Alice O'Connor
Associate Editor
Alice has been playing video games since SkiFree and writing about them since 2009, with nine years at RPS. She enjoys immersive sims, roguelikelikes, weird little spooky indies, mods, walking simulators, stylish movement, finding joy in details, and readme files. Alice lives in Scotland, where she swims, cycles, and touches so much moss. She's likely in the sea right now.
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Helldivers 2 is now auto-kicking AFK players to help ease server woes
The co-op shooter remains too popular for its own good
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Sean Bean is finally returning to Hitman, for you to kill him again
The actor with a thousand deaths adds another
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Cross-platform multiplayer confirmed as Microsoft bring Xbox games to more consoles
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Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games
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Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun stomps on Game Pass next week
And for your kids, there's Bluey: The Videogame and Maneater coming
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WH40K: Rogue Trader's "first major update" is out, and everyone gets a free respec
17,000 words of patch notes to dig through
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Please fill my eyes with the psychedelic insects of new shmup Nidus
Control two characters at once, or join a pal in co-op
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Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Chugging along
I go on Twitter so you don't have to
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Supernatural spaceship shooter Underspace shows admirable ambition in its Next Fest demo
A self-described "spiritual successor to Freelancer"
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Homeworld 3 studio Blackbird Interactive hit with layoffs
The games industry has cut an estimated 6000-ish jobs so far this year
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What's better: health pick-ups looking like cartoon hearts or Doomguy's pet rabbit, Daisy?
Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games
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The Sims 4 has added vitiligo in a free update
New ways for Sims to represent more of the world
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Typing dungeon crawler Cryptmaster's demo is a delight
With jokes I actually laughed at
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Game-making tool RPG Maker XP is free on Steam right now
As used to create To The Moon
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Start a boring and stressful maintenance job in this former Arkane level designer's upcoming game
Check out the announcement trailer for Threshold
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Screenshot Saturday Mondays: A dashing wizard and a grasping church
I go on Twitter so you don't have to
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What are we all playing this weekend?
Well? Do tell!
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Handcrafted "interactive music album" Asterism has a delightful Next Fest demo
Explore planets through interactive music videos
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My eyes hurt from the extreme 90s CGI style of this Next Fest demo, and I couldn't be happier
Check out Fragrance Point!
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Pacific Drive's Next Fest demo has good mood but tedious survival scavenging
Love the mood, hate picking litter for crafting
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Skull And Bones is now in open beta, almost as if Ubisoft intend to finally release it
Play before the multiplayer pirate boat game 'launches' next week, wink wink
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What's better: instant-death bottomless pits, or being able to reroll your build?
Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games
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My secret favourite game of 2023 is now on Game Pass
I had to uninstall Brotato for my own good
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Assembling furniture is anything but "wholesome" in this fantastic Steam Next Fest demo
I'm really excited for Miniatures after playing this
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15 Steam Next Fest demos you should play first this February
Where to get started with 2024's first Steam Next Fest