How to smuggle resources in Assassin’s Creed Shadows Here’s how to gather a plethora of resources with your Scouts in AC Shadows Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft How do you smuggle resources in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? In order to improve and upgrade your Hideout, you need resources. These resources come in the form of crops, wood, and minerals, each of which can be found as collectible bundles in the world. But even better than bundles are the far larger resource stockpiles ....

Humans birth geese who birth mutants to pay for elaborate sky mating in Tingus Goose’s Steam Next Fest demo It’s the circle of life, and it moves us all Image credit:SweatyChair The people on the platform attached to the 30 foot long and continually growing goose’s neck applaud. They’re easily impressed by bouncing tingi, those being the strange mutant babies the goose keeps vomiting out. Far below, the base of the goose’s neck juts out of its human host’s body, next to a piggy bank the tingi keep dropping into....

I keep forgetting I’m supposed to actually pay my Battle Brothers Rick Nipples’ last ride Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Overhype Four dead. Four from a company of ten. Excellent Log, worm soup. Dietmar the Geldling, worm salad. Wolfgang Silkworm, some sort of delicious worm entrée, which he might appreciate. Reiner, worm dessert. They talk about survivor’s guilt but no-one tells about you survivor’s malice. At camp, watching that grinning blackguard Rick Nipples drink and breathe air meant for better men is as maddening as it is exhausting....

I simply can’t continue with Towers Of Aghasba’s survival checklist, but I hope you can There’s something buried beneath the sticks and stones Image credit:Dreamlit Inc. Back in January I wrote a (supporters only) post about how tired I am of all survival games starting off the same . Here’s the gist of it: I’ve had enough of gathering rocks and sticks to make a crafting bench, from which I’m forced to build a hut and so on....

I’m a greedy, greedy city builder and tower defence game Monsters Are Coming is punishing me brilliantly Invisible numbers become brick and mortar Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Ludogram / Raw Fury I get no joy from skills and gear in games that tweak back of house stats. An upgrade that adds 0.5% to explosion radii. A helmet that multiplies your base ’luck’ total. A god’s blessing that increases your character’s attack rate by 4%....

If the demo for this magical Scandinavian skiing game is so “serene” then why do I die constantly Is serenity only found in death? Image credit:Studio Gauntlet The demo for SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding isn’t that new. It actually came out in September, but I’m filing it under the secret best unspoken RPS site category of “News (To Me)”, a whizcrack piece of web 3.0 technology that allows us to travel back in time and ‘announce’ things that don’t seem any less noteworthy for their advancing age....

If you hate the term extraction shooter, Marathon’s former product manager is on your side “Can we please create a different genre name” Image credit:Bungie With as young a medium as games is (and it is young, as old as we all might feel), it’s no surprise that it would burgeon new genres, and that said genres would be called into question. Metroidvanias! That’s a potentially silly one, with a common argument being that it tells you nothing about the genre itself....

In the hands, Phantom Blade Zero owes more to Ninja Gaiden than Soulslikes Kung-feudal Image credit:PlayStation In the past I’ve described Phantom Blade Zero , the foetid and frantic new action- RPG from Chinese studio S-Game, as a Soulslike, and more specifically a Sekirolike . I must now hang my head and await the executioner’s ludicrously oversized hammer, for while Phantom Blade Zero’s ambience and layouts owe something to From’s work, the moment-to-moment has just as much in common with older hack-and-slash games such as Ninja Gaiden ....

InZOI’s system specs make me want to see this handsome Sims killer running on a pocket calculator Devs trying to support punier PCs “without compromising overall quality” Image credit:Krafton / Rock Paper Shotgun The Sims players among us have been gazing cautiously at inZOI , a new neighbourhood and life management game from Krafton. I am cautious for essentially two reasons. One is that the game makes use of live generative AI: you can stuff its jaws with text, images and video to create items such as outfits and animate your pet humans, here known as Zois....

‘Beyond us normies’ Image credit:PNY/NVIDIA Look, the RTX 5090 is the most powerful offering from NVIDIA right now , but it won’t be for everyone. Image credit: PNY/NVIDIA PNY RTX 5090 w/32GB of VRAM $2,550 (15% off) See here For context, that’s about the same price as my entire 5080 rig, but the RTX 5090 has around twice the transistors, and CUDA cores, and almost double the TFLOPs. As James said in our review, “Let’s be real: you were never going to buy this....

