Tencent hand Ubisoft a big wad of cash to spin out Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six as a separate business But how separate is it, really? Image credit:Ubisoft Well, there you have it folks. After months of uncertainty over share price falls, major game delays and squabbles with investors, Ubisoft have opened up a new subsidiary to look after their biggest-selling Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six, and Far Cry games, with Tencent chucking in a whopping €1....

That Pac-Man, but what if he was a little bit evil, Metroidvania now has a summer release date Pucker up Image credit:Bandai Namco Really, though, it’s about some humanoid alien being told to eat everything it comes across by this orb, called Puck (get it?), resulting in something that’s admittedly intriguingly alarming and grotesque, but also has such ridiculously high levels of edgy animated short film from the early days of YouTube energy....

The city of Eriksholm looks captivating, but I wish it’d sneak in some new ideas Stealth and wellbeing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Nordcurrent Labs Have you seen Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream knocking about? I can’t seem to find it. It’s an upcoming adventure game about some sneaky urchins from a fictional Scandilike country in the 1900s. We’ve previously described it as “a bit Dunwall and a bit Desperadoes” . I got to play a short preview build, and being offered its toylike city from a top-down perspective made me eager to explore and find its many collectible artworks....

The final RPS Christmas Cracker 2025 The end is a beginning Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun We eight scribes from RPS are, Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past, Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered, After twelve months of graft. But first, time to enjoy your lovely joke! Q: Which 4X strategy game is great for your gut bacteria? A: Endless Legumes Alright, we’re done. Happy New Year! Rock Paper Shotgun is better when you sign in...

The Game Awards reportedly charges over $1 million for a three-minute trailer, while just a minute can run up nearly half of that Studios who want to send more than two attendees can reportedly also end up having to pay an arm and a leg for tickets Image credit:The Game Awards Publishers and studios who want to show off their games during the main show at a Keighleyfest usually have to pay a not small chunk of change for the privilege....

The latest Peak update does in fact see the forest for the trees with its fungus and bug-filled woods Laying down roots Image credit:Aggro Crab/ Landfall There is perhaps no better setting than some woods or a forest that just sucks ass. Just a confusing, scary, maybe sometimes enchanting mess of nature that is impossible to navigate. Today’s latest update for Peak just so happens to present such a visage, with towering, beautiful trees, and yet again a wonderful sense of scale....

The Monster Hunter Wilds beta is live with an early glimpse of the new camping, wound and weather systems You’ve got till Monday Image credit:Capcom Stroll on down to Uncle Capcom’s garage, girls and boys, because it’s time to meddle with a cat’s voicebox, ride a combat peacock and meticulously injure a vast, blubbery teddybear. By which I mean, the Monster Hunter Wilds beta is now live on Steam through to 4th November at 2....

The most important PC gaming news stories in 2026 As identified by me, a diseased charlatan Image credit:Angus McBride / Dicebreaker / Rock Paper Shotgun It’s a bad idea to predict a year’s worth of Videogame Happenings while you are delirious with cold, but one of the advantages of being delirious with cold is that you become incapable of noticing that ideas are bad. In the brief interval before I eat a bowl of cakemix and fall asleep, here are some quick opinions about the Trends and Tribulations of 2026, mostly based on our reporting from 2025....

The official Olympics game ditched Mario & Sonic in favour of mobile & PC - but it’s also pushing NFTs Olympics Go! away Image credit:nWay For the past couple of decades, the official Olympics video games have starred Mario and Sonic and been exclusive to Nintendo devices. Not so, this year. Olympics Go! Paris 2024 is free-to-play and available for PC via the Epic Games Store. Hear the curl of the monkey’s paw?...

The RPS Selection Box: Brendan’s bonus games of the year 2024 See the world anew Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Bethesda / Secret Mode / DreadXP I’m a sucker for a good first-person runabout. I don’t need to shoot, but it’s sometimes nice to get a sword, or a big whip. As long as I get to be immersed in an adventure. I think that’s the big theme of my selection box: being grounded within my player character....

