By Alec Meer on February 16th, 2008 at 9:40 am.
Here at RPS we write about ten thousand million words per second. The best way to find out which of those billion-cubed sentences you should have read this week is to click onwards into our omnibus. It rounds up what we’ve written during that seven day period, every seven days. As usual, it’s mostly awesome. Omnibustle!
Features, Opinions & Interviews
Warren Spector Interview: Mr Deus Ex on pretty much everything.
Radical’s Tim Bennison on Prototype Looks good to me.
Sick Of Healing. John and the plight of the online gaming healers.
Warhammer Online’s Paul Barnett talking MMOs
The Making Of: The Conflict Series – Denied Ops, but allowed feature charting the development of Pivotal’s soldier games.
How games fix you up after you get dumped. You sadsack.
Here come the heroes? Can big corps fix up the PC? No.
The Cultural Significance Of Video Games An attempt to pull together a series of arguments about this contentious issue.
Previews
New Lego Batman screens. Press the Batkey!
The Path: Spooky emo goth stuff. WoOOOo.
Red Alert 3: ARMOURED BEAR MEME!
Jetpack Brontosaurus. He can fly, right.
Free games
OMG Kninja! Incredible 2D ninja action game, Katakijin.
Iron Dukes: IGF nominated webgame steampunk Pirates-RPG giggle-thon.
The Club Demo released. Shooty fun.
Spin The Black Circle. Insane-o-hard ball rolling.
Retro: Wild Metal Country. Free Rockstar downloads.
The Smash Online Beta. MMO tennis.
Metro Siberia Underground. Whee!
Last Stand Badass zombie splatterer.
Jack Keane demo He’s Keane, but are you?
Hello Kitty Online. The Beta. Aww!
Bow Street Runner. Violence and harlots.
News
There is no Marvel MMO. Here’s why.
Mass Effect on PC. Soon.
Spore. Release date. BUT WHEN? Aha. You have to click!
The Sims 3. The clang of the inevitable.
Dave Perry says there’s a 70mil MMO possible. Yeah, me too.
The politics of the big US developers?
Blizzard’s Big Paris Event. Blizzcon EU.
Audiosurf comes out on Steam. Incredible MP3-converting game.
MMOGCharts updates with MMO Charts.
Pyro’s gender to be revealed, apparently.
Badlands added to Team Fortress 2
Streetfighter 2: Using a mouse? WTF.
16/02/2008 at 09:48 drunkymonkey says:
I’m beginning to fall in love with the Volkswagon.
Looks rather fun.
“Denied Ops, but allowed feature charting the development of Pivotal’s soldier games.”
But not as fun as this running joke, obviously.
16/02/2008 at 11:00 Seniath says:
One of the 6th Form Physics teachers in our school drove a green Volkswagon minibus, like the on above. Every summer, he’d take his Physics class to Parkgate and buy them all ice cream from Nicholls. He retired the year I started my Physics A-Level :(.