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First Look At Multiplayer Darwinia

9:30PM Luke Plunkett | Though it’s been public knowledge for a while now, nobody has really seen or heard much about Multiwinia, the upcoming multiplayer edition of Introversion’s brilliant strategy title Darwinia. Have now! RPS’ Kieron Gillen has had a sit-down with the game, which can be best summed up with “It’s an RTS cut back to its core essentials – you can file it next to World in Conflict, but even pacier”. Works for me. Those interested in seeing how exactly the whole thing works – and how it looks – pop on over the Rock, Paper, Shotgun. RPS Exclusive: Multiwinia Hands-on [RPS] More »

The Video Game Defence That Wasn’t

2:00AM Owen Good | Shortly after coming aboard here one of the first things I did was set up a filter to capture and set aside Jack Thompson’s bullshit from all the tips cc’d to me. After the preamble to his professional obituary two weeks ago, I went back looking through the “Crazy Fucker” queue to see if I could find some kicking-and-screaming ravings that, even if they didn’t deserve to run under the Kotaku nameplate, would at least be fun to read. Instead, I found something unexpected. It was a news release from mid-May, and in it, Jack was up to his usual schtick of making hay off others’ misery — in this case claiming a murder defendant in North Carolina was motivated by Grand Theft Auto of course. But the story Thompson was citing was published in Fayetteville, by a paper I interned for 15 years ago. And it was written by my housemate that year, a friend and a guy who introduced me to some excellent video games himself. So I emailed the writer, Paul Woolverton of The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer, to dig deeper into this story. More »