Elden Ring Fort Laiedd walkthrough How to defeat the Fire Prelate and clear Fort Laiedd in Elden Ring Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Are you looking for an Elden Ring Fort Laiedd walkthrough? Just finding Fort Laiedd is half the challenge, as this fortress is well-hidden on the far western side of Mt. Gelmir. Once there, don’t be intimidated by the burly Fire Prelate guarding the place; he’s not quite as dangerous as he looks....

End Of Abyss is a Dark Soulsy shooter spawned from the bowels of Little Nightmares No primordial serpents so far Image credit:Epic Games Publishing Early in my hands-on for End Of Abyss, the developer sitting next to me expressed surprise at how readily and consistently I was using the game’s handheld scanner. I myself was surprised - perhaps even appalled - to hear that other journalists had been neglecting it....

Ex-The Witcher 3 devs’ vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker gets a trailer, looks Witcherish Drac to business Image credit:Rebel Wolves Here be your first moving-picture look at The Blood of Dawnwalker, the dark fantasy RPG in the works at Rebel Wolves – the studio founded by a bunch of former The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 devs. As hinted at a couple of times over previous years, when it was known simply as Dawnwalker, you’ll be playing as a vampire, employing various spooky powers to fight militiamen (and, it seems, at least one giant mechanical spider-thing) amidst a deadly plague outbreak....

Fallout 76 has a hellish new area and Bethesda want you to nuke it Welcome to Skyline Valley, live now on the public test server Image credit:Bethesda Softworks Timed perfectly off the back of the Fallout TV show’s success, Fallout 76 players can start testing out Skyline Valley, a new woodland area in the game’s upcoming major update. There’s a new public event to try, as well as combat readjustments that’ll be drip fed over the course of the test period....

Final Fantasy 14’s new jobs bring a splash of Splatoon and Pokémon to its Dawntrail expansion Pictomancer returning from Final Fantasy 6, while second limited job revealed as Beastmaster Image credit:Square Enix Final Fantasy 14 has revealed the second new job arriving in its upcoming Dawntrail expansion. The Pictomancer is a new-oldie, bringing back the magical artist class from Final Fantasy 6 - albeit with some colourful new powers for magical ranged DPS players to enjoy....

Firaxis announce Civilization 7 release date alongside new trailer full of nukes, Wonders and period celebs It’s out in February 2025 Image credit:2K Games Firaxis and 2K Games have slapped a release date on Civilization 7 , the latest in the obscenely venerable empire management series. It’s out 11th February 2025. Find a new trailer with a quick-and-dirty montage of units, buildings and posturing historical celebs below. Don’t worry, it still has hexagons....

Fired GTA 6 devs suffer setback in legal fight against Rockstar as UK court denies request for interim relief War of words over alleged union-busting and leaked info continues Image credit:Rockstar GTA 6 developers fired by Rockstar last year on the charge of leaking information about the upcoming game have been denied interim relief, as they and their allies at the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain begin their legal case against the company for alleged union-busting....

Former Destiny and Final Fantasy devs reveal soul-stealing tactics RPG Never’s End Possess the townsfolk and sculpt the terrain <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/CoverArt_Wide_4K.png?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“A youthful anime warrior with a sword standing in a pool of silver next to some silver text, reading “Never’s End” - 1”> Image credit:Hypersect If you found the feudal festival of backstabbing that was Final Fantasy Tactics distressingly upbeat and wholesome, perhaps you’ll be more impressed by Never’s End, a new turn and grid-based RPG from Destiny ’s former lead sandbox gameplay designer Ryan Jucket with character designs from Final Fantasy artist Masayoshi Nishimura....

Glory Holes Of Oblivion lets your weapons and spells fire through gates and also lets your enemies do the same Image credit:Bethesda/Virtuos Glory Holes Of Oblivion is an Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered mod that lets you shoot arrows and cast spells through holes in gates, and also allows your enemies to do the same. Cheers Ex Research for the spot. NexusMods lists Glory Holes Of Oblivion as containing ‘adult content’....

Great deal alert: $2500 58-inch Samsung monitor now $1800 A $700 savings on what is essentially two 4K 240Hz monitors glued together. Image credit:Samsung/Rock Paper Shotgun I don’t expect anyone to buy this monitor - but I’m absolutely entranced by a $700 discount on a gaming monitor that brings it down to “just” $1800. To be fair, this is essentially two 32-inch 4K 240Hz monitors without the gap in the middle, with a Mini LED backlight that delivers 1000-nit HDR highlights, an absolute beast of a monitor… but I’m guessing that most people that can drop nearly $2000 on a monitor aren’t waiting for a deals post on Rock Paper Shotgun to do so....

