The best rosary farms in Hollow Knight Silksong More than you can keep on a string Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry Looking to max out on rosaries in Hollow Knight Silksong? You’d be surprised how simple it can be, so long as you know where to look. You can easily earn thousands of rosaries in less than an hour of farming, and you aren’t limited to a single location. Granted, there is one place in Hollow Knight: Silksong that beats out all the others as far as ease and efficiency goes....

The Crush House review: sassiety of the spectacle Maniac McMansion Image credit:Devolver / Rock Paper Shotgun Developer: Nerial Publisher: Devolver Digital Release: August 9th 2024 On: Windows From: Steam Price: $16.99/£14.99/€16.99 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7 12700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3060, Windows 11 When I zoom the camera on Alex’s momentarily untensed face while he’s dozing by the pool, it’s not because I’m a creep. When I pursue Ayo and Dija around the garden, keeping their feet and butts in shot as they belittle each other, it’s not because I’m a busybody and a lech....

The Elder Scrolls Online’s smaller expansions are “not in any way” a result of last year’s layoffs The move to Seasons was always the plan Image credit:Bethesda Softworks / Zenimax Online Studios “Last year was a hard year for the studio,” Elder Scrolls Online’s executive producer Susan Kath says. “It was a hard year for all of us.” In 2025, as part of sweeping cuts made across all their businesses , Microsoft laid off a significant chunk of Zenimax Online Studios....

The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 6: Skull & Bones is finally about to come out Yo ho ho and a bottle of live service Image credit:Ubisoft It’s happening! Why I played Skull & Bones back when it wasn’t even a live service game. But now it is, and it’s out this weekend. We talk a bit about how long it has been coming out, why it’s been in development this long, and why they didn’t just release the sucker the two or three previous times they got close to doing so....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Elf cities, sniper killers, forsaken kings and minigolf Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images Merry mid-October all! It’s chucking it down here. This week I’m mostly playing a game of my own devising called There’s A Hole In My Raincoat And I Can’t Find It. The Maw is unlikely to be sated by such flotsam, so it’s just as well there are also a bunch of new PC games on the cards....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Indiana Jones, the Power Rangers and the Keighleeees Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Aspyr Happy this week all! It’s almost time to give 2024 the finger, swallow a flagon of mince pie formula and tapdance backwards into the holiday, but the Maw still needs a little feeding and it has no appetite for mince pies. Nor will it eat tinsel, candy canes, mistletoe, snowmen or reindeer, though goodness knows we’ve tried....

The NYT Mini Crossword answers for Thursday, August 28th 2025 Your perfect companion guide to understanding and solving The Mini for today Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Mini Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Mini Crossword answers for Monday, September 15th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s Mini Crossword on Thursday, 28th August? Well, you have come to the right place!...

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for getting your 10,000 steps in, apparently. I bring this up specifically because I’ve been crap at exercising recently and I need you, RPS readers, to shame me into doing it more, much as you did when I admitted on the podcast to rarely using sunscreen. I’m counting on you, everyone....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for heading into your kitchen at 7am to find the neighbour’s cat squatting with her back to you on the windowsill. The neighbour’s cat spooks easily and every time you scare her away, you worry she’s never coming back. So let’s very quietly make a cup of coffee and ever so softly click on some links to internet articles and read them as frictionlessly as we can manage....

The Witcher 4 has entered “the most intensive phase of development”, say CD Projekt Witchercraft! Image credit:Sebastian Kalemba / Rock Paper Shotgun Just when you thought you’d played all the RPGs - maxed every last stat, drained the XP of every last creature, tap-danced your way along every branching questline - CD Projekt have announced that The Witcher 4 is in “full-scale production”. “I’m pleased to announce that several weeks ago it moved on to full-scale production,” chief financial officer Piotr Nielubowicz said of the game, currently codenamed Polaris, during the company’s latest quarterly earnings presentation to investors (thanks, VGC )....

