HomeGuidesElden Ring All new Elden Ring DLC Spirit Ashes and where to find themHere are all 20 new Spirit Ashes in Shadow Of The Erdtree, and exactly how to get them Here are all 20 new Spirit Ashes in Shadow Of The Erdtree, and exactly how to get them Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for all of the Spirit Ashes in Shadow Of The Erdtree?...

HomeNewsDragon Age: The Veilguard Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s customisable difficulties look genuinely great for accessibilityInvincibility is “an option to make sure players of all abilities can show up” says game director Invincibility is “an option to make sure players of all abilities can show up” says game director Image credit:EA Image credit:EA Alongside the usual standard and nightmare modes, upcomingRPGDragon Age: The Veilguard(née Dreadwolf) will ship with a fully tweakable set of difficulty options called ‘Unbound’, letting you customise everything from parry timings to invincibility....

HomeNews GTA Online update pops a quality-of-life feature behind the GTA+ paywall, making it unavailable on PCCue catastrophic predictions about GTA 6 monetisation Cue catastrophic predictions about GTA 6 monetisation Image credit:Take-Two Interactive Image credit:Take-Two Interactive The update in question is the Bottom Dollar Bounties update, which adds a Vinewood Club app to your character’s mobile, providing you’re a GTA+ subscriber. AsGamesradarpoints out, putting what is being called a “basic quality-of-life feature” behind a paywall has caused something of a scrum on the reddits, and has led to dire predictions about the monetisation ofGTA 6, to say nothing of much wailing and gnashing of teeth from poor PC players who are still waiting for Rockstar to add currently PS5/Xbox Series-exclusive features such as animals to GTA Online....

HomeFeatures How the checklist conquered the open world, from Morrowind to SkyrimThe first in a new interview series about a sprawling, exhausting genre The first in a new interview series about a sprawling, exhausting genre Image credit:Microsoft Image credit:Microsoft There’s no genre like the open world for inducing choice paralysis, so it’s fitting that I’ve been agonising over how to begin this irregular article series onopen worldgames for months. I have a lot of material, oodles of interviews with developers of all shapes and sizes - big shops like Remedy and CD Projekt, smaller studios like Ace Team and Awaceb, all holding forth on such topics as whetherElden Ringor Zelda did bandit camps better, and how you make a forest feel endless....

HomeNewsTransformers: Galactic Trials New Transformers game Galactic Trials is part racing game and part roguelike battler, out this yearRolling out in October Rolling out in October Image credit:Outright Games Image credit:Outright Games It’s been a good while since we last got a proper Transformers video game, with the four years since theXCOM-ish Transformers: Battlegrounds in 2020 only seeinglong-in-the-worksMMO Transformers Online finally biting the dust. That’s about to change, with the reveal of a curious new combination of racer and roguelike starring the robots in disguise....

HomeNewsThe First Descendant Nexon say sorry for The First Descendant launch bugs and performance issues with free cosmetics and boostersAnd a round of Kyper Shards for all my friends! And a round of Kyper Shards for all my friends! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Nexon Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Nexon Nexon’s free-to-play looter-shooterThe First Descendant- “Nexon’sWarframe”, as the wags are calling it on Steam - launched this week and hasencountered a few snags and snaffaroos, including beta rewards not showing up, Easy Anti-Cheat not running correctly, frame-rate drops for people who downloaded in advance of release, and players finding their merry way to servers where no other players exist....

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Thursday, July 4)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #389 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #389 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 for Wednesday 8th January! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

HomeNewsStar Citizen Star Citizen devs Cloud Imperium fined for discriminating against autistic programmer over work-from-home requestUK tribunal finds that company “treated the claimant unfavourably” due to disability UK tribunal finds that company “treated the claimant unfavourably” due to disability Image credit:Cloud Imperium Image credit:Cloud Imperium A UK employment tribunal have orderedStar Citizendeveloper Cloud Imperium to pay around £27,748 - approximately $35,230 - in compensation for discriminating against former senior programmer Paul Ah-Thion, who was dismissed in 2022 after his requests to work from home following an office move were denied....

HomeNews Steam isn’t the only place having a summer sale, as Itch.io launches its own sunny dealsItching to spend Itching to spend Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Graffiti Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Graffiti Games You might have seen that£10 will go a long way in the Steam summer sale, but let me do you one better. Indie game store Itch.io has begunits own summer sale, and for those willing to delve into its rainbow-coloured heap of throwaway toys and fun experiments, plenty of deals await....

HomeNewsTales of Kenzera: ZAU Platformer melding African Bantu cultures with personal experiences of grief hit PC in late April Image credit:EA Image credit:EA To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Before Tales of Kenzera: Zau, Surgent contributed to a number of films starting with 2021’s The Whale, through to this year’s Wild Goat Surf. The studio bill themselves as focusing on storytelling across a variety of media, from games and film to podcasts, with Zau being their first video game project....

HomeNewsTiny Garden Tiny Garden plants a charming, cozy farming sim inside virtual Polly Pocket toysSow your crops and turn the clamshell’s handle to make them grow Sow your crops and turn the clamshell’s handle to make them grow Image credit:Ao Norte Image credit:Ao Norte To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Spanish developers Ao Norte’s adorable game imagines a world in which the iconic hinged mini-dioramas are ecosystems of their own able to grow crops, as players sow seeds before turning the handle on the side of the clasped toy to help carrots, lettuces and all other manner of plants and vegetables spring up....

HomeNews.45 Parabellum Bloodhound VA-11 Hall-A devs’ next game is a modern successor to horror strategy classic Parasite Eve, and that has me unreasonably excitedSequel N1RVAnn-A development is on pause for the moment, say Sukeban Games Sequel N1RVAnn-A development is on pause for the moment, say Sukeban Games Image credit:Sukeban Games Image credit:Sukeban Games The developers behindcyberpunk bartending gemVA-11 Hall-Ahave revealed their next game, and it looks a doozy..45 Parabellum Bloodhounddraws its inspiration from PlayStation masterpiece Parasite Eve in offering a mix of real-time and turn-based combat dubbed as “active time action”....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1110): How to solve the Wednesday July 3 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for July 3? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for July 3? 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!...