HomeNewsReka Here’s a demo for Reka, the bewitching forest fantasy game with the chicken-legged houseCheck out all those lovely silverbirch Check out all those lovely silverbirch Image credit:Fireshine Games Image credit:Fireshine Games As I have now casually mentioned in about 400 news posts, I’m moving flat soon. During the quest for a new flat - a quest I would slot somewhere between return to Ravenholm inHalf-Life 2and the Shalebridge Cradle in Thief: Deadly Shadows in terms of overall hopefulness and unpleasant surprises - I toyed briefly with the idea of living in a mobile home....

HomeReviewsHomeworld 3 Homeworld 3 review: a lavish and often gripping RTS that is overly reliant on playing the hitsI was tempted to exclusively call it the ‘mommy ship’ so consider yourselves lucky I was tempted to exclusively call it the ‘mommy ship’ so consider yourselves lucky Image credit:Blackbird Interactive/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Blackbird Interactive/Rock Paper Shotgun SpacefaringRTSHomeworld 3is good sci-fi. Monolithic structures scorched with plasma burns. Sleek spacecraft. Alien sunrises. It’s also good sci-fi because its characters converse through reams of inscrutable but cool-sounding space science, and at no point does a grinning quipster tell a scientist: “Whoa there, professor....

HomeGuidesManor Lords How to get a Horse in Manor LordsHere’s how to purchase a Horse in Manor Lords Here’s how to purchase a Horse in Manor Lords Image credit:Hooded Horse Image credit:Hooded Horse Want to get Horses in Manor Lords?When it comes to beasts of burden inManor Lords, Horses have a relatively minor but important role to play in your growing settlement. When it comes time to export goods to merchants located off ofManor Lords' map, Horses will make the process faster and more effective....

HomeGuidesHades 2 How to get Bath Salts in Hades 2How to get Bath Salts for getting cosy with your friends in the Hot Springs How to get Bath Salts for getting cosy with your friends in the Hot Springs Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games In this quick guide we’ll walk you throughhow to get more Bath Saltsfor use at the Hot Springs inHades 2. To see this content please enable targeting cookies....

HomeGuidesHades 2 How to get Moon Dust in Hades 2Here’s how to get Moon Dust in Hades 2 Here’s how to get Moon Dust in Hades 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games Looking for Moon Dust in Hades 2?Moon Dust is a rare Reagent inHades 2, needed for Insight. Insight is essentially the system in which you can upgradeArcana Cardsand make their active effects more powerful....

HomeNewsManor Lords Manor Lords gets its first big patch, with new taxes, animations and changes to tradingAlso puts a stop to “overly high ale consumption” Also puts a stop to “overly high ale consumption” Image credit:Hooded Horse Image credit:Hooded Horse Harken to me, serfs! There’s a big new patch forManor Lordsnow available in beta testing for all players. Developer Greg Styczeń has blogged about it in depth. Yes, this is one ofthoseupdate changelogs, the ones that keep on scrolling with hypnotic insistence till at last you tear your eyes away and look around and oh hell, it’s night and why am I standing over this altar, holding a skewered doll?...

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Friday, May 10)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #334 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #334 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....

HomeNewsStray Gods: A Roleplaying Musical Orpheus may be missing from Hades 2 but he’s returning to role-playing musical Stray GodsSad bard DLC confirmed Sad bard DLC confirmed Image credit:Humble Games Image credit:Humble Games Role-playing musicalStray Godsis getting DLC in which you’ll play as sorrowful ghostly rocker Orpheus, thedevelopers have announced. You briefly meet Orpheus in the base game while playing as leatherclad muse Grace, finding him moping in the underworld, eyes dripping with glam rock mascara....

HomeNewsRUNES RPG Runes may one day be a great RPG - it’s currently an entrancing oddity filled with accidental cyborg ninjasThank the stars for Afterburner Thank the stars for Afterburner Image credit:Bimordial/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Bimordial/Rock Paper Shotgun Open worldfantasyRPGRunes emits a deeply powerful aura. I can tell it’s deeply powerful because MSI Afterburner’s fan control immediately went mental after I loaded up itsfree Steam combat demo. What do you mean ‘unoptimised’?...

HomeNewsStellaris Stellaris director insists “ethical use of AI is very important to us” after generating voices in latest DLC“We’re pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don’t want to end up there ourselves” “We’re pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don’t want to end up there ourselves” Image credit:Paradox Image credit:Paradox The director of Paradox’s grand sci-fistrategy gameStellarishas insisted that the studio’s use of any AI-generated assets will be “ethical”, after revealing that latest expansion The Machine Age features AI voices for characters and used AI-generated art and text during its development....

HomeGuidesManor Lords The best Manor Lords modsEnhance your Manor Lords experience with these useful mods Enhance your Manor Lords experience with these useful mods Image credit:Hooded Horse Image credit:Hooded Horse Looking for the best Manor Lords mods?While the modding scene forManor Lordsmight still be in its infancy, there are already key mods out there that can boost a fledgling ruler’s quality of life. Seeing as howManor Lordsis still an Early Access title, and one that doesn’t always explain all of its intricacies, these mods go a long way towards making a player’s time with the game a bit easier, doing little things like increasing the storage capacity of buildings to letting you recruit more soldiers....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1056): How to solve the Friday May 10 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for May 10? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for May 10? 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 theConnections hint for Wednesday 8th January!...

HomeNewsPrey You now have no excuse to not play Arkane Austin’s Prey - you can grab it and two other bangers for a fiverAlso bundle-able is Fallout: New Vegas, Iron Harvest. and Black Book Also bundle-able is Fallout: New Vegas, Iron Harvest. and Black Book Image credit:Bethesda Image credit:Bethesda “I like the look ofPreybut I haven’t picked it up yet,” sounds the lament of the perma-wastrel, content to watch life’s most precious resource tick away then dissolve into the ether, never to return....