I’m fascinated by this open-world delivery game that sounds like Death Stranding on a horse in 13th-century Mongolia, with “unparalleled equine realism” Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori gallops onto early access in September Image credit:Aesir Interactive Despite being hugely allergic to horses - my eyes once swelled up so severely at a local fair my wife had to guide me home - I continue to be absolutely spellbound by the animals....

Indiana Jones And The Great Circle’s first DLC arrives September Explore Rome, learn about those big fellas Image credit:Machine Games Indiana Jones And The Great Circle contained at least one big lad, that I remember. Now it’s expansion is sending you to the land of the big lads. At this evening’s Xbox Game Showcase, Machine Games announced the first DLC for their first-person archaeol-’em-up, titled The Order of Giants. The trailer below doesn’t show much, but there’s a release date: September 4th....

Kiera Mills is leaving RPS, come celebrate her time here and say goodbye I promise I got her permission to use this image Image credit:Kiera Mills If you don’t secretly spend most afternoons plotting an eventual career change to one where you’re surrounded by animals, then I’m sorry, but you’re just not welcome in the RPS treehouse. Today, Kiera is taking a definitive step forward in that plan: she’s departing RPS for a new playthrough of life, one where the animal sliders are all cranked up to max....

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review: a bastard for all seasons Bromancing the throne Image credit:Deep Silver / Rock Paper Shotgun Developer: Warhorse Studios Publisher: Deep Silver Release: Feb 4th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam , Epic , GOG Price: £50/$60/€60 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7 12700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3060, Windows 11 After several hours of battles, sieges, imprisonment and torture in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 , a groggy Henry of Skalitz is woken by a servant girl in a castle outside Kuttenberg....

Knights Of The Crusades is a busy, bloody, villainous grand strategy RTS Now available in Templarly access Image credit:Indie.io One place to start the R&D rollout might be Knights Of The Crusades, a grand strategy 4X game in which players re-enact the period from the perspective of Christian and Muslim factions. Knights Of The Crusades launched into early access this week, and “takes you on a grand journey through the First Crusade and beyond–across the Holy Land, Spain, North Africa, and Eastern Europe....

Lightyear Frontier Nest locations and how to make Fodder Here are the Nest locations for the first five biomes in Lightyear Frontier Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Amplifier Studios Looking for Nest locations in Lightyear Frontier? Nests in Lightyear Frontier are hives in which the animals of the alien world live. Feeding Nests is a great way to replenish the natural resources of each biome, which usually houses around three Nests each....

Lushfoil Photography Sim review Click click zoom Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Annapurna Interactive Developer: Matt Newell Publisher: Annapurna Interactive Release: April 15th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam , Epic Games Store Price: $15 / £TBC Reviewed on: Intel Core 19-10900K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090, Windows 10; Steam Deck Primarily, Lushfoil Photography Sim is – spoilers – a photography sim. Then it’s a walking sim. Then it’s a photography sim again....

Marvel Rivals’ latest update disabled mods, meaning you can no longer play as Skibidi Toilet or Vegeta Yet more cowardice from Big Tech Image credit:Nexus Mods user Smelliots Mods Marvel Rivals received a patch earlier this week which made Hulk less hulky and paved the way for the launch of its first season. It also did something else: disabled the mods players had been using to add custom skins to the game....

Metroidvania Uruc is like Rain World but the slugcat gets a shotgun and pilots a mech Sluggier than thou Image credit:Stefan Haasbroek The slugcat of Rain World is a distinct little character. He flops around, squeezing through narrow tunnels with a movement that’s both cute and mildly gross. When he is eaten by a passing disco lizard or ravenous skull-faced vulture, it is because he is basically a delicious Squirmle existing in a horrifying cryptozoological ecosystem....

Microsoft reveal massive Game Pass Ultimate and PC Pass price hike, concede that price hikes are “never fun” You’ll get more games per subscription tier, plus other perks Image credit:Microsoft Microsoft are reshuffling their Xbox Game Pass subscription tiers and hiking the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass in certain regions. You’ll now need to pay $29.99 a month for Ultimate - a 50% jump, with pricing for places outside the US to follow....

Militia to the gates, please - the Dwarf Fortress Steam edition’s Adventure Mode beta is live Ware the werebeasts Image credit:Kitfox Games “It’s time to venture outside your fortress!” reads Kitfox’s invitation to play the beta for Adventure Mode in Dwarf Fortress on Steam. Sounds like a trap to me. Sounds like the kind of thing a werebadger would say, to lure you out of hiding. Are there werebadgers in Dwarf Fortress?...

Modern classic momentum platformer N++ gets a 10th anniversary update as its devs tease what’s next for them 10s across the board Image credit:Metanet Software Like whatever genres you like, but for me personally, I find platformers to be the quintessential video game genre. Even with the most challenging entries, there are very few other genres that (when done well) are as easy and quick to pick up, play, and have fun with....

Most Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown devs have moved to other projects, Ubisoft confirm, following report about rejected sequel pitch No layoffs involved Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft “Move over Hollow Knight ,” declared Katharine (RPS in peace) in our Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown review , summarising this freshly-honed hunk of POP art as “a deep and challenging Metroid-like with some of the best platforming this side of Moon’s Ori games....

Go with the Flow for just £71 I like this thing so much I rebuilt the entire RPG test rig inside it, relegating its previous case to a self storage unit in Barking. You don’t need to be quite so harsh on any old case you may be replacing, but I do heartily recommend the H5 Flow as your next PC box. Besides being cool and quiet, it’s not so chunky as to dominate your desk or floor space, yet still has enough room for big hands and watercooling radiators....

Neverway continues to make a compelling case for horror farming-sims in a new showcase from its devs Yes, way Image credit:Coldblood Inc. I don’t think you can more easily sell me on a game than by saying it was made by one of the artists behind Celeste, and has music from Disasterpeace, i.e. the composer behind Fez , Hyper Light Drifter , and It Follows. But that’s exactly what Neverway is, a horror RPG in the vein of Stardew Valley first announced back in April , back with a nice little look-in at yesterday’s Day of the Devs presentation....

New Nancy Drew game Mystery Of The Seven Keys is out in May, thus making my life very slightly harder I’ve only played three out of the 34 games so far! Image credit:Her Interactive The problem with deciding to play every single Nancy Drew mystery puzzle game for a column is that, because they have been coming out since the 90s, Her Interactive have built up enough steam that I may never catch up to the front of the plucky citizen detective train....

No, you can’t outsmart Call Of Duty’s skill-based matchmaking by restarting it, Activision reveal Developers offer frustrated Codders a peek under the hood Image credit:Activision I’ve always been convinced there’s a way to speed up a multiplayer matchmaking system that’s appeared to stall. Back in the Xbox 360 era, my friends and I held the X button one time and miraculously found a game in Gears Of War, having waited for ages....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Saturday, January 20) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #223 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 ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Saturday, May 18) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #342 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 ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Tuesday, January 9) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #212 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 ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....