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Biomorph is one the best of its genre, of 2024, and maybe all time
There are exactly one million metroidy rogueishy action platform games and that is okay. There's no such thing as too many of an entertaining thing in a world with, god I dunno, at least thousan...
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/biomorph-is-one-the-best-of-its-genre-of-2024-and-maybe-all-time
Big cool weirdo Yoko Taro may or may not be working on something that may or may not be Nier
Fans of odd games with multiple endings and themes of identity and oppression, rejoice! Or, maybe, not rejoice. Time will tell. In the latest issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, Yosuke Sai...
Helldivers 2 players rally around an unlikely hero who just wanted to make friends
When they’re not banding together to take on Sony or attempting to reinstate fired community managers , it turns out that Helldivers 2 players just want to make sure everyone feels included. ...
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser's new studio is making an "open world action-adventure" game
Absurd Ventures, the company started by Rockstar Games co-founder and head writer Dan Houser after he left said juggernaut, are working on a new "open world action-adventure" game. That's accord...
Shockingly great soulslike Lies Of P is due a DLC by the end of the year
Our Edders, the RPSer I’d most trust to help me gank a rival covenant member with hammers, reckoned Pinocchio soulslike Lies Of P was an “instant must-play” in his review , and I was pret...
Ubisoft quietly cancel The Division Heartland
As Ubisoft revealed Assassin's Creed Shadows they also released their earnings report for the financial year 2023-2024. Buried among the chatter of "profitable growth trajectories" and "B2B part...
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ubisoft-quietly-cancel-the-division-heartland
Ghost of Tsushima’s PSN login requirement will stop you playing multiplayer on Steam Deck
We’re just a couple of days away from Ghost of Tsushima’s PC release date , as the former PlayStation exclusive prepares to drop its Director's Cut - including its expansion and multiplayer D...
Dead by Daylight is adding D&D killer Vecna, voiced by Critical Role DM Matthew Mercer, with Castlevania also on the way
After teasing an upcoming chapter inspired by Dungeons & Dragons , Dead by Daylight has revealed its next killer pulled from the pages of the fantasy pen-and-paper RPG: Vecna, long-running mega-...
Assassin's Creed Shadows is both a samurai and a ninja game, as it borrows Syndicate’s dual-character story
After being unceremoniously thrown into the spotlight yesterday with a pre-reveal leak, Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been given a proper unveiling via a flashy cinematic trailer, confirming bo...
"Inspired by FF9" is all I needed to sell me on JRPG tribut...but "Dark Souls composer" and "Genshin Impact artist" help too
Alzara Radiant Echoes is a clear love letter to golden age JRPGs, pulling inspiration from the likes of Golden Sun and Lost Odyssey for a 3D turn-based RPG set in a Mediterranean fantasy world. ...
It’s not just Helldivers 2 - plenty of games owe a lot to the films of Paul Verhoeven
Remember when Control came out and your mate Terry appeared out of nowhere to rant endlessly about how they’ve always loved brutalist architecture? Come on, Terry. No you haven’t. You spend ...
I am dissatisfied with the hat selection in Little Kitty, Big City
Graham said he wanted someone to write about Little Kitty, Big City , asked if I liked cats, at which point my soul was possessed by some kind of deep animus. "I really like cats, I just hate the...
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/i-am-dissatisfied-with-the-hat-selection-in-little-kitty-big-city
Homeworld 3’s performance is uneven, but can be spared the worst of spacefight slowdown
Nic reckons Homeworld 3 , the long-awaited spacefaring RTS , is mostly pretty good . Qualified hoorays for that, as well as for the fact that it doesn’t make especially mad demands of your hard...
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/homeworld-3-performance-best-settings
Read Only Memories: Neurodiver review - a bright cyberpunk noir overdosing on easter eggs
The characters in Read Only Memories: Neurodiver are deeply into anime. They love manga and figurines and trashy movies and horror novels. The interests of the game's creators have not so much l...
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/read-only-memories-neurodiver-review
For two years, Kento Momota had the best game in the world
Last week, I watched one of my favourite badminton players Kento Momota play his final match. As he stepped off court for the last time, I found myself welling up. He doesn't know me - of course ...
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/for-two-years-kento-momota-had-the-best-game-in-the-world
Comedy RPG Athenian Rhapsody is a child of Undertale with GBA visuals in which playthroughs become postcards
I have a couple of takes on Nico Papalia's new RPG Athenian Rhapsody, which launched on Steam yesterday and still has a demo. The first is that it's a brighter, glitzier version of Toby Fox's U...
