Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

I don’t particularly like trends in genres all that much. They’re much too relied upon, and don’t really tell me much about a game outright. Even still, I do like to think about why a particular genre might be trending. More than that, I love a twist on a trending genre that actually seeks to reckon with said genre. Like, say, Ambrosia Sky, one of those cleaning sorts of games except instead of muck or leaves, you’re cleaning up a cosmic contamination on a dead asteroid colony. And its first act is out today!

Read more

Sit down. “I’m preaching patience.” Stay calm. “I don’t want fans to feel anxious.” There’s no need to hide underneath a chest of drawers. Some of those are things I’ve had to tell my firework-averse cat around Bonfire Night time here in the UK. Some of them are things Todd Howard has said about The Elder Scrolls 6 in a fresh interview that’s also about Bethesda’s imminently to be released again radioactive golden goose, Fallout 4.

Read more

The Steam page of recently released post-apocalyptic survival shooter Misery – seemingly unaffiliated with the Stalker mod called Misery – has been pulled offline, with developers Platypus Entertainment alleging it’s the result of a DMCA takedown filed by Stalker creators GSC Game World. Platypus say they’re in the process of fighting this claim, which an email shared by Platypus themselves suggests is all about copyright and purported use of GSC’s “game content” without permission.

Read more

Ask me what I’m thinking about, at a random moment any hour of the day. There’s a good chance that however you time it, the answer will be either Roma youth academy players, Goncalo Ramos’ egregious salary demands, or that time Maurizio Sarri bodied me in a press conference following our Derby della Capitale. By rights this should not be the case.

Read more

Elden Ring Nightreign developers FromSoftware are planning to release some DLC for the action RPG by March 2026. That’s according the latest financial report of FromSoft parent company Kadokawa, which has attached a window to the add-on Nightreign‘s promo material had already hinted would be in the pipeline.

Call out to the people who’re deep in the night of Nightreign’s last addition so they hear. Tell them to scrabble around for a light switch so they can read the info. Remind them not to accidentally fondle a big boss as they paw along the walls. Actually, I’m sure they’ll remember that anyway, since it’s s-oh no.

Read more

November goes on. The cavalcade of belles, brutes and barons that is Videogaming continues its push through the midnight forest. Spiderwebs wrap the axles of the gala coaches in which the optimates of Ubisoft, Microsoft and EA drink from lavender flutes, turning their bloodshot eyes from the QA staff powering their barrows through the ruck. The faces of the common developers are a moth-eaten ribbon of quiet striving and terrible hope. The guards form a torchlit embroidery. Every so often, a torch goes out, and the wych elms generate new fruits. The stones in the road cant against our strides. The skulls of live service games burst beneath our wheels, and the analysts in the pageant wagons moan that the future lies behind us now.

Read more

MiHoYo appear to be eternally busy. After printing copious amounts of money with games like Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail, they are continuing to do so with future releases like Petit Planet (or Not Animal Crossing) and Honkai: Nexus Anima (Not Pokemon). Now, it turns out, they’re also working on an MMO, seemingly codenamed Genesis, that seemingly in some capacity incorporates AI, it’s just unclear what kind.

Read more

The Falconeer turns five years old next week, and ahead of that its developer Tom Sala has put in the work for a pretty big update. Update undersells it a touch I think, because it’s being billed as a full-on remaster, complete with a touched up look, and plenty of mechanical changes. So, let’s detail those details!

Read more

Slightly serious one here folks! The studio behind Blue Prince, one of this year’s best received games, is asking for some help for one of their lead playtesters, Matthew “Iggy” Kowalski. As shared on Bluesky, Iggy has polycystic kidney disease, leaving him with only a few months to find a living kidney donor.

Read more

I know, I know, change is difficult isn’t it? It upset me just the other day that YouTube has changed videos so that they have rounded corners instead of being perfectly rectangular. It’s sacrilegious! A feeling I will continue to have until I ultimately forget about it because life moves on to the next grievance. Still, subtle changes like that can often set some kind of internal alarm bells off, something you might have been experiencing with store pages on Steam looking a bit… wider.

Read more