Wrath: Aeon Of Ruin review: sometimes the old FPS ways can still work The sleeper has aquakened Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/3D Realms/Fulqrum Publishing Developer: KillPixel Games, Slipgate Ironworks Publisher: 3D Realms, Fulqrum Publishing Release: Out now (early access), February 27th 2024 (1.0) On: Windows From: Steam , GOG Price: £21/€25/$25 Reviewed on: AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 3400G, Radeon RX 590, 24GB RAM, Windows 10 I’ve had to look up…. goddamn it, hang on....

Yet another Persona 5 spinoff is launching next month, this time a gacha game with a new group of Phantom Thieves Danny Phantom crossover when Image credit:Atlus There’s a newish Persona game on the way next month, and it is, of course, yet another Persona 5 spinoff. I’m not sure if another cow in existence has been so thoroughly milked before, but here we are. I call Persona 5 : The Phantom X (that’s its name, by the way) newish because it’s actually been available in China through an ongoing open beta for the last year....

“Apex 2.0” is on the horizon, says EA boss, but it probably won’t happen until after Battlefield 6 Not necessarily a sequel Sci-fi battle royale Apex Legends is due a “meaningful update” , according to the CEO of Electronic Arts, something he’s called “Apex 2.0”. To a normal person, adding a 2 to the end of your game’s name is the sign of a sequel. But as the attendant decimal and zero suggest, it’s not clear if that’s exactly what he means....

“Enormously disappointing” - Darkest Dungeon’s boardgame port is dead, but Red Hook are giving away game files to backers Digital models salvaged after Mythic Games’ liquidation Image credit:Mythic / Red Hook / Dicebreaker Darkest Dungeon developers Red Hook have announced that game files for Mythic’s troubled boardgame adaptation will be given away to project backers, after grimly concluding that Mythic are no longer able to manufacture or deliver the thing....

20 Minutes Till Dawn is currently free to keep from the Epic Games Store A worthy Vampire Survivorslike Vampire Survivors was a big enough sensation that it instantly inspired a horde of similar games to spawn. 20 Minutes Till Dawn was one of the more worthy: a topdown, 2D roguelite with a similar sense of spectacle and progression, but with traditional weapon aiming. It’s currently free to keep from the Epic Games Store....

227 hours later, Football Manager 26 is both broken and, begrudgingly, brilliant Like pizza, it’s even good when it’s bad Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / SEGA Ask me what I’m thinking about, at a random moment any hour of the day. There’s a good chance that however you time it, the answer will be either Roma youth academy players, Goncalo Ramos’ egregious salary demands, or that time Maurizio Sarri bodied me in a press conference following our Derby della Capitale....

80 Days co-writer Jon Ingold is making a code-breaking game inspired by Obra Dinn and his uncle’s World War career, unless he’s lying Are Inkle feeding us false intelligence? Image credit:Inkle 80 Days and Heaven’s Vault developers Inkle are making a new “narrative deduction game” and audio drama called TR-49, in which you fiddle with a bunch of creepy old machines. It’s based - or so they tell us - on a family connection to World War 2 espionage, and takes inspiration from Return of the Obra Dinn and The Roottrees Are Dead ....

A Star Wars: KOTOR 2 Remake was “technically on the roadmap” as of March 2025, court docs reportedly reveal The in-development remake of the first Knights of the Old Republic was “alive and well” as of April last year Image credit:Obsidian Entertainment / Aspyr / Lucasfilm A full-on remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 was “technically on the road map” to follow the original Knights of the Old Republic remake which has been in development for the past few years....

A Witcher 3 dev kept mum about a secret Blood and Wine quest epilogue for nearly a decade, until someone dug up some cut parents “It felt like an appropriate time!” Image credit:CD Projekt There’s no way I’m learning this for the first time after ten or so years of people exploring every nook and cranny of this game. That’s the thought that went through my head when I spotted a tweet from Witcher 3 quest designer Philipp Weber earlier this month, revealing that one of the Blood and Wine DLC’s quests had a secret cut epilogue....

After being “wrongly banned” from Steam over sexual content rules, horror game Vile: Exhumed launches for free UPDATE: Valve respond Image credit:Cara Cadaver / DreadXP Update : A Valve spokesperson responded that “Steam has never allowed games with sexual depictions/images of real people”. They pointed to item two in the rules and guidelines regarding what should be published on the platform outlined in its onboarding document as the reason Vile: Exhumed was taken down, specifying that this isn’t a “new rule”....

