Tales From Off-Peak City will take us back to Cosmo D's world

Even if the name weren’t a giveaway, you’d know Tales From Off-Peak City is a Cosmo D game from the philosophical pizza order, the eclectic collections of oversized objects, a building morphed into a face, and his visual style that I’ve just realised reminds me of 90s multimedia CD-ROMs. The musician and developer recently announced his next game set in the world of Off-Peak, another first-person adventure game exploring a strange place, poking into secrets, opening drawers and pressing buttons, and getting tangled in something stranger than it first seems. I am well up for another Cosmo D game.

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Post-apocalyptic road trip Overland launches this month

I quite like dogs, me. Kicking off a trailer with a sad ol’ Shiba is probably unfair, but oh – they’ve pepped right up! Oh gosh, there’s more of them! They’re a little more crabby, but a pooch is a pooch. You can’t fool me. Oh, christ, there’s a few of them now… wait, why are they swarming? Good dogs, nice boys, please don’t bite my arm– ouch!

Overland, the proper stylish disaster road trip from Finji, is hitting the road for real. The roguelike survival strategy has been driving around quaint little low-poly dioramas for a few years now, but every journey needs a destination. Overland will reach its on September 19th.

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Night In The Woods co-creator Alec Holowka has died

Alec Holowoka, the co-creator of Night In The Woods, died on Saturday morning, his sister Eileen Mary Holowka has reported. Alec Holowka was co-designer, coder and composer on Night In the Woods, and previously filled the same roles on Aquaria. Last Monday, he was accused of sexual assault and abusive behaviour several years ago by developer and writer Zoë Quinn. Alec’s sister didn’t state a cause of death, though the implication is clear.

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Dota Underlords builds [Ace Tier Update] – 6 best builds for Knight, Troll, Mage, and more

Dota Underlords builds are wondrously complex and finnicky beasts. Combining your knowledge not just of heroes and abilities and items and alliances, but also the pacing of a match and your relative needs on different rounds can all get pretty mind-boggling pretty quickly – especially now that you also have to factor in the new Ace Tier heroes and effects with version #245 and later.

So we thought it’d be a good idea to revisit our Dota Underlords builds guide to see what still works and what no longer does. Below we’ve put together six of the very best builds heading into September, from Knights and Dragons to Trolls and Warriors, and many more.

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The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for visiting the Novelty Cinema in Newbury, only you can’t because that’s actually what we call my friend’s house when we watch nice films together. Don’t turn up, it would be weird. Here’s the best writing about videogames from the past week.

Over on Vice, I enjoyed Patrick Klepek’s thoughtful interrogation of Nintendo’s inconsistent approach to deliberately glitchy player-created Mario Maker levels. Unsurprisingly I’m entirely on the side of players who revel in pushing Nintendo’s pristine building blocks to breaking point. Why ban levels like that when you could just flag them as weird?

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The Weekly RPS News Digest: there is nothing new under the sun

If you’ve not been following PC games goings-on across the week, catch up on some of the big stories quick in our noncomprehensive Weekly News Digest. I’ve slipped in a few things we haven’t already posted about, and do also read The Updates Update for some of the week’s notable patches and updates. It’s been a short week for us here, thanks to the bank holiday Monday, but there sure is enough going on.

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