Skyblivion project lead says release date reveal's finally getting "closer", as Oblivion remake mod shows off revamped intro

Watch out, there's a goblin over there! Have you dispatched him with a deceased Blade's rusty blade? Good, we can now keep trekking through the revamped Imperial sewers dungeon that unofficial Oblivion remake Skyblivion's devs have just shown off.

The massive Skyrim mod's getting ever closer to the release its creators have pencilled in for later this year. Despite that looming, they've not opted to skip what's become an annual cameo at fan-run Skyrim modding showcase Creation Mod Con, alongside a bunch of other in-the-works Elder Scrolls remake projects and add-ons.

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The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for finally, after months of waiting, getting your siblings to come round and collect their shares of the bequeathed photos and other familial bric-a-brac that’s been leaving a dust smell in your spare room. Yet not getting mad about it, as you know their tardiness only confirms what you knew all along: you really are the most responsible one. Take that warm, cosy smugness to the sofa, and relax with some of the past week’s finest readables.

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What are we all playing this weekend?

The highlight of this week's produce at RPS was very definitely this excellent and important feature from Edwin and Nic. Go read it if you haven't already; then you're allowed to let us all know what your gaming plans are over the next couple days.

Here's what we're all clicking on this weekend!

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Amazon discounted this monitor, then raised the price again - but it's still a great deal

UK gamers, I’ve failed you. In the hours between me spotting that this 32-inch Samsung Odyssey monitor was reduced by £300, Amazon has put the price up by £100.

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Turn your desk into a standing desk for under $200 right now at Amazon

We covered a great deal on a gaming chair the other day, but you might not have considered that your desk could be optimised for extra comfort for long periods.

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Darkest Dungeon 2 is free this weekend on Steam as horrible mosquito folk swarm the Kingdom

Red Hook have just released the third and final part of Darkest Dungeon 2’s Kingdoms mode - a boardgame-style add-on experience that sees you moving a stagecoach around a map’s worth of benighted inns, fending off pigmen, witches and - as of this update - giant mosquitos.

To celebrate, they’ve also made the base roguelike RPG free on Steam until September 1st. Admittedly, being offered Darkest Dungeon 2 for free is a bit like somebody warmly offering to give you the plague. But this is the fun kind of plague, a plague rich in dicey turn-based battles, grindy but engrossing character development, and suppurating vistas of cthulhoid swampfields.

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My favorite gaming chair is discounted for Labor Day, and so is the recliner attachment

You’ve got your snazzy gaming rig, your mouse and keyboard combo, and a nice monitor, but there’s something to be said about a nice gaming chair to look after your posture and derriere in equal measure.

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Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics lay off more staff, say the series' future is "unaffected"

Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics have laid off an unspecified number of staff, their second round of jobs cuts this year. The studio say that the future of the Tomb Raider series won't be affected by this latest taking away of folks' livelihoods.

The news comes not too long after the Perfect Dark reboot Crystal Dynamics were working alongside The Initiative was cancelled amid Microsoft's mass cuts in July. The Initiative were shut down as part of that culling.

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Resident Evil: Requiem director says it has a third person mode because Resi 7 was just too good at spooks

What a strange reality we live in, when Silent Hill is becoming worryingly actionised and Resident "No thanks bro" Evil is perceived as being too scary. Horror developers: that is the wrong way around. Regardless, the latter point has been raised by Resident Evil: Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi himself, who told GamesRadar+ that part of the reasoning for giving the upcoming sequel a choice of first and third person modes was that the solely FPP Resident Evil 7 – which Nakanishi also directed – maybe worked a little too well at enabling scares.

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Microsoft staff perform sit-in protest in company president's office over Israeli military ties

A group of current and former Microsoft employees have staged a sit-in protest in the office of company president Brad Smith over the use of Azure and generative AI technologies by the Israeli military during their on-going bombardment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

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Paradox are "making adjustments" to Bloodlines 2's day-one vampire clan DLC plans, following backlash

Well, there you go. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 publisher Paradox look like they might be sticking a stake in their rather unpopular plans to sell two of the game's vampire clans as paid day-one DLC. I say "might be" because nothing specific's been committed to yet, beyond some nebulous making of "adjustments ahead of launch" in response to fan feedback on the gating-off of Lasombra and Toreador bloodsuckers.