The RPS Selection Box: Ollie’s bonus games of the year 2025 An Advent Calendar vote, my kingdom for an Advent Calendar vote Image credit:FromSoftware / Warhorse Studios / UmiArt It was an interesting Advent Calendar this year, from my perspective. My top four games - Arc Raiders , Silksong , Clair Obscur , and Hades 2 - were all highly ranked. And then none of my remaining games made the cut....

The Ryzen 9 5950X remains a productivity monster - and now it’s 52% off in the UK 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 3 power. Image credit:AMD When the Ryzen 9 5950X debuted in 2020, it was a staggeringly strong productivity and gaming CPU, with 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 3 power for a princely £750. A little over three years later and next-gen Zen 4 CPUs are firmly here, but the 5950X remains the most powerful productivity CPU for the venerable AM4 platform....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for buying easter eggs for the week after. Let’s prepare to crack as we read the week’s best writing about games and game-related things. For The Guardian, Thomas Hobbs spoke to RollerCoaster Tycoon creators and rollercoaster designers about the game’s impact in the late 90s . Fantastic insights here, into how the game inspired more women to join the theme park industry, theme park designers, and the impact the game itself had on its creator Chris Sawyer....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for eating Biscoff spread and rewatching Better Call Saul, again. Crunchy, ofc. Before that, let’s read some writing that I, Nic Reuben, personally found interesting about games (and game related things!) Bug Quest wrote some nice words about UFO 50 . in fact, UFO 50’s investment in its fiction really only highlights and celebrates the actual human beings who worked on all of its many games....

The supposed secret best Japanese RPG gets a full remake in September Trail remix Image credit:GungHo Online Entertainment America, Inc Sponge away the dross and ephemera of my life and you’re left with a series of moments in which I wonder: is now the right time to get into Legend of Heroes ? I’ve been planning to play Nihon Falcom’s 17-part RPG series ever since a respected peer gently suggested that my enthusiasm for Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest marked me out as a Basic Bitch, and that if I ever want to experience a real role-playing game, I should give LoH a go....

The Tekken director failed to get KFC’s Colonel Sanders in the fighting game, but here are 10 other corporate mascots he could try Finger clickin' Image credit:KFC The long-running chief of the Tekken series, Katsuhiro Harada, once tried to convince KFC to let him use Colonel Sanders as a character in the fighting game , according to an interview with TheGamer . “[They] weren’t very open to the idea,” added game designer Michael Murray, who sat in on the interview....

The time of the mecha-shark is upon us in upcoming Besieged expansion The Splintered Sea If your timber shivers, you’re building it wrong Image credit:Spiderling Studios The Splintered Sea is an upcoming expansion for beloved battlements blasting building game Besiege , taking its so far decisively land-based action to the high seas for some aquatic anarchy. You’ll be able to pit your custom war machines rudder to fin with enemy fleets and underwater nemeses when it launches May 24th on Steam....

Things to build in Minecraft: 38 build ideas for February 2026 Let these Minecraft build ideas inspire your next building project Image credit:BURE’s Minecraft on YouTube Looking for Minecraft build ideas and inspiration? As a sandbox game , Minecraft is full of possibilities and build ideas - even more so if you’re playing in creative mode with every block type unlocked right from the get-go. If you need a little inspiration to fire you up, you’ve come to the right place....

This game will be deleted from Steam unless players can beat the developers at it Heroic last flop Image credit:Rivernotch Game Studio Back in 2020, fresh out of high school and feeling unstoppable, Charles Maddock and a few friends “decided to code a game about Fish Wizards.” The result was Fishards , Magicka-inspired PVP arena action that has you out-squirt, out-splash, and out-spellcast your mates. It’s a charmer, but after two years of dev, release saw it suffer the same sad fate as many multiplayer-only indies....

This is my first time learning of this nearly useless novelty keyboard gift and I am in mourning for all the microseconds I’ve wasted in my life I am afraid Image credit:BTXETUEL If we follow Marshall McLuhan’s ideas about technology being an extension of the body, then the copy and paste keyboard shortcuts are my equivalent of a trip to one of Cyberpunk 2077 ’s ripperdocs. In the writing of this single article, I will use them for links, HTML code, and other ephemera....