Blade and Phoenix are coming to Marvel Rivals this July in Season 3, along with rumoured “anti-heal” mechanics Flammable vamping ahoy Image credit:NetEase / Rock Paper Shotgun It’ll soon be time for another season of Marvel Rivals , the super-duper Overwotlike and thirsty delivery vehicle for every variation of Marvel character known to the human mind. What’s coming in season three? Wesley Snipes and a bloody great burning bird lady. By which I mean, Blade and Phoenix....

Blue Protocol: Star Resonance gets a release date a year on from its original cancellation They must have had the power of god and anime on their side Remember when Blue Protocol died last year ? And remember how it was brought back to life only a few months later as Blue Protocol: Star Resonance? It’s not often that such a turnaround happens, so you have to count your blessings when they do....

Buddy, if you’re only buying two lousy packs you can leave my TCG Card Shop Simulator store immediately Who’s that Tetramon? Image credit:OPNeon/Rock Paper Shotgun While I’ve been known to enjoy a few of them in my time, I tend to view a lot of more mundane simulator games in the same way I view sports games: Looks fine, but I could do this stuff in real life, were I inclined and also social and also vaguely limber instead of owning a spine with roughly the flexibility of a rib n’ saucy Nik Nak....

Building Relationships is A Short Hike, but you are trying to chat up toy houses Get a Bungaload of this Image credit:Tan Ant Games Picture a himbo tent. Now, see if you can get your mind around the concept of a flirtatious windmill. What exactly are the key architectural qualities of dwellings you might wish to go to bed with? Actually, don’t bother stretching your grey matter – you can just play Building Relationships , which is sort of A Short Hike but also, Love Island for anthropomorphic toy houses....

Civilization 7 being compared to Humankind is “probably the best compliment I ever got”, says Amplitude boss “I did not see that coming, to be frank.” Image credit:Sega Much coverage of Sid Meier’s Civilization VII has compared the Firaxis 4X to Amplitude’s 2021 release Humankind . As our dirty turncoat strategy game columnist Sin Vega briefly explores in her review for Eurogamer , the game’s Age structure, which hands you a new culture at intervals in each campaign, is reminiscent of Humankind’s Era transitions....

Cobalt Core is wonderful because it’s actually Pong That’s a paddling Image credit:Brace Yourself Games/Rock Paper Shotgun I seem to be on a highly irritating “refuse to play games as they were intended to be played” spree lately. A couple of weeks ago, it was “I refuse to leave the prologue area in Skull And Bones” , a decision that has sadly been born out by Ed’s review . Then it was “I refuse to play Helldivers 2 as a co-op shooter” , which again, is a stance I am sticking with, even as I am overrun and sat on by Terminid Chargers....

Come and join us to chat all things Cobalt Core in today’s RPS Game Club liveblog Starting at 4pm GMT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Brace Yourself Games Today’s the day of the RPS Game Club liveblog, where we’ll all pile into a single article to talk, in real-time, about February’s game pick, Cobalt Core . We’ll be kicking off shortly at 4pm GMT today (Thursday February 29th) , so go and grab a cuppa, switch on some appropriate music , and we’ll get this liveblog started....

Connections hints and answers for Fri, October 18th Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #494. 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 18th October? We don’t judge, Connections can be a tricky beast to solve and with only four guesses (to score the best) sometimes you need a little nudge in the right direction....

Consume Me is an RPG minigame buffet that goes straight to the hits Bite me, body shamers Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Hexecutable / Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder The RPS Advent Calendar 2025 has begun! We’re revealing one of our favourite games of the year every day, and our favourite of favourites on December 24th. Check the main Calendar post to see a full list of our choices so far....

Darkswitch is Frostpunk in a big tree with music from Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka With apologies to Eldric Flambet Image credit:Cyber Temple Frostpunk in a tree (hey!). Frostpunk in a tree (hey!). The temperature is fine but monsters all want to eat me (hey!) Frostpunk in a tree (hey!). Frostpunk in a tree (hey!). Folk horror instead of industrial misery (hey!) Frostpunk in a tree (hey!). Frostpunk in a tree (hey!...

Days Gone devs are getting back in the saddle and hiring someone with live service experience Bend Studios could be pivoting away from single-player Image credit:Sony Days Gone is that zombie x motorbike open world game (except they were at pains to point out that Freakers weren’t zombies ) that Sony did for PS4 in 2019, and ported to PC in 2021 - both years after people were done with Sons Of Anarchy as a thing....

