OmniBus [official site] is a bit like the movie Speed if it lived in the Mercenary III world and hung around with Crazy Taxi. That's a weird combination, isn't it? Want something weirder? The game's Bus Driver Edition comes with a soundtrack and an "actual MCI bus that may or may not have been used to motion capture lifelike bus movement," so say publisher Devolver Digital. There's one available for $7,500, apparently, for which they request "serious inquiries only."
So there you go. If you'd be happier with OmniBus' digital incarnation, though, it's out next week.
]]>It's far too early to make any game of the year predictions but I'm happy to put OmniBus' [official site] trailer forward as a likely TOTY contender. Presented as a documentary study of a game that has been in development hell for since the "next-to-last gen". The game itself is a surreal bus simulator, though it looks to be in the manner of Crazy Taxi via Keita Takahashi rather than Goat Simulator + wheels.
]]>Right then. Another week done and another host of words written. This wrapup column, or omnibus if you will, should be here for your perusal before every week’s end. That’s the plan. If you’ve been sensible and read every last letter we’ve daubed across the internet this week, feel free to continue with your weekend as normal. My pithy summaries are not to be considered entertaining or particularly informative in and of themselves. But if you’ve managed to miss any of our special stuff, you’ll find it listed and linked below.
]]>As a new week begins and the frivolity of the weekend draws to a close, it is normal to look back at the week before and think: “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and say huzzah”. It’s certainly how I prepare for the horrors of every Monday, and I suggest everyone do the same. But I’m no doctor and that’s no prescription for joy. Instead, perhaps take a look through the best of Wot We Wrote last week. It’s stirring stuff.
]]>Digital religion, memory kingdoms, mules, purloined music and surrealist Mad Men: that was the week that was in PC gaming news. Here are the best bits of the last seven days of RPS, and a few of the most ludicrous too.
]]>Lawyers, politicians, pilots and unreformed chauvinist meatheads: that was the week that was in the joyful province of PCgamingland. In case you're a lazy or forgetful reader, here's the best bits of the last seven days. All aboard!
]]>A long, long time ago, I can still remember, the RPS Omnibus used to make me smile, And I know, that if I had my chance, I could make those people click through. And maybe they'd be happy, for a while.
But all those Saturdays made me shiver, with every post I'd deliver. Very few comments on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step.
But hell, let's see what happens this time around. For those who don't read us regularly or suffer from short-term memory loss, here's the best stuff we've posted over the last week...
]]>This Omnibus covers the last couple of weeks, thanks to both myself and Alec being away at the same time. I was off playing Russian games at KRI, the Moscow game developers conference, while Alec was packing his bags for Chicago. Just a holiday, as far as we know. Needless to say the other two didn't even notice that it hadn't been done... Anyway, here's most of the last fortnight in Summary. (I missed out bits due to laziness.)
]]>Was that the most interesting week on RPS so far? No idea, but you can make your own clever judgment by reading this week's omnibus, which lists all our posts in a series of vague categorisations. See how we post!
]]>It's the Omnispacebus! Space week has been and gone, but if you missed even a single syllable of our vaguely thematic wittering about stars and planets and spaceships and jetpack brontosauruses and dear Christ so much Eve, here's where to catch up.
Oh, worth quickly mentioning a site-tech snafu, as folk keep mailing us about it - we are aware that the RSS feed is truncated and picture-free. It's an unfortunate side-effect of a Wordpress upgrade, and we're hoping for word on a fix soon. Soz, like. In gladder tidings, the three people who read us in Safari will be happy to know we once again play nice with Apple's silvery browser.
And now, on with the busman's latest holiday.
]]>Another week, another embarrassment of riches dug from the pits of PC gaming and presented at your web-browsing throne. This Omnibus, arriving every Saturday, will make sure that you haven't missed any fragments of info-treasure from the past seven days. Free games, free ideas, free love. It's all in this week's omnibus. (Apart from the love, but free emotional indifference doesn't sound particular appealing, and I'm trying to sell this link, you know?)
Oh and Alec does the bus Photoshop, and he's away. You'll just have to wait for next week for a new hitchhiker. Okay? OKAY!
]]>Another entire week has passed in the realm of Rock, Paper, Shotgun. We've rocked, papered, and shot guns for the entire 168 hours, and in the quiet times we've also found time to write some stuff about games. You've probably missed the best bits, so why not peruse this handy countdown of cleverness and clarity that we call, "the weekly omnibus".
]]>Behold! The bus of informational excellence: it drops off its cargo of aggregated blogging headlines in this thread, for your continued edification. Read onwards and downwards for the entire week of Rock, Paper, Shotgun's verbiage and banter.
]]>Aiee! A Left 4 Deaderino! Can our noble horseless carriage possibly escape? Or will we all be savaged by a Zomnibus come next week?
Meantime, pray enjoy our hasty round-up of all this week's RPSian content.
]]>Does the bus ever really go anywhere? Or does the week simply move around it? CONSIDER.
Or just catch up with everything we've posted since last Saturday. Your call, really.
]]>All aboard, all aboard. Your destination: everything published on RPS in the last week. Apologies in advance for the bus conductor's 'busy hands'.
]]>Here at RPS we write about ten thousand million words per second. The best way to find out which of those billion-cubed sentences you should have read this week is to click onwards into our omnibus. It rounds up what we've written during that seven day period, every seven days. As usual, it's mostly awesome. Omnibustle!
]]>Goodness, yet another new regular feature. Next we'll be doing horoscopes and crosswords. (Note - we're not going to do horoscopes or crosswords).
Anyway, the purpose of this inaugural RPSnibus is to round up every story posted over the last week, for the benefit of our less regular readers. We do, after all, write ALL THE WORDS IN THE WORLD on a daily basis, so hopefully this is easier than bewildered ferreting through our archives. It's also a handy opportunity to highlight any interesting/entertaining stuff you lot have brought up in the comments threads, and hopefully lure fire'n'forget readers back into the discussions. An RPS post is for life, not just the front page. Is this good idea/bad idea? Let us know'n'all.
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