HomeGuidesBlack Myth: Wukong Black Myth Wukong Chapter 2 mapUse our Chapter 2 map of Black Myth Wukong to make sure you don’t miss a thing Use our Chapter 2 map of Black Myth Wukong to make sure you don’t miss a thing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun What does a Chapter 2 map for Black Myth: Wukong look like?If your answer is “a goddamn jumble of chaos”, then you’re in the right ballpark....
HomeNewsCopycat Copycat forced me to refuse a dying elderly woman emotional comfort, then steal her chickenThat Dragon, Toxoplasmosis That Dragon, Toxoplasmosis Image credit:Spoonful Of Wonder/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Spoonful Of Wonder/Rock Paper Shotgun Copycat - Official TrailerWatch on YouTube Copycat - Official Trailer I’m in the cat shelter and the woman you play as, Olive, is coughing and the screen is going blurry. The elderly woman in the cat shelter is ill and the music is sad and it is so shameless that I cannot stop howling....
HomeHardwareFeaturesFinal Fantasy XVI Final Fantasy XVI is an uneven PC port with performance to matchUpscaling to the rescue, again Upscaling to the rescue, again Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Square Enix Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Square Enix Fifteen months on from its PS5 release,Final Fantasy XVI– that actionyRPGof emo-fringed hack ‘n’ slashing anddisquietingly sexy Ralph Ineson characters– is now on PC. Enough time, you’d think, to do a proper job of rejigging it with Windows spanners, especially afterFinal Fantasy XV’s port got so much stick for its lack of features andperformance issues....
HomeNews Rockstar and Valve reportedly working to “find a fix” Image credit:Rockstar Games/Take-Two Image credit:Rockstar Games/Take-Two Rockstar added BattlEye Anti-Cheat toGTA 5and GTA Online in an update on Tuesday 17th September, together with options to disable the anti-cheat functionality for Story Mode play on the Rockstar Games Launcher or third-party launchers. In the process, support for Steam Deck play has fallen through like a police helicopter into a traffic jam....
HomeNewsRomancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven Here’s a demo for the Square Enix RPG remake that sounds a bit like anime Crusader KingsFight one of seven heroes in Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge Of The Seven Fight one of seven heroes in Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge Of The Seven Image credit:Square Enix Image credit:Square Enix The mad lads at Square Enix have released a demo for their remake of 90sRPGRomancing SaGa 2: Revenge Of The Seven, in which you play a whole dynasty of customisable protagonists fighting vengeful ancient heroes....
HomeNewsPalworld Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are suing the Palworld developers for “infringement of patent rights"Update: Pocketpair respond Update: Pocketpair respond Image credit:Eurogamer/Pocketpair Image credit:Eurogamer/Pocketpair Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Palwoods and hunt large, electric yellow animals of entirely original design whose names rhyme with “peekaboo”, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have announced that they’re takingPalworlddevelopers Pocketpair to court for “infringement of patent rights”....
HomeNewsSlackers: Carts Of Glory Revisit the shopping trolley pain of Jackass in racing game Slackers: Carts Of GloryCart life Cart life Image credit:Falling Saints Image credit:Falling Saints How many bones have you broken? It sucks, the snapping sound they make is impolite. I prefer to break virtual, non-corporeal bones.Slackers: Carts Of Glorylooks like a co-conspirator in this endeavour. It’s basically that one bit in Jackass where the gang blast downhill in shopping trollies at great risk to their bodily and mental health, as is their wont....
HomeNewsMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2024 Store these system requirements in your head compartment before Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 takes offThe head compartment is your brain The head compartment is your brain Image credit:Microsoft Image credit:Microsoft Me, I’m a simple sort. All I want from my flight simulators is an unerringly accurate recreation of dozens of aircraft, a perfect physics model that includes the spectacle of relevant weather events, and a complete, photorealistic and 1:1 scale depiction of the entire planet earth....
HomeNewsWelcome To The Dark Place The Lethal Company developer’s next game is an open world where you can’t seeWelcome To The Dark Place, but not the Alan Wake kind Welcome To The Dark Place, but not the Alan Wake kind Image credit:Zeekerss / Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Zeekerss / Rock Paper Shotgun Lethal Companywas one of last year’s surprisehorrorhits. It was a brilliant dystopian scavenging sim in which you searched cellars for bolts while avoiding the attentions of creatures that hate being looked at, or which only move when they’re not being looked at, or which look like your friends, from a distance....
HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Wed, September 18thNeed some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #464. Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #464. 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 September?...
HomeNewsMarko: Beyond Brave Metroidvania Marko: Beyond Brave describes itself as “Slavic Silksong”, and is out nowMaaaaarko Maaaaarko Image credit:Studio Mechka Image credit:Studio Mechka As I’m sure as is the curse of anyone who’s watched the entirety of Peep Show multiple times, I cannot read the name ‘Marko’ without hearing it in a nasally Australian accent, inquiring about cocaine. This is probably a disservice to the hero of colourfulmetroidvaniaMarko: Beyond Brave, who a quick goog tells me may be based onKrali Marko- a popular character in the folklore of Studio Mechka’s native Bulgaria....
HomeNewsRed Dead Redemption Rockstar leak more clues of a Red Dead Redemption PC remasterDrip, drip, drip Drip, drip, drip Image credit:Rockstar Games Image credit:Rockstar Games It’s been long suspected (if not officially confirmed) that the firstRed Dead Redemptionwill be getting a PC remaster some time in the near future. We’ve already seen a description for the PC versionappear brieflyon the PlayStation store (of all places). And earlier this year a snoopy fan of the studio who monitors the backend of Rockstar’s launcherfound similar game descriptionsburied amid metadata....
HomeNewsWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Saber won’t say whether their CEO wrote this highly baity comment about games “imposing morals on gamers"Grimdaft, amirite Grimdaft, amirite Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Focus Entertainment Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Focus Entertainment In it, the poster thanks youtuber Asmongold for thevideoand characterises Space Marine 2 together with the recentBlack Myth: Wukongas a “reversion” to an “old school” era, when “games were simply about fun and immersion”. He also mentions games he allegedly encountered during his time atnoted layoff manufacturer Embracer"that made me want to cry with their overblown attempts at messaging or imposing morals on gamers”....