Wayfinder is ditching its free-to-play live-service model to become a paid, co-op RPG without microtransactions
Wayfinder , currently a free-to-play RPG developed by Airship Syndicate, is undergoing a pretty drastic change in its upcoming Echoes patch. Right now it's a live-service game with microtransacti...
The Sims 4 kicks off the weirdly horny new roadmap with a refresh to base game swimwear
The Sims 4 is nothing if not a teetering jenga tower of updates and add-ons and DLC packs, and the latter half of 2024 will be no exception for EA's life sim king. Yesterday saw the release of a...
Game dev challenges other devs to multiply something in their game by 1000, triggering landslide of chaotic videos
I think most would agree that the artist formerly known as Twitter has never been in more need of a thermonuclear cleansing. The Musk era has transformed what was already fondly known as a hellsi...
I’m not sure if FPS The Explorator is real or I just fell asleep watching Adult Swim, but I’m already in love
Old-school FPS adventure The Explorator contains much more intense shooty violence than the adorable lizardy folk that populate it might immediately suggest. I really want to use the word ‘za...
Braid Anniversary Edition is out now, rewinding time approximately 15 years
Look, you've had 15 years to play that well-regarded time-bending puzzler sitting in your Steam library, staring at you this whole time. Well, now you can have another 15 years. Braid Anniversary...
Valheim gets a fiery rebirth as Ashlands biome goes live with new siege weapons, bone spiders and boiling seas
Do you love the smell of napalm in the morning? If so, you'll probably love the smell of Valheim 's Ashlands biome, which has just launched for all players after a period of beta testing . Sadly,...
Total War Warhammer 3’s frost wyrms are just shrinking because they’re cold, I swear, and other changes in new hotfix
Thrones of Decay - the expansion for strategy game Total War: Warhammer 3 that finally made it viable to steamroll the old world with a doomstack of 20 tanks, just as Franz intended - just rele...
Prison Architect 2 developers part ways with Paradox months before it's due for release
Prison Architect 2 was delayed last month from a planned May release date until September . Now it's changing developer. Double Eleven are parting ways with publisher Paradox Interactive after n...
Minecraft is turning 15, so they're giving away some Character Creator items
Minecraft is turning fifteen years-old and to celebrate Mojang are running fifteen days of giveaways from May 15th until May 29th. Apparently each day will offer up "a new free Character Creator...
Steam's latest Fest offers discounts on games you can play over and over forever
Video games must be three hours-long or infinite and nothing in between. The latest Steam event is designed to celebnrate the latter. The Endless Replayability Fest runs from now until May 20th, ...
Former XCOM and Civilization devs team up to launch a "next gen lifesim" inspired by Stephen King and Gilmore Girls
A group of former XCOM and Civilisation developers have co-founded a new studio, Midsummer Studios, who plan to “revitalise the life sim genre” with their debut release. The latter doesn�...
InKonbini is Shenmue, but just the convenience store
Tucked away in a corner of 1999's Yosuka, Japan-set open world sim Shenmue there's a convenience store, or "konbini", where you can buy stuff like carrot juice, take part in raffles, and fritte...
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/inkonbini-is-shenmue-but-just-the-convenience-store
Vampire Therapist is like playing language puzzles against different types of theatre kid
My evolving relationship with Vampire Therapist continues apace - much how protagonist Sam's acumen as an unlicensed therapist for the unsettled undead develops at speed. He's a vampire doing th...
Who needs a Morrowind remake when you can explore the beautiful nightmare of Dread Delusion?
I booted up Dread Delusion and fell 30 feet to my death. This throwback first-person RPG is hazardous, and not only due to the dreamlike islands floating in the sky. My leg-snappin' plummet may ...
These racing game players are 11 days into an exhausting race to climb a deadly tower
Buckle up. A bunch of players are competing to cross the finish line of a brutally difficult tower of racetracks in racing game Trackmania , with a prize pool of $30,000 waiting for the first thr...
Paper Trail review: a beautiful puzzler I had a (mostly) miserable time with
I’d like to start this review with a question: What’s the difference between overcoming a challenge and thinking “I did it!” and one that leaves you sighing “It’s over!”? I may leav...
A solo dev worked 12 years on this retro JRPG - and it’s out next month
The only thing I’ve stuck to regularly over the last twelve years is breathing, and I often forget to do even that. So it’s with all the awe and appreciation in the world that I dove into the...
