• Hell Is Us wants to make its action-adventuring even more "old school" than Elden Ring
    Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    When action-adventure game Hell Is Us was first announced a couple of months ago, we thought it had Annihilation vibes and appreciated the team's attempts to invoke Annihilation... and its vibes. Developers Rogue Factor didn't provide...
  • A brief history of Sonic The Hedgehog on PC, from musical conspiracies to not-really-3D 3D games
    Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Let’s face facts: the old Sonic games have been re-released more times than I’ve had hot dinners. And every single Sonic fan has bought every single one of them, such is our sheer madness. We’re a little spoiled on PC...
  • Occupy White Walls review: create and curate your own personal art gallery
    Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Back in 2020, a group of digital art smugglers lifted the National Gallery’s entire art collection, nabbing each of the 2,400 hi-res digital artworks straight from the institution’s website. Since the collection is made up of...
  • Sadie Sink says Jamie Campbell Bower was "genuinely horrifying" on set of Stranger Things season 4
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from GamesRadar - Updates
    The actors barely spoke behind the scenes while Bower stayed in character most of the time
  • Sayonara Wild Hearts devs are making a similarly stylish murder mystery
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Simogo are perhaps best known now for power pop rhythm game Sayonara Wild Hearts, but their next game, Lorelei And The Laser Eyes, looks like something of a return to their roots. It's a mystery game, a puzzle game, set in a baroque...
  • Screenshot Saturday Mondays: trains, ghosts, and cyberpunks
    Monday, June 27, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter's #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, we have cute trainline-building, ghost violence, surreal things both...
  • Everyone needs to witness Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak's live action music video
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Back in April, Ed advocated that more games should adopt anime-style openers . I come to you today with another proposal. In addition to, or perhaps instead of, anime openers, I put it to you that more games should celebrate their launch...
  • What are we all playing this weekend?
    Saturday, July 2, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    After all my griping about summer, torrential rain has arrived and yes, I'm still glad. I cycled home from seeing pals last night in a downpour and that's one of my favourite feelings in this world. Still, better stay indoors and dry...
  • Indie XCOM-like Captain Velvet Meteor guest stars Spy X Family's Loid Forger
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from GamesRadar - Updates
    Fight alongside a pile of Shonen Jump+ stars
  • The Sunday Papers
    Sunday, June 26, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Sundays are for putting in your contact lenses on the first try. Before you hold back the blink, let's read this week's best writing about games (and game related things). Read more
  • WH40K: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters' devs are still "trying to perfect" their powerful Space Marines
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Adapting an established property in any medium has got to be a pretty tricky proposition. Satisfying the long term fans while keeping things approachable for newcomers on top of, well, making a good game. Add in the complexities of...
  • Total War: Three Kingdoms and FIFA 22 lead June's new Xbox Game Pass games
    Saturday, June 25, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    I don't buy every iteration of FIFA, but I do want to give each entry a whirl to see how it has rebalanced the balls, tweaked the kicks, and polished the grass. Xbox Game Pass now helps me in my tests by, eventually, adding each...
  • Our favourite games of 2022 so far
    Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Against all possible odds, we're officially halfway through 2022. What a year it's been so far! After one of the busiest starts to the gaming calendar in recent memory (looking at you, Elden Ring), my backlog is barely keeping it...
  • Disco Elysium has added dyslexia-friendly fonts for those million words
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Detective RPG Disco Elysium is not short on words, and now that text is a little more inviting. A free update yesterday added the option to display text in fonts which are intended to be easier to read for some people with dyslexia. The...
  • An extremely thorough grading of the best rain in video games
    Friday, June 24, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    In the giant jumbled word cloud of all my qualities and traits, I'm willing to bet that "pluviophile" would be one of the biggest words. I adore rain. Whenever it starts, I tend to drop whatever I'm doing - work, dishes, significant...
  • Get a brand new AMD Ryzen 5 5600X for $176 with this Ebay code
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Want an efficient yet powerful processor for gaming? Right now you can pick up a Ryzen 5600X for $176 w/ code JULYSAVINGS over at Antonline's Ebay. That's an awesome price for AMD's six-core 12-thread Ryzen 5000 CPU, especially given how...
