Best Gourds in Black Myth Wukong Improve your HP recovery and buffs with the most powerful Gourds in Black Myth: Wukong Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Looking for the best Gourds in Black Myth: Wukong? These unconventional wine bottles are your best friends during the Journey to the West; not only do they recover HP, but they can activate attack buffs, provide damage reductions, increase critical rate, and more. While most of the secondary effects come from your “drinks” and “soaks”, the Gourd itself is also important....

Best syndicate in Star Wars Outlaws Here is the best syndicate to join based on perks, territory and rewards Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Looking for the best syndicate in Star Wars Outlaws? Star Wars Outlaws has a total of four syndicates that rule their respective territories across the galaxy. These are Crimson Dawn, the Pykes, the Ashiga Clan and the Hutt Cartel. During your playthrough of Star Wars Outlaws you’ll encounter each syndicate and will perform jobs for them to earn reputation....

Black Myth Wukong: Chapter 1 walkthrough Here’s a complete guide to Chapter 1, including how to unlock the Ancient Guanyin Temple Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Looking for a Black Myth: Wukong Chapter 1 walkthrough? Chapter 1 of Black Myth: Wukong serves as an excellent introduction to the game’s mechanics, giving players the chance to master fundamental staff skills as they take the Destined One through the Forest of Wolves towards the lair of Black Bear Guai....

Black Myth Wukong: Chapter 6 walkthrough Here’s a complete guide to Chapter 6, including how to beat Erlang Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Looking for a Black Myth: Wukong Chapter 6 walkthrough? Chapter 6 of Black Myth: Wukong amps up the boss rush side of the game, giving you free access to Sun Wukong’s home of Mount Huaguo via the Somersault Cloud. There’s actually not much to do on the mountain besides beat up a bunch of big ol’ baddies, but Chapter 6 also gives the player access to the true ending of Black Myth: Wukong, including a cataclysmic rematch with Celestial Court do-gooder Erlang Shen....

Black Myth Wukong: How to upgrade armor Here’s how to upgrade your armor in Black Myth: Wukong Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Hoping to upgrade your armor in Black Myth: Wukong? It takes a fine set of armor to endure the hardships of finding all six of Sun Wukong’s relics, and Black Myth: Wukong features a truly dazzling array of robes, masks, and arm guards for your Destined One. If you want to upgrade these fetching armor pieces, however, you’ll need to do some legwork and complete a sidequest or two....

Borderlands 4 is out now but our review code just arrived so I’m writing about this silly bicycle game instead Thinking outside the Gearbox Image credit:Gearbox Borderlands 4 is out now. Our Borderlands 4 review is not, because we have only just been sent a review code. I fear I was unduly forgiving of Team Cherry last week for not supplying Silksong code before release - they’re a cute, tiny indie, after all, albeit a cute, tiny indie with the power to break Steam - so let’s take a firmer stance this time: bad!...

Build your own spaceship body as you fly in Jitter, an asteroid-heavy physics-based survival sim Airlock, stock and two smoking life support systems Image credit:Berko Games I guess the simplest way to describe Jitter is that it’s Heat Signature , the hectic spaceship hijacking game from Suspicious Developments, but you are the spaceship, not the hijacker, and also, you can glue pieces of other ships onto yourself, like in Captain Forever , and also, this looks a bit like Lemmings on the Game Boy....

Bungie leaders feared Destiny 2’s fancy glowing Trials gear would kill the microtransactions, claims source Anonymous former staff brand leadership toxic and unaccountable Image credit:Sony A new video from Youtuber Destin Legarie includes a number of allegations about Destiny 2 and Marathon developers Bungie from anonymous former employees. Amongst other things, we hear that Bungie staff once proposed a Destiny subscription model, but were “vehemently shut down” by leaders. There are also lots of claims about toxic, unaccountable management, and some throwaway insights about how the company’s culture has changed in the course of being acquired by Sony....

By Azura, an Oblivion Remastered modder’s dropped collectable Adoring Fan skill bobbleheads all over Cyrodiil Because it’s not a Bethesda game without little blonde dude figures Image credit:Bethesda / TheJaceWindu If you like your Bethesda RPG with a bit more of another sort of Bethesda RPG, I’ve got good news. An Oblivion Remastered modder’s decided to put another Fallout feature into the 2006’s hottest ‘supposed to be a jungle, but Lord of the Rings is popular’ game....

