Sims contender Life By You gets delayed once again, this time indefinitely Work-life balance Image credit:Paradox Interactive The neighbourhood citizens of Life By You are positioning themselves as bright-eyed pretenders to The Sims . But in this ultimate game of keeping-up-with-the-Jones, the life sim from Paradox has slipped on a wet kitchen tile. The game has been delayed for a third time, and the developers are reluctant to set a new date for the planned release into early access....

Speedrunner event Games Done Queer kicks off today, raising funds for LGBTQ+ legal aid by lighting Diddy Kong’s butt on fire Also on the schedule: Transistor, Deltarune, Halo, Kiosk, Tetris <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/unnamed(2).png?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=“The Games Done Queer logo with “Queer” against a rainbow background. - 1”> Image credit:Games Done Queer Brethren! Cease your prattling and pick up your GameCube controllers. It is time to start playing Eternal Darkness : Sanity’s Requiem at an unhealthy velocity, while funding lawyers to uphold the legal rights of LGBTQ+ people in the USA....

Starfield’s second DLC might involve a “Terran Armada”, and that sounds quite whelming Bethesda are looking forward “to the adventures yet to come”, but I’ll need more convincing to tag along Image credit:Bethesda / Rock Paper Shotgun Steam tells me I’ve spent 171 hours of my life to this point playing Starfield . It’s not an insignificant amount of time, but it pales in comparison to how long I’ve spent with the myriad other works of developers Bethesda....

Still Wakes The Deep review: soaked in sea horror and shiveringly good voice acting Oil not sleep tonight Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Secret Mode Developer: The Chinese Room Publisher: Secret Mode Release: June 18th, 2024 On: Windows From: Steam , Epic Games Price: TBC Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 Scottish petrochemical horror is not exactly a genre, but maybe it ought to be....

Stripped-down city builder Mini Settlers has a free prologue demo that seems perfect for Steam Deck Chip off the new block Image credit:Goblinz Publishing The high-fidelity rustic hurly-burly of Manor Lords is all very well, but some of us yearn for a simpler and perhaps, more elegant age, when city builders looked like a bunch of copulating squares, and could run on PCs with approximately the computing power of a slice of bread (toasted, but not buttered)....

The AC game set in feudal Japan is called Assassins Creed Shadows, may have leaked its own release date The first trailer premieres on YouTube tomorrow Image credit:Ubisoft Also, because this sort of thing seems to always happen with Ubi, the placeholder text for said YouTube premiere might have accidentally leaked the release date for the game as November 15, 2024. The text is gone now, but a couple of screencaps made their way into the wild (h/t GamesRadar )....

The bloody battles of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 make for a great photo mode Say cheese, my lord Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Focus Entertainment I’ve already said my piece on the hulking bugstomper in our Space Marine 2 review , but I’d like to celebrate one more thing about it - the photo mode. This is a fairly standard feature for a lot of blockbuster games, but in the world of Warhammer 40K there are so many mega-scale battles with pitch-perfect composition that I found it hard to resist hitting pause and taking a handful of snaps every few minutes....

The Dead Cells developer’s new roguelike Windblown has a dash so potent it makes the game seem disposable Hyper Light Speedrunner Image credit:Motion Twin A terrible confession: I almost fell asleep during the presentation for Motion Twin’s Windblown . This wasn’t really Motion Twin’s fault. It was the afternoon of day four at GDC, my adrenaline reserves were spent, and there I was, in a warm, shuttered hotel room, with two men gently bombarding me with French-accented details of synergies, stackable trinkets and i-frames (I’m aware that the scenario I’ve just described is probably somebody’s kink - let’s move swiftly on)....

The demons are both tragic and hot in Possessor(s), the Hyper Light Drifter studio’s new fantasy platformer Thoughts on the demo Image credit:Devolver Digital Heart Machine’s side-scrolling metroidvania platformer Possessor(s) is Hollow Knight with a splash of Amanita Design’s Creaks . The bulk of your enemies are household objects - vending machines, plant pots, office printers and other fittings that have become vessels for demons. From this premise springs a note of tragedy powerful enough to conquer my outrage at a game title that has brackets in it....

