Sorry, Snake can’t infiltrate Groznyj Grad right now, he’s busy speedrunning monkey hunts More like Metal Gear Solid Delta: Ape Snatcher Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Konami I’m struggling to find interesting things to say about Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater . Or, at least, new things – in the ongoing debate over whether remakes should meaningfully tinker with the original or stay as faithful as possible , Delta is firmly in the latter camp....

StarCraft 2 production director pitched WarCraft 4 and a Call Of Duty RTS before leaving Blizzard, claims report Two of many proposed RTS concepts, apparently Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment It’s been over a decade since Blizzard, developers of StarCraft and WarCraft, released a new real-time strategy game, but not for want of enthusiasm from certain Blizzard developers. According to a report, former StarCraft 2 production director Tim Morten and unnamed accomplices pitched several RTS projects to higher-ups at Activision-Blizzard, before Morten jumped ship to co-found Stormgate creators Frost Giant in 2020....

Starfield’s biggest update so far focuses on bug fixes, launches in beta next week Also “numerous graphic improvements” <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/starfield-patch-january-2024.jpeg?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 screenshot of “improved” lighting in Starfield’s character creator. - 1”> Image credit:Bethesda Game Studios Bethesda has already laid out their update schedule for Starfield in 2024, which includes updates every six weeks beginning in February . There’s an update coming before that, however, and arriving on the Steam beta branch next week....

Starfield’s new beta update arrives next week and lets you smile in photo mode Enters beta on Steam on March 6th Image credit:Bethesda Softworks Starfield ’s next update will arrive in beta on March 6th, bringing another suite of quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes. Top of the list of tweaks is the ability to change player character and companion facial expressions during photo mode, like running your family snaps through FaceApp to create the illusion everyone had fun on their holiday to the Bonneville salt flats....

Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest is a surprise bit of submechanophobia-inducing DLC that’s washing ashore next week Sea no evil Image credit:The Chinese Room There are two reasons you shouldn’t watch the trailer for Still Wakes the Deep’s just announced DLC Siren’s Rest. The first is that, well, it’ll probably spoil at least some of the events of the base game given that the expansion is set more than a decade on....

Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds are now suing their former execs for stealing docs and sharing them with the press Hang on, they’re talking about us! Image credit:Microsoft Time for your weekly helping of legal Subnaughtiness. Subnautica developers Unknown Worlds are suing recently departed director Charlie Cleveland, CEO Ted Gill, and studio co-founder Max McGuire for, amongst other things, stealing a bunch of game design files shortly before they were fired ....

Supermarket Times embodies a unique and quiet bovril-fueled brand of anarchy Care for a can of “Savage man child” energy drink? Image credit:Rabbit Hole Games I once went back to a gathering after a friend-of-a-friend’s metal gig that I distinctly remember not because of either the party or the show, but because we drunkenly went to a big Tesco afterwards to get snacks. I also distinctly remember making a not-completely serious but also somewhat true statement at the party about how that Tesco trip was the most fun I’d had in months, after which one of the metal men sneered at me....

Sure, why not - third group of former Disco Elysium devs announce “revolutionary new RPG studio” With a worker’s co-operative structure that includes a “voice of the gamers” Those two other Disco Elysium “spiritual successors” you read about today were but filthy pretenders, or at best, the thesis and antithesis resulting in this afternoon’s triumphant synthesis.* The real Disco Elysium spiritual successor is whatever they’re making at Summer Eternal, a just-announced “art collective/RPG studio” founded by a group of, once more with feeling, former Disco Elysium developers....

Terraria will add roller skates for super-fast building and 2D grinding in its “final stretch” of updates Re-Logic say they don’t know when 1.4.5 will launch or everything that will be in it just yet Image credit:Re-Logic Terraria is apparently entering the “final stretch” of updates for the 2D crafting and exploration game (though whether this will actually be it remains to be seen), and it looks like developers Re-Logic are seeing off their 2D Minecraft-a-like in style....

Text Vault-Tec’s number from the Fallout TV show to get a potential teaser for a November announcement Don’t call the number if you’re around other people, though Image credit:Amazon I sort of reject that the Fallout TV show has Easter eggs hidden in it because it, as a whole, is the equivalent of one of those fancy Hotel Chocolat ostrich-sized patisserie collection bastards that cost 40 quid. However. Eagle-eyed viewers of the Fallout show noted that episode 6 gives you a number for Valt-Tec that you can actually get in touch with - 213-25-VAULT (or, 213-258-2858)....

