HomeNewsThe Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria The Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moria’s next major update adds a sandbox mode and single player pausePlus new weapons, armour, and building improvements Plus new weapons, armour, and building improvements Image credit:North Beach Games Image credit:North Beach Games While we felt itwasn’t an amazing game, we quite liked The Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moria’s dwarvensurvivalantics. It was abit of cosy fun for a group of pals, and thankfully, open-ended co-op play looks to be the focus of the next big update, which adds a new sandbox mode that lets you pick rocks and sink pints free of storyline constraints....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#999): How to solve the Thursday March 14 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for March 14? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for March 14? 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!...

HomeNewsNobody Wants to Die Check out the trailer for this cyberpunk-noir detective game with a hard-boiled private dickNobody Wants To Die is out some time this year Nobody Wants To Die is out some time this year Image credit:Plaion Image credit:Plaion One of my favourite ‘jokes’to do is parody Raymond Chandler, i.e. I shout “She had legs all the way up to her thighs!” and then laugh at myself. Chandlers’s trademark “blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window” kind of zingers are very hard to do well, so it’s better to say you’re doing Philip Marlow badly on purpose....

HomeNewsDark Souls III Five new worlds to get stuck into Image credit:Archthrones Team Image credit:Archthrones Team After almost four years in development,Dark Souls 3mod Archthrones is set to release a demo on March 15th. If you were unaware of said mod, it’s a Patron-funded expansion that puts Dark Souls 3 on an alternate storyline in a way akin to Demon Souls, with a hub area home to five gateways that’ll transport you to five worlds....

HomeNews Discord aiming to make more games playable inside the client with new dev toolsChat software hopes to develop a sort of social browser game portal Chat software hopes to develop a sort of social browser game portal Image credit:Discord Image credit:Discord Discord is making a play to not simply be the software you use to talk while playing games with your pals, but the software you use to play them too....

HomeNewsEreban: Shadow Legacy Ereban: Shadow Legacy’s blend of Splatoon and Assassin’s Creed releases in AprilThird-person stealth shenanigans ahoy Third-person stealth shenanigans ahoy Stealth gamesin which you can become “one with the shadows” cover a wide range, though I guess spectrum is the more appropriate word here. You’ve got sober infiltration games like Thief, which metes out gradations of light and dark with the care of somebody calculating their tax expenses, and stylised affairs such as Mark Of The Ninja, in which stepping into shadow desaturates you and sort of makes your character far too fancy for enemies to notice....

HomeNewsEVE Online EVE Online dev CCP’s blockchain “survival experience” Project Awakening is getting a closed playtest in MayCarbon Development Platform also going open source Carbon Development Platform also going open source Image credit:CCP Image credit:CCP CCP Games have shared a few more details about Project Awakening, a new game or at least, “survival experience” set in the Eve Online universe, which is getting a closed playtest from 21st May 2024. Project Awakening is a single-shard affair - that is, one in whichall players inhabit the same world, rather than being split up across servers or instances....

HomeFeaturesVampire Therapist How Mel Brooks and Twilight inspired a vampire visual novel mixing funny with therapyLittle Bat Games' creative director talks through our feelings on Vampire Therapist Little Bat Games' creative director talks through our feelings on Vampire Therapist Image credit:Little Bat Games Image credit:Little Bat Games After writing about the upcomingvisual novel-ish gameVampire Therapist(in which you are a vampire, acting as a therapist to other vampires) back in the middle of January, developer Cyrus Nemati reached out asking if I’d like to ask him more questions about it....

HomeGuidesElden Ring How to summon in Elden RingLearn how to summon Spirit Ashes, Torrent and even other players in Elden Ring Learn how to summon Spirit Ashes, Torrent and even other players in Elden Ring Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Wondering how to summon in Elden Ring?It’s an incredibly large, dangerous, and at times lonely world in the Lands Between ofElden Ring. So it’s a very good thing that FromSoftware have given players a plethora of tools with which they can summon powerful allies and comrades into battle with them....

HomeNews Need to catch up with FF14 before Dawntrail? Best start now: there won’t be a free way to skip its story soonYoshi-P wants to keep the story a ‘main focus’ of the lengthy MMO and avoid ‘diminishing its value’ Yoshi-P wants to keep the story a ‘main focus’ of the lengthy MMO and avoid ‘diminishing its value’ Image credit:Square Enix Image credit:Square Enix Fallen behind onFinal Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn’s story?...

HomeNewsPalworld New Palworld mod adds three unreleased Pals, including that Pokemon Mewto rip-offBreed your own DarkMutants, thanks to the power of dataminers Breed your own DarkMutants, thanks to the power of dataminers Image credit:Eurogamer/Pocketpair Image credit:Eurogamer/Pocketpair Image credit:Fandom Last but very much not least, the mod lets you breed DarkMutant, a glowering Dark-type bipedal creature who can cast poison fogs and gravity-based attacks.Discovered in January, it’s the most risible of the mod’s three unreleased Pals, given that it appears heavily based on Pokémon’s Mega Mewtwo Y....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Wednesday, March 13)Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #276 Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #276 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 devs want players to help test new content and find bugsThe Palworld Testing program is now open for sign-ups The Palworld Testing program is now open for sign-ups Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Palworlddevelopers Pocketpair have announced a newPalworldTesting program that asks players of the wildly popular monster-catchingsurvival gameto help test future updates and provide feedback on the game, ahead of new content drops being released to the general public....