Your snacks are trying to kill you in Leftovers KO!, aka Punch-Out for foodies Whamburger with cheese Image credit:Feardemic I can’t be the only person here who’s ever had a fistfight with their washing-up. I have this big metal spatula that has a malicious habit of bouncing out of the drying rack. Again and again, it sneaks under my elbow to spring and sproing over the lino, gathering as much stray onion peel as it can on the way to the door....

Zoria: Age Of Shattering review: a systems-heavy RPG that punches above its weight In peril? My fantasy kingdom? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Anshar Publishing Developer: Tiny Trinket Games Publisher: Anshar Publishing, Surefire Games Release: March 7, 2024 On: Windows 10, SteamOS and Linux From: Steam , Epic Games Store Price: $25 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-11340F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3060, Windows 11 Zoria: Age Of Shattering speedruns its fantasy RPG origin story in a quick cutscene montage at the start, so we might as well get that out of the way first, too....

99 Nights In The Forest: Beginner’s guide A (definitely not cursed) survival guide to getting started in 99 Nights In The Forest Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Grandma’s Favourite Games Just getting started in 99 Nights In The Forest? Your first few days cautiously roaming the sinister woods of this Roblox horror game can be daunting. You’re low on resources, starving, struggling to build your small fire… oh, and there’s also the deer monster who ominously stalks you from the shadows, peering out from behind trees....

A European consumer watchdog wants you to be able to buy exactly as much in-game currency as you need, not fixed chunks Plus a dozen other recommendations against misleading microtransaction practices A European consumer advocacy group have published an open letter to the European Union Commission expressing their concerns about video games that make use of premium in-game currencies - aka, make-believe money you can buy with real money, such as Minecoins in Minecraft’s Bedrock Edition....

A PS1 kei truck, jungle beats, and an eery vibe combine to make Easy Delivery Co., a game where there’s “definitely no secrets” Alright, I’m in Image credit:Sam C There isn’t a huge list of things that’ll immediately sell me on your game, but there is one that’ll draw me in without fail pretty much every single time: you can drive around in a kei truck. Now, admittedly, there are very few games where you can actually do this, the delightful Promise Mascot Agency being the most recent one....

Adding new weapon types to Monster Hunter is “very difficult”, says Wilds director “Bringing the whole lineup to a better place” is the priority right now Image credit:Capcom Monster Hunter Wilds adds various new tinctures of wyvern, toad monster and arachnid to the fantasy creature chopper’s vaunted eco-stew, but that additional variety isn’t quite apparent from the weapon types. They’re fancier-looking with tweaked or expanded movesets, but it’s a familiar line-up beneath the extra layers of flesh and metal....

All Hades 2 romance options and gifts Here are all the romance options in Hades 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games Looking for Hades 2 romance options? Like its predecessor, Hades 2 offers romance for those who wish to have a reprieve from the Underworld and its legions of enemies. Whilst the game is in early access there is no overt romance, but there are specific characters whom you can pass the time with and unlock unique dialogue with....

AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 is the all-games-welcome DLSS 3 alternative that the first version should have been Let the good frames roll Image credit:Sega There’s a new version of AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) available to try, and good news for Radeon GPU owners: it is drastically, almost comically better than the original version. Whereas AMD’s first take on driver-level frame generation – the same kind of framerate-roiding image generation trickery that FSR 3 and DLSS 3 are based around – came yoked to a barrel of jittering, stuttering, and visual artefacting issues, Fluid Motion Frames 2 is as smooth and you’d like....

An absolute beginner’s guide to getting started with Total War: Warhammer and Immortal Empires Plus what DLC to buy first depending on your favourite faction Image credit:Creative Assembly The Total War: Warhammer series is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. Luckily, coming up with completely original quotes is not my only skill. I’ve also become very adept at pouring hundreds of hours into this series of strategy games ....

An urgent update for the dogs next door bork bork bork bork bork bork bork Image credit:EA Mummy and Daddy have not abandoned you, they have just gone to work again. They cannot hear you howling, but I can. I can. Rock Paper Shotgun is better when you sign in Sign in and join us on our journey to discover strange and compelling PC games. All 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints and where to get them These areas have the highest chance of giving you Blueprints...

