BioWare quietly lay off key Dragon Age team members while talking up the next Mass Effect “Today, we are turning towards the future” Image credit:Bioware/Rock Paper Shotgun The layoff train has come for BioWare. A number of Dragon Age: The Veilguard staff are leaving the celebrated RPG company in the course of plans to become “a more agile, focused studio”, as BioWare move ahead with the next Mass Effect game. Posting on Bluesky, senior systems designer Michelle Flamm , producer Jen Cheverie , editor Karin West-Weekes , lead writer Trick Weekes and narrative designer Ryan Cormier have all announced that they’re looking for work....

Blue Protocol’s western release has been cancelled and its Japanese servers will shut down early next year Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Entertainment The Japanese servers will be shut down on January 18th, 2025. As of today, the game has been delisted from Steam . Outwardly, Blue Protocol seemed to be following closely in the footsteps of Genshin Impact , with a world of blue skies, green grass, and Breath Of The Wild-style enemies to bash through action-RPG combat....

Breaking Horses: the thrill of going off-map Aw, pretty boy, can’t you show me nothing but surrender? Image credit:Santa Ragione / Rock Paper Shotgun Significant story spoilers for Horses follow. Also, here is some possibly appropriate music . Towards the end of Santa Ragione’s grotesque horror game Horses there’s a story beat that involves snipping a hole in a wire fence, so another character can escape the game’s monstrous Farm. The escape is thwarted, and the hole boarded up, but later on, while confused about my objectives, I went back and found the repair incomplete, the planks not quite covering the tear....

Build for the future with this 1200W 80+ Platinum PSU for just $160 A sweet $60 discount returns after first debuting on Newegg last month. Image credit:Super Flower Last month we reported that a highly rated 1200W PSU was going cheap on Newegg, where you could pick up the Super Flower Leadex 1200W 80+ Platinum for just $160. After selling out rapidly, Newegg has restocked and is offering the same deal again, giving you a second chance to get a PSU that could well outlast every other component in your system!...

Can someone please make a game for Google’s bizarre Möbius strip keyboard Loop activities Image credit:Google For reasons that seemingly amount to japery, Google have unveiled a double-sided, endlessly looping keyboard design – but only in Japan, and they’re not actually making it. However, the blueprints for 3D-printing it are freely available on GitHub , which is enough to convince me that someone needs to develop some kind of chaotic party game that uses the Möbius strip-shaped Gboard (good spot, Tom’s Hardware ) as a controller....

Carmageddon: Rogue Shift puts a roguelitey twist on the series’ classic wheeled warfare, will start bending fenders in early 2026 It’s got a murderous camper van named after Margaret Thatcher Image credit:34BigThings Crank up the pounding metal riffs and make sure you’re covered in spikes. Carmageddon : Rogue Shift, a roguelite-infused take on the old school automotive murder-battler from Redout devs 34BigThings, has just been revealed and is set to smash onto the scene early next year....

Cassette Boy is a Fez-esque puzzle RPG that is Schrödinger’s cat, the game A touch of Tunic and a splash of Zelda in there to boot too Image credit:Wonderland Kazakiri inc. Cassette Boy is a game that looks to follow in the footsteps of perspective puzzlers like Fez and Tunic, two games I bring up because of their explicit use of space to hide more, tantalizingly secret space. Out of the two, it’s much closer to Fez, being a 2D world you can rotate to gain new, three dimensional perspectives....

Celeste’s slick movement meets Zelda’s hookshot in Oyster Wars, “intense” platformer by an actual oyster farmer about revenge against Big Oyster Its puzzle-platforming is even built on some of Celeste’s open-source code Image credit:Technologies Bauldy Sometimes there’s a game that’s just a delight to write about, however you slice it. That’s how I feel about getting to tell you about Oyster Wars , a platforming game that melds the fluid movement of Celeste with the puzzle dungeons and hookshot traversal of Zelda ....

Cereballers is a free 2D football parody with a spark of real genius The offside rule is the least of your problems Image credit:tomsmizzle I often regret that I didn’t get into football as a kid (note for people across the pond: football is what we call soccer in these here accursed, eternally post-imperial isles). The trouble was, all my friends liked football and I have an abiding hatred of popular things, a hatred that has obviously served me well during my later career as an online news journalist....

