"Buying any of our games helps support the studio": Psychonauts studio Double Fine are the latest former Xbox-owned studio to get the rights to their games back
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·22 Aug 2026
Earlier this week, South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games shared word that they now own all of the publishing rights to their games, a welcome update in light of the ongoing BDS boycott...
What are we all playing this weekend?
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·22 Aug 2026
For the past ten days or so I've been whinging my way through a chest infection. My partner's been sent out for lemsips, tissues, the blood of a vital youth filled with hopes of a bright future...
Sandustry is the first factory simulation game I've played that gets heaps right
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·21 Aug 2026
Before we talk about Sandustry, the excellent new spelunking factory builder from Lantto Games and Hooded Horse, we need to revisit that most quintessentially vidyagame of topics, the...
GTA 6 leaker hunt is on, as Rockstar owners Take-Two file subpoenas asking Microsoft and Discord for records
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·21 Aug 2026
Well, the chase has begun. Rockstar parent company Take-Two are after the identity of the hacker or hackers behind this week's GTA 6 leak.
"The lines between redemption and revenge will blur", promises Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2's latest trailer as the series locks in a late October release
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·21 Aug 2026
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, the second series of the anime CD Projekt Red and Netflix grafted onto the former's cyberverse following Cyberpunk 2077's release, will premiere on October 20th.
Among Shadows is a Nightreign-style dark fantasy RPG with a touch of Among Us that makes me think wistfully of Dark Souls at its most treacherous
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·21 Aug 2026
Among Shadows is the kind of videogame genre arithmetic that often proves less than the sum of its parts, but I'm cautiously enthused by its talk of disease, betrayal and Elden Ring...
“We’re going to take things slow": South of Midnight devs now own the rights to all their games again, after quitting Xbox, and are working on a new game
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·21 Aug 2026
We Happy Few and South of Midnight developers Compulsion Games have announced that they are fully broken up with Microsoft and Xbox, after completing a management buyout.
PSA: In the latest GTA 6 leak's aftermath, it's not a good idea to download files with names like totallylegitgta6leakedbuild.exe
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·21 Aug 2026
While scammers and other ne'er-do-wells leaning into the allure of playing GTA 6 as part of their efforts to spread malware isn't anything new - cybersecurity companies have been issuing warnings...
Mortal Shell 2's first balance patch makes its in-game economy a lot more lenient and nerfs some enemies and bosses for a smoother ride
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·20 Aug 2026
Heavy is the burden of being a game developer, as even as a game launches, there is always still work to be done.
Active development on League of Legends fighting game spinoff 2XKO will be coming to an end at the end of the year
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·20 Aug 2026
Riot Games' fighting game take on the world of League of Legends, 2XKO, is winding down development.
This game inspired by classic Minecraft dropper maps can't work out whether it wants to rapture you or make you throw up
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·20 Aug 2026
"I wanna see how much abuse gamers can take," a voice over opens the trailer for Sensory Overload, a game that will likely be taking home the Geoff "IMAX" Keighley Award for Most Appropriate Title...
"Do questions like that create a self-fulfilling prophecy?”: Dishonored director Harvey Smith on the fear of asking if immersive sims are dead
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·20 Aug 2026
It appears that August is the month for having thoughts on the success of immersive sims! Earlier this month, one of the original designers behind Thief: The Dark Project shared his feelings on...
Hold the throne, NBA 2K27's new MyNBA Legacy mode sounds a lot like basketball Crusader Kings 3
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·20 Aug 2026
Lo, a new power rose in the East. The warlord Michael of Jordan united the people of Chicago under the crest of the bull, then with his general Scottie of Pippen and the triangular religion of...
Black Myth: Zhong Kui shows off 15 minutes of rollparrysliceage, and I've just learned that the bloke it's named after was a lethally effective headbanger
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·20 Aug 2026
Game Science have put out a fresh trailer showing off Black Myth: Zhong Kui, their follow-up to Chinese mythology-stuffed action-RPG Black Myth: Wukong, in action.
A playable build of GTA 6 appears to have leaked, as Rockstar and Take-Two scramble to take down videos
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·20 Aug 2026
The crypto-peddling hacker group who leaked footage of GTA 6 earlier this week appear to have access to a playable version of Rockstar and Take-Two Interactive's forthcoming open world game, if...
All of the pirates in Hooded Horse city builder Corsair Cove hate me because I can't make them eyepatches fast enough
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·20 Aug 2026
Stories of pirates are full of swashbuckling, daring-do, and grog. But Limbic Entertainment's city builder Corsair Cove reveals those hijinx are only a sideshow: logistics is the star.
EA's Saudi takeover wouldn't have happened if the company's culture "had any semblance of a moral backbone", say staff fearing layoffs and ownership meddling
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·20 Aug 2026
Now the ink's starting to dry on the Saudi Arabian government and Jared Kushner-backed takeover of EA, which has seen the company go private, staff are getting to grips with what the ownership...
Sony are rebooting their live service Horizon game as a more traditional co-op affair, claim sources, with a proper Horizon Forbidden West sequel still years away
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·19 Aug 2026
Horizon Hunters Gathering, the live service multiplayer spin-off for PlayStation's post-apocalyptic Horizon series, is being rebooted as a smaller and more traditional co-op experience with a story...
Amid accusations of a post-beta difficulty bump, Mortal Shell 2 devs patch the new soulslike to stop players riposting so hard they steal enemy weapons
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·19 Aug 2026
Belated congratulations to everybody who correctly guessed that Mortal Shell 2 was the mystery game our guides team were raving about a couple of weeks ago.
STALKER 2 gets serious performance and visual upgrades with its 2.0 update, testing confirms, polishing up one of the biggest flawed gems in FPS games
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·19 Aug 2026
I don’t begrudge anyone who’s waited to try STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl until it got its technical defects fixed.
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