Dragon Age: The Veilguard strips your RPG party down to two companions, but they’ll be “deeper” with a lot more banter The most banter ever Image credit:EA “Two’s company, three’s a crowd,” the saying goes, unless the first two are warriors and the third one is a priest, in which case the superior proverb is surely “three’s a moderately balanced squad, two’s a massive liability”? Here to put such kitchen wisdom to the test is BioWare’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard , which “only” allows you to bring two companions into the fray, one fewer than 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition ....

Dragon’s Dogma 2 expands the original game’s absolutely daft NPC affinity system On the flipside, your beloved might die Image credit:Pushsquare/Capcom One of the sillier aspects of the original Dragon’s Dogma was accidentally falling head over heels for some rando innkeeper, and having them appear beside you as your sweetheart during the ending scenes, much to the surprise of many players who didn’t realise they were hitting on every NPC they did a favour for....

Elden Ring Nightreign Duos update delayed due to tsunami warning UPDATE: It’s now here Image credit:FromSoftware Update: Elden Ring Nightreign ’s patch 1.02 is now live. You can check out the full notes here if you fancy, and otherwise say hello from me to whoever your duo expedition partner is. Original story continues below: Elden Ring Nightreign ’s patch 1.02, which’ll deliver the Duo Expeditions players have been asking for, has had its deployment pushed back by a day due a tsunami warning....

Elden Ring Nightreign’s latest patch is good news for madness fans, and should save you from auto-death after boss fight revives Get your saxophones out and start flying across the stage Image credit:FromSoftware Elden Ring Nightreign . It’s gotten another patch, and while not as beefy as you might like, it’s a box of bug fixes that you should know about. Especially if you’ve ever been fighting a Nightlord, gone down, been revived, and then immediately flopped back down dead....

Engineering puzzle designer Zach Barth almost made a Factorio-like automation game, but “got really bored really quickly” So what’s Zach like? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Astra Logical “I’m not a perfectionist,” says the guy who makes niche puzzle games that turn me into a gibbering wreck obsessed with efficiency. And I feel a wave of comical fury. If like me you’ve been whirring and clicking your way through very good engineering puzzle game Kaizen: A Factory Story , you’re probably a fan of previous work from the same developers....

Enginefall’s Snowpiercer-meets-DayZ promise is put at risk by mechanical troubles One train I wouldn’t mind being delayed Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Red Rover Interactive Enginefall is as much about fabricating bandages and building hovels as it is about mad locomotive sci-fi, but upon being invited to try out an early build, its concept proved compelling enough to punch through my survival crafting fatigue like a runaway… I dunno, bus. Basically it’s a first-person Snowpiecer-em up, where a typical session sees postapocalypse survivors raiding enormous trains, fighting (or joining forces) from tail to tip to usurp the conductor’s position and steal precious fuel cores before escaping back to their own private engine....

Enotria: The Last Song review: a straightforward, sunny Soulslike Bugs aside, this is a refreshing AA monster-basher Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Jyamma Games Developer: Jyamma Games Publisher: Jyamma Games Release: Out now On: Windows From: Epic Games Store , Steam Price: £40/$50/€45 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i5-12400F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, Windows 11 When playing a new Soulslike , there’s an element of translation involved while you figure out the language of the game....

Enter The Chronosphere is a fast, furious yet laidback series of top-down shooting hamster mazes Dip into the demo, why don’t you Image credit:Joystick Ventures Back in the late 90s when all of you NORMIES were playing Diablo , I was playing a little-known Konami ARPG called Azure Dreams, which has alas never escaped PlayStation prison. It’s a grid-based, upwardly mobile roguelitey dungeon crawler set in a big tower, each floor a semi-randomised maze of monsters (which you can capture), traps and pick-ups, where player and creature actions happen simultaneously....

Final Fantasy 16’s PC release sounds pretty close, with a demo first so you can test its “somewhat high” specs It should be out within the next year, reassures producer Naoki Yoshida Image credit:Square Enix Yoshi-P told Game Informer that Final Fantasy XVI’s PC port is currently in “the final stages of optimisation”, adding that announcing a release date may depend on being able to tell players exactly what they’ll need to gaze upon a lovely Ultra HD Clive (and all those nice summon effects too, I suppose) on their monitors....

Final Fantasy devs’ Lost Hellden boasts 3D handpainted art and a mix of action and strategy in a gorgeous JRPG Demo dropping later this year ahead of 2025 release Image credit:Artisan Studios A group of developers with credits across a number of Final Fantasy games - including the composer of Final Fantasy XII and a former Final Fantasy XIV artist - have unveiled their own upcoming JRPG headed to PC next year....