But will they sell? Image credit:NVIDIA NVIDIA’s 50-series GPUs had a strange old rollout. From missing cores to marked-up prices, there’s also some disappointment about the push to use AI to push things further , rather than good, old-fashioned power. Whatever your thoughts, they’re here to stay, and it seems they’re now getting closer to MSRP. We’ve covered a few deals on 50-series GPUs in recent weeks, including the mighty RTX 5090 and the RTX 5080 , and it’s got us thinking: Are we approaching some GPU normality?...

The $1999 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 makes the rest of the RTX 50 series look suspiciously sensible There’s a trick going on here, and it ain’t just DLSS 4 Image credit:Nvidia Last night, at CES 2025 , Nvidia finally announced their RTX 50 series graphics cards , and can I just say that I am wise to the RTX 5090’s tricks. A GPU that eats up to 575W and costs £1939 / $1999?...

The best Manor Lords mods Enhance your Manor Lords experience with these useful mods Image credit:Hooded Horse Looking for the best Manor Lords mods? While the modding scene for Manor Lords might still be in its infancy, there are already key mods out there that can boost a fledgling ruler’s quality of life. Seeing as how Manor Lords is still an Early Access title, and one that doesn’t always explain all of its intricacies, these mods go a long way towards making a player’s time with the game a bit easier, doing little things like increasing the storage capacity of buildings to letting you recruit more soldiers....

The best puzzle games on PC A very puzzling collection Whether you like to visit space , indulge in an RPGs or a grand adventure , get spooked by horror or get uber techy with hacking , the chances are that there’s also a puzzle game for you - hence our list of the best puzzle games on PC . The queen genre straddles many others, so our list of the 25 best puzzle games has all that we just mentioned and more....

The Dark Rites of Arkham review - pure Lovecraftian point and click fan service Yes, you do get a Cthulhu statue as an inventory item Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Postmodern Adventures Developer: Postmodern Adventures Publisher: enComplot Release: February 3 2026 On: Windows From: Steam Price: £13.99/$14.99 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i9-10850K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 11 Cthulhu games are a dime a dozen these days, with everything from JRPG parodies to well-meaning but flawed efforts that bear the official Call of Cthulhu license....

The Dead Space remake is brilliantly, devastatingly 80% off in the Steam sale Unbeatable (sniffle) savings (bawl) Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/EA Welcome, friend, to the good year of 2025. Scavengers Reign has just been renewed for its third season, Greggs have starting doing their festive bake all year round, and the Dead Space remake sold gangbusters. Wait, no, sorry. This is the bad timeline. Scavengers Reign was acquired by a company who actively balk at anything people might want to watch with their entire faces, and Dead Space apparently didn’t sell well enough for EA to greenlight more ....

The first look at Kingdom Hearts 4 in three years isn’t a trailer, but a JPEG of Mickey Mouse is better than nothing At least Sora and a, uh, rotary phone are there too Image credit:Square Enix You know what got announced a little over three years ago now? Kingdom Hearts 4 . You know what hasn’t had a single new trailer in that time? Ding ding ding! If you said Kingdom Hearts 4 , you don’t win anything because the direction of this bit was pretty obvious....

The games industry is “broken” say the CWA - so they’re building an “industry-wide union” “To build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status” Image credit:CWA. The Communications Workers of America (CWA) are set to launch an industry-wide union of video game workers in the U.S. and Canada at this year’s GDC. The United Videogame Workers-CWA (UVW-CWA) will bring together “video game artists, writers, designers, QA testers, programmers, freelancers and beyond to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status”....

The Outer Wilds developers are making a new game Mobius Digital are “hard at work” on it Image credit:Annapurna Interactive This is just a quick write-up, because it’s outside office hours, but… Mobius Digital, creators of wondrous virtual orrery and gravitational stageplay Outer Wilds , are making a new game. The “announcement” takes the form of a throwaway line in an otherwise unremarkable Outer Wilds update changelog . Here it be:...

The Outer Worlds 2 gets a release date Worlds, I said WORLDS Image credit:Microsoft The Outer Worlds 2 has a release date. It was shown in a new trailer at the Xbox Games Showcase, and featured something several unnamed scientists are calling “humour”. The release date is October 29. “An adventure into capitalism by capitalism,” says the trailer above, perhaps misunderstanding the concept of irony. You play an Earth Directorate agent, who ends up on the above planet, Arcadia, “where the fate of the colony, and ultimately the entire galaxy, rests on your decisions—your strengths, your flaws, your crew, and the factions you choose to trust”....