How to make a roof in V Rising Learn how castle roofs work in V Rising Want to know how to make a roof in V Rising? It’s a source of confusion for many a new V Rising player. Roofs are useful both for blocking out the deadly sunlight and for speeding up the production of your various resource-refining buildings. But while walls and floors are easy enough to place down, roofs just don’t seem to exist at all....

I am desperate for people to like my pawn in Dragon’s Dogma 2 As his agent, I’ve decided I need to turn him into a car Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Last time I checked, my pawn Bronco sat at 80 in the monthly leaderboard of the pawn global rankings. Not forgetting that this is pre-release, so his place within the top 100 isn’t quite as good as it seems. This pains me....

I have embraced the subaquatic dread of not knowing which button to press in Full Fathom That sinking feeling Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Daemon House The developer of Full Fathom describes it as a “thalassophobia sim”. You are the lone engineer on a rustbucket submarine exploring the dangerous waters of a submerged country in an alternate reality 1990s. The warning lights on the control panel are flashing, a buzzer is spluttering like a dying bluebottle, and your robotic assistant is about as useful as an umbrella in the Mariana Trench....

I love the green fingers of Generation Exile, a solarpunk city-builder from ex-Far Cry and Firewatch devs, but it does feel quite messy Sprouting right now into early access Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Sonderlust Generation Exile is the new eco-conscious turn-based strategy sim from Sonderlust Studios, a Canada-based independent developer whose members include Nels Anderson ( Mark of the Ninja , Firewatch ), Karla Zimonja ( Gone Home , Tacoma ), and Marri Knadle (Far Cry 5 & 6)....

If your PC is too puny to launch Europa Universalis 5, there’s a secret very low graphics preset Also, beware the Vulkans Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Paradox Interactive Like an asteroid touching down in a freshly shaken martini, Europa Universalis 5 is now available on Steam, and some players have been having trouble playing it. I don’t mean the people who don’t understand inflation or why they can’t make friends with Greenland....

In precision platformer Clown Meat, you have to cheer up a Godzilla-sized clown from Jupiter We’re going to need a bigger tent Image credit:2 Left Thumbs I’ve done some elementary study of the planet Jupiter for various creative research projects/dead-ends. It’s probably a symptom of my failings as an astronomer, but I have to say that at no point have I noticed any gigantic, depressed clowns. In new platformer Clown Meat , one such gigantic, depressed clown has swum through Jupiter’s atmosphere, drifted to Earth and kicked off some kind of meatpunk apocalypse, saturating the surrounding countryside with circus-themed abominations....

In the midst of Civilization 7 UI woes, Firaxis hire prolific modder Sukritact is now a full-time tech artist Image credit:2K Games Civilisation VII studio Firaxis have welcomed prolific modder Sukritact on board as a tech artist, announcing the news in the grand strategy game ’s Discord. Sukritact has a storied Steam workshop history of Civilisation VI mods dating back to 2017. These range from fully-animated wonders to rebalances, and their recent ’ Sukritact’s Simple UI Adjustments ’ has been going down well with Civ 7 players....

Indiana Jones And The Great Circle is first-person, stealthy, and coming 2024 Whip it Image credit:MachineGames The leaks were right . Machine Games’ next Nazi-biffer is called Indiana Jones And The Great Circle. It was shown for the first time during this evening’s Xbox Developer Direct , where we got to see first-person punching and whipping, some tomb raiding, and plenty of Indy’s face in cutscenes. We also got a release window: 2024....

Instruments Of Destruction, from one of Red Faction Guerilla’s demolition tech wizards, is out in 1.0 now Great if you hate buildings Image credit:Radiangames Instruments Of Destruction goes to the trouble of having a voiceover offer a preamble to each of its missions, but I don’t need it. Its launch trailer knows I don’t need it, as its own voiceover makes clear: “Take this vehicle, destroy those buildings. Do I really need to explain why?...

Jumping Jazz Cats mashes the multiplayer minigames of Fall Guys with Disney’s Aristocats Picking up on that feline beat Image credit:Team 17 We’ve seen beans racing , and penguins racing , but we have not yet seen cats racing. That is because cats will not stoop to such frivolities, where it can be reasonably avoided. Cats are too self-respecting to get caught up in silly online multiplayer party games. Please. Don’t insult their intelligence, their divinity, their mastery of the environment and of your emotions....

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2: How to cure drunkenness and hangover Here’s how to quickly recover from being drunk in KCD2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Deep Silver How do you cure a hangover or remove drunkenness in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2? One of the few ever-present joys of the Middle Ages is alcohol, it’s been said; and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has no shortage of wine, beer, schnapps, and other tinctures to turn Henry moderately insensible....

