Baldur’s Gate 3’s final patch is full of bees Gate’s closed everybody Image credit:Larian Welp, it’s finally happened. After many months of mainly murder related updates, Larian’s stonker of an RPG has at last received its final major content update. Patch 8 - which you can read in full here - brings Photo Mode, full cross play, and 12 new subclasses to Baldur’s Gate 3 . That’s one for each playable class, and likely at least six more than I’ll ever reasonably experience....

Ballionaire is a pachinko roguelike where you build your board as you play Ping ping ping Image credit:Raw Fury A trend of gambling-inspired games has surfaced in the wake of poker-like deckbuilding roguelike Balatro . The recipe? Take a standard game of chance you might find in any casino and mash an uncountable number of bells and whistles and gizmos and weirdnesses into it, then slather it in a “one more turn” roguelike dressing, and make it as tactile and punchy as humanly possible....

Best gaming monitors: the top 144Hz, 240Hz and 4K monitors All the best monitors for gaming, including budget, HDR, and ultrawide displays Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun It’s easy to think of the best gaming monitors as an extravagance – surely everything your games need for a smooth ride is within the PC itself, and any old screen will do the trick? Not so. It’s true that even the most opulently-specced monitor won’t technically make your games run faster, but they can make them look better , whether it’s by unlocking slicker framerates with a high refresh rate, letting colours bloom brigher, or eliminating ugly tearing effects with FreeSync and G-Sync ....

Best Minecraft seeds for 1.21.11 (February 2026) Find Ancient Cities, easy diamonds, and spectacular landscapes with the best Minecraft seeds for 1.21.11 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Looking for the best Minecraft seeds for Java 1.21.11? The worlds of Minecraft are practically infinite in size, and they’re all procedurally generated by a string of numbers and letters called a seed. Pick the same seed as someone else, and you’ll spawn in a copy of the same world....

Best new spells in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Check out the best new spells in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Are you curious what the best new spells are in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree? There’s no shortage of incredible spells in Elden Ring , and Shadow Of The Erdtree is here to offer up a fresh selection for players to experiment with....

Best Yasuke Mastery skills in Assassin’s Creed Shadows Here are the best skills for Yasuke in AC Shadows Image credit:Ubisoft Wondering what the best skills are for Yasuke in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? Yasuke is the playable samurai character of Assassin’s Creed Shadows , and he is an absolute powerhouse when it comes to combat. Oda Nobunaga calls him a ‘one-man army’ near the beginning of the game, and this is an apt description....

Bokeh’s Silent Hill and Siren-esque Slitterhead gets release date and new in-game trailer Possess and pulverise Image credit:Bokeh Game Studio Boheh Game Studio’s horror game Slitterhead will release for PC on November 8th 2024, the developers have revealed at this year’s Summer Game Fest. They’ve also popped up a new trailer, which is PS2 as hell, in what I consider to be the best of ways. The trailer begins with a glum detective dude walking down an alleyway and discovering what appears to be a discarded human skinsuit in a dumpster....

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 follows Battlefield 6’s lead, will also require secure boot on PC Again, because cheaters Image credit:Activision I’m sure Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Battlefield 6 won’t be exactly the same game, despite their obvious bullet casing-littered common ground . However, they are opting to mirror each other in one manner - both will require you to enable secure booting on your PC....

Connections hints and answers for Sat, October 19th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #495. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 19th October? We’re here to lend a helping hand. Below we have a range of clues to help you get to today’s Connections answers....

Connections hints and answers for Wed, August 28th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #443. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 28th August? Never fear; we’re here to give you the tips you need to figure out those tricky word groups....

Cosmic Collapse takes viral puzzler Suika Game to a galactic scale with colliding planets instead of fruit Which planet tastes most like watermelon? Image credit:Apskeppet Remember Suika Game ? The charming puzzler blew up late last year thanks to its engrossing fruit-merging gameplay and colourful theme (and the help of a load of vtubers to boot). While the original was only on Nintendo Switch - although technically even that was a port of a game included on a projector, of all things - plenty of Suika clones quickly emerged to fill its watermelon-shaped hole on PC....

