HomeGuidesCall of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023) When does the MW3 beta end? Date and time revealedHere’s your last chance to play the Modern Warfare 3 beta before it ends! Here’s your last chance to play the Modern Warfare 3 beta before it ends! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Activision Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Activision Update: The Modern Warfare 3 beta has now ended.What follows is the original guide on the exact beta end date and times across various regions....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#849): How to solve the Monday October 16 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for October 16? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 16? 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!...

HomeFeaturesLoco Motive EGX Highlights: Loco Motive’s witty, murder mystery point and clicking has won me overJoke’s on me Joke’s on me Image credit:Chucklefish Image credit:Chucklefish I’ll admit I’ve been a bit sceptical ofLoco Motivesince it wasfirst announceda little while ago. Any point and clickadventure gamethat makes a bid trying to be funny like the good old days has a very real chance of being painfullyunfunny in my experience (looking at you,Deponia), and I was worried that Loco Motive would fall into the same try-hard pile as other so-called comedy adventures that have come out recently (see also Turnip Boy - yeah, I went there, fight me)....

HomeFeaturesPine Hearts EGX Highlights: Pine Hearts is a cosy hiking holiday with the occasional nostalgia tripMemoryvania Memoryvania Image credit:Hyper Luminal Games Image credit:Hyper Luminal Games Sometimes, the ability to push over a tree was inside you all along. Retrieving woodland traversal skills from the depths of memory is key toPine Hearts, an easygoing adventure/exploration game that I’ve spent a very relaxing half-hour with in theEGX 2023Rezzed Zone. You are a cute lil’ bean of a camper, returning solo to the isometric splendour of Pine Hearts Caravan Park for the first time since a series of childhood trips with your larger bean father....

HomeFeaturesLeximan EGX Highlights: Wordy wizard adventure Leximan is proper magicIt’s cast a spell on me It’s cast a spell on me Image credit:Marvelous Europe Image credit:Marvelous Europe First, though, Leximan must deal with an even peskier toilet goblin, who’s causing havoc in his adjoining commode (and acts as a handy tutorial to teach you how its spell battles work). When these kick off, you enter a kind of turn-based battle screen, with Leximan on the left and your foe on the right....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#848): How to solve the Sunday October 15 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for October 15? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 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 Lords of the Fallen “does not, and will never” use anti-piracy tech Denuvo, devs promiseUnlike Street Fighter 6, Lies of P and, uh, Lords of the Fallen Unlike Street Fighter 6, Lies of P and, uh, Lords of the Fallen Image credit:CI Games Image credit:CI Games The makers of freshSoulslikeLords Of The Fallenhave taken a strong position against the use of digital rights management software Denuvo, promising players that the game will never dabble with the controversial anti-piracy tech....

HomeNewsDiablo IV Yes, Diablo 4 will be Steam Deck Verified when it hits Steam next weekIn time for its Season 2 In time for its Season 2 Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment Ahead ofDiablo 4’s jump from Battlenet onto Steam in just a few days’ time, Blizzard has confirmed that its demon-slaying action-RPG will be fully Steam Deck Verified when it lands. To see this content please enable targeting cookies....

HomeNewsArma 3 Bohemia warns against spread of fake Israeli–Palestinian conflict videos actually created in Arma 3Devs working with fact-checkers to stop this but “can’t mitigate it entirely” Devs working with fact-checkers to stop this but “can’t mitigate it entirely” Image credit:Bohemia Interactive Image credit:Bohemia Interactive Social media users are attempting to pass off videos of Bohemia Interactive’s military shooterArma 3as real-life footage of the on-going Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which erupted into open war this week....

HomeNews CD Projekt used speech-cloning tech to revoice a dead actor in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom LibertyViktor Vektor’s new dialogue made with Respeecher Viktor Vektor’s new dialogue made with Respeecher Image credit:CD Projekt Image credit:CD Projekt If you’ve ever spoken to the ripperdoc character Viktor Vektor in the Polish localisation ofCyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Libertyexpansion, you’ve been talking to a cyborg. Technically, of course, most characters inCyberpunk 2077are cyborgs, but in this case, I’m referring to one voice actor posing as another using voice-cloning technology, following the second actor’s death....

HomeFeatures EGX Highlights: 8 great games from the Rezzed Zone you need to playOur favourites from the showfloor so far Our favourites from the showfloor so far Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Room6/Yokaze/Humble Games/Wired Productions Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Room6/Yokaze/Humble Games/Wired Productions The RPS Treehouse have been roaming theEGX 2023showfloor over the last couple of days, rummaging through theRezzed Zoneto sniff out more great indie games we think should be on your radar. With over 50 games in this year’s Rezzed Zone, we certainly haven’t been spoiled for choice this year, and below we’ve rounded up a selection of what’s caught our respective eyes so far, from interstellar trucking sims and neon-drenched cats on skateboards to racing battle royales and dreamy visual novels - some of which you can even play at home right now thanks to some conveniently-timedSteam Next Fest demos....

HomeNewsThe Lords of the Fallen Lords of the Fallen earns Mostly Negative Steam rating as Hexworks share tips for crash and performance bugsThe only thing that’s falling is the frame-rate, apparently The only thing that’s falling is the frame-rate, apparently Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/CI Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/CI Games As you might expect this early on in the game’s life, the problems are chiefly technical: low frame-rates, stuttering and crash bugs, with the occasional Positive review hailing the game’s ‘buttery-smooth’ performance, emerging from the Negative verdicts like a thumbs-up from a lava flow....

HomeNews Image credit:Activision-Blizzard/Microsoft Image credit:Activision-Blizzard/Microsoft Microsoft have finally, finally,finallybought Activision Blizzard after many months of haggling with regulators in several countries. The total figure for the company behind Call of Duty,World of Warcraft,OverwatchandHearthstone, to say nothing of whopping mobile game publisher King andCandy Crush Saga? $68.7 billion, making this the biggest buyout in videogames industry history. This follows the UK Competition and Markets Authority’sprovisional approval of the acquisitionlast month, which the CMAupgraded to non-provisionaljust this morning, pronouncing themselves satisfied with Microsoft’s offer to sell Activision-Blizzard cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft so as to avoid having a monopoly of the cloud gaming market....