City builder Workers & Resources finally brings socialism to the USA and UK with latest DLC Out 13th December Image credit:Hooded Horse Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic , the Warsaw Pact-era city-building sim from 3DIVISION and Hooded Horse, is getting eight new maps scattered across the globe. These include a map set in the Eastern United States, from approximately New York State down to North Carolina, and another one set in Rock Paper Shotgun’s very own United Kingdom, where Karl Marx wrote most of his best stuff....

Cliffhanger’s Black Panther game reportedly would have built upon the famously patented Nemesis System EA’s my personal nemesis Image credit:Marvel Earlier this week, EA did the thing they oh so frequently loves to do, which is making a bad decision. This time, it was cancelling Marvel’s Black Panther , alongside shutting down the two year old studio that was making it, Cliffhanger Games . As every single announcement like this over the past few years has been, it was an incredibly frustrating one that can’t be justified....

Connections hints and answers for Tue, September 24th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #470. 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 24th September? Well, that’s exactly what we have. Below is a range of clues to help you find the easiest to hardest Connections group answers....

Deathbulge: Battle Of The Bands is roughly 1000% more fun than being in an actual band For me, anyway Image credit:Deathbulge/Five Houses LLC/Rock Paper Shotgun The first scene in RPS Game Club pick Deathbulge: Battle Of The Bands - a genuinely funny and innovative riff on turn-based RPGs - sees candyfloss n’ superglue-haired guitarist Faye frantically search for her missing guitar as the crowd for the titular battle grow impatient. You’ll quickly realise this a school-with-no-trousers-esque dream sequence, but the matted mess of thick black cables that carpet this dingy side-stage is painfully accurate....

Debugging Hero is a cute hack n’ slash where you tweak enemy stats on the fly Talkin’ bout debug snax Image credit:Team ETTU I’ve never been so happy to see a spike trap as I was in Debugging Hero . At the start of each combat encounter, the demo for this roguelite hack n’ slash hands you several numeric cards and lets you pause the game to view both your and your enemies’ stats: health, damage, and durability....

Destiny 2 will finally let you change your character’s appearance, with one big limitation As a jaded veteran, I can’t say I’m surprised it’ll lack the biggest option If you want to change your Destiny 2 wizard’s appearance, the only current method is to stash your wizard’s gear in your vault, create a whole new wizard with a new look (after deleting the old to free a character slot, if needed), grab your old wizard’s gear, then optionally replay any story bits to catch up....

DLSS 3: how it works, how it performs, and when you should use it Nvidia’s next-gen upscaler, explainified Update, again: DLSS 3, and its defining frame generation feature, have now been replaced by DLSS 4 and its Multi Frame Generation (MFG) component. DLSS 3 is still around, though, and is now compatible with both the Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 and RTX 50 series. Nvidia DLSS 3 is arguably the single most interesting thing to emerge from the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 GPU launches....

Don’t expect a Final Fantasy 8 remake after FF7 Remake, director suggests - it’s simply too much work “We really have to think very hard about taking on any kind of project like that” Image credit:Square Enix The director of Final Fantasy 8 has shot down hopes that the next numbered Final Fantasy might see a remake once the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy comes to its conclusion. The reason? Simply that it’s a lot of damn work....

Dragon Age’s former lead writer has many, mostly positive thoughts on Veilguard’s romance options, story and environments He detects more than a whiff of Dragon Age 2 Image credit:EA Former Dragon Age lead writer and Summerfall Games co-founder David Gaider has strung together some opinions on Xitter - the original spawning ground for all opinions - about the full reveal video for Dragon Age: The Veilguard , expressing broad enthusiasm for the new RPG ’s narrative tone, combat system and environments, while offering a more ambivalent analysis of BioWare’s decision to let players seduce every last member of their party....

Drivers Of The Apocalypse combines Mad Max with the vehicle-grappling of Just Cause My car now Image credit:Bonus Stage Publishing The Horsemen of the Apocalypse are War, Famine, Death and Pestilence. The Drivers of the Apocalypse are Grappling Hooks, Vehicle Swapping, Boss Battles and Upgrades. You’ll get to meet all four of the latter in the video game of the same name, a combat racer from Dinosaurs Are Better (citation needed) and their publishers Bonus Stage....

