HomeNews Steam’s Strategy Fest is underway with discounts and demoseXploit your wallet eXploit your wallet If a strategy game gets its hooks into you, it can easily consume hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of your life. That either makes Steam’s latest sale of strategy games absurdly good value for money, or an assault upon productivity everywhere.Or both?In any case, Steam Strategy Fest islive now.Stellarisfor a tenner?Anno 1800for a little more than a tenner?...

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#801): How to solve the Tuesday August 29 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for August 29? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for August 29? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

HomeFeaturesMediterranea Inferno Mediterranea Inferno takes you on a beautiful hallucinogenic anxiety holidayIn Summer no one can hear you scream In Summer no one can hear you scream Image credit:Santa Ragione Image credit:Santa Ragione I may be playing on a Steam Deck on a rainy day, but the bold colour contrasts and the desperate enthusiasm of the dialogue really get over the feeling of a too-hot summer, of trying to force fun and recapture a friendship when you all want different things....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#799): How to solve the Sunday August 27 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for August 27? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for August 27? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3’s first major patch fixes 1000+ bugs and brings back “Short King Summer” smoochingThe patch notes were too big for Steam to handle, though The patch notes were too big for Steam to handle, though Image credit:Larian Studios / Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Larian Studios / Rock Paper Shotgun Consistent with the spirit of the game,Baldur’s Gate 3’sfirst “major” patch notes are too large to even fit into Steam’s usual text character limit....

HomeFeaturesLike a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name Like A Dragon Gaiden lets you fight alongside the series' finest weirdos and I love itMr. Masochist, I choose you Mr. Masochist, I choose you Image credit:Sega Image credit:Sega Around 20-minutes spent with Like A Dragon Gaiden (technicallyLike A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name) has helped me fulfil twoYakuza-specific dreams: reunite with Mr. Masochist and fight alongside Mr....

HomeDeals So as I mentioned in the intro, this is one of thebest gaming monitorson the market, and suits a mid-range to high-end gaming PC - or an Xbox Series X or PS5 console. I’ve been using another 4K 144Hz monitor for a while now, and I find it exceedingly difficult to go back to other monitors - the 4K resolution means text is beautifully crisp and clear, with plenty of detail evident in games and videos too, while the 144Hz refresh rate is enough for competitive shooters and other fast-paced action....

HomeNews Stardew Valley’s fishing gets the Wordle treatment in this new browser gamePufferdle is my next once-a-day puzzler obsession Pufferdle is my next once-a-day puzzler obsession Image credit:ConcernedApe / sircactupus Image credit:ConcernedApe / sircactupus Whenever my eyes see the phrase “it’s like Stardew Valley, but…” sparks pop off in my brain, imagining futures farming in the zombie apocalypse or courting my favourite pixel caveman. The next one of those instead focuses on the game’s lovely fishing mini-game and is basicallyStardew ValleybutWordle, the other bite-sized juggernaut that’s inspired countless others....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#797): How to solve the Friday August 25 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for August 25? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for August 25? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

HomeHardwareFeaturesArmored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon Steam Deck performance and settings guideMechanical engineering Mechanical engineering Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubiconlaunches tomorrow with the distinction of being a FromSoftware game thatisn’tmissing a bunch of PC tech basics, with ultrawide and 120fps support welded on as standard. As I’ve been finding out, it’s also a fine fit for theSteam Deck: performance issues are few, controls translate comfortably, and it won’t hog too much space on amicroSD card....

HomeNewsBlasphemous 2 Blasphemous 2 and its Goya-inspired brutal action-platforming is out nowI’d eat the wee guy on my back, too I’d eat the wee guy on my back, too Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team17 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team17 There are a lot of brutal action-platformers, butBlasphemousset itself apart with its pointy-helmeted protagonist and gory Catholic imagery. The sequel,Blashphemous 2, again puts you inside the barbed traffic cone of The Penitent One, this time in a new, no-less-grotesque world....

HomeNews Rejoice, Citizen Sleeper 2 is heading to Game PassThe original game will be “sticking around” on the subscription service, too The original game will be “sticking around” on the subscription service, too Image credit:Fellow Traveller Image credit:Fellow Traveller Afterformally unveiling Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vectorduring this year’s notE3 season, solo developer Jump Over The Age have confirmed that it will also be launching day one on PC Game Pass (and the cloud) when it eventually comes out....

HomeNews Summer holiday turns treacherous in horror visual novel Mediterranea Inferno, out todayFrom the developer behind 2020’s brilliant Milky Way Prince From the developer behind 2020’s brilliant Milky Way Prince Image credit:Santa Ragione Image credit:Santa Ragione Even cursed years such as 2020 can occasionally hide small nuggets of greatness. One such nugget was the curiousvisual novelMilky Way Prince, which beautifully mixed surreal 2D images with even more surreal 3D backgrounds, all wrapped up in a toxic love story....