American Truck Simulator Is Heading To Iowa In A Future Dlc

American Truck Simulator is heading to Iowa in a future DLC I am very tired and “Keep on truckin’” is the best I’ve got sorry Image credit:SCS Software American Truck Simulator already has in-development DLCs which will see its 18-wheelers head to Arkansas and Missouri , but SCS Software have also commenced building a third: Iowa. The announcement on Steam chatters about the sights on offer within the state, from the capital Des Moines to the scenic views of the Mississippi River....

January 3, 2026 · 16 min · 3267 words · Mary Carter

Ancient Aliens Vs Predator Game Briefly Resurrected By Steam Player Thirst For Six Packs

Ancient Aliens vs Predator game briefly resurrected by Steam player thirst for Six Packs Rebelling against obsolescence Image credit:Sega Deep beneath the smog of a plausibly denied planetoid, there lurks a space hulk full of dessicated hand monsters, shorn dreadlocks and long-emptied Pulse Rifles. The vessel mostly lies silent, but every so often, an ancient server deep within the core crackles awake, beaming an ominous signal far out into the void, and the chitinous corridors come alive with flamethrowers and squelchy stabbing noises and oh, so much screaming....

January 3, 2026 · 17 min · 3608 words · Ralph Humphrey

Anime Card Collection Codes (february 2026)

Anime Card Collection codes (February 2026) Stock up on potions and packs with these Anime Card Collection codes Image credit:Crew Simulators Looking for Anime Card Collection codes for free Potions, Packs, or Cash? In Anime Card Collection, you’ll build the card collection of your dreams by purchasing rare packs, crossing your fingers, and hoping for the best. Like plenty of Roblox tycoon games, you’ll watch as your rarest cards rake in the cash, which you can then use to buy (you guessed it) more packs....

January 3, 2026 · 17 min · 3410 words · Constance Stonestreet

Anthology Of The Killer Is Out Now, Bringing Murder To Your Doorstep

Anthology of the Killer is out now, bringing murder to your doorstep Many more confirmed dead Image credit:Stephen “thecatamites” Gillmurphy A whopping 1000 corpses have been found in our ongoing investigation into Anthology of the Killer , Rock Paper Shotgun can reveal. The bodies were discovered in the aforementioned murder mystery “video game”, which is out now on itch.io . Following our previous reports we can confirm that exposure to the game’s crime-infested city can cause severe disorientation, confusion, uncontrolled fits of laughter, and moderate enlightenment....

January 3, 2026 · 16 min · 3375 words · Helen Johnson

Aqua Horror Sim Barotrauma Has An Update That Makes Opiates "less Of A Solution For Everything"

Aqua horror sim Barotrauma has an update that makes opiates “less of a solution for everything” Of monsters and medicine Image credit:Undertow Games/FakeFish/Daedalic Entertainment Alien-infested submarine sim Barotrauma has received a chunky update, bringing two new-ish monsters into its lethal aquatic world. The shrimp-looking Mantis may be recognisable to veterans (it once appeared in pre-Steam builds). And the Viperling is a venomous variant of the existing Spineling (a thorny seaworm with hull-piercing porcupine-like spikes)....

January 3, 2026 · 17 min · 3522 words · Ronald Calais

Arise, Tarnished (again)

Arise, Tarnished (again) - Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree is out now It’s Erdtreelease day at last Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree has finally been released on PC, adding a fat, rancid helping of open world role-playing to an open world RPG of already trouser-wetting, skirt-soiling scale and hazard. You can find this “first and last” Elden Ring DLC expansion on Steam , the Xbox Store and in the suppurating depths of your very worst nightmares....

January 3, 2026 · 18 min · 3671 words · Kathrine Garcia

Ark: Survival Ascended's First Expansion Recruits The Studio Behind Jujutsu Kaisen For Some Flashy, Anime Cutscenes

Ark: Survival Ascended’s first expansion recruits the studio behind Jujutsu Kaisen for some flashy, anime cutscenes Oh, and yes, Ark 2 is still happening, just so you know Image credit:Studio Wildcard/ Mappa It seems like no matter where you go, Mappa is right there, ready and waiting with an anime something-or-other you weren’t expecting. This time, you’ll find the studio behind Jujutsu Kaisen in Ark: Survival Ascended , of all places, specifically in its first expansion pack Lost Colony....