The Dishonored-style sim about escaping a town ruled by a kaiju policeman is getting a public playtest The very long arm of the law Image credit:Critical Reflex TallBoys and Critical Reflex have announced an open public playtest for Militsioner , the immersive sim in which you try to escape a town that swelters in the shadow of an extremely large, temperamental policeman. It would be nice to think the premise has gotten less relevant since we first covered the game in 2021, but I suspect that if you are currently living in, say, Los Angeles, you will find much to relate to....

The first RPS Christmas Cracker 2024 It begins anew Image credit:RPS The fell moons rise, and in their cold glare emerges a parcel from the dirt. Bloat and gangrene, crimped as if by tourniquet. A dark promise wriggles within. Grip the fibrous handles, feel its jagged soul imprint upon your palm. Now pull! Rend the sinew, tear muscle from bone, hatch their fetid gift! The yoke draws near! Take up the slip and read the words upon its face....

The Forever Winter early access review: a messy extraction shooter that should have stayed in cover longer The winter of our discontent Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Fun Dog Studios Developer: Fun Dog Studios Publisher: Fun Dog Studios Release: Sept 24th On: Windows From: Steam Price: £25/$30/€30 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 Wartorn sci-fi extraction shooter The Forever Winter has had a messy launch into early access....

The Horror At Highrook is an occult cardgame set in a Darkest Dungeon-style mansion Room with a Cthulhu Image credit:Nullpointer Earlier today Tom Betts - founder of Nullpointer and former lead programmer at The Signal From Tolva developers Big Robot - emailed me about his new game The Horror At Highrook . In the space of a single, rollercoaster paragraph, Betts earned my curiosity by describing himself as a fellow Soul Reaver enthusiast, lost it again by criticising Soul Reaver’s camera - such insolence!...

The makers of Yakuza are working on “Project Century”, a new third-person brawler set in 1915 It looks great Image credit:RGG Studio I’ve lost track of how many Yakuza games are in development at any given moment, but it seems makers Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have space for more on their plate. During this evening’s Game Awards, they announced “Project Century”, a new third-person brawler set in 1915. There’s a trailer below....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? All that’s fit to play over 1st-5th July, plus our weekly newsblog Image credit:Johann Christoph Wagner / Rock Paper Shotgun Happy this week, everybody! Not going to lie, it’s a dry one. Drier than a doldrum dunked in silica gel packets, dustier than Death’s doorstep. There are precious few eyebrow-raising new PC games on the cards, but I have swaddled my head in wet blankets, braved the desert and returned with a small handful of dreams....

The medieval dice game you play in Kingdom Come: Deliverance is now a retro Arthurian roguelite Dicealot of roguelites these days Image credit:Yogscast Many are the minigames that threaten to be more entertaining than the games that host them, stealing the player’s attention like those flatworms that absorb snails from the inside. Tetra Master. Gwent. Fishing in any number of RPGs. The flushable sinks in Deus Ex: Human Revolution . Or how about Space Harrier, which has only ever existed as an arcade cabinet offering inside Yakuza 0 ....

The next weird device to run Doom? Your lawnmower Knee-Deep in the Shed Image credit:Husqvarna When dramatic parents panicked over the satanic influence of Doom in the 90s, maybe they had a point. Doom has burned through people’s souls and minds, filling them with a desire to play Id Software’s seminal shooter on every device they can. The question “Can it run Doom?” has driven these demonic vassals to make it playable on everything from tractors to teletext ....

The NYT Crossword answers for Friday, August 29th 2025 Get a bit of help with the NYT Crossword puzzle Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Crossword answers for Sunday, October 19th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s NYT Crossword on Friday, 29th August? How convenient! Because we have each and every one of them in this NYT Crossword guide....

The NYT Mini Crossword answers for Sunday, August 31st 2025 Your perfect companion guide to understanding and solving The Mini for today Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Mini Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Mini Crossword answers for Monday, September 15th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s Mini Crossword on Sunday, 31st August? Because we have them! All of them, in fact....

The original Resident Evil 3 is now available via GOG, following the arrivals of its predecessors The lesser loved of the original trilogy Image credit:Capcom Resident Evil’s awkward middle child, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis , is now available via GOG. It follows in the leaking, shambling footsteps of Residents Evil 1 and 2, which likewise oozed onto the platform in June and in August respectively. The release of Resi 3 has the same treatment as the previous two games: full compatibility with Windows 10 and 11, new graphics controls, a slightly better UI, and support for modern controllers....