HomeNewsPalworld Palworld’s first new raid boss is an evil Goth girl, coming soonBellanoir makes its debut in first trailer Bellanoir makes its debut in first trailer Image credit:Pocketpair/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Pocketpair/Rock Paper Shotgun Pocketpair have popped up a trailer forPalworld’s first new raid battle boss, Bellanoir, who is “coming soon” to the monster-catchingsurvivalgame in a big oldPalworldupdate that will also include some fixes and additional anti-cheating measures. First impressions: it’s an evil Goth girl with a jellyfish where her legs should be....

HomeNewsBrighter Shores RuneScape co-creator returns with a new free-to-play fantasy MMO, a decade in the worksBrighter Shores aims to offer a cosier, less grindy experience than the genre’s classics Brighter Shores aims to offer a cosier, less grindy experience than the genre’s classics Image credit:Fen Research Image credit:Fen Research The co-creator of long-runningfree-to-playfantasyMMORuneScapehas revealed the project his new studio has been working on for the last ten years. Surprise! It’s a new free-to-play fantasy MMO....

HomeNews Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection devs “working to address” bugs following disastrous launchYou might be better off playing the originals You might be better off playing the originals Image credit:CBS Studios Image credit:CBS Studios STAR WARS™ Battlefront Classic Collection - Launch TrailerWatch on YouTube STAR WARS™ Battlefront Classic Collection - Launch Trailer “At launch, we experienced critical errors with our network infrastructure. The result was incredibly high ping, matchmaking errors, crashes, and servers not appearing in the browser,” Aspyr explaineda post....

HomeNewsStardew Valley Stardew Valley creator confirms harvesting in a certain direction is faster - but not for long, as 1.6 fix dueEric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone has been teasing incoming patch notes for the massive update Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone has been teasing incoming patch notes for the massive update Image credit:ConcernedApe Image credit:ConcernedApe If you’ve ever suspected that harvesting crops inStardew Valleyis faster in one direction than another, validation is at hand. The belovedfarming sim’s creator has confirmed that the long-rumoured quirk is real, as its incoming 1....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1000): How to solve the Friday March 15 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for March 15? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for March 15? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!...

HomeNews Dungeons & Dragons survive-o-life sim coming from Disney Dreamlight Valley studioDrizzt Dreamlight Valley Drizzt Dreamlight Valley Image credit:Gameloft Image credit:Gameloft The studio behind unexpectedly decent Mickey Mouse life simDisney Dreamlight Valleyare venturing into another fantasy land where anthropomorphic animals adventure with human chums, the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons & Dungeons. Today Gameloft announced they’re making a D&D game offering a “hybrid of survival, life simulation and action RPG”. They don’t have much more to share about the game, not even a name, so presumably it won’t be out for some time....

HomeReviewsOutcast 2: A New Beginning Outcast: A New Beginning review: an open world dead endCutter down Cutter down Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/THQ Nordic Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/THQ Nordic A shame, then, that all its visual splendour amounts to is little more than an empty husk filled withopen worldbusy work that already felt tired and done ten years ago. Its non-linear approach to storytelling remains intact, letting you tackle the quests and problems of its numerous village settlements in any order you wish, but even this has been boiled down to tedious checklists of fetch quests, escort missions and shooting up the same identikit facility one after another....

HomeNews Saber Interactive splits from Embracer, taking 3D Realms, Slipgate, Metro devs and more with themEmbracer will also cease all operations in Russia Embracer will also cease all operations in Russia Image credit:Focus Entertainment Image credit:Focus Entertainment “This is the first transaction of the previously mentioned structured processes and marks a small but important step in our journey to transform Embracer into the future for the benefit of all employees, gamers, and shareholders,” said Embracer boss Lars Wingefors....

HomeNewsCrow Country Tangle Tower devs' love letter to Resident Evil hits Steam in MayPlay the demo for Crow Country while you wait Play the demo for Crow Country while you wait Image credit:SFB Games Image credit:SFB Games Crow Countryand its spooky, mutant-stuffed theme park will be opening its gates on Steam on May 9th, developers SFB Games have announced. It’s the first of two games from theTangle Towermicro-studio coming to PC this year, the other one beingThe Mermaid’s Tongue, which will be picking up the adventures of their Tangle Tower detective duo on a marginally less spooky-looking submarine later this year....

HomeNewsThe Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria The Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moria’s next major update adds a sandbox mode and single player pausePlus new weapons, armour, and building improvements Plus new weapons, armour, and building improvements Image credit:North Beach Games Image credit:North Beach Games While we felt itwasn’t an amazing game, we quite liked The Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moria’s dwarvensurvivalantics. It was abit of cosy fun for a group of pals, and thankfully, open-ended co-op play looks to be the focus of the next big update, which adds a new sandbox mode that lets you pick rocks and sink pints free of storyline constraints....

HomeNewsNobody Wants to Die Check out the trailer for this cyberpunk-noir detective game with a hard-boiled private dickNobody Wants To Die is out some time this year Nobody Wants To Die is out some time this year Image credit:Plaion Image credit:Plaion One of my favourite ‘jokes’to do is parody Raymond Chandler, i.e. I shout “She had legs all the way up to her thighs!” and then laugh at myself. Chandlers’s trademark “blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window” kind of zingers are very hard to do well, so it’s better to say you’re doing Philip Marlow badly on purpose....

HomeNewsDark Souls III Five new worlds to get stuck into Image credit:Archthrones Team Image credit:Archthrones Team After almost four years in development,Dark Souls 3mod Archthrones is set to release a demo on March 15th. If you were unaware of said mod, it’s a Patron-funded expansion that puts Dark Souls 3 on an alternate storyline in a way akin to Demon Souls, with a hub area home to five gateways that’ll transport you to five worlds....

HomeNewsEreban: Shadow Legacy Ereban: Shadow Legacy’s blend of Splatoon and Assassin’s Creed releases in AprilThird-person stealth shenanigans ahoy Third-person stealth shenanigans ahoy Stealth gamesin which you can become “one with the shadows” cover a wide range, though I guess spectrum is the more appropriate word here. You’ve got sober infiltration games like Thief, which metes out gradations of light and dark with the care of somebody calculating their tax expenses, and stylised affairs such as Mark Of The Ninja, in which stepping into shadow desaturates you and sort of makes your character far too fancy for enemies to notice....