There are gamer-branded flower seeds now - thank you, Guild Wars 2 Paging doctor gamerthumb Image credit:SeedSaga When I was a wee lad, my grandfather, an avid gardener, walked with me down to the end of his immaculately tended botanical kingdom, and bid I look upon his favourite flowers, bright blooms of Geraniums. He was a humble man, but even he could not disguise his pride at how wonderfully full and rich their colours and forms had come in this year....

There shall be no Sims 5, you insolent fools, only a Sims universe A universe that includes a film and Project Rene, which is sort of Sims 5, maybe People waiting impatiently for The Sims 5 : you have sinned against Simming and must do penance. In your temerity and ignorance, you have cried out unto developers Maxis and publisher EA for another sequential helping of the cuddly/sociopathic neighbourhood-building game - a “sequel”, if you will....

This Cobalt Core mod adds hapless frog Soggins to your crew for extra chaos “Unavoidable Bumbling Idiocy” sounds about right Image credit:Arin, Shockah/Brace Yourself Games If you’ve been enjoying the excellent Cobalt Core as part of this month’s RPS Game Club , you may well have stumbled into Soggins the frog along your travels. Running into this hapless buffoon is always a delight in Cobalt Core, as he’s one of the few special characters who doesn’t instantly attack you on sight....

V Rising Castle Heart Status In Decay: What is Castle Heart Decay and how do you prevent it? Learn about Castle Heart Decay and how to prevent it What is Castle Heart Decay in V Rising, and how does it work? If you’ve played any V Rising at all, you’ve probably already placed down a Castle Heart somewhere in the Farbane Woods, without really knowing much about what it is or how it works....

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2’s latest patch offers up fixes, as a roadmap promises more improvements You can quit without fear now too Image credit:Paradox Interactive Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is, in Dominic’s own words , “merely okay.” I haven’t played it myself, so I can’t comment there, the general consensus seems to be in agreement on that point however. The Chinese Room are working on turning that around at least!...

Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2 rolls back difficulty changes that made fighting xenos “intense and stressful” A little too lethal Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Focus Entertainment The developers of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 have released an update to the third-person shooter that reverts a lot of tough difficulty changes made in a previous patch. Turns out upping the spawn rate of the vicious Tyrannid baddies across all difficulty modes was not welcome among the meathead murder boys of the Imperium....

Weeks after an indefinite delay, Mina the Hollower’s success is a “make-or-break” moment for Yacht Club Games Things aren’t sounding too hot at the Shovel Knight developer Image credit:Yacht Club Games Back in October, three weeks out from its release date, Yacht Club Games’ first completely new game since the original Shovel Knight , Mina the Hollower , was indefinitely delayed . It still doesn’t have a release date, and now in a new report and interview with the studio, it’s sounding like the success of Mina is a “make-or-break” moment for Yacht Club Games....

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:George Du Maurier/Old Book Illustrations I’m likely going to be spending much of this morning preparing conversation topics for the two-year-old’s birthday party I’m going to this afternoon. It’s not the toddlers that are the issue - all the old standards go down a treat with them – “Do you like the taste of boogers?”, “What’s that behind your ear?...

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Paris: Librairie Illustrée, Marpon & Flammarion, n.d. [1883] Happy new year to you all! Let’s make sure we collectively start off 2025 in the right way: that is, by playing games in our free time, and leaving no room for anything else. Here’s what we’re all clicking on this weekend! Brendy I have a review of a promising RPG on my plate, so maybe I’ll plug away at that....

What is Resizable BAR, and should you use it? Everything you need to know about this freebie framerates feature, updated for 2025 Back when Nvidia first started enabling Resizable BAR on their graphics cards in 2021, it didn’t take long for the promise of gloriously juiced-up game framerates – achieved with all the effort of flicking on a lightswitch – to be revealed as something only mildly helpful at best, and a crazy handful of nothing at worst....