Duskers

This is the hAcKeR collective {{Synonymous Bosch}}. We have taken control of this aRt1cLe. Three years ago it was written by the untalented and scurrilous “journalist” Brendan Caldwell, a man lacking in both knowledge and substance. But we have gained access in order to correct his egregious errors. It’s a hack of a hack! Ha ha ha. We had our best joke cell work on…

Tagged with best games, best hacking games, feature, hacker, hacking, The RPS Bestest Best Games, Duskers, EXAPUNKS, Gunpoint, Hackmud, Hacknet, Minecraft, Quadrilateral Cowboy, SHENZHEN I/O, Uplink.

 Whoa whoa, calm down, breeeathe. Now, explain it to me slowly. The RPS podcast did what? They talked about the games that make them panic? Hm. That does sound like something those scoundrels of the Electronic Wireless Show would do. They’d probably talk about Subnautica and Duskers and SpyParty. Okay, well stay calm. That’s right. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. There’s no need to –…

Tagged with feature, Podcast, The RPS Electronic Wireless show, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, DayZ, Duskers, Killing Floor, Murderous Pursuits, Subnautica.

Have you checked in on the Rock Paper Shotgun Video Department recently? We’ve been slowly populating the YouTube channel with previews, lists, and terrible bus company management. But we’ve also been sowing the seeds of a new series as we went... so quietly in fact, I’m fairly sure it passed a lot of you by. But now, as in Matthew and I’s Stardew Valley shenanigans,…

Tagged with 18Light Game Ltd., feature, Misfits Attic, video, You Should be Playing, Behind the Screen, Duskers.

As anyone who watches their feeds knows, we live in a constantly evolving cyberpunk dystopia. They're connecting toilets to the internet, for heavens sake. If this Gibsonist world is just too REAL for you, we have put together the ten best videogames about hacking, programming and computing so you can escape into meta-dystopia. Which I'm sure is a much better place.

Tagged with best games, best hacking games, else Heart Break, feature, hacker, hacking, The RPS Bestest Best Games, TIS-100, Duskers, Gunpoint, Hackmud, Hacknet, Minecraft, Quadrilateral Cowboy, SHENZHEN I/O, Uplink.

It's time to use to our radio voice. The RPS Electronic Wireless Show has historically been our not-very-regular podcast where we gather to tell each other how wrong we are about videogames. But this month it has mutated into something different. In the lead-up to this year's Independent Games Festival, we interviewed a whole bunch of developers, all of whom have been nominated for some…

Tagged with Blendo Games, Brendon Chung, feature, Headsets, IGF 2017, Independent Games Festival, interview, Misfits Attic, Ocelot Society, Podcast, Sergey Mohov, The RPS Electronic Wireless show, Tim Keenan, Duskers, Event[0], Quadrilateral Cowboy.

The next door on the Advent Calendar might be dangerous...or, to be more precise, what's behind it might be. We haven't examined the contents yet and would advise that you do not approach it until it's been fully scanned. Why not send in a drone to open the door while you hide in the bedroom. That way if anything terrible emerges, you'll be safe, hiding…

Tagged with feature, The RPS Advent Calendar 2016, The RPS Bestest Best Games 2016, Tim Keenan, Duskers.

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. I tend not to like games with obtuse interfaces, even those which have chosen those interfaces for deliberate affect. Duskers is that rare exception. You use a command line-stlye interface to control a small fleet of robots in order to explore and scavenge…

Tagged with feature, Have You Played, Tim Keenan, Duskers.

As December approaches like a runaway sled and we prepare to say our goodbyes to 2016, it's natural to reflect on the year as a whole. Those reflections could easily take the form of laments but we're keeping our focus firmly on the world of PC games, where we've identified ten trends that may not have defined 2016, but have certainly helped to shape it.…

Tagged with 2016 trends, feature, Battlefield 1, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Clustertruck, Danganronpa, Doom, Duelyst, Duskers, Enter the Gungeon, Furi, Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, Hearthstone, Jalopy, Kingdom, Mother Russia Bleeds, Owlboy, Punch Club, Quadrilateral Cowboy, Sorcery!, Switchcars, The Curious Expedition, The Elder Scrolls: Legends, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Titanfall 2, Wheels Of Aurelia, Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.

This is The Mechanic, where Alex Wiltshire invites developers to discuss the inner workings of their games. This time, Duskers [official site]. That atmosphere. That rising tension. That emergent puzzle-solving. That moment in Duskers when deliberate planning turns to hell, and you sit, impotent, as your team of unswerving drones are fried by radiation, pulled into the vacuum of space, or are torn into scrap…

Tagged with feature, The Mechanic, Tim Keenan, Duskers.

Dark days for the world. Maybe videogames can save us? Haha yes of course they can haha. Here are some really good videogames, though. They'll take you to a better place for a while. These are the RPS team's 13 personal favourites from the current Steam Summer Sale: we believe in these games, and we believe that you should play them too.

Tagged with Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut, feature, sale, Steam, American Truck Simulator, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Darkest Dungeon, Duskers, Dying Light: The Following, Garry's Mod, Invisible Inc, Life Is Strange, Portal 2, Subnautica, The Talos Principle.

We usually do our enormous GAMES OF THE YEAR posting fest at the end of the year (as would seem logical) but because it seems silly to reserve praise for special occasions we're doing a Games Of The Half Year collection to tell you about everything we've loved playing so far. It can double as a summer holiday recommendations list too! We've listed ours in…

Tagged with Best PC games 2016, feature, The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine, American Truck Simulator, Apollo 11, best pc games, Californium, Cookie Clicker, Dark Souls III, Darkest Dungeon, Day Of The Tentacle Remastered, Devil Daggers, Digital Bird Playground, Doom, Duskers, Dying Light: The Following, Enter the Gungeon, Everybody's Gone To The Rapture, Fantastic Contraption, Firewatch, Grim Dawn, Hitman, It's Spring Again, Kathy Rain, North, Offworld Trading Company, Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Overland, Overwatch, Oxenfree, Pony Island, Samorost 3, Sorcery! Part 3, Stardew Valley, Stellaris, Stephen's Sausage Roll, Stikbold, Subnautica, SUPERHOT, Tetrageddon Games, The Flame in the Flood, The Lab, The Witness, Tilt Brush, Total War: Warhammer, Virtual Desktop, XCOM 2.

After nine months in the womb of early access, Duskers has finally been born. Out it comes, snarling and writhing like the science fiction nightmare it is, covered in slime and engine oil. Congratulations, game developers! It's beautiful. No, really, it is. And here's Brendan to tell you why.

Tagged with feature, Misfits Attic, review, RPS Recommended, wot i think, Alien, Duskers.

Each week Marsh Davies pulls apart the fritzing hulks he discovers drifting through the lifeless void of Early Access and comes back with any stories he can find and/or accidentally flushes himself out of an airlock. This week he’s been tentatively probing Duskers, a space-set roguelike in which you remotely operate a crew of drones as they strip derelicts of resources and attempt to uncover…

Tagged with beta, beta review, early access, feature, Misfits Attic, Premature Evaluation, Duskers.