GTA Online update pops a quality-of-life feature behind the GTA+ paywall, making it unavailable on PC Cue catastrophic predictions about GTA 6 monetisation Image credit:Take-Two Interactive GTA Online players have been calling for the ability to gather safe earnings without having to visit the property in question for yonks, which makes this a bit of a monkey’s paw situation. As one redditor puts it: “So many players requested this feature, yeah they’re “listening to our feedback” and figuring out how to monetize it....

Half-Life 2 RTX and all of its foggy, ray-traced lighting is getting a demo next week Why does this Ray love tracing so much anyway? Image credit:Valve/ Orbifold Studios/ Nvidia Remember when Nvidia announced that Half-Life 2 RTX mod way back in, crikey, 2023 ? Yeah, I didn’t realise how long it had been either. To be perfectly honest I thought it had already come out, but apparently not, because just this week Nvidia shared that Half-Life 2 RTX is getting a demo next week on March 18th....

Heist game Relooted takes playful, political revenge on both museums and looting sims Monumental momentum Image credit:Nyamakop Room 17 of the British Museum contains an entire tomb - a two-thousand-year-old burial site framed by featureless lavenderbox walls, like an asset conjured up in a video game editor. Known as the “Nereid Monument” for the presence of sea nymphs among the pillars, it is thought to have been constructed for the Xanthian ruler Arbinas in what is now Türkiye, and appears in the Museum care of the 19th century British archaeologist Charles Fellows, who, in the Museum’s words, “brought many antiquities back to England with the full permission of the Ottoman Turkish authorities”....

Helldivers 2’s latest patch buffs a bunch of guns, nerfs tongues, and dials down the drawbacks of using scopes As a Fast and Furious director takes the reigns of its film adaptation Image credit:Arrowhead Hey, Helldivers 2 ’s just gotten a patch with some noteworthy balancing tweaks and fixes ahead of its latest warbond - Python Commandos - dropping. In short, a fair few guns now do more damage, some enemies have been made a tad less potent, and the drawback which usually comes with attachinga magnifying scope to your favourite bug blaster has been scaled back....

Help! I’m caught in the grip of a clicker game where you feed the belly of a fusion reactor The power of the sun at tap tap tap of a button Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Adam Travers I regret to inform you, I am once again in the grips of an idle clicker. Feed The Reactor was only released last night, but I’ve already become one of the 0.1% of players to prestige its tech tree....

Here are some leaked images of an Xbox-branded handheld and the Asus ROG Ally 2 I will show you Ryzen Z2 Extreme in a handful of dust Image credit:FCC/ Videocardz Cough! Splutter! Sneeze! Excuse me, it’s mighty dusty in here all of a sudden. Exceedingly dirty alleged leaked images of both the Asus ROG Ally 2 and what could be Microsoft’s rumoured “Project Kennan” gaming handheld have burst forth from the tissues of the internet in a shower of dead skin particles and grime....

Here are some PC bits you could buy for less than the PS5 Pro Consumer advice you can trust Image credit:Sony Today’s big news from the other side is that a tuned-up PS5 Pro is on the way, and a base spec, Blu-ray-driveless model will set you back £700. Or $700, in Ameridollars. That’s a lot of cheddar for a living room games box, and while us Windows lot can’t quite claim pointing and laughing privileges – speccing a 4K-capable, DIY build desktop for seven hundred quid is certainly beyond me – the fact is that if you can get some pretty nifty PC kit for less....

Here’s a 25-year-old demo for Big Brother, the 1984 video game sequel they never made A doubleplusgood show of game preservation Image credit:MediaX / Time Extension It’s been a lifetime since I read George Orwell’s 1984 - a tale of mass surveillance, indoctrination and repression nowadays invoked to describe everything from Trump’s Twitter ban to Pizza Express telling you that jelly-beans aren’t a topping - but I will always remember how it combined role-playing with adventure gaming and brought the “detail of Riven into the real-time world of Quake “....

High On Life 2 comes to run the joke further into the ground this Winter Or maybe not? Image credit:Squanch High On Life 2, the FPS from former Rick And Morty actor Justin Roiland ’s Squanch games, is coming this Winter, as per tonight’s Xbox showcase. The trailer looked heavily doctored despite the “in-game footage’ claim, but it looks to be more of the same with the volume turned up: talking guns, aliens, weird abilities like a turtle with flamethrower breath, and the same two or three jokes stomped so far into the ground they end up melting in the glow of the earth’s core....

Hollow Knight: Silksong will be playable at Gamescom, as Xbox offer first chances to fiddle with the ROG Xbox Ally Maybe start queuing now, just to be safe Image credit:Team Cherry A demo of Hollow Knight: Silksong will be playable at this year’s Gamescom, with Microsoft set to show it off in tandem with the first public exhibition of the ROG Xbox Ally handheld. Yep, the fates of this long-awaited Metroidvania sequel and Asus’ Xbox-branded portable PC continue to intertwine , like star-crossed lovers....