HomeNewsStranger Video Let’s have a staring contestStranger Video pairs you with a staring partner via webcam Stranger Video pairs you with a staring partner via webcam Image credit:Nintendo Image credit:Nintendo Stranger Videois a website that wants access to your webcam. Grant it and it will show you a close-up of your own face, the background around you cropped out. Close your eyes to tell it you’re ready, and open them again when you hear a chime....
HomeNews You can now filter Steam reviews to show those who “played mostly on Steam Deck"But you love our reviews more, right? But you love our reviews more, right? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Valve have their own rating system for measuring how games run on Steam Deck, but even following the guidance of whether something is “Playable” or “Verified”, I’ve still run into games that simply do not work on the handheld device....
HomeNewsLorn’s Lure Amazingly grim retro sci-fi android spelunker Lorn’s Lure finally has a release dateWill clamber onto Steam in September Will clamber onto Steam in September Image credit:Rubeki Image credit:Rubeki If you like jumping on enveloping pixelly architecture while basking in an atmosphere of pathological sadness, set aside some time on 20th September, because that’s when Rubeki’s first-person spelunkerLorn’s Lurelaunches on Steam. Ah, I’ve been waiting a while for this one....
HomeFeaturesBlack Myth: Wukong Black Myth: Wukong needs an Assassin’s Creed-style discovery modeSo I can point my staff and ask questions, instead of thwacking everything So I can point my staff and ask questions, instead of thwacking everything Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science This is all to say thatBlack Myth: Wukongdeserves such a mode, too. There were so many times throughout myreview timewhere I stopped and stared and wondered as to something’s meaning....
HomeNewsTactical Breach Wizards Even Tactical Breach Wizards' developer commentary can be used to knock people out of windowsDefenestration trilogy indeed Defenestration trilogy indeed Image credit:Suspicious Developments Image credit:Suspicious Developments I’m still a little giddy over how much I enjoyed lucarne-lobbingpuzzlerTactical Breach Wizards. So much so that I mentioned inmy reviewhow I’m well up for another run of its fifteen hour campaign. I’d already got a few missions into hard mode. There’s no more starting mana points!...
HomeNewsInfinity Nikki Glamtime never ends in Infinity Nikki, the open world dress-up game from Zelda talentLoad of ballgowns Load of ballgowns Image credit:Infold Games Image credit:Infold Games Take the ballroom scene from Disney’s Beauty And The Beast, swap the wailing utensils for an army of chibi cats, endow Belle with low-key Doctor Manhattan-grade powers of matter transformation, and you’re perhapsbeginningto approximate the experience ofInfinity Nikki- anopen worlddress-up adventure from Singapore-based Infold and former Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild developer Kentaro Tominaga....
HomeGuidesBlack Myth: Wukong How to find the three bell locations in Black Myth WukongRing the bells to start a hidden quest in Black Myth Wukong Ring the bells to start a hidden quest in Black Myth Wukong Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Looking for the Black Myth Wukong bell locations?If you find and ring the three hidden bells in Chapter 1 of the game’s storyline, you will unlock a secret area....
HomeNewsBonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution Turn-based strategy game Bonaparte wants to redo the French Revolution, but this time with mechsLet them eat clockwork Let them eat clockwork Image credit:Studio Imugi Image credit:Studio Imugi Everything I know about the French Revolution has hitherto come from two literary works: Hilary Mantel’s excellent doorstopperA Place Of Greater Safety, andKate Beaton’s webcomics. Neither Mantel nor Beaton mention mechs, which are a core feature of Studio Imugi’s new “ideology driven” turn-based strategy gameBonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution....
HomeFeaturesAtomfall Atomfall plays like a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. with Scouse accentsBleak district Bleak district Image credit:Rebellion Image credit:Rebellion Much like S.T.A.L.K.E.R., the demo’s quarry town setting of Slatten Dale offered a blend of rural beauty and ravaged horrorscape. That said, this is no hardcoresurvivalsim, and certainly not the kind where you’ll be chopping trees for twenty minutes before perishing to Turbo Dehydration. Atomfall does let you craft various tools and weapons from scavenged scrap, but the only vitals you’ll need to keep an eye on are your health and your heartrate....
HomeNewsDiplomacy Is Not An Option Diplomacy Is Not An Option’s castle-building spectacle-strategy gets a 1.0 release October 4thFight the proletariat like a British prime minister Fight the proletariat like a British prime minister Image credit:Door 407 Image credit:Door 407 We haven’t written aboutDiplomacy Is Not An Optionsince it launched in Early Access in 2022, when it was a light and frothy strategy game about smashing thousands of peasants to bits with physics magic....
HomeGuidesBlack Myth: Wukong How to save in Black Myth WukongFind the closest thing to a manual save option in Black Myth Wukong Find the closest thing to a manual save option in Black Myth Wukong Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Wondering how to save your game in Black Myth Wukong?The autosave system and save files can be a bit confusing as the game doesn’t clearly explain how it works....
HomeNewsSquirrel with a Gun I’m rooting for you Squirrel With A Gun, but you still won’t explain yourselfTalk, squirrel! Talk, squirrel! Image credit:Maximum Entertainment Image credit:Maximum Entertainment It is perhaps deeply ungrateful of me that, when presented with the squirrel with a gun ofSquirrel With A Gun, my immediate reaction is to thrust out my bowl like a ballsy victorian urchin and ask foradditional squirrel information. It’s not that developer Dee Dee Creations haven’t shown off the game in action....
HomeFeaturesStarfield Starfield: Shattered Space looks like a wise return to Bethesda basicsAssuming you take “basics” to mean “massive complicated things” Assuming you take “basics” to mean “massive complicated things” Image credit:Bethesda Softworks Image credit:Bethesda Softworks Image credit:Bethesda Softworks Still, this could be another change for the better. I maintain that Starfield’s gunplay can be pretty good fun(play), provided you get aggressive and mobile with the jetpack. There’s a dynamism to it that, say,Fallout 4could scarcely dream of....
