Please go away I live in pet sim indie Bobo Bay now I’m happy here Image credit:NewFutureKids Over the past few weeks, my review schedule has involved kicking dudes, shooting dudes, war, eldritch busses, and diseased rats. I did not know how utterly burnt out I was on violence and misery until I held one of pet simulation Bobo Bay ’s sentient blob critters in my arms and lavished snacks upon it....

Possibility Space closes down, founder blames staff leaks Second Prytania Media studio to close this year Possibility Space has become the second studio owned by Prytania Media to close in recent weeks following Crop Circle Games’ closure in March. Both studios were founded by Jeff Strain, the co-founder of Guild Wars creators ArenaNet and the founder of State Of Decay developers Undead Labs. In a message to staff about the studio’s immediate closure, Strain implies the outcome was prompted by employees who leaked information about the company to a journalist....

PowerWash Simulator 2 has split-screen co-op for “twice the wash-power” Also special soap Image credit:FuturLab. Zen-like spout splasher PowerWash Simulator is getting a sequel, and you need to get some mates: it’s got both couch co-op and shared online campaign progression. It’s also self-published by FuturLab this time, which likely means less Final Fantasy motorbikes but more revenue for the developers to make their own gilded nozzles. Here’s a trailer....

Prince of Persia creator shares his sympathies with The Sands of Time remake devs: “Artists put their hearts into their work” “Having a project killed is a brutal experience” Last month, Ubisoft pretty unceremoniously cancelled a bunch of games , the most notable of the bunch being that long gestating Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake. This came as part of a major restructuring at the company, putting up to 200 jobs at their Paris HQ at risk , ultimately leading to a call for an international strike , and the firing of one Assassin’s Creed designer ....

Red Dead Online just got some surprise new missions, and one involves investigating “undead plagues” Somewhere in West Elizabeth, John Marston’s ears have just pricked up Image credit:Rockstar Games Update: Rockstar pointed us to the Newswire post about this Red Dead Online update now that it’s live, which provides a bit more info on each of the new missions. “There are stories of a malady spreading among the people of Armadillo, turning them into shambling undead,” reads the bit on the zombie plague mission, “It’ll fall on you to retrieve several of these diseased corpses for scientific examination, if you can avoid infection and fend off attacks from a resurgent cell of nearby cultists....

Rejoice fellow pagans, for stop-motion Scottish Border brawler Judero will launch in September Slay the clay Image credit:Talha and Jack Co, J. King-Spooner, The first time I encountered Jack King-Spooner’s work, it was when he sent me a copy of Sluggish Morss: Pattern Circus over hospital wifi late at night. The game was a bright spot in a bad time, which might seem peculiar given that Sluggish Morss often looks like a whale’s upset stomach, but it’s such a feverishly inventive creation....

Remembering Prey, Arkane Austin’s masterpiece Un-mimicable Image credit:Bethesda Softworks Confident design is one thing, but there is confidence, and then there’s the almost reckless certainty required in both your game’s sturdiness and the player’s curiosity to trust a feckless, glitch-hungry, poking-and-prodding player with Prey (2017) ’s GLOO Cannon. Here is a first-person game set in a sprawling, multi-tiered, metroidvania-esque space station - one boasting multiple-bathroom verisimilitude - which then immediately gives the player a gun that lets them bypass the level gating by letting them make their own ladders up keycard-locked grav-elevators....

Remembering the forgotten “Aliens MMO” created by the devs behind Dark Age Of Camelot and Elder Scrolls Online Did latency just drop sharply while I was away? Image credit:Fox Interactive / namcos The internet doesn’t exist in the world depicted by the film Aliens, though variations of it crop up in the expanded universe. Nor does the idea of a digital society. There’s networked communications tech, but it consists of signals between bodies in deepest space, light years apart, of lonely video terminals in cramped dockloader apartments, and of maniacally collaged CCTV feeds of Marines getting their asses kicked, man....

Resident Evil 2 director Kamiya says he’s up for remaking Kojima’s P.T., but not as a horror game because he hates those The T in P.T. stands for Trolling Image credit:Konami / Non Stop Nerd I thought it had been rather quiet round these parts lately. It turns out it’s been several months since Bayonetta and Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya had a tantrum about anything on social media. What are you steamed up about today, Kamiya-san?...

