T-posing teen game to a T tees up a demo you can play right now ahead of its launch next week T-lightful! Image credit:uvula Right, anyone in need of something that’s just generally quite pleasant? I’ve been looking forward to Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi’s next game to a T ever since, well, it was revealed , honestly. It’s suitably strange, as per usual with the cult game maker’s works, this time putting you in the position of a teenager who is constantly t-posing....

Score top-tier precision without paying full price. Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / ASUS Product Sensor DPI Weight Connectivity Battery Life Buttons Special Features Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro Focus Pro 30K Optical 30,000 63g HyperSpeed Wireless, Bluetooth, USB Up to 90 hrs 5 Optical Switches Gen-3, 0.2ms actuation SteelSeries Rival 3 Wireless TrueMove Air Optical 18,000 Unlisted 2.4 GHz Wireless, Bluetooth 400+ hrs 6 Dual Wireless, Mechanical Switches (60M clicks) Logitech G305 LIGHTSPEED HERO 12K 12,000 99g LIGHTSPEED Wireless 250 hrs 6 On-board memory, Lightweight design Redragon M612 Predator Optical 8,000 Unlisted Wired USB N/A 11 RGB, Rapid Fire, Macro Keys ASUS ROG Spatha X 19,000 DPI Optical 19,000 Unlisted 2....

The Finals best loadout for Light, Medium, and Heavy class These are the best builds for each class in The Finals Image credit:Embark Studios What are the best loadouts for each class in The Finals? In Embark’s hit new squad FPS , you must choose between three classes each match: Light, Medium, and Heavy. Each of these classes has a different hitbox size and health pool, but they also have access to a completely different set of weapons, gadgets, and specializations (abilities)....

The next shooter from the GTFO crew will have microtransactions, but no lootboxes, “math-fuckery” or “buckazoids” Den Of Wolves is not a Den Of Predatory Monetisation Image credit:10 Chambers In every round of GTFO , you’re dragged gasping from a cryo-coffin and dropped into the bowels of an enormous laboratory by a horrible pincer-crane. Reaching your appointed floor, you’re asked to hack terminals and reach waypoints while trying not to rouse a sleeping population of mutants....

The old are dying and the new struggle to be born in Stray Children, an RPG bullet hell of fruitful frustration This be the verse Image credit:Onion Games / Rock Paper Shotgun Stray Children begins with your inexplicably dog-faced orphan being invited out at night by a peculiar, grinning man. You follow him through empty streets to a secret room in an underground train station, packed with elderly computing equipment. The man tells you that this used to be your father’s workplace....

The RTX 5080 is down to its MSRP and comes with Borderlands 4, if that’s what you’re into Still marketed as a discount, though. Image credit:ASUS/NVIDIA We recently opined that the days of paying over the odds for an NVIDIA 50-series might be over soon, but now you can get an ASUS RTX 5080 for MSRP. It’s still marketed as a discount, however, rather than the price the card should have been all along, but now it’s at least closer to where it should be....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for enjoying the second heatwave of the year, but what are you going to do outside if not read? Exactly, so read these. Aftermath interviewed video game trailer maker Derek Lieu for his take on the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer and why it’s not very good ....

The Witcher 3’s Gwent is getting a full physical game next year, so you too can play cards while the world burns Smiles and nods Image credit:Hachette Boardgames The protagonists of two of my all time favourite RPG s share something in common. Both ( the best Final Fantasy game ) Final Fantasy 8 ’s Squall and The Witcher 3 ’s Geralt simply cannot get enough of leaving their friends and the entire world in mortal peril while they sneak in a quick round of cards, and I love them for it....

Thiollier questline guide - Elden Ring DLC A full walkthrough of Thiollier’s questline in Shadow of the Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco How do you complete Thiollier’s questline in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? The mild-mannered poisioner Thiollier is a major NPC character in the Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC, and his questline, which revolves around his devotion to St. Trina, is one of the most intriguing in Elden Ring ....

This action roguelite’s demo has more stuff in it than some full games, plus some very good goblins SULFUR is “a modern old-school action-adventure” Image credit:Perfect Random For all the nightmarish enshittification modern life throws at us, we can at least feel warm and fulfilled about the resurgence of demos. Bountifully they await on Steam, like a friendly worker offering you toothpick-skewered cheese chunks at your local supermarket. And, oh, would you look at that: this cheese has some guns in it....

