Should you give the Priestess the Pocketwatch in Elden Ring: Nightreign? Learn exactly what happens if you give the Old Pocketwatch to the Priestess Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Don’t know what to do with that Old Pocketwatch you got in Elden Ring: Nightreign? The answer is pretty simple. Better yet, you don’t lose the item if you give it to the Priestess, as you can use it as a Relic, a valuable part of your early-game buildcrafting....

Skyblivion’s release has been delayed to 2026, but you can check out an interactive version of its map Project lead says the need for more time is “something we have known for a while” Image credit:Skyblivion Skyblivion , the massive mod remake of Oblivion in Skyrim ’s engine, won’t be making its previously announced 2025 release goal, the team behind it have confirmed. Instead, the mod’ll be coming out at some point in 2026, giving the team behind it extra time to overcome the final few hurdles and get it polished up....

Social MMO Sky: Children Of The Light is heading to Steam early access in April “It took us a long time to get the PC build right,” thatgamecompany tell RPS Image credit:thatgamecompany Journey developer thatgamecompany have announced the PC early access release date for their social MMO Sky: Children Of The Light . Having already built up a substantial community on both mobile and consoles, PC players will now be able to join in on April 10th on Steam....

Someone made a Rock Paper Shotgun game. Well, pistol anyway Actually none of us are this cool Image credit:Guntlett Polar Star is, basically, rock paper pistol, but with a few dab-handed puzzle twists that make it instantly compelling. You’re a saloon dwelling varmint sat at a table with nothing but your six shooter and a glass of whiskey for company, and you’re accosted by a chain of ne’er-do-wells. Perhaps there’s a bounty on your head....

Sons Of The Forest Shelter Tent: How to make a Tent to save your game Learn how to construct your first Shelter Tent in Sons Of The Forest Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games Want to know how to make a Tent in Sons Of The Forest? The Shelter Tent is the simplest kind of shelter you’re able to create in Sons Of The Forest , and it’s a good idea to place one down early on so you can sleep away that first ominous night....

Space Engineers 2 whooshes out of the airlock and into the cold dark void of early access These boots were made for walking (on asteroids) Image credit:Keen Software House Look up, planet-lubber. Space Engineers 2 launches into the starry depths of early access today, although it is currently limited to a single player creative mode. It’s the sequel to the sci-fi shipbuilding game we quite enjoyed here at RPS. At this early alpha stage, the not-yet-a-survival-game invites players to create galleons of the galaxy, block by shiny metal block, and then drive those ships into one another at 300 metres per second....

Space Marine 2 gets a sandy new mission with an angry Trygon boss Plus a new gun Image credit:Focus Entertainment What up, murder brothers. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 just got a new PvE mission, featuring the somewhat cranky Trygon, a big Tyranid beastie with more arms than is generally prudent. The boss will burst out of the sands of planet Avarax to stab you with said arms, but only after you hunt him down for a bit....

Spider-Man 2: All Spider-Bots All 42 Spider-Bots in Spider-Man 2, from Astoria to the Upper West Side Image credit:IGN/Insomniac Games Looking for all of the Spider-Bots in Spider-Man 2? Insomniac Games’ Spider-Man 2 scatters 42 mechanical Spider-Bots across its Manhattan/Brooklyn/Queens world map, and finding these little guys in the wild of New York is a test of patience. Unlike other markers in Spider-Man 2, they aren’t displayed on your map by default, so you’ll need to locate each and every one with your own spider-enhanced eyes....

Star Wars Outlaws second story pack all about pirates sets a release date for next month Glup Shitto included Image credit:Ubisoft/ Lucasfilm It’s Star Wars Celebration right now, which as I gather is about celebrating giant balls of gas fighting one another. Sorry, I’m being told that it’s actually about some multimedia franchise that has so much going on it’s impossible to keep track of? Doesn’t sound right to me, but I’ll have to trust it....

Steam’s Next Fests have grown into humongous battle royales, and June 2025’s was no different Aggressively gaining Steam Image credit:Valve Hanney, a dev on Space Pirate Trainer and Shredders among others, has had a go at pulling the numbers on the numbers of demos uploaded to Steam during each next fest running back to 2019’s Game Awards-adjacent first edition. Hanney’s graph cites the numbers as being pretty stable between 160-ish on the low end to 300 demos on the higher end per fest throughout most of 2020 to 2022, with some fluctuation up and down....