  • Get a Kingston Fury Renegade 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD for £110
    Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    The excellent Kingston Fury Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD has dropped in price on Amazon UK, from its regular price of £143 all the way down to £109.98. That's a significant reduction and equals the lowest price we've ever seen...
  • With Bayonetta 3 a no-show at Nintendo Direct, some fans are worried it won't release in 2022
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from GamesRadar - Updates
    Could we see the launch of the highly-anticipated exclusive slip to 2023?
  • Crypto copycat store duplicates Itch.io, gets slapped down by founder
    Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    The creator of indie game storefront Itch.io has called out a website that appears to have taken the site’s code for itself and begun selling creators’ games without permission. Dubbed 'W3itch.io', the copycat site's creator...
  • Best gaming laptops in 2022
    Friday, June 24, 2022 from PC Gamer latest stories
    Razer Blade 15 on a table The best gaming laptop means not having to compromise on portability and performance.
  • Blade Runner's superior ScummVM version is available directly via GOG again
    Saturday, July 2, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    You can once again buy the fan-created ScummVM release of 1997's Blade Runner adventure game via GOG. The fan version was removed from the store a little over a week ago when Nightdive Studios released their own Blade Runner: Enhanced...
  • Drunk employee passes out on the street, losing 2 USB sticks holding the personal data of an entire city
    Friday, June 24, 2022 from PC Gamer latest stories
    The flash drives, containing the personal data of 460,000 residents of Amagasaki, Japan, have at least been recovered.
  • What's better: boss battles as skill checks, or secrets behind waterfalls?
    Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Last time, you decided that an AI-controlled friend just running about helping me fight is better than air control . We're blowing up entire genres of video game, but at least we won't be alone. This week, we continue to whittle down all...
  • Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope is getting a dedicated livestream tomorrow
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from GamesRadar - Updates
    The series creative director will show us more of Mario and the Rabbids
  • I'm riding bicycles in loads of games to mark the Tour De France
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    The Tour De France, the grandest race in professional cycling, started today. Across three weeks, 176 cyclists will ride 3328 kilometres (2068 miles) winding through France, Denmark, Belgium, and Switzerland, including the Alps and...
  • This Dell G15 gaming laptop is £532 with an RTX 3050 Ti, Core i5 and 512GB SSD
    Monday, June 27, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    A strong entry-level gaming laptop is down to a bargain basement price today. The Dell G15 offers an RTX 3050 Ti graphics card, Core i5 10200H processor, 512GB SSD, 120Hz screen and normally costs £849 - but today you can use code...
  • Best early Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals 2022
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    I’m contractually obligated to inform you of the best early Prime Day deals on PC gaming hardware, even though Prime Day 2022 isn’t until July 12th. Aaaaand then continues over until June 13th. Jeff, lad, that’s two...
  • How to watch Love Island UK 2022 online: stream season 8 from anywhere as pulse rates raise the roof off the villa
    Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from GamesRadar - Updates
    Do Gemma and Jacques still *heart* each other?
  • The Sims 4 is going back to school this month with the High School Years expansion pack
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    It turns out that school won't be out for summer this year, because The Sims 4 's next expansion pack High School Years is set to release on July 28th. The first full expansion since Cottage Living launched a year ago, High School Years...
  • PS5 restock updates - Your guide to buying a PlayStation 5
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from GamesRadar - Updates
    Your guide to PS5 restock updates and PS5 stock drops, updated daily
  • Valve are “more than doubling” weekly Steam Deck shipments
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Word from the Steam Deck foundries is that Valve are significantly stepping up the number of handhelds they ship out to reservation holders. A missive from the official Steam Deck Twitter account claimed they’ll “more than...
  • The Polish government is providing free copies of This War of Mine to high school students
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from GamesRadar - Updates
    The game's now a free download on Poland's government website
  • Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition on Steam now includes the better ScummVM release
    Saturday, June 25, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition launched this week, upping the resolution and increasing the framerate of Westwood's ancient adventure game in ways that make it look consistently worse than the original. If you bought the game on GOG, you...
