The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 9: hiding your shameful sex games with Steam’s new update What games are you ashamed of, hm? Image credit:Devolver Digital This week Steam unveiled a couple of changes. Your shopping basket from the Steam store is now shared between devices, so if you put something in there on browser you can finish it up on your Steam Deck. But, more importantly, you can now hide single, selected games from your library, so your friends can’t see when you’re playing them - or even that you own them....

The Game Awards 2025 livestream: all the announcements and reveals as they happen Watch and chat with with our annual liveblog Image credit:The Game Awards If you’re staying up all night to watch The Game Awards 2025, follow along with our live coverage . If you want an early night, you can catch up on all the news with our Everything Announced at The Game Awards 2025 roundup . 🔴 THE GAME AWARDS 2025: Official 4K60FPS Livestream (Today - 7:30p ET / 4:30p PT / 12:30a GMT) Watch on YouTube...

The Maw - 12th-17th February 2024 Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s best/bizarrest videogame releases Image credit:John Hamilton Mortimer/Wikimedia Commons It’s the middle of February, and the games are afoot. This week brings at least one major news event in the shape of a “business update” from Microsoft about “our vision for the future of Xbox” , which is widely rumoured to be the announcement that first-party Xbox titles will come to rival consoles....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Chocolates, towers, Egypt, cruelty Image credit:Yummy Games As New Year’s Day dawns, the bells ring out from the steeples of old London town. The peals of celebration travel outward through our atmosphere, exiting the realm of Earthly sound and resonating with interstellar plasma and detritus to form a delicate ripple of comet flakes and stray photons, expanding far beyond our solar system....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Stormgate, The Garden Path and World of Goo 2, plus: more Image credit:Old Book Illustrations/Carlo Chiostri Happy this week! I return from holiday to find that Nic, James and the others have been experimenting with the use of Maw-shaped sock puppets to feed the Maw, in the hope that the Maw might form a filial bond with our news-wranglers. Unfortunately, we’ve learned in the process that anything that resembles the Maw behaves like the Maw....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Two Point Museum, Knights In Tight Spaces, Suikoden, and maw Image credit:Ground Shatter/Raw Fury Good morrow to ye, stranger! This week’s new PC game round-up is jam-packed indeed - absolutely sardine-canned. So let’s skip the customary preamble about the Maw’s digestive habits and proceed directly to the banqueting table. On Monday 3rd March, Star Crafter sets out to craft “entire planets, Dyson Ring, Dyson spheres, and more”....

The RPS Selection Box: Callum’s bonus games of the year Dungeons, deliveries and delectable tea, served with a hearty side of friend slop. Image credit:Team Peak / Bethesda Game Studios / Sam C When I looked back on 2025 to assemble my advent calendar votes, I was surprised how many of them were smaller titles, especially in a year that saw both a new Silent Hill and Doom hitting the shelves....

The RPS Selection Box: Julian’s bonus games of the year Click for more games. Click. Click! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Blendo Games / Bad Viking / Snapshot Games While I would go so far as to say that I have an affection for the team here at RPS, they certainly tried my patience when it came to the Advent Calendar voting. How dare they not have played and loved the same games as me through the year?...

The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits’ first gameplay trailer presents an ethically concerning look at imaginary friends Just keep them away from me Image credit:EA Look, we all know The Sims is a weird little series. You can torture your Sims, meet fairies and werewolves and vampires, have half alien babies. So I feel like I shouldn’t be all that surprised by The Sims 4’s next expansion pack, Adventure Awaits, seeing the return of imaginary friends....

The US just added the world’s biggest games publisher Tencent to their list of Chinese military companies Tencent say it’s a mistake Image credit:Tencent Chinese publisher Tencent are the biggest video game company in the world. Their wholly owned subsidiaries including League Of Legends developers Riot Games, Path Of Exile developers Grinding Gear Games, and UK outfit Sumo Group. They own shares in everything from Epic Games through Ubisoft to Silent Hill 2 rebooters Bloober Team....

