y The trick to Dragon Age's lore is that the lore is lying, says original "uber-plot" writer David Gaider By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:48:59 +0000 Part of the fun of Dragon Age's fantasy is that it's inconsistent - or at least, inconsistent by the standards of fantasy RPGs, which often break down into a million neatly organised and interlocking codex entries. It all rides on who you speak to. The humans believe one thing about the origins and workings of Thedas, the elves another, the qunari something else entirely. These differences are the basis for many factional disagreements and thus, many core series plot developments. According to former lead writer David Gaider, however, there's an "uber-plot" behind it all that may one day be resolved and bring the series to a close, assuming BioWare continue to refer to his original (and closely guarded) narrative documents. Read more Full Article Strategy Electronic Arts RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard Action Adventure Single Player Bioware
y I am deeply enamoured by Dragon Age: The Veilguard's intricate and ridiculous fashion design By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 11:53:53 +0000 Some extremely fresh vintage workwear that I bought for entirely practical reasons aside, I’m not exactly a fashion person. I have nobody to impress most days but my cat, and the only item of clothing she appears to have an opinion on is my Oodie, which is very comfortable for both of us and also smells like a chicken shop, which I imagine is more pleasant for her than me. This aside, I found myself taking a whole bunch of Dragon Age: The Veilguard screenshots as I played just to capture the RPG’s various outfits. They are ridiculous. Incredibly intricate and detailed, as well as being obscenely impractical for the most part. I do not like any of them in the sense I would wear them, but I like all of them in the sense that they display artists allowed to run free like caffeinated weasels and indulge their every whim. Read more Full Article Strategy Electronic Arts RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard Action Adventure Single Player Bioware
y Buckshot Roulette now has a 4-person multiplayer mode, which I'm sure you will survive By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 12:15:44 +0000 Real gamblers play russian roulette with shotguns. That is the core concept of Buckshot Roulette, the Inscryption-looking game of blinksweat and bulletworry. It's been out for a while now but the developers have just added a fun extra - a 4-person multiplayer mode. Read more Full Article Mike Klubnika First person Horror Puzzle Critical Reflex Indie Buckshot Roulette PC Single Player
y Showa American Story is Yakuza: Dead Souls meets Tokyo Gore Police, and it looks incredible By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:05:13 +0000 Some days, I wonder if every word written before a trailer is actually superfluous. It’s a visual medium, after all. What can a description achieve save to clumsily gesture at the true shape of something; a dog-eared tour brochure for a thrilling weekend spelunking in Plato’s cave? I can usually shake this feeling, but gory zombie action game Showa American Story is my breaking point. There is nothing I can impart about this thing that will not be conveyed better by allowing its new trailer to wash over you like a tide of sheer videogame. Here’s it: Read more Full Article Indie Third person RPG Action Adventure Single Player Showa American Story
y Alan Wake 2 still hasn't quite made its money back, according to Remedy's latest financials By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 15:24:14 +0000 Remedy's Alan Wake 2 has now "recouped most of its development and marketing expenses", CEO Tero Virtala has announced in a business review for January-September 2024. Speaking as somebody who would quite like there to be more Alan Wake games - or at least, moderately weird and pretty decent blockbuster singleplayer horror games - I am both pleased by this news and a little troubled that Remedy's eldritch forest fable (which came out in October 2023) has yet to break even. Read more Full Article Epic Games Horror Third person PS5 PC Mystery Shooter Xbox Series X/S Action Adventure Single Player Alan Wake 2 Remedy Entertainment
y The Monster Hunter Wilds beta is live with an early glimpse of the new camping, wound and weather systems By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:17:07 +0000 Stroll on down to Uncle Capcom's garage, girls and boys, because it's time to meddle with a cat's voicebox, ride a combat peacock and meticulously injure a vast, blubbery teddybear. By which I mean, the Monster Hunter Wilds beta is now live on Steam through to 4th November at 2.59am GMT. That's 2.59am sharp. If you're hurrying along at 3am on Monday absolutely desperate to polish the aesthetics of a small enslaved catperson, you can sod off and play Dragon Age: The Veilguard instead. Read more Full Article Third person Monster Hunter Wilds RPG Single Player Hack & Slash Capcom
y Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer review: it's like Call Of Duty By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:02:21 +0000 People have asked me, a Call Of Duty liker, "How's the new COD?" - such is the mass appeal of Call Of Duty that even a lot of my non-industry pals are invested in whether Black Ops 6's shooty really does bang. And every single time my brain clunks into gear and I turn inwards, where I struggle to come up with anything meaningful to say. So much so that a fog develops and out of the fog emerges a figure - it's me. I'm holding an M4A1 with an extended barrel and a vertical foregrip. My brain and body perform a pincer movement of physical response: 1) I shrug 2) I say, "It's like Call Of Duty". Read more Full Article First person Activision Single Player Raven Software PS5 Multiplayer Cooperative Multiplayer Competitive PC Wot I Think Shooter Treyarch Xbox Series X/S Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Xbox One PS4