Layoffs hit workers at Reflector Entertainment, makers of Unknown 9: Awakening Art and narrative departments affected Image credit:Bandai Namco Workers at Reflector Entertainment, the Montreal studio that recently released third-person action adventure Unknown 9: Awakening , have been hit by layoffs, according to a number of employees who made the cuts public on social media. The studio is owned by Bandai Namco and released the game about a month ago. The exact number of people out of work isn’t known, as Reflector haven’t made a public statement about it....

Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a stunning mountainous city builder that’s out now in early access Possibly the prettiest city builder I’ve ever seen? Image credit:Quite OK Games Laysara: Summit Kingdom , a breathtakingly gorgeous city builder set in a fantasy world inspired by the Himalayan region, is out now in Steam early access. The meditative mountain environments are the sort of tranquil backdrop I’d happily stare out for hours, possibly with a Bonobo album and some incense, which is helpful, because the actual game is aiming to be quite a challenge....

Legendary black metal TTRPG MÖRK BORG is getting a brutal, nightmarish side scroller MÖRK BORG Heresy Supreme is a “side-scrolling, semi-procedural grimdark fantasy world” Image credit:Morbidware We don’t usually cover Kickstarter projects here at chez Shotgun. Horace got burnt by a dodgy coffee maker once, had to regrow a few limbs, it’s a whole thing, the bear doesn’t like talking about it, etc. Anyway, rules are like Horace’s arms: they’re meant to be stretched, and also made of bear....

Lost Skies’ lovely looking sky islands will be launching into early access later this month Just don’t look down Image credit:Bossa Studios You know, I’ve always loved me a sky island in a video game. Can’t really tell you why, I just think they’re neat! So right from the get go I was pretty easily won over by Lost Skies , another one of those open world survival crafting type games....

Minecraft is getting two theme parks, with the first due in 2026 Coming to the UK and US as a start Image credit:Merlin Entertainments / Mojang Two theme parks are being planned based on Minecraft . Mojang are partnering with Merlin Entertainments to open the destinations, including rides, hotel rooms and shops, in the UK and US in 2026 and 2027. Merlin are the operator of existing theme parks and attractions including Alton Towers, Legoland, Sea Life, and Madame Tussauds....

Mochi-O’s hamster warfare is a sweet, swift sugar rush It’s out now, with a demo Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kodansha As seen in The Maw , fluffy defence shooter Mochi-O is out today, and – judging from the Steam demo I’ve played – is an at least passingly entertaining MIRV explosion of gleeful nonsense. Landing somewhere between tower defence, Vampire Survivors , and Tamagotchi, it has you holding up a genetically engineered hamster-like creature up to a window and blasting waves of attackers with the mounted weapons systems hidden in his fur....

More than 6,700 people bought the false N95 face mask from Razer - and now they’re getting refunds RGB stands for “Really Great Breaths” Image credit:Razer Thousands of people who bought the “N95-grade” Razer Zephyr face mask during the Covid-19 pandemic are finally getting a refund for the dodgy mask, months after US agencies ordered a $1 million payout from the gaming hardware company. The Federal Trade Commission are sending out cheques as we speak....

Mörk Borg Heresy Supreme is as unkind as it is darkly enchanting Prepare to die Image credit:Morbidware Sometimes, the world you live in sucks. It is a place filled with despair, and misery, and blood, guts, and death. This is much the case with the world of Mörk Borg, an apocalyptic fantasy TTRPG where you have no sense of hope, only dread, that is now also a video game. This video game, Mörk Borg Heresy Supreme , is more of an action RPG , though its tabletop routes are still to be found, and it is as mean as it is darkly enchanting....

Moves Of The Diamond Hand is Cosmo D’s next chaotic dice-rolling RPG, with a demo out now Pizza the action Image credit:Cosmo D Studios/Rock Paper Shotgun Cosmo D’s unwavering passion for pizza is infectious. It’s also possible that the pizza I’ve just made in the demo for Moves Of The Diamond Hand is infectious, though I have invested all my points into the cooking skill, so hopefully not. You should be able to play the demo yourself by the time you read this....

My new ASMR is watching Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 NPCs harvest a big pile of discarded player items Medieval villages didn’t have roombas, you see Image credit:Mcloganator / Rock Paper Shotgun / Deep Silver Sometimes to chill out I watch timelapse videos of ocean creatures such as starfish colonising patches of sea floor. Perhaps they’re gracefully devouring a seal’s carcass , or moving to escape a lethal descending finger of ice ....