RPS Verdict: Monster Hunter Wilds Wild about it? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Nic: Life, the absolute bastard, has kept me away from the Monst. Let me experience it through you. What’s the best Monst so far? Brendan: I am fond of the squiddy critters that slop about. The Nu Udra is a giant gloopy octopus that feels like a stand-out fight partly because of its many, many arms, but also because of the environment you fight it in....

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is delayed again, but a developer deep dive is coming soon Zoned out until November 20th Image credit:GSC Game World S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl , the beautifully grotty sci-fi shooter sequel from Ukrainian studio GSC Game World, has been delayed once again . It’s a relatively good-spirited delay, though: first off, it’s not that long, with the previously planned September 5th launch pushed back just a few weeks to November 20th....

Sci-fi coffee sipper Satisfactory gets a 1.0 release date, boasting its toilets will be fully flushable Fin-dustrialism Image credit:Coffee Stain The space industrialism of Satisfactory is distinct from other efficiency sims about making endless conveyor belts in two important ways. One: it’s a mash-up with the first-person survival genre that sees you stranded on an alien planet, a la Subnautica . Two: there is a dedicated coffee cup item from which you can leisurely sip....

Scott Pilgrim EX continues the Netflix show’s rehabilitation of its punchy slacker hero – and might be a good beat ’em up too Strike up the band Image credit:Tribute Games Inc One of my favourite pieces of internet television last year was Scott Pilgrim Takes Off , a Netflix anime series that pretends to be just another adaption of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novels before, rather brilliantly, pirouetting into a warm and sincere (but not overly self-flagellating) study of the original story’s tropeyness....

Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Chugging along I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:Patrones & Escondites Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by handcrafted art, intense fighting game violence, cosy management, and heaps more attractive and interesting indie games. Check these out!...

Screenshot Saturday Tuesday: What’s a three-day lag when there are all these games to admire? I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:@stuffbecauseidk Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. Well, on Tuesday this week, thanks to the four-day Easter weekend. But the games look just as attractive and interesting as they did on Saturday, so what’s the hurry?...

Shovel Game combines Minecraft, Mozart and hell Brick it Image credit:Luke Vincent I did not expect to meet Mozart in Shovel Game, nor did I expect him to ask me to mine a pyramid of shit, with the helpful advice that I start at the top to avoid any floating shitbricks. Mozart is probably the least interesting thing about Shovel Game, actually. It’s a shortform first-person oddity with Minecraft-style destructible voxels (yes I know Minecraft doesn’t really use voxels) and a touch of AHL_5am ....

Silent Hill f writer Ryukishi07 explains how the cultish town isn’t just a place now, but a “phenomenon” A femininomenon, in f’s case Image credit:Konami Last year, after a bit of a wait, Silent Hill was released, and with it came some changes to the series. The combat was a lot more actiony, the format for multiple endings was drastically different, but the most obvious change was its setting. We’re not in Silent Hill anymore, Toto!...

Silent Hill f writer Ryukishi07 shares what he hopes you learn from his take on the horror series My friends are my power Image credit:Konami Truth be told, I haven’t played all that many games this year, who has the time! There was one I couldn’t miss out on, however, which was Silent Hill f , the first properly new entry in the series for many years, and one with some pedigree behind it, Higurashi and Umineko writer Ryukishi07....

Sleight of Hand looks like a noir spiritual successor to Metal Gear Acid from dev behind puzzle gem Framed With the voice of Metal Gear Solid’s Meryl Silverburgh to boot Image credit:RiffRaff Games Sleight of Hand is an upcoming stealth-action game in which your sneaky detective uses cards to sneak around enemies while on the hunt for your former cult. It’s from the co-creator of acclaimed mobile game Framed, and has more than one connection to Metal Gear Solid going for it....

Space Marine 2 will ban mods from public games to address server stability and save corruption issues But you can still use them in private lobbies Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Focus Entertainment Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is making changes to how it handles mods in order to address server stability issues. Come the next big update in December, mods “will be prohibited from public online sessions,” according to an update from the game director....

