HomeGuidesTotal War: Warhammer III An absolute beginner’s guide to getting started with Total War: Warhammer and Immortal EmpiresPlus what DLC to buy first depending on your favourite faction Plus what DLC to buy first depending on your favourite faction Image credit:Creative Assembly Image credit:Creative Assembly TheTotal War: Warhammerseries is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. Luckily, coming up with completely original quotes is not my only skill....

HomeNewsAvowed Avowed’s combat wasn’t ready to show at reveal, Obsidian admit, but they’ve made it “feel more juicy” since"Sometimes you can lose sight on the importance of the prioritization of some things," “Sometimes you can lose sight on the importance of the prioritization of some things,” Image credit:Obsidian Entertainment Image credit:Obsidian Entertainment Obsidian have spent a lot of time tuning upAvowed’s combat in response to negative reactions to the new action-RPG’sinitial reveal footage at an Xbox developer direct, with gameplay director Gabe Paramo conceding that the team could have oiled the hinges and buffed the contacts a little more before showing the game off....

HomeNews Battlefield 2042’s Dead Space crossover just makes the absence of a Dead Space 2 remake hurt all that moreThe Outbreak extraction mode will arrive in the shooter’s final seventh season The Outbreak extraction mode will arrive in the shooter’s final seventh season Image credit:EA Image credit:EA It looks like we won’t get a remake ofDead Space 2in the style of last year’s excellent do-over of the original limb-shootinghorror game, but it turns out thatDead Spaceisn’t completely, uh, dead just yet....

HomeFeaturesIsles of Sea and Sky Consider Isles of Sea and Sky, the only sokoban game I’ve ever enjoyedOnce more unto the beach Once more unto the beach Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Cicada Games/Gamera Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Cicada Games/Gamera Games Your wee island person washes up on a beach, and naturally starts pushing stuff around so he can collect keys that open up more screens full of stuff to push around. There are other bits to collect here and there, most notably stars that act partly as keys, but in a way that tells you what area you should be moving to next....

HomeNewsElden Ring Did Miyazaki poke fun at this viral tweet from two years ago with an Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree secret boss?Zanzibart…forgive me Zanzibart…forgive me Image credit:FromSoft Image credit:FromSoft Early 2022 was a glorious time to be on Twitter. I mean, obviously it wasn’t, but it was stillnamedTwitter. That’s something, right? May accelerated absurdity re-contextualise all your hells as, like, still hells but with air conditioning. It was February that year when Gearbox writer Sam Winkler done a funny tweet aboutDark Souls....

HomeNewsElden Ring Elden Ring’s latest patch says your mouse might be to blame for performance issuesAlso, no more lightning perfume bottle fun times Also, no more lightning perfume bottle fun times Image credit:Bandai Namco Image credit:Bandai Namco Elden Ring’s got another patch out and it’s tinkered withShadow Of The Erdtreeweapons, fixed some bugs, and still not done anything about the game’s performance issues. Thatperfume bottle and lightningcombo? Binned off. Everyone’s favourite summon Blackknife Tiche?...

HomeGuidesElden Ring Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree progression routeHere is the perfect area order for the Elden Ring DLC Here is the perfect area order for the Elden Ring DLC Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for a good progression route for Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree?TheShadow Of The ErdtreeDLC introduces you to the Realm Of Shadow, a staggeringly large map for a mere DLC, and one with a huge emphasis on verticality and hidden paths to new areas....

HomeNewsEscape from Tarkov Escape from Tarkov is offering players in-game currency as a bounty for reporting cheatersLatest patch also adds offline option for PvE mode Latest patch also adds offline option for PvE mode Image credit:Battlestate Image credit:Battlestate To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings It’s not specified how much money players will receive for their efforts, though dedicated bounty hunters will receive a combined amount for successfully reporting multiple cheaters....

HomeNewsFactorio Factorio expansion Space Age and 2.0 update arrive this October, will cost as much as the original gameSounds like you’ll get more than your money’s worth Sounds like you’ll get more than your money’s worth Image credit:Wube Image credit:Wube Factorio’s whopping Space Age expansion has been in the works fora good few years now, and we finally know when we’ll get our hands on it. Space Age will arrive this October alongside a major 2....

HomeNews Final Fantasy 14’s Dawntrail expansion has only been out a few days, and one of its new jobs is already being adjustedThe Viper will become less ‘busy’, with other changes for Astrologian, Black Mage, tanks and more from 7.01 The Viper will become less ‘busy’, with other changes for Astrologian, Black Mage, tanks and more from 7.01 Image credit:Square Enix Image credit:Square Enix Dawntrail, the latest expansion forFinal Fantasy XIV, has officially been out just three days, arriving earlier this week after a brief early access release....

Free Lovecraft horror game developers Bit Golem raise $50,000 for humanitarian aid in UkraineWhoo!(thulhu) Whoo!(thulhu) Image credit:Bit Golem Image credit:Bit Golem The two-person Polish dev team - who have previously delved into less terrifying waters with work on Ultimate Fishing Simulator - have also hit 1,700,000 downloads of theirhorrorvisual novelsince launch in 2021. Which, as they say, is “kinda crazy”. But the good kinda crazy, not the kind where you start noticing gills on your neck while shaving in the morning....

HomeNewsHorticular Gardening sim Horticular is an isometric Viva Pinata featuring a dead planet and loads of gnomesGnome country for old men Gnome country for old men Image credit:Slug Disco Image credit:Slug Disco A hundred clay and plaster eyes catch yours, unblinking; a hundred figures seemingly freeze in the act of pushing a toy wheelbarrow or smoking a pipe. The tune you were whistling dies in your throat as you hurry past into the reassuring shadow of the relatively gnomeless bungalows to either side....

HomeGuidesElden Ring How to get the Rauh Ruins Map in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The ErdtreeHere is how to get the Ancient Rauh Ruins Map in Shadow Of The Erdtree Here is how to get the Ancient Rauh Ruins Map in Shadow Of The Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Wondering how to get to the Rauh Ruins Map Fragment in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree?...