HomeNewsElden Ring The first Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree trailer is hours away, as last February release date hopes fadeFromSoftware’s open world RPG expansion to get first proper showing FromSoftware’s open world RPG expansion to get first proper showing Image credit:Bandai Namco/FromSoftware Image credit:Bandai Namco/FromSoftware Shadow Of The Erdtreeis getting a trailer today and it’ll last for three whole minutes, which is more than enough time for folks to tear all of its finer details apart for several hundred hours....

HomeNewsNightingale Today’s new games struggle because “evergreen” hits like Fortnite “pull players towards them at all times”, says former BioWare GMInflexion’s Aaryn Flynn on lessons learned from playtesting Nightingale Inflexion’s Aaryn Flynn on lessons learned from playtesting Nightingale Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Inflexion Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Inflexion Games Before founding Inflexion in 2021, Aaryn Flynn worked at BioWare. He’s got credits on some of the studio’s best-loved games, fromBaldur’s Gate2 through Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic toDragon Age: Originsand theMass Effecttrilogy....

HomeFeatures Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Characters making ‘bdbdbdbdbdi’ noises while talking in text The bdbdbdbdbdi is a delight. Ambigious, playful, and surprisingly full of personality with different pitches and modulations and effects. bdbdbdbdbdi, the person says, and I tell them “You are my best friend.” bdbdbdbdbdi, the person says, and I respond “How dare you! Prepare to die!” bdbdbdbdbdi, the person says, and I tell them something too sexually obscene to print in these gentle pages....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#977): How to solve the Wednesday February 21 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for February 21? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for February 21? 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!...

HomeNewsAssassin’s Creed Mirage Assassin’s Creed: Mirage’s new free permadeath mode deletes your save when you break the lawNot everything is permitted Not everything is permitted Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft You can enable Full Synch Challenge on any difficulty. Cross-progression and cloud saves will be disabled in the process, and you can’t turn FSC off after starting the game. Finish a permadeath run, and you’ll be rewarded beyond your wildest dreams in the shape of… an emblem when completing the game on Easy, an emblem and a Rayhan costume when you complete the game on Normal, and an emblem, a Rayhan costume and six new dyes for existing outfits (specifically Initiate, Zanj Uprising, Abbasid Knight, Hidden Ones, Rostam and Bayek) when you complete the game on Hard....

HomeFeaturesCobalt Core Cobalt Core isn’t just a great game, its soundtrack is also an all-timerA musical appreciation post A musical appreciation post Image credit:Brace Yourself Games Image credit:Brace Yourself Games Every year, there are a couple of game soundtracks I become properly obsessed with. In 2022, I more or less had the music of Tunic andCitizen Sleeperon repeat whenever I left the house. In 2021, it was Chicory. In 2020, it wasCoffee TalkandSigns Of The Sojourner, and in 2019, it was allMutazione, all the time....

HomeNews Gigantic: Rampage Edition revives and expands the shuttered MOBA hero shooterSix years later Six years later Image credit:Abstraction Games/Gearbox Image credit:Abstraction Games/Gearbox Gigantic, the free-to-play team brawler from a formerStarCraftandGuild Warsdesigner, which launched (fully) in 2017 andclosed the following year, is returning asGigantic: Rampage Edition. It’s no longer free-to-play, but a “premium and definitive release” of the original, and it’s due on April 9th. GIGANTIC: RAMPAGE EDITION | Announcement TrailerA Gigantic: Rampage Edition trailer....

HomeNewsHelldivers 2 Helldivers 2 updates could bring back the first game’s sneaky teleporting Illuminate factionIn-game news broadcasts point to a sinister resurgence In-game news broadcasts point to a sinister resurgence Image credit:PlayStation Image credit:PlayStation Nose aroundHelldivers 2’s Galactic War map and you might notice that there’s a lot of empty space. Around half the celestial sphere is given over to the dominions of the Automatons and Terminids, leaving ample room for another enemy faction to be inserted via free update or paid DLC....

HomeNewsKingmakers Kingmakers mashes the medieval era with modern weapons and its trailer is a viral sensationAlso third-person shooting with strategy Also third-person shooting with strategy Image credit:Redemption Road Games Image credit:Redemption Road Games Kingmakershas too much going on to easily summarise, but I’ll try. Really, though, you should just click below and watch the trailer, which will surprise and delight you with its twists and scope in a way my words will not....

HomeNewsLast Epoch Last Epoch’s 1.0 release patch arrives with a full offline mode, Warlocks and controller supportThe changelog is only 32 pages long! The changelog is only 32 pages long! Image credit:Eleventh Hour Games Image credit:Eleventh Hour Games Last Epoch, a Diablo-like action-RPGfrom Eleventh Hour Games that’s been in early access since 2019, finally arrives tomorrow as a full release. And to celebrate, there’s a colossal 1.0 update that could take you an hour to read in its entirety....

HomeNews More than 500 games on Steam earned over $3 million in 2023A record breaking year A record breaking year Image credit:Myco Image credit:Myco In 2023, more than 500 games earned more than $3 million (around £2.3 million) in gross revenue via Steam, according to Valve. The stat was shared as part of their annual summary, a breakdown of the platform’s past year in terms of new features and performance....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Tuesday, February 20)Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #254 Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #254 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 26th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

HomeNewsPowerWash Simulator PowerWash Sim’s Warhammer 40K crossover arrives next week, and the new trailer is very funnyCleanse the dirt heresy! Cleanse the dirt heresy! Image credit:Square Enix Image credit:Square Enix My experience with Warhams isn’t flat zero - I had some minifigs when I was a teenager and played a few of the Dawn Of War video games - but I haven’t actively checked in on it for a while. I know enough to make “[x] for the [x] throne!...