How to store resources in Manor Lords Here’s how you can protect resources from rainfall in Manor Lords Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Want to know how to properly store resources in Manor Lords? At the beginning of a playthrough in Manor Lords , all your supplies are simply laid out in the open for your citizens to collect from as needed. But if it starts to rain, these valuable starting resources may get soaked and ruined, which can really impede your growth in the first year or two....

I bought scratchcards from a dog in Zenless Zone Zero and it made me stop and look around Actually quite zenful Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Hoyoverse In Zenless Zone Zero , the free-to-play follow-up to Genshin Impact , your character steps out into the city hub and announces their daily ritual - to visit the scratchcard stand. This is on-brand. But, oh no, a wink to real life gambling could be interpreted as a transparent acknowledgement of the gacha genre’s psychological claw machine, which is maybe why the developers decided the scratchcard stall should have a sole employee: a very cute dog....

I was a fool for skipping Widelands, the only game as good as The Settlers Yup! Image credit:RPS / Widelands Development Team Between fifty game releases a day, and among them official successors and open source remakes, most 90s games your grandma bangs on about have some modern equivalent that somewhat fills the gap. But not The Settlers . There hasn’t been a Settlers game since 1996. Whether they were good or not, its many sequels, as early as 3, started missing the point of the design....

In Steel Seed, you parkour through a planet-sized machine - it’s out in April, and here’s a demo From the mechanists behind Close To The Sun Image credit:ESDigital Games Grand yet furtive robot action-adventure Steel Seed will launch on April 10th, developers Storm in a Teacup and publishers ESDigital Games have announced. Not heard of Steel Seed before? You would’ve if I’d ever written up that demo build I played at last year’s Game Developer Conference....

Jump gaps and ruin lives in 1000 Deaths, an offbeat 3D platformer about making decisions for jerks Choose your own misadventure Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/ Pariah Interactive, Inc. 1000 Deaths , which released yesterday, primarily pitches itself as a 3D platformer with some tricksy plays on gravity – but the running and jumping only demands half your attention at most. The other half is dedicated to shaping the lives of four variously maladjusted losers (who, like the rest of their surroundings, resemble a child’s crayon drawings made flesh), the platforming challenges being punctuated by destiny-altering decisions to make on their behalf....

Just from its brilliant demo, The Drifter is doing something special with the point ’n click genre Besides confirming the existence of Australians, obviously Image credit:Powerhoof The Drifter ’s titular speaks in the sort of rough Aussie accent that, alongside his first person, present tense commentary (“I grab the tarp”), lends this point ’n click adventure the feeling of being a half-memory, relayed over dive bar drinks, possibly to a reluctant server....

King’s Field with a bird RPG Dungeons of Blood and Dream is out in 1.0 now A bird on the wrist Image credit:Lori Vornoy Sin enjoyed the roguelike stylings of Dungeons of Blood and Dream when she played it in early access back in July, calling it a “baffling, bizarre thing that lives on the border of janky, retro, and punk”. As of yesterday, it’s now out for realsies, promising psychedelic dungeon crawling, the stabbing of assorted gribblies, and lots of little details that make you go “ooo, that’s nice....

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2: How to pick hard locks “This lock is too difficult” explained! <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-lock-too-difficult.jpg?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=“The player attempts to pick a lock in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, but text appears saying “This lock is too difficult”. - 1”> Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Deep Silver Want to know how to pick hard locks in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2? Ah, my fellow thieving little gibbon, I know your frustration. When you go to attempt picking a lock in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 , only to be presented with the message, " This lock is too difficult “!...

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2: How to wash clothes and use Soap Learn how to clean your clothes in KCD2! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Deep Silver Want to know how to wash your clothes and use Soap in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2? It’s a manky life, living in the Middle Ages; even more so when you’re cutting up bandits and nabbing gear from corpses on the regular. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has multiple troughs of water in almost every major settlement where you can wash yourself for free, but this will only remove the blood and dirt from your body , not your clothes....

Last Epoch: Best Sentinel builds and skills Learn the best builds and skills for the Sentinel class in Last Epoch Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Eleventh Hour Games Wondering what the best Sentinel skills and builds are in Last Epoch? Bordered by the blinding glory of nobleness stands the Sentinel, the holy warrior of Last Epoch . This is the class to play if you want to act as a bulwark against waves upon waves of enemy forces, smashing them into the ground with the fervor of your godly hammer strikes....

