HomeNewsFallout 4 Fallout 4 gets some further tweaks to its mod-destroying “next gen update”It’s a Todd awful small affair It’s a Todd awful small affair Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda. Here are the ‘Patch Highlights’ - mostly console bits, mind you: Xbox Series S|X and PlayStation 5 Display Settings Thanks to your feedback, we’ve been able to implement the ability to control your graphic fidelity and performance. We highly recommend you run with the default settings but now you can change your options to better fit your playstyle and display....

HomeNewsHades 2 Hades 2 will change your “dash” and “sprint” abilities in its first patchWe have word from the oracle We have word from the oracle Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games Greek god pulverizing simulatorHades 2is getting its first patch “later this month”, say the developers. Two things are on their to-tweak list. First, something might change about the way resource gathering tools are used (the pickaxe you use to mine silver during a run, for example)....

HomeFeaturesinKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories InKonbini is Shenmue, but just the convenience storeTomato, tomato Tomato, tomato Image credit:Nagai Industries Image credit:Nagai Industries Tucked away in a corner of 1999’s Yosuka, Japan-setopen worldsimShenmuethere’s a convenience store, or “konbini”, where you can buy stuff like carrot juice, take part in raffles, and fritter away the hours listening tothe shop jingle- an absolute die-cast classic of the genre in that you’ll probably be humming the tune before you realise that you’ve even heard it....

HomeReviewsPaper Trail Paper Trail review: a beautiful puzzler I had a (mostly) miserable time withLo-fi beats to get extremely stressed to Lo-fi beats to get extremely stressed to Image credit:Newfangled Games/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Newfangled Games/Rock Paper Shotgun Paper Trail stars Paige. She’s your desktop-terrarium-garden-variety lo-fi girl protagonist, studious and relaxed to the point where she’s immaculately vibed her way into space-time continuum-bending powers. All those hours-long study sessions have paid off in more mundane ways, too....

HomeNewsThe Long Dark The Long Dark is getting a Cheat Death system, but don’t worry, it’s also getting a Misery Mode and cougarsAll coming in part five of the Tales From The Far Territory series All coming in part five of the Tales From The Far Territory series Image credit:Hinterland Studio Image credit:Hinterland Studio I’ve played little of legendary survival simThe Long Dark, or The Short Dark, as I guess it has proven for me....

HomeNewsTrackmania These racing game players are 11 days into an exhausting race to climb a deadly towerThe winner gets $15,000 The winner gets $15,000 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Ubisoft Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Ubisoft Buckle up. A bunch of players are competing to cross the finish line of a brutally difficult tower of racetracks in racing gameTrackmania, with a prize pool of $30,000 waiting for the first three drivers to reach the top....

HomeFeaturesVampire Therapist Vampire Therapist is like playing language puzzles against different types of theatre kidFangs for the memories Fangs for the memories Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Little Bat Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Little Bat Games My evolving relationship withVampire Therapistcontinues apace - much how protagonist Sam’s acumen as an unlicensed therapist for the unsettled undead develops at speed. He’s a vampire doing therapy for other vampires, while also undergoing therapy, as a vampire, from another therapist (who is a vampire)....

HomeFeaturesDread Delusion Who needs a Morrowind remake when you can explore the beautiful nightmare of Dread Delusion?Praise Paeguth Praise Paeguth Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / DreadXP Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / DreadXP I booted upDread Delusionand fell 30 feet to my death. This throwback first-person RPG is hazardous, and not only due to the dreamlike islands floating in the sky. My leg-snappin' plummet may be down to early access changes, causing the ground to be updated from right under my feet....

HomeNews EA are thinking about inserting adverts into games - but don’t worry, it’ll be “very thoughtful”“As we start to harness the power of community, how do we think about advertising as a growth driver?” says EA CEO as apparent reassurance “As we start to harness the power of community, how do we think about advertising as a growth driver?” says EA CEO as apparent reassurance Image credit:EA/Burger King Image credit:EA/Burger King...

HomeNewsEnter the Chronosphere Enter The Chronosphere is a fast, furious yet laidback series of top-down shooting hamster mazesDip into the demo, why don’t you Dip into the demo, why don’t you Image credit:Joystick Ventures Image credit:Joystick Ventures Back in the late 90s when all of you NORMIES were playingDiablo, I was playing a little-known Konami ARPG called Azure Dreams, which has alas never escaped PlayStation prison. It’s a grid-based, upwardly mobile roguelitey dungeon crawler set in a big tower, each floor a semi-randomised maze of monsters (which you can capture), traps and pick-ups, where player and creature actions happen simultaneously....

HomeNewsHelldivers 2 Expect a somewhat different mix of tragedy and comedy Image credit:Arrowhead Studios Image credit:Arrowhead Studios The former lead writer of charming super-fascist simulatorHelldivers 2is working on a strategy and tacticsRPGin the vein of Nintendo and Intelligent System’s Fire Emblem games, which aren’t available on PC and as such, are a complete mystery to you, a lifelong desktop warrior who would sooner cut their hand off than suffer it to brush against one of those filthy Nintendo witches, I mean Switches....

HomeNewsNecrophosis Necrophosis has a demo, if you’re after a “we’ve already got Scorn at home” experienceBody horror on more of a budget Body horror on more of a budget Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Dragonis Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Dragonis Games Still, visually it’s quite magnificent. Flayed corpses and ribs and towering statues that pray to fleshy sacks. One of the first things you’ve got to do in the demo is run around this arena and figure out what tendril or eyeball goes into what meat pocket, but it’s not outrageously difficult - which is good....

HomeNews IDK. FA? This news post leaves me in a quandary, readers, because I will need to write a swear word for the sake of full journalistic transparency, but Google’s algorithms tend to frown on sweary articles. On the other hand, Google’s algorithms don’t like it when you spend whole intros handwringing about Google’s algorithms, either, so let’s stop, er, faffing around and speak of Doom. Id Software parent company Zenimax recentlytrademarked“IDKFA”, a string of letters that will be of deep significance to original Doom players, and which may therefore be evidence of an impending announcement....