Dragon Age: The Veilguard will let you bring over your choices from Inquisition - whether you still have your save or not The opening of the upcoming RPG sequel will remind you what happened in its 10-year-old predecessor if you’ve forgotten Image credit:EA It’s been a decade - 10 years! - since Dragon Age: Inquisition . It’s fair to assume that you might’ve forgotten what happened during the last Dragon Age game, or some of the specific choices you made back in the misty ages of 2014....

Dragon’s Dogma 2: Best Mystic Spearhand skills and augments Best Mystic Spearhand skills and augments in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Interested in the best Mystic Spearhand skills and augments in Dragon’s Dogma 2? One of the two main vocations that combine might and magick in Dragon’s Dogma 2 , the Mystic Spearhand is a powerful combatant wielding the elegant Duospear. From spinning strikes to supplementary spells that can lift enemies up in a bubble before smashing them back into the ground, these expert spear fighters have a plethora of options in their arsenal....

Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Magick Archer class makes me want to solo the game At the very least, it helped me unglitch a griffon Image credit:Capcom Yesterday I banged out the first in a torrid trilogy of Dragon’s Dogma 2 features , centring on hands-on time with the game’s Mystic Spearhand “vocation” or class. Look out for parts 2 and 3 over the coming week. During the hands-on, I also spent 45 minutes in the shoes of another advanced Dragon’s Dogma 2 class, the Magic - sorry, Magick Archer....

Elden Ring Nightreign DLC: Undertaker Remembrance quests walkthrough A full guide to all three Remembrance quests Image credit:Bandai Namco In the case of Undertaker, these Relics amplify her already-considerable stats (and her awesome Loathsome Hex Ultimate Art ) even further. Read on if you’re interested - we’ll explain how to complete the Undertaker’s three Remembrance Quests in The Forsaken Hollows DLC , ensuring that you’ll be in the perfect position to maximise the power of Elden Ring Nightreign’s only hammer-wielding nun....

Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC boss order Here’s our recommended main boss order for Shadow Of the Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco What is the best order to tackle all the main bosses in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? It’s a huge part of the lifeblood of the Elden Ring experience to hunt down and defeat the many bosses tucked away in the darkest and dingiest corners of the world....

Enshrouded: How to survive longer in the Shroud Here are all the ways you can extend your Shroud timer in Enshrouded Image credit:Keen Games How can you stay in the Shroud longer in Enshrouded? The Shroud is the main point of difference between Enshrouded and other open-world survival crafting games. Once you enter the Shroud, a timer begins to count down. If it reaches zero, you die. Which begs the question - how can you survive for longer in the Shroud?...

Eric Barone, the guy who can’t stop updating Stardew Valley, says the words “I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2” Maybe take a break first Image credit:ConcernedApe Did you know that Stardew Valley is the 21st best-selling game of all time? It’s sold more than Skyrim ! At least by the numbers we currently have, anyway. I don’t care all that much about sales figures, but if creator Eric Barone cared more about money, I can only imagine that a sequel would be all but guaranteed....

Euro Truck Simulator 2 is pining for the fjords with a Nordic expansion But you might need to wait two years for Nordic Horizons Image credit:SCS Software When times get tough and winter seems endless, just remember the wise words of many a mesh-back cap: keep on trucking. What welcome news, then, that yet another expansion is in the works for Euro Truck Simulator 2 . The ‘Nordic Horizons’ expansion will offer new routes including through Finland’s Lapland, Sweden’s Norrland, and up through Norway all the way to the Arctic Ocean, with pretty things to admire ranging from bridges and tunnels to cute fishing villages and reindeer....

Explore a torrid trench dimension as 12 perma-killable lost souls in this Amnesia-style horror game PS1 meets WW1 Image credit:Stilbruch Games If there’s one thing I love doing first thing in the morning, it’s launching myself into a festively atrocious trench network, where gasmasks glare from the offal like toppled gargoyles, and sea mines dangle overhead like enormous germ cells. Here be monsters. Here be dropped diary pages. Here be a tormenting combo of “handcrafted” characters and permadeath....

Fights In Tight Spaces devs announce fantasy follow-up Knights In Tight Spaces Card-based CQC with a name you have to admire Image credit:Ground Shatter/Raw Fury After letting you live out your Jason Bourne and John Wick fantasies by building decks and playing cards for close-quarters cool violence with 2021’s Fights In Tights Spaces , developers Ground Shatter are venturing into fantasy-y fantasies. Last night they announced Knights In Tight Spaces , where you’ll build decks with cards for turn-based tactical manoeuvres and magic-tinged action so you can bash baddies on small grids....

