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Come chase your clone through an exquisite, comicbook-inspired world of seashells and ancient machines
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Come chase your clone through an exquisite, comicbook-inspired world of seashells and ancient machines

Helix: Descent N Ascent sounds like it should be a mascot platformer starring a jaunty DNA molecule with floating Rayman hands, whose special power is making stuff go up and down. Up and down the evolutionary ladder, even! A platform game in which you can evolve and devolve your character at will, to solve different puzzles? Good lord, we’ll make one million dollars out of this! Somebody get me the CEO of Midway. Alas for my career prospects, Midway is no more. And Helix is not a masc

Rock Paper Shotgun 23.02.2026 18:47 Uhr
"What's 100% of zero? Like, who gives a shit?" New Blood boss unimpressed by Epic sharing more revenue with devs than Steam
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"What's 100% of zero? Like, who gives a shit?" New Blood boss unimpressed by Epic sharing more revenue with devs than Steam

Earlier this month, Epic Games Store shyly announced that their free game giveaways are having "a measurable halo effect across the broader PC ecosystem", increasing the sales of those games on Steam during the offer period. New Blood Interactive’s Dave Oshry has made the same argument a bit less sympathetically: boosting the profile of games already on Steam is the only reason to release anything on the Epic Games Store, even given Epic’s more generous developer revenue share, bec

Rock Paper Shotgun 23.02.2026 17:17 Uhr
Play Nazi fugitive Guess Who in detective note-shuffler The Ratline's Steam Next Fest demo
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Play Nazi fugitive Guess Who in detective note-shuffler The Ratline's Steam Next Fest demo

Sometimes you get a note through the door, nestled among the bills and flyers for local takeaways. Oi, it says, some priest's been murdered, and we need you to track down the folks on a list of Nazis he smuggled out of Germany after the war. Ok, you reply, it's the 1970s and I've got nothing better to do. That's the setup for Owlskip Games' The Ratline, the Steam Next Fest demo of which has just put my beleaguered Monday brain to the test. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 23.02.2026 16:14 Uhr
Nier Automata's Yoko Taro is writing an Evangelion anime TV show
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Nier Automata's Yoko Taro is writing an Evangelion anime TV show

Thanks to various life difficulties, I’ve spent this month in a state of immense spiritual turbulence, oscillating between euphoria and despair. As such, I’m in either the worst or the perfect frame of mind to digest news that Yoko Taro, director and scenario writer for NieR: Automata, is writing a new series of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 23.02.2026 15:35 Uhr