HomeFeaturesDeep Rock Galactic How Deep Rock Galactic Season 5 drills back down to basicsMine craft Mine craft Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Coffee Stain Publishing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Coffee Stain Publishing Dwarvenco-opcaperDeep Rock Galactichas spent years raising the stakes. Where its offworld mining concern once dealt merely with steep drops and irate bugs, it’s since had toface down the robotic armyof a rival mineral corp and anomnicidal alien plague. If the subsequent question is “It used to be about therocks, y’know?...

HomeNewsElden Ring How Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree’s new levelling system makes life easier for newcomers… or harder for veteransWant some bite with your bark? Want some bite with your bark? Image credit:Bandai Namco Image credit:Bandai Namco Yes, I’ve played a portion ofElden Ring’s expansionShadow Of The ErdtreeandI think it’s brilliant. But there’s one thing I didn’t flesh out in the preview and that’s the DLC’s standalone levelling system,brought to our attentiona month or so ago....

HomeFeatures Jacking in to Stellaris as a fanatical cyberpunk corporate cult in The Machine AgeHack all the planets Hack all the planets Image credit:Paradox Interactive Image credit:Paradox Interactive From the moment I understood theweakness of my flesh, I thought: no bother, like. Everyone has different skills. Then, I realised that some other people might be less enlightened than me about the whole ‘having limits’ things, and that there was a lot of money to be made hawking implants....

HomeNews Just Cause creators Avalanche lay off 50 people and close their Montreal and New York studiosCuts needed to ensure “a stable and sustainable future for the company” Cuts needed to ensure “a stable and sustainable future for the company” Image credit:Avalanche Image credit:Avalanche Just Causecreators,Mad Maxdevelopers andRage 2co-developers Avalanche Studios have announced that they will lay off 50 developers - nine per cent of their global workforce - and close their New York, USA and Montreal, Canada studios in order to “ensure a stable and sustainable future for the company”....

HomeNewsMech Engineer Mech Engineer’s demo is for people who love hateful interface designMeching the best of it Meching the best of it Image credit:MicroProse Image credit:MicroProse If you heard loud swearing last night in the Watford area it may have been one of two things: 1) me cussing out my (borrowed) Steam Deck while stealthily accessing the wifi from outside a closed public library, as I don’t currently have broadband at home, or 2) me subsequently trying to make head or tail ofMech Engineer, in which you take charge of a mobile undersea metropolis and send squads of painstakingly assembled robosoldiers to semi-auto-battle squidgy alien fauna....

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Tuesday, June 4)Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #359 Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #359 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....

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Wednesday, June 5)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #360 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #360 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....

HomeNewsPhantom Spark Phantom Spark is a hover racer of impeccable chill and wistful fantasy worldbuildingFrom the creators of… NUTS? From the creators of… NUTS? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Coatsink Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Coatsink I was a diehard WipeOut player as a kid. Seriously, me and the boys used to roam the streets of Bradford looking for F-Zero players to bully, at least till the RollCagers rocked up and stole our lunch money....

HomeNewsTactical Breach Wizards Tactical Breach Wizards is refreshingly unlike XCOM despite wearing the same tactical underwearNecro-Clancy Necro-Clancy Image credit:Suspicious Developments Image credit:Suspicious Developments We’ll never know exactly what sort of fiction Tom Clancy would have written if he was less interested in the calibre of specific bullets and their effiency at dismantling burgeoning socialist governments, and more so in the specific sigils required to blast a riot cop through a third story window....

HomeNewsYakuza: Like a Dragon The Yakuza TV show is coming out on Amazon Prime in OctoberTokyo nice Tokyo nice Amazon will air a live-action TV series based on Sega’sYakuzagames in October this year, says the streaming service. Like A Dragon:Yakuzawill be a six-part series following characters in the criminal underbelly of Kamurocho, set to straddle between two time periods: 1995 and 2005. The series “showcases modern Japan and the dramatic stories of these intense characters, such as the legendary Kazuma Kiryu, that games in the past have not been able to explore,” said Amazon, who are releasing it through Prime Video, just like theirFallout series....

HomeNewsTrackmania They have been racing for a monthGetting over dip Getting over dip Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Ubisoft Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Ubisoft At the time of writing, the remaining competitors are warring it out at a particular spot on floor 16, tantalisingly close to the finish line. To proceed, they have to perform a nigh-impossible trick that involvescrawling along a vertical surface on two wheels. It is disgusting....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1081): How to solve the Tuesday June 4 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for June 4? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for June 4? 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!...

HomeGuidesWuthering Waves All currencies in Wuthering Waves explainedWhat they’re used for and how to get them What they’re used for and how to get them Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kuro Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kuro Games Confused about currency in Wuthering Waves?There’s alotto do in the massive gacha RPGWuthering Waves, and as is the case with most similarly-sized games, that means there are also alotof different currencies. Between currencies for rolling on banners, buying upgrade materials, unlocking certain content, and shopping in Jianzhou’s shops, it can be pretty intimidating to figure out exactly what each one does....