Sundays are for resting, so I hear, though by the time you read this I’ll have got up at 5:30am to drive my parents-in-law to Gatwick Airport. As such, I’m probably not the best authority on resting, or, indeed, Sundays. Nonetheless, I have gathered some quality game-related articles to help you fill yours.
Gamescom 2026 was this week, yay and boo, and it was – apparently not for the first time – the scene of multiple dev-targeting laptop thefts. Nicole Carpenter investigates for Aftermath.
The writing is the reward, argues Steven Santana. I don’t necessarily have the same beef with stats that this does – often they’re just numerical expressions of actions and interactions that more tangibly tickle the senses. But then, I’ve spent too much time reading lore-snippet item descriptions to disagree further.
The award for Most Interesting GTA 6 Take of the post-Netflix showcase era goes, nepotastically, to friend of RPS Jeremy Peel, whose GamesRadar piece considers the dynamics of its central relationship.
I remain more interested in reading about Disco Elysium than playing it, a personal flaw exacerbated by articles like this: Steven Stoermer revisiting the games soundtrack for Deleted Saves.
This is an old one, which I’ll hope you’re forgive on the grounds that’s it’s also a good one: Duncan Fyfe’s oral history, for Vice, on an infamous piece of C&C: Red Alert 3 scenery-chewing by the dearly departed Tim Curry.
Music this week is oh shit, there’s a new Clutch track? A nice one, too. Thick, chunky rock 'n' roll that requires a trip to Wikipedia to understand what the lyrics are on about, just as a Clutch song should.
سەرچاوەی فەرمی بە زمانی ئینگلیزی: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-papers-825
