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
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
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
Do you not know gun fu? Briefly and baldly, it's the cinematic practice of making a gunfight look like something out of a martial arts film, with participants using firearms in ways that are borderline unbelievable - punting themselves backward along the floor with the recoil from two pistols, like Chow Yun Fat in The Killer, or slide-walking down a bannister while firing, like Chow Yun Fat in Hardboiled. Read more| 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
In my experience, there are two kinds of tank in Battlefield games. There are the ones driven by other people, which are cut from solid granite yet move like ballet dancers. And then there are the ones driven by me, which are made out of candy floss and handle like shopping trolleys. Possibly, this reflects some kind of underlying "skill issue", but come now, that's speculative reporting that flies in the face of logic. Clearly it's a balancing issue. Here's Battlefield 6 lead producer David ...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Earlier this year, Bungie revealed a Destiny 2 expansion that I can still only describe now as a head scratcher. It's called Renegades, a Star Wars inspired expansion (quite literally as it's been made in collaboration with Lucasfilm) that was shown off properly for the first time in a livestream earlier today. Oh, and there's a release date for it too! Read more| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Update: Bah! Jorjani has clarified on Reddit that by "next game" he didn't mean Helldivers 3. On the brighter side, this raises the possibility of a new Magicka game. Thanks Gamesradar for the follow-up. Original story follows: Helldivers 3, or whatever they call the follow-up to Helldivers 2, may have a social hub in the style of Destiny's Tower, Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani has told the Helldiverati in a new Q&A. Read more| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Steam tells me I've spent 171 hours of my life to this point playing Starfield. It's not an insignificant amount of time, but it pales in comparison to how long I've spent with the myriad other works of developers Bethesda. Said devs now look like they might have fired up the tease rocket for the space RPG's second major expansion. If they have, the very little they've shown off so far hasn't gotten me right on board to play more. Read more| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
In good news for those saddened by their inability to stamp on Hitler's head in Indiana Jones And The Great Circle, Machine Games are once again making noises about developing a new Wolfenstein game. Read more| 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 long before joining Rock Paper Shotgun, I wrote a feature for Edge magazine about the origins of the very silly term "AAA game". The overall conclusion I came to is that "AAA game" is possibly a boardroom-level borrowing from the credit rating industry and Hollywood, and that it has little meaning beyond "most expensive/biggest". Read more| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
After rapidly declaring that they were looking into action the other day, Helldivers 2 developers Arrowhead have released a hotfix aiming to rectify some of the crashing that's affected players diving Into the Unjust. Unlike the giant worms I've still seen hide nor mandible of, it didn't take the studio long to address reports of an uptick in technical issues for the shooter following the update's arrival on Tuesday. Here's hoping that these fixes'll help keep thing a bit more stable. Read more| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
It’s never too late to get mad about the untimely fate of Human Head Studios’ Prey 2. It helps that people keep leaking videos of the thing. The latest batch includes an opening sequence, a full mission playthrough from an open world, a flythrough of an undercity area, a prototype chase sequence, and scenes of combat. Watch the bulk of them below, and grieve. Alas for Killian Samuels, the beanie-wearing US marshal turned alien bounty-hunter. He looked so humdrum back in 2012, especially w...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Right, where in the name of disposable infantry were you? Yes, I'm talking to you, Helldivers 2 hive lords, added into the shooter as part of yesterday's Into the Unjust update with what looks like nary a patch note peep from Arrowhead. Why didn't you unleash your big worminess on me when I dropped onto some Terminid hive worlds last night? You missed out. I'm an easy target. Dressed head to toe in bright yellow Helldiver armour, because it's always best to be highly visible on the battlefiel...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Shams Jorjani, boss of Helldivers 2 developers Arrowhead, has taken to Discord to address the rise in reports of performance issues following the arrival of the shooter's Into the Unjust update. In addition to admitting that the new addition has missed the mark from a stability pespective, the exec added that the game's Xbox release now being in the rear view mirror should free up more resources to tackle performance problems. Since the Terminid spelunking expedition-themed update arrived yes...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
