How to fast travel in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Here’s all traversal methods in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Want to know how to fast travel in Dragon’s Dogma 2? As a huge, open-world RPG , Dragon’s Dogma 2 naturally encourages exploration. If you’re tired of meandering across Vermund and Battahl with your Pawns, however, it is possible to fast travel in Dragon’s Dogma 2 . Join us as we go through the key traversal methods in Dragon’s Dogma 2 including fast travel, Oxcarts and where to get Ferrystones and Portcrystals in the game....

How to get Iron Ore in V Rising: All Iron locations and how to mine Iron Ore revealed Where to find Iron Ore in V Rising, and how to mine it for Iron weaponry Want to know where to mine Iron Ore in V Rising? Stunlock’s open-world survival and crafting game does a great job of dripfeeding you useful information at the beginning of a playthrough, but once you reach the end of the early game, that well of information starts to run dry....

How to get the Rotted Woods reward in Elden Ring: Nightreign Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Hoping for consistent access to the Rotted Woods reward in Elden Ring: Nightreign? It’s not actually all that difficult, even if the path can be perilous. Your biggest threats are the formidable enemies that fill the Woods. One bad hit from any of them can put almost any Nightfarer on the ground crying for help....

Hyperdrive Inn is a Lucasarts style adventure game made entirely from scanned fabric samples Whole cloth Image credit:Horsefly Games One of the many high concept ludonarrative experiments I’d one day like to bring to fruition is an immersive sim in which the player has access to many guns, but their default arsenal selection is an open packet of crisps which they hold out in front of them, in first person, and offer to NPCs....

I don’t mean to shock you, but Twitter is doing a cool thing as indie devs share their non-game inspirations Tired/wired/inspired Image credit:SFB Games To borrow a tired Xitterism: The Venn diagram between ‘games that have reference points outside of other games’ and ‘games I’m likely to get excited about’ is a circle. For the benefit of people who’ve discovered the one weird trick that therapists hate and improved their mental health tenfold by deleting the bad place, here’s an incredibly cool thread I stumbled upon this morning where indie developers share non-game influences on their projects....

I refuse to unlock Palworld’s bleakest tech upgrade A knife in the back Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair I didn’t think it was possible for Palworld ’s animal sweatshop-style base building to get even more bleak and depressing than it already was, but it turns out I was wrong. Last night, I reached a part of the game’s Technology tree that sent an actual shiver down my spine, it was that awful and morbid....

I spilled a full mug of tea over my work laptop – make me feel better by sharing your own broken PC stories Pour one out for my laptop. Or, on second thoughts… Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun On Friday, while on the phone to friend of this parish Jeremy Peel, I knocked an entire mug of tea over my laptop. I won’t immortalise in text what I said in that moment; it’s for the best that those curses are lost to the aether....

I’m rooting for you Squirrel With A Gun, but you still won’t explain yourself Talk, squirrel! Image credit:Maximum Entertainment It is perhaps deeply ungrateful of me that, when presented with the squirrel with a gun of Squirrel With A Gun , my immediate reaction is to thrust out my bowl like a ballsy victorian urchin and ask for additional squirrel information . It’s not that developer Dee Dee Creations haven’t shown off the game in action....

If we just went an entire year where every game was as short, cheap, and existentially harrowing as Clickolding that’d be great, thanks It’s me, I’m sickos Image credit:Strange Scaffold/Outersloth When Clickolding - a vaguely Inscryption -y sub-hour dread droplet - opens, you’re sitting on a bed across from a man wearing a mask that looks like someone gave up halfway through carving an Easter Island statue of Joe Camel, stuck a pair of googly eyes on it, then went to cry in the corner at what they’d created....

In Darktide’s gruesome co-op, my greatest ally is a rock Can I get a rock and stone? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Fatshark Well before anointing Warhammer 40,000: Darktide as this month’s RPS Game Club game, I’ve wanted to talk about its rock. The rock. The best rock. Best Darktide rocks 2024, number one: the rock. Philistines, probably Psyker players, might question the rock’s status as the finest product of Darktide’s honking great 2023 skill tree rework ....