y What are we all playing this weekend? By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000 Okay, look folks, I'm terribly sorry you've been trapped in the bubble of silence for this weekend while comments are still un-fucking themselves. I'm expecting some really juicy catch-up comments next weekend! In the meantime, this post will stay up as usual so you can at least hear what we're getting up to in the treehouse. Congratulations on making it to another checkpoint, fellow traveller. Please spend your hard-earned coin on one of the following bonuses: either a weekend of games but no sleep; a weekend of sleep but no games; or a weekend of health and activity but nothing to post in the comments below? Your choice! Here's what we're all clicking on this weekend. Read more Full Article Playing This Weekend
y Typing Of The Dead meets Resident Evil with co-op in Blood Typers, which has a demo you can play now By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:42:12 +0000 Typing Of The Dead released in arcades 25 years ago remains a masterpiece - funny, absurd, tense, and novel. I am keen on any game that aims to follow in its footsteps, and there are a few. The latest is Blood Typers, a horror game where you tippity-tap on your keyboard to fight montsters in a spooky mansion, but this isn't a rail shooter, so you'll be typing to explore and navigate, too. It's now got a release of February 2025, and there's a demo you can play now. Read more Full Article Outer Brain Studios Horror Blood Typers Educational
y Elder Scrolls: Legends has been removed from sale and will become unplayable in January 2025 By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 22:06:07 +0000 The Elder Scrolls: Legends, the free-to-play card game set in Bethesda's fantasy world, has been removed from sale on Steam. Its servers will shut down for good on January 30th, 2025, after which it will no longer be playable. The closure comes five years after the game was last updated. Read more Full Article Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy iOS Strategy Android Metanet Software Nintendo Switch PS4 Multiplayer Competitive PC Mac Bird view / Isometric Single Player Bethesda Softworks Xbox One Card Games The Elder Scrolls: Legends
y Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't get expansions, reports say, as BioWare move to the next Mass Effect By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 22:22:11 +0000 BioWare currently has no plans for Dragon Age: The Veilguard expansions, according to reports. Instead the studio will support the fantasy RPG with smaller updates and otherwise turn their full attention towards Mass Effect 5. Read more Full Article Strategy Electronic Arts RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard Action Adventure Single Player Bioware
y The Sunday Papers By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000 It's official: I am once again the Sunday correspondent around here. That means it falls to me to round up (mostly) good (mostly) writing about (mostly) video games. I will otherwise be spending my Sunday continuing the fight against my dog's fleas, which rebound every three weeks no matter how much I spray, scrub or throw things away. On, the independent video game magazine which I linked to last week, has run a series of brief interviews with each of the contributors to its launch issue. I recommend Christian Donlan's for the puzzle game recommendations and Margaret Robertson's which expands on her fascination with Japanese paper games. Read more Full Article The Sunday Papers Blockbuster
y What's on your bookshelf?: Solipsism Xtreme Edition By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 16:00:00 +0000 Sunday is cancelled. Book for now! Read more Full Article Booked For The Week Blockbuster
y Assassin's Creed Shadows will reboot Assassin's Creed's patchy modern-day story By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:09:23 +0000 Put your hand up if you'd forgotten that every Assassin's Creed game is, strictly speaking, set in the present day. I know I had. That's not the actual distant past you're parkouring through. That isn't actual Renaissance architecture you're clambering on. It's a holographic Animus simulation, conjured from ancestral memories flash-frozen within your DNA - convenient, inasmuch as it means that any inconsistencies are your DNA's fault, not Ubisoft's. If the ledge-mantling animations are glitchy, that's simply because you have bad genes. We can both be forgiven for losing sight of Assassin's Creed's modern day narrative frame. Ubisoft themselves have downplayed it since the era of Desmond Miles, the watery Peter Parker figure who served as puppetmaster protagonist for AC games up to Assassin's Creed 3. In Assassin's Creed Shadows, however, they're planning to bring back the modern day setting in a big way, though details are scanty. Read more Full Article Ubisoft Entertainment Ubisoft Quebec PS5 PC Assassin's Creed Shadows Mac Ubisoft RPG Xbox Series X/S Action Adventure