This week’s Games Done Quick 2024 includes Starfield, Baldur’s Gate 3 and the world’s first speedrunning dog Along with a race between Elden Ring and Sekiro Image credit:JSR via YouTube Charity speedrunning extravaganza Games Done Quick has kicked off its first week-long event for 2024. Among the highlights are speedy plays of 2023 highlights including Starfield , Baldur’s Gate 3 and Lies of P , along with a marathon from the world’s first canine speedrunner....

Thunderful are having a Steam sale on Viewfinder, Somerville, SteamWorld Heist 2 and other colourful hits Going down a storm Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Thunderful Publishing Swedish video game publishers Thunderful are selling some steam, which is terrific news for those of us who don’t live near saunas and are thus cruelly deprived of their widely-accepted health and wellness benefits, which date all the way back to the ancient Mayans....

Turns out Hollow Knight: Silksong does have another difficulty mode, just not the one you probably want Steel yourself Image credit:Team Cherry That might be music to the ears of those of you who are struggling a bit with the game (no judgement here, the game’s tough). Unfortunately, this one isn’t your tune, as the hidden difficulty mode actually makes the game harder, almost impossibly so. It’s called Steel Soul mode, and the rules are pretty simple: “No reviving....

Ubisoft are making an XCOM-style Rainbow Six game inspired by Siege, claim reports Allegedly codenamed “Slice & Dice”, won’t be out for a year or two Image credit:Ubisoft I fondly cherish my many memories of claustrophobia, confusion and terror in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege . I can’t get enough of the experience of being lodged behind the furniture like some teenager’s hurriedly hidden copy of Loaded (or whatever the kids are reading now), rifle pivoting wildly between barricaded doors and windows, as enemy players bustle around the roof like awful, C4-toting pigeons....

Ubisoft quietly cancel The Division Heartland Middling America Image credit:Ubisoft As Ubisoft revealed Assassin’s Creed Shadows they also released their earnings report for the financial year 2023-2024. Buried among the chatter of “profitable growth trajectories” and “B2B partnerships” was a brief note about looter shooter The Division Heartland . “Ubisoft has decided to stop development on The Division Heartland,” it reads, “and has redeployed resources to bigger opportunities such as XDefiant and Rainbow Six....

Unbeatable, the rhythm game where music is illegal and you do crimes, has a sick as hell new demo Music to my ears Image credit:D-CELL GAMES Look, I’m sorry, but Unbeatable has the best hook of any game ever. As the headline notes, this is a game where music is illegal, and you do crimes. It’s a rhythm game, no less, which it couldn’t really be anything else but that, right?...

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 review The Vampire Phyries Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Paradox An entertaining but flawed vampire brawler wrapped in a compelling mystery story. Just don’t mistake this for its cult hit predecessor - it’s no RPG or immersive sim. Developer: The Chinese Room Publisher: Paradox Interactive Release: October 21st 2025 On: Windows From: Steam , Epic Games Store , GOG Price: £50/$60 (£75/$90 for Deluxe) Reviewed on: Intel Core i9-13900K, 64GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4090, Windows 11 Let’s get this over with early: Bloodlines 2 probably should not have been called Bloodlines 2....

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 devs provide workarounds for “high priority” bugs, including Seattle’s populace disappearing Paradox are working on properly resolving these and other known issues Image credit:Paradox / The Chinese Room Paradox have outlined some workarounds for a number of “high priority” issues which have been draining folks’ ability to get sucked into Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 now the gates to Seattle are open . Proper fixes for these and other known issues are also in the works, as is planning for post-release additions....

Void/Breaker hands you a hyper-moddable gun and tells you to massacre some architecture Shoot your way out of yet another roguelike Image credit:Playstack I was all primed to ignore Void/Breaker forever based on it being pitched to me as a roguelite FPS in which you “escape an endless cycle” and “craft infinite weapon variants” in order to “forge deadly synergies”. I joke, I joke. There is, of course, no way of ignoring the roguelike and/or roguelite genre in this, the year 2025....

We may have glimpsed Silksong’s Sea of Sorrow expansion in a six-year-old trailer Pharloom Bay Watch Image credit:Team Cherry There won’t be any prizes for correctly guessing that Hollow Knight: Silksong ’s first expansion, Sea of Sorrow , will involve a) a sea and b) some kind of adverse emotion. But there is mounting evidence that the watery DLC will restore, or at be inspired by, places and bugs that developers Team Cherry had previously left on Silksong’s cutting room floor – yet had been shown in in marketing for the main game as far back as 2019....