  • 11 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker questions new book Shadow of the Sith answers
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from GamesRadar - Updates
    Mark Hamill The latest Star Wars novel fills in some useful gaps in canon – especially around The Rise of Skywalker
  • Skyrim mod makes dragons 16K so you can see the tiny cracks in their scales
    Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from GamesRadar - Updates
    Skyrim 16k dragons You can tell the difference even on a normal screen
  • Street Fighter 6's modern control scheme is an absolute game-changer
    Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Aside from the many indies and Sonic Frontiers and this breakfast sandwich I got from Birdies , I must say that Street Fighter 6 was a major highlight of my time in LA for Summer Geoff Fest . Honestly, I went into my hands-on slot...
  • DLSS arrives in Monster Hunter Rise, but shaves off everyone's fur
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    The arrival of Monster Hunter Rise 's Sunbreak expansion has brought a swathe of quality of life improvements to Capcom's beast-bashing action game, including support for Nvidia's performance-boosting DLSS tech. Announced earlier this...
  • Sony unveils Inzone gaming monitor and headset line with PS5 bonus features
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from GamesRadar - Updates
    Inzone devices are also compatible with PC and Xbox Series X
  • Mega Man Battle Network collection will revive 10 classic action RPGs next year
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from GamesRadar - Updates
    The collection is due to launch on PS4, Switch, and PC
  • Get a 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD for $185 with this discount code
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Adata's Premium SSD for PS5 might be the most misleadingly titled storage device on the market. Okay, it is a high-spec SSD suitable for the PS5, but it's also a really good value PCIe 4.0 SSD for PCs too. Today, it's down to $185 at...
  • Dead By Daylight devs are plotting to end the game’s grind, permanently
    Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Survival horror slash ‘em up Dead By Daylight ’s progression and perks systems are being overhauled to dramatically reduce the amount of grind, developers Behaviour Interactive have announced. The changes to Dead By...
  • Much-delayed expansion Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course is finally out today
    Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Classically animated platformer Cuphead will finally get its Delicious Last Course with the release of the expansion on Steam today. The DLC adds a new character, Ms. Chalice, the third beverage-container bonce you can play as. Once...
  • The 10 best cats in games
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    The house cat. Felis destructus . Humankind's absolute best mate and undisputed master. Some upcoming video games are planning to examine the motives behind these enigmatic creatures, whose origins remain unknown. Stray will put you in...
  • Is 16TB enough hard drive for you? This refurb is down to $200
    Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Looking to load up on storage? Seagate's enterprise-grade 16TB 7200RPM Exos X16 HDDs are down to $200 when you buy a manufacturer refurbished unit at Amazon USA. That's $73 cheaper than a new equivalent, and the drives come with a 90-day...
  • Steam's most wishlisted game seems to be worked on entirely by volunteers
    Monday, June 27, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    The most wishlisted game on Steam, The Day Before , is being developed entirely by volunteers according to its developer’s website. Fntastic say they accept full-time and part-time volunteers to work on their games. Watch a video...
  • Jodie Foster and Kali Reis will star in True Detective season 4
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from GamesRadar - Updates
    HBO has officially ordered True Detective: Night Country to series
  • The Fallout: London mod is bringing nuclear war elephants to the UK in 2023
    Monday, June 27, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Post-apocalyptic mod Fallout: London will arrive next year, the development team have announced with a new video released as part of the Fallout For Hope charity initiative. It’s a DLC-sized mod for Fallout 4 that’s bringing...
  • Yes, The Callisto Protocol is way gorier than Dead Space
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from GamesRadar - Updates
    Thanks to improved gore tech with realistic dismemberment
  • Minecraft Legends new gameplay trailer has big Dragon Quest Builders energy
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Mojang Studios announced Minecraft Legends during this month's Summer Geoff Fest, dubbing it an "action strategy" Minecraft spin-off that's being made in collaboration with Blackbird Interactive, the folks behind Homeworld 3 and...
  • Final Fantasy XIV's next update will add a slice of Stardew
    Saturday, July 2, 2022 from Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Final Fantasy 14's next patch, 6.2, is scheduled to launch in late August. Among its many additions will be a new "Island Sanctuary", a personal island where players can gather materials, build facilities and look after creatures. It...
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