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What's on your bookshelf?: why does crispbread exist and how can I stop this state of affairs edition
Published: May 18, 2025 15:00
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! No cool industry person this week (I'd like requests though. No Classical Gas), but I want to get back…
The Sunday Papers
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-papers-762
Published: May 18, 2025 10:00
I don't know what Sundays are for, or indeed any other moment of spare time. Listlessly re-watching YouTube videos and refreshing BlueSky then feeling bad that I'm wasting my time rather than playing the games I want to play or reading the books I want to…
Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks enters 1.0 next week with a catch for those that didn't play in early access
Published: May 17, 2025 21:53
It's been a little under a year since the vehicular combat racing game Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks launched into early access, and yesterday developer Caged Element Inc. announced that it'll be receiving its 1.0 launch next week, May 22nd. There are a…
Formless Star is a charming creature cataloguing game set on an ever-changing planet
Published: May 17, 2025 20:36
These days, when there's so many games coming out that I feel like an overwhelmed dog with free reign in a butcher's, there's no sweeter sentence to me than "this game will take you no longer than two hours." I know for some people length is everything…
Even 23 years on, Final Fantasy 11 is still getting updates, with one coming that'll let you change how your character looks
Published: May 17, 2025 17:51
At a time where there is constantly word of this or that game shutting down, even successful ones, it will never fail to surprise me that Final Fantasy 11 is still going. You can't play it on PS2 anymore, but there's still an active community on PC even…
Stellar Blade's devs would like you to know you don't need a PSN account on PC as they work on the region lock problem
Published: May 17, 2025 17:01
Earlier this week, it was leaked and then later confirmed that Stellar Blade, that Nier and Bayonetta-esque one with the jiggle physics cranked up to the max, would be coming to PC next month on June 11th. This was obviously welcome news to the kind of…
After a rough reception and evidence of art theft in Marathon, morale is reportedly in "free-fall" at Bungie
Published: May 17, 2025 16:12
Bungie aren't having a very good week are they? First there were those accusations of Marathon using assets without permission from the artist 4ant1r34l (Antireal), which Bungie admitted to taking place. Then yesterday there was a livestream featuring game…
What are we all playing this weekend?
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/what-are-we-all-playing-this-weekend-321
Published: May 17, 2025 07:01
I write to you from the heart of an on-going emergency. Somebody or something keeps digging holes in the notionally shared lawn outside my block, and the neighbours who actually own their flats are mounting a witchhunt. It's brilliant! They’ve been taking…
Here's a demo for Blades Of Fire, the new action-RPG from the Lords Of Shadow team
Published: May 16, 2025 16:46
Blades Of Fire is the latest dark fantasy smackeroo from Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow developers MercurySteam. It takes place in a world where steel is a divine substance passed down to humanity by the mysterious Forgers. Some sinister young queen has,…
The Precinct review
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-precinct-review
Published: May 16, 2025 15:00
I've arrested someone who did not deserve it. The chump was carrying counterfeit jewellry and I lazily slapped on the cuffs without reading my police handbook. I'm about to get that book thrown at me. When I sit at my desk at the end of a shift in cop sim…
The spirit of Far Cry 2 still burns in Rescue Ops, a sandbox firefighting sim with huge wilderness maps
Published: May 16, 2025 13:53
I have a minor but unwholesome obsession with fire that extends from Far Cry 2's self-propagating blazes through the pyropoetics of Andrea Brady to, most recently, Rescue Ops: Wildfire. In the latter, single and multiplayer firefighting sim, you must save…
Labyrinth Of The Demon King might be the perfect PS1-style horror RPG
Published: May 16, 2025 11:24
Labyrinth Of The Demon King is the concentrated awfulness of Silent Hill and Amnesia: The Dark Descent thrown into a toilet bowl with the stamina-based combat of From Software's old King's Field RPGs. Released this week, it is squalid, lumbering, vicious,…
Bungie used an artist's work without permission in Marathon
