Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall Unity remaster hits 1.0, updating the biggest Bethesda map for today’s PCs And you can get it for free, don’t forget Image credit:Daggerfall Workshop I greet news of the completion of a Unity remaster for The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall with equal parts excitement and horror. Excitement because I have never played Daggerfall and it is one of the weirder, more fantastical Elder Scrolls RPGs - the one with multiple endings which sequels have explained away as somehow all being canon thanks to a metaphysical event called a Dragon Break, whereby timelines branch and reconnect....

Eldritch fishing game Dredge is being made into a movie by the people behind the Sonic the Hedgehog films Will you be hooked? Among your obvious blockbuster video games ripe for similarly blockbuster film and TV adaptations like Fallout , Borderlands and The Last of Us , it seems there’s room for some of the smaller gems to be fished out and brought to the big screen, too. Even so, it might surprise you - as it did me - to learn that the latest hot property to be scooped for a movie adaptation is Dredge ....

Endless Legend 2’s early access launch is a triumph of asymmetrical 4X design, but I do wish it were even stranger Getting eXXXXperimental Image credit:Hooded Horse As the ravening shitbeetles of the Edwinphage overran the coral fortifications of the neighbouring Aspect kingdom, filling the air with the moist crunch of mandible on polyp, it occurred to me that I don’t feel as much like a horrible doomsday cockroach as I should....

Epic ban Santa Ragione’s Horses just before release, allegedly with a weird reminder that NFT games are fine though Update 2: Humble delist it, then relist it Image credit:Santa Ragione / Rock Paper Shotgun Grotesque and surreal ‘farming simulation’ Horses has been banned from the Epic Games Store on the eve of release, a couple of years after a work-in-progress version of the game was rejected by Valve. In an alleged statement to developers Santa Ragione, the Fortnite makers explain that they’ve found the game to be in contravention of policies against “Inappropriate Content” and “Hateful or Abusive Content”....

Even in 2026’s component hellscape, AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT is that rarest of things: a high-end GPU that’s still decent value Or, why RPS is reviewing a graphics card a year after it came out Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun As we sink ever deeper into a squelching mire of memory shortages , price gouging , and abandonment in favour of AI fantasy farms , there is one word above all that game-playing PC owners should keep front and centre in our doomscroll-addled brains: “relatively....

Servers are staying online, though Image credit:Saber Interactive “We can confirm we’ve begun the process of removing the game from digital storefronts,” wrote Saber in a Steam post . “Anyone who has purchased the game will still be able to play it as we plan to keep our servers online for everyone. We want to extend a sincere thank you to our community, to those who have been part of the game from the very beginning, and those who have recently joined us....

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain’s rejoined Obsidian full-time to work on a mystery game, but plans to keep his YouTube chats going Also, here’s a clip of him feeding a squirrel a walnut Image credit:Tim Cain He’s back. Tim Cain, co-creator of the original Interplay Fallouts and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines programmer has emerged from semi-retirement, returning to Obsidian to work on a game he can’t talk about yet because legal documents....

Fanatical’s May Madness sale is better than it has any right to be Some absolute steals on here Image credit:PlayStation I’ve been poking around for some new PC games and stumbled across Fanatical’s May Madness sale , and it’s kinda good? It’s not exactly Steam Summer Sale levels of “How the hell is it that cheap?” , but there’s still plenty of cool stuff on sale. What immediately caught my eye was Helldivers 2 ....

Following FBC: Firebreak flopping, Remedy have a “sense of urgency” and are banking on hits from their established series New CEO says resources are being moved away from Firebreak, but its roadmap will be ‘respected’ Image credit:Remedy In their first set of financial results since issuing a profit warning and switching CEOs earlier this month, Remedy have revealed that they’re moving resources away from FBC: Firebreak amid a “sense of urgency”, and aiming to rely on established series Alan Wake and Control delivering hits which’ll shore up their commercial fortunes in the long-term....

Following mass layoffs, Microsoft exec insists return to office mandate is “not about reducing headcount” UPDATE: CWA union respond Image credit:Microsoft Update: The Communication Workers of America union have issued the following statement to RPS: “Across the tech industry, corporate giants are unilaterally changing the workplace without input from the people who make them run. Microsoft’s return-to-office mandate shows exactly why organizing continues to be essential — so that workers have the power to negotiate changes that work for them, instead of being forced to accept whatever management decides overnight....

