How to skip the intro in Oblivion This is how to skip the tutorial in Oblivion Remastered Image credit:Bethesda/Virtuos Want to skip the intro in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered? Every new game of Oblivion starts in a dusky dungeon followed by a lengthy trip through the rat-infested sewers. This may be fun on your first playthrough (you’ll to meet a rather important person after all), but if it’s your second, third, or even tenth game, you might want to hop into the wider world of Cyrodiil right away....

Hunty Zombie codes (February 2026) Hurting for coins and lucky spins in Hunty Zombie? We’ve got some codes you’ll want to try Image credit:HZ Dev If you need codes for Hunty Zombie, you’ve come to the right place. This multiplayer action game is exactly what it says on the tin. Whether alone or teaming with some buddies, you head out and hunt zombies, learning how to survive the onslaught while levelling up and amassing resources....

I love fantasy RPG Soulframe’s cosy start screen even though it could be a creepy piece of habit-forming design Max your menagerie Image credit:YourStonedSavior / Digital Extremes I continue to have a soft spot for Soulframe , the new, sort-of-early access fantasy RPG from Warframe developers Digital Extremes, despite the fact that the lore writing is often wyrd to the point of giving me a concussion. Especially when it creeps into studio press announcements....

Big batteries, fast charging, and enough ports to power your entire setup. Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / Sharge Product US Price / Links UK Price / Links Capacity Max Output Notable Features Anker Prime 27,650mAh (250W) $187.99 (20% off) £169.99 (26% off) 27,650mAh 250W Smart App, Charging Base, 100W Recharge Shargeek 170 (24,000mAh) $139.90 (17% off) £116.99 (30% off) 24,000mAh 170W Transparent design, IP66, Smart Display UGREEN Nexode 25,000mAh (200W) $79....

I want to remove this horrible demo from my Steam library, but my body won’t let me I just want my old life back Image credit:eagerbeavergames When and where did the Steam demo for horror game New Life first find its way to me? When did its non-descript, black hooded protagonist first wriggle, with the transgressive delight of an unbidden slug between naked toes embarking on a 2am fridge odyssey, into the as yet uncolonised crevices of my ‘demos’ library?...

I’ve found a bunch of PC gaming deals that are even better than Steam’s Summer Sale Why pay more? Fanatical and Green Man Gaming have the real bargains. Image credit:Sandfall Interactive Steam’s Summer Sale is legendary, but it doesn’t always mean you’re getting the lowest price. As much as we all love watching our wishlist light up with discounts, some of the best deals are actually happening off-site. Fanatical and Green Man Gaming have been busy undercutting Valve’s storefront with bigger savings on the exact same Steam keys....

If you don’t mind SATA SSDs, the already-cheap Crucial BX500 is up to 43% off for Prime Big Deal Days 4TB of solid state speed for just £178 / $210 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Would it be fair to say that we sometimes overlook SATA SSDs ? With NVMe drives forming our future and mechanical hard disks increasingly consigned to the past, the 2.5in form factor is just kind of… there....

If you wish Satisfactory were an FPS, try new open world game StarRupture, out now in early access Hell is greenest on the other planet Image credit:Creepy Jar As the Bob Dylan song goes, how many lush alien planets must a Man presumptuously land on and turn into poorly optimised Toyota plants before he finally decides he’s sick of being an extractivist piece of shit? Dylan was being rhetorical, but I studied at the school of Homer Simpson , and want you to give me an actual figure....

In Bladesong you are both the real hero and villain of any fantasy RPG - the person who makes all the swords Advance the story by arming the NPCs Image credit:Mythwright Video games in general have a surplus of weapons. It’s gotten to the point that if I had any freelance budget, I’d commission somebody to count them up. Just give me an approximate running total for the industry at large, so that whenever next a shiny-eyed producer regales me with the prospect of enchanted lazurite rapiers at a preview event, I can quietly ask how many enchanted lazurite rapiers we’re talking about, then open my laptop and generate a scrolling image akin to those comparison pages for stars and planets - a cosmic mountain of points and pommels, with the new game’s armoury forming a pixel-wide foothill in the bottom left corner....

