Rock, Paper, Shotgun

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Subnautica 2's Buddy System update brings in the promised proximity chat, easier trading, and emotes so you can sarcastically applaud your friends

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke2d ago

Another month, another Subnautica 2 update! Last month's focus was on changing creature behaviours to make it a bit less frustrating for those of you that just wanted to go on a killing spree.

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The Lantern of the Laughless Saint, a Morrowind-inspired RPG weirdfest out this week in early access, has immediately seduced me with dialogue camera hijinks

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren2d ago

I've woken up on a beach. I'm staring up into the nostrils of a bald man whose face looks to be made of wet clay.

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Marathon's limited time Ordnance Heist is a multi-run and map event that nets you a cool gun you can't keep

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke2d ago

Marathon's Vault Breaker, an experimental PvE mode that allowed even solo folks to take on the endgame map Cryo Archive, is wrapping up today, but Bungie does at least have a new event for you to...

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Trainwatch is a life sim, a horror game, and a time management experience rolled up into a haunting story about the eerie places you see from a speeding carriage

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell2d ago

Recently, RPS has seen a mighty renaissance of train game reporting. Look to east, and you will find James doing locomotive kickflips in Denshattack, a J-pop stunt racer turbocharged by the hope of...

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Rather than calling for GTA 6 boycott, fired Rockstar workers urge players to support them in their legal battle against the studio by buying union merch

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren2d ago

Former Rockstar staff currently embroiled in a legal battle with the company over their firings last year have asked supporters not to boycott GTA 6, but instead to consider helping cover the costs...

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Stare at an imprisoned god to stop the apocalypse in Sarco, a no-saves horror game in which you'll also, somehow, have to explore a gutted scientific base

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell2d ago

In Hello Andromeda's Sarco, you're trapped in a scientific research base with a sarcophagus housing a cosmic being that starts to open when you aren't looking at it.

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Talking trees, flying witch heads and an unsettling rabbit man await in the shrubbery of cursed woodland ranger sim I Hear the Forest

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren2d ago

Nature's relaxing, yeah? Life as a forest ranger, wandering around amid the trees and making sure none of the animals are getting up to mischief sounds a bit like bliss.

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Death Stranding meets party-based tactical combat in open world RPG Fog'n'Silence, in which you lead twisted humans through the Afterlife

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell2d ago

On viewing the trailer for Fog'n'Silence, I transformed instantly into a caricature of a Texan oilman. "Hoowee!!"

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Deus Ex director and immersive sim legend Warren Spector is retiring, despite having "three games in particular" he'd still like to make

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren2d ago

Warren Spector, Deus Ex director and general household name of the PC gamingverse, has announced his retirement from game development.

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The US Senate are investigating Roblox for prioritising "revenue and engagement metrics over the safety and well-being of our children"

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell3d ago

US senators have launched an investigation of game creation platform Roblox on a broad charge of putting money before child safety.

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I'm not saying Bethesda are trolling me specifically, but Fallout 4 and Skyrim updates are imminent just as I've modded up the latter for the first time in ages

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren3d ago

Right, just a couple more location overhauls and there we go. A fresh Skyrim load order created for my first modded toe-dip into Tamriel for quite a while, outside of grabbing the odd article...

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Mortal Shell 2 review: A monumental heavy metal sequel with the spirit of a '90s PC game

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Jeremy Blum3d ago

A few hours into your sojourn across Mortal Shell 2's harsh realm of Fainweald, you might stumble upon a tavern called The One Legged Wolf.

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Boardroom beat-em-up Stick It to the Stickman punches its way out of early access next month, complete with neurolinkage and an "absolutely absurd finale"

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren3d ago

Fetch your finest presentation materials about lines on graphs going upwards and proceed to try and beat your colleagues to death with them.

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Sraëka Lillian's one-a-week RPG "sketches" are a lovely series of experiments with hoary old conventions from Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell3d ago

There's a running joke in the world of THEA-TAH that Shakespeare's Hamlet is a play made up entirely of quotations.

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Witcher 3 cut quest restoration mod The WAR Project is finding a new voice for its fresh Vernon Roche lines, following alleged "severe incident of gross misconduct"

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren3d ago

The creators of massive in-development The Witcher 3 mod The WAR Project are recasting their version of Temerian commander Vernon Roche, citing "a severe incident of gross misconduct" allegedly...

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This week in PC games: survival horror in a waterlogged city, kaiju chaos in a destructible city, and old school GTA vibes in an isometric insurgency simulator

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson3d ago

Videogames. Gosh there are a lot of them. We're not even into the hell month of September – where every major developer besides Rockstar seems to be releasing their big games of the year – and...

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Kingdom Hearts 4 releasing in late 2027, according to a trailer in which Donald Duck and Goofy go to hell, miss a skeletal fiesta and rock up as creepy force ghosts

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren3d ago

I'll be honest, having just watched the latest trailer for Kingdom Hearts 4, I'm less confident I know what's going on in the game.

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The Sunday Papers

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson4d ago

Sundays are for getting up early and testing the legs are still in working order after potentially overdoing it with a crosscountry ride.

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Ron Gilbert talks the untraditional way he got Thimbleweed Park 2 funded, and his frustrations with modern publishing deals

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke5d ago

I think it would be a tad fair if you heard that Thimbleweed Park 2 is in the works and thought, "who funded that?"

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O EMPIRE! WARD OFF THY ROT puts you in an abandoned, dithered world with a cursed object and asks you to do one thing: survive the journey

Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke5d ago

Do you remember, or do you even know, about the Game Boy Camera? It's exactly as it sounds, a little camera attached to an original Game Boy cartridge that you could plug in and take photos with.

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