Monkey Island creator's new RPG is "best described as Classic Zelda meets Diablo meets Thimbleweed Park"
Genuinely legendary game designer Ron Gilbert – whose works include the classic adventure game Monkey Island , the RTS Total Annihilation (as producer), and the term “cutscenes” – is ma...
Fallout 4 gets some further tweaks to its mod-destroying “next gen update”
As promised and/or threatened , depending on your perspective, open world game Fallout 4 has gotten some new graphics tweaks and bug fixes to smooth out the bumps caused by its previous “next...
New Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree enemy revealed: a bloke with a basket for a head
Elden Ring is already home to a lot of rotten creatures. Serpent snails that spit at you, ulcerated spirits with bark for skin, a big pair of hands. Now we know of another rotten creature who's ...
The Long Dark is getting a Cheat Death system, but don't worry, it's also getting a Misery Mode and cougars
I've played little of legendary survival sim The Long Dark , or The Short Dark, as I guess it has proven for me. I fell off the game after succumbing to my first wolf. But I've sampled enough to...
Hades 2 will change your "dash" and "sprint" abilities in its first patch
Greek god pulverizing simulator Hades 2 is getting its first patch "later this month", say the developers. Two things are on their to-tweak list. First, something might change about the way reso...
The AC game set in feudal Japan is called Assassins Creed Shadows, may have leaked its own release date
A while back Ubisoft revealed about a billion Assassin's Creed projects . The first of these to leap into the carefully placed haystack of release was Mirage , which I liked. Up next, it seems, i...
Mullet Mad Jack review: a simple and ultra-stylish corridor crash
Mullets aren't just coming back into fashion, they're everywhere at the moment, adopted largely by lads who love draft beer and The Football. And seemingly by Mullet Mad Jack , the protagonist of...
The first Red Dead Redemption could finally be coming to PC - and soon - according to a fresh datamine
Almost 14 years to the day after Rockstar’s cowboy epic Red Dead Redemption released on consoles, and coming up on five years after its sequel beat it to PC , it looks like the original Red De...
EA are thinking about inserting adverts into games - but don’t worry, it’ll be “very thoughtful”
The last few weeks I’ve been watching quite a few YouTube videos (thanks, Evo Japan), and noticing that adverts during videos a) seem to pop up every 30 seconds or so and b) then last for an un...
PC classics Ultima, SimCity and Myst have been added to the World Video Game Hall of Fame
Deep in my heart I know that Hall of Fame-type accolades are largely just a way of dressing up a way of marketing your awards show/museum/whatever, but I also like to occasionally cast away the c...
We might not wait so long for the next FF7 Remake, as Squar...rs” with “aggressive” shift away from console exclusives
After rebooting Final Fantasy 7 as the trilogy of Remake, Rebirth and Really, You Went With That? (TBC), Square Enix are now planning to reboot themselves. Among the publishers’ revamped appro...
What did a medieval peasant’s raw, sour breath sound like? Manor Lords’ composers tell us
The story of Manor Lords ’ soundtrack begins, as all inspiring tales do, with hunched-over late-night doom scrolling. It was pre-covid, and Pressure Cooker Studios’ composer Daniel Caleb was ...
New Doom reveal hinted at by Zenimax trademark
This news post leaves me in a quandary, readers, because I will need to write a swear word for the sake of full journalistic transparency, but Google’s algorithms tend to frown on sweary articl...
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/new-doom-reveal-hinted-at-by-zenimax-trademark
I need someone to make a video game for me, specifically, about prioritising my pile of unread books
Like with getting fancy polyhedral dice sets full of all glitter and wool, buying and owning are two different hobbies when it comes to books. I think this has gotten worse (if that's the word?) ...
Former Helldivers 2 lead writer's next game is "Fire Emblem if it were published by Annapurna"
The former lead writer of charming super-fascist simulator Helldivers 2 is working on a strategy and tactics RPG in the vein of Nintendo and Intelligent System's Fire Emblem games, which aren'...
Rhythm shooter ROBOBEAT is a cyberpunk Metal: Hellsinger, out this week with a demo still available
ROBOBEAT is the third one of these new-fangled rhythm FPS games I’ve played - after BPM: Bullets Per Minute and Metal: Hellsinger - and the first one I’ve actually clicked with. The conce...