In Double Fine’s “pottery brawler” Kiln, you can skip the fights and just sculpt pots in peace Don’t quit your clay job Image credit:Double Fine The surprise game reveal at last night’s Xbox Developer Direct was Kiln, a pottery-based multiplayer party brawler in the works at Double Fine. Combatants take the form of pots, vases, dishes, and urns, custom-sculpted and fired by players themselves, and will usually end up smashed into shards of tragic ceramic in the following online slapfights....

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2: How to play Dice and win Everything you need to know about playing Dice in KCD2! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Deep Silver Not quite sure how to play Dice in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2? Dice is to the Kingdom Come series as Gwent is to The Witcher : a fun 1v1 game you can play against various NPCs throughout the game, and which is startlingly deep and fun for a simple minigame....

Lightyear Frontier early access review: a speedy farming simulator with one sticking point Space to grow Image credit:Amplifier Game Invest/Frame Break Developer: Frame Break Publisher: Amplifier Studios Release: March 19th 2024 On: Windows From: Steam , Game Pass Price: £21/€25/$25 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-8600K, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 2060, Windows 11 My day in Lightyear Frontier starts out with a bit of farming. On a good day, it’s raining, so I don’t need to water the crops....

Mafia: The Old Country release date pegged for August by now-edited Steam blog Hitherto slated for summer 2025 Image credit:2K Games Mafia: The Old Country will release on August 8th, but shut your yap and don’t tell anyone, because developers Hangar 13 and publishers 2K Games appear to have revealed this early by accident. You didn’t hear any of this from me. I ain’t a rat. I’m not interested in things that don’t concern me....

Makoto Wakaido’s Case Files Trilogy is the perfect warm-up for Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice Try the free demo for this quartet of bite-sized investigations Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Room6 Listen, I know we’ve spent the better part of the holidays harping on about all our favourite games of 2023 (and many more besides as part of our bonus Selection Boxes), but here’s another one for you that I mainlined in a single day over Christmas and absolutely loved....

Many Nights A Whisper review A very good omelet recipe with a lovely game thrown in Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Selkie Harbour Developer: Selkie Harbour, Deconstructeam Publisher: Deconstructeam Release: Out now On: Windows From: Itch / Steam Price: £2.50/€3/$3 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti, Windows 11 Although you won’t see everything, you can finish Many Nights A Whisper in under an hour. Each day you’ll train with your fiery sling, lighting braziers and honing your aim for a looming ceremony where you’ll try to hit a distant ritual chalice with a single shot....

Match delightfully silly, hand-drawn dogs in Dogpile, a roguelike deckbuilder take on Suika Game All bite, no bark Image credit:Studio Folly, Toot Games, Foot With trends and trendy games passing by these days, I’d understand if you’d already forgotten about Suika Game . I am not here to remind you of its existence to talk about it, more so use it as genre context for Dogpile, a new game that is essentially the question “what if Suika Game actually had a bunch of dogs and was also a roguelike deckbuilder?...

Metaphor: ReFantazio is bad for graphics nerds but good for the Steam Deck Where we’re going, we don’t need anti-aliasing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Steam Deck Academy brings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. Few games demonstrate the disconnect between graphics and aesthetic like Metaphor: ReFantazio . A pure technical analysis would conclude that it has the fidelity of an early Nintendo Switch game at best, and yet anyone whose heart flickers with even the tiniest ember of sentiment will instantly fall in love with its lavish pause screen animations....

Minecraft rolls out armadillo mob and rewilds biomes with eight new wolf variants Chewier on the inside Image credit:Mojang Studios Armadillos, the grumpy pistachio nuts of the animal kingdom, have been added to Minecraft in a recent mob update. You can brush them to harvest “scutes”, the boney armour plating of the animal’s back, which you can then use to craft armour for pet wolves. Speaking of wolves, this update also sees an explosion in canine diversity, with eight varieties of the wolf now appearing across different biomes....

Moida Mansion is the new free game from Return Of The Obra Dinn’s Lucas Pope, and it’s out now No longer hogging the crank Image credit:Lucas Pope/Rock Paper Shotgun You remember Lucas Pope, right? He who casually dropped two of the most influential puzzle games ever then got distracted by yellow cranks for six years, occasionally popping up to drop a demake of Papers Please ? Well, Pope has ceased hogging that crank, for now at least, and just released Haloween-y adventure game Moida Mansion....