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GSC’s return to the Zone is ambitious, atmospheric, and astoundingly buggy Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World The friction isn’t just there to be cruel, though. It encourages planning and thoughtfulness, whether that means plotting a route across the map that allows for more frequent trading stops or a change to your artifact-laden loadout (valuable stat-boosting items pilfered from anomalies) to cover your stamina or carry weight deficiencies....

Should you give the Ward Sensors to Richter or Captain Zotov in Stalker 2?Which side should you take at the end of “A Needle In A Haystack”? Which side should you take at the end of “A Needle In A Haystack”? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Should you give the Ward Sensors to Richter or Captain Zotov in Stalker 2?Stalker 2has a great many minor choices to choose between, and a small handful of very important choices....

Should you kill Squint in Stalker 2?Here are the consequences of killing Squint in Stalker 2’s A Needle In A Haystack quest Here are the consequences of killing Squint in Stalker 2’s A Needle In A Haystack quest Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World In this guide, we’ll walk you throughevery outcome of killing Squintor leaving him alive during either of your encounters in the “A Needle In A Haystack” quest....

Should you kill the Shah or Roosevelt in Stalker 2?Here are all the outcomes to your choices in the “King Of The Hill” main quest Here are all the outcomes to your choices in the “King Of The Hill” main quest Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Wondering whether to kill the Shah or Roosevelt in Stalker 2’s “King Of The Hill” quest?This main quest takes place early on in the story, within Garbage - the second major region of the Zone which you explore as Skif....

HomeNewsWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Space Marine 2 will ban mods from public games to address server stability and save corruption issuesBut you can still use them in private lobbies But you can still use them in private lobbies Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Focus Entertainment Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Focus Entertainment Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2is making changes to how it handles mods in order to address server stability issues. Come the next big update in December, mods “will be prohibited from public online sessions,” according to an update from the game director....

Stalker 2: How to open the Electric Field SafeHow to open the “Stick Cobra Porthole Infinity” stash in the Electric Field How to open the “Stick Cobra Porthole Infinity” stash in the Electric Field Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Wondering how to open the Electric Field Safe in Stalker 2?The Zone inStalker 2is jam-packed full of well-hidden and well-defended Stashes, but few are as initially confusing as the Electric Field Safe, found inside the Electric Field a short distance southeast of the Slag Heap....

HomeNews There’s a playable Disco Elysium 2 prototype in the wilds, according to a report on clashes between the “spiritual successors"Summer Eternal, Dark Math and Longdue continue to fight over the RPG’s legacy Summer Eternal, Dark Math and Longdue continue to fight over the RPG’s legacy Image credit:ZA/UM / Rock Paper Shotgun / The Spriters Resource Image credit:ZA/UM / Rock Paper Shotgun / The Spriters Resource On 11th October 2024, three video game studios announced themselves near-simultaneously as the creators of “spiritual successors” to ZA/UM’s mournful Marxist RPGDisco Elysium....

HomeNewsNeko Odyssey This sidescroller combines cat photography with the joy (misery) of social media clout-farmingMewtwo likes Mewtwo likes Image credit:Flyhigh Works Image credit:Flyhigh Works One of my proudest pictures of a 2018 trip to Croatia wasn’t of me and my pal. No, it wasn’t of the beautiful scenery or the glistening sea either. It was of many cats lying in the sun together outside a little church. I hadn’t seen that volume of cats in my life, nor that volumetogetherin one spot, all hanging out....

HomeNews Valve might be moving closer to a Steam Controller 2 and new VR controllers, rumours sayBased on anonymous sources and datamining Based on anonymous sources and datamining Valve saidthat they want to make a new Steam Controllerback in 2022, but such a thing might be getting closer to production, according to dataminer Brad Lynch. Deckard is reportedly the codename for a standalone VR headset from Valve. They have madeoccasional and dull patent filingsin recent years that could be for such a headset....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1250): How to solve the Wednesday November 20 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for November 20? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for November 20? 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!...

HomeNewsBloodshed Bloodshed is Vampire Survivors meets Doom and it’s a surprisingly moreish bloodbathA heady mixture of roguelike and FPS A heady mixture of roguelike and FPS Image credit:Headup Image credit:Headup A long while ago I wrote aboutVampire Survivors-likes needing tostop overwhelming you with visual clutter. I’ve since played a few games of a similar ilk that don’t hammer you with a chaos that’s impossible to dissect with your eyeballs. One of these isBloodshed, an old schoolFPStake on the VS formula that actually works pretty well and did have me thinking the treacherous phrase “just one more run”....

HomeNewsControl 2 Control 2 will be an action-RPG, and the first game is getting a significant update in 2025What even is an RPG these days What even is an RPG these days Image credit:Remedy Entertainment Image credit:Remedy Entertainment Remedy’sControl 2will be an “actionRPG”, the developers have announced, and while I have already caved and written it up, I’m not sure this is really news. Wasn’t the first game an action-RPG? True, it was a third-person shooter, but it also had a progression system with unlockable abilities and boosts....

Does Stalker 2 have multiplayer?Here is all the information on an online multiplayer mode in Stalker 2 Here is all the information on an online multiplayer mode in Stalker 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World If you’re enjoying the single-player story but wondering if there is a Stalker 2 multiplayer or co-op mode, we have all the details listed below. To see this content please enable targeting cookies....