Rock, Paper, Shotgun

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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 Kuhnke8h ago

Heavy is the burden of being a game developer, as even as a game launches, there is always still work to be done.

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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 Kuhnke9h ago

Riot Games' fighting game take on the world of League of Legends, 2XKO, is winding down development.

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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 Kuhnke10h ago

"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...

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"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 Kuhnke12h ago

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...

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Hold the throne, NBA 2K27's new MyNBA Legacy mode sounds a lot like basketball Crusader Kings 3

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren14h ago

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...

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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 Warren17h ago

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.

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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-Thirlwell18h ago

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...

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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 Benson18h ago

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.

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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 Warren20h ago

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...

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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-Thirlwell1d ago

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...

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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-Thirlwell1d ago

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.

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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 Archer1d ago

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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STALKER 2: Cost of Hope review: An expanded Zone that begs to be explored, even as its faction war fizzles

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer1d ago

Like the technical fix-uppery of the 2.0 update it’s launching alongside, STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl’s Cost of Hope expansion arrives with a determinedly furrowed brow; that kind of...

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"Through the looking glass": as Arkane fight for their future, Dishonored veteran Harvey Smith reveals new studio dedicated to immersive sims

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell1d ago

Days after Deus Ex director Warren Spector announced that he was quitting the business, another former Ion Storm developer, Harvey Smith, has revealed Black Pony Immersive - a new studio dedicated...

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"Without us, Bethesda games aren’t Bethesda games": Rallies against Microsoft layoffs at Elder Scrolls studio continue, with unionised devs' morale "on the upswing"

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren1d ago

Yesterday, August 18th, further union rallies against Microsoft's mass layoffs across Xbox studios were held across North America.

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Immersive sim Retrospace, aka '70s System Shock, gets an October release date plus a trailer full of funky guns and sentient black holes

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell1d ago

Space horror immersive sim RetroSpace will launch on 1st October 2026, developers The Wild Gentlemen and publishers Kwalee have announced. New to RetroSpace?

Latest alleged GTA 6 leak "risks tarnishing the reputation of our communities", say Stop Killing Games after hackers claim pro-consumer motivations

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren1d ago

As you might have seen, there was another alleged GTA 6 leak yesterday, with apparent footage of Rockstar's crime sandbox in action spread across the net and in many cases swiftly hit with DMCA...

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Clipmatrix is a Counter-Strike-like, bunny hopping, platforming romp through surreal and industrial locales

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke2d ago

A thing that always tickles me in a particular way is when a game takes a beloved mechanic from an iconic game that doesn't technically exist.

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GTA 6 footage once again appears to leak online, this time because of a group that wants games like The Crew to have offline modes and the end of digital preorders

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke2d ago

Yeah, it's happened again: some GTA 6 bits appear to have leaked. I'm not going to link to any of them for I hope obvious reasons, as well as the fact I don't want John Rockstar to send me an email...

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Entropy, a deliciously miserable Final Fantasy-esque RPG where your party members can permanently die, is now out in early access

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke2d ago

I was already aware of Entropy before Edwin called it a game that looked like a PS1 game fished from a toilet, primarily thanks to the stellar work developer Lovely Hellplace carried out in their...

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