HomeReviewsLightyear Frontier Lightyear Frontier early access review: a speedy farming simulator with one sticking pointSpace to grow Space to grow Image credit:Amplifier Game Invest/Frame Break Image credit:Amplifier Game Invest/Frame Break My day inLightyear Frontierstarts out with a bit of farming. On a good day, it’s raining, so I don’t need to water the crops. On a bad day, there are weeds spontaneously spawning from the sky and I need to catch them before they land right on top of my precious plants....

HomeNewsMinecraft Minecraft expands its subscription drive with the Marketplace Pass150 Minecraft content packs a month, Bedrock only 150 Minecraft content packs a month, Bedrock only Image credit:Microsoft Image credit:Microsoft Mojang have announced a newMinecraftsubscription service, the Marketplace Pass, which grants access to a catalogue of “150+” community-created Minecraft thingy-ma-bobs. Skins, adventure worlds, survival spawns, mashups, bizarretextures- with a Marketplace Pass, the wider monetisable universe of Minecraft is your (rented) oyster, except that this being Minecraft, theoysterlooks like a weird underwater trapdoor....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Friday, March 15)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #278 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #278 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....

HomeNewsPalworld Palworld’s first new raid boss is an evil Goth girl, coming soonBellanoir makes its debut in first trailer Bellanoir makes its debut in first trailer Image credit:Pocketpair/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Pocketpair/Rock Paper Shotgun Pocketpair have popped up a trailer forPalworld’s first new raid battle boss, Bellanoir, who is “coming soon” to the monster-catchingsurvivalgame in a big oldPalworldupdate that will also include some fixes and additional anti-cheating measures. First impressions: it’s an evil Goth girl with a jellyfish where her legs should be....

HomeNewsBrighter Shores RuneScape co-creator returns with a new free-to-play fantasy MMO, a decade in the worksBrighter Shores aims to offer a cosier, less grindy experience than the genre’s classics Brighter Shores aims to offer a cosier, less grindy experience than the genre’s classics Image credit:Fen Research Image credit:Fen Research The co-creator of long-runningfree-to-playfantasyMMORuneScapehas revealed the project his new studio has been working on for the last ten years. Surprise! It’s a new free-to-play fantasy MMO....

HomeNews Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection devs “working to address” bugs following disastrous launchYou might be better off playing the originals You might be better off playing the originals Image credit:CBS Studios Image credit:CBS Studios STAR WARS™ Battlefront Classic Collection - Launch TrailerWatch on YouTube STAR WARS™ Battlefront Classic Collection - Launch Trailer “At launch, we experienced critical errors with our network infrastructure. The result was incredibly high ping, matchmaking errors, crashes, and servers not appearing in the browser,” Aspyr explaineda post....

HomeNewsStardew Valley Stardew Valley creator confirms harvesting in a certain direction is faster - but not for long, as 1.6 fix dueEric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone has been teasing incoming patch notes for the massive update Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone has been teasing incoming patch notes for the massive update Image credit:ConcernedApe Image credit:ConcernedApe If you’ve ever suspected that harvesting crops inStardew Valleyis faster in one direction than another, validation is at hand. The belovedfarming sim’s creator has confirmed that the long-rumoured quirk is real, as its incoming 1....

HomeNews Trying to emulate Hollywood movie soundtracks is holding video game music back, says Final Fantasy composerAnd surprise, surprise, he doesn’t think soulless AI can write a decent score, either And surprise, surprise, he doesn’t think soulless AI can write a decent score, either Image credit:Square Enix Image credit:Square Enix Developers happy to mimic the style of Hollywood blockbusters in their video game soundtracks are stopping video game music from advancing, one of the best to ever do it -Final Fantasycomposer Nobuo Uematsu - has said....

HomeNewsWhile Waiting While Waiting challenges you to make your own fidgety fun as you puzzle through life’s little pausesDon’t delay in playing its Steam demo Don’t delay in playing its Steam demo Image credit:Optillusion Image credit:Optillusion What do you reach for when you’re waiting in line at the supermarket, or waiting in a shop doorway for the rain to stop, or even while you’re waiting for a game to finish downloading?...

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1000): How to solve the Friday March 15 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for March 15? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for March 15? 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!...

HomeNews Anime RPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink gets its biggest update yet with free new questPlus fixes for progression blocks, multiplayer balancing and camera Plus fixes for progression blocks, multiplayer balancing and camera Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Cy Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Cy Games Granblue Fantasy: Relinkhas received a sizeable game update, which adds a new, difficult quest, The Final Vision, some additional camera and aim sensitivity settings, and new Steam trophies. That’s in addition to a brace of bug fixes, character-specific balancing tweaks for multiplayer, and assorted quality-of-life improvements, including visual and audio indicators to indicate when you’ve lost your buffs....

HomeFeaturesAscendant Infinity Ascendant Infinity’s lunkhead tone belies an intelligent team shooterPlayFusion’s loudmouthed FPS lets you make the calls PlayFusion’s loudmouthed FPS lets you make the calls Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PlayFusion Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PlayFusion I promise that I mean this as an actual compliment, but having played an early build ofAscendant Infinity– Cambridge-based PlayFusion’s debutFPS– the impression I keep coming back to is that it’s a lot smarter than it looks....

HomeGuidesElden Ring Best early weapons in Elden RingHere are the best early weapons you can pick up in the starting areas of Elden Ring Here are the best early weapons you can pick up in the starting areas of Elden Ring Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/FromSoftware Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/FromSoftware Looking for the best early weapons in Elden Ring?Whether you’re a returning player looking to start a freshElden Ringplaythrough before jumping into theShadow Of The ErdtreeDLC, or you’re new to the franchise, finding the best early weapons can set you up for success as you explore the challengingmapof the Lands Between, before moving onto tougherareas....