January 3, 2026 · 16 min · 3383 words · Jennifer Wallace

As The Games Industry Continues To Be A Mess, The Devs Behind Hyper Light Drifter Share Why They Took To Patreon

As the games industry continues to be a mess, the devs behind Hyper Light Drifter share why they took to Patreon Make or Breaker It’s not exactly much of a secret that a lot of indie devs are struggling to stay afloat these days given the economic gestures vaguely at a world map. No one has an exact solution either, but last December, just before the release of its latest game Hyper Light Breaker , noted indie developer Heart Machine announced that they were opening a Patreon ....

January 3, 2026 · 17 min · 3517 words · Raymond Brower

Assassin's Creed Shadows Review

Assassin’s Creed Shadows review Bamboozled Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Ubisoft Developer: Ubisoft Publisher: Ubisoft Release: March 20th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam , Epic , Ubisoft Price: £60/$70/€70 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 Assassin’s Creed is for magpies. These stealth action adventures constantly dangle some glittering side hustle to distract you from the winding road of the main story. They are “while we’re here” games....

January 3, 2026 · 27 min · 5679 words · Robert Walden

Battlefield 6's Launch Day Patch Notes Are Here And Nearly 2800 Words, So Whip Out Your Reading Specs Private

Battlefield 6’s launch day patch notes are here and nearly 2800 words, so whip out your reading specs private Tweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakssssssss Image credit:EA Battlefield 6 ’s launch day patch was promised to be a big one, and EA weren’t lying. The full notes have just arrived ahead of the shooter’s launch tomorrow, October 10th. They’re over 2700 words long. That’s about double the length of my last feature, but solely dedicated to stuff like recoil and times to murderdeath....

January 3, 2026 · 17 min · 3484 words · Megan Childers

Behold, The Essential Oil Diffusing 'fragrance Mouse'

Behold, the essential oil diffusing ‘fragrance mouse’ Inspireless Image credit:ASUS “The cat is the fragrance, Nic,” Ollie once told me when I asked the RPS Slack channel for alternatives to my essential oil diffuser, which I can no longer use for fear of my cat getting vanilla scurvy or lavender botulism or whatever else. I contemplated those words last night when she pounced into bed with me, curled up, and serenaded me to slumber with a briney fart....

January 3, 2026 · 17 min · 3593 words · Amanda Whiteside

Best Deals For Pc Gamers Today: Boutique Rigs And Game Bundles

Best deals for PC gamers today: boutique rigs and game bundles Featherlight mice to game bundles that give back. Image credit:MainGear, Skytech and Keychron Today’s lineup mixes boutique muscle with budget-friendly firepower. The RUSH Mk. IV from MAINGEAR is a top-tier build I’m personally using—and it shows. Built, optimised, and debloated on the same bench it was assembled on, it’s the kind of machine that screams craftsmanship. You’re paying for a system that’s more than parts in a box: it’s pristine cable management, smart airflow, clean software, and solid support from people who actually know what they’re doing....

January 3, 2026 · 21 min · 4297 words · Kenneth Meyer

Best Pills In Black Myth Wukong

Best Pills in Black Myth Wukong Boost your stats against Black Myth: Wukong’s many bosses with these excellent Pills Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Wondering what the best Pills are in Black Myth: Wukong? In order to go toe-to-toe with the many Yaoguai that Black Myth: Wukong throws at you, your Destined One needs a solid array of stats, which sometimes need to be updated with the occasional medicinal boost. Pills, the game’s term for stat-boosting and healing items, are invaluable when it comes to surviving any of the 107 bosses that stand between you and Sun Wukong’s reincarnation....

