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EGX Rezzed Starts Tomorrow And RPS Will Be There: Here’s Our Selection Of The Best Games & Talks

Rezzed is heading to London again this year and if you’re lucky enough to be there, you’ll see the best in gaming. There will be loads of games to play, loads of talks and panels to attend, and loads of cardboard conversations to be had. Below, you’ll find some hand-picked highlights, including appearances from team RPS, talks from the likes of Larian, Campo Santo and The Creative Assembly, the RPS games room, and an evening in the pub with some of our writers.

If you’re down at Tobacco Dock during the show, do say hello. We promise not to bite, provided Helsing’s Serum does its job between now and then.

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Quantum Break Makes Light Of Piracy

I’m hearing mostly bad things about Rememdy’s Quantum Break [official site], not least of which is that the reliably unreliable Windows Store (in many ways the child of Games For Windows Live) is preventing our reviewer from getting into the damn thing. Remedy’s approach to pirated copies of the game makes me want to like it, though.

Re-using a technique seen in Alan Wake on PC, if Quantum Break decides you’re running a pirated copy, it sticks a skull’n’crossbones-adorned eyepatch onto lead character Jack Joyce. Rather than a punishment, this seems rather a comic touch, seems appealingly at odds with what is otherwise rather a dour affair.

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Possible Futures: Dota 2’s VR Spectator Mode

After a few weeks with the Vive, I’m increasingly concerned that VR isn’t yet ready to support full-fat games; smaller-but-broader experiences yes, but a combination of resolution and performance woes hamstrings big huge things. Those concerns are lessened when it comes to watching stuff though. It’s great for that. Makes a good movie-viewer, does a VR headset, and stuff like TheBlu, wherein you’re a wandering spectator in a wonderland, remains glorious. And so this glimpse of a proposed VR spectator mode for Dota 2 [official site] has me nodding enthusiastically. Yes, this stuff will work. Interactive watching might just be the more likely near-future of this stuff.

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Pets, Parachutes, Pints, Peril: Trench Run

I hadn’t seen any footage of Trench Run [official site] until I clicked on the trailer around five minutes ago and it immediately became one of the most exciting games to be released in the near future. The very near future in fact – it’ll be on Steam tomorrow.

Why so excited? Well, Trench Run is a multiplayer side-scrolling action game that looks like the perfect combination of Transhuman’s own Soldat and the exquisite Broforce. You can fight with knives, guns and explosives, but you can also go to the bar with your mates when the dust has settled, and buy a pet dog.

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RPS Feature Shining a light

Why The Division’s Dark Zone Is Broken And Beautiful

The Division has been infecting everyone at RPS one by one. And I am no exception. The Dark Zone of the game, however, is a strange beast. It is far less dangerous than its rough cast of heroes and miscreants want you to believe and many have complained that there is almost no incentive to kill the other human players who roam there. It is less a Dark Zone and more of a Slightly Gloomy Zone. But despite the problems, I still think it is the most interesting part of post-Bigpox Manhattan. Let me tell you why.

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Explore A Sinister City In Fab Free Game North

Yup.

Here’s a problem: the more I show and tell you about North [official site], the less you’ll get to discover yourself – and North is very much a game about being lost, confused, and surprised. It’s a game starring an asylum seeker in a surreal city, see, and being confounded by local behaviour and bureaucracy. So I’ll skirt around it: North has one of finest alien cities I’ve visited in video games, ever surprising and unsettling, and I greatly enjoyed discovering it. It’s free, so just go nab it and don’t read this, yeah?

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RPS Feature The future is frying eggs

Wot I Think: Job Simulator

Spring is tentatively Springing. The outside world is becoming more and more appealing. Yet I eschewed sunshine and the joyful company of my capering 2-year-old for what? Why, for performing menial chores in the dark, with an LCD screen mashed directly onto my eyeballs. Job Simulator [official site] is a cheerful satire of a possible future in which robots rule the world and recreate the boundlessly mundane human jobs of yesteryear for their own entertainment – but this cannot come close to the fundamental absurdity of what I am doing with a VR headset today. The future is here, and it’s bloody ridiculous.
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