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/bungie-used-an-artists-work-without-permission-in-marathon
Published: May 16, 2025 09:30
An artist has accused Bungie of plagiarising her designs and using them in upcoming first-person shooter Marathon. The artist, who creates futuristic posters under the name Antireal (or "4nt1r34l"), posted images of her own work alongside screenshots from…
GTA 6 release won't be delayed again now that it has a "specific date", assures Take-Two boss
Published: May 16, 2025 09:23
Take-Two Interactive's CEO Strauss Zelnick has served up some dutiful, investor-pleasing sentiments about GTA 6's delay from 2025 release to a 26th May 2026 launch date. Rockstar, he says, are "seeking perfection", and "consumer anticipation is…
Legacy Of Kain with parkour? Sure, go on then
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/legacy-of-kain-with-parkour-sure-go-on-then
Published: May 16, 2025 08:06
Not actually a stealth FPS hybrid of Blood and Thief - although I'd pay good money for that - Bloodthief is closer to something like Ghostrunner but also, I think, much better. The Steam demo's opening levels are roughly as tricky and demanding as the…
"PlayStation are great" says Arrowhead's CEO, but whatever the Helldivers 2 devs are making next, it's fully self-funded
Published: May 15, 2025 21:55
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios are cooking. I'm not exactly sure what just yet, but there's a faint aroma of a new game in the air, and it doesn't seem like they're ready to share anything about the game right now either. Still, after the…
Here's a morbid one: Kojima has a USB stick full of ideas for Kojima Productions to use after he dies
Published: May 15, 2025 20:40
That Hideo Kojima is a bit of an odd chap, 'ey? It was only recently he said that he wants to make a game where the protagonist forgets their own abilities if you, the player, take a long break between play sessions. As a reminder this comes from the guy…
The original Stalker trilogy is getting a free upgrade that brings in reworked lighting, full controller support, and more
Published: May 15, 2025 19:06
Fancy a jaunt back into The Zone? GSC Game World released the long awaited Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl last November, steadling improving it after an (understandably) rocky launch. There's been several hefty updates for the sequel released along the way,…
Yet another Persona 5 spinoff is launching next month, this time a gacha game with a new group of Phantom Thieves
Published: May 15, 2025 16:51
There's a newish Persona game on the way next month, and it is, of course, yet another Persona 5 spinoff. I'm not sure if another cow in existence has been so thoroughly milked before, but here we are. I call Persona 5: The Phantom X (that's its name, by…
The first look at Kingdom Hearts 4 in three years isn't a trailer, but a JPEG of Mickey Mouse is better than nothing
Published: May 15, 2025 16:00
You know what got announced a little over three years ago now? Kingdom Hearts 4. You know what hasn't had a single new trailer in that time? Ding ding ding! If you said Kingdom Hearts 4, you don't win anything because the direction of this bit was pretty…
The medieval dice game you play in Kingdom Come: Deliverance is now a retro Arthurian roguelite
Published: May 15, 2025 15:27
Many are the minigames that threaten to be more entertaining than the games that host them, stealing the player’s attention away like those flatworms that absorb snails from the inside. Tetra Master. Gwent. Fishing in any number of RPGs. The flushable…
This roguelite has a brilliant twist on Warhammer Quest's dungeon crawling, and it's out today
Published: May 15, 2025 14:06
Into To The Restless Ruins is a roguelite dungeon crawler where you build the dungeon as you go. I really enjoyed the demo, and the full game is out today. In a show of confidence I always appreciate, the demo is also still available. Launch trailer below.…
I keep forgetting I'm supposed to actually pay my Battle Brothers
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/i-keep-forgetting-im-supposed-to-actually-pay-my-battle-brothers
Published: May 15, 2025 14:00
Four dead. Four from a company of ten. Excellent Log, worm soup. Dietmar the Geldling, worm salad. Wolfgang Silkworm, some sort of delicious worm entrée, which he might appreciate. Reiner, worm dessert. They talk about survivor's guilt but no-one tells…
Gennady is a slimy anti-Mario platformer in which you harvest larvae and turn into a squirrel
Published: May 15, 2025 11:59
Grotesque new platform game Gennady takes place in a squelchy, eminently punchable world of procedurally generated, wriggling alien cubes. Burst a cube and you'll be rewarded with juicy, golden maggots and a shower of delightful green ooze. Sometimes the…