y Thysiastery is an anime Legend Of Grimrock, and you can attack the dinosaur merchants if you’re a complete monster By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:14:28 +0000 One of my lesser quality tests for an RPG is whether the shopkeepers complain at you for not buying anything. Grumpy shopkeepers, good RPG. This most specific of litmus tests has served me well, although I must admit that I’d happily upgrade it to ‘shopkeepers you can attack’, would that not disqualify 99% of games. But not turn based dungeon crawler Thysiastery, it turns out. This “dungeon crawler RPG featuring traditional roguelike and turn-based gameplay” apparently trusts you enough to let you recklessly batter its friendly wandering lizard merchants. You’d be a monster for it, of course, but it’s nice to have options. Read more Full Article RPG: Turn-based THYSIASTERY PC Indiescovery
y No, you're not imagining Monster Hunter Wilds' beta combat feeling off - there's a good reason for it By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:42:27 +0000 I didn’t get much further in the extremely popular beta for the haute-couture-asaurus action of Monster Hunter Wilds than perfecting the exact orange-to-white ratio of my cat. Not because I wasn’t having fun, but because I immediately started looking up GPU prices after playing for ten minutes. As such, I didn’t spend enough time with the combat to get a proper feel for it. Cultural osmosis has once again allowed me to form an uneducated take, however, and I’m getting the sense there’s been some mixed reactions re: bonk quality. According to a clip shared on X by user Blue Stigma, there's a good reason for those misgivings. It's all about frames, you see. Read more Full Article Third person Monster Hunter Wilds RPG Single Player Hack & Slash Capcom
y Slitterhead review: body-hopping action horror that's best left dispossessed By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:01:00 +0000 I was excited for Slitterhead, an action adventure game by Bokeh Studio, a studio founded by none other than your boy Keiichiro Toyama: the creator of Silent Hill, Gravity Rush, and the Siren series. And within that first hour, Slitterhead's body-possessing and Hong Kong-inspired streets had me thinking, "Is this it, the sleeper hit of 2024?!" No, sadly not. It's no doubt built a compelling universe filled with brain-sucking aliens that masquerade as humans, and it attempts plenty else besides: bouncing between bodies as you stealth around dingy apartment blocks, fighting with blood katanas, and gorging on pools of red plasma to refuel skills, many of which require more body-flitting. Thing is, they are ultimately just attempts, attempts that fall victim to an emptiness and jitteriness that quickly reveals Slitterhead's true, irritating form. Read more Full Article Horror Bokeh Game Studio PS5 PC Wot I Think Slitterhead Xbox Series X/S Action Adventure
y It's never too early in the week to play 4D minigolf By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:17:51 +0000 I didn't sleep last night for entirely self-inflicted reasons and my brain feels like that one accursed hoover bag you refuse to empty, because there is no way of doing so that won't turn the neighbourhood into Silent Hill. I need to avoid any complicated write-ups, or my brain will detonate similarly and paint north London grey. Ah, a minigolf game! I think I can just about hack the concept of minigolf, on this most desperate of Mondays. It is golf but mini. Bonzai golf. Digestible! Intuitive! Why, I've managed to write 100 words without even looking at the Steam page. Let's do so now. Wait a minute, this isn't minigolf. It's Mini Mini Golf Golf. What is Mini Mini Golf Golf? "Destabilize the present and plunge into a neon psychohistory of a bizarre entity in distress," the Steam page explains. "This is not a game about minigolf." It is too late to flee. Read more Full Article Story Rich Puzzle Indie PC Science Fiction Arcade Mini Mini Golf Golf
y The Forever Winter devs answer complaints about water scarcity... by adding thieves who invade your HQ and steal your water By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 13:10:11 +0000 When nightmarish sci-fi extraction shooter The Forever Winter launched into early access in September it was somewhat messy. Bugs and maddening enemy spawns diminished the tension of being a fleshy human scavenger in a mech battlefield. But one feature annoyed some players much more - fresh water. See, you need to keep your headquarters stocked with water, as it gets steadily used by your settlement's inhabitants. The catch being that this water diminishes even while you're not playing the game. If it runs out completely, then everything you've collected gets wiped. The developers have listened to complaints about this most Farmville of mechanics, and they've answered in an interesting way. Water thieves! Now, on top of the usual downward trickle, burglars will come to steal your H2O as well. It's not as bad as it sounds. Read more Full Article Shooter: Third Person The Forever Winter PC Shooter: Loot Shooter Science Fiction Survival & Crafting Fun Dog Studios