Stalker 2’s bulletsponge mutants can be nerfed with this handy mod, saving you precious rounds Dogged determination Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / GSC Game World The mutant enemies in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl are very hungry. Hungry not only for your flesh, but also all the bullets in your AK-47. It can take entire clips of ammo to take down some of these tough beasts, and you get nothing back for killing this wildlife except the hollow satisfaction of pest control....

Steam’s 2024 summer sale is now live Games you don’t have to play are now cheaper Image credit:Valve You can tell when a major Steam sale goes live, because the Steam store stop loading. If you can make it past the “something went wrong” message you’ll find that the Steam summer sale is now underway. This year’s event includes a page of “featured deep discounts” , which highlights “especially great deals on some of the all-time greats....

Terra Memoria is a cheerful party-based RPG with a touch of Grandia A time-travelling tale for old timers Image credit:Dear Villagers In the event that I walk in front of a particle accelerator, get converted into digital data and am promptly isekai-ed into a gameworld, I hope that gameworld is the opening port town from the original Grandia , released on PS1 way back in 1997 (and ported to PC in 2019)....

The 15 best open world games on PC Keep your options open Image credit:Hello Games, Bandai Namco, PlayStation, Sega, Bethesda Softworks Our list of the best open world games on PC is for those who look at a forest and think about seeing what’s in the middle. For the players who really do want to climb that mountain. Sure, the size of games these days means in some sense they all have an open world, but here we’re leaning in to those games that want you to adventure, where the onus is on exploring and seeing what you find....

The best Steam Deck accessories for 2025 Hand-picked handheld extras, from peripherals to storage to grips Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Back when I first started crowning the best Steam Deck accessories , like some kind of plastic-robed archbishop of handheld gaming PCs, there wasn’t actually that much to choose from. A screen protector here, a thumbstick cover there… ultimately, just a narrow selection of very specialised add-ons from an even narrower gaggle of makers....

The closed beta for Concord, Sony’s new hero shooter, is underway - and the open beta arrives on Thursday Overwatch but they’re aliens or whatever idk Image credit:Sony For those that haven’t paid in one capacity or the other, don’t sweat it: a second beta open to everyone will launch later this week and run from July 18th until the 21st. To play Concord. you’ll need to have a PlayStation account linked to your Steam account....

The Elder Scrolls Online studio’s canned Blackbird game was a nimble, high-flying shooter, claims report And Xbox execs apparently liked it Image credit:Gamespot / Microsoft The new MMO from the Elder Scrolls Online developers would reportedly have been a sci-fi noir affair in which players swing around tall buildings on grappling lines, and do aerial dashes while shooting and looting. Call it Blade Runner Spider-Man. Call it Destiny 2077. Call it whatever you like, frankly, because it has been abandoned as part of wider layoffs at parent company Microsoft , the outfit that made tens of billions of dollars in profit this past financial quarter, yet has decided to jettison thousands of staff in the name of “discipline” and “continued success” ....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Silent Hill 2, Diablo 4 DLC, Metaphor and a handsome bunch of indies Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Rept0n1x Alas for the Maw. Last week we had a critical mass of people being off sick, away on trips, away on holiday, or locked in the cellar reviewing very long video games. As such, the flow of news to the dark god of video games journalism was sluggish....

The next Doom game is apparently called The Dark Ages and will go all Army of Darkness in a medieval world Game formerly codenamed Year Zero is reportedly due to be revealed next week Image credit:id Software That’s all according to a report from Insider Gaming , who claim that Doom: The Dark Ages has been in the works over at Id Software for over four years now. It’s also said to be the final name for the game previously known as Doom: Year Zero, mentioned on a document from 2020 that surfaced last year as part of Microsoft’s accidental leak during their legal wrestle with the Federal Trade Commission around the Activision-Blizzard merger....