A Plague Tale: Innocence is free to keep on Epic Games Store for the next day only Rats entertainment Gloriously grim stealth game A Plague Tale: Innocence - you know, that game with the rats - is currently free to keep over on the Epic Games Store. If you’ve somehow missed it before now, it’s well worth playing in my opinion - especially for the low price of nothing. A Plague Tale: Innocence follows brother and sister Amicia and Hugo as they creep their way through a French countryside decimated by both murderous Inquisition soldiers and gigantic swarms of flesh-eating rats....

Abiotic Factor’s biggest update yet adds new sectors to explore, plus jetpacks, jeeps and laser katanas Half-Laugh Image credit:Playstack Everyone loved Half-Life yet no one in 1998 was brave enough to say: “Okay, but what if this was an early access crafting survival game voiced by a bunch of New Zealanders?” Those 90s cowards. Abiotic Factor is the courageous game that has been correcting this historic oversight. It’s fun, and the fun just got funnerer....

Ah yes, a Palworld card game is on the way, can’t think of any other creature collector that has one of those Flip off Image credit:Pocketpair / Bushiroad Once again it appears that Pocketpair appears to be going after a bit of Pokemon’s pie, this time of the card game variety. Where the latter’s started life as a physical medium, the former’s attempt at such a thing, literally just called Palworld Official Card Game, announced today, looks to be of the digital-only variety, though what there is to learn about it is a touch slim overall....

Alienware’s Area-51 prebuilt gaming PC can now use an RTX 5090 Dell’s powerhouse prebuilt just leveled up with the RTX 5090. But, yes, it’s expensive. Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / Alienware I’ve been keeping an eye on the Alienware Area-51 reboot ever since Dell teased it at CES. It looked sharp, had decent specs, but for a while, your only GPU option was the RTX 5080. That changed, and honestly, it changed for the better....

All 103 weapons in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Here are all the new Elden Ring DLC weapons and how to get them Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for every new weapon in the Elden Ring DLC? The base Elden Ring already had over 300 weapons to adorn your Tarnished’s wizened fingers with, and the massive Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC has added 103 more on top of that....

All Arc Raiders Field Depot locations on every map Here’s where to find every Field Depot in Arc Raiders Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios Struggling to find a Field Depot in Arc Raiders? Field Depots are small rectangular one-room structures, recognisable by the tall radar antenna atop each one. They are permanent structures on each map, and they all look identical. Field Depots can be found on every map in Arc Raiders , and it’s very useful to learn where each one is located....

As literally everything gets more and more expensive, Everspace 2’s devs say screw it, let’s make our upcoming DLC cheaper Alright, I’ll take it! Image credit:Rockfish Games Everything is expensive. Everything! Bills, food, video games, you name it. I mean, £75 for a game where you drive around as an Italian plumber? Not entirely convinced by this one, Mr. Bowser. I could get into the weeds of why all of this is happening (none of it for being particularly good reasons), but I won’t because I bring word of something actually getting less expensive....

Assassin’s Creed Shadows: How to upgrade armor and weapons Here’s how to upgrade your gear in AC Shadows using the Forge Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft How do you upgrade your armor and weapons in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? While you’ll find and be rewarded with new gear throughout your time travelling throughout AC Shadows’ beautiful vistas of feudal Japan, you’ll quite likely want to stick with something you like and just keep leveling it up alongside your own character level....

Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ backlash reportedly corporately canonised by Ubisoft as a victory for being “more of a video game than a message” CEO Yves Guillemot’s given a marketing presentation and said some things Image credit:Ubisoft Ubisoft have reportedly offered a corporate spin on the backlash Assassin’s Creed Shadows faced from right-wing grifters prior to release, with CEO Yves Guillemot framing it as “a battle with our fans, to demonstrate that we were, in fact, more of a video game than a message”....

Baby Steps isn’t about humiliation, but the joy of disobedient flesh Rolling with the changes Image credit:Devolver Many years ago, my brother and I climbed the moor above our town and, for reasons that elude me, decided to roll to the bottom of it. We hugged each other and threw ourselves off the path into an ocean of heather and bracken. This was, to be clear, a bloody stupid thing to do....