y We’ve learned the hard way that ganging up on Deadlock doesn’t make it more digestible By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:14:34 +0000 The mystery surrounding Deadlock, Valve’s work-in-progress MOBA shooter, has largely evaporated. Its freely extendable invite system is about as effective at controlling player headcount as a disinterested football steward, meaning pretty much anyone with a clued-in Steam friend can get in and start poking around its secrets. And yet, being a lane-pushing wizard fighter in the Dota 2 vein, it’s already a vast tangle of interplaying abilities, items, strats, and often unspoken rules, of the kind that even experienced gankists will take hundreds of hours to learn. It’s been too much for poor Brendy, at any rate. Still, Brendy is but one man. What if we had but four men, working in tandem to crush lanes and flatten Patrons just as Gabe intended? To find out if Deadlock is indeed more comprehensible as a team sport, Graham, Ed, Ollie, and James joined forces, promptly getting fucked up yet emerging from the warlock hospital with a deeper understanding of its workings. Or, at least, if anyone would keep playing. Read more Full Article Strategy Third person Virtual Reality Multiplayer Competitive PC Shooter MOBA Single Player Deadlock Valve
y Straftat review: an anarchic First-Person Speed dater you'll fall in love with By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:30:00 +0000 It’s tempting to frame Straftat as a throwback to an older, better time for the multiplayer FPS, when the lingo was coded in frags and gibs and sucking it down, when satisfaction was drawn entirely from performance rather than some convoluted, artificial system of progression. Not only would this be inaccurate, but it would also do a disservice to what Straftat truly is, namely a wild overcorrection in response to the direction of modern multiplayer gunfests, one that careens straight through retro stations to arrive somewhere new and exciting. Read more Full Article Leonard Lemaitre Indie PC Wot I Think Lemaitre Bros Bestest Bests Shooter: First Person Sirius Lemaitre Straftat
y Twitch introduce mandatory "Politics and Sensitive Social Issues" label, just in time for the US election By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:51:32 +0000 Twitch have introduced a new "Politics and Sensitive Social Issues" label for streams that "focus" on topics like "elections, civic integrity, and war or military conflict". As with the streaming giant's existing labels for M-rated material, sexual themes or depictions of gambling, the idea is that viewers can filter out such streams in advance by altering their settings. Advertisers, similarly, can "make better choices about the content they want to advertise next to" - in other words, pull their ads from a whole swathe of material if they don't want to be associated with anything controversial. Twitch's hope is that "the labels will allow advertisers to have more context to inform which types of streams they show their ads alongside, which we expect to increase brands’ confidence in running ads on Twitch, and could bring new advertisers to our service." Read more Full Article Twitch Streaming
y Baldur’s Gate 3's reactivity didn’t ruin Veilguard's linearity for me - it let me enjoy it more By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:08:15 +0000 Minor spoilers for the first few hours of Veilguard and heavy spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3 For all the things I ended up enjoying about Dragon Age: The Veilguard, it isn’t much of an RPG. What little roleplaying it does offer revolves around what flavour of supportive hero you prefer, and you can count the number of impactful dialogue decisions on a three-fingered hand. This might sound utterly damning in the wake of Baldur's Gate 3’s incredible reactivity, and if I approached games as some sort of tedious comparative intellectual exercise rather than just, y’know, seeing how I felt about them, then I suppose it would be. Weirdly, though, the recent memory of Baldur’s Gate 3 didn’t diminish my time with Veilguard at all. It was actually the opposite: it freed Dragon Age from having to carry the torch for a certain period in Bioware’s history, and let me enjoy Veilguard for what it was. Read more Full Article Strategy Electronic Arts RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard Action Adventure Single Player Bioware
y The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth celebrates 10 year anniversary with online co-op announcement and sale By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:06:38 +0000 Beloved roguelike traumatic-childhood-em-up The Binding Of Issac: Rebirth turned 10 yesterday, and it’s half off on Steam to celebrate. What’s more, maker Edmund McMillen has announced that the foretold online co-op update is due on the 18th of this month, alongside a “considerable” balance update. Consider me considering the considerability of said considerable update! Read more Full Article Indie Action Adventure Single Player Arcade Xbox One PS4 PlayStation Vita Edmund McMillen Nicalis Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative PC Nintendo 3DS Bird view / Isometric Mac RPG Shooter Nintendo Wii U The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
y Black Ops 6 devs still looking into unfair spawning - "yes, we saw ourselves in a Killcam before selecting a Loadout too" By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:14:43 +0000 Early reactions to Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer range from frothing dislike through omnimovement hype to our own Ed Thorn's dead-eyed appraisal that it's "a good one, I think. Not a bad one. If you like Call Of Duty, you will like this. If you don't like Call Of Duty, you will not like this." I feel like we need to emergency-deploy a supply crate of smelling salts, because the sheer OK-ness of Black Ops 6 appears to have tumbled Ed into a stupor. Perhaps it would be a different story if he'd encountered some of the spawning issues and glitches people are talking about, with players joining games and materialising right into a hail of fire. The players in question include Black Ops 6's developers, who comically note in the latest Black Ops 6 patch notes that "Yes, we saw ourselves in a Killcam before selecting a Loadout too." The latest patch seeks to address this, naturally. As regards the campaign side of things, it also resets your safehouse currency to 5000, if you've had your single player funds stolen (or multiplied) by technical gremlins. Read more Full Article First person Activision Single Player Raven Software PS5 Multiplayer Cooperative Multiplayer Competitive PC Shooter Treyarch Xbox Series X/S Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Xbox One PS4
