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HomeFeaturesLEGO Bricktales Blockbuster Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Thunderful Publishing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Thunderful Publishing VR is at its best when it makes you feel like you’re living in the actual future. Given how everything new and exciting ultimately becomes normal and mundane, this is perhaps an unfair expectation of technology that is now a decade old. Nonetheless, if you want me to sit with a shoebox pressed uncomfortably against my eyes for two hours like an ocular gom jabbar, then what’s inside the shoebox better be pretty darned transformative....

HomeNewsSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Rocksteady downplay live service elements of Suicide Squad, as superhero murder sim goes into early access"We don’t want the game to feel like a life commitment" “We don’t want the game to feel like a life commitment” Rocksteady and Warner’s much-disparaged live service superhero snuff fantasySuicide Squad: Kill The Justice Leaguegoes into Deluxe-preorder-only early access today, Monday 29th January, at 9pm, or if you’re from the UK or US east coast, Tuesday 30th January at 12am ET and 12 GMT....

HomeDeals Sapphire’s excellent RX 7800 XT 16GB Pulse card is down to £480One of the best value GPUs hits a new low price. One of the best value GPUs hits a new low price. Image credit:Sapphire Image credit:Sapphire AMD’s RX 7800 XT is arguably Team Red’s best value graphics card from this generation, offering great performance for 1080p and 1440p gaming with the ability to stretch to 4K in titles that offer FSR 2 upscaling....

HomeFeatures I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:Gil Lawson Image credit:Gil Lawson Lurid first-person shootergoblinAmerica(coming to Steam, with a demo there now) knows that if in doubt, parry-counter: Fuck it, you can parry dialogue now#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/9jFMWCx0Wi— gil lawson (@computer_gil)January 27, 2024 Fuck it, you can parry dialogue now#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/9jFMWCx0Wi Nice bit of cloudy pottering inToroa: Skycall (coming to Kickstarter): gliding through the cloudscape ☁️#screenshotsaturday#indiedevpic.twitter.com/6ZPkg42nH0— Toroa: Skycall ☁️🌊 coming to KICKSTARTER!...

HomeNews The Maw 29th January-3rd February 2024This week’s new videogame releases, care of our weekly newsblog This week’s new videogame releases, care of our weekly newsblog Here are a few games releasing this week that we think could prove special:Mad Max-ish turn-based roguelikeOutcast Tales: The First Journey(29th Jan), 1970s French detective simChronique des Silencieux(29th Jan), raunchy gay sci-fi visual novelThe Symbiant Re:Union(29th Jan),Overcooked-style workplace comedySpeed Crew(31st Jan), swooping fantasy action-RPG epicGranblue Fantasy Relink(1st Feb), co-open world superhero murder partySuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League(2nd Feb), gilded PS2 RPG remakePersona 3 Reload(2nd Feb)....

HomeNewsPalworld Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Palworldisn’t just about capturingnon-copyright-infringingPoke-fied wildlife, slaughtering the poor creatures and/or setting them to work in terrible gun factories. There’s also the frightful question ofPal breeding. Every Pal in the game can be bred with every other Pal to produce a Pal subspecies with a chance of inheriting traits from its parents. This is conducted via the celebrated Biblical method of constructing a breeding farm (unlocked at level 19) and placing a cake (unlocked at level 15) in a chest linked to that farm....

HomeDeals This 2TB NVMe SSD is a great Steam Deck upgrade for £155Corsair’s MP600 Core Mini SSD works well in the ROG Ally and Legion Go too. Corsair’s MP600 Core Mini SSD works well in the ROG Ally and Legion Go too. Image credit:Corsair/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Corsair/Rock Paper Shotgun Corsair’s MP600 Core Mini SSD is a solid option for upgrading a PC handheld - devices like the Steam Deck, ROG Ally and Legion Go and so on....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#954): How to solve the Monday January 29 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for January 29? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 29? 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 Would you wait over 20 years for a Final Fantasy 6 remake? Because that’s how long it might takeRemaking FF6 would take twice as long as the FF7 Remake project, says series producer Remaking FF6 would take twice as long as the FF7 Remake project, says series producer Image credit:Square Enix Image credit:Square Enix Final Fantasy 6is one of the most belovedFinal Fantasy gamesin the series, so much so that evenstaff at Square Enix keep hasslingseries producer Yoshinori Kitase about when they’re going to remake it and give it the fullFinal Fantasy 7treatment....

HomeNewsDoom You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrociousHow does one frame per eight-and-a-half hours sound? How does one frame per eight-and-a-half hours sound? Image credit:Lauren “Ren” Ramlan Image credit:Lauren “Ren” Ramlan Is there any greater scientific endeavour than the unending quest to getDoomto run on everything? Fromteletexttopregnancy teststotractorstoliteral rat brains in a jar, every time you think that we’ve exhausted the possibilities, someone finds a new way to play theseminal 30-year-old shooteron something new....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Sunday, January 28)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #231 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #231 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....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#953): How to solve the Sunday January 28 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for January 28? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 28? 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 A fangame no more Image credit:LWMedia Image credit:LWMedia Bloodborne Kartis a fan game which aims to use From Software’s gothic horror action RPG as the basis for a PSone-era kart racer. Or it was. Its developers say that Sony have been in touch and, as a consequence, “need to scrub the branding off.” It’ll stil come out after it a short delay, but it won’t be called Bloodborne Kart anymore....