Riot Games to lay off “around 530” people and shut down Riot Forge label in push for “sustainability” “We’re not doing this to appease shareholders,” insists CEO <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/riot-games-logo.png?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=“An image of the Riot Games logo, showing white text which reads “Riot Games” next to a clenched white fist against a red background. - 1”> Riot Games have announced that they will shortly lay off “about 530” people, or 11 per cent of their global workforce, so as to “create focus and move us towards a more sustainable future”, in the words of CEO Dylan Jadeja....

Rumoured Resident Evil 0 Remake looks like it could star the voice of an indeterminate number of FarCry 5 NPCs Sowing the Seeds? Image credit:Capcom One of the actors starring in the rumoured Resident Evil 0 Remake has seemingly been unearthed, via a codename listed on his resume. In case you’re wondering who it is, he played various characters, possibly including a mine-dwelling cultist, in FarCry 5. As a refresher, this is the Resident Evil 0 remake Twitterer Dusk Golem claimed to be in development alongside a Code Veronica remake last year....

Runes may one day be a great RPG - it’s currently an entrancing oddity filled with accidental cyborg ninjas Thank the stars for Afterburner Image credit:Bimordial/Rock Paper Shotgun Open world fantasy RPG Runes emits a deeply powerful aura. I can tell it’s deeply powerful because MSI Afterburner’s fan control immediately went mental after I loaded up its free Steam combat demo . What do you mean ‘unoptimised’? That alarming sound is simply my computer shaking with awe at the fearless flippancy required to leave enemies fully untextured so they resemble Metal Gear Solid ’s cyborg ninja....

Sand Land, the upcoming action-RPG based on Akira Toriyama’s manga, has a demo out now Explore the land of sand early Image credit:Bandai Namco If you’re keen to try out Sand Land , an upcoming action RPG from the developers of One Piece Odyssey and the creator of Dragon Ball , Akira Toriyama, then I have some great news. There’s a demo out right now that lets you explore a portion of the sandy map, try out a handful of the characters, and ride some rusty vehicles ahead of its release next month on April 25th....

Sipssassin is Hitman but you nick people’s drinks instead of killing them Ian’s fallen on hard times Image credit:Simmering Studios I’m thankfully very remote from the capital these days, but Edwin will occasionally regale the morning meeting with dark fables about how much a pint now costs in London. He’ll stumble on to camera, his eyes bloodshot and breathing heavy, and we’ll all know he’s traded a new vital organ for a swift half....

Skull and Bones is getting another year of updates, and I’m just as surprised as you are I find it ‘arrrrd to believe Image credit:Ubisoft Dear reader, allow me, if you will, a moment of honesty. I truly, wholly did not know that Skull and Bones was still going. Not only is it still going, but yesterday Ubisoft shared a look at the game’s impending second year of updates, so I really missed the boat on this one - pun intended, of course....

Star Wars Outlaws PC requirements: Minimum and recommended Find out if your PC is good enough to meet the minimum or recommended Star Wars Outlaws requirements Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Looking for the minimum and recommended PC requirements for Star Wars Outlaws? Star Wars Outlaws is set to launch on 30th August and promises to put players into the rogueish boots of Kay Vess, an outlaw within the Star Wars universe, joined by faithful furry companion Nix and the enforcer droid ND-5....

Star Wars Outlaws’ latest patch is out and aims to make stealth and combat more satisfying Changes to aiming, headshots, detection and more Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Star Wars Outlaws ’ stealth has been much debated, though not hotly. Some people think it’s rubbish, some others think it’s basically fine. Ubisoft themselves seem to think it’s one of the key issues with the game, with the creative director previously saying the forced stealth sections are “incredibly punishing” ....

Start a boring and stressful maintenance job in this former Arkane level designer’s upcoming game Check out the announcement trailer for Threshold Image credit:Julien Eveillé As a big fan of moody first-person games where you follow procedures to do a job , I’m quite interested in the recent announcement of Threshold . Made by a former Arkane level designer, it’s about a train maintenance job at a border post atop the world’s tallest mountain, where the air is so thin you need to huff top-ups from cans....

