Lollipop Chainsaw RePop will arrive on PC this September with 4K and 60fps support Hopefully it won’t be RePoop Image credit:Dragami Games Lollipop Chainsaw RePop, a refresh of the 2012 hack-and-slasher about a cheerleader fighting hordes of zombies, finally has a release date: September 25th. It also has a first trailer, showing it in action with the new, less violent “RePop mode”. Lollipop Chainsaw RePop’s first trailer.Watch on YouTube As the video says at the start, RePop lets players choose between “Original mode”, which maintains the grindhouse violence of the cult hit original, or the RePop mode which replaces some of that violence with “pop-art damage effects....

Lords of the Fallen reboot Lords of the Fallen is getting a sequel in 2026, probably called Lords of the Fallen Third entry in the fantasy Soulslike series will be exclusive to Epic on PC Image credit:CI Games Remember Lords of the Fallen? No, not that one . This one . Last year’s reboot of the 2014 game of exactly the same name - despite the successor originally being a numbered sequel, then at least having a ‘The’ at the start of its title to help tell them apart a little - will now get its own follow-up in a third Lords of the Fallen game....

Magic viking townbuilder Roots Of Yggdrasil is out in early access ManaVoid Entertainment hoping to reach 1.0 in six months Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/ManaVoid Entertainment Roots Of Yggdrasil - an inkwashed, roguelikey, card-playing, turn-based citybuilder, inspired by Norse myth - shot to the top of my wishlist after I read Katharine’s preview last week. And look, here it is in Early Access . Roots isn’t one of your traditional, SimCity -derived town sims in which you steadily colonise a single map (at least, until you lose patience with your glittering urban creation and press the Godzilla or Hurricane button)....

Marvel vs Capcom collection brings a fighting game GOAT, plus six more arcade classics, to PC with rollback netcode The Punisher’s beloved arcade brawler gets a deserving port at last Image credit:Capcom When it comes to the ultimate showdown of all-time great fighting games, Marvel vs Capcom 2 might well take my personal bet for being the best of the best. I spent countless hours throwing down with housemates, friends and random passers-by who looked like they were up for a brawl during my teenage years....

Mashina is a chill stop-motion adventure with friendly robots from the Judero Team Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with Image credit:Talha and Jack Co You’d think Talha and Jack Co would have earned themselves a nice custard cream and a sit down after having just released Judero last September, but they’re back already with a crowdfunder for Mashina - a robo-stuffed adventure where you’ll “Dig, build, discover and mend in a chill, stop-motion world....

Mecha Break review Out, Gundamnéd spot Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Amazing Seasun Games A hectic and sometimes-exciting mecha brawler has its solid battle-dashing clogged up with cumbersome menus, leery character design, and in-your-face microtransactions. Developer: Amazing Seasun Games Publisher: Amazing Seasun Games Release: July 2nd, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam Price: Free-to-play Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 In Mecha Break you play as a booby anime statuette....

Mewgenics review - a roguelite where sacrificial arse maggots and frightful defecation are the keys to success Flatulent feline squad, assemble! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel Mewgenics review: A strategy roguelite where you breed cats, send them on DnD campaigns, and try to come home with your loot (and limbs) in one piece. Developer: Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel Publisher: Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel Release: Feb 10th, 2026 On: Windows From: Steam Price: TBC Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 11 I can’t get Fish Sticks out of my head....

Microsoft fire employees who protested the sale of genAI tech to the Israeli military “All of Microsoft has blood on its hands,” says now-terminated software engineer Image credit:Yahoo/Microsoft Two Microsoft software engineers who interrupted a Microsoft anniversary event to protest against the company’s dealings with the Israeli military have been fired for misconduct, according to a report. Software engineer Ibtihal Aboussad, who is based in Canada and once worked for the company’s genAI division, lost her job on Monday 7th April due to “wilful misconduct, disobedience or wilful neglect of duty,” according to internal documents picked up by CNBC ....

Microsoft U-turn on charging $80 for The Outer Worlds 2 and other Xbox games, cue memes and pre-order refunds “An adventure into capitalism by capitalism” won’t be used for a price hike Image credit:Obsidian Microsoft have done a U-turn and decided they don’t fancy making a series that at least tries to satirise capitalism the face of a price hike. In the US, The Outer Worlds 2 will no longer cost $79....

Monster Hunter Wilds PC system requirements may yet fall, as Capcom aim to improve performance Are they really that demanding? Image credit:Capcom Capcom have declared that they hope to bring down the recommended PC specs for open world dinosaur-tipping simulator Monster Hunter Wilds , just a month before release day on 28th February, and a few weeks ahead of the final open beta. Much like an exhausted hunter applying a carving knife to the flanks of a steaming heap of Rathalos, they shall trim and whittle their prize to its essential organs - hmm, actually we never see the concluding butchery in Monster Hunter games, now that I think of it....