January 3, 2026 · 20 min · 4260 words · Michelle Peach

Beyond Good & Evil 2 Director Confirms Team Are "unaffected" By Ubisoft Cuts, "remain Committed" To The Game

Beyond Good & Evil 2 director confirms team are “unaffected” by Ubisoft cuts, “remain committed” to the game “Needless to say, I am saddened by the cancellations that [have] affected my colleagues” Image credit:Ubisoft Ubisoft recently unleashed a raft of cancellations, delays and studio closures as part of a brutal bout of corporate restructuring. We’ve still yet to see how all of the repercussions of it will go, with proposed voluntary redundancies at the company’s Paris headquarters having seen unions put plans in place for a three day strike in February ....

January 3, 2026 · 17 min · 3573 words · John Brown

Buckshot Roulette Now Has A 4

Buckshot Roulette now has a 4-person multiplayer mode, which I’m sure you will survive Click Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Critical Reflex Real gamblers play russian roulette with shotguns. That is the core concept of Buckshot Roulette , the Inscryption -looking game of blinksweat and bulletworry. It’s been out for a while now but the developers have just added a fun extra - a 4-person multiplayer mode. They teased this multiplayer mode earlier in the year but just posted the update on Steam yesterday....

January 3, 2026 · 17 min · 3517 words · Stan Vanhouten

Bully Online Shoved Into A Shutdown Locker, As The Modders Behind It Say That's "not Something We Wanted"

Bully Online shoved into a shutdown locker, as the modders behind it say that’s “not something we wanted” A strongly-worded letter from the principal sounds like it could be the behind the sudden stoppage Image credit:Rockstar Games A group of modders who got multiplayer servers running for Rockstar’s schoolyard mischief simulator Bully late last year have suddenly pulled all traces of their creation offline. The project’s been shutdown about a month after release, and thus far its creators haven’t offered an explanation as to why, beyond emphasising that this outcome wasn’t what they hoped would happen....

January 3, 2026 · 17 min · 3473 words · Anthony Bila

Call Of Duty Black Ops 6: All Safehouse Safe Codes

Call Of Duty Black Ops 6: All safehouse safe codes Here’s a rundown of how to unlock the safe in the Rook in Black Ops 6 <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/crack-safehouse.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=“An “Objective Complete” message appears, along with a reward of $1000, after the safe in the safehouse is opened in Black Ops 6. - 1”> Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Activision Want to open the safe in the Rook safehouse in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6’s campaign?...

January 3, 2026 · 22 min · 4575 words · Adam Wood

Can You Change Your Class In Dragon Age Veilguard?

Can you change your Class in Dragon Age Veilguard? Here is everything you need to know about the Class system in the game Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Electronic Arts Wondering if you can change your Class in Dragon Age Veilguard? Dragon Age Veilguard introduces 3 major Classes within the character creation menu to choose from; these are Mage , Warrior , and Rogue . If you’re several hours in, you may be wondering if it’s possible to change your Class within the game and try out a new playstyle....

January 3, 2026 · 17 min · 3415 words · Helen Demaray

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Co-op escape room puzzler Escape Academy is free to keep on Epic Games Store for the next day Easy to get into, harder to exit While the weather outside is still a bit chilly and everyone’s bank accounts are recovering from the holidays, visiting an escape room with friends might not be at the top of your to-do list. Fortunately, you can currently get some of the same puzzly satisfaction for free - and without having to go outside - by nabbing Escape Academy over on the Epic Games Store for the next 24 hours....

January 3, 2026 · 17 min · 3513 words · Robert Dutton

Coffee Convos, Demonic Detectives, And Cow Life Simming Are Part Of A Pro

Coffee convos, demonic detectives, and cow life simming are part of a pro-Palestine charity bundle coming to Itch.io Also, a game that offers you a choice over whether you “lose politely or lose spectacularly” Image credit:harecygnus / Play for Peace - Games for Palestine A bundle of games aiming to raise money to aid the United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in their efforts to help Palestinian refugees is set to go on sale via Itch....

January 3, 2026 · 18 min · 3652 words · Roger Depeyster