Stay awhile and play this free Diablo-inspired indie as the mayor of Tristram The home of the official unofficial best thing in games Image credit:Anne Hecker/Raffaele Picca Mayors in RPG games are rarely given the spotlight. They’re mostly just there to give you an early quest involving goat banditry or windmill rats or some such other domestic drudgery. Or, in the case of Tristram ’s mayor in Diablo , to fret behind the scenes about how to properly fit considerable cathedral repairs into this month’s budget....

Steam fixes Monster Hunter Wilds video recording, updates note-taking feature I’d never heard of Notes?! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom We don’t score reviews at Rock Paper Shotgun. Some might tell you this is because we view numeric scores as stifling oversimplifications of the wonderful, strange, and personal experiences videogames can offer, but it’s really because the refurbished work keyboards we’re assigned when hired all have their number keys gummed up with Marmite and none of us want to touch them....

Steam will now accept “the vast majority” of games using “AI” generation, but only with disclosures Valve announce new policy and player reporting system Image credit:Valve Little-known indie platform holder Valve have announced a new policy for Steam releases that make use of “AI” technology. To boil it down, developers will now have to disclose how they’re using AI tools on Steam pages, including what “guardrails” they’re putting in place for live-generated stuff that might be illegal or infringe on copyright....

SteamWorld Heist 2 revealed, bringing a ragtag crew of seafaring robots to PC this August Simultaneously announced and revealed at the Nintendo Indie World Showcase Image credit:Thunderful Publishing I briefly posted about this in The Maw , but was unsure at that point if SteamWorld Heist 2 was coming to PC day and date with the launch on Switch. That date is August 8th, by the way, and the answer is: yes it is!...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is a bodacious turn-based battler from the Clickolding devs Coming in 2025 Image credit:Strange Scaffold Tactical Mutant Ninja Turtles? Turn-based Mutant Ninja Tactics? I’m undecided, but its actual name is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown, so maybe I should just call it that. It’s just been announced and it’s coming to PC next year. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown announcement trailer.Watch on YouTube...

The best free Minecraft Bedrock Texture Packs for 1.21.131 All the very best free Bedrock Texture Packs. Want to know what the best free texture packs are for Minecraft Bedrock? If you’re looking for a new way to change up your experience, nothing does it faster and easier than a texture pack. But if you’re playing on Bedrock, most of the good options are locked behind real money that you need to spend inside the Minecraft Marketplace....

The Night Wanderer is a sci-fantasy Soulslike that blends sword-fighting with cybernetics Midgaard as nails Image credit:Mighty Koi Polish developers Mighty Koi have announced The Night Wanderer , a new sci-fantasy Soulslike RPG with metroidvania level design – yes, yes, tick those genre boxes! - in which you are a grim bearded swordsman exploring an alien world that looks a bit like pre-industrial Scandinavia. Said grim bearded swordsman is Vuko Drakkainen, an elite mercenary embarked on a solo mission to Midgaard, “a planet inhabited by beings remarkably reminiscent of the people of our Early Middle Ages”....

The NYT Crossword answers for Monday, September 29th 2025 Get a bit of help with the NYT Crossword puzzle Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Crossword answers for Sunday, October 19th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s NYT Crossword on Monday, 29th September? Then you have come to the right place! Here, we have every single answer, along with secondary hints if you would still prefer to do some of the heavy thinking yourself....

The NYT Crossword answers for Tuesday, September 23rd 2025 Get a bit of help with the NYT Crossword puzzle Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Crossword answers for Sunday, October 19th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s NYT Crossword on Tuesday, 23rd September? You’re not alone! The NYT Crossword is a daily dose of confusion and bewilderment, with a dash of satisfaction to keep you going....

The Remake Of The End Of The Greatest RPG Of All Time is a puzzle game hidden inside a fictional RPG Sequel when? Image credit:Coin Drop Games The Remake Of The End Of The Greatest RPG Of All Time , or TROTEOTGRPGOAT for, uh, short, is a game that exists. I normally wouldn’t let such an opaque stub of a description survive outside of a quick Trello reminder to write something better later, but I’m currently finding it fulfilling enough just to gaze upon that title and consider the fully formed art object that may soon emerge from its tantalising promises....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for admiring for the nine different houseplants you successfully repotted on Saturday, a moment of quiet appreciation that lasts just long enough to forget that you willingly spent real money on bags of what could accurately be called dirt. You paid . For dirt . And now it’s back....