Monster Hunter Wilds will have a spider-free mode for those with arachnophobia Legs redacted Image credit:Capcom Spider dislikers, your concerns have been noted. At least by Capcom, anyway. The developers of Monster Hunter Wilds are including an option in the upcoming beast-skinning action RPG that will turn all arachnid style monsters into something much less creepy and/or crawly. The spider-free option was spotted by players of the PlayStation Plus beta test (as noticed by Automaton )....

Monster Hunter Wilds: How to beat Lala Barina Learn the Lala Barina’s weaknesses, drop list, and more Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Need tips on how to beat the Lala Barina in Monster Hunter Wilds? The horrifying Lala Barina is a giant spider-like monster with graceful movements and a large rose-like array of petals springing from its abdomen. From these petals it can unleash bursts of floating florets which can paralyse hunters very quickly if they’re not careful....

New Deus Ex game in the works for two years reportedly cancelled, almost 100 staff laid off at Eidos Montreal Embracer acquired the Human Revolution and Mankind Divided developers in 2022 Image credit:Eidos Montreal The latest Embracer studio to suffer under the megacorp’s ongoing restructuring efforts are Eidos Montreal, with a new Deus Ex title two years into development reportedly cancelled and dozens of staff confirmed to be laid off....

New RPG Archaelund is Elder Scrolls with its foot stuck in Final Fantasy Tactics Out now in early access Image credit:4 Dimension Games I have a sneaking affection for slightly jarring genre hybrids - games like the relatively recent Disintegration and the much older Battlezone 2 , which smush action mechanics together with real-time strategy, or the rather more elegant Puzzle Quest , in which you roll around a parchment landscape fighting wizards using the power of match-3....

Nightingale: How to recruit Survivors Here’s how to recruit NPCs in Nightingale and where to find them Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Inflexion Games Want to know how to recruit Survivors in Nightingale? Survivors are NPCs that you can acquire in Nightingale to help you at your base and gather materials. These loyal recruits will also lend a hand in combat and can be a useful deterrent against Bound enemies. Although these fellow Realmwalkers can occasionally get in your way, they are valuable assets to accrue, especially early on in a Nightingale game and if you are playing solo, rather than multiplayer ....

No Plan B offers close combat tactics in a brutal roguelike campaign Or less-brutal standalone missions Image credit:GFX47 I like close combat tactics, directing troop actions on a timeline, and breaching and clearing, but a recent revisit to Door Kickers revealed I no longer had the patience for its fiddly UI and grim scenarios. No Plan B looks intriguing, then, for featuring all of the things mentioned above that I like, an unknown quantity of the things I don’t, and for having released on Steam this week....

No roguelite reeks quite like the wonderful Morsels Drain World Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Annapurna Interactive / Furcula The RPS Advent Calendar 2025 has begun! We’re revealing one of our favourite games of the year every day, and our favourite of favourites on December 24th. Check the main Calendar post to see a full list of our choices so far. Here is a list of waste items I can see from my desk, at the time of writing: one piece of mud tracked in from a nearby forest, with a curl of oak leaf poking out of it; two condensed, possibly sentient balls of spiderweb; two fingernails (I know, it’s a terrible habit, I promise I’m not this gross in proper office environments); three screws that really should be part of my bed; one discarded bottle of antibac; ten unidentified somethings....

No, Jabba The Hutt isn’t a Star Wars Outlaws season pass or special edition exclusive Ubisoft clarifies that Gold and Ultimate edition only grants access to a bonus Jabba mission Image credit:Ubisoft Following a mild-to-moderate outcry, Ubisoft have clarified that queasy worm gangster Jabba The Hutt isn’t, in fact, a Star Wars Outlaws special edition or season pass exclusive. The apparently much-beloved star slug will appear in every edition of the game, but if you scrape together the credits for the Gold or Ultimate Editions, you’ll get access to a Jabba’s Gambit mission as part of the game’s season pass....

Nvidia’s cross-game modding tools RTX Remix now in open beta Inject new lighting and AI-’enhanced’ textures into everything from Deus Ex to Garry’s Mod Image credit:Nvidia The Nvidia tools used to create that raytraced Portal mod and other fanciness are now in open beta, inviting all and sundry to jazz up everything from Deus Ex to Garry’s Mod . Nvidia’s RTX Remix tech lets people fancify old games by injecting fancy modern lighting, new models, textures ‘remastered’ by AI, new environmental decoration, and other such fanciness, even if the game doesn’t have mod support....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Friday, January 5) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #208 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....