"I'm still blown away by the amount of talent": Hellblade devs Ninja Theory face closure after Microsoft fail to reach a deal with buyers
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·19d ago
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that they were trying to sell UK-based Hellblade creators Ninja Theory as part of their steady efforts to siphon larger, shinier doubloons from the Xbox...
"Good luck today, Halo friends": After years of rivalry, Call of Duty's creators have taken charge of Xbox's defining FPS series amid yet more layoffs
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·19d ago
For decades, Halo developers have resisted the influence of the vastly better-selling Call of Duty shooters. Now, the makers of Call of Duty own Halo.
Today's changes might get Xbox a new Halo sooner, but history shows production line development makes for boring games
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·20d ago
When I was younger, I loved Chewits. Each parcel of chewy sugar threatened to tear out a tooth, but their punch of strawberry, blackcurrent, and orange flavour was hard to resist.
Xbox lay off 268 people as Activision take over Halo and Rare, while Obsidian become part of Bethesda, plus Forza and Fable studios merge
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·20d ago
Well, there you go. Xbox have enacted a second round of layoffs and internal upheaval this year, following July's initial shooting of 1600 staff into the sun and parting ways with multiple studios.
I taught an old man new tunes in rhythm-action shopkeeper sim Mr. Records, and now you can try the demo yourself
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·20d ago
One of the bright spots of a miserably grey Summer Game Fest 2026 was Mr. Records, a mashup of rhythm-action autorunner and casual vinyl shop management by music game specialists Glee-Cheese...
Bungie decide their destiny is to do more Destiny after all, pledging to bring back vaulted Destiny 2 campaigns while declaring that Marathon "needs to evolve"
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·20d ago
Not long after announcing changes to how they'll handle majorly updating Marathon going forwards, Bungie have reversed course on their decision to stop developing Destiny 2 - a move they followed...
Xbox reportedly set to lay off hundreds more staff and "consolidate" several game studios in second round of major cuts this year
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·20d ago
After laying off around 1600 people and parting ways with a number of studios back in July, Microsoft-owned Xbox are reportedly set for another round of job cuts and internal upheaval this week.
Nighthawks review – a series of vignettes that sometimes excel but more often falter
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Jay Castello·20d ago
Nighthawks, the 1942 painting by Edward Hopper, is generally described as portraying loneliness. The four people at the diner counter are dwarfed by the empty, cold openness of the street.
"It wasn't a planned thing": Breaking Benjamin singer on his mid-gig Fallout 4 mod promo being down to a broken drum and his love of VR
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·20d ago
Remember when, a couple of weeks ago, the singer of American band Breaking Benjamin was filmed promoting a Fallout 4 first person he'd made via a mid-gig speech about modding community drama?
Virtue and a Sledgehammer will begin battering down the walls and android ghosts of a hometown filled with emotional memories this October
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·21d ago
I dug The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood. It's a game about a fortune-telling witch on an asteroid who designs tarot cards and eventually gets sucked into politics. It also has its own special dildo.
"I thought people would leave": Hideo Kojima offers his account of Physint's switch from PlayStation to Xbox, as his studio insist they're in a "healthy, profitable state"
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·21d ago
Hideo Koijima and his studio Kojima Productions have offered a more in-depth version of their side of the story after action espionage game Physint switched publishers from PlayStation to Xbox...
The Steam Frame’s first post-launch update speeds up charging and ungarbles a mic bug
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·21d ago
Having launched though the same system of reservations and waitlists as the Steam Machine, the Steam Frame is still navigating that inscrutable void betixt "on sale" and "actually out."
This week in PC games: Control: Resonant, Silent Hill: Townfall, and the history of Western philosophy as a pinball table
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·21d ago
Hello all! Welcome to another week of feeding the Maw, the gluttonous cosmic sinkhole we must keep topped up with videogame news, lest it expand and masticate the entire universe.
Ahead of GTA 6, Rockstar warn modders against against making unofficial main story expansions, unauthorised ports and mods that combine GTA maps
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·21d ago
There still might not yet be a release date for GTA 6's PC port, but Rockstar appear to be preparing for the massive uptick in mods for their games that'll inevitably accompany it.
Silent Hill: Townfall review - an often inspired, if slightly lumbering trek into the fog
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·21d ago
Once a fictional town in Maine, Silent Hill has broken containment and become a transferable oral history mechanism, offered to videogame developers worldwide as a way of investigating, even...
The Sunday Papers
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·22d ago
Sundays - well, very early Sunday mornings - are for watching a whole queue of hungry wild animals pass your kitchen window, because a neighbour has decided to leave a bollard-sized catfood...
What are we all playing this weekend?
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·23d ago
It's well and truly not summer now. I'm writing this with the lights on because the screen's backlight is suddenly too bright for these eyes grown weak and lazy by the abundance of natural...
In the absence of a new Deus Ex, indie imsim Tokyo Walled City may scratch that stealth 'n' stolen passwords itch
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·23d ago
From the buzzing tube lights of TGS 2026 emerges Tokyo Walled City, a (deep breath) "stealth action retro-cyberpunk immersive sim with survival horror and RPG elements" in development at indie...
Tractor-battling teenage road trip RPG Keep Driving is getting official mod support via Steam Workshop later this month
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·23d ago
Brendy (RPS in peace) liked Keep Driving. Nic (RPS in peace) liked Keep Driving. I (RPS still alive) liked Keep Driving. Julian (RPS currently boss) liked Keep Driving.
Single player games might require age verification if they use Steam under EU Kids Act's current draft, according to MEP's senior policy adviser
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·23d ago
The European Commission proposed new rules around how under-15s access the likes of social media, AI chatbots, and online video games earlier this week.
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