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HomeNewsCity of Heroes City Of Heroes' community-run private server gets official license from NCSoftHomecoming Homecoming Image credit:NCSoft Image credit:NCSoft The Homecoming team will continue to develop new content for City Of Heroes. They’ve previously added a new Archetype (basically a class), called the Sentinel, as well as new powersets and new stories and missions. Homecoming is just one of many fan-run servers, and as the only one to receive an official license, its leaders are now hoping to consolidate the community under a single home....

HomeNews Cleavage but no underbust, please: Twitch bans “implied nudity” among streamersPlatform responds to latest thirsty gamer “meta” Platform responds to latest thirsty gamer “meta” “While most streamers have labeled this content appropriately with the Sexual Themes label and are wearing clothing behind the object or outside the camera frame, for many users, the thumbnails of this content can be disruptive to their experience on Twitch,” readsa postfrom chief customer trust officer Angela Hession....

HomeNewsEverspace 2 Everspace 2 is getting a free Unreal Engine 5 upgrade to make future updates and expansions easierRockfish aim to support joyful Luke Skywalking sim “for a long time” Rockfish aim to support joyful Luke Skywalking sim “for a long time” Image credit:Rockfish/RockPaperShotgun Image credit:Rockfish/RockPaperShotgun Rockfish have announced that they’re updating arcade dogfighterEverspace 2to run on Unreal Engine 5. The engine rollover will arrive as part of or alongside the game’s Incursions update in spring 2024, which includes tweaks and bugfixes as well as extra legendary items and a new game feature of some description....

HomeNewsBuckshot Roulette Inscryption meets Russian Roulette in this weird short horror gameBuckshot Roulette is from the dev behind Unsorted Horror Buckshot Roulette is from the dev behind Unsorted Horror Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mike Klubnika Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mike Klubnika Russian Roulette is just an edgy version of Snakes & Ladders. It’s pure luck gussied up with high stakes and the cool aesthetic of spinning a six-shooter. A grizzled mafioso whose cheeks glitter with fragments of other people’s teeth has as much chance of winning Russian Roulette as a sleepy five-year-old in SpongeBob pyjamas....

HomeDeals Lexar’s RPS-recommended NM790 4TB SSD is £204 at Scan and a bloody great driveWith a free NVMe heatsink to boot - the cheapest price in the UK. With a free NVMe heatsink to boot - the cheapest price in the UK. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Lexar’s NM790 is one of thebest NVMe SSDs we’ve tested, offering excellent performance whilst keeping prices down lower than rivals like the Samsung 990 Pro or WD SN850x....

HomeFeaturesLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth is the next great Pokémon gameIt would be worth your time to catch ‘em all It would be worth your time to catch ‘em all Image credit:Sega Image credit:Sega Having spent some time inLike A Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s Hawaii, I’ve come to realise that it’s a wonderful place, home to trams that’ll let you see the sights and soak in the warm breeze....

HomeFeaturesLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s Dondoko Island is Animal Crossing with baseball batsSmash trash to attract tourists Smash trash to attract tourists Image credit:Sega Image credit:Sega We got our first look atLike A Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s Dondoko Island atlast year’s Xbox Partner showcase. Right as it dropped, I was in New York giving theAnimal Crossing-esque minigame a go myself, albeit for a quickfire half hour of bashing rubbish bags with a baseball bat and plonking a urinal on the dirt to satisfy a tutorial....

HomeNewsMapleStory MapleStory publisher Nexon fined record $8.9 million for misleading loot box mechanicsSouth Korean commission says company have been rigging the odds in secret South Korean commission says company have been rigging the odds in secret Image credit:Nexon Image credit:Nexon From September 2010, however, Nexon began fiddling with the odds of certain Cubes appearing. Between August 2011 to March 2021, the company are said to have changed the probability structure so that certain much-desired options don’t appear at all....

HomeNewsMarvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy is currently free to keep from EpicAn underappreciated gem An underappreciated gem Now it’s free via the Epic Games Store. The Epic Games Store has spent the holiday giving away a new free game each day. That is now over, but the weekly free games have resumed. You’ve got until January 11th at 4pm GMT tohead to its store pageand add it to your account forever....

HomeFeatures Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill is surprisingly deep for a 4-hour long 90s point and click gameThis school needs to start doing background checks This school needs to start doing background checks Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Her Interactive Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Her Interactive The first is 1998’s Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill, in which Nancy solves the murder of a Floridian highschooler named Jake Roberts, and there’s a lot to love about it right away....

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Thursday, January 4)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #207 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #207 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....

HomeFeatures Our 75 most anticipated PC games of 2024What we’re most excited about playing this year What we’re most excited about playing this year Happy New Year, folks! Have you recovered from the all the 100+ hour RPGs that came out last year? Well, I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that everyone seems to be taking a bit of a breather in 2024, because (at time of writing at least) the official “big’uns” calendar is looking remarkably slim at the moment....

HomeNews Over 14,000 games were released on Steam in 2023How do we feel about that? How do we feel about that? Image credit:SteamDB Image credit:SteamDB The number of games released on Steam has increased every year since the platform’s launch, with the exception of 2019. That decline from 2018 is because 2018 was the year Valve launched Steam Direct, letting developers release their games onto the platform without an approval process and thus prompting an unrepeatable deluge of back catalogue and previously rejected games....