Best SMG in Battlefield: RedSec The best SMG in Battlefield: RedSec, and two honourable mentions Image credit:EA Your weapon is your lifeline in Battlefield: RedSec, and SMGs are great for delivering a rapid-fire burst to decimate an opponent or two. If you’re caught in a standoff with another player, a trusty submachine gun can make the difference between who comes out on top. In this guide, we’ll go over the absolute best SMG for Battlefield: RedSec, as well as a couple of honourable mentions....

Best solo weapon in Monster Hunter Wilds Here are the best weapons for solo play in MHWilds Image credit:Capcom What is the best solo weapon in Monster Hunter Wilds? From the very beginning, Capcom has always intended for Monster Hunter to be a game you can play either alone or in a party of hunters. It’s no surprise that Monster Hunter Wilds becomes considerably easier when you’re hunting together with friends, but if you’re one of the many hunters who prefers to play through the game solo, then one of the best things you can do is picking a weapon that lends itself to solo play....

Black Ops 6 devs still looking into unfair spawning - “yes, we saw ourselves in a Killcam before selecting a Loadout too” “Spawn tuning will be an ongoing process” Image credit:Activision Early reactions to Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer range from frothing dislike through omnimovement hype to our own Ed Thorn’s dead-eyed appraisal that it’s “a good one, I think. Not a bad one. If you like Call Of Duty, you will like this....

Black Ops 6 Zombies Terminus easter egg walkthrough Here’s how to complete the main quest easter egg on the Black Ops 6 Terminus map Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Activision Want to complete the Terminus easter egg in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies? Black Ops 6 features a wide array of secrets on both of its Zombies maps, and the sheer size and scale of Terminus means you’ve got quite a bit to do if you want to complete the main easter egg....

Bone-twisting sadism and immersive simulation go together unpleasantly well in Brush Burial: Gutter World “Make wealth out of misery” in the demo Image credit:Knife Demon Software You’ve played through countless immersive sims as a cyborg, a thief, and a cyborg thief. Now, try doing it as a scuttling demon dominatrix. Brush Burial: Gutter World is the sneaky and frenetic new dollop of squalor from Knife Demon Software. It casts you once again as Fennel, a swamp devil with a pronged tail you can use as a whip and a grapple, knocking props around and swiping crossbow bolts out of midair....

Brainrot Evolution codes (February 2026) Need some extra EXP potions in Brainrot Evolution? Try these codes Image credit:Brainrot Evolution On the lookout for the latest Brainrot Evolution codes? This brainrot-focused RPG aims to answer one simple question: If you were a small chimpanzee that lived inside a banana peel, how many cactus hippos wearing sandals would you have to beat in a fight to turn into an alligator fused with a bomber plane?...

Centum is a horror adventure about training up an AI, also featuring a demon catphone Pony Island vibes Image credit:Serenity Forge Trailered last night, Centum is “an unreliable narrative-driven adventure where everything may be a lie”, according to the Steam page . Does the suggestion that everything may be a lie also apply to the suggestion itself? Is this an unreliable Steam page? Perhaps the game is secretly a cheerful Playmobile platformer with plentiful ledge-assist, rather than a horrible point-and-clicker that starts you off in a dark cell with a bunch of obviously cursed artefacts, and gets steadily worse....

Come say hello and welcome to Callum Williams, our new Guides Writer Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Callum insists he has been writing about games for near a decade, though I’m still doubtful he’s lived long enough for that to be true. Most recently he spent three or so years freelancing for IGN, and impressing a lot of people while he was at it. Here, as there, his main focus is writing all sorts of guides on the hottest Roblox games, but you’ll likely also see his name crop up during big releases throughout the year too....

Connections hints and answers for Mon, September 16th Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #462. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 16th September? If Connections has you ‘round the bends’, you’re not alone. We’ve set up a bunch of clues to help you guess along the way....

Connections hints and answers for Wed, September 4th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #450. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 4th September? There’s no shame in looking for a bit of assistance when it comes to solving Connections - these word groups can be infernally hard to determine!...

Crema tease new Temtem game with fresh combat system alongside plans to remove all Temtem microtransactions It isn’t Temtem 2, but it’ll “try out new things we would love to see in a hypothetical Temtem 2” Image credit:Humble Games Crema, the creators of much-liked Pokemon-like Temtem , are teasing a new untitled game set in the same universe - the mystifying Project Downbelow. It isn’t Temtem: Swarm , aka Temtem Vampire Survivors , nor is it Temtem 2....

