HomeNewsReptilian Rising Reptilian Rising is an enjoyably naff toy-based tactics game featuring Spartacus, St George and EinsteinAdam and Joe Show stans, assemble Adam and Joe Show stans, assemble Image credit:Gregarious Games Image credit:Gregarious Games The next advance in video game graphics technology is not ray-tracing or tray-racing or any variation thereof - it’s janky stop motion and rubbish plastic dolls, and it actually began about 30 years ago, when I watched the Adam and Joe show for the first time....

HomeNews Steam now has a Trending Free tab for demos, full free games and free-to-playWill probably have a curation problem, but let’s see Will probably have a curation problem, but let’s see Image credit:Valve / Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Valve / Rock Paper Shotgun Do not cry for us pitiful electronic scribblers, crowded on our melting internet icebergs. Play free games instead! Thanks to that new tab, I’ve just discovereda demo for neato wide-format tower defender Frontline Crisis....

HomeFeatures The 11 best racing games on PCBeep beep Beep beep Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Microsoft / No More Robots / BeamNG / Wired Productions Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Microsoft / No More Robots / BeamNG / Wired Productions WAIT. False start, false start. Let’s briefly explain our reasoning. There are some guidelines after all. For this list, we wanted to focus on racing games, as distinct fromdrivinggames, so noAmerican Truck Simulatorhere....

HomeReviewsThe Crimson Diamond The Crimson Diamond review: an enthralling retro-inspired EGA game with modern mystery styleREAD REVIEW OF GAME READ REVIEW OF GAME Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Julia Minamata Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Julia Minamata The Crimson Diamondis a proper old-school style puzzle adventure. It’s 2D pixel art, with a limited colour palette as in EGA games, and you control it with a text parser, likeKing’s Questor one of them other Sierra adventures old men like Graham remember....

HomeNewsTwo Point Museum Two Point Museum announced with trailer full of breakable dinosaurs and reheated cavemenArchive heard of this series before Archive heard of this series before Image credit:Sega Image credit:Sega The Bullfroggy connected universe that is Two Point County continues to expand with the announcement ofTwo Point Museum, another irreverentmanagementsim from developers Two Point Studios. This one’s about museums, would you believe, with exhibition themes including the world of prehistory....

HomeNews Valve are still taking SteamOS beyond the Steam Deck, though dual booting is a ways offThe Asus ROG Ally could be first up for SteamOS support The Asus ROG Ally could be first up for SteamOS support Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Valve have made no secret of their plans to makeSteamOS– the Linux-based operating system that powers theSteam Deck– available to other games-playing devices, including rival handhelds....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1152): How to solve the Wednesday August 14 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for August 14? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for August 14? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Wednesday 8th January!...

HomeNewsAbiotic Factor Abiotic Factor’s biggest update yet adds new sectors to explore, plus jetpacks, jeeps and laser katanasHalf-Laugh Half-Laugh Image credit:Playstack Image credit:Playstack Abiotic Factor - Crush Depth TrailerWatch on YouTube Abiotic Factor - Crush Depth Trailer There are a lot of other tweaks. The game previously added some hideous “weather” types inanother recent update- sinister fog, sickening spores, and radiation leaks. But the fog turned out to be “too foggy” and has now been “reduced in intensity, just a bit”....

HomeNewsAlien: Isolation Alien: Romulus has turned Alien: Isolation’s savegame mechanic into a way of spoiling its own scaresOr more generously, building suspense Or more generously, building suspense Image credit:Sega / The Gamer Image credit:Sega / The Gamer Among the many, Gigery beauties of 2014’sAlien: Isolationis that you save using an in-game, wall-mounted Emergency Phone - a maddeningly analog process of slotting a keycard into the machine and waiting for three beeps....

HomeNewsNova Drift Arcade shooter Nova Drift is a Petri dish in which to spawn the daftest, deadliest spaceshipYou’ve got ARPG in my shmup again You’ve got ARPG in my shmup again Image credit:Pixeljam Image credit:Pixeljam I’m no shoot ‘em up nutter - or “shmutter”, as I understand they prefer to be called - but some of the first games I remember playing are shmups. Games like Maelstrom, Ambrosia’s Macintosh clone of Asteroids, and the proto-shmupCrystal Questfrom Patrick Buckland, who would go on to makeCarmageddon....

HomeNewsBlack Myth: Wukong Black Myth Wukong’s benchmarking tool lets you test your rig’s capacity for monkeying aroundFree to download now Free to download now Image credit:Game Science Image credit:Game Science Are you a prospective buyer ofBlack Myth Wukongand would like to see if your PC qualifies for uninterrupted monkeying around? Wowee, would you look at that! There’s a BMW (no, not the German multinational manufacturer of vehicles) benchmarking tool out now that lets you preview how the game would run on your hardware....

HomeFeaturesDead Rising Deluxe Remaster Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster’s survivors are still idiots, but at least they can die horribly in style nowHands-on with the first few cases of the upcoming remaster Hands-on with the first few cases of the upcoming remaster Image credit:Capcom/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Capcom/Rock Paper Shotgun The survivors in the upcomingDead Rising Deluxe Remaster- itself an update of the 2016 HD version of the 2006 zombie open-mallaction game- are still idiots....

HomeFeatures Even with some annoyances, game streaming can feel like a Steam Deck cheat codeHow services like GeForce Now let you dance around the Deck’s limitations How services like GeForce Now let you dance around the Deck’s limitations Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Steam Deck Academybrings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required....