There’s an Elden Ring film on the way from Alex Garland and George R. R. Martin But how are From involved exactly? Image credit:Bandai Namco An Elden Ring live action film is in the works from Ex Machina director Alex Garland, film production company A24 and game publisher Bandai Namco. It’s not clear whether developers From Software are involved, but Game Of Thrones novelist George R. R. Martin - who worked on Elden Ring’s story and characters alongside From boss Hidetaka Miyazaki - is contributing as a producer....

Ideal for laptops, too. Image credit:Anker Taking your Steam Deck on the go this Summer? You’ll probably know all too well just how quickly the battery drains, and while we’ve seen recent deals on some sizeable options like the AOHI Future Starship , this one is a bit more compact. This power bank is ideal for your Steam Deck this Summer Image credit: Anker Anker Power Bank $94.49 (30% off) See here Previously selling for $134....

Seriously, it’s massive. Image credit:Samsung Got three (or maybe four) monitors and want to condense things into one, suitably massive canvas for your work or the best ultrawide games ? We might just have the deal for you. Save 35% on this 57-inch monitor Image credit: Samsung Samsung 57" Odyssey Neo G9 $1,499.99 (35% off) See here This BFM has got a dual UHD resolution of 7680x2160, but whereas Samsung monitors once felt geared towards work (I reviewed a similar-sized one once), this also packs a 240Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time....

Toonsouls is the Dark Souls of Cuphead, in case you’ve got one of two solid gold games journalism jokes raring to go “The gameplay is fun” reads the actual Steam page Image credit:Toon Crafter Toonsouls , which you can find on Steam here , doesn’t appear to screenshot especially well. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of those perpetually disgruntled ghosts and charming goofskulls, but I might not be writing about the platform game at all if I hadn’t seen it in motion, where the vision comes together a lot more....

Total War: Pharaoh’s enormous free Dynasties update gets a July release date and trailer It’s the “final content addition”, says game director Image credit:Sega Creative Assembly and Sega have slapped a release date on Total War: Pharaoh ’s free Dynasties expansion, which outfits the historical strategy colossus with new Aegean and Mesopotamian regions and maps, new factions such as Troy and Babylon, and a glittering, bellowing host of new or reworked units, new mechanics, and new quality-of-life updates....

Total War: Warhammer 3’s latest free update adds dancing Chaos armies, Norscan Spoils, High Elf patronage and just, too much, basically Is it total enough yet, Creative Assembly? Image credit:Sega What’s that unholy rumbling? An avalanche? Ah, nothing so delicate. It’s the next free update for Total War: Warhammer 3 , which launches tomorrow alongside the Tides of Torment DLC. The strategy barons of Creative Assembly have just put up a blog post, and frankly, it’s a mess....

TR-49 review – a code breaking puzzle game where you get all up in some dead authors’ gossip You’ll never guess what the professor said in his love letter… Image credit:Inkle TR-49 review: TR-49 is an engrossing narrative puzzle game that sees you learning all the ins and outs of a fictional literary circle. Developer: Inkle Publisher: Inkle Release: January 21st, 2026 On: Windows 10 and up From: Steam Price: TBC Reviewed on: Intel Core i7-8700, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070, Windows 11 I am in the dusty basement of Manchester cathedral....

Turn-based strategy game Bonaparte wants to redo the French Revolution, but this time with mechs Let them eat clockwork Image credit:Studio Imugi Everything I know about the French Revolution has hitherto come from two literary works: Hilary Mantel’s excellent doorstopper A Place Of Greater Safety , and Kate Beaton’s webcomics . Neither Mantel nor Beaton mention mechs, which are a core feature of Studio Imugi’s new “ideology driven” turn-based strategy game Bonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution ....

Type Soul codes: Free Soul Tickets and Blue Pills Redeem these Type Soul codes for free Soul Tickets! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Type Soul Looking for all the newest Type Soul codes in Roblox? Type Soul, for those unaware, is a currently very popular Roblox game based on the anime Bleach. In it, you can choose your favourite Bleach character and work to improve your powers and abilities until you’re truly unstoppable....

Ubisoft is being sued over The Crew in a lawsuit that compares the server shutdown to a bumperless pinball machine The servers were taken offline in March, rendering the online-only game unplayable Image credit:Ubisoft “Imagine you buy a pinball machine, and years later, you enter your den to go play it, only to discover that all the paddles are missing, the pinball and bumpers are gone, and the monitor that proudly displayed your unassailable high score is removed”....

