HomeNewsElden Ring I will literally PayPal you a fiver if you can tell me anything substantial about Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree’s gormless ghost wormsVaati plz Vaati plz Image credit:FromSoftware Image credit:FromSoftware YouTube is a stocked repository of hours upon hours ofElden Ringlore.Ranni’s ending? No worries. Miquella and St. Trina? We got you.Mohgand the Formless Mother? Say no more. Turtle Pope? Sit back. The frenzied flame? Make yourself comfortable. The Elden Ring itself?...

HomeFeaturesMetaphor: ReFantazio Metaphor: ReFantazio plays like a high-fantasy Persona RPG with a curious hybrid combat systemSchool’s out for the summoner School’s out for the summoner Image credit:Sega Image credit:Sega Metaphor: ReFantazio — AWAKEN | Xbox Series X|S, Windows PCWatch on YouTube Metaphor: ReFantazio — AWAKEN | Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC Take victory screens. These fly you through an alchemical eyeball into a high-angled shot of your party slow-walking across gouts of paint, like an anime adaptation of Reservoir Dogs....

HomeNews Steam’s 2024 summer sale is now liveGames you don’t have to play are now cheaper Games you don’t have to play are now cheaper Image credit:Valve Image credit:Valve You can tell when a major Steam sale goes live, because the Steam store stop loading. If you can make it past the “something went wrong” message you’ll find that the Steam summer sale is now underway.This year’s event includes a page of"featured deep discounts", which highlights “especially great deals on some of the all-time greats....

HomeNewsThe First Descendant The First Descendant’s endgame won’t be about “meaningless DPS" or “piling on specs"New looter shooter to focus on strategic depth and “party play” New looter shooter to focus on strategic depth and “party play” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Nexon Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Nexon Live service games such asThe First Descendant- aWarframe-ishco-oplooter shooter coming next month - can often suffer from a chronic case of numbers-itis, a tragic and goopy disease that stagnates game feel, letting raw and tasteless maths multiply and overwhelm what I, in all my critical wisdom, call “fun button pushy....

HomeNewsElden Ring Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree patch makes Blessings stronger and the game easierFromSoftens FromSoftens Image credit:Bandai Namco Image credit:Bandai Namco When I finished myreviewfor Soulslike Lies Of P, the devsreleased a patchnot long after that nerfed bosses and made things for ol' Pinnochio easier overall. Sod’s Law struck that day… and it’s returned with a smirk.Shadow Of The Erdtreehas just been patched, making its Shadow Realm Blessings stronger from the off, and in turn, things a little easier for everybody....

HomeFeaturesFallen Aces Fallen Aces has just enough immersive sim substance to match up to its eye-popping pulp comic styleFPSOTY (Frying Pan Sound of the Year) FPSOTY (Frying Pan Sound of the Year) Image credit:New Blood Interactive Image credit:New Blood Interactive This breaks my writerly first person narrative, but I’m jazzed to discover that you can eat said fridge fruit directly without putting them in your inventory first. Ye gads! Is this… better thanPrey (2017)?...

HomeNews Some welcome quality-of-life changes as the new expansion approaches early access Image credit:Square Enix Image credit:Square Enix We’re only a couple of days away from the early access launch ofDawntrail,Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion and first in over two years since the climactic Endwalker. Asthe summery story expansionprepares to drop, Square Enix have run down everything else arriving in theMMO’s 7.0 patch, which notably includes its long-awaited graphical overhaul along with several other nice-to-have improvements whether you’re playing Dawntrail or not....

HomeNewsHelldivers 2 Helldivers 2 developers have big, opaque plans for Galactic War and that black hole you madeThe bug report The bug report Image credit:Arrowhead Image credit:Arrowhead Game development studio and intergalactic war ministry Arrowhead have launched a new series of written update posts for players ofHelldivers 2to help keep the war record straight. Mostly, this is the usual case of somebody on the team gathering quotes as the developers batter their fingertips against keyboards to bring you, the video gamer, fresh cannons and what-have-you....

HomeNewsDystopika In Dystopika you are the chill landscaper of a vast cyberpunk city, and it is exactly my cup of noodlesBlade stunner Blade stunner Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Voids Within Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Voids Within Boil the kettle, we’re having cheap ramen. If you likedTownscaperfor simple seaside town tinkering, or enjoyed the forest-dwelling demo ofTiny Glade’shomely castle creation, you might get a satisfied sigh out of this.Dystopikais a cyberpunk build ‘n’ chill where you place down skyscrapers, apartment blocks, factories, and imposing ziggurats straight out ofBlade Runner....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Wednesday, June 26)Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #381 Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #381 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! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

HomeNewsPushing It! With Sisyphus The creator of a game about eternal punishment and frustration is tired of playtesting itBoulder’s gate Boulder’s gate Image credit:Bashir “ManliestDev” Kashalo Image credit:Bashir “ManliestDev” Kashalo Kashalo has come to"hate"playtesting the game, jovially titledPushing It! With Sisyphus, whoseSteam pagepromises “levels of frustration not previously thought possible”. He’s just really sick of that boulder. Waiter! Please fetch me the world’s smallest violin, grind it to a paste and gently spoonfeed it to the developer who is weary of the game he consciously and deliberately decided to make about the experience of infinite failure....

HomeHardwareFeaturesThe First Descendant The First Descendant is stacked with glitzy graphics tech, but performance could still use a polishGetting’ testy with the final preview build Getting’ testy with the final preview build Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Nexon Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Nexon I don’tdislikeThe First Descendant. It has a good grasp of the numbers-go-up-yay appeal behind looter shooters. Sometimes you get to grapple onto a vast robot crab. The first evil alien overlord you fight is named Greg....

HomeNewsResident Evil The original Resident Evil from 1996 comes back to PC after decades of gathering fliesResident Evil 2 and 3 are “coming soon” Resident Evil 2 and 3 are “coming soon” Image credit:Capcom Image credit:Capcom With a groan, it rises. The firstResident Evilis a piece of horror game history, and it has just come shambling back to PC after a long time putrefying. Ye olde games shoppe, GOG.com is selling the 1996 survival horror classic as adigital download, so you don’t have to go rummaging through eBay auctions to find an original physical copy anymore....