Rock, Paper, Shotgun

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The Division developers Massive are now "the global brand" in charge of Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon, alongside a new Ubisoft dieselpunk MOBA

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell7d ago

Tom Clancy's The Division and Star Wars Outlaws studio Massive Entertainment just got, er, massiver.

First-person RPG Queen's Domain pitches you against an island of gorgeous freaks with naught but a flying sword and infinite throwing daggers

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell8d ago

Fantasy RPG Queen's Domain is frequently likened by certain other websites to From Software's King's Field games and The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, so I'm going to put my nose in the air and...

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"NO GAME NO LIFE": Grasshopper Manufacture have leapt from the jaws of NetEase and gone indie again

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell8d ago

No More Heroes and Killer7 developers Grasshopper Manufacture have split from erstwhile parent company NetEase, founder Goichi "Suda51" Suda has announced.

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The importance of being earnest: How Marvel Tōkon's Deadpool trades ridicule for fighting game reverence

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Ashley Schofield8d ago

Deadpool’s a weird character. Like fellow mutant Wolverine, Wade Wilson is a trained killer whose primary superpower is a healing factor that lets him recover and reform from any wound, even if...

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Crimson Desert's first expansion, Charting the Unknown, delayed so Pearl Abyss get more time to polish and stabilise the red pudding

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren8d ago

A little bit of extra waiting is in order for Crimson Desert's first proper expansion, Charting the Unknown.

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Come play the flute and reshape the very earth in Songs of Glimmerwick, a magic school RPG from the creators of Eastshade

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell8d ago

It has perhaps never been easier to join a witch or wizard school without being a Guy Who Rhymes With Bally Trotter. Academies of the occult abound in videogames.

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Crusader Kings 3's By God Alone expansion offers plenty of holy hijinks, even if your polyamorous Pope doesn't get divorced three times in one day

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren8d ago

My very soul has been cleft into pieces on this day. January 3rd, 902 AD. First, my Christian faith fractured in twain.

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"Ultimately, we asked 'why are we doing this?'": the creators of Arc Raiders wildly underestimated how hard it is to make a live service game

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell8d ago

Arc Raiders developers Embark heavily underestimated the challenges of creating a full-blown live service game, executive producer Aleksander Grøndal has conceded in a new interview.

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All the RPS Supporter rewards for September 2026: Model ships, maze cities, and the tyranny of content

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer8d ago

In case you missed it, September happened. Technically it’s still happening, and we have one more exclusive post for RPS Premium Supporters coming this week, but this time I fancy doing the monthly...

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"I always see it kind of like a triangle": The surprising challenge of making the perfectly-sized cave in Satisfactory expansion Core Values

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson8d ago

When I first learned about Core Values, the upcoming expansion to factory automation game Satisfactory, I didn't grasp the scale of the challenge developer Coffee Stain had set themselves.

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"Getting sidetracked doesn’t feel too unnatural": Baldur's Gate 3 Act Two Expansion modder on how they seamlessly fit a "detour" to fight an army into the RPG's plot

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren8d ago

Midway through September, modder SquallyDaBeanz released a solo-developed custom campaign for Baldur's Gate 3 in beta, adding an extra chapter to the RPG's main story.

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GTA 6 will simulate hurricanes, rainbows and persistent, dynamic clouds, among other efforts to make you stop doing crime and become a weather nerd

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell8d ago

Grand Theft Auto 6 features a re-engineered, "more localized and persistent" weather system that ranges in intensity from physically credible rainbows to full-bore hurricanes, according to Rockstar...

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With Deadlock's latest updating promising six new heroes, over 10,000 new voice lines and too much more to mention, it's clear Valve are still pretty committed to it

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke9d ago

It feels weird that Deadlock is technically a game that isn't out yet, doesn't it? You can't even just play it as someone that's never done so, you have to have someone that's already got access to...

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Sometimes the thing you need is a wonderfully ethereal physics platformer jam game where you are a little round guy with very stretchy arms called Big Stretch

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke9d ago

I have a working theory that above all other aspects, the Vibe (with a capital V) of a game is the most important thing to enrapture a hypothetical audience.

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Valve is changing Steam's homepage discounts and events section to go the way of the algorithm to get you to look at, and buy, obviously, more games

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke9d ago

Go ahead and boot up Steam for me. Underneath the ad banner for whoever paid to be there for that day and the featured and recommended sections, you'll find a section titled discounts and events.

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"You will not be using belts": Satisfactory's first expansion isn't the same game set underground - there's a whole new set of resource-moving toys to master

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson9d ago

When you start factory automation game Satisfactory you awake in a drop pod plunging towards the surface of an alien world. In its first expansion you'll be heading a little deeper.

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After trading space babies and running people over with a truck, Strange Scaffold want you to organise a haunted library in Something is Wrong with the Library

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke9d ago

"At the time, I didn't immediately think my boss was filling the walls of our place of business with corpses," so opens the reveal trailer for Something is Wrong with the Library, the latest game...

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Set up your own ramen bar and explore a voxel cyberpunk city in the slice-of-lifey Nivalis Nights, out now

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke9d ago

Has the pre-GTA 6 autumn exhaustion hit you yet? There's already been a lot of games this month, but this train stops for no one, especially with Rockstar's behemoth looming over it all.

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The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past sounds like it's mirroring Blood and Wine in being "a lot dreamier" than a "bread-and-butter Witcher story"

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren9d ago

While the cover's flown off The Witcher 3 Remastered today, September 29th, the wait for the RPGs elusive extra expansion goes on until next year.

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I perished in the flesh pipes of Darktide's Depths of the Damned update, and you will too

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer9d ago

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide continues to cling tightly, perhaps even aggressively, to my Steam installations, my occasionally waning interest repeatedly re-sparked by the addition of...

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