Remedy’s co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak will release this June The 17th, to be precise Image credit:Remedy June 17th is the release date for FBC: Firebreak , Remedy’s triple mate co-op shooter set in the Control universe, which is also the Alan Wake universe, which also might be the Max Payne universe if you blur your eyes and plug your ears and shout “Alex Casey” a lot when Rockstar’s lawyers come knocking....

Romeo is a Dead Man sets its outlandish sights on a February 2026 release date So what does that make Juliet? Image credit:Grasshopper Manufacture I can see it now… in the near future, the review embargo for Suda51’s next game Romeo is a Dead Man , and as far as the eye can see the digital realm is scorched with 7/10s. Its maximalist shenanigans, techno-blasting soundtrack, and ridiculous premise puts it in a position where it couldn’t possibly be for everyone, even if such a score is actually ideal for such a game, but when has that ever been the case for a Suda51 game?...

Save up to 42% on the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless, the headset whose battery will outlast your interest in most games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun The equivalent US deal isn’t quite so enthusiastic with the price shears, though $200 to $143 is still a decent cut on a headset that’s supremely comfortable and richer than most on powerful, bassy sound output. The real reason to get one of these, mind, is its borderline sci-fi battery life....

Should You Bother With… Hall effect keyboards? Heroes of might and magnets Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Welcome back to Should You Bother With , the RPS hardware column that combs away the fluff surrounding PC gaming gear to reveal a smooth, hairless core of pure consumer advice. This time: Hall effect keyboards, a relatively fresh flavour of desktop peripheral that’s been gaining traction with manufacturers for the switch design’s supposed durability and reliability benefits....

Skald: Against The Black Priory review: the best of 80s RPG design without the baggage Landing in hot water Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Raw Fury Developer: High North Studios AS Publisher: Raw Fury Release: May 30th 2024 On: Windows 10 From: Steam , GOG Price: £13/€16/$16 Reviewed on: AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 3400G, Radeon RX 590, 24GB RAM, Windows 10 I regret not covering Skald Colon Against The Black Priory when its developer told us about it 2019....

Spectre Divide shutting down six months after launch reminds us how hard it is to make a live-service game Luck of the draw Image credit:Mountaintop Studios Crikey, it’s still looking rough out there in the industry at the moment, isn’t it folks? Yesterday unfortunately brought the news that another online game is shutting down, with the studio alongside it. In this version of the story that we’ve heard all too often recently, it’s Spectre Divide , a tactical free-to-play first-person shooter whose whole gimmick is that you control your own character and a clone, allowing you to switch between them on the fly....

SpreadCheat is the Dark Souls of Microsoft Excel simulators, or something Welcome to BroCorp Image credit:Games People Play/Rubarb SpreadCheat is the most fun I’ve had in some time with a game that I completely avoided engaging with in any meaningful way. I solved every one of its simple spreadsheet puzzles by randomly clicking and dragging numbers until something worked, and I had a great time doing it. This is likely because this seems like the intended experience: Office Space your way through with minimal effort, then eat pizza with your bolshy wet wipe of a boss....

Stardew Valley “thriving more than ever” as new mod-centric 1.6 update gets a March release date The farming sim is eight years old and has 30 million copies sold Image credit:ConcernedApe Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has marked the 8th birthday of his farming sim phenomenon baby (also called Stardew Valley ) by announcing the impending release of update 1.6. The PC version - the one we care about - is arriving on the 19th of March, and consoles and mobile as soon as possible after that....

Tarnished Blood is Darkest Dungeon meets Monster Hunter with a fancy timeline mechanic And there’s a demo Image credit:Galaktus/Nakayama Games If you’d told me back in 1999 that a rudimentary grasp of sound editing software would stand me in surprisingly good stead as a strategy game player, I’d have asked you who the hell you are and what you’re doing in my house. But in the years that followed, after you’d been sent to the slammer for crashing through my window bellowing about cheap Audible subscriptions, I might have checked out games like Ghost Trick and Phantom Brigade - each sort of an exercise in placing actions on a timeline like audio layers to produce a winning composition - and thought “hey, that hysterical burglar was onto something”....

The 30 best survival games on PC Promise me that you will never die There’s never been a better time to get into survival games on PC, as the recent revival of the genre means Steam is now awash in some truly great games, both in early access and in full release. There are more arriving every year, too, which is why we’ve done the hard work for you and ranked the very best survival games to dive into today....