EA employees "upset and confused" at return to office mandate
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ea-employees-upset-and-confused-at-return-to-office-mandate
Published: May 15, 2025 11:29
Electronic Arts, publishers of Clive Barker's Undying and Pooh and Tigger's Hunny Safari, have let employees know that they're ending full remote working and hiring, and implementing return to office for all employees as part of hybrid work plans, reports…
Ubisoft push back "some of our biggest" games and announce further cost-cutting after a "challenging" year
Published: May 15, 2025 10:06
Stab-o-sneak merchants Ubisoft are pushing back the release of several unspecified big name projects in the wake of Assassin's Creed Shadows, which CEO Yves Guillemot says "has reaffirmed the power of the Assassin's Creed brand". The tactical snoop 'n'…
Get in the car, loser, we're going on an Internet Roadtrip with a thousand backseat drivers
Published: May 15, 2025 08:49
Friends, it is my sad duty to inform you that One Million Checkboxes creator Neal Agarwal is up to more of his crowdgaming mischief. He’s published another online squabbling sim called Internet Roadtrip. It’s a roaming Google Streetview cam in which…
Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break
Published: May 14, 2025 14:36
Hideo Kojima is his own Peter Molydeux, in that he's forever out there pitching Kojima-like ideas for games he might make. Hideo Jokima? On a recent episode of his Japanese radio show, KOJI10, the designer of Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding pitched a…
Pathologic 3 devs defend choice to cut the plague town's open world to bits
Published: May 14, 2025 13:53
Surreal first-person medical sim Pathologic 3 will be different from its plague-ridden predecessor in a lot of ways. In Pathologic 2 you played a roaming surgeon rooting around in bins for sustenance, and this time you play as the Bachelor, a well-fed…
FBC: Firebreak is a great time, for a shooter with terrible guns
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/fbc-firebreak-is-a-great-time-for-a-shooter-with-terrible-guns
Published: May 14, 2025 13:00
Objects of power play a crucial role in the fiction of Control, the setting for three-player co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak. In the lore, they're archetypal artefacts that have gained strange powers. In Firebreak itself, they represent random events that can…
Time to change your Steam password? Data from over 89 million accounts has reportedly leaked to the dark web
Published: May 14, 2025 12:07
Details from 89 million Steam accounts have reportedly gone up for sale on the dark web. Since RPS's dedicated tech team have just informed me that the dark web is not the thing you get when you click 'incognito tab' and is actually potentially much…
Founder of accessibility nonprofit AbleGamers accused of abusive conduct and financial mismanagement
Published: May 14, 2025 11:55
The founder of gaming accessibility charity AbleGamers has been accused of abuse and financial mismanagement. Speaking to IGN, former employees who worked at AbleGamers alleged multiple instances of sexist and emotionally abusive behavior, financial…
Wreckfest 2 adds new cars and muddy tracks with more planned next month
Published: May 14, 2025 11:13
Speedy fender-bender 'em up Wreckfest 2 has added two new cars to its roster of smashmobiles alongside two new tracks, including one track from the first game that's been given a "makeover". The racing game is still in earliest of access, so this only…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was originally set in a steampunk England with aliens and zombies
Published: May 14, 2025 11:01
All creative work goes through several iterations before arriving in its final form. This very post, for example, began as a little notice of the release of The Midnight Walk, before I realised Edwin had already done that. Now it's instead about Clair…
Anoxia Station review
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anoxia-station-review
Published: May 14, 2025 09:10
So there's a passage in biographical novel The Moon & Sixpence where art connoisseur Dirk Stroeve spends months helping painter Charles Strickland recover from a life-threatening illness. Once well, Strickland returns the favour by promptly nicking Dirk's…
Helldivers 2's enemy squids are headed to Super Earth, so now you can tinker with your guns more
Published: May 14, 2025 09:00
