Papers, Please – это мрачный приключенческий симулятор, где игрок берет на себя роль инспектора на пограничном контрольно-пропускном пункте в вымышленной коммунистической стране Арстоцка. Главная задача – проверять документы прибывающих людей, сверяя их с постоянно меняющимися правилами и директивами. Геймплей строится вокруг внимательного изучения паспортов, виз, разрешений на работу и других документов. Необходимо выявлять несоответствия, подделки и контрабанду, используя разнообразные инструменты: лупу, ультрафиолетовый фонарь, весы для взвешивания предметов. От точности и скорости работы зависит зарплата, которая расходуется на оплату жилья, еды и лекарств для семьи. Помимо рутинной проверки документов, игроку предстоит принимать моральные решения, сталкиваясь с просьбами о помощи, шпионажем и террористическими заговорами. Выбор, сделанный в каждой смене, влияет на дальнейший сюжет и концовку игры.
Симулятор магазина Probably Stolen меньше чем за сутки разошелся тиражом в 200 тысяч копий Создатели симулятора Probably Stolen сообщили, что меньше чем за сутки игру купили 200 тысяч раз. Пиковый онлайн перевалил за 86 тысяч, однако со временем заметно уменьшился. Разработчики также отметили, что игра заняла второе место «среди лидеров продаж по всему миру». Сейчас у Probably Stolen 96% положительных отзывов в Steam.
It gives me great nerdly joy that the Next Fest demo on Steam's 100 most-played games list is a shopkeeping sim (Don't worry, you don't need to be a sim geek to dig it.) As the sicko cartoon goes: "YES… HA HA HA… YES!" That's how I feel while peering at Steam's 100 most-played games list and spotting the Next Fest demo for shopkeeping sim Probably Stolen. A singleplayer game about sitting behind a desk and managing inventory doing that well among the other 8,000+ demos that have arrived for Next Fest? So well it's actually charting with 34,230 concurrent players? I played the demo back in September and loved it because it made me feel like I was running a corner store in Dredd or Cyberpunk 2077.
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Испанская студия Digital Sun (серия Moonlighter) отменила публичное тестирование своей вампирской роглайт-стратегии ReVamp из страха перед ИИ-клонами и оказалась далеко не единственным разработчиком в этой лодке. Источник изображения: Digital Sun Создатели ReVamp сочли публикацию рабочей сборки за несколько месяцев до релиза слишком рискованной на фоне того, как в наше время игры «разбираются, копируются и выпускаются» под другим названием до релиза оригинальной версии. Обещанное тестирование ReVamp начнётся 29 октября, но доступ к участию теперь будут выдавать волнами в Discord, а не в Steam. Релиз игры запланирован на 25 марта 2027 года эксклюзивно для ПК.
For the quickest way to join, simply enter your email below and get access. We will send a confirmation and sign you up to our newsletter to keep you updated on all your gaming news. This means I am onto something": Legendary game artist calls out AI billionaires, Tim Sweeney responds "this is bulls***" with Musk's support Veteran game artist Kenney Vleugels, known fondly to some as "Asset Jesus" for his enormous library of ready-made game assets, recently joined the chorus of devs standing against AI and the billionaires pushing it – and in doing so, managed to thoroughly piss off AI-first billionaires Tim Sweeney of Epic Games and Elon Musk of SpaceX and xAI. Former Nintendo of America boss Doug Bowser said in 2025 that, "If developers choose to use AI, and it is a discussion right now at Nintendo, it's not the only method of developing games." In 2024, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said the company doesn't need gen AI, both because it knows how to make games and it's wary of the legal risks attached to AI.
For the quickest way to join, simply enter your email below and get access. We will send a confirmation and sign you up to our newsletter to keep you updated on all your gaming news. Join the GamesRadar community for quick access. Heck, indie veteran Lucas Pope, known for Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn, won't even talk about his next game because that risks it "getting slurped up by AI or people are gonna copy it." Rather than Papers, Please, Drunken Goddess Reflux reminds me a bit of Buckshot Roulette.
С июля 2026-го студия Double Fine больше не принадлежит XBOX. Первым тайтлом коллектива после обретения независимости стала хаотично-забавная Thank You Bus Driver — она уже вышла. В Thank You Bus Driver предлагается сыграть за водителя автобуса, которому нужно следить не только за дорогой, но и за соблюдением правил в салоне. Правда, они постоянно меняются, а некоторые из них так и просятся быть нарушенными.