Anime RPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink gets its biggest update yet with free new quest Plus fixes for progression blocks, multiplayer balancing and camera Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Cy Games Granblue Fantasy: Relink has received a sizeable game update, which adds a new, difficult quest, The Final Vision, some additional camera and aim sensitivity settings, and new Steam trophies. That’s in addition to a brace of bug fixes, character-specific balancing tweaks for multiplayer, and assorted quality-of-life improvements, including visual and audio indicators to indicate when you’ve lost your buffs....

Arc Raiders prepares to stake its claim in making extraction shooters popular with an October release date Someone’s got to do it Image credit:Embark Studios Arc Raiders ! It’s an extraction shooter ! A fact that will leave many with the question, “is this the one that’ll push the genre to the mainstream?” Personally I haven’t the foggiest, and I don’t have a horse in that race either. That kind of nonsense matters more to shareholders than it does to little old me....

Are you a failure? Wanderstop might be the “cosy” game for you They’ve got it down to a tea Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Annapurna Interactive Before you even get to control your character in Wanderstop , you’ve already fucked up. Alta has lost in the arena, her defeat a swift and ignoble end to three years as unbeaten champion. She is, in her own words, a ruinous “failure”. To retrain and come back fiercer than ever, she pops into the forest looking for a legendary trainer, only to find herself waking up exhausted in front of a picturesque tea shop....

Around 400 Blizzard platform & technology staff are the latest Microsoft workers who’ve voted to unionise “After seeing so many hard-working, passionate coworkers arbitrarily laid off, we are excited to have greater control over our workplace” Image credit:Activision Blizzard Another group of workers at Microsoft-owned Blizzard have voted to form a union, with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) set to represent them. The CWA say that this union will be made up of “nearly 400” workers across Blizzard’s platform and technology department....

Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest hotfix brings some good news for those of you on Steam Deck Smooth sailing Image credit:Larian Studios Another day, another Baldur’s Gate 3 hotfix, this one being number 34, or version 4.1.1.6931813 of the game if you really want to be specific. There’s a number of fixes we’ll get to in a minute, but first the thing you’re probably most excited to hear: it has a native Steam Deck build now!...

Battlefield 6 gets a hotfix targeting bugged hit damage and EA are busy inspecting bouncy ladders I assume it takes extra time to draft in a trampoline engineer Image credit:EA Misbehaving bullets, your hour of reckoning is nigh. A Battlefield 6 hotfix has been deployed with the goal of stopping you from refusing to register hit damage when you embed yourselves in virtual flesh. Bouncy ladders, your time will likely come soon, as EA’s Battlefield Studios are busy trying to work out the arcane secrets of your rubbery rungs....

Battlefield 6 rumoured to get a battle royale mode as leaker finds footage of an exploding dam Military intelligence Image credit:Electronic Arts Some raw footage has leaked of a cinematic moment in Battlefield 6 (or Battlefield Now, or Battlefield Big War, or whatever Electronic Arts are planning to call their next western military interventionism sim). The video sees the player escaping from a collapsing dam at the last minute as bomber jets launch a payload at the big concrete waterstopper....

Bauhaus Bonk is an energetic, lethal single-button arcade game set to a bopping swing soundtrack Bonk Image credit:Spoonful Games I reckon you’re likely to be in one of two camps with precision platformer Bauhaus Bonk - which I instantly appreciate for giving me an excuse to use the word “bopping” - either finding it so easy you wonder what the point is, or getting genuinely sucked in by its deceptive trickiness....

Become a forsaken nun and find absolution in the dead, almost-techno gothic horror world of Metamorphosis Nice and light Image credit:luxan There is something that lies in the belly of Metamorphosis that makes me recoil. The surface level concept is easy enough to follow. It is a 2D pixel art horror where you play as a “forsaken nun” who “walks the long road to absolution.” The world you find yourself in in the game’s demo is overbearing, crushing....

Black Myth Wukong: Chapter 3 walkthrough Here’s a complete guide to Chapter 3, including a Pagoda Realm walkthrough Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Looking for a Black Myth: Wukong Chapter 3 walkthrough? Chapter 3 of Black Myth: Wukong is the most expansive in the game, sometimes feeling like it’s two or three chapters bundled together into one. It features the longest array of bosses and amps up the difficulty from the first two chapters, particularly with the Pagoda Realm, a prison defined by constant debuffs....