Talking trees, flying witch heads and an unsettling rabbit man await in the shrubbery of cursed woodland ranger sim I Hear the Forest
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·6d ago
Nature's relaxing, yeah? Life as a forest ranger, wandering around amid the trees and making sure none of the animals are getting up to mischief sounds a bit like bliss.
Death Stranding meets party-based tactical combat in open world RPG Fog'n'Silence, in which you lead twisted humans through the Afterlife
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·6d ago
On viewing the trailer for Fog'n'Silence, I transformed instantly into a caricature of a Texan oilman. "Hoowee!!"
Deus Ex director and immersive sim legend Warren Spector is retiring, despite having "three games in particular" he'd still like to make
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·6d ago
Warren Spector, Deus Ex director and general household name of the PC gamingverse, has announced his retirement from game development.
The US Senate are investigating Roblox for prioritising "revenue and engagement metrics over the safety and well-being of our children"
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·7d ago
US senators have launched an investigation of game creation platform Roblox on a broad charge of putting money before child safety.
I'm not saying Bethesda are trolling me specifically, but Fallout 4 and Skyrim updates are imminent just as I've modded up the latter for the first time in ages
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·7d ago
Right, just a couple more location overhauls and there we go. A fresh Skyrim load order created for my first modded toe-dip into Tamriel for quite a while, outside of grabbing the odd article...
Mortal Shell 2 review: A monumental heavy metal sequel with the spirit of a '90s PC game
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Jeremy Blum·7d ago
A few hours into your sojourn across Mortal Shell 2's harsh realm of Fainweald, you might stumble upon a tavern called The One Legged Wolf.
Boardroom beat-em-up Stick It to the Stickman punches its way out of early access next month, complete with neurolinkage and an "absolutely absurd finale"
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·7d ago
Fetch your finest presentation materials about lines on graphs going upwards and proceed to try and beat your colleagues to death with them.
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-Thirlwell·7d ago
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 Warren·7d ago
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 Benson·7d ago
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 Warren·7d ago
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 Benson·8d ago
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 Kuhnke·8d ago
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 Kuhnke·8d ago
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 Kuhnke·9d ago
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 Kuhnke·9d ago
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 Kuhnke·9d ago
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 Archer·9d ago
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-Thirlwell·10d ago
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-Thirlwell·10d ago
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...
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