I put on my robot and hate Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Centuries ago, before 2022, before the Good Darkness of 2020, before the Before Times of 2015, the ancient age before even that of 2013, and perhaps, some fringe scholars suggest, even before the beginning of this sentence, there was Arcen Games . Though far from the most ancient, Arcen always struck me as a very RPS-y studio . The semi-mythological god-king Meer even rallied his demon army to aid in their financial hardship in 2010. Their games were almost invariably interesting . Ambitious, original, defiantly uncategorisable, and all the other things that make games as a medium great, and studios that make them destitute. They stick in your mind . But the brutal churn of capitalism cut their already small studio to the bone (primarily studio head Chris Park, who notably blamed himself ). In the decade since, they made and steadily updated AI War 2, so it would be inaccurate to say that Heart of the Machine means that Arcen are back.…