Alice B is leaving RPS, come say goodbye Maybe scream a little On a Monday in early 2018, Adam Smith, Rock Paper Shotgun’s deputy editor at the time, handed in his notice. On Thursday that same week, I emailed Alice Bell, a person I’d never spoken to before, to ask if she would consider applying for the role. Alice thought it over for a week, and then emailed her response: no....

Alienware Area 51 laptops are still pricey, but at least Dell’s Memorial Day sale knocked a bit off the ransom This new deal knocks up to $200 off the pricey gaming laptops. Image credit:RPS Photo Composite Lugging a gaming PC around isn’t exactly practical, and handhelds like the Steam Deck or ROG Ally are fun, but not exactly built for heavy lifting. If you want something that’s actually powerful and still portable, a gaming laptop’s where you’ll probably end up....

All Fallout 76 treasure map locations How to find every piece of buried treasure in Appalachia How do you find all of the buried treasure in Fallout 76? It seems that many open world games these days have treasure maps, and Fallout 76 is no exception. You’ll most likely find the game’s buried loot by accident, or by following the treasure map to the corresponding mound, where you can unearth valuable treasure including weapons, armor, and rounds....

All Grow A Garden Mutations and how to get them A list of all normal and limited Mutations, from Big to Voidtouched Image credit:IGN/Roblox Corporation Wondering how to get all Mutations in Grow A Garden? Harvesting regular crops in Grow A Garden is one thing, but if you want the really good stuff that will yield plenty of Sheckles upon sale, you need to harvest Mutations, which are unique crop variants that only grow under certain conditions....

An English Haunting is still an Edwardian point-and-click Ghostbusters, and also out in May Spooky retro adventure gets new trailer and release date! Image credit:Postmodern Adventures At the end of last year I played the demo for An English Haunting and got very excited . I like horror that has a generally spooky, creeping dread vibe rather than being wall-to-wall cheap jumpscares and gore, and that sort of stuff is thin on the ground....

Anachronistic medieval shooter Kingmakers catches an indefinite delay days before it was supposed to launch Whoops! Image credit:Redemption Road There’s a strong chance a good few of you out there saw that initial Kingmakers trailer from last year and thought “I’ll take a piece of that pie.” You came pretty close to getting your slice too, as it was due out next week on October 8th… except the devs have announced that it’s been delayed....

Animal Well creator plans to follow the superb Metroidvania with a game that shares its world but “may not be a direct sequel” Developer Billy Basso didn’t expect players to crack open the game’s secrets quite so quickly Image credit:Bigmode In a year already stacking up plates of delicious indie game dishes so fast they’re toppling over and crashing onto the floor, spilling splattered food over the carpet to be hoovered up by waiting dogs/cats/raccoons/mice, Animal Well is one of the most generous helpings yet....

Annapurna Interactive has “splintered into two groups, both of which are now working to pick up the pieces” says new report Employees had a “strong fear of reprisal” from owner Megan Ellison Image credit:Annapurna Interactive Earlier in the month, we learned that Stray and Neon White publisher Annapurna Interactive’s entire staff resigned after a dispute with boss Megan Ellison. Reported by Bloomberg as a disagreement over attempts to “spin off the video-game division as an independent entity,” the details were nonetheless somewhat scant....

Ara: History Untold gets a beefy update that promises “significant micromanagement reduction” and more competent AI not-Civs Battles and map generation have also been revamped Image credit:Xbox Game Studios Ara: History Untold is a game I briefly gave a go last year, back when Civ 7 was still a game we were all yet to play and have a vast slew of different opinions about. I thought the little I played was alright, but didn’t stick with it that long, slipping back into the pair of comfy slippers that were Civ 6....

Assassin’s Creed Shadows adds a self-driving horse, but I implore you not to use it Almost as brainless as fast travel Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Ubisoft Ubisoft are giving their Sengoku throat-slicing sim Assassin’s Creed Shadows an update today that’ll let players activate auto-pathing on their horse, essentially turning it into a self-driving car with hooves. This feature was present in previous games of the series, not to mention other similar open world games, and lets you press a button to make the horse auto-trot to your next objective....

Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Best Hideout buildings and upgrades All the best buildings to go in your Hideout in AC Shadows Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Want to know more about the buildings in your Hideout in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? Once you have access to the Hideout in the early hours at the beginning of the chapter “Rebuilding”, you have the option to expand it with more buildings and rooms. The more you outfit your Hideout, the more you can make your life easier in feudal Japan....

Battlefield 6’s latest update shoots down hammer-wielding drone riders and permanently fixes lock-on missiles Unintended elevator disabled Image credit:EA A beefy Battlefield 6 update has just dropped, and it aims to take care of a couple of bugs and exploits which have become infamous bugbears over the last little while. No longer will people be able to fly up to rooftops by smacking drones with sledgehammers, and no longer will lock-guided missiles cheekily ignore countermeasures....

Become a literal galaxy brain in this ambitious space strategy sim about an AI seeking a new home for humanity It’s got lightyears to go, but there are test builds to try Image credit:Vindemiatrix Collective / Rock Paper Shotgun Sine Fine is a “hard sci-fi” space exploration game from the avid stargazers at Vindemiatrix Collective, a developer based across western Europe. It is certainly hard to get your head around, but also, very promising....

Best Battlefield 6 M4A1 loadout and build guide The versatile M4A1 carbine is one of Battlefield 6’s best guns - here’s how to kit it out Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/EA Want the best M4A1 loadout in Battlefield 6? The M4A1, unlocked at rank 2, is the first carbine you get, and it’s one of the best guns in the game. Its hipfire accuracy and rapid fire rate are made for close-quarters fights, but with the right attachments it becomes a versatile weapon that you can rely on in larger maps....

Best Relic skills in Black Myth Wukong These are our picks for the best relic perks in Black Myth: Wukong Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Wondering what the best Relic skills are in Black Myth: Wukong? Sun Wukong’s soul was split into six pieces after his untimely defeat, and these are the Relics that you’ll slowly uncover throughout Black Myth: Wukong’s Chapters. Each Relic contains three different skills that you’ll have to choose from, and since you can only select one each playthrough, you’d better choose wisely....

Best Strength weapons in Elden Ring Here are the best Strength weapons in Elden Ring Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/FromSoftware Looking for the best Elden Ring Strength weapons? If you’re looking to tank your way through Elden Ring bosses and wield the colossal weapons in the game, you’ll need to invest in your Strength stat . As we venture ever closer to the Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC release, now is the perfect time to get sunk back into Elden Ring and try out different builds....

Bethesda’s Todd Howard clarifies the fate of Shady Sands in the Fallout TV show timeline Obsidian’s New Vegas very much still part of Fallout history To catch you up, there’s a blackboard sketch in the TV show on which some helpful, possibly now-fugitive soul has written “The fall of Shady Sands” and “2277” with a big arrow pointing to a mushroom cloud. This gives the fairly unambiguous impression that Shady Sands, capital of a wasteland faction called the New California Republic, was nuked in 2277 - several years before the events of Fallout: New Vegas, in which the NCR and Shady Sands are said to be doing fairly well....

Beware: the Killer Egg will return to Battlefield 6 multiplayer, along with Battlefield 4’s Golmund Railway map Nice to see Dr Robotnik getting work Image credit:EA Battlefield 6 ’s efforts to break ground while Gittin’ Back To When Battlefield Was Gud continue with the announcement of two forthcoming maps. One of the maps is Contaminated, a brand new field of battle that is comparable in scale to Battlefield 1 ’s St Quentin Scar and Arras in Battlefield 5....

Blue Prince is a game full of secrets, and its developer has no intention of telling you if you’ve solved them all Frodo Baggins quote here Image credit:Dogubomb Video games don’t have mysteries any more. There are too many people and too much internet to allow for such a thing, anything without an answer can, must, and will be solved by someone, often in a timeframe faster than developers expect. So I appreciate when developers refuse to divulge details, or indulge individuals in their desire to know exactly how much they have on their checklist, one such developer being Tonda Ros of Blue Prince developer Dogubomb....

Breachway early access review: a graceful reinvention of starship combat as a question of taut deckbuilding Who’s for a game of Picards? Image credit:Hooded Horse Developer: Edgeflow Studio Publisher: Hooded Horse Release: September 26th 2024 On: Windows From: Steam , Epic Games Store , GOG Price: £15/€15/$15 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7 12700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3060, Windows 11 The beauty of cards is that they can be anything. You can slap together a working game with them in a couple of minutes....