Civilization 7 is getting an even “harsher” Age transition option, as Firaxis roll out new sticky settings Prepare for the Collapse Image credit:RPS / Firaxis Civilization 7 is still trying to fix up those gosh-danged Age transitions. For those just joining us, when you move between Ages in Firaxis’s latest historical map-painter, it’s sort of like starting over. You’re asked to pick a new Civilisation, appropriate to the Age, and your units will be reshuffled, downgraded and, in some cases, deleted like rabid dogs....

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review Fin fantasy Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Sandfall Interactive Developer: Sandfall Interactive Publisher: Kepler Interactive Release: April 24th 2025 On: Windows From: Steam / Epic Games Store / Game Pass Price: £38 /€45 /$45 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti, Windows 10 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is Sandfall Interactive’s debut, which tells me two things about the French studio. Firstly, that they’re a bunch of utter show offs and, secondly, that they’re a bunch of utter show offs ....

Come say hello to Mark Warren, RPS’s new senior staff writer The treehouse demands fresh meat Image credit:RPS Mark joined VG247 back in 2023, and since then he’s written news, features and reviews that would have all sat comfortably on our own pages. He’s had a breakdown about his lack of interior design skills in The Sims , braved talking to the Fallout community , interviewed developers behind one of the half-dozen Disco Elysium spiritual successors , and built a baseball team made entirely of George Costanzas ....

Company of Heroes and Dawn of War devs Relic suffer layoffs one week after reclaiming independence from Sega Job losses apparently needed to give studio “the best possible chance to survive in an increasingly volatile industry” Relic Entertainment, the freshly-independent developers of Company of Heroes , Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and Age of Empires IV , have confirmed a number of job losses. The layoffs come just a week after the studio announced their sale from former owners Sega, returning them to independence after two decades....

Connections hints and answers for Fri, September 20th Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #466. 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 20th September? 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....

Connections hints and answers for Fri, September 27th Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #473. 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 27th September? Our guide is all you need to conquer today’s Connections and figure out the relationship between the words on display....

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster’s survivors are still idiots, but at least they can die horribly in style now Hands-on with the first few cases of the upcoming remaster Image credit:Capcom/Rock Paper Shotgun The survivors in the upcoming Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster - itself an update of the 2016 HD version of the 2006 zombie open-mall action game - are still idiots. I’m starting to regret giving Burt a gun, honestly. Every time he bumps into a magazine rack he starts screaming like someone’s eating his face, and the little circle above his name turns red to indicate he’s in danger....

Detectives detect detectively in the demo of moody noir sleuth sim Obsidian Moon Whodunit? Image credit:Lost Cabinet Games Lighting up my fifteenth cigarette of the hour and adjusting my fedora, I slipped the mysterious code into the box. A collection of numbers and letters designed to provide early access to the demo of a detective game. It was a hot tip from a public relations person on behalf of developers Lost Cabinet Games....

Double Fine’s next game looks gorgeous and is coming in October It’s called Keeper and is about being a lighthouse Image credit:Double Fine Double Fine’s next game is called Keeper and it’s about steering a four-legged lighthouse through a lush 3D world, with some puzzle-solving along the way. Its creation is being led by Lee Petty, who was previously project lead on Double Fine’s RAD and Headlander . There’s a trailer below, which also brings news that it won’t be long before it releases....

Dragon’s Dogma 2: Nation of the Lambent Flame quest walkthrough Here’s how to venture to a new region in Nation of the Lambent Flame Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Looking for a walkthrough for the main quest Nation of the Lambent Flame in Dragon’s Dogma 2? You’ve reached Act 2 of Dragon’s Dogma 2 , and a whole new world awaits you. Battahl is a gorgeous sand-covered land full of cliffs, gorges, and tonnes of danger hidden within its windswept contours....

Dryft racing, hip-hop and pirates: the cheeky, eclectic games of Aussie studio Nonsense Machine Wackos down under Image credit:Nonsense Machine For most of his game-making career, Australian developer dweedes has projected an image of cheeky, punkish rebellion. His website WET GAMIN has accumulated a trove of experimental games over the last decade: short works by various freeware developers that exemplify a scribbly, DIY spirit. Now, making and selling games on Steam under his studio Nonsense Machine , dweedes finds himself in the position of stepping up his commercial and craft ambitions while trying to stay true to his anti-corporate roots....