HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Fri, October 18thNeed some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #494. Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #494. 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! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 18th October?...

HomeFeaturesDeadlock Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Valve Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Valve Deadlockgives me the shakes. Valve’snot-so-secretthird-person MOBA shooter is a fiercely competitive game of push and pull through monster-peppered city streets. You’ll get into hectic scrapes with a giant blob man and come out of it sweating and swearing, and possibly alive. It is tactical, deep, instinctive, and an interesting work-in-progress. It elicits adrenaline almost as much as it forces murder economics down your piehole....

HomeNewsToilet Spiders Gone Home studio Fullbright are now making games about horrible toilet spidersEight-legged walking sim Eight-legged walking sim Image credit:Fullbright Image credit:Fullbright You probably still know Fullbright as the studio behindGone Home, a delicately experimental first-person yarn about a girl exploring her family home after travelling overseas, and learning about the turmoil in her absence. Picture that game in your mind: the quietness of the hallways versus the crash of a thunderstorm outside, the sickly-sweet 90s décor, the fairy lights and screwed-up balls of paper, the gentle amber pressure of cloistered teenage memories....

HomeNewsSubnautica 2 Subnautica 2 early access should last “2 to 3 years” - it’ll launch with “several biomes” and “some narrative"Plus “a variety of creatures and craftables” Plus “a variety of creatures and craftables” Image credit:Krafton Image credit:Krafton Subnautica 2 - Official Announcement Trailer | Xbox Partner Preview 2024Watch on YouTube Subnautica 2 - Official Announcement Trailer | Xbox Partner Preview 2024 While nothing is guaranteed, Subnautica 2’s early access period should last until 2027 or 2028....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Thu, October 17thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #493. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #493. 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! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 17th October?...

HomeNewsHades 2 Hades 2 adds a boss fight against Prometheus and a lot more in a chunky updateAn unexplored region, new pets, and a shiny weapon An unexplored region, new pets, and a shiny weapon Image credit:Supergiant Games Image credit:Supergiant Games Hades II - The Olympic Update TrailerWatch on YouTube Hades II - The Olympic Update Trailer Chief among the changes is the new region, Olympus, which looks suitably full of marble statues and ionic columns, if suspiciously gloomy....

HomeNewsHalo Infinite Halo’s battle royale mode “could have been a game changer”, says former Infinite dev, and you know what, I’ll buy itFormer Certain Affinity design director confirms ancient rumour Former Certain Affinity design director confirms ancient rumour Image credit:Microsoft Image credit:Microsoft Back in 2021, that dark epoch known as the Pre-Edwin Age, there was but one Ed at Rock Paper Shotgun - the venerable Ed Thorn, aka Edders. Edders had a dream, the dream ofHalo Infinite getting a battle royale mode....

HomeNewsProject 007 IO Interactive fail to mention if a potential Project 007 “trilogy” will feature Hitman’s glorious queues, so who’s to say whether it’s worth my timeIan to Ian Ian to Ian Image credit:IO Interactive Image credit:IO Interactive In a recentchat withthe Ian Games Network, IO Interactive boss Hakan Abrak said the Hitman developer “absolutely feel(s) like 20 plus years of training for the agent fantasy, creating an agent that travels the world and globetrotting whatnot, has given us some know-how” on bringing James Bond to the greasy screen (“greasy screen” is my new attempt at coining a “the big/small screen” but for games....

HomeNewsBanishers: Ghosts Of New Eden Leadership at Don’t Nod are “creating an atmosphere of extreme violence” with planned layoffs, says French game workers unionThe STJV “cannot tolerate the company rejecting the responsibilities of its own failures” The STJV “cannot tolerate the company rejecting the responsibilities of its own failures” Image credit:RPS/Don’t Nod Image credit:RPS/Don’t Nod Leadership at Don’t Nod yesterday “presented a reorganisation project to the employee representative bodies,” viafinancials report, in response to “a balance sheet that highlights the need to secure the company’s resources” following the underperformance ofJusantandBanishers: Ghosts of new Eden....

HomeGuidesMetaphor: ReFantazio All 46 Archetypes in Metaphor ReFantazio and how to unlockHere are all 46 possible Archetypes to choose from Here are all 46 possible Archetypes to choose from Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Sega Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Sega Looking for a list of all Archetypes in Metaphor ReFantazio?There is a huge roster of Archetypes inMetaphor ReFantazioto choose from -a total of 46altogether. This includes standard Archetypes and more advancedRoyal Archetypes, which you can unlock as you progress through the game....

HomeNewsKnights in Tight Spaces Knights In Tight Spaces kicks the Tight Fight formula in the direction of fantasy role-playingNew Steam demo introduces clerics and rogues New Steam demo introduces clerics and rogues Image credit:Raw Fury / Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Raw Fury / Rock Paper Shotgun The existence ofKnights In Tight Spaces, sequel toFights In Tight Spaces, implies the existence of an unknown quantity or perhaps, aninfinityof follow-up games that rhyme with both of those....

HomeNewsExodus Every sci-fi RPG needs its body horror Borg equivalent Image credit:Archetype Entertainment Image credit:Archetype Entertainment Archetype Entertainment and Blur Studio’s spaceRPGExoduswasannounced back in December, and was broadly notable for a couple of things: 1) Matthew McConaughey plays a character, and 2) the game’s story is woven around time dilation during faster than light travel, with star-hopping adventurers prosecuting a fight against evil Celestials over hundreds, perhaps thousands of years....

HomeFeaturesNo More Room in Hell 2 No More Room In Hell 2 nails the terror of being isolated in a zombie outbreak, although you can just hide on a table if you wantIt’s safe up here It’s safe up here Image credit:Torn Banner Image credit:Torn Banner Ah, what a pickle I’ve gotten myself into. I need to climb down from this table if I’m ever going to meet up with my teammates and finish the game, but the stupid zombies cannot get me if I stay up here....