Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road brings Level5’s rousing football RPG series to PC for the first time today 5,400 footballers, all of whom run like ducks Image credit:Level5 Back in December, the reveal of Sloclap’s Rematch sent me into spirals of introspection about the classist origins of my apathy for football . Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is sending me into spirals of introspection about the fact that maybe football was a Dragon Quest RPG all along....

It’s time to build an ancient Roman city near an exploding volcano Pompeii? Nah, it’s free Image credit:Aviv Levy City-building can be an exhausting affair, once you’ve evolved beyond the initial joy of cottage windows lighting up at night, and start having to deal with things like traffic congestion and rubbish collectors going on strike. As such, it’s nice to play a city builder in which you can rest easy in the knowledge that any urban sprawl you engineer will soon be obliterated....

Leadership at Don’t Nod are “creating an atmosphere of extreme violence” with planned layoffs, says French game workers union The STJV “cannot tolerate the company rejecting the responsibilities of its own failures” Image credit:RPS/Don’t Nod Leadership at Don’t Nod yesterday “presented a reorganisation project to the employee representative bodies,” via financials report , in response to “a balance sheet that highlights the need to secure the company’s resources” following the underperformance of Jusant and Banishers: Ghosts of new Eden ....

Leak suggests a Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater release date exactly 20 years after the original According to retailer GameStop in a now-deleted post Image credit:Konami What a thrill! Oh, wait, actually no. It’s just a release date. We get those all the time. Still, I’m not entirely un-thrilled to learn that stealth action game Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater could be arriving as soon as the 17th of November this year, according to a hastily scrubbed X post by retailer GameStop....

Left 4 Dead’s lead designer is making another four-player co-op shooter that “expands” the formula I assume he doesn’t just mean it’s five players now, though that would be very funny Image credit:Valve The lead designer of Left 4 Dead has announced that he’s making something like Left 4 Dead again - a four-player co-op shooter that “expands on the co-op-formula in ways I’ve wanted to explore for a long time”....

Life-affirming RPG Keep Driving now has gamepad support and junkyards Steer true Image credit:YCJY Games “A free-wheeling RPG road trip that pushes all the right buttons,” was Brendy’s verdict on Keep Driving this February. I am thankful for Brendy for many things in life, but seldom more so than today, for he has supplied me with an easy opening segue: there are even more of those buttons to push now, for Keep Driving has been updated with gamepad support....

Look, I just want to talk (about Burnout in wplace) Hopefully this is the right wplace to do it Image credit:wplace / Rock Paper Shotgun Right, so, it’s happened. One of my calls for a new Burnout game via the art map void has received a response. Quite frankly, assuming it’s accurate, it’s not the news I was hoping for. That doesn’t mean I’m stopping here, though. In case you’ve got no idea what I’m on about, the other day I made my mark (no pun intended) on wplace , a site that picks up the mantle from Reddit of letting people doodle all over a map of the world....

Lysergic FPS Mohrta is a medieval western gothic blend of Morrowind and Doom Mohrta love Image credit:Scumhead One piece of worldbuilding advice I’ve always found useful is to go at least one level deeper than the obvious. To wit: why have a lantern, asks FPS Mohrta , when you can have a horrible vulture-esque creature called a lantern beast that lives on your head to light up the dark for you?...

Marathon release date locked in by Bungie, with the shooter finally set to run out of cover soon Here’s a fresh trailer heavy on bwaaaaaas Image credit:Bungie Bungie’s Marathon reboot now has what you have to hope will be its final release date, following a rocky development path featuring plagiarism scandals and indefinite delays . The futuristic shooter’s locked and loaded for March. That’s March 5th, 2026, as leaked a bit ahead of time via some Xboxer slightly shakily filming their telly....

Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra’s release may fall in Christmas 2025, according to the Black Panther ’s voice actor Image credit:Marvel/Skydance New Media Marvel 1943: Rise Of Hydra might release at Christmas according to Khary Payton, who voices the Black Panther in the upcoming World War 2-set action game. It’s the first morsel of release info we’ve garnered for Rise Of Hydra since its announcement last March , which tantalised with the prospect of playing USO Show-era Steve Rogers and Azzuri, great-grandfather to the current Black Panther....

Marvel Rivals Season 2 begins now with Emma Frost, new team-ups and a PC performance boosting mode Diamonds are a girl’s best friend Image credit:NetEase Marvel Rivals Season 2 begins today, which means it’s time to jam another syringe into the scarred and bleeding flanks of the Great Marvelbeast and extract a fresh superhero. This season kicks off with Emma Frost, a Vanguard hero with very large hams and a couple of strings to her bow....

