Our New Year gaming resolutions for 2024

HomeFeatures Our New Year gaming resolutions for 2024Backlog goals Backlog goals Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Raw Fury Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Raw Fury The first week of January is always one of my favourite times of the year. It’s a time for making plans, setting goals, thinking about all the cool new games I’ll be playing over the next 12 months (while also looking nervously at the pile of games I missed over thelast12 months and placing them very, very gingerly on the teetering and totteringly tall pile of my backlog)....

January 5, 2024 · 6 min · 1159 words · Jacob Cameron

Star Citizen’s ridiculous ship prices hit a new high with £46,000 DLC bundle

HomeNewsStar Citizen Star Citizen’s ridiculous ship prices hit a new high with £46,000 DLC bundleYou’ll need to cough up a grand for the pleasure first You’ll need to cough up a grand for the pleasure first Seemingly not content with having raised over $650 million for a game in development for over a decade without a full release date in sight,Star Citizenis now offering a new way for those with too much money to spend it: a bundle of digital ships costing £46,000....

January 5, 2024 · 2 min · 280 words · Christian Williamson

Wordle hints and answer (#930): How to solve the Friday January 5 Wordle

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#930): How to solve the Friday January 5 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for January 5? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 5? 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!...

January 5, 2024 · 6 min · 1149 words · Juan Meza

Cleavage but no underbust, please: Twitch bans "implied nudity" among streamers

HomeNews Cleavage but no underbust, please: Twitch bans “implied nudity” among streamersPlatform responds to latest thirsty gamer “meta” Platform responds to latest thirsty gamer “meta” “While most streamers have labeled this content appropriately with the Sexual Themes label and are wearing clothing behind the object or outside the camera frame, for many users, the thumbnails of this content can be disruptive to their experience on Twitch,” readsa postfrom chief customer trust officer Angela Hession....

January 4, 2024 · 3 min · 442 words · Beth Daniels

Inscryption meets Russian Roulette in this weird short horror game

HomeNewsBuckshot Roulette Inscryption meets Russian Roulette in this weird short horror gameBuckshot Roulette is from the dev behind Unsorted Horror Buckshot Roulette is from the dev behind Unsorted Horror Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mike Klubnika Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mike Klubnika Russian Roulette is just an edgy version of Snakes & Ladders. It’s pure luck gussied up with high stakes and the cool aesthetic of spinning a six-shooter. A grizzled mafioso whose cheeks glitter with fragments of other people’s teeth has as much chance of winning Russian Roulette as a sleepy five-year-old in SpongeBob pyjamas....

January 4, 2024 · 3 min · 519 words · Brian Collier

Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth is the next great Pokémon game

HomeFeaturesLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth is the next great Pokémon gameIt would be worth your time to catch ‘em all It would be worth your time to catch ‘em all Image credit:Sega Image credit:Sega Having spent some time inLike A Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s Hawaii, I’ve come to realise that it’s a wonderful place, home to trams that’ll let you see the sights and soak in the warm breeze....

January 4, 2024 · 11 min · 2321 words · Noah Park

Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth's Dondoko Island is Animal Crossing with baseball bats

HomeFeaturesLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s Dondoko Island is Animal Crossing with baseball batsSmash trash to attract tourists Smash trash to attract tourists Image credit:Sega Image credit:Sega We got our first look atLike A Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s Dondoko Island atlast year’s Xbox Partner showcase. Right as it dropped, I was in New York giving theAnimal Crossing-esque minigame a go myself, albeit for a quickfire half hour of bashing rubbish bags with a baseball bat and plonking a urinal on the dirt to satisfy a tutorial....

January 4, 2024 · 4 min · 803 words · Alyssa Kaufman

MapleStory publisher Nexon fined record $8.9 million for misleading loot box mechanics

HomeNewsMapleStory MapleStory publisher Nexon fined record $8.9 million for misleading loot box mechanicsSouth Korean commission says company have been rigging the odds in secret South Korean commission says company have been rigging the odds in secret Image credit:Nexon Image credit:Nexon From September 2010, however, Nexon began fiddling with the odds of certain Cubes appearing. Between August 2011 to March 2021, the company are said to have changed the probability structure so that certain much-desired options don’t appear at all....

January 4, 2024 · 2 min · 254 words · Carlos Mendoza

Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill is surprisingly deep for a 4-hour long 90s point and click game

HomeFeatures Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill is surprisingly deep for a 4-hour long 90s point and click gameThis school needs to start doing background checks This school needs to start doing background checks Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Her Interactive Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Her Interactive The first is 1998’s Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill, in which Nancy solves the murder of a Floridian highschooler named Jake Roberts, and there’s a lot to love about it right away....

January 4, 2024 · 4 min · 692 words · Jacob Bennett

Over 14,000 games were released on Steam in 2023

HomeNews Over 14,000 games were released on Steam in 2023How do we feel about that? How do we feel about that? Image credit:SteamDB Image credit:SteamDB The number of games released on Steam has increased every year since the platform’s launch, with the exception of 2019. That decline from 2018 is because 2018 was the year Valve launched Steam Direct, letting developers release their games onto the platform without an approval process and thus prompting an unrepeatable deluge of back catalogue and previously rejected games....

January 4, 2024 · 2 min · 214 words · Mary Fleming

Wordle hints and answer (#929): How to solve the Thursday January 4 Wordle

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#929): How to solve the Thursday January 4 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for January 4? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for January 4? 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!...

January 4, 2024 · 6 min · 1145 words · Krista Davis

A Plague Tale: Innocence is free to keep on Epic Games Store for the next day only

HomeNewsA Plague Tale: Innocence A Plague Tale: Innocence is free to keep on Epic Games Store for the next day onlyRats entertainment Rats entertainment Gloriously grimstealth gameA Plague Tale: Innocence- you know, that game with the rats - is currently free to keep over on the Epic Games Store. If you’ve somehow missed it before now, it’s well worth playing in my opinion - especially for the low price of nothing....

January 3, 2024 · 2 min · 372 words · Emma Campbell

CD Projekt Red won’t give up their independence anytime soon - but might be “open” to buying others

HomeNews CD Projekt Red won’t give up their independence anytime soon - but might be “open” to buying others“We are not interested in purchases that would only aim to include the acquired companies in our group and consolidate their financial results” “We are not interested in purchases that would only aim to include the acquired companies in our group and consolidate their financial results” Cyberpunk creator talks clown gangs and making the biggest RPG of 2020 | Cyberpunk 2077 InterviewWatch on YouTube...

January 3, 2024 · 2 min · 349 words · Shari Garcia