The Tower of Zeldaga is a free retro mash-up of Zelda and Druaga in which you rescue Ganondorf from some evil blonde queen
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·9d ago
The recent screening of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake has proven a thing of existential horror for many grey-haired Zeldenthusiasts. Is that you, Link?
"A quite beautiful compromise": The LEGO Skylines devs did consider brick by brick building, but decided it was too much fuss for players
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·9d ago
LEGO Skylines is the new plastic city-builder from Cities: Skylines 2 and Surviving the Aftermath developers Iceflake Studios, published by Paradox Interactive.
The Witcher 3 Remastered has scuppered an ambitious cut plague quest restoration mod, but there'll be "something extra" in the update that gets it working again
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·9d ago
Today, September 29th, The Witcher 3 is back on the path in Remastered form. With that remaster bringing a host of tweaks to the decade-old RPG, there was always going to be an adjustment period...
CD Projekt release full updated Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered system specs, including ray-tracing and path-tracing requirements
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·10d ago
CD Projekt have released the full list of PC system requirements for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered, a free upgrade for the base edition of the grizzled and cantankerous fantasy action-RPG.
Fright Train is the best Call of Duty Zombies alternative I've played in ages, despite starring a dog
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·10d ago
There's been a wave of furry horror games with surprisingly elaborate tactical simulation elements, and when I say "wave", I mean that I'm aware of two.
"We didn't want to demonise fetish or BDSM": People aren't dying in horror game Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival because of what they do in the bedroom
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·10d ago
Early in horror game Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival, the character you play, Aidan, and his partner Sunny, are pushing the bounds of the sex they enjoy together.
This week in PC games: new Ace Combat, Transport Fever 3, and a System Shock-alike set on a disco space station
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·10d ago
Happy this week all! ...Ugh, you are all still here. When I went on holiday last week, I was hoping that I'd return to find that the whole "videogame journalism career" thing was just a fleeting...
"We clearly handled that responsibility poorly": Paradox ban Discord profile pics of historical figures born after 1800, after bust-up with Hearts of Iron 4 players over Atatürk banning
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·10d ago
Hearts of Iron 4 developers Paradox Interactive have prohibited the use of Discord profile pictures of historical figures born after 1st January 1800, save for official in-game portraits, amid an...
The Sunday Papers
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·11d ago
Sundays are for recovering from the friend-of-a-spouse’s wedding you attended on Saturday while suffering from an acute case of Old Person’s Back.
TALON TOWERS is a Fumito Ueda-coded parkour platformer about hopping around massive structures while avoiding falling to your foggy doom
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·12d ago
If your game immediately makes me think of any of Fumito Ueda's in any sort of way, the likelihood is that I am to play it.
Suplex and shatter glass enemies after being in prison for committing a cardinal crime in the psychological horror beat 'em up Brokensides
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·12d ago
Just hearing that a game has mashed two genres together does not generally excite me. It's a useful shorthand, maybe, but there's only so many roguelike deckbuilders I can take.
Video Game Menu: The Game is all about everyone's favourite gaming pastime: pressing random buttons in the menus and seeing what they change
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·12d ago
Tense platforming? Riveting, punchy action combat? Complex, thought provoking puzzles? Is this what we come to video games for? Of course not!
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty's Chimera tank boss fight was apparently so complex it took two years of "reiterating over and over" to get it right
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·12d ago
My first thought when I played through the Chimera tank boss fight in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty was probably something along the lines of, "wow, this sure looks expensive!"
"Do 665 runs if you want!": Control Resonant is getting a new game++ mode next month, and don't worry you happy snappers, a photo mode is on the way too
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·12d ago
A developer's work is never done! On the very same day it launched, Control Resonant received a hotfix that tackled various complaints that were levied against the game's combat, making it slightly...
What are we all playing this weekend?
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·12d ago
I'm sure I had at least three more sets of Saturdays and Sundays in my September box. That thief time has snuck in again and picked up all the unattended days.
Microsoft's failure to find a home for Ninja Theory voids the one, very tenuous upside to Senua's SGF reveal
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·13d ago
There’s plenty to dislike about this latest round of corporate-mandated Xbox misery. The hundreds more human beings losing their livelihoods. The embracing of risk-averse factory line development.
Hytale's Chapter 1 update is all about them goblins, adding its first proper boss and "handcrafted" dungeon in October
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·13d ago
After months of smaller patches, Hytale’s early access phase is getting its inaugural Chapter update, confirmed release date and all.
I got whomped by an Ork horde in Total War: Warhammer 40,000, definitely on purpose, to teach you a lesson about positioning
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·13d ago
Demo sessions are often terrible ways to see a game, doubly so at conferences. You want to sink into a game at your own pace (and with unbroken access to fresh cups of tea), not get dropped into...
Colourful JRPG Armed Fantasia has been cancelled, four years after a successful Kickstarter campaign descended into delays and lawsuits
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·13d ago
Armed Fantasia, a JRPG pitched as a spiritual successor the PS2-era roleplaying series Wild Arms – and led by former Wild Arms producer Akifumi Kaneko – has been cancelled.
Arc Raiders is testing a PvE mode because "a large and growing group" refuse to hunt each other
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·13d ago
Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios is bowing to the pacifists and trialing a PvE mode in their extraction shooter.
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