Metal motocross shooter Motördoom is Rollerdrome’s dirtbag uncle Wholesome fun with The Boner Brothers Image credit:Hobo Cat Games “Do you fancy playing as a couple of skellies named ‘The Boner Brothers’ riding a bike and sidecar while chunky bastard-metal blasts out, also they’ve got a gun, also they can do tricks?” asked Motördoom , to which I became so instantly hyperactive I somehow worked out how to headbutt my own face....

Michael Bay’s Skibidi Toilet movie production company has apparently sent DMCA takedowns to Garry’s Mod Bayhem Image credit:Valve? DaFuqBoom? Who knows at this point. Update: Garry Newman has confirmed that the DMCA notice was sent last year, and has since been “all resolved”, in an email to IGN . Original story: Earlier this month it was reported that Skibidi Toilet, the YouTube phenomenon, may be heading to film and television via director Michael Bay....

Monster Hunter Wilds: Chapter 1-4 walkthrough Track down the Doshaguma in Chapter 1-4 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Not sure what to do in Chapter 1-4 in Monster Hunter Wilds? Take advantage of our walkthrough to continue tracking Doshaguma and prepare for a monster you’ve seen before. As you get deeper into Monster Hunter Wilds, the action ramps up with more monster fights. Our guide is here to give you tips while clearly showing each objective....

Monster Hunter Wilds’ listless performance and frame gen misuse plant an oversized axe in the carapace of good PC tech Nice cheese physics but that’s about it Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom In hindsight, we probably should have taken Monster Hunter Wilds ’ earlier benchmark tool release as more of a warning. The actual game is every bit the graphics card torture device that standalone tool suggested it might be, and while it doesn’t make DLSS 3 / FSR 3 frame generation mandatory per se , it clearly intends to misappropriate these features, forcing them to act as performance crutches they were never designed as....

Naiad review: still waters run deep they say, but then these waters aren’t still I’m going to pour cold water on it Image credit:RPS / HiWarp Developer: HiWarp Publisher: HiWarp Release: December 10th 2024 On: Windows, MacOS From: Steam Price: TBC Reviewed on: Intel i5-9400F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 1660 Pity the “relaxing” games which set out to blanket their players in a wholesome fog. These minimalist or slight experiences set their stall against the mainstream philosophy of video game design focused on action, rules, clear progression, and often violence....

New Jurassic World Evolution 3 breeding trailer explains the fine art of dinosaur bonestorming Running and screaming to follow Image credit:Frontier Developments Having taken a Dilophosaurus to their Dennis Nedry-esque plans for AI-generated scientist portraits in Jurassic World Evolution 3 , Frontier are back to talking about a more wholesome form of generation - dinosaur sex. The game’s latest trailer is a brief glimpse at the new breeding features, which allow you “to synthesise male and female variants, each with visible dimorphism” and have them do the ole horizontal tango “to shape the traits and markings of future generations....

Next Battlefield game will have “connected” multiplayer and single-player offerings, made by series’ biggest team yet “Our teams have listened to the community [and] learned valuable lessons,” says EA CEO who couldn’t pass the Voight-Kampff test if he tried The next Battlefield game after the underwhelming Battlefield 2042 will continue to lean on the series’ evolution into a live service offering, the CEO of EA has said, while revealing that the largest development team in the series’ history is currently working on the upcoming shooter ....

Nikhil Murthy’s Syphilisation is a ferociously in-depth, empathic reworking of Civilization and other 4X games Now out of early access, but still has a demo Image credit:Why Not Games Nikhil Murthy’s Syphilisation is a “postcolonial 4X game”, which might sound like a contradiction in terms. While approaches to 4X and grand strategy vary hugely between games, factions and players, the genre as a whole is firmly wedded to imperial conquest, both structurally and at the level of narrative aspects and set-dressing....

No Man’s Sky’s latest update is all about rubbish-flinging spacetrashpeople with gravity guns and interstellar trucks Report for planetary cleanup duty Image credit:Hello Games Look at all the mess lying around. You can’t move for discarded detritus on the planets of No Man’s Sky . Good news, then, that the space sandbox’s latest update delivers a gravity gun and interstellar rubbish collection lorries that’ll help clean those worlds up a bit....