Final Fantasy Tactics remaster reportedly “real and happening”, giving hope for one of the series’ finest to finally come to PC Despite director saying there were “no plans” for a re-release of the tactical spin-off Image credit:Square Enix A remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics , the grid-based strategy spin-off from the RPG series that easily ranks as one of the best Final Fantasy games ever made , is reportedly in the works - giving hope of its first official PC release....

Former Bioshock devs once worked on an XCOM game that played like Shadow Of The Colossus “The whole game would be about the scale disparity, that you were little human soldiers” Image credit:2K Real ones know that the only XCOM spin off worth its salt is Hasbro’s 1999 play-by-mail banger First Alien Invasion , although that didn’t stop System Shock 2 studio Irrational from getting to work on an FPS set in the strategy series’ universe after being acquired by 2K in 2006....

From Blizzard to Bethesda, game unions are sweeping the industry - here’s how the CWA helps make them happen An interview with an organiser at the Communications Workers Of America Image credit:Communications Workers Of America “We have been sold this myth for a very long time that unions have to be for blue collar workers in an industrial setting in the early 1900s,” Autumn Mitchell tells me. “The very simple definition of a union is just you and your co-workers coming together and forming a collective body....

Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 livestream: watch all today’s announcements here And follow our conference liveblog Image credit:Gamescom Gamescom 2025 begins today, Tuesday August 19th, with Opening Night Live - the annual livestream showcase of trailers, teasers and release date announcements, in which helpless videogames are dragged on-stage and hacked into 90-second gobbets by Geoff Keighley. You can watch Gamescom Opening Night Live on this very page, care of the below video embed....

Genre-bending horror dating sim sequel Sucker For Love: Date To Die For unleashes a sexy goat mommy this month Get confused and horny in just two weeks time! Image credit:DreadXP Rebecca (RPS in peace) was our resident monster fuc enjoyer for a while, and she was well up for Sucker For Love: First Date , but was slightly disappointed that as a horror -themed dating sim it leaned away from the dating and well into the horror....

Glamtime never ends in Infinity Nikki, the open world dress-up game from Zelda talent Load of ballgowns Image credit:Infold Games Take the ballroom scene from Disney’s Beauty And The Beast, swap the wailing utensils for an army of chibi cats, endow Belle with low-key Doctor Manhattan-grade powers of matter transformation, and you’re perhaps beginning to approximate the experience of Infinity Nikki - an open world dress-up adventure from Singapore-based Infold and former Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild developer Kentaro Tominaga....

Graham Smith is leaving RPS, come say goodbye Mods are very asleep Image credit:Graham Smith / Rock Paper Shotgun Graham is gone. The longest-running editor of Rock Paper Shotgun worked his last day on the website earlier this week, and has leapt quietly into the mysterious realm of the games industry proper. The emotional fallout of this departure is roughly the same as any other time RPS has watched a writer swan-dive out of the RPS treehouse and into the mist far below....

Grit and Valor - 1949’s real-time World War mech-stomping launches on Steam today We already have Into The Breach at home Image credit:Megabit Publishing Grit & Valor – 1949 is the tale of an alternate timeline in which the Nazis got hold of mechs and promptly overran the British Isles. As Nic semi-alluded last year, you could summarise the game itself as the product of a timeline in which the people behind Wolfenstein: The New Order decided to make Into the Breach instead....

GTA 6’s wholesome Boris Bike docking revealed in alleged WIP Rockstar portfolio video I don’t care what they call them where you’re from Image credit:Benjamin Chue / Rock Paper Shotgun Over the weekend, Grand Theft Auto 6 ’s legions of fan weather-watchers spotted a portfolio reel created by former Rockstar animator Benjamin Chue that includes what appears to be some WIP stuff from GTA 6 . Assuming the leak is legitimate, this isn’t nearly an eruption on the scale of the 2022 GTA 6 leaks : it contains a couple of extremely non-final animations from the forthcoming open world game....

Helldivers 2 players are escaping death by performing aerial salutes and hugs Patriotism > gravity Image credit:PCGamer According to the wikihow page “how to fall safely” , the best way to minimise injury while falling is to stay loose, keep your arms and legs bent, and roll on impact. According to ragdoll-prone shooter Helldivers 2 , however, it’s better to stand to attention in mid-air and perform a crisp salute. It’s long been known that the game’s emotes confer unexpected defensive advantages, with emergency hugs sometimes shielding you against artillery fire, but now, one redditor has proven via careful scientific experimentation that they also protect you against the force of gravity....