Palworld Pal Fluids: How to get and where to find Locations of all the Pals that drop Pal Fluids Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Want to know how to get Pal Fluids in Palworld? Pal Fluids are a useful (and perhaps mildly disturbing) resource that you’ll need to gather in Palworld , especially if you want to keep your base Pals relaxed with a nice Hot Spring. Literally described as “body fluids taken from a Pal,” Pal Fluids are harvested and utilised for their “high viscosity....

Paradox are buying Haemimont Games, developers of Surviving Mars and several Tropico games They’re working on a new IP Paradox are buying Bulgarian game developer Haemimont Games, the developers of strategy games including several in the Tropico and Jagged Alliance series. The two companies previously worked together on Surviving Mars , which was originally developed by Haemimont and published by Paradox Interactive. In a press release , Paradox attributed the acquisition to their “strategic focus on growing in the management games genre....

Payday 3 developer Starbreeze have switched CEO six months after disastrous launch Board decides new leadership required Image credit:Starbreeze Six month’s after Payday 3 ’s disastrous launch, Starbreeze have parted ways with their CEO, Tobias Sjögren. In an update to investors, Starbreeze’s board said that the company now requires “different leadership”, and they’ve appointed former CEO of Focus Home Interactive Juergen Goeldner as interim CEO. “The company has a clear strategy centered around creating attractive games on our own and licensed IPs....

Predicting Steam Machine prices would be a lot easier if RAM costs hadn’t gone horribly wrong Memory shortages chuck a grenade into PC and console production Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This week’s most popular game is not a robovoiced extraction shooter or a buggy martial arts RPG, but Guess The Steam Machine Price: a well-meaning (if largely speculative) timepasser wherein whoever most accurately converts Valve’s teasing into a final street price for the resurrected SteamOS mini-PC wins....

Probably-magnificent mystery house puzzler Blue Prince will release in spring 2025 Drafting the room with the release window Image credit:Raw Fury Dogubomb’s Blue Prince boasts my favourite shapeshifting house in a video game , which admittedly isn’t setting a very high bar. Perhaps surprisingly, most video game houses do not shapeshift. Despite being made out of pure imagination and carbon emissions, they remain nostalgically shackled to the limitations of brick, mortar and Euclidean geometry....

Q-UP is a coin flipping eSports game that prides itself on its fairness that might be gaslighting me Q or UP? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry I think Q-UP might be gaslighting me. It most certainly is a real video game, I played it myself. And yet it presents an entirely different vision of reality where it is the coin flipping eSport of choice. The worst part is that it nearly convinced me that such a reality is a pretty good one....

Rally Point: Mega-mod Terror From The Void finally pushed me into loving Phoenix Point Job of the perks Image credit:RPS I found Phoenix Point difficult to love, despite wanting to. I didn’t cover its original 2019 release at all, partly preferring to give something else positive coverage instead, and partly suspecting I’d attached hope to it in a way I seldom do, and was overreacting. Perhaps that was a disservice to you, The Reader....

Rockstar fired unionising GTA 6 devs following Discord chat about new company Slack policy, claims report IWGB Union boss accuses company of “trying to govern by fear” <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/1_JAX29Z3.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“Two hand-made cardboard signs, one reading “Rockstar my ass” and the other “Wage Theft Auto”, held by people with their heads out of shot. - 1”> Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun A new report claims the firing of 34 developers by Rockstar Games for alleged “gross misconduct” followed a Discord discussion which cited emails about changes to the company’s internal Slack policies....

MSI RTX 5070 Ti 16G Shadow 3X OC is available now for £729. Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / Nvidia + MSI Image credit: RPS Photo Composite / Nvidia + MSI MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G SHADOW 3X OC £729 Amazon: See here In my opinion, this is the GPU to aim for if you’re gaming at 1440p or even poking at 4K. It’s built on Nvidia’s latest Blackwell architecture, comes loaded with 16GB of GDDR6X, and puts RTX 4070 SUPER in an awkward spot for just £74 more ....

RuneScape: Dragonwild’s Fellhollow update gets a zombie-bashing and magical farming look-in ahead of its release next week Hopefully nothing hollow here Image credit:Jagex It’s funny to think that RuneScape: Dragonwilds , one of those cosy-ish, survival crafty type of games doesn’t have farming just yet, but I suppose that’s understandable given it is an early access game. Doesn’t matter much either, as farming will be coming to the game next week as part of its Fellhollow update, which just got another look-in through a new gameplay trailer that also shows off all sorts of undead bashing you’ll be doing....

