Annapurna Interactive’s entire staff resign following dispute with owner Executives and around 24 staffers quit in the wake of failed negotiations Image credit:Annapurna Interactive Annapurna Interactive - the publisher behind games such as Cocoon , Stray , and Neon White - have seen their entire staff resign after an internal dispute this month, via Bloomberg . The resignations came in the wake of a dispute between Annapurna Interactive president Nathan Gary and Annapurna studio head Megan Ellison....

Baba Is You meets Into The Breach in the latest surprise spin-off Mecha pilot is you in Mobile Suit Baba Image credit:Hempuli Combine the turn-based mech battles of Into The Breach with the rule-changing puzzling of Baba Is You and you have Mobile Suit Baba, whose launch I entirely missed right before Christmas. Pick a squad of mechs to field in different scenarios where you must push, pull, and slam your way to victory....

Battlefield 6 review A Pax on all your destructible houses Image credit:EA / Rock Paper Shotgun Developer: Battlefield Studios Publisher: EA Release: October 10th 2025 On: Windows From: Steam , Epic Games Store , Microsoft Store Price: $70/£60/€70 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7 12700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3060, Windows 11 All hail the Battlefools! They fan out efficiently from spawn and are instantly massacred in a hail of rifle fire and grenades....

Best RTX 5080 laptop deal: HP Omen Max 16 is down to just $2610 today It doesn’t cut corners either. Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / HP There’s a new king of RTX 5080 laptop deals, and it’s this HP Omen Max 16 configuration . At $2,609.99 shipped with promo code PC10DEAL , it undercuts the competition by hundreds of dollars without compromising on power. Inside is a top-end Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX and NVIDIA RTX 5080 GPU—parts usually found in laptops closer to $3,500....

Best talismans in Elden Ring The 15 best talismans for Elden Ring and Shadow of the Erdtree Image credit:Bandai Namco Looking for the best talismans in Elden Ring? Talismans are important accessories in Elden Ring , replacing rings from past Souls games. Fresh characters can equip only one talisman, but as you grow stronger, you’ll be able to use four at a time. Assembling the right combination of talismans can massively increase your damage and ability to survive, often spelling the difference between life and death against Elden Ring’s biggest bosses ....

Black Myth Wukong Buddha’s Eyeball locations Find all 6 Buddha’s Eyeballs in Fright Cliff to unlock a secret boss Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Wondering where to find all the Buddha’s Eyeballs in Chapter 2 of Black Myth: Wukong? As you enter the Fright Cliff region in Chapter 2 of Black Myth: Wukong , you’ll pass by a chanting head of a Buddha statue in the ground. You can interact with this head to pluck out a Buddha’s Eyeball, an item unique to this region of the game....

BlizzCon won’t happen in 2024 Blizzard say the timing “doesn’t line up” BlizzCon, Blizzard’s annual get-together for fans of their games, was halted by the pandemic in 2020 and only returned as a physical event last year. One year later, it is cancelled again, Blizzard have announced. “After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it....

Bribe pigeons into criminal acts with infinite bread in The Bench later this month Crumby bread pun Image credit:Voxel Studios Altruism is a funny concept. Most of us can agree that bestowing a generous gift of greening shelf-stable bread-like product on the local park pigeons is a nice thing to do, but what of the knowledge that moulders in the back of our minds all the while, telling us: keep this up long enough, and you’ll definitely end up with a loyal army of skyborne scavengers willing to enact your every destructive whim at a mere flick of your wrist?...

Bungie layoffs “couldn’t be avoided” even if Destiny 2 The Final Shape had “blockbuster performance”, says report The lauded expansion has apparently sold worse than the panned Lightfall Image credit:Bungie/Sony This week’s mass layoffs at Destiny studio Bungie were planned out months ago, former employees have told journalist Stephen Totilo at Game File (paywalled). According to Totilo, Bungie leadership “overstated their studio’s financial prospects to Sony” after the latter bought Bungie in 2022 for $3....