The Perfect Dark reboot Microsoft cancelled as part of their mass layoffs in July could reportedly have been "revived" under new publisher Take-Two, had talks over a deal between the two sides and Embracer Group not fallen through. That's according to a report from Bloomberg, who claim that Microsoft and Take-Two's failure to reach an agreement is what preceded the unspecified number of layoffs at Crystal Dynamics last week. It'd be nice if we lived in a world where bigwigs shaking hands wasn...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Fallout 76's latest patch is following up the addition of fishing in the only way that's natural. Bethesda have opted to revamp its base building mechanics in an effort to make thing easier for newbies and offer veterans some extra freedom to stick huge shacks full of stuff together in different ways. For Patch 62, dubbed 'C.A.M.P revamp', menus have been rejigged and placement restrictions relaxed in an effort to have you spend 60 more hours slapping bits of wood into accomodation, rather th...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Helldivers 2's Terminid spelunking update, dubbed Into the Unjust, has dropped from orbit today, September 2nd. Sadly, that hellpod's impact with the game's surface looks to have triggered an uptick in crash reports, and Arrowhead are now busy "working to isolate fixes". If you missed the update's announcement the other day, Edwin was strapped into the news driver's seat at the time, and has a nice rundown of what's in it here. He even consulted some very real geographers, the absolute pro. T...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
The lead designer of Left 4 Dead has announced that he's making something like Left 4 Dead again - a four-player co-op shooter that "expands on the co-op-formula in ways I've wanted to explore for a long time". Whatever they end up calling it, the game is in development at Bad Robot Games, a studio founded by the film and TV outfit behind Lost, Cloverfield and Westworld. So the project has both expertise and funding to spare, in theory. There is little else to tell, right now, but you can sig...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
It's been a little while since we got another Cyberpunk 2077 tease that makes folks wonder whether CD Projekt are about to u-turn on adding more stuff to it yet again. Here one is, though, and it invites us 2025 dwellers to help out a president who isn't elected in-universe until 2065. Is it evidence that the NUSA have invented time travel tech that also allows Cyberpunk characters to migrate into our own reality? Is it just a way to spice up some promo for something like a livestream or mino...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Escape from Tarkov is finally emerging from an early access period that will have lasted nearly a decade, when its full release on November 15th rolls around, and you'll soon be able to grab it on Steam. Yep, it's taken yeaaaaarrrssss. Tarkov's initial alpha release came on August 4th, 2016, just a few days before No Man's Sky arrived for the first time, and just after a little game called Stardew Valley dropped. Think about what you were doing back then. I was a teenager, still far from the ...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
A moment of appreciation for Starfield's irregular yet satisfying zero-gravity combat encounters.| Rock Paper Shotgun
Starfield is a genuinely impressive space RPG that feels a cold, losing some Bethesda charm in the vast reaches of space.| Rock Paper Shotgun
Starfield players get a free buggy today. It's got rockets.| Rock Paper Shotgun
Back in the 2010s there was a rash of daughters in games. The generation of developers from the turn of the century were getting older, went the rationale, and having kids of their own, who emerged…| Death is a Whale
I’ve played around 10 hours of Arc Raiders, and the only thing I kept thinking of is how much classic PUBG-coded its best moments are.| VG247
Weapon Unlocked.| Eurogamer.net
EA's executive leadership has reportedly set a goal of 100m players for the upcoming Battlefield game, which "very few" developers believe is achievable.| Eurogamer.net
Our preview of Battlefield 6's multiplayer, which takes another big gamble with the series' long-running class system.| Eurogamer.net
Battlefield Studios has shared a few key details about what to expect from the next Battlefield Labs test. Unfortunately, Labs remains closed to most of the public, meaning it’s technically not a second Battlefield 6 beta. Read more| VG247 Latest Articles Feed
In an unprecedented move, Activision won't be moving forward with a key feature of Black Ops 7 after what has been an overwhelmingly negative response.| VG247
How crisp and 4K-ified a nostalgic menu looks on a big TV is the silliest thing I’ve ever been excited about, but Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a shot-for-shot remake which luxuriates in the little things. Read more| VG247 Latest Articles Feed
Battlefield Studios has regrouped following the recent Battlefield 6 beta to dig deep into player feedback and data, and what the team is doing about it.| VG247
The big Black Ops 7 media blowout has officially begun, kicking off, of course with last night’s gamescom Opening Night Live reveal. The trailer coincided with the release of plenty of new information covering many aspects of the game, with the promise of more to come. Read more| VG247 Latest Articles Feed
In this edition we’re looking at Thunder Force V Sample ROM, a demo disc for Thunder Force V. It normally lets you play a single stage, but there’s data for much more. I made a patch that unlocks e…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
I dont know if people particularly remember this, but Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel was a weird, slightly hateful game. Developed by 2K Australia in 2014, the game is set on the moon of Elpis between the events of Borderlands 1 and 2. It featured moon monsters, space lasers, low gravity, and all the characters were Australian. […]| Death is a Whale
The second and final weekend of the Battlefield 6 beta has officially kicked off, giving everyone another chance to spend a few more days with the game’s explosive multiplayer action. We’ve known that this second portion would include new content - such as the new map and modes - but DICE also had a few other tweaks lined up Read more| VG247 Latest Articles Feed
It’s been a while since Activision brought up Black Ops 7, this year’s Call of Duty. Too long, in fact. The game was initially unveiled in June with a brief trailer that closed off the Xbox Showcase… and that was it. Read more| VG247 Latest Articles Feed