Co-op shooter Helldivers 2 added its third enemy faction, the Illuminate, back in December. Now the alien squids are headed towards Super Earth itself, and to counteract this latest threat to democracy developers Arrowhead are giving soldiers new ways to…
New Magic the Gathering x Final Fantasy card art might be a tease for 7 Remake Part 3, might be just another Tetsuya Nomura cryptic tease
Published: May 13, 2025 21:58
I think it's kind of under-appreciated how funny Tetsuya Nomura is. In recent years his social media presence has become quite mysterious, in that he'll just kind of drop some kind of cryptic tease on Twitter and then not explain himself. Despite not…
Palworld's Terraria collab is coming this summer, though I have some questions about it
Published: May 13, 2025 20:32
Crossovers! Collabs! Whatever you want to call them, love them or hate them, in an age where the biggest companies only seem interested in serving you the same thing over and over again, we're stuck with them. This time around, it's a bit of an odd one, as…
FBC: Firebreak is getting a closed technical test, letting a lucky few try out its oddball FPS stylings
Published: May 13, 2025 19:13
FBC: Firebreak is a bit of a departure from Remedy's usual games, given that it's a three-player multiplayer first-person shooter. The shooty bit is nothing new, that's pretty typical of Remedy's games, even if the shooting always has something slightly…
Microsoft is laying off even more of its staff, with potentially almost 7000 workers at risk
Published: May 13, 2025 16:54
More than two years on from Microsoft's last mass round of layoffs, the company is laying off a huge amount of staff once again. As reported by CNBC, the tech giant is laying off 3% of employees across the entire company, meaning all levels, teams, and…
Elden Ring Nightreign's story structure sounds weird, I'm just not sure if it's the good kind yet
Published: May 13, 2025 16:03
Anyone that's played a FromSoftware Souls game knows how it tells its stories. You meet a wide range of characters, all of which mostly just talk at you in varyingly cryptic ways. There's also tiny bits of lore offered up from weapons and items too, all of…
Soulframe keeps growing with new RPG customisation, a dungeon inspired by Blue Prince and a wizard's staff
Published: May 13, 2025 15:50
"Soulframe has the bones of a great action-RPG," I wrote last November. Developers Digital Extremes continue to graft flesh to those bones, plumping the world-building's marrow and cranking the sinews of the combat. The game's Preludes edition - a sort of…
Drop Duchy review
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/drop-duchy-review
Published: May 13, 2025 15:25
Excuse me, waiter, there is a Tetris in my deckbuilding soup. As a combination of roguelike deckbuilder, tactics game, and tetramino tile-builder, Drop Duchy is an interesting mash-up when it works and a somewhat messy experiment when it doesn't. It's…
Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra release date pushed to early 2026 for polishing
Published: May 13, 2025 13:57
Earlier this year the Black Panther(‘s voice actor) suggested that Skydance New Media’s Marvel 1943: Rise Of Hydra would release in Christmas 2025. We all slept a little easier that night, knowing that King T'Chanda himself had all but rubber-stamped the…
If Letters Had Pants is a confusing but joyful word puzzle roguelite with a touch of archaeology
Published: May 13, 2025 11:24
If Letters Had Pants appears to be the product of three different elevator pitches that took place in the same elevator, and somehow resolved amicably rather than eating each other alive. The first pitch was for a verbal puzzler in which you combine…
James and Nic kick a thing: Doom: The Dark Ages edition
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/james-and-nic-kick-a-thing-doom-the-dark-ages-edition
Published: May 13, 2025 11:13
Doom: The Dark Ages has encouraged us to redirect our booting utensils away from Rematch's leather balls and into the vital organs of Hell's revolting soldiers. Along with various punches, flail strikes, and shield thrusts, most of which aren't even…
New open world action-RPG Silver Palace is about playing detective and curb-stomping demons
Published: May 13, 2025 10:44
I have a narcissistic recurring daydream that consists of teleporting historical celebrities into the present so that I can show them bits of 21st century technology and absolutely blow their tiny, primordial minds. "This deceptively pocket-sized…
Valve are expanding the Steam Deck Verified system to cover future SteamOS devices
Published: May 13, 2025 10:13
Steam Deck owners will be familiar with the practice of peering into a new game’s Steam store page and hoping, begging, praying to whatever god is yet to abandon this cruel joke of a reality that it has a little green tick mark on it. This is, of course,…
