Elden Ring: Nightreign - How to increase Sacred Flask charges Increasing your Flask Charges is an absolute priority on Day 1 of Nightreign Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Wondering how to increase your healing Flask charges in Elden Ring: Nightreign? The all-important Sacred Flask (also known as the Flask Of Crimson Tears) is back in Elden Ring: Nightreign , but rather than filling an item in your inventory, it simply appears as a number of healing charges below your health bar....

Eve Frontier is a survival game spin-off of Eve Online and, yup, it’s full of blockchain bullshit No, thank you Image credit:CCP Games An upcoming “survival experience” from the makers of Eve Online got its first trailer today, teasing spaceships against stellar backdrops. Eve Frontier was previously known as Project Awakening and is set in a faraway sector of the Eve universe. The developer calls it “a sandbox which focuses on self-reliance, skill-based tactical gameplay and third-party development”....

Final Fantasy 14’s Dawntrail expansion has only been out a few days, and one of its new jobs is already being adjusted Image credit:Square Enix Dawntrail , the latest expansion for Final Fantasy XIV , has officially been out just three days, arriving earlier this week after a brief early access release. Despite its story and extra 10 levels spanning dozens of hours of playtime, that’s apparently been ample time for players to complain loudly enough about one of the expansion’s brand new jobs - so much so that Square Enix have already announced a set of incoming changes planned across the game’s next run of patches....

FlatOut 1, 2 and Ultimate Carnage all get Workshop support, Deck verification in new updates And FlatOut 2 gets revived multiplayer Image credit:Bugbear Entertainment I like my car combat to be focused on collisions not guns, and for the vehicular argy-bargy to be an additional layer of excitement and strategy upon a racing core. FlatOut, then. A series of bumper car racing which managed to impress with its crumple zones long before the era of Wreckfest or BeamNG....

Following the nightmare footage of AI-loy, Horizon actor Ashly Burch shares her stance on the whole debacle “It hurts my heart. It scares me” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PlayStation PC LLC Earlier this week, you might have seen the abomination that was an AI-powered version of Horizon series protagonist Aloy . It came as part of a leak that showed Sony experimenting with the ability to chat to video game characters that use OpenAI and Chat-GPT to respond, though Sony quickly saw to scrubbing any evidence of footage using the power of copyright laws....

For £8 / $8, these Steam Deck thumbstick covers are a neat stocking stuffer to end Prime Big Deal Days with And they come with some stickers or something but who cares Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun I’m told that if I do one more Prime Big Deal Days post, they’ll take off the metal clamps holding my eyelids open, and won’t put them back on until Black Friday next month. Result!...

Forgo therapy and destroy your robot-filled hometown in Virtue and a Sledgehammer From the devs behind The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood Image credit:Deconstructeam I am not someone that thinks you can be therapied out of any kind of mental anguish. Life just doesn’t work that way! Sure, it can be a helpful tool, but sometimes you need to pick up a sledgehammer, go back to your hometown that is filled with robots, and smash it all down....

From Nvidia with love, 007: First Light’s PC requirements are here They’re pretty breezy, too Image credit:IO Interactive Update 15/1: Uh, some of these are wrong. IO Interactive have shared updated specs , citing an “internal miscommunication” while putting the original requirements together. 007: First Light may not be the choppy, stuttering overextender of gratuitous explosi-pixels that its big action reveal led us to believe. The official PC system requirements are out, and they’re very reasonable indeed, only asking for old mid-range graphics cards and merely halfway decent CPUs....

FTC accuse Microsoft of breaking promise not to raise Game Pass prices after Activision Blizzard deal This is “exactly the sort of consumer harm” they said the deal would lead to Image credit:Microsoft The US Federal Trade Commission have slammed Microsoft’s recently announced Game Pass price hikes as “exactly the sort of consumer harm” they claimed would result from the Xbox publisher’s now-completed acquisition of Activision-Blizzard . In a letter sent to the US Court of Appeals this week, shared around online by Gamesfray , FTC counsel Imad D....

GOG accused of using AI-generated art to promote sale, as job listing indicates they’re keen to adopt “AI-assisted development tools” Sighhhhhh Image credit:GOG Sellers of revamped retro PC games and also newer PC games GOG have been accused of using AI-generated artwork to promote their store’s new year sale. Meanwhile, a job listing the Polish company have recently posted for a senior software engineer to work on their desktop app GOG Galaxy lists among the role’s responsibilities that they must “actively use and promote AI-assisted development tools”....

