Bunnyhop elsewhere, streamers: EA are making Battlefield 6 more strategic, less run-and-gun following the beta Also lowering Rush headcounts and tweaking the guns Image credit:EA The Battlefield 6 beta is officially a Thing That Happened, and now comes the terrible ordeal of Learning From The Experience. Here is what developers DICE, Criterion, Motive and Ripple Effect have learned from the experience: you are all playing the game far too much like Call Of Duty....

Can you guess which Australian TV sci-fi of the early 2000s inspired Citizen Sleeper 2? Through a wormhole, darkly Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Fellow Traveller No, it’s not Silversun . Sit down, Brian . Let somebody else have a go at answering. Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is a sci-fi RPG with plenty of dice and a heavy nod towards tabletop role-playing. The first Citizen Sleeper saw your bio-robotic protagonist landing on a donut-shaped space station where they learned to make a new life for themselves among interstellar farmers and ramen-serving rapscallions....

Chrono Trigger writer is “starting to contemplate” a remake after all Time is a flat circle, and a small one apparently Image credit:Square Enix Rumours of a Chrono Trigger remake briefly bubbled up before being swiftly pin-popped last week , following a mistranslation of the JRPG ’s writer, Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii at a panel. The potion-swilling public were understandably chuffed (you still can’t Google Horii’s name without being served videos of pog-faced excite-os screaming “Chrono Trigger Remake Confirmed!...

Comedy RPG Athenian Rhapsody is a child of Undertale with GBA visuals in which playthroughs become postcards Try saying all that out loud without stumbling <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/1_yRt9i1r.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“A customisable “Rhapsody” postcard created by completing a playthrough of Athenian Rhapsody - 1”> Image credit:Top Hat Studios, Inc. I have a couple of takes on Nico Papalia’s new RPG Athenian Rhapsody , which launched on Steam yesterday and still has a demo....

Connections hints and answers for Wed, August 21st Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #436. 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 21st August? If you’re feeling frustrated over today’s Connections we have you covered with a set of hints and clues below....

Create cutesy fire hazards in socket management puzzler Plug It In Who dogs the outlet? Image credit:unSAME Deep beneath my desk lies a secret shame: impenetrable black thickets of power leads, sprouting forth across two overlapping extension units. Such a failure of cable management pierces my conscience like the beat of Poe’s tell-tale heart, and yet I’m forever powerless – as in, I can’t be bothered – to do anything about it....

Darklight Catacombs walkthrough - Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree Here’s how to clear the Darklight Catacombs in Shadow Of the Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for a full rundown of the Darklight Catacombs in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? The Darklight Catacombs is a mini-dungeon in Elden Ring ’s DLC Shadow Of The Erdtree that’s bathed in darkness and packed with imps who’ll stab you from the shadows....

Disney buy $1.5 billion stake in Fortnite publisher Epic, announce new “games and entertainment universe” It’s Disney’s “biggest ever entry into the world of games” Disney are taking out a $1.5 billion minority equity stake in Fortnite publisher Epic Games, and have announced “an all-new games and entertainment universe that will further expand the reach of beloved Disney stories and experiences”. According to Disney CEO Robert A. Iger, it’s “Disney’s biggest entry ever into the world of games”....

Dragon’s Dogma 2: Best Mage skills and augments Best Mage skills and augments in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Interested in the best Mage skills and augments in Dragon’s Dogma 2? Mages are the iconic support spellcasters of Dragon’s Dogma 2 , equally capable of firing flames at opponents and popping a healing aura in rapid succession. Mages are also the most vulnerable starting Vocation, since their reliance on light armour makes them susceptible to heavy damage, and it takes a fair bit of time for their spells to actually kick in....

Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dreams Apart quest walkthrough Here’s how to navigate the beginning stages of the Unmoored World in Dreams Apart Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Looking for a walkthrough for the main quest Dreams Apart in Dragon’s Dogma 2? If you’re reading this guide, you’ve made the choice to unlock the secret endgame of Dragon’s Dogma 2 . The map you’ve been traversing for so many hours has transformed into a dark and apocalyptic place that lives up to its name as the Unmoored World....