Football Manager 2025 has been delayed until March 2025, to avoid “compromising our usual standards” The series is moving to a new engine Image credit:Sports Interactive I was a few days late with the news when I wrote last week that Football Manager 2025 had confirmed its release date for this November. Now I know that I shouldn’t have bothered: Sports Interactive have now delayed FM2025 until March 2025. “In our last Development Update in September, we explained that we needed to push FM25’s original release back to give ourselves more time to deliver the best possible experience for this first instalment in a new era of Football Manager,” says the announcement ....

Free unofficial open world Superman game Undefeated gets a PC update with heat vision alongside a surprise PS5 launch No shades of grey, just black sunshades and punching Image credit:UNDEFEATED Games / Indie-us Games Sometimes we play video games to plunder the silty depths of our emotions, sometimes we play them to sharpen our wits and try the alchemy of engrossing systems, sometimes we play them to mud-wrestle with questions of power and responsibility, and sometimes we just want to wear cool sunglasses, have big arms, and fly around hitting stuff very hard....

Grow A Garden: How to get Suncoil How to craft a Suncoil Seed Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Roblox Corporation Wondering how to get Suncoil in Grow A Garden? Suncoils are pretty sunflower-like plants that make for a lovely addition to your Grow A Garden plot of land. They’re also really huge and take a long while to craft, as they were introduced via Grow A Garden’s recent Working Bees update, which brought full-on crafting mechanics into the world of this popular Roblox idle game....

Guild Wars Reforged, a free 20th anniversary revamp of the original Guild Wars, arrives this December ArenaNet and collaborators 2weeks are also teasing “further improvements to the game in the future” Image credit:ArenaNet Guild Wars Reforged, a big update to 2005 MMORPG Guild Wars that’s designed to make it a lot more convenient to play on modern hardware, is set to hit Steam on December 3rd. Steam Deck verification, modern controller support, and an interface revamp are among the tweaks developers ArenaNet and 2weeks have made, with the possibility of further “improvements” down the road being teased....

Gwent returns in The Witcher 4, according to CD Projekt’s heavy hints Throw a card to your Witcher Image credit:CD Projekt Red Quick, the world is in peril, your adopted daughter is under threat, and nearby villagers are being terrorised by monsters. What do you do? Oh, you’re sitting down at a cosy table in the local tavern. You’re playing a card game with a dude called “Aldert”. The wind outside is howling, and so are the nightwraiths, but you’re just sitting there....

Hades 2’s best girl is Nemesis because she messes up your run Witch, please Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Supergiant Games A bunch of us at RPS have been blattering our way through the underworld of Hades 2 , which came out in early access yesterday. Naturally, our favourite gods and goddesses are emerging from our evenings of hacking and/or slashing. For me, Nemesis provides a lot of chuckles. Not because she’s bright and jokey (she is frownier than a wet bulldog)....

Helldivers 2’s rewards system is getting an overhaul so your Major Order medals show up on time Current system is “as reliable as a solar-powered watch in Malevelon Creek”, say Arrowhead Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PlayStation Helldivers 2 ’s Major Orders reward system is getting a full overhaul, following player complaints about their hard-earned medals being slow to arrive and as such, damaging their faith in managed democracy, with potentially dire consequences for their ability to massacre spiky robots and large insects....

Here’s a free lo-fi Prince Of Persia game with bonus Nazis from the maker of Canabalt Cana-Blazkowicz Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Adam Saltsman Canabalt developer and Tunic publisher Adam “Atomic” Saltsman has released a free “mash-up” of Wolfenstein and the original Prince Of Persia. It runs on PICO-8 , the sprinkle-covered fairy cake of game engines, and comprises 15 levels of jumping over gaps and murdering Nazis. Unlike in the original Prince Of Persia, each screen shows you the full level with a fog of war effect....

Here’s a new goblin booter RPG inspired by Dishonored and Dark Messiah Of Might And Magic Alkahest has open world and immersive sim elements and also many goblins Image credit:HypeTrain Digital Alkahest looks very good. Emphasis on ’looks’ because both trailers released so far have been very scripted. Also, emphasis on ‘good’ because you get to bully goblins with your feet. It’s an open world RPG boasting a combat sandbox full of the sort of reactive flourishes you might find in an immersive sim....

Hollow Knight Silksong walkthrough: Part 8 (Wormways) Stick to this optimal path through the Wormways tunnels Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry Trying to find your way through Hollow Knight: Silksong’s Wormways? If you’ve been following along with our walkthrough so far, you’ve already seen a little bit of the Wormways as you made your way down to the Chapel Of The Wanderer . This time, we’re exploring the majority of the Wormways tunnels above, in order to reach the next major region of the game....