The Sunday Papers
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·8d ago
Sundays are for having the first lie-in in a month. No trips to visit family, no waking in unfamiliar beds, and, best of all, no having to wait until the hosts are up before you can get started on...
The Other One: Jordan Magnuson's Game Poem jam is a fascinating collection of chimeras
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·9d ago
Sometimes I Wonder About The Other Me is a 2D platformer created by "small game" developer Luis "Ludipe" Díaz Peralta, whose other works include A Place For The Unwilling.
What are we all playing this weekend?
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·9d ago
October, we meet again. You slip through my bedroom window as a cold draft on a crisp morning, both making my covers more welcome and the long walk to the kitchen for coffee that much harder.
Desktop and handheld prices going out of control means PC bargain hunts lead to my old enemy: gaming laptops
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·9d ago
I don’t know if memory shortages have permanently killed off the concept of 'cheap' gaming PCs, but they have at least beat it into a coma.
"Support modders, not AI": Total War: Warhammer 3 mod "deliberately corrupted" by its own creator in protest of AI-infused unauthorised reuploads
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·9d ago
Cheesed off with unauthorised reuploads of their Total War: Warhammer 3 overhaul which make use of AI, the main modder behind SFO: Grimhammer 3 has opted to purposefully corrupt the mod.
RAM shortages are only getting worse and will last until at least 2028, Micron boss declares from atop a mountain of money
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·9d ago
Another day, another company declaring that the current memory crisis driving RAM prices through the roof is far from over.
AI-generated Fallout: New York browser game full of utterly cursed faces slapped with Bethesda cease and desist, its slop prompter claims
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·9d ago
In perhaps the least surprising Fallout news since Raul from New Vegas confirmed that ghouls with dodgy knees don't enjoy sneaking, the person behind an AI-generated browser game dubbed Fallout...
PUBG extraction shooter Black Budget canned less than a year from reveal, after Krafton decide it won't "deliver an experience players could enjoy over the long term"
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·10d ago
PUBG: Black Budget, an extraction shooter spin-off of Krafton's battle royale, has been cancelled after just under a year of closed alpha testing.
If game developers steal one thing from No Law, I hope it's the open-world game's ridiculously detailed and realistic corner shops
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·10d ago
After seeing open-world imm-sim No Law last month, I'm sure the developers would hope I was gripped by memories of missions you can approach stealthily or in all-out action, the sci-fi combat where...
Reigns and Card Shark developers Nerial are closing down, laying staff off while the founders go "back to our roots"
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·10d ago
Reigns and Card Shark developers Nerial have announced that they're shutting down or at least, "entering hibernation mode", following discussion with their parent company Devolver Digital.
RetroSpace offers a huge sci-fi playground for inquisitive space janitors, but I'm not that System Shocked by the tools at your disposal
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·10d ago
In my time as a videogame partaker, I have crawled through approximately three billion airvents. I may well have crawled through more vents than you've had hot dinners.
Control Resonant's New Game++ update also squashes some of my least favourite bugs, including the one where magic doors change my trousers
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby James Archer·10d ago
Trippy hack 'n' slash sequel (and, for the benefit of anyone planning for this year’s Advent Calendar guessing game in the RPS Discord, my current second-favouritest game of 2026) Control Resonant...
I'm not sure the "AI" in my chair's lumbar support actually counts as AI, but it has been smart enough to fix up my spine
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Jon Martindale·10d ago
AI is everywhere, exhausting to keep up with, and increasingly perceived as harmful to games. But that’s mostly generative AI; the more limited, less media-scraping and energy-hungry breeds of...
Capcom aren't just running out of Resident Evil games to remake - they're banking on it, with a mysterious "crossover" planned when the timelines collide
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·10d ago
Capcom have done a brisk trade in Resident Evil remakes this past decade. They've gone back to formula with Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, and Resident Evil 4, not just bumping up the resolution...
The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past's setting "felt like a really natural way to go", CD Projekt Red story director says, while parrying my attempts to breach the DLC's guard
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·10d ago
Ever since The Witcher 3's decade-on expansion Songs of the Past was revealed not to be a windup nor a case of empthy rumourmongering, I've been eating up as many details about its story as CD...
"We want people to try and outsmart the game": No Law aims for Arkane-style reactivity within a dangerous walled city
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson·11d ago
Port Desire, the hemmed-in city setting of immersive sim No Law, is hard to place. At points, it reminds me of walking around Lisbon.
"Xbox is not for sale" despite all of the layoffs and neat repackaging of studios within Microsoft's corporate structure, CEO Asha Sharma says
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren·11d ago
Despite recently having overseen the laying off of 268 staff in the second of multiple rounds of cuts planned for this financial year, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has denied that their are plans to sell...
The Division developers Massive are now "the global brand" in charge of Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon, alongside a new Ubisoft dieselpunk MOBA
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·11d ago
Tom Clancy's The Division and Star Wars Outlaws studio Massive Entertainment just got, er, massiver.
First-person RPG Queen's Domain pitches you against an island of gorgeous freaks with naught but a flying sword and infinite throwing daggers
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·11d ago
Fantasy RPG Queen's Domain is frequently likened by certain other websites to From Software's King's Field games and The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, so I'm going to put my nose in the air and...
"NO GAME NO LIFE": Grasshopper Manufacture have leapt from the jaws of NetEase and gone indie again
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·11d ago
No More Heroes and Killer7 developers Grasshopper Manufacture have split from erstwhile parent company NetEase, founder Goichi "Suda51" Suda has announced.
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