Diablo speedrunners searched 2.2 billion random dungeon seeds to debunk a two-decade old speedrun record When you said “stay a while”… Image credit:Blizzard A team of Diablo speedrunners spent months searching the 1996 RPG ’s 2.2 billion valid randomly generated dungeon seeds to find the layout used in a stupidly lucky speedrun they suspected to be illegitimate, says a new report from Ars Technica’s Kyle Orland . The three minute, 12 second sorcerer run by Maciej “Groobo” Maselewski was first uploaded to Speed Demos Archive in 2009....

Dragon’s Dogma 2: Best weapons The best weapons for every vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Looking for the best weapons in Dragon’s Dogma 2? There are a plethora of weapons in Dragon’s Dogma 2 , from fairly standard swords utilised by the Fighter to unusual incense burners swung by the Trickster. While most weapons are purchasable in shops, all cost a hefty amount of gold, and several top-tier weapons are only found in chests....

Dragon’s Dogma 2 modders are finding ways around the otherwise acclaimed RPG’s controversial microtransactions Mods make the character editor item and other paid DLC cheaper and easier to find in-game Image credit:Capcom/SilverEzredes Everyone likes Dragon’s Dogma 2 , it seems. Except everyone also seems to dislike one specific part of Dragon’s Dogma 2: the fantasy sequel’s microtransactions. But that one dull spot has already been polished out by modders, who are offering more convenient (and less expensive) ways to pick up items that you’ll either need to potentially grind or cough up real money for....

Dress To Impress codes (February 2026) Redeem all the latest DTI codes for free outfits and other goodies! Image credit:Dress To Impress Group Update: codes last checked on Wednesday, February 11th 2026. Want to know all the currently working Dress To Impress codes? Dress To Impress is one of the most popular and recognisable dress-up games in Roblox . The aim? To dress your character up as fabulously as possible in order to earn votes from other players and improve your standing as a famous model....

Elden Ring is “the limit” for From Software project scale, says Miyazaki - multiple, “smaller” games may be the “next stage” A relief to me Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco I think I’ve written about it a bazillion times here on RPS, but I do think Elden Ring is a massive open world game that’s a bit too large and in charge. I reached the exhaustion point once, and now the DLC’s come out, I’m scared I’ll reach it again despite the fact I think it’s very good ....

Elden Ring: How to get to Altus Plateau Struggling to reach the Altus Plateau? Here’s where to go! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Not sure how to reach the Altus Plateau in Elden Ring? As you might know, the Elden Ring map is absolutely gigantic (and bound to get bigger with the Shadow Of The Erdtree expansion!). Liurnia may be the largest of the regions in terms of sheer traversable space, but the Altus Plateau just to its north is one of the most confusing to reach for new players....

Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Church District walkthrough Here’s how to drain the water in Shadow Keep’s Church District Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for a Church District walkthrough in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? The Shadow Keep is one of the most complicated and confusing legacy dungeons that From Software has ever created, not just in Elden Ring - and the Church District accounts for a fair bit of that confusion....

Elder Scrolls Online will get new zones, but they’ll “be a different flavour” from what came before Which begs the question: what does Skyrim taste like? Image credit:Bethesda Softworks / Zenimax Online Studios Much in the same way that I started this year by telling my loved ones I would cut down my portion sizes in 2026 to attend to my ageing body, Zenimax Online Studios began the year by saying they would be releasing smaller updates for Elder Scrolls Online to refresh the MMO’s creakier content....

Ending Dead Cells updates is a “marketing stunt” to “leave room” for Windblown, claims former lead designer Former Motion Twin member has “blunt words” for old workplace Former Dead Cells lead designer Sébastien Benard is none too chuffed about publisher Motion Twin’s decision to end development of the well-regarded roguelike Metroidvania . A few days ago, Motion Twin announced that the 35th major Dead Cells update, aptly titled The End Is Near, would be its last ....

Escape Simulator 2 announced with promises of Dracula’s castle and an improved escape room editor There’s been an escape boom in recent years Image credit:Pine Studio I had a few merry evenings playing Escape Simulator back in 2022. Of the co-op escape room games I’ve played, it was the best, both in terms of its relatively neutral framing (with little heavyhanded storytelling) and its pretty solid puzzle design. The game was expanded in the time since with a versus mode and several crossover DLC, and now there comes a sequel....