My beloved (well, liked) LG UltraGear 27GR93U gets even cheaper Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun UK deal: LG UltraGear 27GR93U £365 (was £550) See here US deal: LG UltraGear 27GR93U $297 (was $497) See here Obviously that B&H deal also has the advantage of not needing a Prime account, though for two. Hundred. And ninety. Seven. Dollars , I imagine it won’t stay in stock for long. Rock Paper Shotgun is better when you sign in...

Last chance to click faster, aim sharper, spend less Image credit:Steelseries / ASUS Image credit: Razer Razer Viper V2 Pro HyperSpeed Wireless Mouse Was: $149.99, Now: $79.99, 47% off See here This thing is unbelievably light. I don’t own it, but I’ve handled it. It feels like air. If I wanted something purely for flick shots and speed, I’d probably go for this. It makes the Aerox 5 feel chunky in comparison....

The Finals weapon tier list: Best weapons for each class These are the best weapons in The Finals right now Image credit:Embark Studios What are the best weapons in The Finals? Your choice of weapon in The Finals is based on a few things. Chief among them is the question: what class are you playing as? Light, Medium, or Heavy? They all have their own unique roster of guns and melee weapons, and they’re all very powerful in the right hands and under the right circumstances....

The Finals’ Season 2 is a happy hackathon that laughs in the face of physics More outlandish gadgets make for a more exciting shooter, though the new 5v5 mode disappoints Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios I’ve spent many gleeful hours in The Finals ( as has Graham ), but I’ve always felt it could do more with the concept of its FPS gameshow deathmatches essentially taking place in hyper-realistic VR. Exploding into coins upon death notwithstanding, and to be clear, rad as hell....

The First Descendant’s endgame won’t be about “meaningless DPS" or “piling on specs” New looter shooter to focus on strategic depth and “party play” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Nexon Live service games such as The First Descendant - a Warframe -ish co-op looter shooter coming next month - can often suffer from a chronic case of numbers-itis, a tragic and goopy disease that stagnates game feel, letting raw and tasteless maths multiply and overwhelm what I, in all my critical wisdom, call “fun button pushy....

The first new Shiren The Wanderer game in 14 years is headed to PC Following Switch release earlier this year Image credit:Spike Chunsoft Various games in the Shiren The Wanderer (and Mystery Dungeon) series have been recommended to me over and over, but I’ve yet to play any of them. I likely won’t play the next, either. Shiren The Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon Of Serpentcoil Island is headed to PC via Steam soon....

The first Witcher 4 trailer is here, and Ciri is the star “There are no gods here. There are only monsters.” Image credit:CD Projekt CD Projekt have screened the first trailer for The Witcher 4 , the next instalment in their fantasy monster-slaying series. It’s another single player open world RPG, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ’s Ciri is the protagonist. In fact, she’s the protagonist for a whole new Witcher saga, though there’s a tease at the end of the footage that crusty old Geralt may return as well....

The Forge: How to complete the Goblin King quest Need help accessing the Goblin Cave? We’ve got you covered Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / The Forge Community Trying to get into the locked Goblin Cave in The Forge? As you may have realised by now, that’s not going to be an easy feat. The entrance to the Goblin Cave is only opened after completing a long, time-consuming quest in this blacksmithing Roblox RPG, and even worse, you’ll be completing it for the snooty ruler watching guard over it: The Goblin King....

The Forge: Pickaxe guide Wondering what’s the best Pickaxe in The Forge? Here’s our guide to the best Picks money can buy. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / The Forge Community What’s the best Pickaxe in The Forge? It’s a question you’ll no doubt be asking as you drum up funds and consider snagging yourself one of the very expensive endgame Pickaxes hidden deep within this Roblox RPG’s labyrinthian mines. While some Pickaxes you’ll find are objectively better than others, having higher stats across the board, the rarest ones are less cut and dry....

The Lethal Company developer’s next game is an open world where you can’t see Welcome To The Dark Place, but not the Alan Wake kind Image credit:Zeekerss / Rock Paper Shotgun Lethal Company was one of last year’s surprise horror hits. It was a brilliant dystopian scavenging sim in which you searched cellars for bolts while avoiding the attentions of creatures that hate being looked at, or which only move when they’re not being looked at, or which look like your friends, from a distance....