Sniper Dan is a delightful-looking, “family-friendly” blend of Sniper Elite and Where’s Wally? Or Where’s Waldo? for all you Americans Image credit:Denki I’ve never gelled well with the Sniper Elite series, as much as I do love a bit of goresploitation in my horror, it just has that kind of Mortal Kombat, slightly too realistic violence vibe about it that pushes it out of my comfort zone. But, I would still like to snipe!...

Soul Reaver remaster release date, screens and trailer leak via PlayStation and it all looks far too shiny Raziel did not survive the abyss, they have only spared him from total dissolution Image credit:PlayStation These apparitions and portents, Crystal Dynamics - what game are you playing now? It turns out the game they are playing is: a remaster of amazeballs vampire odyssey Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver , together with its less amazing but sturdy sequel....

Soulslikers are going to love Ori studio’s new ARPG No Rest For The Wicked The first hour is hard as nails and takes absolutely no prisoners Image credit:Private Division When Ori And The Blind Forest developers Moon Studios announced that their next game would be a top-down, online action RPG , my initial reaction was, ‘Heck yes, sign me the hell up for this Souls-y, Diablo-y hack and slash.’ Having now played the opening 90 minutes of the game ahead of tonight’s Wicked Inside showcase , that initial excitement has settled into more of a ‘Hoo boy, this thing is hard as nails....

Stalker 2’s latest patch once again comes with four figures worth of fixes and improvements You can’t say they’re not committed Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World It’s been four months since Stalker 2 was released, starting life as a really great shooter that had more tech issues than you can shake a stick at , but GSC Game World have kept themselves busy with some hefty patches . The first one alone had almost 2000 fixes, with the second one following that up with more than 1700....

Starfield’s abandoned gore and dismemberment system sure would have made it less grey But it wasn’t “lowkey or realistic” enough, according to former Bethesda character artist Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Game Studios Ah Starfield , the game that left the collective consciousness long ago. In her review , Alice Bee (RPS in peace) said that it was such a large thing it ultimately felt “small, cold and unlived in”. I remember thinking the same....

Steam now has “language-specific” review scores, which might make identifying certain review bombs easier Also, if you’ve ever wondered whether Italian typists think your favourite game’s mid, checking that’s simpler Image credit:Valve Review scores. Who needs ’em? Well, Valve reckon Steam didn’t have enough two word verdicts on games, so they’ve introduced a “language-specific” scoring system, which offers separate ratings based on user reviews penned in certain tongues. The goal’s to paint a more detailed picture of what folks in different parts of the world think of what they’ve played, allowing you to see at a glance whether that game you’ve been putting off adding to your backlog is the bees’ knees among Korean-speaking players....

Steam’s Turn-Based RPG Fest has discounts and demos you can download then play, in that order 95% off XCOM 2 is a steal Image credit:2K “Turn-based” games are, as we know, all derived from Turn, the strategy game about a dog digging for coins released for the BBC Micro in 1987. Prior to this, all actions in games simply took place simultaenously, as fast as the player or players could make them....

Still Wakes the Deep, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun and Deathsprint 66 makers to lay off hundreds of staff Image credit:Focus Entertainment Sumo Group, the British video game collective which owns developers Sumo Digital, publishers Secret Mode and more - including Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture devs The Chinese Room - is laying off hundreds of staff, cutting 15% of their workforce “to better navigate the upcoming challenges expected in the coming months”....

Stop right there, Oblivion Remastered modders have made the Imperial Watch a proper joinable faction with new quests and a corruption system for criminal scum I am the law Image credit:Bethesda/VG247 Oblivion is really a game about the Imperial Watch. Forget all the Mehrunes Dagon stuff and that Hero of Kvatch - the real stars of the show are the stupid guards who pop out of the ether to tell you it’s time to pay the fine for your long list of misdeeds or head off to jail....

Store these system requirements in your head compartment before Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 takes off The head compartment is your brain Image credit:Microsoft Me, I’m a simple sort. All I want from my flight simulators is an unerringly accurate recreation of dozens of aircraft, a perfect physics model that includes the spectacle of relevant weather events, and a complete, photorealistic and 1:1 scale depiction of the entire planet earth. You, you might be one of those fancy types, you might want to be able to get a job in your flight simulator, like crop duster or fire waterer....

