Lara Croft is the next survivor coming to Dead By Daylight She has a mouth yet cannot scream Image credit:Behaviour Interactive Dead By Daylight is an asymmetric horror multiplayer game, in which one player, the killer, attempts to sacrifice all the other players on the server. Now the other players could be Lara Croft, who has been added to the game’s public test server in advance of a full release next month....

Latest Horizon Forbidden West PC patch finally fixes its weirdest issue Nvidia Reflex, you’ve bested me for the last time Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PlayStation PC LLC Nestled within a seemingly ho-hum patch for Horizon Forbidden West ’s PC edition is a change I’ve been crossing fingers and ritualistically sacrificing metal dinosaurs for since release. At last I can behold those glorious words: “Resolved performance regression when enabling Nvidia Reflex On+Boost.” Finally!...

Latest Palworld update stops Pals falling asleep forever while breeding Also stops the game crashing when you have over 7000 pals in your guild Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair The latest major Palworld update is live, fixing a range of crash and save data bugs while also addressing a glitch which saw your much-abused indentured munsters falling into an eternal slumber when assigned to a Pal breeding farm. I continue to wonder how much of Palworld is deliberate satire ....

Make a cool Elden Ring trailer to win a 10ft statue of Messmer the Impaler that will be a nightmare to dust The Return To Grace competition celebrates the Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco You know what will really set off your soft furnishings and put further strain on your relationship when you’re already worried your girlfriend is more angry about you leaving crumbs around the toaster than she would be if all were well?...

Maybe for this Black Friday, I won’t mention the Logitech G502 Hero. Nah just kidding, it’s 68% off History repeats itself As far as Black Friday deals go, the Logitech G502 Hero isn’t so much low-hanging fruit as it is a root vegetable. Every year, this damned multi-buttoned mouse goes on sale, and every year, I’m powerless to avoid writing about it. Can’t even be bothered to take a different header image photo....

Metaphor ReFantazio cooking answers Here are all the cooking answers needed when helping Fabienne at the Hushed Honeybee Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Sega Looking for all Metaphor ReFantazio cooking answers? Once you progress through Metaphor ReFantazio enough to take up residence at Grand Trad, you may encounter a Young Nidia Man on Sunlumeo Street who asks for information about the cooking at the Hushed Honeybee Inn. What follows is the ‘Help the Hushed Honeybee’ quest wherein you must help Fabienne cook for the customers at night ....

Minecraft’s multiplayer Realms servers have been down since its last patch over three days ago Mojang “hard at work to restore the service globally” Image credit:Mojang Minecraft ’s Realms servers have been down for most of the past four days. Mojang’s official account for reporting service status updates noted that “intermittent failures or slowdowns” began on August 13th, and despite similarly intermittent reports of uptime in the days since, the servers remain inaccessible to most players today....

More Xbox studio cuts likely to follow Tango and Arkane Austin, and Game Pass looks like the culprit Studios spread thin like “peanut butter on bread” says Xbox president Matt Booty Image credit:Bethesda Softworks Like us, you’re probably still reeling from Tuesday’s news that Hi-Fi Rush studio Tango and Prey ’s Arkane Austin are getting shuttered by Microsoft. According to Bloomberg , these closures were just a part of a “widespread cost-cutting initiative” that’s still underway....

Mörk Borg Heresy Supreme’s Morbidware on making failure fun, even when you’re cursed to wander the land as a goblin Tälk Borg Image credit:Morbidware Both part of Italy’s “not very big” developer community, Morbidware’s Diego Sacchetti and Misbug have known each other for a long time, but hadn’t had the chance to collaborate together until 2019’s The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia - a bullet hell where you dodge projectiles and type in exorcisms to banish demons....

Never mind the crafting, Squirreled Away is at its best when you’re simply a scampering rodent May contain nuts Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Amplifier Studios I’ve been trying the demo for Squirreled Away , and for some reason it keeps wanting me to play it as some kinda 2024-as-heck survival crafting game. At this, I make several rapid sniffing-like movements, then scarper adeptly yet dismissively up the nearest tree. It’s just far more fun to treat this as a casual squirrel sim, or, at the very least, a platformer where you occasionally need to steal some strawberries....