In case you missed the announcement of these two clans being packed away into the £18.69/€21.99/$21.99 coffin of Bloodlines' Shadows and Silk DLC pack, it came right as the long-in-the-works RPG got a fresh trailer and what should hopefully be its final release date. The only ways to get the clans were to buy that pack on top of the base game, or splash out £74.99/€89.99/$89.99 for the premium edition.

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The RTX 5080 is down to its MSRP and comes with Borderlands 4, if that's what you're into

We recently opined that the days of paying over the odds for an NVIDIA 50-series might be over soon, but now you can get an ASUS RTX 5080 for MSRP.

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Here's a Steam demo for Lumines Arise, the latest toe-tapping head exploder from the Tetris Effect devs

Tetris Effect developers Enhance have released a new demo for their forthcoming Lumines Arise on Steam, alongside news that the spacey rhythm attack game will launch on November 11th. If you missed Tetris Effect, it's a game about making deletable lines out of falling blocks while standing in the middle of a very musical supernova.

Lumines Arise, meanwhile, sees you arranging clumps of blocks into 2X2 scoreable combinations, which are removed from the playing field by a horizontally sweeping Time Line. While standing in the middle of a very musical supernova.

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Out very soon, Helldivers 2's giant Terminid caving update is a feast of nods to Aliens and Dune, plus dragons

Helldivers 2's homaging of Starship Troopers and/or parodying of real-life fascist interventionalism continues with Into the Unjust, a sizeable game update that will take you out to the Terminid Hive Worlds for a spot of cave combat. According to multiple geographers interviewed by RPS, caves are located underground. That's going to cause problems if, for example, your entire military strategy depends on being able to call in air support whenever you choose. The same geographers also allege that caves are dark. That's going to cause problems if you like to see the things you're shooting at.

Helldivers 2 Into the Unjust launches 2nd September, and why read the rest of this evidently stupid news piece when you can just watch this seven minute "deep dive" (comedy whoopee cushion sound effect)?

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This week in PC games: a MGS3 remake, new Blumhouse horror and some freshly peeled spaceships

Well, it happened again: the Maw devoured a Monday. My recent, highly suspicious news article about a sudden "bank holiday" was, of course, a hasty PR smokescreen to avert a stock market crash. In Horace's name, we have now forced the Maw to sick up the missing Monday, but locating the gag reflex of a cosmic monster has its risks, and there have been a few casualties.

Mark has theoretically been "on holiday" since last Wednesday, returning tomorrow, but that's another piece of disinfo - he's actually stranded somewhere in the Cretaceous period. James, meanwhile, has come down with a case of the Schrödingers, neither away at Gamescom nor back at his desk. I am going to email him shortly - fingers crossed the quantum binary collapses in a way conducive to preview write-ups. As for this week's new PC games - here you are. I've included the regurgitated Monday, but please handle with care as it's still rather radioactive and, er, talkative.

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The Samsung Odyssey G5 just fell below $300, but we reckon it'll drop further

No sooner had I hit publish on a lovely (and very cheap) deal for an Acer monitor, than I spotted the Samsung Odyssey G5 Ultrawide had seen a discount of its own.

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This Acer Nitro gaming monitor is still just over $100 at Amazon and we wonder if they've forgotten to update it

The school year is a-coming, and as a result, there are some great offers to be had on PCs and other gaming hardware that’s ideal for newcomers looking for some graphical grunt for creative projects during the day and something that’ll let them ‘click heads’ at night.

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It's a bank holiday here, please talk amongst yourselves

It's a free and simple territory control game from hobbyist dev snow-kiss, in which you switch your tiles between rock, paper or scissors to claim those of opponents. I'm not sure the idea has serious legs, but I like how it thickens when you have more than two participants and a more elaborate board setup.