Necrophosis has a demo, if you're after a "we've already got Scorn at home" experience
What if Scorn , but it's one that your mum got you for Christmas? That's easy, it's Necrophosis , baby. Much like Scorn, Necrophosis is also part-inspired by the dystopian surrealist works of Zdz...
Enter The Chronosphere is a fast, furious yet laidback series of top-down shooting hamster mazes
Back in the late 90s when all of you NORMIES were playing Diablo , I was playing a little-known Konami ARPG called Azure Dreams, which has alas never escaped PlayStation prison. It's a grid-base...
You can pet the headcrabs in Abiotic Factor, and now they'll follow you around
Cheese and loyal pets (two important items on Maslow's hierarchy of needs) have been added to the co-op survival crafting game Abiotic Factor . The dairy product manifests as various suspiciously...
This sweet life sim is Stardew meets Star Trek, and you can try the demo now
There aren't many ways left to put a twist on Stardew Valley, but suffixing it with "in space!" oughta do it. Little-Known Galaxy is out in a week, and currently has a demo on Steam , where you ...
The Trombone Champ championships are a wellspring of community creativity whether or not you bone the 'trom
Brass-blasting rhythm game Trombone Champ honked its way into our hearts when it released in 2022. Since then, it's garnered a dedicated fanbase that have kept its spit-valve full to bursting wi...
The Maw - 13th-17th May 2024
Some fresh astral god trivia from my accidental molar expedition a few weeks back: each of the Maw's teeth is different. Some form a fractal baleen network of crosshatched layers disappearing bac...
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-maw-13th-may-17th-may-2024
What's on your bookshelf?: El Paso, Elsewhere and Hypnospace Outlaw's Xalavier Nelson Jr.
Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome to Booked For The Week - our Sunday feature where we ask a selection of cool industry folks questions about books! Did you know that if you cup a bo...
The Sunday Papers
Sundays are for celebrating the fact that my washing machine now drains correctly. Before I deliberately spill beans down all my white tees just so I have an excuse to spin from dawn to dusk, pop...
Instruments Of Destruction, from one of Red Faction Guerilla's demolition tech wizards, is out in 1.0 now
Instruments Of Destruction goes to the trouble of having a voiceover offer a preamble to each of its missions, but I don't need it. Its launch trailer knows I don't need it, as its own voiceover...
Ghost Of Tsushima Director's Cut no longer available on Steam in almost 180 countries due to PSN requirement
Samurai action-adventure Ghost Of Tsushima Director's Cut is due to launch on PC this coming Thursday, May 16th - but it'll be available on Steam in nearly 180 fewer countries than expected. Tha...
Warner Bros. are returning some Adult Swim-published Steam store pages to their developers after all
Warner Bros., owners of the now-defunct Adult Swim Games publishing label, have contacted some developers about returning ownership of their game's Steam pages. The developers of both Small Radio...
What are we all playing this weekend?
One or more of you raised suspicions a couple weeks back that I was a stone-cold liar. I told you that I was going to hide a smiley face inside every Playing This Weekend header image, and here'...
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/what-are-we-all-playing-this-weekend-282
Homeworld 3 review: a lavish and often gripping RTS that is overly reliant on playing the hits
Spacefaring RTS Homeworld 3 is good sci-fi. Monolithic structures scorched with plasma burns. Sleek spacecraft. Alien sunrises. It’s also good sci-fi because its characters converse through r...
After waiting years for its next-gen update, Fallout 4 is already getting another patch next week
What is it Wendy Cope wrote? “Bloody Fallout 4 patches are like bloody buses. You wait half a decade for one, and as soon as that one breaks everything, Bethesda releases another just days late...
Dead Cells devs’ The Rogue Prince of Persia dodges Hades 2 with a release date delay
The Rogue Prince of Persia , a game that is pleasingly candid in choosing its name for a roguelite Prince of Persia spin-off, has been delayed. It turns out that developers Evil Empire - they of ...
Dead by Daylight is teasing a classic Dungeons & Dragons monster as its next killer
Having brought the likes of Resident Evil’s Nemesis , Silent Hill’s Pyramid Head , Stranger Things' Demogorgon and Alien’s Xenomorph to its one-versus-many game of deadly hide-and-seek, D...
Bungie's original landmark FPS Marathon is now free on Steam
Halo and Destiny developers Bungie have released their classic shooter Marathon for free on Steam , with sequels Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity to follow. The Steam ports are the work of the ce...