Death Stranding 2 has some big shoes to fill. With those shoes it not only has to walk the same lengths as its beloved predecessor, but walk further too. It must make the same strides, but in new and exciting ways. It's a hard thing to live up to! Thankfully Kojima Productions has pulled it off, though not without a few stumbles and missteps along the way. Read more| VG247 Latest Articles Feed
Borderlands is undergoing a grand and drastic rebirth with Borderlands 4. It's more mature, less zany than before. A smart haircut and fresh new work shirt. It's bringing with it a gameplay overhaul, taking what's loved from the hugely profitable original trilogy and adding to it a contemporary makeover. It marks a new era for Borderlands, and while it still offers that same lootin' and shootin' richness as you'd expect, I can't help but feel some meaty chunk of its soul has been thrown out t...| VG247 Latest Articles Feed
Black Ops 7 makes good on a years-long promise to deliver another co-op campaign to Black Ops series fans, and we're going to find out more soon.| VG247
This week is IO Interactive's big 007 coming out party, as the studio's next James Bond game has been officially unveiled - or at least its title has been.| VG247
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The Battlefield 6 beta exposes a design problem that I hope doesn’t end up making every map play the same in the final game.| Eurogamer.net
Warner Bros has published its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2025, reporting a 48% decrease in …| GamesIndustry.biz
Yuzo Koshiro’s latest piece of gaming art is now available for players to enjoy, but not just as a game on home platforms – an enhanced version is available for arcades known as Earthion EXA Label. Read on. Earthion For those who are as yet unaware, Earthion was started as a shoot ’em up targeting [&hellip The post Earthion EXA LABEL Blasts Its Way Into Arcades appeared first on Arcade Heroes.| Arcade Heroes
Tencent has quietly removed, edited, and/or replaced key art on the Steam page of its upcoming adventure game, Light of…| Eurogamer.net
Rebellion's alternate-1960s apocalypse feels most fun when it's about clearing out camps full of brainless weirdos.| Rock Paper Shotgun
Aggro Crab and Landfall have come together to make Peak, a co-op game about climbing a mysterious mountain.| Rock Paper Shotgun
In this edition I’m examining Strikers 1945 (Saturn and PlayStation) and Sengoku Blade (Saturn), which are both shooting games from Psikyo. In wrote previously about patches for the Saturn versions…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
In this edition I’m examining Gunbird, the vertical shooter from Psikyo. I found four new cheat codes for it: The Test mode menu. NoDeath mode, which makes you invincible. Skip mode, mode all…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Doom: The Dark Ages is apparently id Software's biggest launch, if you strictly accept Bethesda's definition.| VG247
"I want to make you proud of us and excited again."| VG247
Doom: The Dark Ages has not had the best Steam launch, at least when you compare it to the other modern Doom games.| VG247
'Guys, Dutch clearly has a plan, why wouldn't I trust him?' said the Switch 2 player to their fellow chatters.| VG247
Just before most of us could get our hands on Doom: The Dark Ages, there's enough time for one last product tie-in.| VG247
Doom The Dark Ages review: The road to hell is paved with hypertension.| VG247
By Azura, by Azura, by Azura, it's the Doom Slayer, standing here, next to me!| VG247
Atomfall looks and sometimes plays like a middling survival shooter, but its passions truly lie in exploration and investigation – and it’s much better at both.| Rock Paper Shotgun
LAI Games has begun shipping their latest video product, the arcade exclusive Kaiju Rampage: The World of Monster Eye.| Arcade Heroes
The squids have unleashed the offensive Arrowhead had been unsubtly teasing for a little bit, and cheekily started disappearing from the map.| VG247
"Cry me a river J.O.E.L, if your jet brigade didn't want to be destroyed, why did they explode so funny?"| VG247
It's looking like there's gonna be plenty going on with the game as it celebrates its first birthday on February 8.| VG247
It's also brought back the mid-fall saluting everyone loved, so that's cool.| VG247
It could just be the divers getting the heebie-jeebies, but it looks like Arrowhead could be teasing the squids doing a thing.| VG247
This is the ultimate list of the best open world games you can play on PC right now to adventure, drive, and stealth about in.| Rock Paper Shotgun
Our walkthrough and guide to every Starfield main mission.| Eurogamer.net
Our Starfield tips and tricks guide is packed with things we wish we knew sooner, covering everything from exploration to combat and more!| Rock Paper Shotgun
Past and present developers of The Elder Scrolls series discuss how the open world genre has become a quest checklist with less opportunity for surprise.| Rock Paper Shotgun
We risk permadeath to bring you a thorough rundown of the 19 best roguelikes on PC, from the autofire of Vampire Survivors to the hellfire of Hades 2. Let's go.| Rock Paper Shotgun
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Xbox boss Phil Spencer has admitted he's made "the worst" decisions "passing" on some of gaming's biggest franchises ov…| Eurogamer.net
Marvel Rivals launches in December and will have all heroes unlocked for free, including those released later down the line.| Rock Paper Shotgun
Our after-battle report from Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2's co-op multiplayer, in both campaign and Operations modes.| Rock Paper Shotgun
Yesterday, Nic took James and I on a tour of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2's co-op campaign. A merry old time was ha…| Rock Paper Shotgun
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only War, unless you don't have a 64-bit PC with an Intel Core i5-8600…| Rock Paper Shotgun