Steam’s spring sale is live Running from March 14th until the 21st It’s hard for me to get a read on Steam sales, because my relationship and access to games is defined by my work. So I ask you, as the Steam spring sale starts: are Steam sales as big a deal as they used to be? This is purely vibes based, but the sense I get is that Steam Next Fest, with its onslaught of demos for new games, is increasingly exciting....

Stellaris updates are slowing down to stop empires randomly destroying themselves, among other bugs “Too often in game development, fixing one bug introduces another” Image credit:Paradox Space strategy game Stellaris has received another update jam-packed with the kind of systemic adjustments that, were you to shout them through your bedroom door at your mum, would cause her to smile shakily, then go downstairs and sob into a tea towel at the knowledge that her treasured child, her brightest and best, will never amount to anything useful, for they are too busy obsessing over ringworlds and genesis arks and xeno-compatibility....

Synduality is like Armored Core as an extraction shooter, with a closed beta later this month Its gameplay trailer has me exhausted already Image credit:Bandai Namco As a man in my thirties, the idea of going to a club is exhausting to think about nowadays, let alone do. I was thinking about this as I watched the new trailer for Synduality: Echo of Ada , a mech extraction shooter I would probably gladly play instead of going out - but is nevertheless very exhausting to watch itself, at least in this glimpse....

Tales of the Shire’s system requirements have me considering grafting a graphics card to a Hobbit’s bum Forget running things on a toaster, I’m gonna try installing 2013 tech on Bilbo’s backside Image credit:Wētā Workshop Tales Of The Shire: A The Lord Of The Rings Game is finally coming out this month , offering terrifyingly cosy Hobbitiness to us bumbling Bilbos. Its system requirements have just dropped, and they’re pretty reasonable....

Team Ninja announce Ninja Gaiden 4, and they’re getting help from Platinum Will paint your screen red in fall 2025 Image credit:Koei Tecmo Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo have announced Ninja Gaiden 4, the first new numbered entry in the bloodthirsty third-person action series since 2012. Trailered at this evening’s Xbox Developer Direct, it releases for PC in fall 2025, and they’re working on it in collaboration with Bayonetta and Nier : Automata devs Platinum Games....

The best-ever lightweight gaming mouse, in my opinion, is £46/$50 off for Black Friday Though hopefully yours has a better fate than mine Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Rejoice, those with nimble wrists or heightened gravity anomalies localised on top of their desks. Logitech’s G Pro X Superlight 2 gaming mouse, which for my money is the finest ultra-lightweight mouse in existence, is getting cut down in the Black Friday sales – so for your money, it’s down from an admittedly ambitious £149/$180 to a far more reasonable £104/$130....

The best Graphics Card deals for PC Gamers today From powerhouses to budget GPUs Image credit:Zotac RTX 5090 Deals Image credit: Auros Gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 5090 Master 32G Graphics Card $2,999.99 (14% off, was $3,476.99) See here This AORUS RTX 5090 packs 32GB of GDDR7 memory and a huge 512-bit interface for extreme 4K and AI workloads. A 14% discount brings it down to $2,999.99, making it a powerful future-proof choice for top-end builds....

The first 45 minutes of Dragon Age: The Veilguard feel as much like Mass Effect 2 as Inquisition A more focused action-RPG with the promise of complexity deeper in Image credit:EA Good news, everybody! Dragon Age: The Veilguard - previously Dragon Age : Dreadwolf, strictly speaking Dragon Age 4 - is not the bantzy heist romp suggested by its debut trailer . Less Good News for returning players: going by the 45 minute segment I was shown at Summer Game Fest, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is more of a single-character action- RPG plus entourage, than a proper party-based affair in the vein of 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition ....

The great RPS Advent Calendar Guessing Game of 2025 has commenced May Horace guide your hand Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Harris Brisbane Dick Fund / Wikimedia Commons It’s been tradition for as long as anyone can remember, that the team at RPS ends the year by choosing their favourite 24 games from the preceding 12 months. In December, we reveal our picks day-by-day. We call this the RPS Advent Calendar ....

The Maw - 26th February-2nd March Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s videogame releases Image credit:Wendel Dietterlin, the Younger/Rock Paper Shotgun New week, yet more videogames! Gosh, those developers are incorrigible. I would characterise this week’s new game releases as a gentle blend of cosy simulation and nostalgia, served on a bed of fantasy roguelikes. If I had to pick a most-anticipated, it’d be a toss-up between the remaster of a shooter I adored in my teens and the breezy amateur photography game that teaches you the kanji for “flower”....