Larian don’t know what their next game is yet, but it won’t be Baldur’s Gate 4, or Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC The studio is moving on from Dungeons & Dragons Image credit:Larian Studios Larian Studios, the makers of the enormously successful and multi-“so-many-awards-they-probably-need-ten-new-trophy-cases-to-house-them-all”-winning Baldur’s Gate 3 , will not be making Baldur’s Gate 4, founder and CEO Swen Vincke has announced. Nor will they be making any DLC or expansions for Baldur’s Gate 3 , for that matter - a stance I 100% respect as the studio starts to think about what’s next for them....

Larian’s new Polish studio is a “match made in heaven” for the Baldur’s Gate 3 developer’s upcoming RPGs Jaheira ‘bout this one yet? Image credit:Larian Studios Baldur’s Gate 3 and Divinity Original Sin developers Larian today announced the opening of a new studio in Warsaw, Poland. This is RPG outfit Larian’s seventh studio worldwide, and the latest to contribute to their “24-hour development cycle” model. That’s even more hands on deck to a) keep Swen Vincke’s armour polished to a fine sheen and b) ensure smooth sailing for the two new games that Larian currently have in the works ....

League Of Legends fighting spin-off 2XKO dangles Vi in front of fans alongside a closed beta Zoning out Image credit:Riot Games “2XKO’s Closed Beta starts September 9, available globally on PC,” said Riot in a press release on social media . “After Closed Beta begins, our goal is to keep the game online, outside of any necessary maintenance. This is a huge step for us. We’ll be deploying our backend systems at a larger scale for the first time, so things might be bumpy at first, but we’ll improve as we go....

Look, 4 new games that are NOT Monster Hunter Wilds Put down that giant sword Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Capcom The dust on the yesterday’s horizon has become today’s stampede. Monster Hunter Wilds has launched and we are all choking on up-kicked sand. So far the action game has hit a peak of 987,000 players on Steam and all my news feeds are nothing but Rathalos screams. This is what we call a “big ‘un”....

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage - Tape 1: Bloom review Bloomin’ heck Image credit:RPS / Don’t Nod Developer: Don’t Nod Montreal Publisher: Don’t Nod Release: February 18th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam Price: TBA Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti, Windows 10 Most writing tries to avoid cliché, understanding that an overused idea is one that has lost its power. It often feels as if video games take the opposite approach, gleefully piling tropes high upon their back like Labyrinth’s junk lady....

Marvel Rivals season 2 invites you to party it up with Emma Frost, features a very Dalek-sounding Ultron Seriously, he says exterminate and everything! Image credit:NetEase Anyone up for a little shindig? NetEase clearly are, as Marvel Rivals ’ second season is all about the Hellfire Gala, a fun little party gone wrong hosted by Emma Frost. As you’ll no doubt be aware, Emma Frost isn’t in the game currently, making her the first of the new characters to join this season, which kicks off next week, April 11th....

Mass Effect 5 devs should “scapegoat” Veilguard and a Dragon Age trilogy remaster was pitched to EA, says ex-BioWare producer “It’s strange for a publicly traded company to basically seem to be against free money” Image credit:EA / Bioware Former Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah has discussed pitching remasters of the first three games in the series to EA, and made clear in the same interview that he’s encourage the developers of the next Mass Effect game to “scapegoat” Dragon Age: The Veilguard “as much as they need to”....

Mass Effect 5’s top development brass includes a few original Mass Effect trilogy veterans Doing the far future the old fashioned way Look up to the skyline, and tell me what you see. It is me, standing on a hill, uttering firmly with my dying breath: Mass Effect : Andromeda was pretty good. For anyone currently gathered around the hill, searching the pockets of their N7 hoodies for more heavy objects to fling at me, however, here’s some good news: the as-yet unnamed Mass Effect 5 is in the capable hands of “trilogy vets”, according to project director Michael Gamble , via Le Epic Musk Zone (OP didn’t steal), formerly Twitter....

Microsoft exec calls for “smaller”, “prestige” games the day after closing Hi-Fi Rush studio Tango And reportedly turning down a sequel Ah, it feels like only yesterday that Microsoft shut down Tango Gameworks, creators of Hi-Fi Rush , and now here’s Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, telling Microsoft staff at an internal townhall meeting that “we need smaller games that give us prestige and awards” - a sentence we might plausibly lengthen to “…like Hi-Fi Rush”....