Завершился осенний выпуск шоу Triple-i Initiative, где показывают тайтлы как от именитых, так и только начинающих коллективов. Трансляция оказалась насыщенной — за 45 минут прозвучало множество анонсов, включая новые проекты, дополнения и даты релизов. К примеру, Amanita Design представила Machinarium 2, а для Dave the Diver готовится ещё одно, теперь заключительное DLC-коллаборация. Сценарий написал Якуб Шамалек (Jakub Szamałek), сценарист The Witcher 3 и Cyberpunk 2077, а роли в ROCKBEASTS озвучили Игги Поп (Iggy Pop), Мэттью Мерсер (Matthew Mercer; Baldur’s Gate III) и Сэм Ригель (Sam Riegel; Ratchet & Clank).
We normally get only one Triple-I Initiative showcase per year, but 2026 is proving to be the exception. The second broadcast of the year from organizers Evil Empire, the Triple-I Initiative was a focused blast of curated trailers and game updates, all rolling out across an almost-hour-long livestream. Pony Island 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QX_lfkK2gM The next game from Inscryption creator Daniel Mullins, Pony Island 2 is getting a public playtest soon. Outward 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTsMBNhVyig Kingdom Two Crowns: Pharaoh Lands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQx4TODuB2k Set beneath a scorching sun, you can explore new Egypt-inspired lands and monuments in this Kingdom Two Crowns expansion.
Like tears in the rain… Blade Runner: Black Lotus (Anime Series) – 2021-22 Blade Runner 2039 (Comic) – 2022-24 Blade Runner: Black Lotus: Leaving L.A. & Las Vegas (Comic) – 2022-26 Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus (Comic) – 2024-ongoing Blade Runner 2099 (TV Show) – 2026 Blade Runner Timeline: Chronological Order 2009 – Blade Runner Origins (Comic) Release date: 2021-22 As the title implies, Blade Runner: Origins tells the story of the very first Blade Runner, AKA the guys who hunt down rogue replicants – replicants being bioengineered humans, indistinguishable from normal people except they can be extremely strong and intelligent. 2022 – Blade Runner Black Out 2022 (Anime Short) Release date: 2017 Released shortly before Blade Runner 2049 as a way to tee up the long-awaited sequel, Black Out 2022 is a 15-minute anime directed by Cowboy Bebop creator Shinichirō Watanabe. Find out more about Blade Runner 2099 during the New York Comic Con panel on Saturday, October 10 at 6:45pm ET (3.45pm PT and 11:45pm BST).
Double Fine's first game since being dumped by Xbox will be out in just 2 weeks I don't know what I expected, but Thank You Bus Driver sure isn't it. It's been less than three months since Xbox kicked Double Fine Productions to the curb as part of the great "streamlining" that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is so excited to see. There are three—and only three—priorities: - Get To Your Next Stop, no matter what it takes - Keep the Schedule, because happy riders say thank you - No Breaking the Rules, and if anyone gets out of line, you give 'em a smack Over on Bluesky, Double Fine described Thank You Bus Driver as "Crazy Taxi meets Papers, Please!" which sounds like exactly the sort of game the studio would make—this is, after all, the studio that gave us a multiplayer brawling game about pottery. Launching October 14~ Wishlist THANK YOU BUS DRIVER: doublefine.com/games/thank-you-bus-driver#buynow — @doublefine.com (@doublefine.com.bsky.social) 2026-09-28T22:00:28.589Z Thank You Bus Driver doesn't look like a 'big' game, even by Double Fine standards (which I say with the utmost respect), and you may notice that it's being published by something called Double Fine Action Labs.
Night Plane is a horror game designed to scare me, specifically, because I hate flying—and deer demons Prepare to save some souls. Crammed into a tiny metal tube with 100s of other people, 1000s of feet in the air, unnaturally defying the will of God—it's awful. At least in the real world they don't have to contend with shape-shifting demons like they do in Night Plane, the upcoming horror job sim from Liquid Static Studio. Wishlist Night Plane on Steam Release date: October 26, 2026 Attend to passengers while kicking shape-shifting demons off the plane, and be ready to save some souls if you crash land.
