Coridden is an action RPG with shapeshifters in which you can ride your friends Valiant steeds wanted Image credit:Anshar Publishing The one great weapon in my arsenal as mercurial uncle and cousin to several infant humans is the timeless game of Horsey. You know - when you get down all fours and offer to give the kid a ride around the sitting room. It’s murder on the old kneecaps, but as any shrewd parental tactician knows, Horsey is a game with a sting in its tail (making this a kind of scorpion Horsey, I guess)....

Cyber bunny shooter Cicadamata reminds me of nu-Marathon and Jumping Flash and has a flipping cool shotgun Follow the White Robbit Image credit:flowergarden Cicadamata" - yes the rogue apostrophes are part of the official title, yes I will exclude them in future because they make my thalamus itch - is one of those games that makes me incandescently sorry I didn’t spend the past 20 years studying graphics design so that I could, for example, tell you what exactly is going on with that icecream bar HUD, those landscapes of bright diodes and cubes sliding through checkerboard obelisks, those twirling android digits, that wrist-rolling Muji paperweight of a shotgun....

Dark fantasy bomb-making sim「TERROR」type:【A.L.C.H.E.M.Y.】’s frightful title cannot spoil its crusty 90s vibes Woke up and chose V.I.O.L.E.N.C.E. Image credit:The Dark Union The Rock Paper Shotgun CMS groaned like a harpooned whale when I fed the above game title into our database. I was tempted to shave away some punctuation for the benefit of whoever writes about this game next, but then I remembered that I hate everybody here as I do hell, all Montagues, and thee....

Demi and the Fractured Dream looks like a good fit for Breath of the Wild haters that miss the old 3D Zeldas Just like the good old days Image credit:Yarn Owl Despite many others disagreeing with this stance, I am of the opinion that it’s completely fine that we’ll likely never get a “classic” 3D Zelda game again. By that I mean, the whole Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom format is definitely the direction Nintendo will continue to go in, they’ve just been too popular....

Diablo 4 Avarice the Gold Cursed: Location, spawn times, rewards Diablo 4’s Avarice the Gold Cursed is a massive horned demon with a giant mace to boot Image credit:Blizzard How do you beat Avarice, the Gold Cursed, in Diablo 4? If you want to take a shot at slaying this gnarly Diablo 4 World Boss, you’ll need to be prepared for a hell of a fight. Avarice deals massive melee damage with its mace, making it a tricky enemy to face, as even a single hit can rock you and your allies to the core....

Diablo 4 multiplayer guide: Adding friends, couch co-op and more Here’s how multiplayer works in Diablo 4 Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment How does Diablo 4 multiplayer work? Diablo 4 is better with friends, so if you and your buddies are looking to take down baddies in the depths of Sanctuary , you’ll want to understand how multiplayer works in the action RPG game. Fortunately, the game makes teaming up with your pals easy....

Doom: The Dark Ages slow mo a bit much? There’s already a mod for that It’ll be done a bit quicker now Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda If internet videos with titles like " Supersonic Golf Ball to the Forehead " have taught us anything, it’s that a slow motion chthonic mace to the dome is a weighty chthonic mace to the dome. So goes the thinking being Doom: The Dark Ages liberal dolloping of slow motion effects all over its melee attacks and parries....

Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s customisable difficulties look genuinely great for accessibility Invincibility is “an option to make sure players of all abilities can show up” says game director Image credit:EA Alongside the usual standard and nightmare modes, upcoming RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard (née Dreadwolf) will ship with a fully tweakable set of difficulty options called ‘Unbound’, letting you customise everything from parry timings to invincibility. As reported by Game Informer , the list of adjustables includes options to change “how wayfinding helps you in-game,” an aim assistance feature including a full-on auto-aim option, and combat timing and parry windows split into easy, normal, and harder selections....

Elden Ring: Fire Knight Queelign questline walkthrough Here is everything you need to know about the Fire Knight Queelign questline Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for a rundown of the Fire Knight Queelign quest in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? Fire Knight Queelign is a new NPC in Shadow Of The Erdtree that you may encounter via an invasion…or two. This pesky fellow will invade your Elden Ring game two times during a playthrough and in doing so, give you the Prayer Room Key ....

Embark smooth over Arc Raiders’ Expedition rough patches with a cheaper entry point for its second bout Don’t know why they didn’t call them Embarks Image credit:Embark Ah, live service games. You put out a new feature, everybody complains about one thing or another, you say something like “we’ve heard your feedback” and change it the next time around. This, almost word for word, is exactly what’s happened with Arc Raiders ’ and its impending second Expedition, the details of which have been outlined in a handy blog post from developer Embark....

