Xenonauts 2 and its rude scientist won me over immediately

Xenonauts 2 and its rude scientist won me over immediately

It’s a universally recognized truth that when aliens threaten to exterminate your home, only the world’s most insufferable and unhinged scientists can help save the day. XCOM knows it, and now Xenonauts 2 is following suit. For example, your man up there. Look at that smug mullet and his unimpressed raised eyebrow. It doesn’t give two boos that you’re here to save the world from extinction, leading (probably multiple) teams of nine brave (unwitting) souls into the unknown (ie: repeated death by alien overwatch). He has research to do. Organs to marinate. Splicing dead alien carcasses. Yeah, the same ones you literally strapped into your troops’ tactical belts on the last mission so you could take them home. We had stinky brain monsters wrapped around our chests, man! The least you can do is condescend to make us a good cup of tea on our return. Honestly. You can’t get staff these days…

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Wandering Village’s adorable giant tortoise heads to the ocean with today’s big update

Wandering Village's adorable giant tortoise heads to the ocean with today's big update

Wandering Village already had a great pitch: it’s a city-builder where you build your village on the back of a huge, heavy rock-turtle-dragon creature. This terrain gets even stronger with today’s update, as our giant friend (Onbu) takes the village on his back (the human lice) into the ocean. According to developers Stray Fawn Studio, the ocean update is the game’s biggest yet and adds new buildings, decorations, random events and, of course, the titular ocean biome.

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Vote now for this year’s RPS 100: Reader Edition

Vote now for this year's RPS 100: Reader Edition

The RPS 100 is our annual countdown to our all-time favorite PC games, and this year we’re finally doing it at a reasonable time – in this semi-silent lull between notE3 and Gamescom, and definitely not in October, when it’s the real silly season for end-of-year releases. And like last year, we’re bringing back our Readers Edition so you too can join in the never-ending debate over which is the number one good PC game of all time. So vote now for your favorite PC games of all time, to be published in a separate list that will be yours and yours alone. Here’s how to get involved.

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