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The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for trying to work out why your feet don't work. I wore too-tight shoes during a house move a few months ago, and now if I walk for too long I get pain under my third and fourth toes. Fortunately, I don't read with my feet. Here are some internet worderings that caught my attention this week.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong is faster, prettier, and harder, yet still feels like a safe sequel

I woke up far too early this morning, to stand in a queue for far too long, all to play fan-vexing (and newly release-dated) soulsvania Hollow Knight: Silksong on the Gamescom show floor. No pre-release review codes? Pah – I couldn’t even get a demo appointment at the most demo appointment-centric games event of the year. How’s that for rejection.

Anyway, Team Cherry might just not be that into me, but I might well be into Silksong. It’s a little quicker, a little more dynamic, and to these fingers, a little more difficult than the first Hollow Knight. But it entirely preserves that tight-as-a-drum feel of the original’s sword swishing, and deploys it against insectoid baddies that challenge and frustrate in practically identical ways.

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What are we all playing this weekend?

Last week, I wrote:

"Another week has fallen into the Maw. Theoretically, that means we're now one week closer to the release of Silksong. As if such words mean anything to any of us anymore."

Does this make me omniscient?

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This Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro has a scary name but a sizeable discount at Amazon

Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but why do product names in gaming sound so aggressive? Why can’t we get the Razer SoftKitty V3 Pro? Ah well.

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Silksong will get DLC and "some of the plans for that stuff are kind of ambitious as well"

Hollow Knight: Silksong began life as a DLC expansion, but then developers Team Cherry decided the concept was "too large and too unique", and upgraded it into a full game. They spent six years working on the thing in almost total silence, while fulminating legions of the terminally online quietly drove themselves bonkers hunting for release date clues. We now have a Silksong release date - it's just two weeks away - so in theory, the nightmare is over. Except, oh dear - Team Cherry are planning post-launch content for Silksong, and they're already calling it "ambitious".

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Bunnyhop elsewhere, streamers: EA are making Battlefield 6 more strategic, less run-and-gun following the beta

The Battlefield 6 beta is officially a Thing That Happened, and now comes the terrible ordeal of Learning From The Experience. Here is what developers DICE, Criterion, Motive and Ripple Effect have learned from the experience: you are all playing the game far too much like Call Of Duty. Goodness me, it's like 2007 never ended.

Doing headshots in midair? That's an updatin'. Doing a parkour while carrying a light machinegun? That's an updatin'. Bunny-hopping with prejudice? You'd best believe that's an updatin'. Never mind that those multiplayer reveal montages emphasised footloose quickdraw almost as much as they incited a murderous contempt for helicopters. It's time to play Battlefield the way Battlefield should be played: lying in a hole praying that one of your team-mates spawns on you before a tank rolls over your head.

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How purple skin and a Spanish phone number almost sank The Rogue Prince of Persia

The Rogue Prince of Persia celebrated its 1.0 release yesterday with a remarkably honest behind-the-scenes video from developers Evil Empire, detailing the ups and downs of a year-long Early Access period, including the decision to completely overhaul the game's art style and redesign its purple-skinned protagonist.

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The first hours of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 uncloak a slick action game, but a limited RPG

I feel for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. If it was named something like Fang Bastard: The Punching Of The Many, the trailers wouldn’t have so many views, but those who’d watched them would probably be quite jazzed for that new bitey-talky game that looks a bit like Dishonored with more story branching. It isn’t, and they aren’t. Instead, it’s called Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, a name packed with some of the weightiest words in RPGdom.

I don’t pity it, though. Three hours and change into Bloodlines 2, I’ve determined that I’d quite enjoy a Dishonored with more story branching, actually. Not as much as if I could express my roleplaying chops outside of very specific dialogue menus, or if I cared more about the fellow nightcrawlers on the other side of those conversations. But for all the tricky development and heavy heritage, I’d be lying if I said I haven’t enjoyed being The Chinese Room’s version of a souped-up vampire prowling a snowy, bisexual-lit Seattle.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong finally gets a release date, and you've only got to wait a little bit skonger

Congratulations, you did it. Yes, you, with all your annoying memes and your endless Reddit posts, you finally made Team Cherry announce a release date for Hollow Knight: Silksong. It was all down to you - YOU - and your valiant efforts. Thank you. None of this could have happened without you. A round of applause, everyone, for the insufferable dweeb over here who won't shut the fuck up about sad bugs. Satisfied? Right, come see the trailer and find out exactly when you're going to die a thousand times.