Saudi Arabia will reportedly own almost all of EA if the buyout goes through The country’s public investment fund is stumping up the vast majority of the cash in the deal Image credit:Electronic Arts The $55 billion leveraged buyout which will see Saudi Arabia, Silver Lake and Jared Kushner become the new owners of EA will reportedly lead to the Saudi Public Investment Fund owning a whopping 93.4 percent of the game publishers....

Sean Bean is finally returning to Hitman, for you to kill him again The actor with a thousand deaths adds another Hitman ’s Elusive Targets started as a series of one-off assassinations, baddies who would appear in the live service game for a few days and offer one chance to kill them (don’t blow it!) before vanishing. While developers Io Interactive did eventually start bringing back Elusive Targets due to popular demand/widespread frustration, some have proved more elusive than others....

Shogun Showdown review: an exceptional roguelike that hits different Spend your daimyo on this one Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Goblinz Publishing/Gamera Games Developer: Roboatino Publisher: Goblinz Publishing, Gamera Games Release: Out now On: Windows, Mac, Linux From: Steam , GOG Price: £12/€15/$15 Reviewed on: Intel Core i9-9900KF, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3080, Windows 11 Like a samurai poised patiently for an opening in their opponent’s defences, Shogun Showdown understands that focus and finesse are the means to delivering an impactful blow....

Stop Killing Games’ EU petition amassed just under 1.3 million verified signatures, according to final count Meanwhile, the campaign’s organisers are hoping to help Anthem owners get refunds following shutdown Image credit:EA The Stop Killing Games campaign have revealed the final signature count for their European Citizens’ Initiative, dubbed Stop Destroying Videogames. According to the folks behind the campaign, the European Union have been able to verify that 1,294,188 of the petition’s nearly 1....

Straftat map makers map more maps into Straftat The mappening Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Lemaitre Bros The map masters who make the madcap map mayhem of Straftat have made more maps for maladjusted mates to mop up their misgivings in machinegunning map-bound mockery. The magnificent maraud ’em up has mustered 37 more maps a mere month after the mapsters mapped a further 35 maps into the multiplayer mix-up, meaning that by my map math the myriad maps now measure 263 - much more than many mainstream grudge match manufacturers may have mapped....

Subnautica 2 developers clarify it won’t have a season pass or battle pass Publisher Krafton had called it a “game-as-a-service” A financial report from Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton said the underwater survival sequel would adopt a “game-as-a-service model”. Cue much gnashing of teeth and rending of shirts, so much so that developers Unknown Worlds have clarified what that means. “No season passes. No battle passes. No subscription.” “A few of you noticed some information shared online by our publisher, Krafton”, the Subnautica team shared via the site’s blog ....

Warner Bros. say it’ll be a tough year-on-year comparison Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Warner Bros Wiedenfels made the statement during a financial call to investors. “This year, Suicide Squad, one of our key video game releases in 2024, has fallen short of our expectations since its release earlier in the quarter, setting our games business up for a tough year-over-year [comparison] in Q1,” Wiedenfels said, as reported by IGN . Suicide Squad was released on February 2nd....

T-Rexes aren’t the only twist that Dinolords puts on medieval strategy Thou bred raptors? Image credit:Ghost Ship Publishing " Age of Empires with dinosaurs" is, the developers of the Dinolords recently told me in a cramped Gamescom booth, a flattering description for their upcoming England vs. Vikingsaurus RTS. It’s also not a terribly accurate one. From what I saw of the game, Dinolords is more about the lords than the dinos, having as much in common with Diablo -style ARPGs as it does with classic strategy ....

The RX 7800 XT gets strong reviews and is capable of stretching to 4K gaming. Image credit:Sapphire Get the Sapphire Radeon RX 7800 XT Pulse 16GB for $489.99 (was $519.99) We’ve covered the RX 7800 XT graphics card several times on RPS, as it offers some of the best value in AMD’s RDNA 3 graphics lineup, and this latest discount improves its price/performance ratio considerably. The card is best used for 1440p gaming, where it can run rasterised or RT content at reasonable frame-rates with or without upscaling or frame generation, while at 1080p it’s capable of high refresh rate gaming when paired with a strong CPU....

Taylew’s Ruined Forge walkthrough - Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree Here’s how to clear Taylew’s Ruined Forge in Shadow Of the Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for a full rundown of Taylew’s Ruined Forge in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? Taylew’s Ruined Forge is one of the shorter mini-dungeons in Elden Ring ’s DLC Shadow Of The Erdtree , but it’s an important place to visit if you want to pick up the Smithscript Axe, Hammer, and Shield, three of the DLC’s excellent new throwing weapons ....