Dbrand’s Big Short sale has dropped the best Steam Deck case to just $50 There’s up to 40 percent off sitewide until May 23. Image credit:dbrand Dbrand has launched a new “Big Short” sale that includes sizable discounts on its Killswitch cases and more for the Steam Deck and other devices. The Killswitch case is compatible with both the original and OLED models, with the Essential Kit now starting at $49....

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach PC release confirmed by ESRB ratings board Beware that it contains swearing Image credit:Kojima Productions Death Stranding 2 : On The Beach has been listed for PC, bringing closer the moment in which you and I can learn why exactly Troy Baker is a glam rocker, why Mad Max director George Miller (it’s not actually him) has a cat demon, and why Turkish-German screenwriter Fatih Akin has become a living doll....

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor early access review: pick of the bunch The best autoshooter without “Vampire” in the name Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ghost Ship Publishing Developer: Funday Games Publisher: Ghost Ship Publishing Release: February 14th 2024 On: Windows 10/11 From: Steam Price: £10/$10/€10 Reviewed on: Intel Core i9-10900K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3090, Windows 10 Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is a delicious piece of mad science: what if you spliced the ale-sodden DNA of Deep Rock Galactic ’s dwarven miners with tissue samples from a Vampire Survivors -like autoshooter?...

Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4 get a June release date, just don’t forget you’ll have to pay for these ones Annoying dog probably included Image credit:tobyfox For the most part, anything to do with the Nintendo Switch 2 won’t have much to do with anyone in this neck of the woods, but its inaugural Direct did have some goodies for us PC players too. Like, for example, the fact that Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4 now have a release date, June 5th (which also happens to be when the Switch 2 comes out but that’s neither here nor there)....

Diablo 4 Vessel Of Hatred new difficulty levels Here’s the rundown on the new difficulty levels in Season 6, including the Torment difficulties Image credit:Blizzard What are Diablo 4’s new difficulty settings? As of the Vessel Of Hatred expansion and Season 6, Diablo 4 has done away with the old World Tier system and introduced new difficulty settings, including four ultra challenging Torment difficulties. Even if you’re a seasoned veteran when it comes to vanquishing the demons plaguing Sanctuary, one of these new difficulties is bound to test your skills, playstyle, and experience....

Don’t look too closely at the best puzzle game of 2025 Assembly required Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Coincidence / Astra Logical The RPS Advent Calendar 2025 has begun! We’re revealing one of our favourite games of the year every day, and our favourite of favourites on December 24th. Check the main Calendar post to see a full list of our choices so far. Crack open Kaizen like a disposable camera, and you’ll find the parts inside are very similar to a subgenre of puzzle game called Sokoban....

Don’t Wake The Beast is a blend of Thief and Spelunky where you must let sleeping dragons lie The more loot you carry, the louder your feet Image credit:Artificial Disasters The Hobbit movies are a mixed Baggins indeed - at once thunderous and thin, like butter scraped over too much bread - but one sequence I love from The Desolation of Smaug is Bilbo searching Erebor for the Arkenstone, while trying not to rouse the titular dragon from his slumber....

Dragon Ball Sparking Zero just got a huge discount on PC, and plays great on Steam Deck Not even 100x gravity could keep me away from this deal. Image credit:Bandai Namco If you’ve been even a little curious about Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero , now’s the time to grab it. It’s currently down to $46.19 / £39.59 on PC, so here’s how to get the deal. Fanatical has the Standard, Deluxe, and Ultimate editions for far less than Steam, and yes, these are still official Steam codes....

Dragon’s Dogma 2 cooking features “real meat” - does that mean vegans shouldn’t play it? Raising the steaks Image credit:Flowtaro/Capcom Dragon’s Dogma series director Hideaki Itsuno has announced that the meat you can cook over campfires in Dragon’s Dogma 2 is, in fact, “real meat”. There’s been a certain amount of PlayStation-instigated speculation about whether the meat is CGI-generated, following the last round of Dragon’s Dogma 2 previews . Speaking to Japanese site 4Gamer , as translated by Automaton , Itsuno revealed that the game’s scenes of sizzling flesh are derived from live action film of steaks being grilled - partly for the sake of authenticity, and partly to save money versus creating computer models of meat products....