The Sinking City Remastered gets a surprise launch with a 50% discount on Steam
Published: May 13, 2025 09:50
Surprise tentacles are without a doubt the worst kind of tentacles, except in a couple of very specific cases. Fried squid at a pot luck? Sure. Come in, my friend. Benevolent kraken helping you out of an aquatic pickle by lifting you safely to shore? Thank…
Stellar Blade PC will release on 11th June, according to leaked trailer montage of technical improvements
Published: May 13, 2025 09:28
Stellar Blade - the apparently very good third-person action extravaganza with a heroine who definitely only dresses like that because she's comfortable with her sexuality and besides, bunny girl outfits are lightweight and tactically efficient - will…
"Communists attacked the Wild West" for booze in shooter RPG Chambers
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/communists-attacked-the-wild-west-for-booze-in-shooter-rpg-chambers
Published: May 13, 2025 08:51
Your FPS cup likely runneth over this month with Doom: The Dark Ages (unless you've got good taste. Nah, I'm just messing. It's alright) but if you'd like a top up, spare a thought for the early access release of "comedic RPG shooter" Chambers. It's from…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 doesn't require reflexes, says player who beat the game without dodges or parries
Published: May 13, 2025 08:16
Yes, yes, I'm opting for the scoundrel's gambit and reporting on a Reddit post. Of a self-imposed challenge run, no less! But I adored the bejeezus out of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and figured this was worth sharing in case it convinces a couple of you…
Car Park Capital is a retro tycoon game in which you try to tarmac the world
Published: May 12, 2025 16:12
For too long have our video games been tainted by the spectacle of people moving around using their own feet and legs. For too long have our NPCs been left to rot in the grip of "simple town life", surrounded by acres of thriving grass that have never…
FTL meets Warhammer 40,000 in tactical space sim Void War
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ftl-meets-warhammer-40000-in-tactical-space-sim-void-war
Published: May 12, 2025 14:47
Ahoy, consumer of PC games! I fear that Void War may be highly relevant to your statistically determined interests. It's a space combat game in which you steer ancient, crenellated starships through a frightful cosmos of blood cultists, imperial zealots,…
A last-minute SteamOS update has saved Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck, and it runs surprisingly okay-ish
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/doom-the-dark-ages-steam-deck
Published: May 12, 2025 13:29
I couldn’t offer many Steam Deck-specific insights in my look at Doom: The Dark Ages’ PC performance last week, because a crashing issue was inconsiderately – dare I say, rudely – blocking me from even reaching the main menu. Over the weekend, however, a…
Doom: The Dark Ages helms a week of GTA-style cop games, sweaty animal spas and feudal strategy
Published: May 12, 2025 12:21
Our regular PC game round-up column underwent further mysterious ructions during my absence last week, when substitute news chief Brendy introduced a list format with subheadings. I can only assume he had been driven mad by terror of being eaten by the…
The Fremen are the missing link in Dune: Awakening's efforts to be more than a survival game
Published: May 12, 2025 11:26
Among the first terrain fixtures you discover on Dune: Awakening's Arrakis are moisture seals: puffy wads of fabric that fill cave entrances to create makeshift microclimates, where travellers can escape the constant threat of dehydration. Awakening's…
Grand Theft Auto 6 delay is causing emergency meetings at other studios
Published: May 12, 2025 09:45
I want Grand Theft Auto 6 to be good, and if I had to bet money on it, I'd guess it likely will be. The world is weird right now, and I want both you and me to enjoy driving a car into a man. It very much sounds like it's got Stephen Root from Barry in it!…
Please start making special editions like the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy again
Published: May 12, 2025 08:12
I started writing this piece as a sort of "oh, this was cool!" bit of game archaeology after seeing a post from Scott Krol - who shares consistently fascinating bits of ephemera on video and tabletop games - on the physical bits that came with 1984's The…
What's on your bookshelf?: Game urbanist and author Konstantinos Dimopoulos
Published: May 11, 2025 15:00