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Amazon has SSD deals coming out of its metaphorical ears today, with 1TB drives as low as $90

Look, given the choice between buying storage and a shiny new game, we’re always more likely to go for the latter, but buying SSDs is getting much easier with prices dropping.

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Daedalic reveal story-driven Star Trek: Voyager strategy game in which you can betray everything Janeway ever stood for

Oi oi, where my Janeway fans at? Where my Parisians and my Torresians? Can I get a whoop, whoop for Chakotay? A high five for Seven of Nine? Daedalic have announced Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown, a "story-based survival strategy game" adaptation of the loneliest of the classic Treks. Created by developers gameXcite, who I may yet forgive for capitalising their name that way, it asks you to "manage systems and crew, engage in diplomacy, navigate difficult moral decisions, and face the unknown". It's got a cutaway dollhouse spaceship and a HUD made up to resemble a Star Trek bridge display. Also, Ensign Harry Kim is here! He wants orders. Kim, your orders are to roll that trailer.

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The Chinese Room defend Bloodlines 2's paywalled vampire clans: "we have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land it"

You really have to hand it to the publishers of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. They are the absolute masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, the doyens of stepping on rakes, even as they near the checkered flag. The long-awaited RPG got a new trailer and what may actually prove to be the final release date at Gamescom Opening Night Live this week. The trailer was a feisty show of Dishonored-esque mayhem, and the hands-on verdicts I've read (save for stinky uncle Eurogamer) have been positive. Ours is forthcoming.

But then came the revelation that this much-delayed sequel to a quintessentially faction-led RPG from a company famous for downloadable add-ons would sell two of its vampire clans as day-one DLC. How we laughed! How we clutched our faces and chittered like gerbils! How we ran outside, begging for the moon to fall on our heads! Despair springs anew.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 sticks two bloodsucker clans, including the sexy one, behind paid day-one DLC

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 got a full release date during Gamescom Opening Night Live last night, along with a fresh trailer. However, there's one detail that might put a bit of a dampener [dhampir? - Ed] on your claret-tinged celebrations about the game finally overcoming its many bloody delays.

You see, while the base version of Bloodlines 2 offers four vampire clans with different playstyles for you to get behind the fangs of, Paradox have opted to stick a further two behind paid day-one DLC.

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Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is a fugitive roguelike fleet-builder from the makers of Crying Suns

I'd entirely forgotten about Battlestar Galactica. I wouldn't say hearing the show's melancholy singsong theme during Gamescom's Opening Night Live gave me Proustian nostalgia pangs, but it did fill me with a vague desire to look up Gunstar mods for Homeworld.

The game announcement in question was for Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, a new tactical roguelite from the developers of Crying Suns. Published by Dotemu, it gives you quasi-isometric control of the human armada racing to escape the sinister Cylon fleet. You'll divide your time between managing tensions aboard your ships via branching story beats, assigning limited upgrade resources, flushing out new vessels from the planets you visit, and fending off the perfidious toasters in real-time space combat. Here's a trailer.

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Dante's epic poem La Divina Commedia is getting turned into a videogame again

Enotria: The Last Song developers Jyamma Games are making a new action-RPG inspired by and named after Dante Alighieri’s 14th century epic poem La Divina Commedia, aka the Divine Comedy.

Like the poem, it sees you descending through the circles of Hell, each the geological manifestation of a particular Sin. Unlike the poem, it features a set of combat classes, a choice of protagonist genders, a narrative alignment system, procedurally generated extraction dungeons, and customisable weapons and armour. As the poet himself might say: in the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where I had to grind for crafting materials.

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Game Science reveal Black Myth: Zhong Kui, a new action-RPG that aims to catch Wukong players "off guard"

Black Myth: Wukong developers Game Science have revealed Black Myth: Zhong Kui, another single-player action-RPG steeped in Chinese mythology. It casts you as a ghost-hunting god who wanders between hell and Earth. Here's a CG short from Gamescom's Open Night Live 2025, which shows the fearsomely bearded Zhong Kui himself riding an extravagantly sized tiger.

