Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown’s accessibility options are a neat deconstruction of metroidvania design Ubisoft drops two new trailers Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft I have been bouncing off Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown , partly because the new protagonist design leaves me cold, and partly because it being a 2D affair has me yearning for something closer to the 1989 Apple II original, with its finicky platforming and sword-fighting....

PUBG: Blindspot, the top-down one of Plunkbat’s siblings, deploys into early access next month Not to be confused with Black Budget, the extraction shootery one Image credit:Krafton PUBG: Blindspot, the PUBG spin-off previously dubbed Project Arc, is set to take the early access plunge on February 5th, 2026. In case you’ve understadably started wondering if this is the extraction shooter which prompted my last bit of newsing about a PUBG spin-off, it isn’t....

Rappy Snappy beats Snap Tap rap, say click-clack manufacts It’s something to do with cheating keyboards, I think Image credit:Wooting Gaming hardware makers have often walked the line between enabling a player’s true skills, and simply delivering them an unfair advantage. Sometimes, honest accessibility aids are falsely accused of being cheating tools ; other times, a monitor will straight-up play League of Legends for you . This week, developments in gaming keyboards have sparked a new debate on what does and doesn’t fall within the scope of fair play, with mechanical keeb specialists Wooting declaring in no uncertain terms that “Rappy Snappy is not the same as Snap Tap....

Raven Software’s cancelled Call of Duty zombies game featured a Mad Max-style gladiator arena Lead designer Michael Gummelt spills some beans Image credit:Activision/Aspyr A couple of months ago, we learned that Raven Software lead designer Michael Gummelt had worked on a live service Call Of Duty zombies game before it got cancelled . Details were practically non-existent at the time, but YouTuber Glitching Queen recently interviewed Gummelt about what the game could’ve become....

Rhythm shooter ROBOBEAT is a cyberpunk Metal: Hellsinger, out this week with a demo still available Blast like no-one’s watching Image credit:Simon Fredholm ROBOBEAT is the third one of these new-fangled rhythm FPS games I’ve played - after BPM: Bullets Per Minute and Metal: Hellsinger - and the first one I’ve actually clicked with. The concept evidently appeals to me enough to try out those other two, but I guess that I’m simply too much of a rebel-maverick-disruptor to play to the stiflingly enforced rhythms of somebody else’s drum....

Roadside Shawarma codes (February 2026) Need help surviving the night shift at the road-side shawarma stand? Use these codes! Image credit:nv1sh works Update: codes last checked on Friday, December 19th 2025. Looking for Roadside Shawarma codes? The creepy Roblox horror game puts you in charge of running a food stand where strange things are afoot. Most people who come by are just hankering for some tasty Middle Eastern grub, but as your mysterious boss explains to you on the phone at the beginning of each shift, there are some customers you absolutely must get the order just right for....

Sure, why not! Image credit:Hypergryph I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around Arknights: Endfield . It is One Of Those Games, to which there are two versions of. Arknights: Endfield is One Of Those Games, as in an anime gacha game filled with anthro-adjacent women for you to roll for and fight with in flashy, lackluster-in-feeling combat. Arknights: Endfield is also One Of Those Games, a factory sim where you build complex systems to produce, uh, something....

Save-the-world sim Eco’s 1.0 plans include oil spills, garbage collection and a bustling art scene Developer Strange Loop Games details the roadmap out of early access Image credit:Strange Loop Games Eco is a very ambitious, wildly reactive multiplayer survival game in which you try to save the world without accidentally destroying it. There’s a meteor scheduled to slamdunk the planet in 30 days, and in that time, you and your fellow players must progress from raising log cabins in the woods to building the means to develop technologies that might somehow avert the apocalypse....

Shindo Life codes (February 2026): Free Spins and XP - Roblox All the latest Shindo Life codes to redeem for free spins Image credit:RELL World Looking for all the latest Shindo Life codes to redeem for free spins? Shindo Life, the Naruto-inspired Roblox game, is one of the longest running games on the platform. Also known as Shinobi Life 2, this open-world gacha will see you fight your way towards becoming the best Ninja out there....

Should you devour Draconic Essence in Elden Ring? Here are all the outcomes to devouring the Draconic Essence in Shadow Of The Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Wondering if you should devour the Draconic Essence in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? As you advance through the Dragon’s Pit in Shadow Of The Erdtree , you’ll come across a region known as The Jagged Peak. This treacherous area is full of Dragons and Drakes and is also home to the Dragon Communion Priestess....

