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Sraëka Lillian's one-a-week RPG "sketches" are a lovely series of experiments with hoary old conventions from Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell17 Aug 2026

There's a running joke in the world of THEA-TAH that Shakespeare's Hamlet is a play made up entirely of quotations.

Witcher 3 cut quest restoration mod The WAR Project is finding a new voice for its fresh Vernon Roche lines, following alleged "severe incident of gross misconduct"

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren17 Aug 2026

The creators of massive in-development The Witcher 3 mod The WAR Project are recasting their version of Temerian commander Vernon Roche, citing "a severe incident of gross misconduct" allegedly...

This week in PC games: survival horror in a waterlogged city, kaiju chaos in a destructible city, and old school GTA vibes in an isometric insurgency simulator

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson17 Aug 2026

Videogames. Gosh there are a lot of them. We're not even into the hell month of September – where every major developer besides Rockstar seems to be releasing their big games of the year – and...

Kingdom Hearts 4 releasing in late 2027, according to a trailer in which Donald Duck and Goofy go to hell, miss a skeletal fiesta and rock up as creepy force ghosts

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren17 Aug 2026

I'll be honest, having just watched the latest trailer for Kingdom Hearts 4, I'm less confident I know what's going on in the game.

The Sunday Papers

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson16 Aug 2026

Sundays are for getting up early and testing the legs are still in working order after potentially overdoing it with a crosscountry ride.

Ron Gilbert talks the untraditional way he got Thimbleweed Park 2 funded, and his frustrations with modern publishing deals

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke15 Aug 2026

I think it would be a tad fair if you heard that Thimbleweed Park 2 is in the works and thought, "who funded that?"

O EMPIRE! WARD OFF THY ROT puts you in an abandoned, dithered world with a cursed object and asks you to do one thing: survive the journey

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke15 Aug 2026

Do you remember, or do you even know, about the Game Boy Camera? It's exactly as it sounds, a little camera attached to an original Game Boy cartridge that you could plug in and take photos with.

"For a few weeks, women were just dropping their babies": The Witcher 3 lead on designing NPCs that react appropriately

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke15 Aug 2026

Gone are the days where a developer could give an NPC maybe two lines of dialogue and call it a day.

Slay the Spire 2 updates are slowing down again, but don't fear, it's all in the name of more modes, an alternate Act 2, and a character with a bandaged foot

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke15 Aug 2026

Slay the Spire 2 has been moving at a solid pace since it launched into early access back in March, but back in May developer Mega Crit shared that updates would be switching to once every two...

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl's meaty 2.0 update brings functional fog, a suite of A-Life improvements, and more when it arrives next week

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke15 Aug 2026

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl's big 2.0 update is right around the corner, and developer GSC Game World have shared a plethora of details of what you can expect from it.

What are we all playing this weekend?

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer15 Aug 2026

Bit of a quiet one this week, gang. Half the RPS team are on holiday, ill, or off at some preview event, maybe in a less melty part of the world like Scandinavia, the lucky bastards.

The Watcher is a creepy surveillance thriller with shiny Unreal Engine props - I just hope it's not as talkative as its trailer

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell14 Aug 2026

Some pressing personal context: I live in a very small flat with huge windows and curtains that only ever seem to cover about 80% of the view, no matter how ingeniously I yank them around.

Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game music

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell14 Aug 2026

Update, 17/8: Former Rideshare Stimulator writer Stella Sacco says, via BlueSky, that she's receieved and accepted an apology from Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch for the disparaging comments...

I love the Dark Soulful architecture of The Canon of Balls, a rolling open world game inspired by Sega, Fumito Ueda and Minecraft parkour

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell14 Aug 2026

What do Dark Souls, Super Monkey Ball, Shadow of the Colossus, and Minecraft have in common? They are all explicit inspirations for The Canon of Balls, a spooky and unforgiving new open world...

Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting a big free vampiric update in September, alongside the epithet-stuffed Lords of the End Times DLC

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell14 Aug 2026

Creative Assembly have announced a release date for Total War: Warhammer 3 expansion Lords of the End Times.