Endzone 2 early access review: rebuild humanity as a post-apocalyptic plate-spinner Drought’s a-comin' Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Assemble Entertainment Developer: Gentlymad Studios Publisher: Assemble Entertainment Release: Out now On: Windows From: GOG , Steam Price: £20/$24/€24 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 Sometimes you forget to build a graveyard. It happens. When ten citizens dropped dead on the roads of one of my settlements in post-apocalyptic city builder Endzone 2 , I had to work fast to avoid a sickness breaking out....

Everwild screenshots leak after Microsoft cancellation, and you’d seemingly have been a walking garden centre (slaps pocket) You know how many seeds I can fit in this baby? Image credit:Rare Rare’s Everwild was one of a number of games Microsoft tossed in the bin as part of wider layoffs earlier this year . It was disappointing, if not a huge surprise given how protracted Everwild’s development had been up until its demise, with lots of questions remaining as to what the mysterious ramble through nature would be like to play....

Fallout: London’s first DLC, Rabbit and Pork, is finally out and adds 30 new quests Cue a video that features about seven million mentions of bunnies Image credit:Team FOLON Insert joke about London calling here, as Fallout: London developers Team FOLON have just released the first of the mod’s planned three DLC packs. This one’s called Rabbit and Pork and brings with it 30 new quests, plus a laundry list of that includes a bunch of NPCs, extra gear, and stability fixes....

Former Disco Elysium devs are working on a spiritual successor at new studio Longdue, though Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov aren’t involved Long due indeed Image credit:ZA/UM A spiritual successor to Studio ZA/UM’s RPG Disco Elysium is currently in development at the newly-formed Longdue. It’s set in a world “conceived by the leads” of the canceled sequel . A representative of Longdue told us that “the studio isn’t ready to talk about specific names at the moment beyond the people mentioned in the press release, but they are looking forward to sharing more about the game and the studio in the future”....

Gambonanza is definitely a chess roguelike deckbuilder in a post-Balatro world, but when it works, it works You won’t be… board… playing this one- sorry, yeah, sorry, sorry Image credit:Blukulélé It is inevitable that when a game like Balatro rocks up, is really good, and makes a gazillion dollars, that there will be the odd imitator here and there. Sincerity, flattery, yada, yada, yada, point is, it’s all fine as long as you at least put enough of a twist in there to make it more of an “influenced by” over a “wholesale ripoff” kind of thing....

Get a 50-series PC for under $900, with a copy of Battlefield 6 included too A great starter rig. Image credit:iBuyPower NVIDIA’s 50-series of GPUs are here to stay, and on the lower end, the RTX 5060 is a decent card for 1080p gaming while making use of the love-it-or-hate-it DLSS 4 technologies for higher frame rates. Now that the drivers are fixed and prices seem to be approaching some sort of normality , we’ve spotted a deal at Walmart that can net you an RTX 5060-powered rig for under $900 ....

Get froggin’ and demagogue’n in manufactured dissent simulator Vox Regis Vox Regis is latin for loud Reginald I believe Image credit:Sheepolution/Rock Paper Shotgun “Your grace, the act of assigning blame is often as satisfying as resolving the issue itself,” opens brilliant little browser strategy Vox Regis by Sheepolution. From your tower, you gaze down at four factions, each with their own members and complaints. If any one faction gets too large, they’ll rebel against you....

Gorgeous interactive fiction Pine: A Story Of Loss is a small sad game about a big sad man Chopping wood, cutting onions Image credit:Made Up Games Pine: A Story Of Loss , which stars a bereaved woodworker and thus may be a play on the double meaning of ‘pine’, is a gorgeously animated interactive fiction game that sees you performing farming chores and wordlessly reminiscing upon cherished memories. It’s short - designed to be played in a couple of sittings - and while the fiction is the focus here, you’ll spend time gardening and whittling in bespoke minigames as you find out more about the woodworker’s relationship....

Happy Valentine’s, you can win a huge and official Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood dildo Open to adventurous fans Image credit:Devolver Digital We’ve eschewed any Valentine’s theming this year, but Edwin put this in our news queue last night as a sort of dare for our evening shift, and let the record show I am less of a coward than Graham Smith. The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood , a visual novel Tarot-themed card game from perennial (perhaps perineal, in this case) favourites Deconstructeam, was praised by Edwin in his review , and I was going to use the same strapline for this news post had he not got there first....

Helldivers 2 patch fixes quickplay and crash bugs as Arrowhead work on AFK kick option and login rate limits “It’s like tuning a vespa to compete in F1,” says Arrowhead CEO Image credit:Arrowhead Last night I tried to host a Helldivers 2 co-op mission and the “ready up” button froze up. I spammed it in a panic while the randos in my voice channel fumed at the delay. Then I popped us out of the drop pods, attempted to quit the game in embarrassment, and the PC promptly crashed....