"We want to invite people into this big tent with this grimdark setting": Creative Assembly on how they plan to ease strategy newbies into Total War: Warhammer 40,000
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·28d ago
I remember once when I was a child, my uncle was visiting and completely unprompted (and kindly) he gave me a copy of one of the Total War games, I think the Rome one, you'll have to forgive my...
Thousand Hells is a joyful anthology of RPG heist quests in which you'll bargain with demons and go boating with the dead
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·28d ago
You'd expect a game called Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists to be on the depressing side, but this choose-your-own-adventure RPG anthology from the designers of King of Dragon Pass is an...
Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse proves Dead Cells' developers were the right fit for a revival in this blessing for the Belmonts
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Ashley Schofield·28d ago
"You're not the last Belmont anymore", Trevor reminds his daughter Rose, as they gently sail into a Paris ablaze and ripped apart by monsters.
The latest Steam beta update adds a new Big Picture view, screensavers, and a little treat for desktop Steam Machine owners.
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·28d ago
There’s a new Steam client beta update out, and for SteamOS devices like the Steam Deck or Steam Machine – or just the Windows client's Big Picture Mode – it’s meaty one, features-wise.
As final hearing over GTA firings begins, Rockstar reiterate they "reject the claims" made by union and will defend themselves "vigorously"
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·28d ago
Rockstar Games have issued a statement making clear they're sticking to their guns, as the final hearing in the legal battle between them and a group of former staff they fired last year begins.
Hideo Kojima spy action game Physint switches publishing allegiance from PlayStation to Xbox, probably increasing the chances it'll hit PC
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·28d ago
Physint, the action espionage game Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions announced a couple of years ago, will no longer be published by initial backers PlayStation.
Wanderburg, a bullet heaven where you drive around a Frankensteinian hybrid of a castle and a tank, is out in early access today
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·29d ago
Truth be told, I'm still not sold on "bullet heaven" as a genre. Name notwithstanding, the genre is certainly here to stay, and there always seems to be funny new takes on it despite the fact that...
Pile cards on top of each other and watch the magic happen in the textured and chunky roguelike deckbuilder Stack Order
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·29d ago
I find it to be quite rare that when a game says it has a graphic novel art style that it actually has one.
Lovely anime Sherlock series The Apothecary Diaries is getting a PC game spin-off, with Maomao chasing down another court conspiracy
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·29d ago
Terrible news, folks, it's time for another episode of "Edwin secretly watches a lot of anime and has bad anime opinions".
Blood of Dawnwalker's troubled power fantasy has me yearning for a more desperate, systemic vampire survival sim in which every night is a gamble
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·29d ago
Being a vampire is a pretty raw deal... or so the vamps inform us when they are not having freaky gothic sex, shapeshifting into wolves, enjoying the slimming effects of a uniquely low-carb diet...
No Man's Sky's 10th anniversary update will let you rule space stations, built floating orbital bases and go on holiday to the sun
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·29d ago
No Man's Sky is a decade old. Let that sink in. No, seriously, you'll need plenty of water to survive the trips that the massive space game's 10th anniversary update allows you to embark on.
Cult classic shoot-em-up Touhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil has a remake out now, bringing its bullet hell vampire-hunting to Steam.
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·29d ago
Touhou Project is Schrödinger’s shoot-em-up series: simultaneously a decades-running, 20-game strong (not counting spinoffs) multimedia juggernaut spawning one of the most active fan communities of...
"The start of something greater": hundreds of unionised Blizzard workers vote through contract that gives them a say over genAI usage and protection against layoffs
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·29d ago
Unionised Blizzard workers have voted to ratify a new contract with their employer that will "require" Blizzard to negotiate with workers over any usage of generative AI tools in their workplace...
Blood of Dawnwalker devs Rebel Wolves are already looking for someone to help write a sequel, so here's where I'd like to see its vampy tale go next
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·29d ago
Look, I know it's way to early to be talking about sequels to The Blood of Dawnwalker, given Rebel Wolves' vampire RPG hasn't even been out a week as I write this.
Rally Point: Strong simulation and team building can't carry Menace forever
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Sin Vega·29d ago
It's probably poor form to do another "what I said in a group chat" (this time, to culture critic Rowan Kaiser.
Zombiepunk action RPG Stupid Never Dies is a vibrant feast for the eyes, ears, hands and teeth, even if it is a smidge overwhelming
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Ashley Schofield·29d ago
Stupid Never Dies is a vibrant feast for the eyes, ears and hands, and I don't even mean all the biting our punk boy Davy gets up to It's hard to know where to start when talking about Stupid Never...
I'm not saying Fallout 4 modding drama gets to people, but here's Breaking Benjamin's singer begging concertgoers to try his AI-assisted first person mod
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·29d ago
In my experience, the few minutes a live band take between songs to recover a bit before plunging into the next riff are generally quite uneventful.
"You can never see outside of yourself": The House Before is a body horror game in which you are a house tunnelling through its own soul
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·29d ago
It's a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible house. Wait, let's start that again.
FromSoftware's first experiment with, of all things, horse armor DLC runs awry, as Elden Ring players manage to spawn free duplicate items in multiplayer
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·29d ago
From Software and Bandai Namco have released a hasty new Elden Ring patch to stop people getting their hands on items from the game's Tarnished Pack DLC for free.
"Most people" at Bethesda wanted to make Elder Scrolls 6 before Starfield, claims Skyrim co-lead, but Todd Howard dragged them aboard his rocketship
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·29d ago
What came first, the chicken or the egg? I know, it's a tough one. I'll put it another way. What came first, Todd Howard's lone desire to make a space RPG or what the devs working under him had...
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