Handheld PC makers, if you steal one thing from the Switch 2, please don’t let it be the decapitated facecams That goes for you too, Discord Image credit:Nintendo Jokes aside , you’d have to be a pretty big dork to think that the world isn’t wide enough for both handheld PCs and traditional consoles like the Nintendo Switch 2 (even if the latter is hogging a new FromSoft game ). Partly because they are, to an extent, ingrained in each other, via the classic hardware marketplace of borrowed ideas: there’s probably no Steam Deck without the original Switch, and I’d bet my own mousing hand that the Switch 2’s optical sensor-packing Joy Cons are inspired by the Lenovo Legion Go ....

Hi everyone, GTA 6 has been hit with delay number two Reset your alarm clock for November 2026 this time Image credit:Rockstar Games / Take-Two Interactive Hi everyone, GTA 6 has been delayed again. It’s now set to arrive on November 19th, 2026, about half a year on from the May 26th date it’d landed on following its last delay . November 19th, 2026 will apparently be a Thursday, just in case you were wondering....

How a nod to Nietzsche in Soma got me thinking twice about that suffocating buzzword, immersion Apollo ebb Image credit:Frictional Games I can’t remember the first time I felt “immersed” in a videogame, but I can remember the first time I got stuck under a swimming pool float as a kid, scratching at a scabby foam ceiling roamed by mocking silver jellyfish of air. I can remember the first few times I drowned in videogames, fighting the waterlogged handling in Sonic’s Labyrinth Zone, or operating the agile sarcophagus that is Lara Croft in Aztec print grottos of antiseptic blue....

How to complete Greasing her Palms in Arc Raiders How to reach all three locations in Greasing Her Palms Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios Can’t find any or all of the three mysterious locations in the Greasing Her Palms quest in Arc Raisers? Don’t stress! We have everything you need to know to check this mission off your to-do list and collect the rewards ASAP. Greasing Her Palms is one of the longer quests in Arc Raiders , sending you to three different maps in three different missions....

How to defeat Mourning Aix in Wuthering Waves This Spectro Echo isn’t the trickiest World Boss, but you still need skills Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kuro Games Want to defeat Mourning Aix in Wuthering Waves? Amidst the nine World Bosses in Wuthering Waves is Mourning Aix, a 4-Cost Overlord Echo with a specialty in dealing Spectro damage to its enemies. In flashes of light and flurries of aggressive attacks, Mourning Aix is quite the competitor in battle....

How to get Tech Armor in Sons Of The Forest Learn where to find Tech Armor in Sons Of The Forest Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games Looking for Tech Armor in Sons Of The Forest? Sons Of The Forest pits you against some powerful foes, so you’ll want to come prepared with some armor. The Tech Armor is one of the best sets available, but you can’t just find everything you need lying around the map....

If you want nothing more than to hollow out a brutalist alien monolith, then tower defence mining game Iter-8 is for you I dig this subgenre Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Fireshine Games / fluckyMachine I’m just a tiny mining droid trying to carve an upward path through the brutalist monolith that dominates the skyline. Not hurting anyone, am I? Yet, I’d be making much better progress if it weren’t for the pesky red-eyed monsters that keep attacking my base....

Kojima says horror game OD is as “experimental” as Boktai, so here’s a quick overview of solar powered gaming The Metal Gear man’s latest may “go against the current of the times” Image credit:Konami Hideo Kojima’s new Xbox Game Studios project OD is a horror game that is “also a movie, and at the same time a new form of media” and who knows, perhaps it also runs on solar power....

Last Epoch review: a vibrant time-travelling ARPG that makes percentage point stat increases fun It’s not a question of where, but when Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Eleventh Hour Games Developer: Eleventh Hour Games Publisher: Eleventh Hour Games Release: February 21st On: Windows, SteamOS + Linux From: Steam , GOG Price: £30/€34/$35 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-11340F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3060, Windows 11 Last Epoch is, as has been observed many times, a kind of middle-ground ARPG....

Latest Monster Hunter Wilds update aims to rally the Steam reviews and slay the wildest monster of all - FOMO Arch-tempered monsters to be permanently available Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Capcom are fine-tuning the live service of livestock-murdering game Monster Hunter Wilds by making the Arch-tempered monster hunts a permanent fixture, rather than time-limited seasonal content quests. It’s a bid to address the FOMO element that has dragged the game down to an Overwhelmingly Negative Steam user review consensus , though there are other things to blame for that, such as dodgy performance ....