Rime and Song Of Nunu developers Tequila cancel game and lay off staff Studio restructuring “to concentrate on the development of only one game” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Riot Forge Ah, this makes for sore reading. Spanish developers Tequila Works have cancelled a game and made a “small” number of layoffs in the face of financial difficulties. “With deep regret, we must inform of the decision to cancel an unannounced game,” reads a post from Tequila on LinkedIn ....

RoadCraft sibling Docked’s Steam Next Fest demo is aimed at folks who’re deeply moved by container movement Seriously though, you better get ready to move some containers Image credit:Saber Interactive There’s a container. It needs to be moved. Get in this big crane thing and move it. That’s the short and sweet summary of the Steam Next Fest demo for Docked, Saber Interactive’s latest addition to their ever-expanding roster of simulations based around jobs which require high-vis gear....

Roblox promo codes list for 2026: Redeem these Roblox codes for free items A full list of Roblox promo codes and free items Image credit:Roblox Looking for the latest Roblox promo codes and free items to redeem? Roblox promo codes are a fantastic way to earn free items and accessories, which you can then use to customise your Roblox character. So if you don’t have enough Robux to deck out your character in all the fanciest clothes, don’t worry!...

Romeo is a Dead Man’s most beguiling spectacle is its astral fish tank menu Carp blimey Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Grasshopper Manufacture Romeo is a Dead Man , Grasshopper Manufacture’s eccentric new hack ’n’ slash, is out today. I quite like it . I especially like its main menu screen, a strangely hypnotic fish tank in which captive planets float alongside a coral ballet trophy, and the menu’s text strings try to escape when you’re not looking....

Skin Deep review Make space for this Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Annapurna Interactive Developer: Blendo Games Publisher: Annapurna Interactive Release: April 30th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam Price: TBC Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 “I. WANT. NINA. PASADENA. DEAD!” This is a distressing thing to hear from the mouth of a space pirate boss, much less see punching onto the screen in bold red text with every word....

Sony write off ill-fated $200 million shooter Concord as a loss by closing studio permanently Concoup de grace Image credit:Sony Interactive Entertainment Sony have shut down Firewalk Studios, the developers behind ill-fated multiplayer hero shooter Concord , and confirmed that the game will not be returning to stores. In doing so, they are effectively striking a line through a big, red $200 million in their books - a number that some report is only part of the loss....

Sorry, Oblivion Remastered: dabbing, twerking, and the griddy are now unleashable on command in you You’ve come down with a bad case of the Fortnitey emotes, but we’ll get through this Image credit:Bethesda / Virtuos / Rock Paper Shotgun Are you sitting down, Oblivion Remastered ? It’s alright. I’ve just got…some news I need to tell you. There’s no easy way to say this. A modder’s decided to put a bunch of Fortnitey emotes and dances inside you....

Splinter Cell remake gets new director who’s also old, as its original director sneaks back into the chair David Grivel’s returned to Ubisoft after previously departing the company in 2022 Image credit:Ubisoft Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell remake has a new director who’s served as its director before. David Grivel has returned to Ubisoft and take up the role he left when he departed the company in 2022, not long after being tapped as the remake’s original director following its late 2021 announcement ....

Star Wars Outlaws story trailer dates Solo open worlder for August release I find your lack of Vader quotes disturbing Image credit:Massive Entertainment Ubisoft Massive’s open world action-adventure Star Wars Outlaws will release on 30th August 2024, according to a new story trailer which introduces us properly to “emerging scoundrel” Kay Vess, aka Hannah Solo. If you haven’t had the pleasure, Kay is a budding crook on the run from her underworld boss, a journey that sees her tangling with several other Star Wars crime syndicates on various planets....

Tekken 8’s next character will be revealed this week, and clues point to a certain lady in red We’re Anna-lyzing the trailer Image credit:Bandai Namco Entertainment The big question a Tekken player always wants to know is: which DLC character is coming next? Well, you’ll know by the end of the week, as the studio is planning to reveal this at Geoff Keighley’s winter festival of expensive advertising, the Game Awards....

The 30 best Steam Deck games to play in 2026 Thousands of PC games are playable on the Steam Deck - here are some great ones to try Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Steam Deck Academy brings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. 2026 begins with sad tidings for the Steam Deck : the original, LCD-screen model, the one that sparked a belle époque for handheld PCs , is no longer in production ....