Dune Awakening: All 8 Trial of Aql locations How to find each Trial of Aql Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Funcom Looking for Trial of Aql locations in Dune Awakening? As you progress through Dune Awakening’s story quests, you’ll unlock the Trials of Aql. These challenges see you infiltrating sacred places throughout Arrakis, imbibing lots of Spice, discovering the fate of the Fremen, and gaining insight that will further your survival adventures. Completing the Trials of Aql is not only necessary to advance the story of Dune Awakening, but you’ll also unlock nifty rewards, including new schematics and the ability to imbibe Spice to increase your combat damage and reduce your skill cooldowns....

Dusky Depths is an oddly relaxing name for a roguelite bullet hell about escaping a dead planet Coming soon, has a demo Image credit:Bow Echo Games Dusky Depths - what a pleasant name for a game. It makes me think of sleepy suburban soap operas, slightly worrying brands of shampoo or chocolate, and easy listening radio shows on long-haul train journeys. It doesn’t make me think of getting vapourised by laser beams in an exoplanetary cave system, which is what happened when I gave the demo a try....

Ease the wait for Silksong with the upcoming demo of this very Hollow Knight-looking Metroidvania Deviator’s Steam demo is coming in February Image credit:SapStar Games When Edwin popped the reveal trailer for new Metroidvania Deviator into The Maw this morning , he really wasn’t kidding about it looking a heck of a lot like Hollow Knight . You’ve got a small, diminutive hero with a nasty little blade up his sleeve, a haunting and melancholy piano score, a beautiful hand-drawn animation style, and lots of mean-looking creatures to fight....

Elden Ring Nightreign to get DLC bosses and characters in yet more evidence that it’s a From Extended Universe game Become my blade once more Image credit:Bandai Namco Elden Ring Nightreign will get “additional playable characters and bosses” via DLC, according to an entry on the game’s Steam page . This isn’t massively surprising, given that Nightreign is a multiplayer-focussed spin-off featuring preset Nightfarer heroes rather than custom RPG characters, as in vanilla Elden Ring ....

Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree area progression order Here is our recommended area order for the Elden Ring DLC Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for a good progression route for Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? The Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC introduces you to the Realm Of Shadow, a staggeringly large map for a mere DLC, and one with a huge emphasis on verticality and hidden paths to new areas....

Everything announced at The Game Awards 2024 A roundup of all announcements and trailers shown at TGA 2024 Image credit:CD Projekt Red The Game Awards 2024 has run its course, and among the awards, trailers, and celebrity cameos there were a great many intriguing announcements. Ranging from Naughty Dog’s brand new game Intergalactic to the unexpected news of an Okami sequel, there was very nearly something for everyone this year....

Exodus’ writer wants to make the Mass Effect successor’s side quests so good you won’t care if you’re rewarded for doing them “We definitely don’t want you to feel like you’re doing it because you’re obligated” Image credit:Archetype Entertainment You know, you’d think that with decades worth of RPGs in existence, side quests would have been more or less figured out by now. And yet, there are still enough games releasing that seem more interested in going for quantity over quality....

Explore a puppetmaker’s fear of “dark or fruitless” digital conditioning in Éalú, a deceptively cute stop-motion maze game Out today Image credit:Beyond the Bark Today sees the release of Éalú , a point-and-click puzzler about a wooden mouse exploring a maze. It’s a lovely-looking thing - a “true stop-motion game”, as the Steam page puts it, with every frame of animation based on photography of physical props and sets. After watching the trailer, it’s no huge surprise to learn that designer, animator and writer Ivan Fisher-Owen has a wider background in puppet-making and gadgetry....

Fallout season 2 is fuelling another Steam player bump, as folks once again remember they like Fallout It’s nowhere near the apocalyptic numbers the first series reeled in, but still nothing to sniff at Image credit:Bethesda / Amazon As spotted by Psycho Consuming Gamer , SteamDB’s charts since the episodes of the show started to drop on December 16th feature lines going up. Getting into specifics , Fallout 4 ’s gone from oscillating around the 20,000 players mark to hitting a peak of 44,000 players on January 4th, following a gradual rise over the festive period....

First Dwarf gameplay shows off colony survival combat as a mech-riding dwarf and a tiny polyglot dragon You can also play as said tiny dragon Image credit:Star Drifters Is there a definitive geological difference between rock and stone? Google tells me the main consensus is that stones are just smaller rocks, which sounds like a flimsy distinction to base a catchphrase on. I’m not sure when this would come up, unless maybe you were a biblical heretic trying to dunk on the people bludgeoning you to death by correcting them in some last gasp pettiness, but it still bothers me....