Fair play to Saber - Space Marine 2’s roadmap has all the juicy bits for free, although sprucing up your blueberry mates will cost you Boltered-on Image credit:Saber Interactive/Rock Paper Shotgun Exterminatus. Exterminatus. You’re all exterminatused. None of you are free of sin. Except, maybe Focus Interactive are actually? While it would be a monumentally silly heel turn to go back on their promise of only charging Space Marine 2 players extra for cosmetics a mere week and change before the shooter’s September 9 release date, the new year one roadmap does at least look piously forthright....

Fallout 4 gets some further tweaks to its mod-destroying “next gen update” It’s a Todd awful small affair Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda. As promised and/or threatened , depending on your perspective, open world game Fallout 4 has gotten some new graphics tweaks and bug fixes to smooth out the bumps caused by its previous “next gen update” . The update broke a bunch of mods, delayed a few interesting overhaul projects like Fallout London , and generally made everyone shake their fists at the sky and shout “Howaaaard!...

Far Cry’s getting a TV series starring It’s Always Sunny’s Rob Mac, with each season designed to mirror a new game I assume the outposts you have to clear without setting off the alarm before you can watch each episode also reset regularly Image credit:Ubisoft Far Cry is set to be turned into a live-action TV series on FX, something Ubisoft reportedly let slip back in August, but has now been formally announced by the publisher in a post that’s yet to be randomly zapped into the ether....

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s director has one key, and likely familiar, word to keep in mind for part 3 It involves something to do with a particular dragoon Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Square Enix I am most certainly the kind of sucker that has few complaints about Final Fantasy 7 Remake being split into multiple parts. Those are my guys! I love my grumpy idiot all too realistic looking Cloud, I think Midgar being so well realised helps to justify the splitting of the game, and as maximalist as Rebirth is, there’s a quality to it I can’t help but admire, even with its many flaws....

FISH³ is a surreal arcade fishing racer where you have to fish while you drive a fish-powered boat Fish! Image credit:Bakery of Games I love fishing in games. I already went over this last week with Out Fishing , so I won’t repeat myself much more. But I do desperately need to tell you about FISH³, or FISH³: FISHTASTIC FISHING FISHSCAPES, a very unconventional fishing game that’s also an arcade time trial racer , where the fish you catch are also your boat’s engine, and you can fish while you’re racing?...

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn is misfiring with major stutter on the Game Pass version You have some options to smooth it out, though Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kepler Interactive Edwin’s been appreciating the acrobatic twist that Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn puts on the Soulslite formula, but not everybody’s magical zip-zooping has been going as smoothly. Following the Steam and PC Game Pass releases yesterday, there are widespread reports of heavy stuttering spoiling the fun; I’ve given both versions a test, and indeed, Flintlock does have a serious case of the framerate stammers....

Forget about those real leaves you have to deal this autumn with Leaf Blower Co, which arrives later this month Make like a tree Image credit:LifT Games There are many words that could be said, and I’ll attempt to say a few of them here, on the gamification of both menial labour and tasks, but it is always fascinating to me when a new game crops up that somehow makes me go “oh, sure, why not!...

Former GTA producer’s next game MindsEye has a release date, though I’m not sure if you’ll find it Everywhere Is this the next big vapourware game? Image credit:Build A Rocket Boy Have you been Everywhere ? Not like, literally, everywhere, but Everywhere, that sort of Roblox, sort of Fortnite, everything game from Build A Rocket Boy, a studio founded by ex-Rockstar dev and GTA 3 to 5 producer Leslie Benzies. That whole, uh, interactive experience or whatever you want to call it still seems to be in beta....

Frostpunk 2 is delayed until September in order to address players’ beta feedback Survival citybuilder is getting new features and UI Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/11 bit studios Frostpunk 2 is being delayed so its developers have time to address player feedback gathered during the beta earlier this year. The survival citybuilder was originally due to begin shovelling orphans into the furnace in July, but those dear children now have a reprieve until September 20th....

Gang Beasts-meets-Stardew Valley farming game Southfield delays release date three days before launch to look after devs’ ‘health and wellbeing’ “With a small team, the last thing we want is to put enormous pressure on them to fix these issues for launch" Image credit:Radical Forge Southfield cropped up earlier this year as the joyously chaotic meeting of a physics sandbox in the vein of Gang Beasts or Human: Fall Flat with a farming/management sim like Stardew Valley or Satisfactory ....