y This bite-size free horror game has you study an ancient artefact that holds a dark secret By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:36:52 +0000 I have zero archaeology experience or knowledge, but I bet archaeologists really love their jobs (for the most part). They get to analyse and discover cool artefacts and educate us on the histories of forgotten civilisations. That's dreamy stuff, that is. But I do wonder what it's like for archaeologists to discover and study something they shouldn't have; something with a disturbing secret - a curse, maybe. Bite-sized horror game The Children Of Clay explores this idea and I'd like more of it, please. Read more Full Article Horror The Children Of Clay Indie PC Balazs Ronyai Point and Click Free-to-play
y Hori’s spiritual successor to the Steam Controller is up for preorder on Amazon today By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:14:17 +0000 Hori's latest addition to its controller lineup, the "Horipad Wireless for Steam," is now available for preorder on Amazon. After already releasing in Japan at the end of October, now the gamepad is coming to the US. Read more Full Article PC
y Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign review: a military shooter that comes disguised as other, better games By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000 As a yearly blockbuster, Call of Duty, through sheer expense and effort, would like you to think it is the Die Hard of video games. Or, depending on the setting, the Saving Private Ryan of video games. But it is barely Black Hawk Down. This latest campaign in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 reminds me more of the forgettable Netflix shootfests that thumbnail their way across your TV screen as you try to find some gritty nothing to aid you in zoning out of life. Still, there is an anecdotal contingent of casual sofa sitters for whom Call Of Duty is the game. A balls-to-the-wall shooter to return to every winter and rinse through in a weekend. Ed has already gestured at its multiplayer, announcing: "yup, it's COD", like a deeply tired Captain Birdseye inspecting the day's catch, wondering when his life will change. But never mind that. How does the single player story mode hold up? Some are calling it the best campaign in years. And I guess that's true, in the sense that it is the least worst. Read more Full Article Raven Software Wot I Think Treyarch Xbox Series X/S Action Adventure Sledgehammer Games Single Player Xbox One PS4 Infinity Ward Activision PS5 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative PC Shooter: First Person Blockbuster First person Shooter
y Buggy monsters in Monster Hunter Wilds have sparked a wave of low-poly animal adoration By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:34:24 +0000 I've spent quite a lot of today trying to figure out why, exactly, some of the monsters in the Monster Hunter Wilds beta looked like bundles of copulating pyramids slathered in crocodile gravy. Nic clued me in on this reddit thread earlier, which cites unnamed Chinese players who've allegedly data-mined the beta's monster models, and learned that they are extremely large, encompassing hundreds of thousands of polygons. If every monster in Monster Hunter Wilds were that fancy all of the time, your computer would become a volcano. As such, the game resorts to loading-on-demand systems to ensure that you only see those gorgeous details when the monsters are close by and, as the case may be, angrily sitting on you. When they're further afield, the flourishes fall away to free up memory and processing power. The popular Redditor explanation for the presence of monsters that look like Henry Moore sculpture is basically that the LOD systems are being forgetful, and neglecting to load the additional polygons at proximity. Read more Full Article Third person Monster Hunter Wilds RPG Single Player Hack & Slash Capcom
y Enshrouded's "largest update so far" is out with a new mountain region, pets and single-player pausing By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:16:08 +0000 Enshrouded has received what developers Keen Games are calling the survival game's "most sizable" update yet, sizable being an appropriate word for mountains. Expect a new playable area, the Alabaneve Summits, with its own enemies, resources, non-threatening wildlife and quests. The maximum character level has risen to 35! There are new townsfolk to find and place in your poorly built houses! You can tame animals, and make them live in poorly built houses too! You can get hypothermia! Read more Full Article RPG: Action Indie Third person Action Adventure Open World Single Player Realism Exploration Simulation Sandbox Survival & Crafting Keen Games Full product Fantasy Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative PC Social Enshrouded RPG
