HomeNewsCall of Duty Ubisoft set to buy cloud streaming rights to Activision Blizzard games from MicrosoftMicrosoft’s attempt to appease UK regulators Microsoft’s attempt to appease UK regulators Image credit:Ubisoft Image credit:Ubisoft In an attempt to appease the UK’s Competition And Markets Authority (CMA), Microsoft have restructured theirproposed Activision Blizzard buyout. Should the deal finally close, cloud streaming rights to existing and future Activision Blizzard games released over the next 15 years will (surprisingly) fall under Ubisoft’s control....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#794): How to solve the Tuesday August 22 WordleStuck on Wordle word for August 22? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on Wordle word for August 22? 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?Getting up in the morning and feeling ready for the day is far easier if you have a routine, and the dailyWordlepuzzle adds a quick, fun puzzle to that routine....

HomeNewsRebel Moon Zack Snyder and Netflix’s Rebel Moon-verse looks doomed to repeat the mistakes of Final Fantasy 15There was a game announcement in here somewhere, but you’ll need to watch two films first to find it There was a game announcement in here somewhere, but you’ll need to watch two films first to find it Image credit:Netflix Image credit:Netflix Rebel Moon Interview with Zack Snyder | gamescom Opening Night Live 2023 #ONLWatch on YouTube...

HomeNewsKentucky Route Zero Kentucky Route Zero’s Postmodern update makes it more readable on the Steam DeckPoetry on the bus (or in bed) Poetry on the bus (or in bed) Image credit:Cardboard Computer Image credit:Cardboard Computer Developer Cardboard Computer sporadically released their poetic adventure game,Kentucky Route Zero, in acts spread across multiple years. It was a teasing release schedule that only aided the game’s surreal mystery, so it’s no surprise that the studio have dropped the game’s first major update three years after the fifth and final chapter wrapped things up....

HomeNews October just got even busier with Ghostrunner 2 slated for the 26thSlipping in between Alan Wake 2 and Alone In The Dark Slipping in between Alan Wake 2 and Alone In The Dark Image credit:505 Games Image credit:505 Games Despite my best efforts, I’m still not proficient at wall-running or motorbiking. But lucky for me, publishers 505 Games have announced thatGhostrunner 2is coming out on October 26th, which is shaping up to be another very busy month for very good-looking games....

HomeReviewsSix Ages 2: Lights Going Out Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out review: a fascinating story-generator with a wealth of possibilitiesRaid against the dying of the light Raid against the dying of the light Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kitfox Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kitfox Games It’s hard to know where to start withSix Ages 2 Colon Lights Going Out. The initial uncertainty and esoteric nature of its world has always been the series' biggest problem, as it appears to demand a lot of foreknowledge to play....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#792): How to solve the Sunday August 20 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for August 20? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for August 20? 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?Let’s all just take a breather, eh? We’ll be back at the office desk in a few minutes, but right now, this time right here is reserved....

HomeNewsKiller Bean ’90s internet animation Killer Bean is getting a video game, and it looks like procedural Just CauseFrom original animator Jeff Lew From original animator Jeff Lew If someone were to write the history of internet video, I think they’d need to mentionKiller Bean. Released in 1996, just a year after Toy Story, it was a two-minute, 3D animated short about gun-toting beans, and almost entirely the work of one person....

HomeNewsNo Man’s Sky No Man’s Sky is seven years old and its next update is called EchoesHello hello hello games Hello hello hello games No Man’s Sky 7th Anniversary VideoNo Man’s Sky’s seven year celebration trailer.Watch on YouTube No Man’s Sky 7th Anniversary Video No Man’s Sky launched not as an incomplete game, but as one that focused on solo interplanetary exploration and resource gathering in a largely empty universe. It wasn’t the game people wanted - or the one they felt they’d been sold in trailers and developer interviews....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#791): How to solve the Saturday August 19 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for August 19? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for August 19? 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?It’s time, once again, for us all to join our minds in pursuit of completing today’s simple but often mystifyingWordlepuzzle....

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3 mod sort of turns it into Dragon Age: OriginsEchoes of Thedas Echoes of Thedas Image credit:Bikeman / Larian Image credit:Bikeman / Larian Image credit:Bikeman / Larian The modded third-person view isn’t wholly flattering. Some of those furnishings and surfaces look a bit rickety in close-up, and the viewpoint transforms your characters from figurines you can decorate into awkwardly attired MMORPG avatars, reminiscent of my teenage years - those mismatched armour pieces are going to poke somebody’s eye out!...

HomeNewsGrand Theft Auto V Modder exhorts Rockstar to “focus on creating proper remakes” The mod’s creator, Bloc, is understandably rather upset about this. “No one from Take-Two Interactive contacted and ask me anything prior to this, they just took down the video out of nowhere,” hewrote on his Youtube channel(cheersEurogamer). “Two days ago, my account on Netlify was also suspended. I used Netlify to host the installation guide for the mod....

HomeNews How should RPS report the news?Please tell me how to do my job Please tell me how to do my job Image credit:Sony Pictures Image credit:Sony Pictures Before I go, though, I wanted to check in about this whole “news” concept that’s doing the rounds. The past two weeks have essentially been an exercise in tentatively pressing buttons and apologising to Katharine when half the website backend catches fire. I’ve tried to put together a fun mixture of stories - I particularly enjoyed the chat belowyesterday’s musings about pacifism- but I’ve mostly been settling in, and dealing with such evergreen journamalism questions as whether companies are singular or plural, and what proportion of any given article should consist of begging Blackbird Interactive to reveal something else aboutHomeworld 3....