Final Factory’s blend of space station building and exploration will launch in April ‘Factorio in space’ blasts off April 9th Image credit:Never Games Limited Final Factory has already impressed via a couple of demos. It’s effectively ’ Factorio in space’: you construct space bases by chaining together machinery, protect by commanding ships and turrets to fight off alien invaders, then explore the galaxy to secure more resources. It’s now got an Early Access release date: April 9th....

Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail will arrive on June 28th, possibly thanks to Elden Ring’s DLC Yoshi-P joked they were providing “one week” to play Erdtree Image credit:Square Enix Final Fantasy 14 ’s next expansion, Dawntrail, will launch in early access on June 28th and then release in full on July 2nd. Producer Yoshi P announced the date onstage at PAX East, while acknowledging the release date’s proximity to another RPG: Elden Ring ’s Shadow Of The Erdtree expansion, which releases on June 21st....

First look at Disco Elysium “spiritual successor” Hopetown shows a painterly, gorgeous, and utterly unconvincing RPG Gonzoh-no Image credit:Longdue Longdue Games have shared the first gameplay image from Hopetown , their RPG “spiritual successor” to Disco Elysium , coming soon to Kickstarter . First namelessly teased last October as part of The Great Disco Thrupening , then revealed last month , Hopetown was described as “merging the raw emotional depth and psychological intricacy of Disco Elysium with the philosophical richness and narrative complexity of Planescape: Torment ....

Footage of a cancelled, “futuristic” Call Of Duty by former Guitar Hero developers has leaked “I believe this would have been in place of Ghosts” Videos of a cancelled Call Of Duty game from the early 2000s have surfaced on Xwitter, with the name “NX1”. In the footage, you see classic CODisms like explosions and a first-person view of a character wearily making their way through a disaster. While the accounts sharing the videos are anonymous, a former Neversoft developer has stepped in to authenticate them and share a few details about the project, a “futuristic CoD game” that was in the works prior to the development of 2013’s Call of Duty: Ghosts ....

Forget druids and mages, I’m making a beeline for Diablo rival Last Epoch’s battle falcons, stat The Falconer arrives this week, alongside its 1.0 launch Image credit:Eleventh Hour Games As time-travelling fantasy APRG Last Epoch gears up for its 1.0 release this week, developers Eleventh Hour Games have revealed the final crop of character classes that will be arriving in the game on February 21st. Technically, they’re the final pair of the 15 mastery classes that you’ll be able to unlock after working through one of Last Epoch’s five base classes, but listen, I don’t even need to look at the other 14 masteries to know what I’m going to be aiming for come release....

Fortnite can run Doom now, making it officially as useful as gut bacteria and rat neurons Rocket jump racing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Softworks An Unreal Engine developer has got classic Doom running in Fortnite , in a manner of speaking broad enough to justify a series of headlines about it, including my own. Jackson Clayton honoured the proud tradition of getting the 1993 FPS to run on things where no Doom should be by porting classic opening stage E1M1, via level editor Ultimate Doom Builder , into Fortnite’s Unreal editor as a 3D model....

Fortnite players receive $126 million more in refunds from the FTC over Epic’s “deceptive billing practices” Bringing the total reimbursements dished out so far to “around $200 million” Image credit:Epic Games The American Federal Trade Commission has given out a further $126 million (around £91 million) in refunds to Fortnite players who’ve been “charged for unwanted purchases”, bringing the overall total issued so far to about $200 million. It’s also given eligible players who’re yet to submit a refund claim some extra time to do so....

FromSoftware are reportedly working on an unannounced game alongside The Duskbloods that could release next year Are you ready for Full Macarena Confidence? Image credit:FromSoftware Alongside working on The Duskbloods and Elden Ring Nightreign ’s post-launch bits, FromSoftware are reportedly deep in development on an unannounced game that could release next year. That’s according to MP1st (via VGC ), which claims said game is codenamed FMC, multiplatform and - based on “the nature of the source these details come from” - at an advanced stage of development....

Helldivers 2 is getting “significant changes” in September, as Arrowhead take inspiration from “player fantasies” Buffs to weapons, nerfs to big bot armour values, and a lot more Image credit:PlayStation First on the agenda are those reworks to armour penetration, as well as anti-tank weapons, enemy armour and health values. Arrowhead said they’ve done “an initial balancing pass on over 30 weapons and stratagems” and are now making “precise adjustments” to underperforming or overperforming weapons so that “each weapon and stratagem feels powerful”....

Helldivers 2 patch makes life hellish indeed for smaller parties, but also makes maps more fun to explore Sorry solo players Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PlayStation Hell, it turns out, isn’t always a bubbly pool of magma where like, devils prod you with forks. There is a second hell in Helldivers 2 , a hell made up of wartorn planets and soldiers who fight bile-spewing bugs and robots. And it is a hell that is subject to patches....