y Total War: Warhammer 3’s next DLC is brought to life with porridge, yoghurt and real bones By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:41:48 +0000 Ogres, Orcs, and Khorne are all on the way in the upcoming expansion for strategy game Total War: Warhammer 3, and Creative Assembly have just released their latest dev vlog with a few more details on what to expect. There’s still no word on the exact title, although given the established naming convention (Shadows Of Change, Thrones Of Decay), I’m tentatively calling it “Sniffers Of Glue” in honour of the No Think, Only Krump faction selection. You’ll find the vlog in its full glory below. What’s interesting about this one is that vlog mainstay director Rich Alridge has brought along some new faces: battle designer Josh King and audio director Chris Goldsmith. And, yes, so no-one can accuse me of burying the lede: that audio design involved the enthusiastic, deeply disgusting slurping of porridge and yoghurt, and the jangling of real bones. The source of the bones is not revealed. Read more Full Article Sega Strategy Total War: Warhammer III The Creative Assembly Multiplayer Cooperative Multiplayer Competitive Bird view / Isometric Single Player Strategy: Real-Time Strategy
y Warcraft 2: Tides Of Darkness Remastered apparently leaks ahead of the RTS series’ 30th anniversary direct next week By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:47:14 +0000 We’re still a week away from Blizzard’s Warcraft 30th Anniversary Direct next Wednesday the 13th of November, but art from an apparent remaster of 1995 real time strategy game Warcraft II: Tides Of Darkness has leaked online, via Xibbly user Stiven. It’s a thin one, as far as leaks go, but does show what looks to be cover, logo art, and a Battle.net icon. Thanks for the spot, Percy Coswald Gamer. Read more Full Article Warcraft II Strategy Multiplayer Competitive Single Player Strategy: Real-Time Strategy
y You can now make video clips using Steam's built-in game recording feature, as an update rolls it out to all users By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:23:41 +0000 Steam's built-in game recording feature has been usable in beta since the summer, but it has now been properly launched for every user, following a client update to Steam yesterday. It's basically another method of capturing funny ragdoll glitches and posting them on the "lol-games-are-dumb" channel of your friend's Discord. Or for posting that flukey knife throw in Call Of Duty to Twitter, as if you really meant to kill the man from across the map all along. Or saving a clip for your personal records, like the footage of that time you yeeted an innocent citizen off the 50-foot wall of a castle town in Dragon's Dogma 2. We all do that, right? Right? Read more Full Article Steam PC Valve
y Stop putting hats on your pets, asks Stardew Valley creator By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:23:52 +0000 Back in the misty reaches of time (March) popular farming sim Stardew Valley got a big update that added more pets to the game (it also let you drink mayonaise but let's not get sidetracked). Those new cats, dogs, and turtles had the cute distinction of being able to wear hats, should you choose to kit your wee friends out. Now, following many months of smaller updates to the game, it seems those hats are causing a problem. "[If] you are experiencing performance issues in Stardew Valley 1.6, remove all hats from pets," said creator Eric Barone in a xeet. When asked the lore-accurate cause of this problem, he blamed: "a strange rash". Read more Full Article Nintendo Switch Indie Life Simulation Xbox Series X/S Single Player Stardew Valley Xbox One PS4 PlayStation Vita Story Rich Android Exploration PS5 Simulation Sandbox Survival & Crafting Eric Barone Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative PC Bird view / Isometric iOS ConcernedApe Mac RPG
y Halo 2's lost E3 2003 demo will finally be playable thanks to modder magic By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:09:23 +0000 Halo Infinite recently received a big update in the form of Delta Arena, a playlist that features recreations of Halo 2's most popular maps and a special third-person mode. The true highlight, though, is yet to come. And that's through an entirely different Halo game: The Master Chief Collection. Soon enough, you'll be able to play Halo 2's lost E3 demo on it, thanks to some lovely modders. Read more Full Article 343 Industries Third person Microsoft Xbox Series X/S Action Adventure Single Player Xbox One Halo Infinite Halo: The Master Chief Collection Xbox Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative PC Microsoft Studios First person Xbox Game Studios Bungie Shooter Halo 2
y Oh thank Horace, our comments system is up and running again By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:32:26 +0000 "Never read the comments," is a truth much-rehearsed by senior games journalists, but I have long since levelled-up past this axiom and entered into a new world of benevolent narcissism. I always read the comments, for all commenters are my children. They exist to glorify and preserve me in my dotage. True, occasionally my children say things like "I think your writing and opinions are appalling, and that you deserve to be repeatedly run over by a herd of deer", but it is the nature of children to rebel. Read more Full Article comments
y Deus Ex was always sh....wait no comments are back sorry sorry I'm trying to delete it By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:32:05 +0000 Full Article First person PS2 Eidos Interactive Eidos PC Aspyr RPG Shooter Single Player Deus Ex
