Highguard devs say it was always the plan to “go dark” after its reveal, à la Apex Legends’ launch Easier to say in hindsight, though Image credit:Wildlight Entertainment, Inc. Good, bad, I don’t bloody know yet the thing’s only been about for five seconds, but we can certainly say one thing now: Highguard is out . Now we can sit and prepare ourselves for more inane and pointless discourse about yet another live service shooter that we’ve probably had several times before....

How to complete Flickering Threat in Arc Raiders How to find the generator in Generator Hall Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios Lost in Generator Hall during the Arc Raiders quest Flickering Threat? So was I, for a long time, in fact. Generator Hall is a large facility that is very hard to navigate if you don’t know where you’re going. But Celeste needs you to fix that generator, and if you don’t, no one else will!...

How to get Cake in Palworld Here’s how to get Cake in Palworld, needed to breed Pals together Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Looking to get Cake in Palworld? Cake is one of many cooking recipes in Palworld that can be crafted to satiate hunger for yourself and your Pals. Cake is also a necessary component needed for breeding Pals together. As such, when you unlock the Breeding Farm at Level 19, you’ll need to know how to make Cake if you want to breed rare Pals like the Elphidran Aqua and Suzaku Aqua....

How to get Custom Weapon Loadouts in Battlefield: RedSec Here’s how to actually get your favorite weapons in RedSec! Image credit:EA Looking for your favourite custom weapon loadout in Battlefield: RedSec? As you fight your way through Battlefield 6 and RedSec, you will unlock bigger and better weapons to help you in the field. But you can’t take them into the fight with you by default! If you’re wondering how to actually access your favorite weapons in the field in RedSec, you will find everything you need here in this Battlefield guide....

How to get inside Ruins Of Unte in Elden Ring DLC Here’s the puzzle solution to enter the Ruins Of Unte in the Elden Ring DLC Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Stuck trying to get inside the Ruins Of Unte in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? As with a great many locations in Shadow Of The Erdtree , there’s more to the Ruins Of Unte puzzle than meets the eye....

How to get Leather in Palworld Here’s how to get Leather in Palworld Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PocketPair Want to know how to get Leather in Palworld? Leather is an important material in Palworld , needed to make armor, saddles for Pal mounts and more. As such, it’s worthwhile knowing where the best Leather farming spots are and how to get it ahead of time. Below, we’ve outlined the best ways to get Leather with a full list of all Pals that drop it when defeated or caught....

How to get Lotus in Hades 2 Here’s how to get a Lotus in Hades 2 and which Incantations to use it on Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games Looking to find a Lotus in Hades 2? Lotus is a specific Reagent in Hades 2 that is used in numerous Incantations. You’ll need a supply of Lotuses if you want to unlock things like the Crossroads Hot Springs (which progresses romance with certain NPCs) and Animal Familiars like Frinos....

How to start the Radahn Festival in Elden Ring How to trigger the Elden Ring Radahn Festival and unlock the Radahn boss fight Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Want to start the Radahn Festival in Elden Ring? The Radahn Festival is a story event in Elden Ring that changes the state of Redmane Castle in the Caelid Wilds, allowing you to find its boss: Starscourge Radahn. Without triggering the Radahn Festival, you can’t defeat Radahn, which is part of Ranni’s quest and a requirement to access Nokron , the Eternal City - as well as one of the most memorable boss fights in Elden Ring....

Humble’s Doom and Wolfenstein Mayhem bundle includes 15 great picks for just $28 Includes discounts for Doom: The Dark Ages and IGN Store. Image credit:id Software Humble’s Doom and Wolfenstein Mayhem Bundle is an easy win if you’re even remotely interested in first-person shooters. For $28 / £21.16, you get fifteen titles spanning decades of FPS history. Image credit: id Software DOOM and Wolfenstein Mayhem Bundle Pay at least $28 for 15 games and coupons (was $249 value) See here DOOM Eternal is the clear headliner, and you get the Year One Pass along with it....

Hyper Light Breaker’s first major update is taking an axe to its structure, and it sounds better for it Sometimes you’ve got to kill your darlings Image credit:Heart Machine It’s been a few months since Hyper Light Breaker launched into early access, unfortunately arriving in a bit of a mess . The game just wasn’t there, which obviously is what early access is for, but it was rough. Everything was just a bit too difficult, too unbalanced, and the loop wasn’t strong enough to do over and over again, none of which you want in a roguelike ....

