HomeNewsAmong Us More quality-of-life tweaks for the hit social stealth game Image credit:Innersloth Image credit:Innersloth Image credit:Innersloth Ages ago, Among Usadded a bunch of new roles: the Engineer, Scientist, Guardian Angel, and Shapeshifter. Although there’s no word on what the new roles might entail, the roadmap shows they are pencilled in as the first of the roadmap updates. “Soon we’ll introduce more brand new roles each with their own little quirk that make for some very interesting lobbies....

HomeReviewsAnimal Well Animal Well review: an unmissable creature featurePutting the animal in AI Putting the animal in AI Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bigmode Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bigmode Billy Basso’sAnimal Wellfeels like a celebration of all these unreal organisms, of their whimsy and uncanniness and persistence between layers of technological change, and of the more explicit, quasi-Jungian animal figures and symbols we find in videogames from Zelda toFallout. Not to bury the lede under fancy parallels here, but it’s also an absolutely brilliantmetroidvaniaplatformer, and a game that manages to be at once deeply intuitive and utterly, utterly mysterious....

HomeFeaturesRusty’s Retirement Can you play Rusty’s Retirement while at work and still get work done?Let’s find out Let’s find out Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Mister Morris Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Mister Morris Games I’m playingRusty’s Retirementas I type this article. This cute farming sim runs at the bottom of your screen as you go about your working day. You can plant crops, hire watering robots, harvest blueberry bushes, raise pigs, all while validating the spreadsheets from Paula in accounts....

HomeNewsHelldivers 2 Helldivers 2 balancing has been “removing the fun”, Arrowhead CEO frets - “just tweaking damage numbers is a blunt tool"“I think we’ve gone too far in some areas.” “I think we’ve gone too far in some areas.” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PlayStation Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PlayStation I spent this morning beingpseudo-profound about Animal Wellandpseudo-elegaic about Tango Gameworks, so now it’s time to get back to the Real Business - being a pseud on the subject of videogame gun balancing....

HomeGuidesManor Lords How to get food in Manor LordsHere’s how to get food in Manor Lords, from Berries and Meat to Honey Here’s how to get food in Manor Lords, from Berries and Meat to Honey Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Wondering how to get food in Manor Lords?Starvation is no laughing matter inManor Lords, and it’s vital to have a steady supply of food to fill the bellies of your hardworking peasants....

HomeGuidesHades 2 How to get G Rock in Hades 2: Glassrock locationHere’s how to get Glassrock in Hades 2 Here’s how to get Glassrock in Hades 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games Wondering where to get G Rock in Hades 2?There are many recipes inHades 2that require different Reagents. G Rock is listed as a main ingredient to forge the fifthHades 2 weapon, the Argent Skull....

HomeGuidesManor Lords Manor Lords: What is Emmer Fertility?Here’s an explanation on Emmer Fertility and how it affects Wheat in Manor Lords Here’s an explanation on Emmer Fertility and how it affects Wheat in Manor Lords Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Wondering what Emmer Fertility is in Manor Lords?When it comes time to seed and till the land inManor Lords. you’ll need to pay attention to fertility levels....

HomeNewsHi-Fi Rush Microsoft exec calls for “smaller”, “prestige” games the day after closing Hi-Fi Rush studio TangoAnd reportedly turning down a sequel And reportedly turning down a sequel Ah, itfeels like only yesterdaythat Microsoft shut down Tango Gameworks, creators ofHi-Fi Rush, and now here’s Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, telling Microsoft staff at an internal townhall meeting that “we need smaller games that give us prestige and awards” - a sentence we might plausibly lengthen to “…like Hi-Fi Rush”....

HomeNewsDishonored More Xbox studio cuts likely to follow Tango and Arkane Austin, and Game Pass looks like the culpritStudios spread thin like “peanut butter on bread” says Xbox president Matt Booty Studios spread thin like “peanut butter on bread” says Xbox president Matt Booty Image credit:Bethesda Softworks Image credit:Bethesda Softworks According to sources “familiar with the company’s plans,” this week saw Xbox offering voluntary severance to “producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax....

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Thursday, May 9)Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #333 Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #333 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....

HomeFeatures Tango Gameworks deserve to be remembered for more than Shinji MikamiThe evil within and the evil without The evil within and the evil without Image credit:Microsoft Image credit:Microsoft When I asked Tango Gameworks creative director John Johanas whom he’d giveHi-Fi Rush’s Best Audio trophy away to at this year’s GDC Awards, he said he’d split it between the game’s audio team and “the person who taught me everything I know” - Shinji Mikami, Tango’s founder and one of the erstwhile Capcom and Platinum big brains behindResident Evil, Vanquish and much more besides....

HomePodcasts The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 18: everyone’s loving Hades 2!There’ll be hell to pay There’ll be hell to pay Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games James isn’t here, so Nate makes up some hardware news that’s very exciting and yet disturbing, while he does have a mythology-themed mini game in the tower of jocularity. Plus: the games we’ve been playing this week, including a cute survival horror andRimWorld, still....

HomeNewsBe the Ruler: Britannia Vibrant strategy Be the Ruler: Britannia is probably not the next Manor Lords, but it looks great nonethelessToo many SEO possibilities to pick just one Too many SEO possibilities to pick just one Image credit:BeardedBrothersGames/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:BeardedBrothersGames/Rock Paper Shotgun How to best describestrategygameBe the Ruler: Britanniawhen its alchemic reduction of traditionally full-on genres is what drew me to itsfree Steam prologuein the first place? A less demandingManor Lords?...