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HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1194): How to solve the Wednesday September 25 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for September 25? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for September 25? 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!...

HomeFeatures Would you play a Warhammer 40K factory game? Because Zachtronics almost made oneHow the creators of SpaceChem and Eliza flirted with the grim darkness of the far future How the creators of SpaceChem and Eliza flirted with the grim darkness of the far future Image credit:Games Workshop / Fantasy Flight Games / Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Games Workshop / Fantasy Flight Games / Rock Paper Shotgun These factories aren’t exercises in empire-building, however, likeFactorioandSatisfactory....

HomeFeaturesNeva Alright fine, Neva makes me want to pet the dogHappy now? Happy now? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Devolver Digital Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Devolver Digital I’m not someone who’s ever been on board with the “Can You Pet The Dog?” craze that swept and/or still sweeps video games. As a heartless individual, I am more concerned with whatever the dog’s capable of: general savagery, a howl that replenishes my HP bar, letting me climb atop its glorious mane as it strides across the barren wastes....

HomeNewsTCG Card Shop Simulator Buddy, if you’re only buying two lousy packs you can leave my TCG Card Shop Simulator store immediatelyWho’s that Tetramon? Who’s that Tetramon? Image credit:OPNeon/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:OPNeon/Rock Paper Shotgun While I’ve been known to enjoy a few of them in my time, I tend to view a lot of more mundanesimulator gamesin the same way I view sports games: Looks fine, but I could do this stuff in real life, were I inclined and also social and also vaguely limber instead of owning a spine with roughly the flexibility of a rib n’ saucy Nik Nak....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Tue, September 24thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #470. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #470. 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 24th September?...

HomeNewsDarkest Dungeon 2 Ruin has come to our family? Image credit:Red Hook Image credit:Red Hook Red Hook will remain “a fully independent studio” under Behaviour, according to a definition of “independent” that has yet to be shared in full. “Darkest Dungeon has long been a series we’ve admired, enjoyed (and maybe even lost a little sleep over) as fans, and the opportunity to welcome Red Hook as a fully independent studio under the Behaviour banner is nothing short of a thrill,” readsa statement on social media....

HomeNewsDinoblade Dinoblade has you duke it out as dinos with buster swords clamped between your gnashersPVP dinosouls PVP dinosouls Image credit:Jean Nguyen Image credit:Jean Nguyen The in thing when it comes to dinosaur conversations now is this: “Yeah but did you know that they weren’t all like, lizardy, but covered in feathers”. You might want to chuck in that chickens are basically dinosaurs, because their feet have a “Triassic Flange”, a (made-up) term that will make you sound authoritative....

HomeNews Don’t Nod “pause” two game projects and “refocus” others following Jusant and Banishers sales disappointmentVampyr and Life Is Strange devs looking at “all possible options” in note to investors Vampyr and Life Is Strange devs looking at “all possible options” in note to investors Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Focus Entertainment Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Focus Entertainment WelikedJusant, Don’t Nod’s clamber-upper masterpiece, and we alsolikedBanishers, their colonial ghost-busting action-adventure, but it seems that not enough people did....

HomeNews Near Mint is Slay The Spire but you’ve accidentally left your cards in the washing machineSlay the drier Slay the drier Image credit:henriforshort Image credit:henriforshort This one’s a very simple build at the moment, but neat enough that I wanted to shout it out. Near Mint is aroguelikedeckbuilder where you advance through a tower fighting slightly stronger iterations of the exact same skeleton. Ok, nothing too captivating so far. The twist comes from the cards: someone’s left them in their Oodie pouch, spilt BBQ sauce down it, then stuck it in the wash before taking the deck out....

HomeReviewsShadows of Doubt Shadows Of Doubt review: a buggy yet brilliant detective sim of grand ambitionCriminally good Criminally good Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Fireshine Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Fireshine Games For years, a dangerous and charismatic game has evaded the grasp of many designers. Some say it doesn’t exist, that no publisher would ever back it. I’m talking about theone city block RPGthat Warren Spector has often mentioned....

HomeReviewsShogun Showdown Shogun Showdown review: an exceptional roguelike that hits differentSpend your daimyo on this one Spend your daimyo on this one Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Goblinz Publishing/Gamera Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Goblinz Publishing/Gamera Games Like a samurai poised patiently for an opening in their opponent’s defences,Shogun Showdownunderstands that focus and finesse are the means to delivering an impactful blow. This rareroguelikedistils the genre down to its purest components, all in favour of amplifying its dizzying combat that plays gracefully with the concepts of positioning and patience....

HomeNews Image credit:PlayStation Image credit:PlayStation These apparitions and portents, Crystal Dynamics - what game are you playing now? It turns out the game they are playing is: a remaster of amazeballs vampire odyssey Legacy Of Kain:Soul Reaver, together with its less amazing but sturdy sequel. Said remaster project wasrumoured earlier this year, when Sarafan scouts caught sight of a telltale plaque at San Diego Comic-Con. Consider that rumour strongly trending towards the status of a Real Thing, because Sony are in the habit of publishing Real Things, and they’ve just (accidentally, I guess) popped a bunch of screens and a trailer with a release date - 10th December 2024 - on the PlayStation website....

HomeNewsGreedFall 2 Spiders release fantasy RPG GreedFall 2 in early access, as its frustrated workers are offered concessionsTeer’d release Teer’d release Image credit:Nacon Image credit:Nacon GreedFall 2 | Early Access Launch TrailerWatch on YouTube GreedFall 2 | Early Access Launch Trailer Spiders say that this release includes the “beginning of the main quest”, and note that extensions to that story will be drip fed in future updates. Aside from that the release includes three regions to explore, six companion characters to party up with, and six skill trees to clamber up....