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 multiplayer review Generation slop Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Activision / Treyarch Black Ops 7’s multiplayer offers some iterative changes and one decent new mode, but these modest improvements cannot hide an experience that feels increasingly lost at sea. Developer: Treyarch Publisher: Activision Release: November 14th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam , Xbox Store , Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price: £69.99/$69.99/€79.99 Reviewed on: AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Nvidia RTX 2080 Super, 32GB RAM, Windows 10 Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 ’s multiplayer is better than its awful, terrible, abominable, ghastly, hideous, not very good campaign....

Can a first-person soulslike work? Playing Napoleonic parryfest Valor Mortis suggests oui The French deflection Image credit:One More Level/Lyrical Games I’ll say this for Valor Mortis , One More Level’s first-person, sabre-swishing soulslike wherein Napoleon Bonaparte’s men mysteriously become abominations of melted undead meat: the Ghostrunner devs are probably the team for the job. While that series is all about cyberpunk katanas and zippy wallrunning, its punishing, trial-and-error combat should resonate with anyone who spends most of their time respawning at campfires....

Castle V Castle is a snappy minimalist card game with robots, witches, and sentient doomer signage Also hard hats Image credit:Nopopo I can’t be certain, but the music for Castle V Castle sounds very much like it was made on an old Roland TR-808 drum machine or equivalent plug-in. Your ears will be familiar with the 808 even if your brain isn’t - it’s about as ubiquitous in hip hop as the Amen break ....

Company Of Heroes devs reveal B-movie version of Advance Wars - the first Relic Labs experiment All the Squirrel-Cows have come home to roost Image credit:Relic Entertainment It was only last week that newly Sega-less Company Of Heroes developer Relic Entertainment announced plans for various smaller strategy game projects. Now, here we are with Earth Vs Mars , a boldly-coloured B-movie homage to Advance Wars in which you can splice units with animals to create tactical monstrosities such as “Squirrel-Cows” and “Cheetah-Flies”....

Connections hints and answers for Mon, October 14th Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #490. 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 ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 14th October? If Connections has you ‘round the bends’, you’re not alone. We’ve set up a bunch of clues to help you guess along the way....

Connections hints and answers for Mon, September 23rd Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #469. 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 ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 23rd September? We’ve scoured today’s Connections for a group of clues to help you out....

Connections hints and answers for Thu, September 5th Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #451. 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 ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 5th September? A new day brings another devilishly difficult Connections puzzle. We’ve got all the hints you need to help you solve today’s conundrum bit by bit....

Copycat forced me to refuse a dying elderly woman emotional comfort, then steal her chicken That Dragon, Toxoplasmosis Image credit:Spoonful Of Wonder/Rock Paper Shotgun “Guided by your moral compass: reflect on themes of home, loneliness and belonging through a complex, three-act story told effortlessly through three hours of video game narrative,” the press release for cat simulator Copycat told me. Morals? Daddy Karch, it’s happening again ! I’m in the cat shelter and the woman you play as, Olive, is coughing and the screen is going blurry....

Counter-Strike 2 finally gets left-handed view models, seven months after launch Valve reinstates a CS:GO staple Image credit:Valve Left-handed Counter-Strike 2 players, time to raise that left hand in what could be interpreted as a celebration. In the game’s latest update, Valve have added the ability to swap from the default right-handed viewmodel to a left-handed one. There’s also an update to the buy menu, making it easier to track your bank account and grab weapons your mates have dropped....

Da Hood codes [February 2026] Whether cop or robber, you’ll benefit from the freebies these codes get you Image credit:Da Hood Entertainment Looking for the latest Da Hood codes for free cash and more? It’s my understanding that kids these days love to turn Roblox into GTA Online, and one of the most popular and enduring examples of this unofficial sub-genre is Da Hood . A self-described “difficult game”, Da Hood splits players into groups of cops and robbers on a volunteer basis, and then lets them loose in the world with the simple goal of accruing as much cash and/or power for themselves as they can....

Deals for today: Alienware Black Friday in July sale is twisting my arm Plus massive savings on M.2 drives and Final Fantasy games Image credit:Dell and Square Enix Alienware’s Black Friday in July sale just dropped a wave of serious gaming hardware deals. Desktop beasts with RTX 5090s are now hundreds off, and the latest Area-51 and Aurora systems are pushing 4K frame rates with ease. On the portable side, Alienware’s newest 16- and 18-inch laptops are loaded with 4080s and 4090s, making high refresh 1440p gaming look effortless....