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HomeHardwareFeaturesCall of Duty: Black Ops 6 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 performs well on PC – shame about the launcherRunning in the 90s Running in the 90s Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Activision Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Activision It’s always nice to say that a big, look-how-much-we-spent-on-pore-rendering AAA game actually runs quite well on PC, asCall of Duty: Black Ops 6does. Unfortunately for Bl6ps, and for us, that technical success is balanced on the knife tip of some seriously overwrought infrastructure....

HomeNewsDecade Decade is a tech-noir adventure game where you send children back in time to prevent metal rain from pulping the planetCreate multiple futures from a doomed past Create multiple futures from a doomed past Image credit:Last Piscean Image credit:Last Piscean One of my biggest challenges as a writer has been tempering my love of vague gestures at metaphysical concepts with the revelation that the people who read my articles also, apparently, can’t read my mind....

HomeReviewsDragon Age: The Veilguard Dragon Age: The Veilguard review: A reluctant RPG, but a compelling, heartfelt action adventureYou couldn’t make Dragon Age: Origins today! (because there’s been several sequels already) You couldn’t make Dragon Age: Origins today! (because there’s been several sequels already) Image credit:Bioware/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Bioware/Rock Paper Shotgun If there’s one thing I’d like to get across about my time withDragon Age: The Veilguard- perhaps a surprise given Bioware’s recent history,Anthem, and some of the early marketing for this game - it’s that in my 50 hour return to Thedas, I very rarely felt I was playing something cynical....

HomeNewsAscending Inferno In Foddian hell-platformer Ascending Inferno, Orpheus is a footballer and Eurydice is a football"Kick your sibling’s soul out of Hell" “Kick your sibling’s soul out of Hell” Image credit:Oppolyon Image credit:Oppolyon Being a love-drunk spannerhead, however, Orpheus couldn’t resist a quick peek at Eurydice after crossing the threshold - and the result is a timeless moral about human frailty and the specific truism that you should absolutely never date musicians, which Australian developers Oppolyon Studios appear to have totally ignored in their otherwise-redolent game about kicking your brother’s soul out of hell....

HomeNewsJumping Jazz Cats Jumping Jazz Cats mashes the multiplayer minigames of Fall Guys with Disney’s AristocatsPicking up on that feline beat Picking up on that feline beat Image credit:Team 17 Image credit:Team 17 We’ve seenbeans racing, andpenguins racing, but we have not yet seen cats racing. That is because cats will not stoop to such frivolities, where it can be reasonably avoided. Cats are too self-respecting to get caught up in silly online multiplayer party games....

HomeReviewsLife is Strange: Double Exposure Life Is Strange Double Exposure review: be still my irritated heartMad at Max Mad at Max Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Square Enix Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Square Enix If you’re allergic to spoilers, take off. To discuss a Life Is Strange game requires spoiling, even a little. For everyone else, let’s recap. The first Life Is Strange followed Max as a high school senior who sees a childhood friend, Chloe, shot dead in the school bathroom....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hints and answers for Mon, October 28thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #504. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #504. 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 28th October?...

HomeNewsStatic Dread “Gosh…” Image credit:Solarsuit.games Image credit:Solarsuit.games I’ve often thought lighthouse keeping would make a fine second career, albeit mostly because in my head, it would give me endless time to write (and finishBaldur’s Gate 3). You won’t have much time to write inStatic Dread, sadly. The world has ended, the oceans teem with squirmy, extra-dimensional lifeforms, and it’s your job as the apparent sole surviving lighthouse keeper to distinguish vessels loaded with eldritch horrors from vessels loaded with people who need saving from eldritch horrors....

HomeNewsWhat Remains of Edith Finch “Disturbing but also fascinating”, hints Giant Sparrow founder Image credit:Giant Sparrow / New York Times Image credit:Giant Sparrow / New York Times What Remains Of Edith Finchis a very upsetting collection of interactive short stories about the brief, tragic lives of a cursed family who live in a monstrous treehouse. It’s alsoa wonderful show of experimentation, switching genres from story to story - one minute you’re a playable bestiary on shuffle, the next you’re beheading fish in a cannery as the worktable disappears beneath your scrolling daydreams....

HomeNews The Video Game History Foundation is “not done fighting” after US Copyright Office refuses exemption to aid preservationCurrent circumstances force researchers “to explore extra-legal methods” say the VGHF Current circumstances force researchers “to explore extra-legal methods” say the VGHF Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Team17 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Team17 Back in April, I wrote abouta hearing that took placebetween representativesVideo Game History Foundation, theRhizome project, and theSoftware Preservation Network, in which they argued the case for a DMCA exemption that would allow researchers to remotely access out-of-print games in libraries and archives....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1227): How to solve the Monday October 28 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for October 28? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 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!...

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hints and answers for Sun, October 27thNeed some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #503. Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #503. 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! It’s a simple premise, but as many of us here know, Connections can be devilishly difficult at times, filled to the brim with red herrings, misleading words, and little-known trivia....

HomeFeatures What’s on your bookshelf?: Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrahread-only read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! Most of us know about the novel, the novella, and the rare novito, but did you know that Penguin briefly tried to market the ‘big nov’ - single sentences of much larger works, bizarrely serialised into hardbacks weighty enough to club the equally rare giga-seal?...