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! I'm currently reading Dorothy Parker, who did more for the language than I'd previously though. I'm…
The Sunday Papers
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-papers-761
Published: May 11, 2025 10:00
Sundays are for enjoying the second heatwave of the year, but what are you going to do outside if not read? Exactly, so read these. Aftermath interviewed video game trailer maker Derek Lieu for his take on the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer and why it's not…
Odd Dorable is a quirky puzzle game where all of the art was made by the dev's four-year-old kid
Published: May 10, 2025 21:52
Right, sorry parents that proudly put their kids' borderline impressionist drawings on the fridge, there's a new bare minimum you have to meet. If you're not turning your child's drawings into full on video games, then I'm sorry to say you're not doing a…
Dead by Daylight's next collabs include Five Nights at Freddy's and, for some reason, The Witcher
Published: May 10, 2025 20:34
Horror asymmetric multiplayer game Dead by Daylight is celebrating its ninth anniversary later this year, an amount of time so large it really makes you think "man, most live service devs should have had the foresight to make their game a decade ago, huh?"…
After a rocky year, Risk of Rain 2's next bit of DLC looks to offer some stable ground
Published: May 10, 2025 18:02
Risk of Rain 2 is still trudging along, it seems, as yesterday publisher Gearbox announced that a new expansion is on the way, Alloyed Collective. In a post over on Steam, the Risk of Rain team explained that alongside updating the game's previous bit of…
Rocketwerkz's CEO alleges Unity are threatening to revoke studio's licence over apparent personal licence usage
Published: May 10, 2025 17:13
DayZ creator Dean Hall is alleging that Unity are threatening to revoke all licenses for workers at his current studio Rocketwerkz, the team behind Icarus. The developer made this claim in a lengthy post on Reddit saying that Unity are doing based on…
Overwatch devs have formed an almost 200 person strong union with the CWA called The Overwatch Gamemakers Guild
Published: May 10, 2025 16:03
There's a new union in town. Yesterday, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) announced that almost 200 developers at Activision Blizzard working on Overwatch have joined the union. They're doing so as the Overwatch Gamemakers Guild-CWA (OWGG-CWA),…
What are we all playing this weekend?
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/what-are-we-all-playing-this-weekend-332
Published: May 10, 2025 07:00
Bit miffed this week. I bought a new electric toothbrush and it oscillates so fast it does that thing where my whole mouth feels unbearably itchy. Blech. Balancing this experience against the existence of hundreds of thousands of videogames to play, and I…
Haneda Girl is a furiously retro breach-and-clear murderbox starring one girl and her mecha
Published: May 9, 2025 17:56
The tastiest thing you can currently do in Haneda Girl is eject yourself from your mech straight into a streaking katana blow that carries you though a door and two torsos before teleport-summoning your mech as though inflating a lifejacket to gun down…
Former Metro studio's new cyberpunk shooter La Quimera has a rough landing in early access
Published: May 9, 2025 16:55
Sci-fi FPS La Quimera is the first game from Reburn, a new incarnation of Metro co-developers 4A Games Ukraine. It's out now in early access. That last bit is a surprise: the developers had planned to release the new shooter as "a large, complete journey",…
Dbrand's Big Short sale has dropped the best Steam Deck case to just $50
Published: May 9, 2025 14:29
Dbrand has launched a new "Big Short" sale that includes sizable discounts on its Killswitch cases and more for the Steam Deck and other devices. Read more
Doom: The Dark Ages doesn’t run badly on PC, but enforced ray tracing slows the pace
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/doom-the-dark-ages-best-settings-pc-performance
Published: May 9, 2025 14:03
I’m liking Doom: The Dark Ages more than local reviewist Nic does, possibly because spending most of 2024 remoulding my brain to learn Elden Ring has unduly engorged the part that appreciates a good parry-and-riposte. C'est la vie demons, and colleague.…
Doom: The Dark Ages Review
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/doom-the-dark-ages-review
Published: May 9, 2025 14:00
I was having a pretty good time with Doom: The Dark Ages. Then I rolled credits, reinstalled Doom Eternal, loaded up Mars Core, and realised how much Id have lost their sense of playfulness. Less grounded than landlocked, less weighty than weighed down,…
