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HomeNewsElden Ring Elden Ring DLC might not release this month after all, as devs confirm there’s still no update “at this time”“Major DLC” said to be in the works as FromSoftware look to support game in the “medium to long term” “Major DLC” said to be in the works as FromSoftware look to support game in the “medium to long term” Image credit:FromSoftware/Bandai Namco Image credit:FromSoftware/Bandai Namco The owners ofElden Ringdevelopers FromSoftware have dampened hopes that long-awaited DLCShadow Of The Erdtreemight release in time for thesoulslike’s second anniversary this month - despite recent rumours and behind-the-scenes Steam updates indicating otherwise....

HomeNewsLost Hellden Final Fantasy devs’ Lost Hellden boasts 3D handpainted art and a mix of action and strategy in a gorgeous JRPGDemo dropping later this year ahead of 2025 release Demo dropping later this year ahead of 2025 release Image credit:Artisan Studios Image credit:Artisan Studios A group of developers with credits across a number ofFinal Fantasy games- including the composer ofFinal Fantasy XIIand a formerFinal Fantasy XIVartist - have unveiled their own upcomingJRPGheaded to PC next year....

HomeDeals Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun The Asus ROG Ally has dropped in price in response to the release of the Steam Deck OLED, and now a 10% off code at Very makes this handheld gaming PC even better value. You can now get the top-spec ROG Ally with the Z1 Extreme chipset and 512GB of PCIe 4.0 storage for just £539 with codeVTQ8C, a brilliant price that puts it in direct competition with the 512GB Steam Deck OLED....

HomeNewsHelldivers 2 Image credit:Arrowhead Image credit:Arrowhead To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Theco-oppastiche of Starship Troopers and its brutal sci-fi satire released last Thursday, and has since blown up in popularity to the point where developers Arrowhead havescrambled to fix servers buckling under the number of people playing, leading todisconnects, iffy matchmaking and login problems. While Arrowhead desperately patch things up,SteamDBhas quantified just how much momentum Helldivers 2 has behind its bug-blasting success, revealing that the game hit a peak of over 155,000 simultaneous players last weekend....

HomeNewsHelldivers 2 Helldivers 2 updates target server and reward issues as Arrowhead apologise for rocky launch"Right now it is crucial our team gets some sleep" “Right now it is crucial our team gets some sleep” Image credit:Playstation Image credit:Playstation Helldivers 2is yet another example of a predominantly co-op game being a victim of its own success. Since its launch, the servers have buckled under the weight of keen conscripts ready to exterminate some bugs....

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Monday, February 12)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #246 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #246 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....

HomeNewsNever Grave: The Witch and The Curse Palworld devs' next game is a base-building Dead Cells and Hollow Knight mash-upNever Grave: The Witch And The Curse’s demo is actually pretty all right Never Grave: The Witch And The Curse’s demo is actually pretty all right Image credit:Pocketpair Image credit:Pocketpair When I first sawNever Grave: The Witch And The Curserising up theSteam Next Festcharts at the end of last week, I thought, “Oh!...

HomeNewsThe Thaumaturge Part-Divinity, part-Persona RPG The Thaumaturge gets a two-week delay to find some breathing room“We want to give it space so it can be enjoyed the way we believe it deserves” “We want to give it space so it can be enjoyed the way we believe it deserves” Image credit:11 bit Studios Image credit:11 bit Studios The Thaumaturge, the detectiveCRPGblending together eastern-European fantasy, alt-history Warsaw andeven a bit of Pokémon(orPersona, if you prefer), has been pushed back from its planned release date next week to the start of March....

HomeFeatures Screenshot Saturday Mondays: A dashing wizard and a grasping churchI go on Twitter so you don’t have to I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:Jacob Potterfield Image credit:Jacob Potterfield A right sprightly wizard inSpring Dash(coming to Steam, with a demo there now—which our Jamesrecommends): pitch: Spiderman if he was a plant wizardpitch over#indiegames#gamedev#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/f44d64nzdY— DillonDev - Making “Spring Dash” (@DillonSteyl)February 10, 2024 pitch: Spiderman if he was a plant wizardpitch over#indiegames#gamedev#screenshotsaturdaypic....

HomeNewsThreshold Start a boring and stressful maintenance job in this former Arkane level designer’s upcoming gameCheck out the announcement trailer for Threshold Check out the announcement trailer for Threshold Image credit:Julien Eveillé Image credit:Julien Eveillé THRESHOLD | Announce TrailerWatch on YouTube THRESHOLD | Announce Trailer At this point, it’s not entirely clear what we’re doing in Threshold, but all I need to know is that we have a weird job and get to explore a moody place....

HomeNews The Maw - 12th-17th February 2024Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s best/bizarrest videogame releases Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s best/bizarrest videogame releases Image credit:John Hamilton Mortimer/Wikimedia Commons Image credit:John Hamilton Mortimer/Wikimedia Commons It’s the middle of February, and the games are afoot. This week brings at least one major news event in the shape ofa “business update” from Microsoft about “our vision for the future of Xbox”, which is widely rumoured to be the announcement that first-party Xbox titles will come to rival consoles....

HomeDeals This 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD is just £50 at Amazon UKKingston’s NV2 bucks the trend of recent SSD price increases. Kingston’s NV2 bucks the trend of recent SSD price increases. SSD prices have been on the uptick recently, following a record-breaking 2023 where oversupply caused the best deals on high-capacity SSDs we’ve ever seen. That means that current prices aren’t going to beat out last year’s Black Friday deals, but there are still some decent options that carve out a better value proposition than their peers....

HomeReviewsUltros Ultros review: a sweet and sour MetroidvaniaPlanting the flag Planting the flag Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kepler Interactive Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kepler Interactive To begin with, Ultros is a feast for the senses. As our caped, almost insectoid-like heroine awakens from her slumber in a field of mad, impossible plant life, we gradually learn that we’re trapped in a timeloop on board what is clearly some kind of ship in the vastness of space, but also a place that’s intermittently referred to as both a sarcophagus and cosmic womb....