HomeNewsGrunn Deeply unusual gardening game Grunn’s shear snip deserves every award Geoff Keighley has ever inventedShear genius Shear genius Image credit:Sokpop Collective Image credit:Sokpop Collective Ok, so look. I really dislike it when people use ‘on acid!’ to describe something colourful and imaginative, but Grunn is so wobbly and saturated that I’m very much drawn to that general area of comparison. Let’s try something else: Grunn is both crisp and blurry, like the morning after a house party....

HomeFeaturesDeep Rock Galactic How Deep Rock Galactic Season 5 drills back down to basicsMine craft Mine craft Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Coffee Stain Publishing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Coffee Stain Publishing Dwarvenco-opcaperDeep Rock Galactichas spent years raising the stakes. Where its offworld mining concern once dealt merely with steep drops and irate bugs, it’s since had toface down the robotic armyof a rival mineral corp and anomnicidal alien plague. If the subsequent question is “It used to be about therocks, y’know?...

HomeFeatures Jacking in to Stellaris as a fanatical cyberpunk corporate cult in The Machine AgeHack all the planets Hack all the planets Image credit:Paradox Interactive Image credit:Paradox Interactive From the moment I understood theweakness of my flesh, I thought: no bother, like. Everyone has different skills. Then, I realised that some other people might be less enlightened than me about the whole ‘having limits’ things, and that there was a lot of money to be made hawking implants....

HomeNews Just Cause creators Avalanche lay off 50 people and close their Montreal and New York studiosCuts needed to ensure “a stable and sustainable future for the company” Cuts needed to ensure “a stable and sustainable future for the company” Image credit:Avalanche Image credit:Avalanche Just Causecreators,Mad Maxdevelopers andRage 2co-developers Avalanche Studios have announced that they will lay off 50 developers - nine per cent of their global workforce - and close their New York, USA and Montreal, Canada studios in order to “ensure a stable and sustainable future for the company”....

HomeNewsMech Engineer Mech Engineer’s demo is for people who love hateful interface designMeching the best of it Meching the best of it Image credit:MicroProse Image credit:MicroProse If you heard loud swearing last night in the Watford area it may have been one of two things: 1) me cussing out my (borrowed) Steam Deck while stealthily accessing the wifi from outside a closed public library, as I don’t currently have broadband at home, or 2) me subsequently trying to make head or tail ofMech Engineer, in which you take charge of a mobile undersea metropolis and send squads of painstakingly assembled robosoldiers to semi-auto-battle squidgy alien fauna....

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Wednesday, June 5)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #360 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #360 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?...

HomeNewsPhantom Spark Phantom Spark is a hover racer of impeccable chill and wistful fantasy worldbuildingFrom the creators of… NUTS? From the creators of… NUTS? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Coatsink Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Coatsink I was a diehard WipeOut player as a kid. Seriously, me and the boys used to roam the streets of Bradford looking for F-Zero players to bully, at least till the RollCagers rocked up and stole our lunch money....

HomeGuidesWuthering Waves All currencies in Wuthering Waves explainedWhat they’re used for and how to get them What they’re used for and how to get them Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kuro Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kuro Games Confused about currency in Wuthering Waves?There’s alotto do in the massive gacha RPGWuthering Waves, and as is the case with most similarly-sized games, that means there are also alotof different currencies. Between currencies for rolling on banners, buying upgrade materials, unlocking certain content, and shopping in Jianzhou’s shops, it can be pretty intimidating to figure out exactly what each one does....

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3 once had a portable hole, but Swen Vincke says it would have been a “crime against humanity"“We had to remove it, but it was fantastic.” “We had to remove it, but it was fantastic.” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios The hole came up during a discussion of whether Larian have considered testing any smaller, more focussed videogame concepts, perhaps to let younger developers try their wits on something less sprawling than a Baldur’s Gate....

HomeNewsKingdom Hearts IV Don’t expect big reveals at Summer Games Fest, says Geoff KeighleyHe’s “expectation setting” He’s “expectation setting” Image credit:Twitch / Summer Game Fest Image credit:Twitch / Summer Game Fest “[The] Game Awards has a lot of usually big surprises - we’re thankful for those - and big, new reveals. This [Summer Game Fest] is largely focused on announced stuff… “There definitely are things that are being announced but this is not a show that has a lot of like ‘coming in 2026’ or ‘2027’, or teasers for games that are years and years out… That’s generally what I would say in terms of expectation setting....

HomeNews The Maw - 3rd-9th JuneThis week’s most auspicious game releases, plus our weekly news liveblogLive This week’s most auspicious game releases, plus our weekly news liveblog Image credit:Gibson & Co / Wikimedia Commons / Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Gibson & Co / Wikimedia Commons / Rock Paper Shotgun This week is the week ofSummer Game Fest 2024. Ah, SGF! The Geoffers, as they call it down Los Angeles way. The Not-E3s....

HomeNewsCard Bard Update: Card Bard is a suspicious deckbuildy shooter with some familiar assetsOh dear Oh dear Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Terry Brash Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Terry Brash Original article:The onslaught of funSteam Next Fest demosyou can play right now continues and will not relent.Card Bardis a deckbuilding roguelike shooter in which your wee gunman is seemingly frozen in abject terror as little pill-shaped baddies creep towards him like bacteria on a petri dish....

HomeGuidesWuthering Waves Wuthering Waves: Resonance Liberation and Energy explainedWhat they are and how to use them to your advantage What they are and how to use them to your advantage Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kuro Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kuro Games There are a few things worth getting the hang of to get the most use out of your Liberation. Here’s everything you’ll need to know about Resonance Energy and Liberation in Wuthering Waves, includingwhat they are, how to use your Liberation, and how to increase Energy Regen....