The Sunday Papers
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer30 Aug 2026
Sundays are for resting, so I hear, though by the time you read this I’ll have got up at 5:30am to drive my parents-in-law to Gatwick Airport.
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top 46%Usual June mixes Hades-esque action, crystal crabs and ghosts to make for a game that'll do well in your Halloween rotation
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke29 Aug 2026
I've been hungry for an action adventure game recently. In this modern era of live service and infinite roguelikes and deckbuilders (seriously, I know they're popular genres, maybe try a different...
The Long Dark sequel Blackfrost hasn't been cancelled, but developer Hinterland are shifting a bit more focus onto the original's survival mode
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke29 Aug 2026
Things are shifting around a bit over at The Long Dark developer Hinterland Studio. Earlier this year, The Long Dark's story mode wrapped up with the release of Wintermute's fifth and final...
Mortal Shell 2 gets its first major update, adding in extra beacons, useful new items, and making riposte damage scaling actually work
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke29 Aug 2026
We're a little over one week on from the launch of Mortal Shell 2, a game that Jeremy liked quite a lot.
Star Citizen spinoff Squadron 42 has been delayed yet again, citing everyone going gaga for GTA 6, even if it isn't coming to PC yet
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke29 Aug 2026
There is a big part of me that doesn't really believe any aspect of Star Citizen is real. It's never really a game I've given all that much of my attention to, the thing gives off pyramid scheme...
"That is a lot of work": Persona 4 Revival producer says there's no plans for a Yosuke romance option, even if the team did think about it
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke29 Aug 2026
While it's never been confirmed, some cut voice lines from the original release of Persona 4 indicated that once upon a time, the protagonist's right-hand party member Yosuke was romanceable.
What are we all playing this weekend?
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell29 Aug 2026
Saturdays are for actually remembering that it's a Bank Holiday weekend, rather than forgetting and coming in on Monday and getting viciously annoyed with Julian and Mark for seeming to ignore your...
Leaked footage of EA's long-silent Iron Man game comes blasting onto the helicarrier, showing off WIP combat, characters and customisation
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell28 Aug 2026
I am TONY STARK... and my brassy crimson pantaloons may have sprung a few leaks. A work-in-progress trailer for Marvel's Iron Man, an air-capable action game in development at EA Motive, has...
"Hopefully a meteor will strike the earth soon": Game devs talk genAI witchhunts and the importance of honing your visual literacy
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell28 Aug 2026
The era of generative AI has kindled an era of generative AI witchhunts. It's routine right now for videogame developers to fend off accusations of using the technology, even when they are...
I found solace from Silent Hill: Townfall's stealthy horror in the soothing Britishness of its abandoned homes
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer28 Aug 2026
I suppose, in a way, I asked for this. Crouched and cowering behind a garden fence, inches away from the thrashing, cleaver-faced miscreation who’d quite comfortably win in a fight against my...
Solve a mountain mystery via the medium of creepy cards in Hillthorn, which has an excellent demo
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell28 Aug 2026
Attention, dusty creeps who want to play poker with the Wickerman! I found one, a videogame you might enjoy.
"I'm desperately looking for anybody who knows anybody at Valve": open world satire Future? No Thanks! is still locked in Steam horny jail
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell28 Aug 2026
Even as GTA 6 breaks the internet with its vistas of full frontal nudity, poledancers and endless, lustful twerking, another promising open world satire with "mild nudity" and some racey encounters...
Nvidia DLSS 5's AI yassification filter reportedly escapes containment ahead of release, thanks to modders digging files out of NBA 2K27
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren28 Aug 2026
Nvidia's DLSS 5 neural rendering tech, AKA the AI filter which was widely criticised upon reveal earlier this year for creepily yassifying a bunch of game characters' faces, is reportedly up and...
When Crusader Kings 3: By God Alone comes out, I'm going to turn the Roman Catholic Church into a polyamorous love nest
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson28 Aug 2026
Being a pope is a stressful job. That's true today, but imagine heading up the Roman Catholic Church in the 11th century.
Say goodbye to stealing any car you like with a single button in GTA 6, and hello to whatever the hell the WAINK scanner is
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke27 Aug 2026
It's finally here! The preview for that extended look at a crime sim currently without a PC release date! GTA 6, or in the immortal words of Jack Nance, "Grand Theft Auto" [6].
Your biggest choice in GTA 6 is whether Lucia and Jason stay a couple, but half-arsing it won't stop them doing crimes together
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke27 Aug 2026
Well, would you look at that, GTA 6 is a real video game! I'm sure by the time you're reading this you've either watched the Netflix preview, watched someone else watch the Netflix preview, or it's...
Well, that extended look at a crime sim currently without a PC release date was heavier on gabagool than I expected
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren27 Aug 2026
I've watched it. The extended look at the game humanity's breath is currently held for. The one that doesn't have a PC release date right now, making it hard to know how to feel about covering it...
Take to the skies in a Porco Rosso-esque seaplane and search for your missing uncle while you help rebuild an archipelago in Lou's Lagoon, out today
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke27 Aug 2026
The issue I have is, if you put a charming and slightly rotund biplane (or similar such vehicle) in a game, I'm just simply going to have to take a look at it at minimum. At minimum!
GTA 6? No thanks, I'll be playing Volvy's Adventure: Reslimed, an action platformer from Devolver that's releasing day and date with Rockstar's behemoth
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke27 Aug 2026
We all know when GTA 6 is releasing because there are zero games releasing in November apart from it. Or, that would be true, if Devolver Digital weren't the miscreants they love to be.
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates, extending to "the fundamental cosmological makeup of the universe"
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell27 Aug 2026
Infamously simulation-heavy colony builder Dwarf Fortress is getting a Myth and Magic update that, at the possible risk of being maybe a touch hyperbolic, threatens to make all other fantasy game...