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Insight into the Bookshelf of Pietro Righi Riva, Co-Founder of Santa Ragione and Director of Saturnalia
Insight into the Bookshelf of Pietro Righi Riva, Co-Founder of Santa Ragione and Director of Saturnalia
1:43 pm

Hello reader who is also a reader! Today marks the sad and glorious return of Booked for the Week, our reliably irregular Sunday column in which games people talk about books. It’s sad because the original creator of this column, arch word baron Nic Reuben, is no longer full time at RPS. It’s glorious because this is one of the best columns I’ve ever read, and I’m delighted Nic has given permission to keep it rolling. He’s now got a Patreon, by the way.

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"Exploring the Intrigue of Atomfall: A Lake District Trip Gone Awry"
“Exploring the Intrigue of Atomfall: A Lake District Trip Gone Awry”
12:43 pm

Today’s advent calendar hails, in both setting and make, from the RPS homeland of the United Kingdom. Which means, like most of RPS, it’ll probably spend Christmas predominantly unconscious, driven into a coma by a combination of tiredness, pigs in blankets overreach, and acute exposure to King Charles. Best play it before then, eh.

It’s Atomfall!

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Weekly News Summary: The Sunday Papers
Weekly News Summary: The Sunday Papers
11:43 am

Sundays are for realising that he’s coming. That he’s inevitable. That, in a way, he’s already here. You feel him in the back of your mind. Grinding his teeth. Picking his nose. Raking his nails across the palms of his hands. He hungers, a snarling hunk of robo-man-flesh yearning for the time his clarion call rings out through the space between each of our psyches.

Something terrible and insidious this way comes. He glues a cookie-cutter short back and sides hairdo to his usually bald bonce. He cries out to the great corporate entities for money and wares to show off. He dusts off a tombstone engraved with the words ‘please wrap it up’. He howls at the moon. AWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Adrian Edmondson? “NO,” he yells, jumping on stage. “IT IS I, KEOFF GEIGHLEY.” You gasp in horror.

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"Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Developers Discuss Delay in Launching 'War Sails' Mod and the Integration of Custom Naval Battles"
“Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Developers Discuss Delay in Launching ‘War Sails’ Mod and the Integration of Custom Naval Battles”
10:43 am

Earlier this year, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord‘s War Sails naval expansion had its release pushed back from June 17th to November 26th. You can give it a go right now if you fancy, so it obviously made that second date. Prior to the DLC dropping, I chatted with Bannerlord senior producer Falk Engel about what went into the decision to ditch the initial summer date, and why custom naval battles were only confirmed to be arriving with its launch quite late in the day.

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Paradox Acknowledges Responsibility for Bloodlines 2 Sales Performance and Plans to Reassess Future World of Darkness Games Strategy
Paradox Acknowledges Responsibility for Bloodlines 2 Sales Performance and Plans to Reassess Future World of Darkness Games Strategy
9:33 am

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 hasn’t sold as well as publishers Paradox predicted. As such, the company have announced plans to write-down 355 million Swedish Krona (approximately £28 million/$37 million) of the game’s development costs – essentially the financial way of saying something along the lines of ‘oops, this isn’t worth as much as we thought it was’.

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Epic CEO Requests Valve and Steam to Eliminate Requirement for Developers to Disclose Generative AI Usage
Epic CEO Requests Valve and Steam to Eliminate Requirement for Developers to Disclose Generative AI Usage
8:33 am

A couple of weeks after arguing that generative AI shouldn’t be considered in videogame reviews, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is calling for Steam and digital storefronts generally to stop requiring generative AI disclosures.

Sweeney’s argument is broadly that all videogames will use generative AI tools at some stage, so you and I might as well stop hearing about it. He thinks tagging things as made with generative AI is only necessary when there’s a formal need to prove legal authorship, or help buyers understand whether they have rights to a piece of digital art. There’s no sense letting regular old videogame players learn that stuff. It will only make us upset, and possibly less willing to play videogames with generative AI in them, like Fortnite.

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Ubisoft Announces No Plans for Second Major DLC Expansion for Assassin's Creed: Shadows
Ubisoft Announces No Plans for Second Major DLC Expansion for Assassin’s Creed: Shadows
7:33 am

Assassin’s Creed Shadows probably won’t get a second major DLC expansion on the scale of Claws of Awaji, Ubisoft’s associate game director Simon Lemay-Comtois has revealed. It’s a blow to fans who are accustomed to getting a couple of major expansions per Assassin’s Creed, and a boon to people who haven’t even played Shadows yet, let alone the 10-hour-long Claws of Awaji, and are getting dry heaves from FOMO. It’s me, I am people.

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