The future of the Far Cry series will see multiplayer bits pushed "more predominantly", according to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. The exec said this thing on stage at a conference in Saudi Arabia last month (thanks, Game File), around the same time he announced the Assassin's Creed Mirage DLC the company have partnered with the Saudi government on. Read more| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Where do you go after making Dorfromantik, the 14th best puzzle game on PC? Unto infinity, chick. Unto infinity, and all the uranium-packed celestial masses it contains. Berlin-based Toukana Interactive are back with Star Birds - another “soft strategy” sim and laidback resource management game, in which you take charge of an avian asteroid-mining operation. Read more| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Ubisoft workers have raised concerns with company management about a deal with Saudi Arabia to create a free DLC for Assassin's Creed Mirage set in the country, according to a new report. Announced with little fanfare - at least, as far as add-ons for pretty prominent games are concerned - on a Saturday morning last month, the free DLC is set to add a new story chapter set in 9th century AlUla later this year. AlUla is an ancient oasis city and governorate in Saudi Arabia, though Ubisoft's an...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Borderlands 4 is out now. Our Borderlands 4 review is not, because we have only just been sent a review code. I fear I was unduly forgiving of Team Cherry last week for not supplying Silksong code before release - they're a cute, tiny indie, after all, albeit a cute, tiny indie with the power to break Steam - so let's take a firmer stance this time: bad! Wrong! Don't you know you're suffocating games journalism, Gearbox and 2K Games, you swaggering chancers? Whither accountability and transpa...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
CD Projekt have rolled out a fresh Cyberpunk 2077 patch with fixes and tweaks for some of update 2.3's additions. The most noteworthy is what sounds like a pretty hefty revamp of how the autodrive function goes about conveying your ride from A to B. If you missed it arriving back in July, update 2.3 was the final set of new stuff CD Projekt plan to add to the first Cyberpunk, a game they've been physically unable to stop themselves from delving back into over the past couple of years, despite...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
One of my favourite pieces of internet television last year was Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, a Netflix anime series that pretends to be just another adaption of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novels before, rather brilliantly, pirouetting into a warm and sincere (but not overly self-flagellating) study of the original story’s tropeyness. One of the beneficiaries is Pilgrim himself, who’s forced to confront his own immaturity and entitlement: a reckoning that, one suspects, mirrors that of O...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Watch out! EA claim to have created "the most dangerous ring in gaming" for Battlefield 6's battle royale, and they won't stop waving their lethal hoop around in a post that runs down the mode's features ahead of its first Labs playtest. Prior to now, all we've gotten battle royale-wise have been teases, with the devs busy seeking feedback on the shooter's more standard multiplayer bits during the recent open beta. Oh, and showing off their campaign's rampant helicopter destruction, lest we f...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Hollow Knight: Silksong contains what could be a cheeky reference to this year's prior headline success story from a smaller developer, Sandfall Interactive's Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Are you playing Team Cherry's new metroidvania? Here's how to find that Easter egg. Beware mild area and equipment spoilers from this point on. Read more| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
I regularly go against my best consumer instincts and check out the yearly iterations of sports games. It’s not something I’d likely be doing without some Steam press account magic letting me dodge the yearly cash sacrifice for a game that usually shares a huge chunk of DNA with its direct predecessor; a sense of deja vu is inevitable, unless you’ve been sensible enough to either let a few years pass or wait until you’ve spotted a new feature that piques your interest. With NBA 2K26, ...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Two days before launch, Borderlands 4 has its PC system requirements. They’re generally on the higher side without teetering over into full-on tech demo lunacy – the RTX 2070 is a minimum-spec graphics card, for instance – though anyone with a smaller SSD will need to make room for the looty FPS sequel’s bumper-size 100GB storage requirement. Read more| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
We’re always on the lookout for bargains, and having spotted some great starter rigs in recent weeks, we’ve found a doozy of a PC packing the RTX 5080. Read more| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
I want to give Hollow Knight: Silksong a thrashing. A fully suited C-suite bollocking. I want to verbally repay unto it every cruel death, every pernickety jumping puzzle, every time-thieving runback it’s inflicted on me across the past five days. But I can’t. For every moment of frustration, there are five of relief, of joy, of beauty even. As in Hollow Knight, Silksong stretches itself over a vast Metroidvania map, and yet its intricacies – its narrowest tunnels leading to grand new r...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
I fear and covet no videogame genre on this Earth like the bullet hell shoot 'em up. I find these scions of the arcades irresistibly beautiful. They look like how I imagine human nervous systems appear to thunder spirits. By the same token, I’m not sure they're actually designed to be processed by the human nervous system. They're the sort of game the androids will play, once they’ve hunted down and incinerated the last of our kind. Read more| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Not gonna lie, readers, Hollow Knight: Silksong is kicking my teeth in, with gracious yet far more powerful legswings than Hollow Knight’s early stages ever managed. There’s a jumping-puzzly bit two hours in that took me about the same amount of time to clear, and the bosses seem generally sweatier too. I’m fairly sure one of them used an impossibly rapid flurry of sword slashes to spell out "Do one, James Archer of Rock Paper Shotgun dot com" in my flesh. In other words, the review’s...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
"Horror" and "automation" are concepts I'm used to seeing together in fiery/weepy essays about late capitalism. I'm less used to seeing them together in videogame marketing blurbs. Horror, in an automation-based game? Why, games with automation are supposed to deliver the finest and most methodical of chemical highs. They are supposed to feel like building yourself a better brain out of candy-coloured conveyor belts and smelters. They are not supposed to make you afraid. Read more| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Good news for the ultrawide monitor-owning Nic Reubens of the world: Hollow Knight: Silksong will, unlike its narrow-eyed predecessor, natively support stretchy displays up to the 21:9 format when it finally releases tomorrow. Silksong marketing-man-at-large Matthew Griffin shared some demonstrative screenshots on Xitter, confirming that it won’t require any of the weird bodging that Hollow Knight did to fill out those bigger screens. Read more| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
We’re always on the lookout for great microSD cards for Steam Deck, and now James’ pick of the bunch has seen another discount worth mentioning. Read more| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Update: Developer Dee Keyes has confirmed to RPS that they're no longer part of the Skyblivion team. "My departure and choice to write my statement came when I'd discovered that another one of our longtime volunteers, KettleWitch, had left over the same issues," they continued. They claim KettleWitch's effort to voice concerns about the communication on the project and the team's ability to hit the announced release date goal was met with "no real concern" and that when the modder subsequentl...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
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