Europa Universalis 5 is so complex its developers will let you automate half the game
Published: May 9, 2025 12:00
I am rewriting the history of Korea, and there are blotty ink stains everywhere. Europa Universalis 5 was announced yesterday, the official unveiling of a grand strategy game that has been an open secret since April last year, thanks to a long-running dev…
Straftat map makers map more maps into Straftat
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/straftat-map-makers-map-more-maps-into-straftat
Published: May 9, 2025 11:45
The map masters who make the madcap map mayhem of Straftat have made more maps for maladjusted mates to mop up their misgivings in machinegunning map-bound mockery. The magnificent maraud 'em up has mustered 37 more maps a mere month after the mapsters…
Knights Of The Crusades is a busy, bloody, villainous grand strategy RTS
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/knights-of-the-crusades-is-a-big-busy-villainous-grand-strategy-rts
Published: May 9, 2025 11:04
I've been meaning to research the Crusades for a while. A series of vicious medieval religious wars for control of the Holy Land, initiated by the Latin Christian Church following the conquest of Jerusalem by the Rashidun Caliphate, they've become a…
Alien: Rogue Incursion gets a non-VR "Evolved" edition this year, with prettier, deadlier xenomorphs
Published: May 9, 2025 09:32
Alien: Rogue Incursion will get a non-VR release on PC later this year, allowing would-be Colonial Marines access to its Weyland-Yutani black site without first requiring you to force your head inside a pair of microscopic televisions. Subtitled "Evolved…
Chrono Trigger writer is "starting to contemplate" a remake after all
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/chrono-trigger-writer-is-starting-to-contemplate-a-remake-after-all
Published: May 9, 2025 08:22
Rumours of a Chrono Trigger remake briefly bubbled up before being swiftly pin-popped last week, following a mistranslation of the JRPG's writer, Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii at a panel. The potion-swilling public were understandably chuffed (you still…
Tamagotchi and Quake both join World Video Game Hall Of Fame
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tamagotchi-and-quake-both-join-world-video-game-hall-of-fame
Published: May 9, 2025 08:20
New York's Strong National Museum of Play has welcomed four new entries into its Video Game Hall Of Fame: Quake, Goldeneye, 1981's arcade side-scroller Defender, and the virtual pet Tamagotchi. It's that last one that's by far the most interesting of the…
Europa Universalis 5 won't launch with a subscription - but it might get one later
Published: May 9, 2025 08:16
Grand strategy country crusher Europa Universalis 5 was announced yesterday, revealing a complex century-spanning historical sim. But one thing we still don't know is the price or how it'll be sold. If you want to buy the previous game in the series,…
Eric Barone, the guy who can't stop updating Stardew Valley, says the words "I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2"
Published: May 8, 2025 21:53
Did you know that Stardew Valley is the 21st best-selling game of all time? It's sold more than Skyrim! At least by the numbers we currently have, anyway. I don't care all that much about sales figures, but if creator Eric Barone cared more about money, I…
Doloc Town is a self-described cosy post-apocalyptic farming sim platformer, and it's out in early access now
Published: May 8, 2025 20:43
I'm not sure if the words cosy and apocalypse are generally ones that go hand in hand together, but Doloc Town is positioning itself as just that. Specifically, it's a quite lovely looking pixel-art farming sim set in a post-apocalypse, and it just…
Helldiver 2's next warbond will let you look even more fascist than normal, adds in a literal sword
Published: May 8, 2025 19:02
Helldivers 2 is, very obviously, a game where you roleplay as space fascists. Like, the game explicitly treats you as fodder for a war against various supposedly evil species all in the name of colonising other planets. It's not subtle! But it's also silly…
I just picked up 15 Doom and Wolfenstein Games for only $28 / £21 from Humble
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/15-doom-and-wolfenstein-games-for-only-28-from-humble
Published: May 8, 2025 17:30
I think this Doom and Wolfenstein Mayhem Bundle from Humble is an easy win if you’re even remotely interested in first-person shooters. For $28 / £21.16, you get fifteen titles spanning decades of FPS history. From the original DOOM to the more recent…
Frostpunk 2 brings in a map literally called The Pit, a revamped heating system, and a lot more in its first big update