Ahoy Draculads and ladies, V Rising is free this weekend Please and fang you Image credit:Stunlock Studio In V Rising , you’re a fledgling vampire on a mission to become absolute bossferatu of a Gothic open world. You get a Diablo -ish combat system, the ability to shapeshift into a spider, and a whole castle to prance around in, crooning at the moon. I like this premise almost as much as I dislike the fact that V Rising is also a survival game, in which you must fell trees and master a crafting system like a common turnip farmer....

All Trainers and Trainer locations in Oblivion Remastered Find every Skill Trainer in Oblivion, from Basic to Master Trainers Image credit:Bethesda/Virtuos Looking for Trainers in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered? There are many ways to increase your skills in Oblivion, but the fastest method is by paying a Trainer. There are more than 100 Trainers in Oblivion, with three to seven Trainers for each of the 21 skills. Pay them some gold, and they’ll instantly boost the skill by one level....

Alright, Dune: Awakening, your in-game radio that plays music from the ’90s Dune games has won me over It’s got the spice Image credit:Funcom Alright folks, quiz time: what’s the single best feature in the GTA series? I’ll give you a second. Got your answer done? If you wrote anything but the in-game radio, you’d be dead wrong, obviously it’s listening to boppin’ tunes as you crash into lamp posts for the umpteenth time, there’s nothing else it could be....

Ananta looks expensive, like a mix of GTA, Spider-Man, and Yakuza, and a bit overwhelming Does whatever a Rockstar can Image credit:Naked Rain Ananta is a bit of an alarming game to look at. The open world game is so clearly an anime-esque riff on GTA , with some Spider-Man style web swinging thrown in for reasons I’m not entirely sure of. All of that’s been obviously more or less since its announcement....

Arc Raiders is a good shooter, but it’s also where I go for a relaxing walk Come for the scavenging, stay for the ruined world Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Embark Studios The RPS Advent Calendar 2025 has begun! We’re revealing one of our favourite games of the year every day, and our favourite of favourites on December 24th. Check the main Calendar post to see a full list of our choices so far....

Arc Raiders update 1.4.0 takes aim at locked room exploits and item swap-induced rapid fire You can also no longer push your mate by jumping on their back Image credit:Embark Studios You! Stop trying to break in! Also, while you’re at it, stop using quick use item swapping to shoot me faster than you’d otherwise be able to! All of that is yelled by Arc Raiders ’ latest patch , which sees devs Embark go after a number of pesky exploits and also make piggybacks much less effective....

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is both a samurai and a ninja game, as it borrows Syndicate’s dual-character story African swordsmaster Yasuke will be the series’ first real-life protagonist Image credit:Ubisoft After being unceremoniously thrown into the spotlight yesterday with a pre-reveal leak, Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been given a proper unveiling via a flashy cinematic trailer, confirming both its leaked November release date and revealing that we’ll be playing as two protagonists for the first time in the series since Syndicate almost a decade ago....

Baba is You gets one last big update leaving custom level makers with some foxy new toys Baba is One More Update Image credit:Hempuli Oy The best puzzle games are often the ones where the thing you actually do is dead simple, with the challenge coming from an intricately woven path of twists and turns on doing said thing. Like, for example, Baba is You . You (Baba) are a rabbity thing that pushes wordy blocks around, changing the very fabric of reality as you (Baba) do so....

Balatro is getting just a little bit easier in the next patch, and you can try it now Beta branch now in public testing with heaps of balance changes Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Playstack The deck-fixing roguelikelike poker of Balatro is chuffing excellent, no doubt, but my main criticism has been that the higher difficulty modes are just a bit boring. Having beat them myself, I didn’t find them a fun or interesting challenge as much as an annoying one that required too much to go right....

Baldur’s Gate 3 designer says Act 3 tone shift criticisms are “valid”, will try to be “less drastic” in future Larian CEO, meanwhile, has finally “figured out” act 1 of next unrevealed project Image credit:Larian Studios Acts! It used to be just those old-timey theatre productions that had them, but as in many other respects, videogames have nipped through a stage exit and stolen theatre’s underpants. One act isn’t the same as another, however: take the third act of Baldur’s Gate 3 , which many players feel isn’t a patch, or indeed a hotfix changelog, on the thunderously well-received RPG ’s first two acts....