Dune Awakening: How to get a Sandbike Build your first Sandbike to cross Arrakis faster Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Funcom Wondering how to get a Sandbike in Dune Awakening? There’s nothing quite like building your first Sandbike in Dune Awakening and suddenly having the freedom to traverse the desert at great speed. Until you unlock faster methods of travel, such as a Buggy or Ornithopter, a Sandbike serves as a reliable option for moving across the harsh sands and avoiding Sandworms....

Dunebound Tactics brings terrain manipulation to a strategy RPG where you can sacrifice companions to power your ship They’re full of delicious ‘Elios’ apparently Image credit:Terahard Genre tags are slippery, fickle things at the best of times, but I feel like each one I use to label Dunebound Tactics almost diminishes it, as I’m sacrificing something precious for the sake of powering on through the arid sands of easily comestible, digestible, poop-estible online content....

Elden Ring boss locations: Where to find all 238 Elden Ring bosses Use these maps to find all of the Elden Ring bosses Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Want a list of all Elden Ring bosses, locations and a priority order? Through trial and error we’ve tackled them all (a whopping 238 bosses in total). With so many of these bosses being optional and tucked away in the Lands Between, it can be difficult to find every single one....

Elden Ring Nightreign DLC: How to unlock the Great Hollow How to access the Great Hollow Shifting Earth event Image credit:FromSoftware Want to unlock The Great Hollow Shifting Earth event in Elden Ring Nightreign’s DLC? Shifting Earths are some of the most chaotic but fun elements of Nightreign , featuring massive transformations of Limveld that can do everything from flood the map with magma or create an entirely new city to explore....

Elden Ring: How to get to Nokron Here’s how to reach the Eternal City of Nokron in Elden Ring Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Want to enter Nokron in Elden Ring? Nokron is one of three Eternal Cities built deep beneath the Lands Between in Elden Ring , possibly long before the Golden Order was formed. It’s found in the region of Siofra River, beneath Limgrave and Caelid; but entrance to the Eternal City of Nokron is locked until certain specific conditions are met....

Elden Ring: Nightreign’s new Raider trailer channels the eternal power of bonk Please stop bullying the demi-humans Image credit:FromSoft FromSoftware, in their eternal quest to avoid giving us the damn moon already, have released a new character trailer for Elden Ring: Nightreign . This time, it’s the Raider - a decidedly unsubtle chap wielding a large stone lollipop and fond of devastating uppercuts, headbutting knights, and problem drinking. He also has the ability to summon walls....

Ereban: Shadow Legacy’s blend of Splatoon and Assassin’s Creed releases in April Third-person stealth shenanigans ahoy Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Baby Rocket Stealth games in which you can become “one with the shadows” cover a wide range, though I guess spectrum is the more appropriate word here. You’ve got sober infiltration games like Thief, which metes out gradations of light and dark with the care of somebody calculating their tax expenses, and stylised affairs such as Mark Of The Ninja, in which stepping into shadow desaturates you and sort of makes your character far too fancy for enemies to notice....

Everything we know about Europa Universalis 5 Granddaddy strategy explained Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Paradox Interactive The horizon glows red. Europa Universalis 5 is posturing itself as the next grandaddy of grand strategy. It follows 12 years of updates and expansions to Europa Universalis 4 , so it has some catching up to do. But much of the historical simulation is in place, along with new features and a fresh focus on the rowdy populations you’ll be lording it over....

Fallout 3: District of Columbia doubles the size of DC’s ruins by resurrecting a bunch of cut areas Get ready to get lost in a “labyrinthian maze” of ghoul-infested metro tunnels and devastated streets Image credit:Bethesda Fallout 3 ’s at its best during your first trip into the war-torn ruins of downtown DC. Rather than an open and desolate expanse, you’re navigating tight underground passageways by Pip-Boy light, occasionally emerging into the daylight to fight through patches of ruined city often littered with battered landmarks....

FBC: Firebreak is a great time, for a shooter with terrible guns Black Rock Galactic Image credit:Remedy Objects of power play a crucial role in the fiction of Control , the setting for three-player co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak . In the lore, they’re archetypal artefacts that have gained strange powers. In Firebreak itself, they represent random events that can suddenly make the game’s enemies, the Hiss, more powerful for short bursts - and there’s usually enough of them that a short burst is all they need for things to get frantic quickly....