Connections hints and answers for Fri, August 30th Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #445. 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 30th August? Connecting words together is a tricky business, but we’re here to make sure you keep that perfect weekly streak....

Connections hints and answers for Tue, October 22nd Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #498. 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 22nd October? Luckily for you we have several. Below is a list of clues to help you figure out the Connection groups for today along with the answers themselves if you get really stuck....

Control’s office junior Firebreak can’t decide if it’s a job What does ’live service’ even mean, these days? Image credit:Remedy In Remedy’s Control spin-off FBC: Firebreak , trios of gadget-toting humans from the Federal Bureau of Control descend to the shapeshifting halls of the Oldest House, fighting eldritch Hiss invaders and possessed objects such as swarming Post-It notes. Where Control cast you as the FBC’s newly appointed director, equipped with executive perks such as telekinesis, the folks who make up the Firebreak initiative are regular office shmucks brandishing comparatively straightforward guns and bludgeoning implements....

Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod flatlines, after CD Projekt file DMCA strike and request its creator drop their paywall “Every little action that a company takes is in the name of money, but everything that modders do must be absolutely for free” Image credit:CD Projekt A mod providing VR support for Cyberpunk 2077 is no more, after CD Projekt issued a takedown notice they claim hinged on them not being happy that the mod’s creator had stuck it behind a paywall....

Darktide’s next new class is a dual-wielding miscreant who thinks the drugs do work, they just make heretics worse Hello to the Hive Scum Image credit:Fatshark Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is getting another new class, revealed last night as the Hive Scum. They’re a suitably skull-adorned outlaw who can dual-wield guns or shivs, while indulging in a cheeky bit of chemical warfare by homebrewing stimulants and lacing their weapons with harmful chems....

Diablo 4 best class: All classes ranked from strongest to weakest Here’s our tier list of all classes in Season 6 of Diablo 4, including the Spiritborn Image credit:Blizzard Looking for the best class in Diablo 4’s new expansion Vessel of Hatred? Diablo 4 ’s Season 6 is here with the Vessel of Hatred expansion, which brings a new character into the mix with the Spiritborn, a warrior from the Nahantu jungles with the ability to summon animal Guardians....

Diablo 4 Legendary items farm: How to get better gear Get yourself a major advantage with these epic Diablo 4 Legendary loot farms Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Blizzard Entertainment Want to farm the best gear in Diablo 4? Legendary Aspects and Unique items are incredibly important when crafting a powerful build in Diablo 4 , so you’ll want to know the best ways to farm gear. Fortunately, there are many quick ways to get the strongest gear, with high-level Nightmare Dungeons and endgame target-farming methods providing easy access to incredibly powerful loot....

Diablo 4 Secret of the Spring riddle solution Learn how to complete the Secret of the Spring quest in D4 Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment Want to know the Secret of the Spring riddle solution in Diablo 4? You’ll find a lot of side quests as you explore Sanctuary in Diablo 4 , but the Secret of the Spring quest presents you with a particularly confusing riddle that makes it hard to beat....

Diggergun combines Spelunky-style delving with cursed Cornish mines and the cost-of-living crisis What lies beneath the plus signs on your paycheck Image credit:Kabloop/GrabTheGames I was nosing around for a feelgood story to perk you up after this morning’s depresso news stew . But then I thought: what have you done for me lately? So instead, we’re going to write up the release of Diggergun, a life sim platform game about burrowing for lithium, in which you lose a portion of your take-home pay to costs based on real-world current UK tax, national insurance, debt and household expenses....

Doom: The Dark Ages - All Sentinel Barracks secrets (Chapter 4) How to find all 6 secret locations in the Sentinel Barracks Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Looking to find all 6 Sentinel Barracks secrets in Doom: The Dark Ages? Chapter 4 of Doom: The Dark Ages has only a small handful of hidden areas - considerably fewer than Chapter 2, in fact - but they’re all fairly well hidden and easy to miss....

Doom: The Dark Ages story trailer shows off a full-scale hell invasion The only thing I fear is expositional cutscenes Image credit:Microsoft At some point in their development of the most recent trilogy, someone at Id Software apparently decided that the most interesting thing about their FPS was the character of the Doom Slayer himself - an odd though not entirely disastrous decision that I’d argue is mostly responsible for the design shape of Doom Eternal ....