behold, RPS Manchester Social Club This Sunday
    8. Candy Coloured Clowns: Nights Into Dreams Out Now
    9. Ripe Old Carthage: Total War - Rome II
    10. Trajectory: Squad Explain Kerbal Space Program
    11. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day 18
    12. Life Lessons: Tomb Raider Teaches Us How To Survive
    13. Resident Evil 6 To Reside (Evilly) On PC In March
    14. Umm, OK: The War Z Is Out Now, I Think

    1. THQ Consider Picking Up A Penguin
    2. Winter Is Knocking At The Door: War Of The Roses
    3. Swarming The Cockles Of My Heart: Primal Fears
    4. This Is My Playground
    5. Forward The Foundation: Prison Architect Alpha 5
    6. A Break In The City: Crysis 3
    7. Hands On: Marvel Heroes
    8. Cat-ching Up With Mew-Genics
    9. The Monday Papers
    10. Magnificent & Important Advent Calendar: Day Seventeen
    11. Street Fighter x Mega Man = Live Now
    12. Disordered Diaries: Chaos Chronicles
    13. The Third (Board)Game Of Christmas

    1. Live Free, Play Hard: The Week's Finest Free Indie Games
    2. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day Sixteen

    1. Eye Spy - Dark And Light In Splinter Cell: Blacklist
    2. Kickstarter Katchup – 15th December 2012
    3. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day Fifteen
    4. Tell Your Friends (What To Do): Steam Has Guides Now
    5. Hot Lead: RAGE's 'Scorchers' DLC Suddenly Emerges
    6. A Reminder: You Should Be Quite Excited About Storyteller

    1. Wot I Think: Lego Lord Of The Rings
    2. Breezy: A Valley Without Wind 2 Alpha Footage
    3. Tripping Up: Free Red Orchestra 2 And Killing Floor Things
    4. London Bridge Is Falling Down: Dirty Bomb Footage
    5. 4 Hours With BioShock Infinite, Part 1: Columbia
    6. Digging Deeper: Meet The Rest Of The Cave's Cast
    7. Shootmania Storm Sees Red (Vs Blue) For Beta
    8. Why Dead Space 3's Co-Op Could Actually Be Scary
    9. The Flare Path: Stalinglad Tidings
    10. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day Fourteen
    11. Return Our Call: Turbine Bringing Back Asheron's Call 2
    12. Enemy Starfighter Is A Friend To Fans Of Space, Roguelikes
    13. Don't Cry: DmC Definitely Coming To PC In January

    1. Interacting With Fictions: Guilded Youth
    2. Monaco Will Soon Be Yours (If You Want)
    3. (Mid)Winter Is Coming: The Lords Of Midnight
    4. Arma 3 Release "Postponed", Say Bohemia
    5. Meow, Me-Ouch: A Walk In The Dark
    6. Company For Company Of Heroes 2: Multiplayer Trailer
    7. Wot I Think: Miasmata
    8. How The New UK Tax Laws Will Affect Indie Developers
    9. Look Around You: Perspective Out Now (And Free!)
    10. The 12 (Board) Games Of Christmas: Day Two
    11. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day Thirteen
    12. GSC: We Remain The Owner Of The STALKER Brand
    13. Hawken Nearly Ready For Hawking, Open Beta Opens
    14. Meet The Entrepreneur: Steam Market Enters Beta
    15. Play4Free Is No More: EA Debuts Origin Free To Play

    1. An E-Sporting Chance: Teeming With Teams
    2. Elite: Dangerous Footage Shows Complex Convoy Raid
    3. PlanetSide 2's Faction Trailers Link Politics With RAWK
    4. Dizzy Probably Won't Return, Admit Oliver Twins
    5. How British Is British? The Rules For UK Tax Relief
    6. This Way And That: Giana Sisters Demo
    7. Shake It, Baby: GOG.com Giving Duke 3D Away For Free
    8. Metro: Last Light Has All The Graphics, None Of The Hope
    9. Interview: Homeworld Composer Paul Ruskay
    10. Clickity-Clack, Clickity-Clack: March Of The Eagles
    11. BitComposer Acquire S.T.A.L.K.E.R. From "Strygatsky"?
    12. The 12 (Board)Games Of Christmas: Day One
    13. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day Twelve
    14. Interview: The Secret World Drops Subscription
    15. Next For Company Of Heroes: New Setting, Maybe F2P
    16. BioWare Generates SWTOR's Ancient Hypergate Update
    17. Oh My: Under The Ocean's Coming Along Swimmingly

    1. Crytek's CEO On Crysis 4, Homefront 2, The Future
    2. The 12 (Board)Games Of Christmas: An Introduction
    3. Wot I Think: The Critter Chronicles
    4. Classy Cuboids: Ace Of Spades
    5. Hands-On: Aliens – Colonial Marines
    6. Community Meshed: SimCity's Multi-City Mode
    7. Trouble And Strafe: IL-2 Sturmovik Sequel Announced
    8. A Grown-Up Post About Space Hulk
    9. They Shall Not Grow Old: The XCOM Memorial
    10. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day Eleven
    11. War Of The Flies: A Short Tale Of Solitude
    12. The Fear Balloon Cometh: GW2's Winter Event Detailed
    13. Metroidvaniesque: Nuclear Dawn Devs Reveal Dark Matter
    14. Don't Worry: Tomb Raider Also Has Explosions

