Like all white, middle-class Londoners, I subsist on a diet comprised mainly of salted caramel and katsu curry. It appears Grasshopper Manufacture, makers of maximalist action adventureRomeo is a Dead Man, appreciate that delightful marriage of rice, breadcrumbs, and carroty sauce as well. Our lad Romeo can gather up katsu ingredients before delivering them to his waiting mum, who’ll turn them into one of ten mouth-watering, buff-applying curries.
But can those recipes nourish us, fleshy humans of IRL make, with the same benefits? To find out, I prepped, cooked, and taste-tested all ten of Romeo’s mum’s katsu creations in my own kitchen.
Romeo is a Dead Man, Grasshopper Manufacture’s eccentric new hack 'n' slash, is out today. I quite like it. I especially like its main menu screen, a strangely hypnotic fish tank in which captive planets float alongside a coral ballet trophy, and the menu’s text strings try to escape when you’re not looking. There is, precisely, one fish.
Like the summonable, energy-shooting ghoul I cultivated on my spaceship’s zombie farm, Romeo is a Dead Man is a bit of a grower. After an iffy start that exhibits plenty of Grasshopper Manufacture weirdness but not much Grasshopper Manufacture charm, its disparate parts do eventually coalesce, forming a lean yet muscular hack 'n' slash with a playful talent for mixing up its mediums.
When zombies, no, interdimensional aliens, eat your face clean off your skull, the only thing to do is become a cybernetic agent of the Space-Time FBI. We’ve all had those weeks.
Where Winds Meet already has a staggering amount of content, but that’s not the end of what we can expect. Developer Everstone Studio just revealed a host of new additions coming to the game this month.
Netease has finally released a gameplay trailer for its pirate Adventure RPG Sea of Remnants, which showcases a variety of features including ship combat, open area exploration, drinking competitions, and Mahjong.
43.8 million player votes later, the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards have been announced, with Hollow Knight: Silksong securing top prize, Game of the Year.
Right, get ready for some chatter about where the contents of our collective wallets have gone over the past year. Valve's list of the highest-grossing games on Steam in 2025 has emerged from the great mists, and in a nice revelation, features a larger number of fresh releases than last year's ranking. That's alongside all of the moderately to quite old stuff which more folks keep hopping on the train of with every passing 12 month period.
This year, generative AI seeped into mainstream gaming. Though it didn't so much shimmer, as smear. It mispronounced lines in Arc Raiders, "drew" a smudgy loading screen in Anno 117, voiced a sweary Darth Vader in Fortnite – perhaps its least subtle appearance was in Where Winds Meet, the wuxia-themed open-world RPG that plugged some of its minor NPCs into AI chatbots. The results were predictably beige and sometimes absurd.
Where Winds Meet players are tricking the game's AI-powered NPCs into giving them rewards, simply by claiming they already have the answers to various side quests or riddles even when they don't.
Developer Everstone Studio and publisher NetEase Games recently released their open-world action-adventure RPG Where Winds Meet. Currently one of the most played games on Steam, its launch wasn’t without its faults on all platforms, including the PS5. However, the developer announced it is working on fixes, as well as PS5 Pro support in the future.
Open world RPG Where Winds Meet’s update will add support for PS5 Pro PSSR
In a recent update on Steam, the Where Winds Meet developers addressed the issues with the PS5 version of the game and are currently working on implementing those improvements.
“Looking ahead, we’re committed to ongoing improvements in other key issues that concern you most including text localization, PS5 compatibility, and multi-character creation features,” reads the statement.
“For the PS5 platform, we’re working hard to enhance frame rates, stability, and visual quality,” continues the statement. “You can expect to see these gameplay improvements within the year.”
The update continued to list more future goals for Where Winds Meet. One of those goals is to bring PS5 Pro support.
“Over the next two months, we will gradually roll out several updates, including Steam Deck compatibility, optimized multi-timezone display, split outfit customization, PS5 Pro support for PSSR, enhanced audio experience, and more,” says the statement. “Our goal is to create a Jianghu that everyone can enjoy, and we welcome any further suggestions you may have.”
Where Winds Meet was released on November 14 for PS5. It received some mixed reviews. According to the review aggregate site Metacritic, it garnered an average score of 70 across 13 critic reviews. PS5 players seem to agree with that sentiment as its global player rating on the PlayStation Store currently sits at 3.81 stars.
Where Winds Meet is available for the PS5 free-to-play on the PlayStation Store.
Yet another MMO bites the dust as the Warhammer project in the works at Jackalyptic Games has been canceled following the studio's shutdown. The news comes directly from founder Jack Emmert, an MMO veteran who was behind City of Heroes, Champions Online, and Star Trek Online. Later, he managed DC Universe Online while at Daybreak. When the DC Universe Online team was spun off as Dimensional Ink Games in early 2020, Emmert began working on an unannounced project that ultimately became a Marvel-based MMORPG. When that project got canceled by Daybreak's parent company, Enad Global 7, he established Jackalope Games […]
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