Creative Assembly reveal Total War: Medieval 3, while teasing a huge game announcement to follow It’s in “early pre-production” Image credit:Sega Total War: Medieval 3 is in early pre-production, Creative Assembly have revealed during Total War’s 25th anniversary showcase, with release still years away. It’s to be the “rebirth of historical Total War”, and CA are unveiling it earlier than they’ve ever announced a Total War game before, so that you crafty peasants can offer more feedback throughout development....

CWA union says Bobby Kotick’s “fake lawsuit” claims are false, unsurprising, and “insulting to the Activision workers who spoke out” “Fortunately for workers, Kotick is gone” Image credit:Kleiner Perkins/Grit Kotick appeared on venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins podcast earlier this week, alongside former EA CEO and current Kleiner Perkins advisor Bing Gordon. Discussing the above legal cases alongside petitions to remove him as CEO, Kotick spoke of “fake lawsuits against us and Riot Games making allegations about the workplace that weren’t true,” claiming his former company was “targeted” by the CWA in a bid to increase union membership....

Deep Rock Galactic unearths its season 6 update as Rogue Core spinoff gets delayed Ghost Ship Games enlists some help to push its next big patch across the line Image credit:Coffee Stain Publishing “Season…6…” I gasp through a parched throat and unwashed beard. “Need…season 6…of popular subterranean co-op shooter Deep Rock Galactic , developed by Ghost Ship Games…” Mr. Ghost Ship himself stands over my skeletal body, knees and elbows shredded to the sinew from nearly a year and a half of crawling through the update desert....

Dire comedy bloodsport King Of Meat should have been called King Of Meme Please, enough with the ironic deathgames already Image credit:Amazon I genuinely don’t like sucker-punching video games the second they’re announced, but playing Glowmade’s King Of Meat is three hours of my life I won’t get back, and every second I spend writing about it extends that total, dragging me closer to a regretful demise. Here’s the stuff I’m more positive about: buried at the core of this spurting interactive snarkfest there is a moderately OK third-person dungeon-crawler for groups of up to four....

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake review: a world in the palm of your hand A model village the size of a medium-sized country Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Square Enix Developer: Square Enix, ARTDINK Publisher: Square Enix Release: November 14th, 2024 On: Windows From: Steam Price: £50/$60/€60 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i5-12600K, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10; Steam Deck Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake ’s premise is bluntly, delightfully simple. The Archfiend Baramos, as evil as he is mysterious, is up and about....

Dynasty Warriors: Origins review: a glorious, melodramatic and convincing illusion of tactical warfare Romance of the me kingdoms Image credit:Koei Tecmo/Rock Paper Shotgun Developer: Koei Tecmo Publisher: Koei Tecmo Release: January 17th 2025 On: Windows From: Steam Price: £65/€80/$70 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti, Windows 10 Dynasty Warriors: Origins . Finally, a game brave enough to ask: “what if everything cool that went down in Romance Of The Three Kingdoms was thanks to you, a magical, beautiful boy that no-one’s ever heard of?...

EA employees “upset and confused” at return to office mandate Office work results in “a kinetic energy that fuels creativity”, says CEO Andrew Wilson Image credit:Bioware/Rock Paper Shotgun Electronic Arts, publishers of Clive Barker’s Undying and Pooh and Tigger’s Hunny Safari, have let employees know that they’re ending full remote working and hiring, and implementing return to office for all employees as part of hybrid work plans, reports IGN ....

Elden Ring: How to get to Crumbling Farum Azula Here’s how to reach Crumbling Farum Azula in Elden Ring Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Wondering how to reach Crumbling Farum Azula in Elden Ring? One of the remotest regions of The Lands Between in Elden Ring , Crumbling Farum Azula is an endgame region filled to the brim with high-level enemies and some of the hardest bosses in the game ....

Epic Games reportedly hit by 189GB hack, including login and payment info But Epic say there’s “currently zero evidence” that claims are true Image credit:Cyber Daily Epic Games are investigating a claim that the Fortnite publishers have suffered a massive ransomware attack, with almost 200GB of data reportedly stolen including emails, passwords, full names, payment information, source code and more besides. The report comes from Cyber Daily , who also broke the news of last year’s confirmed hack attack on Insomniac Games ....