y Foxhole is getting planes next summer and an infantry combat overhaul later this month By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:06:13 +0000 Foxhole is one of my favourite games to read about, even if I don't play it. It's a massively multiplayer World War 2 game, viewed from above, where battlefield logistics matters as much as aiming and flanking. Its developers have just announced a major new update coming next summer, Foxhole: Airborne, which adds planes to the game for the first time. Planes, in a topdown MMO? It makes a little more sense if you watch the trailer. Read more Full Article Strategy Indie Foxhole MMORPG Multiplayer Competitive PC RPG Shooter Bird view / Isometric Strategy: Real-Time Strategy
y Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will have new dialogue, and EVA’s actor reveals why she chose a pseudonym based on her pet dog By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 09:14:28 +0000 Putting aside my natural annoyance at Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater for almost beating out the Twarhammer series in the headline real estate wars, I am more than a little excited to play. Some days, you simply must feast on a tree frog, and while we still don’t have a solid release date, that day doesn’t feel too far away. Good news for stealth fans, and perhaps gooder news for a dozen strapline writers sweating profusely, soiling themselves in anticipation of using “kept you waiting, huh?”. Until then, I at least have a steady drip feed of new information to keep me sated, the latest of which is the substantial hint that there'll be some new dialogue in the game, as per the video below. Alongside that, the previously pseudonymous Suzetta Miñet - who was credited with voicing EVA in MGS3 and Peace Walker - has revealed herself to be Jodi Benson, the voice of Ariel in Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Cheers for the spot, Automaton West. Read more Full Article Single Player Konami Third person PS5 PC Stealth Shooter Xbox Series X/S Action Adventure Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
y Take-Two are selling Private Division and closing Roll7 and Intercept, because they're in "the business of making great big hits" By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 12:20:03 +0000 Take-Two Interactive have sold their publishing label Private Division to an unnamed party, along with five of Private Division's "live and unreleased titles". The GTA 6 publisher have also finally confirmed that they have shut down OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome devs Roll7 together with Kerbal Space Program 2 creators Intercept Games, months after performing mass layoffs at both studios. Read more Full Article
y GTA 6 release date won't slip to 2026, Take Two assure - they're "highly confident" about fall 2025 By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 14:39:20 +0000 A few months ago, the rumour took root that GTA 6's release date would slip back from 2025 to 2026. An anonymous insider averred that studio heads were "worried" about the new open world game's progress - hence, perhaps, Rockstar's decision to mandate a full return to in-office work. Pshaw, say publishers Take-Two CEO. They announced a fall 2025 launch in March and have just doubled down on it in their latest financial briefing, with CEO Strauss Zelnick subsequently going on the tellybox to say that Take-Two are "highly confident in the timing", though he still has nothing to share about GTA 6 on PC. Read more Full Article Shooter: Third Person Grand Theft Auto 6 Rockstar Games Third person Modern Day PS5 Full product Shooter Xbox Series X/S Open World Action Adventure Single Player
y Some guy complained this fishing game only caters to queer players, so the dev added a "straight" title - it costs $9999 By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:36:16 +0000 When multiplayer fishing game Webfishing came out last month, it offered a relaxing hangout zone for cats and dogs. Everything revolves around catching, selling, and collecting the fish that gather in the rivers of a small island. It also lets you customise your character with clothing. Mostly simple hats and shorts, but some options let players celebrate their sexuality, such as a rainbow-adorned t-shirts, or titles that hang above your character which simply say "Trans" or "Bi". All this led one player to complain there was no "Straight" title. So, the developer added one. It costs 10 grand. Read more Full Article lamedeveloper Indie Sports PC Social Sandbox Webfishing
y No Man's Sky has a Mass Effect Normandy again, together with new cross-save functionality By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:07:58 +0000 Back in the mists of 2021, No Man's Sky revealed its very own Normandy SR1 space frigate. "The Normandy in No Man's Sky?" you cry. "Why, that's a Mass Effect vessel. Some mistake here surely?" 1) My name's not Shirley, and 2) Indeed it is a Mass Effect ship, but HelloGames struck a time-limited deal with BioWare to create a version for their own space sim. "Blast, if only I'd noticed this at the time and acquired one," you mourn. "Ah, so many years I have wasted." Be of good cheer, my friend, for No Man's Sky has a Normandy once again, just in time for the latest N7 Day of assorted Mass Effect celebrations. For the next two weeks, you'll be able to get a-hold of it by way of a revised version of 2021's Beachhead Expedition. Tray-tray, away! Read more Full Article Nintendo Switch Indie Third person 505 Games Xbox Series X/S Action Adventure Single Player Xbox One PS4 No Man's Sky PS5 Simulation Hello Games Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative PC Virtual Reality First person Mass Effect 5 Mac RPG