    1. Republic Enemies: Crusader Kings II Expansion
    2. ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK
    3. Revenge Of Revenge of the Titans
    4. SPACE HULK SPACE HULK SPACE HULK SPACE HULK
    5. Pioneering: Planet Explorers Alpha Download
    6. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day Ten
    7. JS Joust & Co Sportsfunded By Its Friends
    8. Against All Squads: Recruits Demo
    9. The Spy Who Went Into The Cold: Gamespy's Casualties
    10. Warhorse's Fantasy RPG Has Millions Of Graphics
    11. To 3 Mins 29 Secs And Beyond: Bioshock: Infinite In Action
    12. Mega Man vs Chun-Li For Free On Your PC
    13. Gabe Newell Discusses Hardware Plans, 'Packaged' PCs

    1. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day Nine
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. Live Free, Play Hard: The Week's Finest Free Indie Games

    1. Hard Choices: The Week in Tech
    2. Prepare To Die Again: Dark Souls II Announced
    3. New South Park Trailer Has Gags, Causes Gagging
    4. Kickstarter Katchup - 8th December
    5. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day Eight
    6. Quake II Is 15, You Are Old
    7. Deus Rage Effect - Mars: War Logs Mixes Cyberpunk, Red
    8. Ubi Ending The Madness, Fixing Far Cry 3's Pop-Ups

    1. Hands On: Company Of Heroes 2
    2. Rude Health: Involuntary Runner
    3. 28 Days Later: BioShock Infinite Delayed
    4. Clicky Mouse: Dungeonland Livestream Highlights
    5. Wot I Think: Primordia
    6. Have A Splash With Arcane Worlds
    7. What's In The Eclectic Bundle In A Box?
    8. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day Seven
    9. The Flare Path: Cumulonimble
    10. Hark, An MMO: FFXIV's 'Reborn' Quests And Combat
    11. Petroglyph Layoffs Not The End Of End Of Nations
    12. Crytek CEO: All-F2P Future 'Won't Happen Tomorrow'
    13. Cold Soldier: What's New In Company Of Heroes 2

    1. Impressions: Forge
    2. Valve To Offer IGF Finalists Steam Distribution
    3. Build Your Own Wasteland 2
    4. Ow, My Fourth Wall: Shadow Of The Game
    5. Post-Imperial Play: Age Of Decadence Demo
    6. Dishonored Dunwall City Trials Video Dishonored By Song
    7. The Gang Way: Omerta - City Of Gangsters
    8. Firstus GODUS Videous Footageus
    9. Specially Level With Me, Adam Foster - Part Two
    10. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day Six
    11. The Creative Assembly Making Games Workshop Games
    12. You'll Never Guess Which Nation Is Definitely In Rome II!
    13. I Want My PVP: Forge Launches
    14. Parallax Is Looking Gorgeous, Mind-Bending
    15. Europa Shows Off Insane Moon Driving, Contemplation

    1. Elite: Dangerous Is Winning The Space Race For My Heart
    2. Air Buccaneers Boards Steam, Out Now
    3. Tough Times: Petroglyph And NCSoft Layoff Staff
    4. Planescape: Torment Heading To Steam?
    5. A Second Second Life: Patterns Is Sort Of Out
    6. Ace Of Spades Out 9 Days Before End Of World
    7. HAWKEN Open Beta Starts 9 Days Before End Of World
    8. Richard & Alice Want To Tell You A Story
    9. 25% Tax Relief For UK Games Developers
    10. New Year's Beatings: Path Of Exile's Open Beta Dated
    11. Specially Level With Me, Adam Foster - Part One
    12. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day Five
    13. Wurm Welcome: Wurm Online Emerging From Six Year Beta
    14. Bounteous Additions - EVE Online: Retribution Now Live
    15. Latest Indie Royale Bundle Has Indie Games In It
    16. And Now Pid Has An Easy Mode

    1. Ron Gilbert On Being A PC Gamer, What's Next
    2. Chinese Takeaway: XCOM DLC Out Now
    3. He Wears Rouge: Red Rogue Released
    4. You Simulator: Pro Gamer
    5. Alpha Colony Kickstarter Fails By $28, Dev Is Sorta Glad
    6. What I Loathe About Far Cry 3
    7. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day Four
    8. Hijinks! Square Enix Say: Threaten 'Hits' On Your Friends!
    9. City Of Heroes: A Farewell To Superarms
    10. T-Rexes Confirmed For Marvel Heroes! Also, Story
    11. Here's How Garry's Mod Will Work With Kinect
    12. Take A Swing At Prince Of Persia Creator's Karateka
    13. Staring At The Sea: Tale of Tales Return With Bientôt l’été
    14. There's A Company Of Heroes Movie For Some Reason

    1. What I Love About Far Cry 3
    2. Not Royal Baby News: GODUS Prototype Within Weeks?
    3. Steam's Big Picture Enters Wide Release: Big Sale
    4. Bethesda Late Than Never: Dragonborn DLC Early 2013
    5. Agent 47 Didn't Ask For This
    6. Bon Voyage: Weird Worlds - Return To Infinite Space
    7. System Requirements Posts Are Easy Posts: Crysis 3
    8. Particulate Planetary Exploration: Perennial
    9. THQ's Not So Humble Revenue Boost
    10. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day Three
    11. Pleasure Without Planescape: A New Torment?
    12. Non-Lethal Nerve-Punching: Splinter Cell - Blacklist
    13. EVE, Dwarf Fortress Amongst Inclusions At MoMA Exhibit

    1. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day Two
    2. Live Free, Play Hard: The Week's Finest Free Indie Games
    3. The Sunday Papers

    1. Wow: STEALER Does Cyberpunk In Utterly Gorgeous Style
    2. PlanetSide 2025: SOE's Big Plans For The Future
    3. Wot I Think: Hell Yeah!
    4. Kickstarter Katchup – 1st December 2012
    5. Magnificent And Important Advent Calendar: Day One
    6. The Magnificent And Important RPS Advent Calendar 2012!
    7. Spelunkery: The Cave's Characters In Action
    8. Waking More: Valve Greenlights 13 New Games