Crystal Dynamics reveal two new Tomb Raider games -“the largest Tomb Raider world yet” and yet another classic TR revamp Catalyst or Legacy of Atlantis? Choose your Lara Image credit:Amazon If you’re staying up all night to watch The Game Awards 2025, follow along with our live coverage . If you want an early night, you can catch up on all the news with our Everything Announced at The Game Awards 2025 roundup ....

Dead by Daylight is teasing a classic Dungeons & Dragons monster as its next killer Eye see you Image credit:Behaviour Interactive Having brought the likes of Resident Evil’s Nemesis , Silent Hill’s Pyramid Head , Stranger Things’ Demogorgon and Alien’s Xenomorph to its one-versus-many game of deadly hide-and-seek, Dead by Daylight is digging back into the vaults for its next classic killer. This time, it’s not horror video games or scary movies serving as inspiration for DBD’s next chapter, but 50-year-old tabletop fantasy RPG Dungeons & Dragons....

Diablo 4 Bleed Barbarian build and best skills Discover how to create the best Bleed Barbarian build in Diablo 4 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Blizzard Entertainment Want to know the best Bleed Barbarian build in Diablo 4? Once one of the top builds in Diablo 4 , the Bleed Barbarian took a significant hit with the start of Season 1 . The Hamstring passive, which previously provided a huge damage boost by Slowing enemies and allowing you to take advantage of extra CC damage modifiers, is now far weaker....

Diablo 4 Vessel Of Hatred gets October release date plus trailer which I refuse to watch because it sounds horrid Also some baby cats, mind you Image credit:Microsoft Microsoft and Blizzard have slapped a release date on Diablo 4 ’s forthcoming content-o-season Vessel Of Hatred. It’s out 8th October 2024, and sees you hooting and hollering down the road to the new region of Nahantu in search of Neyrelle, a character “who is both suffering the fate of her choice to imprison the Prime Evil Mephisto, and seeking a means to destroy him”....

Does Palworld break Pokémon’s copyright? We asked a lawyer Claims that it’s a rip-off give way to accusations of outright plagiarism Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Pocketpair’s monster-collecting survival game Palworld has rekindled the eternal debate over what exactly constitutes a breach of copyright. While the game’s mechanics are more reminiscent of Ark: Survival Evolved and other tree-punching, template-arranging wilderness sims, its monsters owe obvious debts to Nintendo and Game Freaks’ Pokémon games....

Dragon’s Dogma 2 Steam Deck sitrep: it still doesn’t work, sorry Just making sure Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Dragon’s Dogma 2 is, as a game per se , very good ! It’s creative and intelligent and lets you fill other players’ worlds with recruitable humanoid versions of your pet cats. Still, a technical masterclass it is not. In my performance analysis , I touched on DD2 being particularly unplayable on the Steam Deck , suffering from sub-10fps framerates and a bunch of broken settings....

EA are thinking about inserting adverts into games - but don’t worry, it’ll be “very thoughtful” “As we start to harness the power of community, how do we think about advertising as a growth driver?” says EA CEO as apparent reassurance Image credit:EA/Burger King The last few weeks I’ve been watching quite a few YouTube videos (thanks, Evo Japan), and noticing that adverts during videos a) seem to pop up every 30 seconds or so and b) then last for an unskippable 30 to 60 seconds....

Elden Ring Fringefolk Hero’s Grave walkthrough How to complete the Fringefolk Hero’s Grave dungeon in Elden Ring Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Stuck inside the Elden Ring Fringefolk Hero’s Grave dungeon? Despite being one of the first dungeons you’ll come across in The Lands Between, the Fringefolk Hero’s Grave does not go easy on you: you must survive a poisonous lake, deadly chariots, a fire trap, spirit warriors, and many imp attacks - if you manage to break the Fringefolk Hero’s Grave seal, that is....

Endless Legend 2’s demo had its critics - here’s how Amplitude are changing the early access build in response UI, world design and writing are due for improvements Image credit:Hooded Horse / Rock Paper Shotgun As detailed in a new Steam post , here’s what they think you liked. Firstly, the Tidefall mechanic, whereby the ocean retreats periodically to reveal extra playable terrain, and the regular Monsoons that sweep the land....