RPS Omnibus: Feb 17th- 23rd
All aboard, all aboard. Your destination: everything published on RPS in the last week. Apologies in advance for the bus conductor's 'busy hands'.
Features, Opinions & Interviews
Paul Barnett on Gary Penn being his Lester Bangs: plus, Gillen on who your Lester Bangs should be.
Still stunned by Jack Thompson
The RPS Audiosurf Challenges - naming excellent tracks here, and fighting over Kate Bush here
Retrospective: Dungeon Keeper - Bullfrog's other finest hour
Jim at GDC - Witnessing the announcement of the PC Gaming Alliance, musing on the future of the PC
he Making of Civilization 4 - Gillen talks strategy with Soren Johnson
Ken Levine: but what does he mean? Alternate thoughts here and here, and bonus staring eyes here.
The Making of Stronghold - Big in Germany
Previews
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust. Abandon hope all ye who adventure-game here.
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition - acclaimed but incoherent RPG to receive much-needed textual nip'n'tuck.
Fez - Awesome dimension-distorting, IGF-winning platformer
American McGee's Grimm - I demand we just call it "Grimm" from hereon in
Blue Mars - Crysis-powered MMO
Love - Jim gets very, very excited about this procedurally-generated, impressionistic online world
Champions - City of Heroes gets a sequel, and it sounds spectacular
InstantAction - Tribes-powered deathmatch from a web browser
Aliens: Colonial Marines - All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the corps!
Far Cry 2 - One man on an unstoppable anti-tree rampage
APB - Potentially incredible new MMO from the Crackdown guys
Free games
Avernum demo - turn-based roleplaying just like grandma used to make.
Space Hulk - The classic tabletop game remade in pixels'n'stuff
Grow Nano v3 - A hyper-cute webgame about illness.
News
WoW: the tabletop game
EA can't spell. And we're hypocrites.
The 2008 Life. Love. Game Design Challenge - making teen dating violence into entertainment
Overlord expansion incoming - Overlordier and Overlordier
Tablula Rasa tanks?
New Magic The Gathering Game
Mike Stemmle join Telltale - a new hope for Sam & Max
The soul of The Sims - See Will Wright's original source code for The Sims
IGF winners announced - we gots your best games of the year right here
Game Developers' Choice winners announced - gaming's top men pick their favourites of 2007. In comments: inevitable Portal vs Bioshock bickering.
Riddick devs to resurrect mystery EA franchise - it's probably Shaq Fu
GDC Luminary lunch - Dave Perry and chums muse aloud