Uh oh, Balatro might be the deckbuilder to end all deckbuilders It’s hard to poker holes in this moreish roguelike’s new demo Image credit:Playstack When I sat down at my desk after lunch today, I thought, I’m just going to give this demo for Balatro a tiny go, just to get my head round its poker-based roguelike deckbuilding. Cut to several hours later and I’ve had to forcibly shut the game down and wrench myself away from it just to write this post, because listen, you need to go and play Balatro’s demo right now, because hot damn this is the good stuff if you’re into roguelike deckbuilders....

Upcoming PC games 2024: Here are all the games coming out in 2024 Here’s the release schedule for PC games in 2024 Image credit:Supergiant Games What are the biggest PC games coming out in 2024? 2023 saw gargantuan success stories such as Baldur’s Gate 3 , Alan Wake 2 , Sea Of Stars , and Lies Of P - as well as a few utterly dire disasters, including The Day Before , The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum , Redfall , and Skull Island: Rise Of Kong ....

Valve stress again that there’ll be more Steam Machine Verified games than Steam Deck ones, with “fewer constraints” in their testing programme Badges all round Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Regardless of whether you’ve laid hands on the plastic contours of a Steam Deck , you’ve probably seen the Steam Deck Verified programme in action: badges of honour (or of ‘Unsupported’ disgrace) on a game’s Steam store page, reflecting how well it runs and plays on the portable PC per Valve’s in-house testing....

Vampire Survivors is getting guns in a new Contra crossover gun-focused DLC called Operation Guns New characters and bullets arrive in early May Image credit:Poncle Revealed at the Triple-I Initiative just now, Vampire Survivors is getting another cool DLC, this one a crossover with classic Konami run ’n’ gun Contra . It’s called Operation Guns. Get on board. Trailed with, as is now traditional, a cool animated trailer that suggests the game is a Saturday morning cartoon and not a top down pixelated nightmare that will flush out any latent photosensitivity lurking in your skull (complimentary), Operation Guns is arriving on May 9th, so about a month away....

We should redefine live service games as the living dead But which kinds of living dead? Image credit:Bungie Why is every blockbuster video game now some kind of live service game? Speaking as a clueless idiot, the explanation I find most convincing is that it’s an attempt to bridge the gap between the returns publishers want from video games, versus how much we’re able or willing to pay upfront. “Triple-A” projects now cost exorbitant sums to develop, partly thanks to wider economic inflation, but also because publishers have spent decades teaching players that every sequel has to be More and Shinier....

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:OldBookIllustrations.com The skies roil. The forests burn. The oceans drink themselves, then throw themselves back up, then drink themselves again. That’s gross, oceans. Don’t do that. Wait. Wait. Sorry. I misread the memo. It’s not the end times, it is simply the end of the week. That’s much nicer. Weekends bring with them solid videogame hours, and perhaps even video game hours?...

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Paris: Gide fils, 1825 Time to set the record straight! I wasn’t too busy playing Black Myth: Wukong to write up last weekend’s Playing This Weekend. I’d never fail you all thus! Instead, I had one of the worst flu illnesses I’ve ever had, followed by a nice bout of tonsillitis, for which I’m still on antibiotics. Thankfully, I can now look at a monitor screen for more than an hour before feeling sick, so gaming is no longer out of the question for this weekend....

What’s better: Gliding powers or Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Unmaking Arrow? Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Last time, you decided that shopkeepers annoyed when you don’t buy anything is better than security cameras following your every move . So rather than an implied surveillance which doesn’t actually have consequences, you wish to be actively scolded for things you’ve not done. Alright reader dear, I’m noting that in your psychological profile....

What’s on your bookshelf?: The Stanley Parable, The Beginner’s Guide, and Wanderstop’s Davey Wreden read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Booked For The Week is our weekly chat with industry folk about the books they love, have loved, and are hoping to love in the future Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books!...

Why didn’t Silent Hill 2 Remake studio Bloober start by remaking Silent Hill 1? The devs explain “It’s not like we were making this decision, right?” Image credit:Konami When Bloober and Konami announced that they were remaking Silent Hill 2 as part of a comprehensive series reboot , it made immediate if slightly deflating sense to me. Silent Hill 2 is the more feted of the Hills - if I were a calculating franchise custodian tasked with ‘bringing back’ one of the acclaimed original trilogy, that’s probably the instalment I and my spreadsheets would fix upon....