Solo Hunters classes tier list Want to know which of Solo Hunters classes is right for you? This tier list will help you reroll the best of the best Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Dungeon RPGs Online Want to know the best Solo Hunters classes? While battling through the various portals of this Solo Leveling Roblox RPG, a strong class will really help even the odds. They’ll offer you some really great buffs that’ll come in handy while slashing through enemies, whether that’s extra health or big damage....

Someone please just send him up there already I’m begging you Image credit:Hideo Kojima on Twitter There are times in all of our lives when we not only feel compelled to try something new, but burn with an irrepressible desire to break free from the chains of our mundane misery by experiencing a thing which we’ve not yet experienced. For some people, that thing might be skydiving or baking a pistachio layer cake with cream cheese buttercream....

Songs Of Conquest 1.0 review: occasionally demanding but often rewarding fantasy warlordery Frog factions Image credit:Coffee Stain Publishing Developer: Lavapotion Publisher: Coffee Stain Publishing Release: May 20th 2024 On: Windows 10 From: Steam , GOG Price: £30/€34/$35 Reviewed on: AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 3400G, Radeon RX 590, 24GB RAM, Windows 10 Two years of early access have been kind Songs of Conquest . Its strategy fundamentals were already strong enough to impress me in 2022 that it’s been quite tricky to even remember what’s changed....

Sony fire arrows alleging “nonsense” and deliberate corporate water muddying at Tencent, as Horizon lawsuit rumbles on The two companies continue trading barbs over alleged knock-off Light of Motiram Image credit:Guerrilla Games / Nixxes Software The lawyers in Sony and Tencent’s ongoing legal fracas over alleged Horizon homework-copier Light of Motiram continue to dish out the words. Letters, phrases, and sentences are being flung to and fro with reckless abandon. Sony are the latest corp to take a swing, not only calling Tencent’s defense “nonsense”, but accusing the Chinese conglomerate of playing shell company hide-and-seek....

Space Marine 2’s co-op suggests it is in fact jetpacks that make the dream work Mostly meaty good fun so far, especially if you’re a big killstealer like Edwin Image credit:Saber Interactive/Rock Paper Shotgun In the grim heatwave of the midsummer, everyone you know would love to come hunch over a table and roll dice for six hours, actually, but they’ve got that thing on. You remember that thing , right?...

Stalker 2: Should you side with the Ninth in The Lost Boys? Learn the best choice to take in “The Lost Boys” quest Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Wondering whether to side with the Ninth in Stalker 2? “The Lost Boys” side quest in the Lesser Zone of Stalker 2 takes you on a journey to find Mastiff’s missing group of looters. After finding Max Saturday, he’ll tell you his group was attacked by a Monolithian, who then took Mastiff back to his “haunted house”....

Stardew Valley’s huge update 1.6 brings new items, pets, and progression, and more players in co-op Live now on Windows, Mac, and Linux versions, though not Game Pass yet Image credit:ConcernedApe Eight years after launching, Stardew Valley just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Update 1.6 arrived yesterday, with enough changes that the patch notes are 7308 words long. It bumps the farm-o-life sim’s co-op player limit to eight, adds hundreds of new items, opens up a new progression system for “powerful perks and items”, adds new events, lets you drink mayonnaise, and so much more that....

Steam now has a Trending Free tab for demos, full free games and free-to-play Will probably have a curation problem, but let’s see Image credit:Valve / Rock Paper Shotgun Finding and sharing Free Stuff is one of the time-honoured duties of the video game journalist or SEO-monger. Back when I was OXM’s online editor, “free Xbox games” was one of our golden Google pillars, the other two being “Minecraft Xbox 360 update” and " Skyrim something something"....

Streets Of Rogue 2’s chaotic open world sequel delayed from August until October To add more chaos Image credit:tinyBuild It was just last month that we reported on Streets Of Rogue 2 ’s early access release date, then planned for the middle of August . Alas, the streets of video game development are meaner than first thought, and its release date has now slipped until October 22nd. The reason for the delay?...

Supermassive’s next Dark Pictures horror game Directive 2080 is out 2025, and looks like Alien meets The Thing Copycat killer Image credit:Supermassive There’s a new instalment of Supermassive’s Dark Pictures anthology series on the way, and it’s set in Outer Space, wherein you’ll find the Darkest Pictures of all. Out in 2025, Directive 8020 is the story of the good ship Cassiopeia, a human colony vessel that is infiltrated by Something Icky....