A StarCraft open-world shooter that's "Deadwood in space", Diablo 5, and a new classic-ish World of Warcraft branch out this year make up Blizzard of reveals
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·28d ago
Well, that report earlier this year was bang on the banana. A new StarCraft shooter, creatively dubbed StarCraft, has been announced for a 2030 release at this year's BlizzCon.
Moss developer Polyarc share that they're shutting down just two months after releasing a VR-less port of the beloved mousey adventure games
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·29d ago
Another sad one today, unfortunately. Back in July, Polyarc released Moss: The Forgotten Relic, a new version of the original two games combined together that ditched its VR headset origins.
The Sunday Papers
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·29d ago
Sundays are for realising that after playing The Blood of Dawnwalker, you've developed a craving for blackcurrant juice.
What are we all playing this weekend?
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·12 Sept 2026
I’m a big fan of these September weekends where I wake up and my bedroom has neither the humidity nor the ambient temperature of an Eden Project rainforest-o-dome.
"Why do we need more graphics?": 2010's Alan Wake was as photoreal as videogames ever needed to be, reckons original Thief designer
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·11 Sept 2026
Former Thief: The Dark Project designer, Ion Storm game director, and sometime Spielberg collaborator Randy Smith Evergreen has shared his probably-incendiary view that photorealistic videogame...
Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·11 Sept 2026
Back in October 2025, GTA 6 developers Rockstar fired a group of 34, mostly UK-based employees on a charge of "gross misconduct", alleging that they had risked the leaking of confidential...
PlayStation reportedly dumped Hideo Kojima spy action game Physint over exceeded budgets, missed deadlines, and Death Stranding sales
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·11 Sept 2026
Earlier this week, Hideo Kojima-helmed action espionage game Physint switched publishers from PlayStation to Xbox, a leap across the console divide which might make it more likely to get a PC port.
Wardogs presents a different kind of FPS power fantasy: making fat stacks as a pacifist rideshare driver
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·11 Sept 2026
Because no-one entirely likes their job, I should be upfront about my issues with newly launched Early Access darling Wardogs, the mass-scale multiplayer shooter in which I’ve just found...
GTA 6 online mode appears to receive Rockstar's first public acknowledgment, via mention of in-development "32 player format" in legal docs
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·11 Sept 2026
Up until now, Rockstar Games have kept mum about what plans they have for the future of Grand Theft Auto multiplayer once GTA 6 releases on consoles in November.
EA's Saudi Arabian owners are reportedly considering forming an ubermegacorp by merging them with Savvy Games
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·11 Sept 2026
Just over a month on from a consortium led by the Saudi Arabian government's Public Investment Fund taking over EA, in a buyout worth $55 billion, said new owners are reportedly considering merging...
Do a bit of visual programming and watch your party of heroes conquer an evil tower in Dungeon Automata
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·10 Sept 2026
The beautiful thing about people that like dungeon crawlers is that they're all sickos. Every single one of them! This is not a genre that's for the faint of heart.
Shroom and Gloom is a positively mycelial roguelike double deckbuilder that's now out in early access
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·10 Sept 2026
There are probably many jokes one could make about mushrooms being edible, and mushrooms being like, edible, man in relation to Shroom and Gloom, a positively mycelial roguelike deckbuilder where...
GNOG and Goodbye Volcano High dev KO_OP share that they are laying off staff in the only, remotely good statement I've seen in a while
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·10 Sept 2026
Today marks yet another day in reporting on layoffs that have occurred in the games industry over the past several years, with this occasion unfortunately being GNOG and Goodbye Volcano High...
Stylised XCOM-like tactics game Ex Sanguis retains Othercide's obsession with initiative bars, but straps it to a leaner roguelike campaign
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·10 Sept 2026
The nasal greenhorn strategy gamer understands "strategy" to be about mastery of space by means of clanging offensives, shining shieldwalls, and brute attrition, but the true Napoleon of...
"We’re going to become the new legend": Naoki Hamaguchi on making Final Fantasy 7 Revelation as if it's the last ever Final Fantasy 7 game
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·10 Sept 2026
In this IP-obsessed world, it is quite easy to wonder if anything will ever actually come to an end.
Skyrim’s official IKEA crossover mod might be the most deftly-assembled Elder Scrolls gag ever, if not an ad blueprint other corps should follow
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·10 Sept 2026
I didn’t think, when I saw the other day that Swedish furniture sellers IKEA had commissioned a group of modders to stick an advert for their wares in Skyrim as an official Bethesda-approved...
Ubisoft games on Steam may soon no longer require the pesky Connect launcher, according to an announcement post that's weirdly tough to pin down
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·10 Sept 2026
Ubisoft are planning to start testing a new tool that'll allow Prince of Persia The Lost Crown Steam players to access features only usually available via the publishers' Connect launcher without...
"We want to invite people into this big tent with this grimdark setting": Creative Assembly on how they plan to ease strategy newbies into Total War: Warhammer 40,000
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke·10 Sept 2026
I remember once when I was a child, my uncle was visiting and completely unprompted (and kindly) he gave me a copy of one of the Total War games, I think the Rome one, you'll have to forgive my...
Thousand Hells is a joyful anthology of RPG heist quests in which you'll bargain with demons and go boating with the dead
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·10 Sept 2026
You'd expect a game called Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists to be on the depressing side, but this choose-your-own-adventure RPG anthology from the designers of King of Dragon Pass is an...
Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse proves Dead Cells' developers were the right fit for a revival in this blessing for the Belmonts
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Ashley Schofield·10 Sept 2026
"You're not the last Belmont anymore", Trevor reminds his daughter Rose, as they gently sail into a Paris ablaze and ripped apart by monsters.
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