Left 4 Dead dev Mike Booth has teamed up with JJ Abrams to make another four-player shooter, with purple aliens this time “Get out there and fail to save the world” Image credit:PlayStation If you’re staying up all night to watch The Game Awards 2025, follow along with our live coverage . If you want an early night, you can catch up on all the news with our Everything Announced at The Game Awards 2025 roundup ....

Legendary strategy boardgame Twilight Imperium is getting a proper PC adaptation with singleplayer support Tabletop Simulator burnouts, rejoice Image credit:Red Square Games Many moons ago, I missed my chance to join a weekly Twilight Imperium play session. Missed my chance, or dodged a bullet? Twilight Imperium is an infamously complicated and backstabby boardgame, the kind of baroque strategy space opera that can swallow up entire days and expose any number of terrible character flaws along the way....

Marvel Rivals gets its first ever PVE mode when the zombies arrive on October 23rd Flogging a dead Hawkeye Image credit:NetEase / TheGamer Marvel Rivals is finally getting a PVE mode, pitting five of the game’s 42 stylish and bizarre, caped or capeless crusaders against… zombies. Ah, zombies, the real heroes of any videogame looking to phone in a quick co-op wave attack mode (while dabbling in a little cross-promotion )....

Meta reportedly close Ready At Dawn, creators of some of the best VR games Fading echo Image credit:Meta Facebook and Oculus Rift owners Meta are reportedly closing Ready At Dawn Studios, the outfit behind the excellent Echo VR and Lone Echo games, as part of wider reductions at the company’s Reality Labs division. The report in question comes from Android Central , who cite internal memos from Reality Labs. According to the site’s Nicholas Sutrich, the closure is intended to ensure Reality Labs “stays within [its] new budgetary constraints and that Oculus Studios can make a ‘better long-term impact’ in VR development”....

MindsEye launches to clips of ATVs glitchily spaghettifying a bloke named Seb, but a patch is on the way Oops, there go my limbs Image credit:Build a Rocket Boy Mindseye, the game from ex-Rockstar president Leslie Benzies-helmed studio Build a Rocket Boy, has arrived. Its launch has gone, er, a bit glitchily, currently landing the game at a mixed reception on Steam. That said, the studio have at least confirmed an update designed to improve Mindseye’s performance is on the way....

Monster Hunter Wilds is getting an endgame expansion “ahead of schedule”, as Capcom keep hunting player approval More end is nigh, MonHunners Image credit:Capcom Monster Hunter Wilds is now set to get an endgame revamp earlier than originally advertised, with Capcom having opted to chuck their established update plans for the next few months out of a window. Well, I say that, all they’ve really done is move around some bits....

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord’s first bit of DLC is all about taking the lads out on a not-so-nice boat trip It’s not on sail yet though Image credit:TaleWorlds Entertainment Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord , is coming up to three years now, but at the Future Games Show this evening, all these years on, developer TaleWorlds Entertainment announced that the strategy action game will be getting its first bit of DLC, War Sails....

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord’s War Sails expansion is terraforming the land to encourage maximum boat bastardry Let slip the oars of war Image credit:TaleWorlds Entertainment Sorry, historical farming village folk. You live in the sea now. Ok, fine. By the sea. But that’s the best we can do. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord ’s War Sails expansion is due this Autumn , and TaleWorlds have put out a new deep dive blog covering what to expect from the big battle strategy RPG ’s first foray into wavely warfare....

NetEase shut down studio of Fallout and Star Wars alumni who were making an online sci-fi action game T-Minus Zero Entertainment are no more Image credit:T-Minus Zero Entertainment NetEase have shut down T-Minus Zero Entertainment, a studio founded in 2023 by former BioWare developer and Star Wars: The Old Republic executive producer Rich Vogel. The studio had been working on an online multiplayer sci-fi action game, with contributions from a number of ex-BioWare and Bethesda staff including Fallout 76 design lead Mark Tucker and senior producer Scott Malone....

NetEase’s new Spider-Man-esque open world gacha RPG has a proper name - Ananta Project Mugen no longer Image credit:Naked Rain/Netease Netease’s free to play open world gacha RPG Project Mugen now has a proper name: Ananta . As Edwin points out in the Maw, it is very much like Spider-Man meets Zenless Zone Zero , with its mixture of cityslinging and unabashed anime teens with long, flowy hair and a penchant for metal accessories....