New Arc Line is a party-based steampunk RPG with notes of Bioshock and Dishonored Story trailer introduces a gilded, rotten New World Image credit:Fulqrum Publishing Fulqrum Publishing have just released a story trailer for New Arc Line , a new steampunk fantasy RPG in which dragons rub shoulders with zeppelins, and dwarves are as abundant as air pollution. I hadn’t heard of it before and am quite interested, partly because the game sports some wonderfully mangled and colourful dystopian maps, and partly because it’s a story of immigrants trying to find their way to an inevitably deceptive “shining city of progress”, rather than the typical Chosen One fare....

New colonial fantasy RPG Greedfall 2: The Dying World hits early access in September 2024 And here’s a trailer full of axeplay, spellcraft and pullquote Image credit:Nacon Spiders and Nacon’s new fantasy RPG Greedfall 2: The Dying World will launch into early access for PC via Steam on 24th September. Find beneath these words a trailer’s worth of folk in facepaint glowering at burning battlefields, garlanded with preview excerpts along the lines of “ooh, I like what they’ve done with the curtains”....

Nexon respond to claims they’re using AI-generated Tiktok streamers to advertise The First Descendant Well, I say that, they’ve actually addressed “certain irregularities” Image credit:Nexon South Korean publishers Nexon are investigating a recent bit of TikTok marketing for their free-to-play shooter The First Descendant , after players spotted some ads that feature AI-generated ‘human’ streamers bigging up the game. Well, we at least have to assume it’s following that, as Nexon’s statement omits mentioning AI in favour of the wonderfully nebulous phrase “certain irregularities”....

Nightingale can’t outfly “the stark realities of the industry” as creators Inflexion close UK office and lay people off Gaslamp fantasy “hasn’t been commercially successful enough” to keep staff on Image credit:Inflexion Games Inflexion Games are closing their UK office, laying off staff and restructuring their main Canadian studio after failing to find commercial success with their Victorian fantasy survival game Nightingale . Reportedly, at least 22 people have been let go....

Nightingale’s early access launch is coming two days earlier than planned Now arriving on February 20th Image credit:Inflexion Games Surprise, Nightingale heads. Developers Inflexion Games have just announced their upcoming crafting survival ’em up is arriving into early access two days ahead of schedule. Nightingale was originally set to launch on February 22nd, but will now release on February 20th on both Steam and the Epic Games Store. This is mostly to help the team nip any launch day bugs in the bud a lot sooner during the week, rather than have them lingering in the game over the weekend....

Ninja Gaiden 4 is out this October Spotted in the shadows Image credit:Koei Tecmo Ninja Gaiden 4 has painted a release date in hot blood upon the floor of the Xbox showcase. Which is fitting, blood being premium currency for Microsoft these days . The character action game is out this year, October 21st. Catch the trailer below before it slinks back into the shadows Here’s a bit of story from the game’s Steam page ....

No Man’s Sky’s Worlds update adds walking houses, fancier weather and a touch of Starship Troopers Using tech built for stablemate Light No Fire Image credit:Hello Games No Man’s Sky is getting a big new Worlds update which treats the space sim’s gazillions of planets to a sumptuous overhaul, using technology devised for stablemate fantasy sim Light No Fire , which only has one planet, albeit a “literally Earth-sized” one with dragons....

It’s only for Prime members, but it’s the best shot you’ve got right now. Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / Gigabyte Image credit: RPS Photo Composite / Gigabyte GIGABYTE RTX 5070 Ti Gaming OC 16G $979.99 (MSRP) See here So if you’re in the US, you’re in luck today. You’re getting a powerful 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM, built on NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture, with PCIe 5.0 support and a WINDFORCE cooling system that actually keeps temps chill....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Friday, April 12) Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #306 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 ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Sunday, March 3) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #266 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 ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....