HomeNewsThe Bustling World Ancient Chinese RPG The Bustling World is, in fact, all of the genres, from city builder to life simToo ambitious for its own good? Too ambitious for its own good? Image credit:Lightning Games Image credit:Lightning Games It’s frightfully early in the year to be bustling, but I can’t get enough of the crowded streets of ancient “Chinese-style"RPGThe Bustling World. The latest trailer is a series of sweeping yet intimate, colourful urban cross-sections, showing dozens of NPCs selling fish, shaking hands on balconies, shouldering barrels, dancing with fans, honing their feng shui, and various other pursuits that allegedly form part of full NPC life simulations....

HomeNewsJudas Bioshock was “basically a corridor”, says Ken Levine - Judas won’t be, and characters will have long memoriesNo “random number generator” quests, hopefully No “random number generator” quests, hopefully Image credit:Ghost Story Games Image credit:Ghost Story Games I come and go with the work of Ken Levine, celebrated auteurman andreported burnout-inducing manager, but I’m interested to see more ofJudas, his current project at Ghost Story Games. The concept for Judas is that you’re trapped in a computer-run society housed aboard a colony ship, the Mayflower....

HomeNews Delightful dark fantasy fable Ghost Of A Tale, aka Ico meets Redwall, is getting an Unreal Engine sequelDevelopers break their silence after a year and a half of “lost” development Developers break their silence after a year and a half of “lost” development Image credit:SeithCG Image credit:SeithCG Happy new year all! And what better way to kick off another undignified 12 month crawl toward the next Xmas holiday than with the news that one of my favourite dark fantasy storybook extravaganzas,Ghost Of A Tale, is getting a sequel....

HomeNewsDoom Doom on a CAPTCHA is the most frustrating though admittedly raddest way to prove your humanity to an algorithmThy Flesh Confirmed Thy Flesh Confirmed Image credit:Vercel Image credit:Vercel It’s a fun concept, nonetheless, although it doesn’t really have the same effect removed from the context of an actual website. If I’d encountered it after trying to log on to do taxes, for example, it’d really stand apart from the usual fare asking you to identify all the buses you’d most like to lick or whatever....

HomeNews Enjoy some Ryanair Boeing 737 safety manual ekphrasis in Johnson A Plane Manand boy is my Johnson tired and boy is my Johnson tired Image credit:Hyphinett Image credit:Hyphinett “It’s always been a dream of mine to be able to produce interactive works purely using the phone in my pocket and I think this game has been deeply fulfilling for me due to that,” says developer Breogán Hackett AKA Hyphinett. Kat Brewster previously wrote some lovely words about Hyphinett’s gameVitreousand other Bitsy horrorsin this pieceabout how the engine lends itself so well to lo-fi spooks....

HomeNews Gar-Type is a free pixelart shooter based on a cosmic horror meme about a lazy, ravenous housecatGarfield also rhymes with Starfield, now that I think of it Garfield also rhymes with Starfield, now that I think of it Image credit:LumpyTouch / Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:LumpyTouch / Rock Paper Shotgun I think the last time I read an actual, original Garfield comic was in 1998. Since then, my experience of the character has been one long litany of Gar-memes and in particular,Gorefield memes....

HomeGuidesRoblox Go Fishing codes January 2025All new Go Fishing codes and how to redeem them All new Go Fishing codes and how to redeem them Image credit:Fishing Forum Image credit:Fishing Forum In this guide: To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings All working Go Fishing codes Here are all the current workingcodes in Go Fishing: Last updated:2nd January 2025...

HomeFeaturesIndiana Jones and the Great Circle Indiana Jones And The Great Circle is a game about a man with handsFor A Fistful Of Other Smaller Fists For A Fistful Of Other Smaller Fists Image credit:MachineGames Image credit:MachineGames Indiana Jones is a man with hands. Deny this at your own peril. ‘Write what you know’ they say.Indiana Jones And The Great Circle’s writersknewabout having hands. They’d picked up a thing or two....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hints and answers for Thu, January 2ndNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #570. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #570. 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! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 2nd January?...

HomeNews PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds creator wants to build a “metaverse” but says it might take 15 years and can’t explain what it will look like yetI’ve never metaverse I fully understood I’ve never metaverse I fully understood Image credit:Playerunknown Productions Image credit:Playerunknown Productions Brendan Greene, the modder-turned-millionaire who designed battle royale gamePUBG: Battlegrounds, wants to make his studio’s next game a “metaverse”, although he says he’s wary of using the term. The project is called “Artemis” (at least for now) and you won’t be seeing it any time soon....

HomeGuidesRoblox Squid Game X codes January 2025All new Squid Game X codes and how to redeem them All new Squid Game X codes and how to redeem them Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Squid Game X Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Squid Game X Looking for all the newest Squid Game X codes to redeem this January?Squid Game X is really popping off at the moment in Roblox, and there’s never been a better time to dive head-first into its various death-defying challenges with the help of our Squid Game X codes list....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1293): How to solve the Thursday January 2 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for January 2? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 2? 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!...

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hints and answers for Wed, January 1stNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #569. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #569. 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! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 1st January?...