HomeReviewsWorkers & Resources: Soviet Republic Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic 1.0 review: reject tradition, embrace a fundamental revolution in city buildingThat’s a common logistical fallacy That’s a common logistical fallacy Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse If nothing else,Workers & Resources Colon Soviet Republicwill give anyone an appreciation of the incredible complexity and difficulty of building and maintaining a city. On another day I might call it the first ever citybuilding game....

HomeNewsA Quiet Place: The Road Ahead A Quiet Place video game resurfaces with a new name, first look at gameplay and 2024 release dateTread carefully! Tread carefully! Image credit:Saber Interactive Image credit:Saber Interactive A Quiet Place is a very solid horror movie that seemed primed for a video game adaptation from the off. After all, it already had all the ingredients of a video game right there: the whole film is essentially one overlong stealth mission with a punishing fail state - any crunchy glass or other noise would immediately draw the attention of deadly alien monsters - and at one point there’s a whiteboard with the narrative equivalent ofDead Space’s “CUT OFF THEIR LIMBS” graffiti scrawled on it....

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3 mod update will be Larian’s ‘final handover’ to players“We don’t want to keep on doing the same thing, we really want to move forward and do new things” “We don’t want to keep on doing the same thing, we really want to move forward and do new things” Image credit:Larian Studios / Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Larian Studios / Rock Paper Shotgun Baldur’s Gate 3’s upcoming mod support update, which willintroduce official modding tools to the sprawling Dungeons & Dragons RPGlater this year, will effectively serve as Larian’s swan song for their work on the game....

HomeNewsDragon Age: The Veilguard Dragon Age: The Veilguard strips your RPG party down to two companions, but they’ll be “deeper” with a lot more banterThe most banter ever The most banter ever Image credit:EA Image credit:EA “Two’s company, three’s a crowd,” the saying goes, unless the first two are warriors and the third one is a priest, in which case the superior proverb is surely “three’s a moderately balanced squad, two’s a massive liability”?...

HomeNewsAlone in the Dark Embracer shut down Alone In The Dark rebooters Pieces Interactive, creators of Magicka and Titan Quest DLCs"Thanks for playing with us" “Thanks for playing with us” Image credit:THQ Nordic Image credit:THQ Nordic The perpetually scarlet-faced and jovially maladroit folk of Embracer have done their usual vaudeville comedy routine of spinning around with negative-dollar signs in their eyes and trampling on another game development studio - in this case, Pieces Interactive, creators of the recent Alone In The Dark reboot....

HomeNewsFumes Fumes is a Mad Max-tinted open world Twisted Metal full of absolutely furious rally carsPositively smoking Positively smoking Image credit:Fumes team Image credit:Fumes team It’s anopen worldcombat racer with boisterous arcade handling, pop-out guns that wiggle about like hood ornaments, some kaiju-wannabe boss vehicles, a delightfully crunchy, sooty artstyle and a passably earwormy metal soundtrack. I’m notentirelyconvinced it has longevity beyond its impeccably scorched and dented PS1 vibes, but I definitely think you should try the demo, now that the early access version is out....

HomeNews Lords of the Fallen reboot Lords of the Fallen is getting a sequel in 2026, probably called Lords of the FallenThird entry in the fantasy Soulslike series will be exclusive to Epic on PC Third entry in the fantasy Soulslike series will be exclusive to Epic on PC Image credit:CI Games Image credit:CI Games Remember Lords of the Fallen? No, notthat one.This one. Last year’s reboot of the 2014 game ofexactlythe same name - despite the successor originally being a numbered sequel, then at least having a ‘The’ at the start of its title to help tell them apart a little - will now get its own follow-up in a third Lords of the Fallen game....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Monday, June 17)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #372 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #372 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....

HomeNewsShovel Knight Shovel Knight is getting online co-op as part of a new Shovel Of Hope DX edition for its 10th anniversaryYou shove to see it You shove to see it Image credit:Yacht Club Games Image credit:Yacht Club Games Well, shovel me timbers!Shovel Knight, the retroplatformerthat started it all (it all being everything froma roguelike spin-offto aDead Cellscameo) turns 10 this month, and Yacht Club Games are releasing a ultimate edition to celebrate....

HomeNewsStarfield Starfield will get at least one more expansion after Shattered Space, Todd Howard saysStudio hopes to follow their annual DLC release cycle Studio hopes to follow their annual DLC release cycle Image credit:Bethesda Image credit:Bethesda Starfield’s first expansion, this year’s Shattered Space, won’t be the only major DLC for the sci-fi exploration game, Bethesda bossman Todd Howard has confirmed.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settingsWas Starfield worth the wait?...

HomeReviewsStill Wakes The Deep Still Wakes The Deep review: soaked in sea horror and shiveringly good voice actingOil not sleep tonight Oil not sleep tonight Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Secret Mode Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Secret Mode Scottish petrochemicalhorroris not exactly a genre, but maybe it ought to be. From the opening moments ofStill Wakes The Deepyou know life on its 1970s North Sea oil rig is precarious. Leaky ceilings, busted panelling, faulty drill machinery - the omens pile up as you spend your first thirty minutes wandering through the colleague-packed canteen and over the platform into the boss' office for a severe dressing-down....

HomeNews The Maw - 17th-22nd June 2024This week’s least pestiferous PC game releases, plus our weekly news blogLive This week’s least pestiferous PC game releases, plus our weekly news blog Image credit:Thomas Rowlandson / Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Thomas Rowlandson / Rock Paper Shotgun Beloved friends, hated enemies - last week, we let the side down. Due to ashortage of hands at the pumpandpersistent clouds of Geoff Keighley activity, there was no weekly Maw liveblog, and this has bred disaster....

HomeNewsElden Ring While you’re waiting for Shadow Of The Erdtree, Elden Ring has some free hair for youThe free update also brings summoning pool and inventory tweaks on the 20th The free update also brings summoning pool and inventory tweaks on the 20th Image credit:FromSoftware Image credit:FromSoftware Good news for people with mates, too. Summoning pools - to my understanding, the groups of summonable allies in each region - can now be enabled or disabled individually through a new Map Functions menu....