HomeNewsAgainst The Storm Against The Storm’s 1.3 update is out now and it’s one for the zoomersBecause you can zoom out further now Because you can zoom out further now Image credit:Eremite Games Image credit:Eremite Games Why does a big zoom compel me so? Partly it’s that I often find management games leave me feeling claustrophobic, never quite able to see all I want onscreen, and thus desperately flicking across the surface of the world in an effort to keep tabs on what’s going on....

HomeHardwareNewsNo Rest for the Wicked (2024) Arise now, ye Cerim: No Rest for the Wicked’s performance updates are underwayAlready running better on low-end GPUs Already running better on low-end GPUs Image credit:Private Division Image credit:Private Division FollowingHotfix 1’s focuson the game’sdebatablyenjoyable weapon durability system, Hotfixes2and3have made a raft of tweaks aimed at getting those framerates up. Along with the general fixes and enhancements, they both also specifically address the prologue’s dramatic ship battle, in which a maelstrom of sea, rain, and fire effects conspire to batter performance harder than any other part of the game I’ve seen yet....

HomeNewsCereballers Cereballers is a free 2D football parody with a spark of real geniusThe offside rule is the least of your problems The offside rule is the least of your problems Image credit:tomsmizzle Image credit:tomsmizzle I often regret that I didn’t get into football as a kid (note for people across the pond: football is what we call soccer in these here accursed, eternally post-imperial isles). The trouble was, all my friends liked football and I have an abiding hatred of popular things, a hatred that has obviously served me well during my later career as an online news journalist....

HomeNews EGX and MCM Comic Con are sharing a London venue this yearA word from uncle Reedpop, who hasn’t sold us off just yet A word from uncle Reedpop, who hasn’t sold us off just yet Image credit:Reedpop Image credit:Reedpop EGX, of course, will feature a bunch of classic and upcoming games, while Comic Con is laser-targeted at our respected allies in the world of on-paper image-based storytelling with speech bubbles....

HomeNews ESA lawyer frets about some sort of terrifying ‘online arcade’ if preservation is made easierESA oppose allowing libraries to offer scholars remote access in recent hearing ESA oppose allowing libraries to offer scholars remote access in recent hearing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Team17 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Team17 “The preceding three years ago, the proponents of this exemption sought to maintain complete discretion over how they would provide remote access to preserve games,” began Englund....

HomeNewsFortnite Fortnite will let you hide “confrontational” emotes, including the game’s most popularDon’t laugh Don’t laugh Royale-battler Fortnite will soon allow players to hide a handful of emotes the developers concede are “sometimes used in confrontational ways”. This includes the emote reported as the most-used in Fortnite’s seven-year history. That’s either a worrying indictment of the game’s players, or a (more?) worrying indictment of universal human psychology. What is the offending animation?...

HomeNewsIRIS Hellish indie horror IRIS can get in the toaster and I’m sure the feeling is mutualActively hostile to my attempts to not put it straight in the toaster Actively hostile to my attempts to not put it straight in the toaster Image credit:GazpieStudio Image credit:GazpieStudio Sometimes, I hear critics describe something as ‘actively hostile’ to the act of playing it, but with something close to admiration in their voices. I’ve always felt that I, too, would like to one day find an artwork that I could describe in the same way....

HomeNewsInnkeep Innkeep satisfies my craving for a fantasy game that’s just a grim drudgery simulatorSomething need doing? Something need doing? Image credit:Daniel Burke Image credit:Daniel Burke I’m the kind of awful person who looks at the background actors in TV shows and wonders what life is like for e.g. the old woman who sells birdfeed in Trafalgar Square in Mary Poppins when said upper-middle class domestic isn’t singing about her. What fate the Warcraft grunt when he is too old to work work?...

HomeNewsHorizon Forbidden West Latest Horizon Forbidden West PC patch finally fixes its weirdest issueNvidia Reflex, you’ve bested me for the last time Nvidia Reflex, you’ve bested me for the last time Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PlayStation PC LLC Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PlayStation PC LLC Nestled within aseemingly ho-hum patchforHorizon Forbidden West’s PC edition is a change I’ve been crossing fingers and ritualistically sacrificing metal dinosaurs for since release. At last I can behold those glorious words: “Resolved performance regression when enabling Nvidia Reflex On+Boost....

HomeFeaturesLethal Company Lethal Company gets worse as you get betterWhy being dumb is good, actually Why being dumb is good, actually Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Zeekerss Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Zeekerss So far, my main problem withLethal Company– this month’sRPS Game Clubgame – is that I’m getting better at it. I’m more efficient at clearing up scrap, less prone to fear-spasming inside out when amonsterattacks, and have become wise to most of the haunted houses’ deadliest tricks....

HomeNewsMetaphor: ReFantazio Metaphor: ReFantazio gets mega-trailer and October release date - good news, brawler-only parties are viableAtlus' latest showcase reveals a whole lot more Atlus' latest showcase reveals a whole lot more Image credit:Sega Image credit:Sega As one of the Treehouse’s resident Atlus sickos, I was incredibly happy to wake up to 25-minutes ofMetaphor: ReFantazio’s director Katsura Hashino talking us through some new footage. We get a look at a new rural town and the activities you can get up to, like bounty hunting....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Tuesday, April 23)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #317 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #317 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....

HomeNewsSongs Of Conquest Strategy RPG Songs Of Conquest will hit 1.0 with a final campaign next monthPaying HOMMage Paying HOMMage Songs Of Conquestis a strategy-RPG with some of the most handsome pixel art around. Steam tells me I’ve played its Early Access release for 0.7 hours, which was long enough to know that I wanted to play more and would wait for version 1.0. I won’t have to wait much longer....