Sunday is for rest, I hear, but by the time you read this I will have been up at 5:30am to drive my in-laws to Gatwick Airport. As such, I’m probably not the best authority on rest, or even Sunday. Nonetheless, I’ve put together some quality gaming-related articles to help you fill out yours.
Gamescom 2026 took place this week, yeah and boo, and it was – apparently not for the first time – the scene of several laptop thefts targeting developers. Nicole Carpenter investigates for Consequences.
Laley not only loses out on the cost of a brand new laptop, but also booth space that will go unused for the rest of the event, which runs through Sunday. It costs almost €3,000 (around $3,500) for the smallest stand in the Gamescom industry, according to its price calculator. The price only increases from there. Not to mention travel, hotel and food costs for the week in which Laley expected to present Mimic. He posted a moving video on social networks to announce the end of its Gamescom. “As an independent, solo developer, this shit is expensive and hard to do on your own,” Laley said in the clip. “And for this to happen is beyond frustrating. It’s heartbreaking.”
Writing is the rewardargues Steven Santana. I don’t necessarily have the same problem with statistics – they’re often just numerical expressions of actions and interactions that tickle the senses in a more tangible way. But then I spent too much time reading item descriptions from lore excerpts to disagree further.
Unlike the text, the numbers are hard, precise, stoic monoliths, which impose their mathematical certainties on you. The text is fluid, provocative, powerful, elegant, direct, sensual, noxious, vivid, visceral, tangible, abstract, hyperbolic, humorous and much more.
The prize for most interesting GTA 6 take of the post-Netflix era goes, nepotastically, to RPS friend Jeremy Peel, whose GamesRadar The play considers the dynamics of its central relationship.
But what follows is more subtle and more powerful than that. Rockstar seems to understand that some of the most important conversations between couples take place in liminal spaces: the car on the way to the party; the elevator to the rooftop bar. These are moments of team tactics, where potential issues are raised, fears are expressed and a shared approach is agreed from the start. Forget relationship goals: These two have relationship goals, and they get reevaluated and renegotiated on the fly.
I remain more interested in reading about Disco Elysium than playing it, a personal flaw exacerbated by articles like this: Steven Stoermer revisits the game’s soundtrack to Deleted backups.
The abandonment in the song title is also Harry’s, as when it is first played he is at his lowest point. The Instrument has delivered Revachol to a centrist invader whose moralistic equivocations have left him in stasis, while Harry is also paralyzed. However, this comes into play when he takes to the streets of Martinaise for the first time, dazed but nevertheless awake, with potential opening up before him. The in-game rendition itself is quite different from the official soundtrack – longer and more ambient, with the positivity of the back half of the OST version woven in in a more ethereal way. It’s a musical cue that I personally found astounding: it stopped me in my tracks during several failed attempts to play Disco Elysium, overwhelming me with emotion and halting my progress.
It’s an old book, which I hope you’ll forgive because it’s also good: the oral history of Duncan Fyfe, for example. Viceon an infamous piece from C&C: Red Alert 3, a decor chewing by the dear party Tim Curry.
“SPACE!” he growls: his throat thrown back, his eyes rolled back to face God. Then he looks at the camera – he looks at you – with delirious, colorful joy. It’s almost jubilant, this look: he succeeded, he finished the line, and there’s nothing we can do about it.
The music this week is oh shit, there’s a new Clutch song? A pretty one too. Thick, chunky rock ‘n’ roll that requires a trip to Wikipedia to understand what the lyrics are about, just like a Clutch song should.