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/bungies-original-landmark-fps-marathon-is-now-free-on-steam
Stellaris director insists “ethical use of AI is very important to us” after generating voices in latest DLC
The director of Paradox’s grand sci-fi strategy game Stellaris has insisted that the studio’s use of any AI-generated assets will be “ethical”, after revealing that latest expansion The...
Manor Lords gets its first big patch, with new taxes, animations and changes to trading
Harken to me, serfs! There's a big new patch for Manor Lords now available in beta testing for all players. Developer Greg Styczeń has blogged about it in depth. Yes, this is one of thos...
Oh no, I accidentally got really into Helldivers 2
Regular Nic Reuben enjoyers, should such people exist, will remember I wrote a supporter post a few weeks back about wanting to spread my personal gaming fun time out among new and exciting games...
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/oh-no-i-accidentally-got-really-into-helldivers-2
Here's a demo for Reka, the bewitching forest fantasy game with the chicken-legged house
As I have now casually mentioned in about 400 news posts, I'm moving flat soon. During the quest for a new flat - a quest I would slot somewhere between return to Ravenholm in Half-Life 2 and th...
Runes may one day be a great RPG - it's currently an entrancing oddity filled with accidental cyborg ninjas
Open world fantasy RPG Runes emits a deeply powerful aura. I can tell it’s deeply powerful because MSI Afterburner’s fan control immediately went mental after I loaded up its free Steam comb...
Frontier announce third Jurassic World game and two other management sims
Pteranodon-fanciers and Stegosaur-whisperers, please throw your velociraptor-skin hats skyward in adulation. Frontier have partnered with Universal to make a third Jurassic World videogame. It's ...
DayZ's new wintery map adds frosty peaks and snowy forests and icier ways to make you suffer
Good news DayZ fans, there's a new map inbound that'll make survival even tougher than it already is! That's right, the upcoming Frostline DLC adds the Sakhal archipelago, home to a rugged envir...
Game Pass’s “only (outside) shot” for sustainability ...et GTA 6 or Call of Duty, says former Microsoft senior PR lead
Former Microsoft senior PR manager Brad Hilderbrand has blogged about the recent closure of Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin , making a familiar case that Microsoft’s gaming division are now ...
You now have no excuse to not play Arkane Austin’s Prey - you can grab it and two other bangers for a fiver
“I like the look of Prey but I haven’t picked it up yet,” sounds the lament of the perma-wastrel, content to watch life’s most precious resource tick away then dissolve into the ether, n...
Orpheus may be missing from Hades 2 but he's returning to role-playing musical Stray Gods
Role-playing musical Stray Gods is getting DLC in which you'll play as sorrowful ghostly rocker Orpheus, the developers have announced . You briefly meet Orpheus in the base game while playing a...
Microsoft exec calls for "smaller", "prestige" games the day after closing Hi-Fi Rush studio Tango
Ah, it feels like only yesterday that Microsoft shut down Tango Gameworks, creators of Hi-Fi Rush, and now here's Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, telling Microsoft staff at an internal t...
Helldivers 2 balancing has been "removing the fun", Arrowhead CEO frets - "just tweaking damage numbers is a blunt tool"
I spent this morning being pseudo-profound about Animal Well and pseudo-elegaic about Tango Gameworks , so now it's time to get back to the Real Business - being a pseud on the subject of videog...
The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 18: everyone's loving Hades 2!
In the grand tradition established by one (1) prior release, Supergiant dropped Hades 2 over the weekend and we at the Electronic Wireless show podcast have all been playing and enjoying it bun...
Tango Gameworks deserve to be remembered for more than Shinji Mikami
When I asked Tango Gameworks creative director John Johanas whom he'd give Hi-Fi Rush 's Best Audio trophy away to at this year's GDC Awards, he said he'd split it between the game's audio team ...
I have been texting my Classicist brother about Hades II and he's just enjoying it like a normal person
My older brother (as opposed to "big"; my younger brother is my big brother, because he's built like the kind of hearty giant in a JRPG who laughs a lot and carries an anchor as a weapon, while m...
Animal Well review: an unmissable creature feature
Computers have always been animal wells, in a sense. They're havens for creatures of many shapes and degrees of literalness, all the way down to the metal. As in ecologies at large, the most abu...
Vibrant strategy Be the Ruler: Britannia is probably not the next Manor Lords, but it looks great nonetheless
How to best describe strategy game Be the Ruler: Britannia when its alchemic reduction of traditionally full-on genres is what drew me to its free Steam prologue in the first place? A less dem...
