Rainbow Six Tactics transforms the demolition-driven Siege into a turn-based game while keeping the destructible environments, operators, and reconnaissance drones
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·25 Aug 2026
Ubisoft have done the sensible thing and turned Rainbow Six into a turn-based tactical game. Nabbing the special ability-laden operators of Rainbow Six Siege and dropping them into the XCOM...
Cosmic horror and sea bird waddling sim Penguin Colony gave me a genAI fright in its release date trailer, but thankfully there's no actual cause for concern
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·25 Aug 2026
You might be surprised to hear this given the very indie vibe about it, but Penguin Colony features RTX. It's actually AAA too, and includes DLSS as well.
Roblox put a stop to games that include rewards for endless, TikTok-style scrolling, if you're under the age of 16 anyway
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·25 Aug 2026
It continues to both amaze and concern me that a whole other internet ecosystem appears to exist within the realm of Roblox.
Nvidia tech behind PUBG's genAI team mates will let folks chat to creature-collecting RPG Aniimo's not-Pokemon next year
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·25 Aug 2026
Alongside releasing Ray Reconstruction for DLSS 4.5, Nvidia have announced that their ACE tech best known for powering PUBG: Battlegrounds' generative AI team mates will be coming to another game...
Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, out now, ups shadow quality and more accurately illuminates trash bags
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·25 Aug 2026
Today, August 25th, Nvidia have released Ray Reconstruction for DLSS 4.5, with the aim of more swankily rendering ray-traced/path-traced shadows and lighting than was possible with previous Ray...
31 years later, beautiful SNES RPG Terranigma is finally coming to PC, and I must lay the ghost of my console warrior childhood to rest
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·25 Aug 2026
Clear River Games Development and Limited Run are working on a PC re-release of Terranigma, Quintet's Super Nintendo Entertainment System action-RPG from 1995.
Discord have yet to receive a GTA 6 leak subpoena from Take-Two, says marketing director, but they will "evaluate the validity and scope" if they do
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·25 Aug 2026
Last week, Rockstar Games' parent company Take-Two were filed subpoenas asking for info from Microsoft and Discord to help uncover the identity of the hacker or hackers behind the ongoing GTA 6...
How to Fish is Steam's latest cursed co-op sensation, now updated with private lobbies, eight player support, and anti-griefer measures
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·24 Aug 2026
Steam's latest head-scratching hangout game (don't call it friendslop, you will rekindle Discourse) is How to Fish, a macabre novelty in which hideous worm people boat out to small cursed islands...
Red Dead Redemption 2: Nuevo Paraiso, the latest Mexico expansion mod for Rockstar's western, releases next month
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·24 Aug 2026
Pretty much since the day Red Dead Redemption 2 and they saw its map included Red Dead 1 states New Austin and West Elizabeth, but didn't extend south of the border, modders have been looking to...
The Witcher 4 is targeting release in 2028, CD Projekt Red confirm, while teasing that extra Witcher 3 DLC Songs of the Past has a "dark story" in store
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·24 Aug 2026
Not content with stealing everyone's attention at Gamescom by unveiling a cheeky extra expansion for a decade-old RPG, CD Projekt Red have decided spend their Monday afternoon locking in the year...
"We ended up kind of cornered there": Mortal Shell 2 devs say they didn't intend to "lock everybody out" by disabling achievements for Slayer Seal "easy mode" users
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·24 Aug 2026
Formidable fantasy soulslike Mortal Shell 2 has been getting it in the shins from certain players over the decision to 'lock them out' of Steam achievements, when they equip the notorious Slayer...
Paradox's next grand strategy game is a post-apocalyptic wasteland tribe-battler called Afterworld, according to leaks ahead of Gamescom
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·24 Aug 2026
What is happening across the Paradox Universe? So the publishers behind strategy stalwarts like Crusader Kings 3 and Europa Universalis 4 asked in a post to the socials the other day, which...
This week in PC games: Gamescom and GTA 6 fight for our attention, but don't forget Folk Emerging, MGS4 and the horror game about balancing a cake
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·24 Aug 2026
Hello all! I regret to report that the Maw is in a really good mood this week. Its scales have an almost flirtatious lustre, flashing in and out of visibility as I gaze from my eyrie above north...
Haul a star through a labyrinth in Today's Star Is, a challenging free game from the Love Eternal devs with a new level coming every day
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·24 Aug 2026
It's the start of a new week, and you've got a bad case of the Mondays. Ah, but why do I antagonise you so with these twee and crushingly normative white collar office job cliches?
Massive Morrowind mod Tamriel Rebuilt's Poison Song expansion is out now, complete with new quests to join Great House Indoril and the Ordinators
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·24 Aug 2026
Tamriel Rebuilt, the Morrowind modding project gradually adding the province's mainland to The Elder Scrolls 3's Vvardenfell-centric map, has gotten a fresh expansion over the weekend.
The Sunday Papers
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·23 Aug 2026
Sometimes, Sundays are only for rounding up videogame criticism and journalism. I try to cast a wider net when my turn comes to deliver the Papers, because I figure you've probably been reading...
Raise up a mech pilot and make sure she doesn't get Evangelion-level depressed in the sci-fi visual novel Valkyrie Iteration: Mecha Pilot Raising Pocket Simulator
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·22 Aug 2026
Raising sims aren't a genre I've partaken in, partially because so many of them are geared towards a sort of father, daughter vibe that doesn't quite fit me.
Chromatic aberration is made manifest in NECHROMIA, a high contrast survival horror set in a castle made of something else's memories
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·22 Aug 2026
Look, I love a PS1 horror throwback as much as the next whatever Gonzo is, but they don't all have to look like Silent Hill or Resident Evil, do they?
Tulpa the Unseen Lover is a psychological visual novel about a depressed manga artist manifesting a cute, ominous anime girl made by former Spider-Verse animators
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·22 Aug 2026
It's very rare that I'm not thinking about the works of Satoshi Kon (pop on Tokyo Godfathers this Christmas, you won't regret it), but the one that I always come back to is Opus.
Gorgeous and hazy pixel art horror farming sim Neverway has been pushed to 2027, but you can at least have a gander at some of the NPCs you can smooch
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·22 Aug 2026
Sorry folks, some bad news: Neverway, the horror life sim and RPG combo from one of the artists behind Celeste and the composer of Fez, has been delayed into 2027.
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