Baldur’s Gate 3 once had a portable hole, but Swen Vincke says it would have been a “crime against humanity” “We had to remove it, but it was fantastic.” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios I’m sure you could fill a bottomless pit with the things Larian decided not to add to Baldur’s Gate 3 . One of those things was, in fact, a bottomless pit. Not just a bottomless pit, but a conveniently portable, Looney Tunes-esque hole into which you could seemingly chuck everything from items and equipment to characters....

Baldur’s Gate 3’s Nocturne is a landmark in trans representation, but for her voice actor it’s just the beginning Abigail Thorn, aka Philosophy Tube, says “the goal is liberation, not celebrity”. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios I bought Baldur’s Gate 3 shortly after its release as a need than a want, when I was a year-and-half into my gender transition and hormone replacement therapy. Gender transition is not just an arduous journey of self-discovery, but also a profound and constant engagement with one’s own reality....

Battlefield 6’s full multiplayer reveal sees EA trying to rebottle the lightning of Battlefield 3 and 4 Out in October with nine maps and the famous four classes Image credit:EA EA have given us our first proper look at Battlefield 6 ’s multiplayer, after revealing the game with a single player trailer last week . They’ve also confirmed the new shooter ’s release date - 10th October 2025 - and announced dates for a series of beta weekends in August....

Battlefield 6’s PC specs don’t look too lofty despite all the booms, and Steam players won’t need the pesky EA App Also, no long nights studying the battlelore required Image credit:EA Right, if your hearing’s recovered enough from the sheer blaring blastiness of yesterday’s Battlefield 6 multiplayer reveal , I’m here to tell you a couple of things you’ll probably be happy about. Well, unless you’re planning on buying it from the Epic Games store....

Before you brush your teeth tonight, remember to install Doom on your electric toothbrush The latest weird answer to “Can it run Doom?” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Evowera/Id Software Your most commonly visible bones are your teeth, so what better way to worship at the fleshy altar of Doom than by polishing those bones with an electric toothbrush whose little LCD screen is running Id Software’s seminal satanic shooter? The latest delightfully weird device rising to the eternal question “Can it run Doom?...

Best Development Points to unlock in Manor Lords Prioritise these Development Points for the best possible start in Manor Lords Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse What are the best Development Points to unlock in Manor Lords? If you’ve progressed to the point in Manor Lords where you’ve reached a new Settlement Level, you’ll likely already have seen the game’s Development Points tech tree, accessible by clicking on the name of your town at the top of the screen....

Best Dexterity weapons in Elden Ring Here are the best Dexterity weapons in Elden Ring Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/FromSoftware Looking for the best Dexterity weapons in Elden Ring? If you prefer speed over brawn, you’ll need our list of the best Dexterity weapons in Elden Ring . Dexterity is one of the most important stats in the game and determines how much damage you can deal when wielding a Dexterity-based weapon as well as the draw speed of bows....

Best Hammer in Monster Hunter Wilds These are the best endgame Hammers in Wilds right now Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom What is the best Hammer in Monster Hunter Wilds? The Hammer tree , more than perhaps any other weapon tree in Monster Hunter Wilds , is filled with some absolutely gorgeous slabs of metal, husk, and bone, designed to do just one thing above all else: bonk big monster heads. The Hammer delivers massive blunt damage in an easy-to-use package, and there’s a lot of them to choose from....

Best Pals for Farming in Palworld Here are our picks for the best Farming Pals in Palworld Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Want to know which Pals in Palworld are best at Farming? Farming is one of the more unusual Work Suitability skills in Palworld . Pals who possess skill in Farming can produce specific resources when you put them to work in your base , such as Honey, Gold Coins, and Milk....

Best Spells in Black Myth Wukong Every Mysticism, Alteration, and Transformation Spell you should be using in Black Myth Wukong Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Looking for the best Spells in Black Myth Wukong? Ranging from petrification powers to a Stone Monkey transformation, Black Myth Wukong ’s Spells are among the most important combat tools. What better way to defeat a boss than to stun them and unleash your army of minions?...