The Way Of The Tray is a manic Ghibli-inspired waiter simulator Traymendous Image credit:Targem Games I personally would not rely on the structural integrity of a layer of onigiri to support multiple clay bowls and glass bottles, but I am not a professional, nor do I have to please a clientele of demons, large spiders, and Kappas. I also personally wouldn’t have written the phrase “immerse yourself in the mysterious atmosphere of Japan” in the Steam features , since all you have to do there is add an ‘-ese folklore’ to not sound like a 17th century powder-wigged buffoon trotting out his maid in Geisha makeup for tonight’s dinner party entertainment....

This “Batman through the eyes of NPCs” video makes me yearn for a game about being a petty criminal in Gotham Living for the city Image credit:Camouflaj Reader, I am about to venture into that terrible ninth circle of videogame journalist cringe known as pitching your own game in an article. A while ago, I mused aloud on Xitter that a Batman game (or offbrand spiritual homage) from the perspective of people trying to commit petty crimes in Gotham City would be Interesting and/or Countercultural....

This Doom mod is made from Id Software’s abandoned and rejected ideas Drawing from alpha versions and Tom Hall’s Doom Bible Image credit:DrPyspy Before Doom became the lean, mean murdermachine we know and love, Id Software had far bigger plans for their seminal satanic FPS . Ideas dropped during development include a big focus on story, four playable characters, elemental shields, demonic weapons, and more. The mod Doom Delta brings to life many such ideas from sources including an old design document and leaked alpha builds, which I think makes it fanfic?...

Total War: Warhammer 3’s rework of the Kislev faction looks promising, as do Cathay’s grenadiers Bear necessities Image credit:Creative Assembly Playing Total War: Warhammer 3 ’s Kislev campaign on release was one of the best storified strategy game times I’ve had in years, launch issues be thrice-damned, triple cooked, and three times a lady. But the Slavic bulwark against stinky, angry, tricksy and horny invaders has lost some lustre since. The details in Creative Assembly’s latest blog are still a work in progress, but give a solid idea of how Kislev as a faction are changing in a patch due mid-March....

Turnbound is a lovely plinky mixture of autobattler and inventory Tetris, where play order is decided by a cat’s bum Early access build out now Image credit:Gambit Digital / 1TK Out now in early access, Turnbound is a turn-based autobattler about mythical heroes trapped in a haunted boardgame, where the starting player is chosen by flipping a coin bearing a picture of a cat’s anus. It’s saying a lot for Turnbound’s mellow, fairytale ambience and rich, rosy tile designs that I consider the cat’s anus a positive – a touch of whimsy, rather than just, well, that feeling you get when you’ve been flashbanged by a picture of a cat’s anus....

We tried to escape hell in Chained Together and one of us kept running ahead with no warning I won’t say who but it was Nic Image credit:Anegar Games The co-operative clambering of Chained Together is easy to understand. It’s like Fall Guys in the fiery pits of hell, with a tower of fiendish platforming challenges. It brings to mind the mind-shattering failures of Getting Over It and a previous short-lived clamber sim called Only Up ....

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/London: Longman & Co., 1836 Most of the population of the RPS treehouse is currently hanging limply off various branches after the ordeal that was “staying up until 6am to cover everything announced at The Game Awards . So let’s keep this brief, and no one speak too loudly please, we’re sensitive at the moment. Here’s what we’re all playing this weekend!...

Where to find Acorns in Grounded 2 These large nuts can be tricky to spot Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Xbox Game Studios Looking for where to find Acorns in Grounded 2? Despite their size, these large nuts can be tricky to track down in the early game, as they are often obscured amongst tall grass or in valleys. Acorns are required for making the Hatchery , a mandatory story item that leads to your first Buggy mount the Red Soldier Ant , as well as constructing useful early game items such as Storage Chests....

Wordle hints and answer (#1023): How to solve the Sunday April 7 Wordle Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 7? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Wordle hint and answer for Wednesday 11th February ! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer? Wordle is an addicting but challenging test of word acumen....

Wordle hints and answer (#1128): How to solve the Sunday July 21 Wordle Stuck on today’s Wordle word for July 21? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Wordle hint and answer for Wednesday 11th February ! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer? If you’re on your last guess, don’t worry!...