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Houses will eat you and horseguys will help you in new Chinese action-RPG Swords Of Legends

The name "Swords Of Legends" does not exactly cultivate intrigue. File it alongside Legendary Sword, Sword Legends, Legend of Sword, and Sword: Legends under "game titles that would put me to sleep even if I were being steadily electrocuted". Having visited the official site for Swords and watched the Chinese announcement trailer, I have come up with some alternative, vastly superior English titles: 1) My House Is Unaccountably Peckish, 2) Can I Play Football With This Boss's Detachable Head, 3) A Kingdom For My Horsebro, and 4) Did That Mountain Just Sideeye Me.

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Black Ops 7 release date spotted in the wilds ahead of Call of Duty's latest Gamescom blowout

True to the game's billing as the twistiest of duty-shooters, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's release date trailer appears to have leaked ahead of a possible Gamescom Opening Night Live showing tonight. The new FPS will launch on 14th November, close to a month after rival Battlefield 6's release on October 10th. Also, it appears to have jet packs and mechs.

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Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 livestream: watch all today's announcements here

Gamescom begins today, Tuesday August 19th 2025, with Opening Night Live - the annual livestream showcase of trailers, teasers and release date announcements, in which helpless videogames are dragged on-stage and hacked into 90-second gobbets by Geoff Keighley.

You can watch Gamescom Opening Night Live on this very page, care of the below video embed. The show begins at 2pm EDT, 11 am PDT, 7pm BST and 8pm CEST, and should last around two hours, because that's approximately as long as the summoning magic can keep Geoff bound to our mortal plane. There's also a pre-show at 1.30pm EDT, 10.30am PDT, 6.30pm BST, and 7.30pm CEST, but nothing noteworthy ever happens in those. Prove me wrong, host Kyle Boseman!

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Gimmicks are god in Psycutlery, a delightful free spork-driven platformer from the creator of Psycho Waluigi

The curse of plausibility and coherence lies heavy across this realism-centred artform. These days, you can't even give a platform character a woolly hat without first devising an in-game textile industry with appropriate supply chains, and a whole supporting cast of millworkers with names like Arthur Worsted and Jimmy Shuttlecock.

I prefer the disconnectedness of Psycutlery, in which you fight using a telekinetic spork, buy things with frogspawn, heal by eating toothpaste, and checkpoint progress by carving blocks of stone into statues of yourself, using the spork. The in-game reasoning for all this is basically "because developer Luke Tarlowe has the imagination of a Picasso and the attention span of a goldfish". Don't call it CRAZY. Call it refreshingly uninhibited and also, reminiscent of, Decap Attack and Ristar. Also, call it free.

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This week in PC games: sword surfing, creature collecting and a big old bucket of Gamescom

Hello all! And a very happy This Week to you. I'm back from break just in time for Gamescom. Gamescom! *Broadway overture kicks in* A time of booths and blaggardry! Of queues and carousing! Of flinching away from cosplayers promising Free Hugs! Of getting caught in a human logjam between the major exhibition halls and the lavatories! Of miniature walled villages operated by triple-A publishers, hosting their own local culture of finger food! Of strung-out crypto investors filling the alcoves with their musical cries of "DOGECOIN FOR SALE, DOGECOIN FOR SALE!" Of waifu bodypillows and army recruiters! Of finding the event's secret best game tucked away among the b2b stands! Of long walks back to the hotel across the bridge of locks, wondering how it ever came to this!

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What's on your bookshelf?: The Stanley Parable, The Beginner's Guide, and Wanderstop's Davey Wreden

Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! That's two weeks in a row now, which I've decided is enough for me to not have to caveat or lampshade the word 'regular', except obviously in this specific instance. We are back 4eva, in the Blakean Infinite sense, which is my favourite reference for making my fecklessness seem profound.