I Am Your Beast is a John Wick-ensian FPS from the El Paso, Elsewhere developer Bird-ensome Image credit:Strange Scaffold I Am Your Beast is a tactical, smack-tical, I hope this tree branch doesn’t crack-tical while I’m hopping off it to land on this dude’s back-tical FPS . It’s from Strange Scaffold, of El Paso, Elsewhere and Booked For The Week fame. It is a euphoric splurge of murderous game verbiage that has you chaining together thrown knives and solar plexus punches, headshots and tree-fu....

I may not achieve the ultimate goose shagging climax by Christmas, because my vomit children aren’t earning enough billions It’s not for lack of mutant cow bouncing or money poo gathering Image credit:SweatyChair A platoon of Tingi, strange mutant babies that a goose with a very long neck keeps vomiting out, march along in Santa hats. As they crawl, fall, and drop into drinks which serve as orange-hued progenating pools where they merge with others to form bigger tingi, they earn money....

IGN Live is coming back this June for a multi-day event and livestream Game reveals, demos and more Image credit:IGN RPS’s corporate daddy has announced that IGN Live is returning this June. The in-person event aims to fill the void left by E3, with playable demos in LA and livestreams of game reveals and panels for those who can’t attend. Last year’s IGN Live featured news and announcements from Microsoft, Ubisoft, Razer and Nvidia, among others ....

Indiana Jones And The Great Circle is a game about a man with hands For A Fistful Of Other Smaller Fists Image credit:MachineGames Indiana Jones is a man with hands. Deny this at your own peril. ‘Write what you know’ they say. Indiana Jones And The Great Circle ’s writers knew about having hands. They’d picked up a thing or two. Turned the odd key. Raised the occasional entire lemon to their lips and devoured it whole....

Inkle’s amazing Heaven’s Vault used to be a Dr Who pitch, but the BBC left them on read, and I’m kind of thankful You can’t touch Tardis Image credit:Inkle 80 Days and A Highland Song developers Inkle once pitched a Doctor Who game to the BBC, narrative director and writer Jon Ingold has revealed in a Bluesky post . While the BBC never responded to their overtures, the pitch became the basis for Inkle’s very excellent and bodacious astral archaeology sim Heaven’s Vault ....

Jet Set Radio Future on PC? It’s not a guarantee, but a new project may lead to such a, well, future Sick tricks in new places Image credit:Sega You know what I might have most about games? There’s no universal way to play them. You buy a DVD, you buy a DVD player, and aside from maybe a region lock issue you’re as good as gold. If I buy Snowboard Kids for the N64, and I don’t have one of those, well, I’m up a particular creek....

Kingmakers mashes the medieval era with modern weapons and its trailer is a viral sensation Also third-person shooting with strategy Image credit:Redemption Road Games Kingmakers has too much going on to easily summarise, but I’ll try. Really, though, you should just click below and watch the trailer, which will surprise and delight you with its twists and scope in a way my words will not. The Kingmakers announcement trailer.Watch on YouTube...

Kumitantei: Old-School Slaughter looks like a promising indie successor to Danganronpa Thrills! Chills! Kills! Image credit:Mango Factory It’s been almost seven years since Danganronpa V3 brought a close to the trilogy of gloriously twisted murder-mystery visual novels . With several of the series’ biggest names going on to release their next game as an exclusive for the Nintendo Switch, there’s room for a properly good successor on PC. Or why not successors ?...

Life Is Strange Double Exposure review: be still my irritated heart Mad at Max Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Square Enix Developer: Deck Nine Publisher: Square Enix Release: Oct 29th On: Windows From: Steam Price: £50/$50/€50 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 You can feel two ways about something at the same time. The feuding academics of Life Is Strange: Double Exposure might call this “emotional superposition”....

Localthunk quells AI art civil war started by Balatro erotica subreddit mod Jimbo’s Big Unnaturals Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Playstack Today in “news that will get you banished from society if you try to explain it to anyone who doesn’t live on the internet,” the owner of an erotic Balatro subreddit has had their moderator status revoked from the main subreddit after a brief civil war surrounding AI generated art culminated with developer LocalThunk intervening....