y Offensively good-looking Sims challenger Inzoi hits early access in March 2025 By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:05:24 +0000 Life simulation game Inzoi will launch on PC via Steam early access on 28th March 2025, publishers Krafton have announced. Billed as a potential Sims 4 usurper, and equipped with syrupy Unreal Engine 5 visuals, it was originally slated for launch this year. Read more Full Article Life Simulation inZOI Krafton PC
y Sega are delisting over 60 'classic' games from Steam, including Crazy Taxi and Streets Of Rage By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:55:29 +0000 Sega are delisting several bundles of 'classic' games from digital stores, along with "select individual" games. On Steam specifically, this adds up to over 60 games in total, including several actual classics including the original Streets Of Rage trilogy, Crazy Taxi, and Jet Set Radio. The games will be removed on December 6th but will remain playable to those who already own them. Read more Full Article Nintendo GBA Third person Crazy Taxi Streets Of Rage 2 Single Player Arcade Acclaim Games Racing SEGA Corporation Android PS2 PS3 Empire Interactive Platformer Xbox 360 Multiplayer Competitive Multiplayer Cooperative PC Side view iOS Sega BlitWorks Hitmaker SEGA of America Atari Jet Set Radio Hack & Slash
y Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival beats its way onto Steam today, with 70+ songs (and 700 more behind a subscription) By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:24:18 +0000 I first played Taiko no Tatsujin in an arcade (in Japan, because I am very cool), where it's controlled by hitting a recreation of an actual taiko drum. It was fun enough that I wish there was a taiko drum peripheral available for PC now the series is on our platform. Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival is out now via Steam, where it offers over 70 songs to drum through, and a subscription service through which to unlock over 700 more. Maybe I should try to get my Donkey Konga drums working on PC, but I'll probably settle for playing it with a gamepad. Read more Full Article Bandai Namco Entertainment Multiplayer Competitive Rhythm Taiko no Tatsujin Rhythm Festival Single Player
y Nvidia are slapping a 100-hour monthly cap on GeForce Now streaming, with charges for extra time By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:27:10 +0000 GeForce Now, Nvidia’s PC-focused game streaming service, will begin calling time on its most muscular of power users. A post on the GFN subreddit announced the introduction of a 100-hour monthly cap (or "allowance"), effective from January 1st 2025 for anyone who signs up after that date. Existing streamists, or anyone who signs up by the end of 2024, will get a year’s grace period before the limit kicks in from January 2026. Read more Full Article Cloud gaming Nvidia GeForce Now Streaming
y Toads Of The Bayou is Into The Breach but with aristocratic, pipe smokin’ toads (of the bayou) By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:32:50 +0000 In all honesty, Toads Of The Bayou could have been several notches less ribbet-ing than its Steam demo ended up being, because its stylised pixel fly-snatchers are just that good. There’s only one of the three characters available in the freebie (one of the others is a toad nun with a shotgun), but he’s got a little cutlass, a flintlock pistol, and a can-do attitude - at least when it comes to either stabbing or shooting things. The game itself is a little bit deckbuilder, a little bit Into The Breach: turn based strategy with perfect information and various tricks you can pull to make enemies hit each other instead of the thing you’re trying to protect. Indulge yourself on the gourmet tray-tray below. Read more Full Article Strategy: Turn-Based Strategy Fireshine Games Toads Of The Bayou PC
y Here are the patents Nintendo and the Pokémon Company are suing Palworld about, according to Pocketpair By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:43:51 +0000 Palworld developers Pocketpair have finally revealed which patents Nintendo and the Pokémon Company are suing them about. It looks like they're focusing on the act of throwing capsular items to catch or release monsters, together with the usage of monsters as mounts. If you've somehow yet to encounter Palworld, it's a bestselling survival game that takes hefty - some would say, scandalous - inspiration from Pokémon, with players poaching Pokésque critters using magic spheres, and deploying them as soldiers and minions. Read more Full Article Pocketpair Indie MMORPG Third person PS5 Multiplayer Cooperative PC RPG Shooter Action Adventure Palworld Single Player Xbox Series X/S Hack & Slash Xbox One PS4
y Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6's first multiplayer season promises new maps, modes, and a hefty Hand Cannon By www.rockpapershotgun.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 17:18:30 +0000 Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 has been out for a little while already, what with me giving its multiplayer largely a thumbs up. Still, it's an ever-evolving thing and Activision have announced the game's first seasonal drop. It's a hefty one with a lot of additions, so I'll try my best to break down the good stuff. TLDR: there's some new maps for multiplayer and zombies, new modes, and a few extra bits. I'm mildly excited for more. More in this case is good. Read more Full Article First person Activision Single Player Raven Software PS5 Multiplayer Cooperative Multiplayer Competitive PC Shooter Treyarch Xbox Series X/S Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Xbox One PS4