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The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for realising that it's been years since you looked behind your wardrobe. You gently lean the unwieldy thing away from the wall, centuries worth of grey-faced dust kings cursing at you as they're unseated from the thrones upon which they've stocially squatted since the last great cleansing. Oh, there he is. It's Adrian Edmondson. You ask him if he still considers himself a young one in spirit. He bellows at you to call an ambulance. You gently manoueuvre the wardrobe back into place.

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Save over 30% on this ASUS Gaming Monitor at Amazon, ideal for new PC gamers

If you’re a newcomer to PC gaming (maybe you picked up our Lenovo deal we spotted earlier in the week), you’ll know there are a dizzying number of options for monitors.

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It's still ridiculously expensive, but you can save 15% at on an RTX 5090 at Amazon

Look, the RTX 5090 is the most powerful offering from NVIDIA right now, but it won’t be for everyone.

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Battlefield 6 beta's rush mode gets a balancing tweak with EA monitoring the situation, amid player complaints about battle bigness

EA have made a tweak to the Battlefield 6 open beta's rush, and are keeping tabs on the situation in case it needs more balancing changes. This comes as some FPS folks and Battlefield vets have voiced their displeasure with the version of the mode that's debuted in this second weekend of beta action.

The biggest moans are related to size. Namely the amount of players on each side in these revamped rush battles and the relatively small maps they're being contested on. As you might imagine, those two elements being a bit titchier in scale than previous Battlefields has also had knock on effects for other aspects of the mode.

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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers bosses made unkillable in latest patch, seemingly to appease Chinese outcry

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers got its 1.5 Patch this week, bringing multiple quality-of-life improvements to the Soulslike, but also story and boss adjustments which appear to have been made to appease Chinese netizens.

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"Multiple" future Hardspace projects are coming, as Hardspace: Shipbreaker devs Blackbird Interactive take full ownership

Floating amid the scrap belts of space, some news. Hardspace: Shipbreaker is now owned by developers Blackbird Interactive, with the studio having bought control of the ship-stripping sim from publishers Saber Interactive. They're not having a rest after cracking open that bubbly either, writing that "multiple Hardspace projects" are in development.

Blackbird revealed all of this via a Steam post, writing that they've "reached an agreement with Focus Entertainment, our publishing partner, to reacquire full ownership of the Hardspace: Shipbreaker intellectual property". So, as you might expect, doing plenty of Hardspacey things is going to be a big part of the studio's plans going forwards.

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Rally Point: The wonderful vibes of Aetheris are a hint about its design goals

The first striking thing about Aetheris is its strange and colourful look. The second thing that strikes about Aetheris is the gorgeous animations and storybook trappings of its presentation, even in its loading screen transitions. The third is the strange vulnerability radiating from the village of lizardy people you're responsible for, and the parties you form with them. The fourth striking thing is that this a roguelike, it's a bloody roguelike isn't it, oh goddamn it.

It also binds the spacebar to "accept", something I learned by accidentally starting a bossfight in a terrible position that threw a whole party away. Or would have, if not for the ol' ctrleffor. I will never be stopped.

The fact that I kept playing instead of sulking and libelling a random CEO is a hint: I bloody love Aetheris.

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I have spent the morning learning about a recently deceased horse thanks to Umamusume: Pretty Derby

Around a week ago, 146,000 people mourned the death of a horse they'd never met. This might be the best single thing that has ever happened in videogames, although I don't imagine the horse would give a shit. Grass Wonder was a famous Japanese racehorse, but it's likely the majority of those that mourned his death online are only fans of Japanese horse racing by proxy.

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That's a really cool scarf, Agent 47

Hey, Agent 47. That's a really nice scarf. Battlefield 6 is getting written about a lot these days so I'm seeing quite a few screenshots of buildings being blown up. I'm not sure exactly why, but I seem to have developed a visceral distaste for images of buildings being blown up recently. At times like these, it's nice to look at a nice scarf.

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It's hard to get excited about Steam Deck chargers, but these GaN options are discounted at Amazon

Look, we’ve covered monitors, keyboards, and GPUs in recent days, and while a charger might not feel all that exciting, anyone with a Steam Deck charger that powers up Valve’s handheld quickly will know how handy faster chargers can be.

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