Can you play Rusty's Retirement while at work and still get work done?
I'm playing Rusty's Retirement as I type this article. This cute farming sim runs at the bottom of your screen as you go about your working day. You can plant crops, hire watering robots, harves...
Among Us is getting new roles, better lobby filtering, and more bean fashion
Among Us , the super popular game where you control a little bean guy to bamboozle your pals, is getting a bunch of new things this year. Developers Innersloth unveiled the game's 2024 roadmap, ...
More Xbox studio cuts likely to follow Tango and Arkane Austin, and Game Pass looks like the culprit
Like us, you’re probably still reeling from Tuesday’s news that Hi-Fi Rush studio Tango and Prey ’s Arkane Austin are getting shuttered by Microsoft. According to Bloomberg , these closur...
Shadows Of Doubt's sharpshooter assassins keep missing and leaving huge piles of wasted ammo everywhere
A recent update for procgen whodunnit sim Shadows of Doubt added "Sharpshooter Assassins" with high-powered rifles to the game's glowering alternate-1980s cities, with players having to work out...
Darkest Dungeon 2 should start rolling out its long-awaited mod support soon
It’s coming up on three years since the sequel to Darkest Dungeon hit early access , and over a year since it exited early access into 1.0 . That means, however you count the days, it’s been ...
Next Battlefield game will have “connected” multiplayer and single-player offerings, made by series’ biggest team yet
The next Battlefield game after the underwhelming Battlefield 2042 will continue to lean on the series’ evolution into a live service offering, the CEO of EA has said, while revealing that the...
Fortnite bans its Yoda backpack for opening game-crashing wormholes while doing Futurama’s Zoidberg Scuttle
Ready for a sentence that could only apply to the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink pop-culture smorgasbord of modern-day Fortnite ? Here we go! A rucksack containing Star Wars’ Yoda has been tem...
I’m fascinated by this open-world delivery game that soun... 13th-century Mongolia, with “unparalleled equine realism”
Despite being hugely allergic to horses - my eyes once swelled up so severely at a local fair my wife had to guide me home - I continue to be absolutely spellbound by the animals. I’ve been rew...
Remembering Prey, Arkane Austin’s masterpiece
Confident design is one thing, but there is confidence, and then there’s the almost reckless certainty required in both your game’s sturdiness and the player’s curiosity to trust a feckless...
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/remembering-prey-arkane-austins-masterpiece
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf set to arrive by next March, according to report
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf , the next entry in the series of beloved dating sims with rpg s crudely affixed with Blu Tack to their walls, is set to arrive by the end of March next year. That’s accor...
From Glory To Goo is full of loveably horrible little glurbs
It's not, strictly speaking, a goo. From Glory To Goo's enemy isn't a sinister gunge , but that minor disappointment didn't last long. Its monsters are individual, blobby little (mostly) purple...
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/from-glory-to-goo-is-full-of-loveably-horrible-little-glurbs
Gray Zone Warfare may be the new FPS hotness, but my experience with it left me cold
As I write this, Gray Zone Warfare is sat at fourth place in Steam's top sellers list. I've seen loads of vids from big FPS YouTubers pivoting to it as the next big thing, especially for the Es...
Crow Country review: my first Resident Evil (complimentary)
Tangle Tower was a weird and cute point and click murder mystery set in a big weird tower full of colourful characters, so what better way for the devs to fill time before the sequel comes out t...
Insect RTS Empires Of The Undergrowth leaves early access in June, adding savannahs, termites and stink ants
Even as Nic spent this morning writing lovingly about frogs , I was watching trailers of frogs disintegrating beneath an unstoppable ant tsunami. The game in question is Empires Of The Undergrowt...
Disgruntled Helldivers 2 fans start petition to bring back fired community manager
Fans of Helldivers 2 have started a petition asking developers Arrowhead to reinstate a fired employee in charge of community management. The employee, "Spitz", was let go following the fiasco in...
Excellent fantasy RPG Wildermyth is turning into a roguelike via DLC
Excessively brilliant fantasy RPG Wildermyth is getting a new DLC pack which both embraces the fad for adding roguelike modes to games, and tugs against it in the shape of what the developers a...
Destiny 2 gives all players access to three expansions as The Final Shape draws closer
As Destiny 2 's The Final Shape expansion hovers ever closer like someone gently nudged an absurdly large dodecahedron towards us in zero gravity, Bungie have gone and made three expansions free...