Published: May 8, 2025 17:05
What do people that play Frostpunk call themselves, frostpunks? Feels too obvious, but I'm going to do it anyway. Breaking news frostpunks! There's a new big Frostpunk 2 update that's just arrived in the game, adding some pretty big additions and…
2K Games are actively selling Mafia: The Old Country as a sideshow
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2k-games-are-actively-selling-mafia-the-old-country-as-a-sideshow
Published: May 8, 2025 16:30
Mafia: The Old Country will release on August 8th, developers Hangar 13 and publishers 2K Games have confirmed, and look, here’s a trailer featuring much headlong bloodshed in the villas, citrus groves and *squints* mysterious firelit dungeons of early…
Everything we know about Europa Universalis 5
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/everything-we-know-about-europa-universalis-5
Published: May 8, 2025 16:30
The horizon glows red. Europa Universalis 5 is posturing itself as the next grandaddy of grand strategy. It follows 12 years of updates and expansions to Europa Universalis 4, so it has some catching up to do. But much of the historical simulation is in…
The next grand strategy game from Paradox is Europa Universalis 5
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-next-grand-strategy-game-from-paradox-is-europa-universalis-5
Published: May 8, 2025 16:12
Paradox have announced grand strategy game Europa Universalis 5, following some teasers last week. It's the next big entry in the series of complex globe-spanning historical simulations, and having played a little as the hapless ruler of Korea in the 14th…
Palworld's newest patch stops you from gliding with your Pals, and yes, it is because of Nintendo's lawsuit
Published: May 8, 2025 15:58
We all know that Palworld developer Pocketpair are currently dealing with a lawsuit from Mario maker Nintendo. Specifically, it's over patent rights, rather than something like copyright infringement which everyone was expecting given the liberties that…
New platformer Paperklay is a little bit Banjo, a little bit LittleBigPlanet
Published: May 8, 2025 15:45
3D platformer Paperklay has perhaps the least appealing protagonists I've seen in a game recently. I hate avian buddy duo "Chick & Nugget" and all their works, beginning with the ghastly 3am pun that appears to have spawned them. Look at that ampersand,…
Death Stranding 2 is as much a rebuttal of Death Stranding's theme of connection as a sequel
Published: May 8, 2025 13:08
Earlier today there was a mighty eruption of Death Stranding 2: On The Beach previews, featuring commentary on the new game's themes and social relevance from erstwhile Metal Gear Solidifier and Kojima Productions boss Hideo Kojima. Themes and social…
A rabbit would like you to kill people in grimy, repellent FPS Pigface
Published: May 8, 2025 12:47
Doom: The Dark Ages releases next week, and with it the realisation that Doom Guy has come a long way since the murder of his beloved rabbit Daisy at the hands of hell. While FPS Pigface is naturally a genre descendant of Doom, I cannot say for certain if…
Elden Ring: Nightreign has a solution to stale strategies, says director
Published: May 8, 2025 11:01
"Attacking is the most consistent element of Elden Ring Nightreign’s gameplay," says director Junya Ishizaki in a new PlayStation blog, explaining the choice to have players revive each other by hitting wounded mates with swords - a famously crucial tenet…
A choice of two Midnights
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/a-choice-of-two-midnights
Published: May 8, 2025 10:02
Today, 8th May, is a day of compound darkness, for it sees the release of (at least) two games with "midnight" in the title: Midnight Special from Scared Stupid Inc, and The Midnight Walk from Moonhood. A coincidence? Absolutely not. This is clearly an…
Raising the dead in Oblivion Remastered is "actually illegal" now thanks to this necromancy mod
Published: May 8, 2025 09:51
Necromancy is a dark art, forbidden by the mages guild in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. At least, that's what characters in the open world RPG will tell you, before selling you a spell that lets you raise skellingtons from the dirt. You can be…
Score 8 killer games for $11.99 / £8.99 in May's Humble Choice
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/may-2025-humble-choice
Published: May 8, 2025 08:30
Sharpen your stake and pack some silver bullets because Humble Choice just dropped a May lineup packed with blood, brains, and pure gaming mayhem. For just $11.99 / £8.99 a month, you’re getting eight standout games plus a bonus month of IGN Plus thrown in…