The Sunday Papers
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren22h ago
Sundays are for realising that this is speeder racing. No, not podracing. You're not skilled enough for that yet.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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top 46%Gargantuan cop immersive sim Militsioner now has an acrophobia-inducing demo, and yes, I did somehow manage to fail the tutorial
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke1d ago
Excitedly, I boot up the new demo for Militsioner, a game I've had a watchful eye on since its announcement. A phone rings, it's my lawyer.
Oh lord, now those GTA 6 leakers are saying if enough of you give them money they'll leak a playable build of the game
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke1d ago
You can wait another month and some change to play GTA 6, right? I mean, everyone reading this who has a console, anyway, still no bloomin' sight of a PC release date.
Nivalis Nights might not have any combat, "but that doesn't mean it's a cosy game," so says its lead writer
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke1d ago
Discourse notwithstanding, there is a time and a place for cosiness in games. It's nice to chill out sometimes! I can admit that.
A Crimson Desert exec thinks critic review scores were lower because they didn't have enough time to play it, and boy oh boy I wonder whose fault that is
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke1d ago
Crimson Desert looks like a perfectly fine game. I've not played it, and I don't intend to, so my perspective is based predominantly on trailers and reviews from my industry peers.
Resident Evil inspired, cannibal dungeon crawler Medium Rare has a delightful art style trick up its sleeve: stock photos
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke1d ago
I've spoken here before how the ultimate way to rope me into checking your game out is by having a nebulously designed Strong Vibe, a look that immediately sets it apart before I even know what any...
What are we all playing this weekend?
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson2d ago
The descent into autumn continues: this week I slept with an extra blanket on the bed. I'm not into swapping the duvet out for the winter tog yet, I'll be holding off on that until at least...
"It's not in the top five reference points": Afterworld isn't just a Fallout grand strategy game, say Paradox, it owes a lot more to the Bronze Age
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell2d ago
When Paradox announced their post-apocalyptic North American grand strategy game Afterworld, I made the obvious comparison to Fallout.
Embrace your jobbing musician soul with a new Cyberpunk 2077 quest mod that comes with the option of playing all the wrong chords for Master of Puppets
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren2d ago
Cyberpunk 2077 quest mods are still a relative rarity and the latest's aimed at folks who don't think getting to play that one gig with Samurai during the main story's enough jammin' in front of a...
Wardogs season 2 deepens the sandbox shooter's capitalist hell by letting you bet cash on your own performance
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer2d ago
"The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong," wrote the late author Damon Runyon, "but that's the way to bet."
The Galaxies Showcase returns on October 15, with announcements from ZA/UM, Embark Studios, and Frontier Developments
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson2d ago
I'm sure you already had it marked in your calendars, but it is that time of year again when the Galaxies Showcase takes one more spin around the internet.
“We're not getting any younger, and the world seems to be ending": Amanita reveal Machinarium 2, sequel to 2009's prettiest robot adventure
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell2d ago
The dashing Da Vincis of Amanita Design have announced Machinarium 2, a sequel to the 2009 puzzle adventure young master John Walker called "a sort of beauty that games are almost never graced...
Draw maps of a vampiric lighthouse that defies logic in This Is Not For You, the latest horror game inspired by House of Leaves
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell2d ago
This Is Not For You is, in fact, for some very specific kinds of people. It is for people who love drawing maps, and it is for people who love having their blood sucked by a non-Euclidean...
Forza Horizon 6's first major expansion will pull up in January, now Playground Games just need to offer any kind of hint whatsoever as to what it'll look like
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren2d ago
Forza Horizon 6 has, as is standard for the live-service racing series, settled into a steady rhythm of revolving weekly to-do lists and a gradual drip feed of fresh cars since it came out in May.
Timeloop metroidvania Echo Weaver is the brave game that locks almost nothing off and challenges you to break it
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell2d ago
Writing about new 2D timeloop metroidvania Echo Weaver is tricky because most - possibly all - of what you need to complete it is available to you the very second you first wake up, deep in the...
You can now sign up to playtest the genre-bending Pony Island 2: Panda Circus, and while you're at it the original is free for a few days too
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke3d ago
I love an everything seasoning video game. You know, the kind of game where it's five different genres at once, somehow, all of which builds into one cohesive vision?
All hail brand synergy, Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a live action adaptation from Paramount and the producer behind the horrendous Doom movie
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke3d ago
Welp, Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a live-action adaptation! With the plethora of Hollywood adaptations of video games these days, this is one of those bits of news that has me thinking, "wait, that...
Dave the Diver is wrapping up its DLC plans with an aquatically appropriate Subnautica 2 collab
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke3d ago
I am not a huge fan of collaboration DLCs, mostly because my curmudgeonly self can only see them as attempts at multiple companies trying to profit off of one another's things.
The Witcher 3 Remastered's latest patch brings some bloomin' improvements to the game's bloom problems, amongst other lighting buffs
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke3d ago
A dev's work is never done, and certainly not with a big ole revamp like The Witcher 3 Remastered.
Volatiles takes the piece-by-piece map building of boardgames like Betrayal at House on the Hill and slaps a gory survival shooter on top of them
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson3d ago
I do love a boardgame where you reveal the tiles as you play. Sure, I also enjoy turning over all the pieces at the beginning of a game of Settlers of Catan and taking in all the tiles and trying...