Swery’s bloody gambling in Death Game Hotel won’t be his only multiplayer game, he says All my games are ’eternally unfinished' Image credit:White Owls Death Game Hotel came out last week - a comically gory game in which players play casino-style card games around a table and raise the stakes by betting their own limbs. It’s a VR game, which is a break from the norm for White Owls, the studio run by Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro (then again, what is their “norm”?...

Texnoplazm is John Wick as a cyberpunk boomer shooter It features a very large punch Image credit:Mothership Loudspeakerz Having never designed an FPS before, there’s a good chance the following grand theory of combat design I’m about to propose is reeking globnonsense, but here goes: I figure you’ve basically got two approaches. You can either keep it simple but chunky, and use this to lure the player in right away by making them feel powerful and capable....

The 11 best racing games on PC Beep beep Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Microsoft / No More Robots / BeamNG / Wired Productions Vroom vroom. That is the sound of 11 rivals revving their engines as they blink the sweat out of their eyes and exhale years of self-doubt from their lungs. Today is their day. We have lined up these racing games on a starting grid and are interested to see how things shake out....

The Beastmaster of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, part one: How to make friends and eviscerate people No guns, no knives, only beasts Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 : Heart of Chornobyl challenges you to survive the Zone, a land where the rules of nature are more like half-hearted suggestions and death may come from a mutant’s fang as quickly as a bandit’s bullet. But what if you could not only survive it, but tame it?...

The best starter Pals in Palworld and where to get them Here’s all the best starter Pals in Palworld to help you get up and running Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Looking for the best starter Pals in Palworld? Palworld is a creature capture game where you collect ‘Pals’, colourful creatures with different elemental abilities in a similar fashion to Pokemon. Pals can either help you in combat to secure new, rarer Pals, or can work at your base farming, mining and gathering materials....

The Callisto Protocol’s action-roguelike spin-off is to Hades what the sci-fi horror shooter was to Dead Space With added cel-shading Image credit:Striking Distance Studios After channelling the atmosphere and gory terror of Dead Space (though alas, not its reception) in 2022’s sci-fi horror shooter, The Callisto Protocol is apparently now looking to the likes of Hades to inspire a new roguelike spin-off set in its universe, currently codenamed Project Birdseye....

The Crucial T500 wins the battle of the Black Friday SSD deals, with better-than-half-price savings One of the fastest SSDs for gaming goes cheap Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Black Friday is usually heaving with discounts on NVMe SSDs , and today’s is no exception. Rather than do the usual routine of just suggesting the WD Black SN850X again, however, there’s no better SSD-for-yer-money deal right now than the Crucial T500, which is going for an exceptionally low £58 right now for the 1TB capacity – down from £120....

The Fallout TV show’s popularity has blown up Nexus Mods as everyone rushes to play Fallout 4 again And then remembers they need mods to make it worth playing The Fallout TV show effect continues. This time, it’s popular mod site Nexus Mods on the receiving end of the double-edged Shishkebab, as its servers struggle under the weight of people rushing to play through the series again - and mod its latter entries into games worth playing, presumably....

The Florist sounds like a lovely, cosy game right up until its a survival horror about killer plants Who’d a thunk it! Image credit:Unclear Games Right, what do we have here, a new game called The Florist , ’ey? About a woman delivering a beautiful flower arrangement to a lakeside town? Well, surely this is one of those wholesome, cosy games I’ve been hearing about! Nope! It is, in fact, a survival horror , and not the kind that’s trying to trick you like I just made a less than half-arsed attempt at....

The Maw - 3rd-9th June This week’s most auspicious game releases, plus our weekly news liveblog Image credit:Gibson & Co / Wikimedia Commons / Rock Paper Shotgun This week is the week of Summer Game Fest 2024 . Ah, SGF! The Geoffers, as they call it down Los Angeles way. The Not-E3s. The Midsomer Keighleys. Jumping G.K’s Game-a-Palooza. The AAAArghs. The Second Fall Of Babel. Trailarmageddon. The Sparkling Stink. SGF is sort of already in motion - last week, Sony kicked off the proceedings with their latest State of Play showcase , but you can expect the majority of new videogame announcements from Friday 7th June with the Summer Game Fest 2024 Opening Showcase, a two-hour livestreamed event which starts at 10pm UK, 5pm ET and 2pm PT....