Sundays - well, very early Sunday mornings - are for watching a whole queue of hungry wild animals pass your kitchen window, because a neighbour has decided to leave a bollard-sized catfood dispenser outside the block entrance while they're away on holiday. I'm pretty sure the neighbour's cat wouldn't eat from the dispenser even if there wasn't a badger wedged eagerly inside it. She's an aloof and disdainful creature, who hates going near the front door because that's where those stinky humans come from. Will I try to feed the poor moggy, denied her dinner by a bunch of Farthing Wood rejects?
Former PlayStation indie boss Shuhei Yoshida and the founder of TIGSource are throwing a Game Poem jam that "challenges traditional boundaries between art forms" An ode to code What are you doing across Monday 7th to Tuesday 8th September? If your answer isn't "weaving sick rhymes for PlayStation's former indie gaming boss Shuhei Yoshida and original TIGsource founder Jordan Magnuson", then begone, for we are no longer friends. Magnuson and Yoshida are among the judges on a forthcoming game jam organised by the UK's National Film & Television School. There are a few other very clever custards on the judging panel: Cash DeCuir, narrative designer, writer and voice director for Disco Elysium; John Lau, game designer and lead producer on South of the Circle; Claudio Pollina, game designer and professor at Rome University of Fine Arts; and Jenna Jovi, a screenwriter and narrative designer who has worked across videogames and film.
Activision serves cease and desist to infamous Call of Duty cheat maker—and films the whole thing: 'We will find you' Activision has employed many different tactics in its unending battle against cheating in Call of Duty, from suing cheat makers for millions of dollars to employing complex technical solutions to ban cheaters as quickly as possible. In its latest gambit, Activision served cease-and-desist papers to one especially infamous Call of Duty cheat maker, filmed the entire exchange, and posted it online. On Friday, a video appeared on the official Call of Duty X account (via Kotaku) showing a legal representative arriving at the home of Elocarry—a cheat maker who creates exploits for games like Rust and Apex Legends alongside Call of Duty—walking up to his front door and serving him a cease and desist order. 2026 games: All the upcoming games Best PC games: Our all-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best RPGs: Grand adventures Best co-op games: Better together Rick has been fascinated by PC gaming since he was seven years old, when he used to sneak into his dad's home office for covert sessions of Doom.
Sometimes, Sundays are only for rounding up videogame criticism and journalism. I try to cast a wider net when my turn comes to deliver the Papers, because I figure you've probably been reading about videogames all week, and would appreciate e.g. an essay on the mating habits of snails or the top 7 most elaborate UFO conspiracies, but this Sunday, there are no snails or UFOs within easy dredge. So instead, please accept a boatload of finest mitherings on Duke Nukem , oracular visual novels, sociable space sims, and 'search action' games.
Gaming has never been more expensive. We’re here to investigate why, and help you play more while spending less. Slay the Spire 1 and 2 Even though Slay the Spire 2 has usurped its place as the go-to deckbuilding roguelike, there's still plenty of magic in the original Slay the Spire. See on Steam Age of Empires 2: HD Edition The HD edition of Age of Empires 2 hits the sweet spot for fun and accessibility on a wide range of systems, and 27 years later, the game is still a masterclass in real-time strategy design.
Новый материал в рубрике «Разыскивается инвестор/издатель». Сегодня рассказываем об игре THE ENTERTAINERS, которая создается всего одним человеком. О проекте рассказал Станислав Ветохин, автор проекта. Станислав Ветохин О команде Я, Станислав Ветохин, работаю над проектом в одиночку.
Компания Kinetic Games, ответственная за сетевой ужастик Phasmophobia, недавно открыла издательское подразделение. Вчера Kinetic Publishing показала пять игр, которые она взяла под своё крыло. PRECOGNITION Ещё в 2024 году Сэм Барлоу (Sam Barlow), создатель FMV-адвенчур Her Story, Telling Lies и IMMORTALITY, представил игру с кодовым именем Project C. Crescent County стартует летом 2027-го на ПК (Steam, Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series и Switch 2.
Kinetic Games is expanding into the games publishing business. Before today, Kinetic has only been known for Phasmophobia , its four-player ghost-hunting game that first exploded during the COVID pandemic and has remained a favorite since then. Precognition on Steam Aether Wizard Life Developed by Vonder Games Fans of cozy games such as Spiritfarer and Stardew Valley will want to keep an eye on Aether Wizard Life from Vonder Games. Putting it aptly and succinctly, the team at Electric Saint describes the game as being about "kissing, drifting, and being a mess in your 20s." Crescent County debuts in Summer 2027 on--you guessed it--PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch 2.