In true early access style, Nightingale’s PC performance feels like a work in progress Perhaps this settings guide can help Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Inflexion Games Credit to Nightingale , I’ve been enjoying the early access form of Inflexion’s gaslamp fantasy survival crafter a fair bit more than I did its older stress test build . The UI is cleaner and tighter, and I’ve had more space to explore (and enjoy) the mysterious nooks of its magic ’n’ moustaches world....

It’s never too early in the week to play 4D minigolf A demo to take you “beyond the lanes of the here and now” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Three More Years I didn’t sleep last night for entirely self-inflicted reasons and my brain feels like that one accursed hoover bag you refuse to empty, because there is no way of doing so that won’t turn the neighbourhood into Silent Hill....

Juice your Steam Deck, and many other things besides, with up to 30% off our top-rated power bank Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun That makes the Nexode Retractable £60 and $70 respectively, very fair prices for a capacious (but still hand luggage-friendly) 20,000mAh, 165W charger that smiles when you switch it on. Its smartest touch, though, is the integrated cable, which is long enough for easy device-wielding yet winds up neatly and internally when you’re not using it....

Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders review - cross-country skiing as rewarding for the journey as the destination A slippy-slidey ice world, natch Image credit:RPS / Megagon Industries Developer: Megagon Industries Publisher: Megagon Industries Release: January 21st, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam Price: £20.99/€22.49/$22.49 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti, Windows 10 Few games place me so betwixt the yin and yang of frustration and flow state as Snow Riders ....

Looks like Silksong’s secrets include a Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Easter egg For those who come needling Image credit:Team Cherry / Imgur Hollow Knight: Silksong contains what could be a cheeky reference to this year’s prior headline success story from a smaller developer, Sandfall Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 . Are you playing Team Cherry’s new metroidvania? Here’s how to find that Easter egg. Beware mild area and equipment spoilers from this point on....

Magic school Stardew-like Witchbrook gets its first proper trailer Out holiday 2025 Image credit:Chucklefish Stardew Valley publishers and Starbound developers Chucklefish have conjured up the first proper trailer for Witchbrook, the magic school life game some have called isometric Little Witch Academia , and others, “a reworking of The Worst Witch books” . Me, I’m going with “isometric Kiki’s Delivery Service”, given that there appear to be delivery missions and also, you do get to fly on broomsticks....

Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield on designing Vanguard Exiles so you could play with dice if your computer died “It’s definitely an art as much as a science” Image credit:The Tea Division What can we learn about games by comparing the thrill of a nailgun kill in Quake to the elation of triple word score in online Scrabble? For Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering and KeyForge, it’s actually quite a bit....

Manor Lords: Which starting scenario and difficulty should you choose? Here is the best starting scenario for new Manor Lords players Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Which is the best scenario for new players in Manor Lords? Slavic Magic’s gorgeous and hotly anticipated city-builder Manor Lords gives you a fair bit of freedom for customising your new game setup. After you hit New Game and create your Lord and coat of arms, you’ll be treated to a Game Setup screen where you can select between three scenarios, and customise the difficulty with three templates or a host of individual game options....

May’s Humble Choice line up includes The Thaumaturge, Amnesia: The Bunker, and Evil West Monster-hunting, ghost pirates, cosmic horror, and more. Image credit:Flying Wild Hog Image credit: Flying Wild Hog Humble Choice – May 2025 $11.99/month See here Included Games and Bonuses The Thaumaturge: Deluxe Edition Amnesia: The Bunker Evil West Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Ultros Corpse Keeper 1 Month of IGN Plus Evil West leads the bundle, blending western gunslinging with supernatural combat as players fight demons using firearms and a lightning-powered gauntlet....

Monster Hunter Wilds: How to beat Hirabami Learn the Hirabami’s weaknesses, drop list, and more Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Need tips on how to beat the Hirabami in Monster Hunter Wilds? The Hirabami is a beautiful but deadly floating wyvern that acts as a rude awakening for players investigating Monster Hunter Wilds’ Iceshard Cliffs. While not awful to fight on its own, this monster travels in packs, and if you don’t come equipped with Dung Pods, you can easily find yourself fighting three of them at once - a nightmare ordeal that will surely annoy even experienced hunters....

Mourning another Titanfall cancellation? Here’s a “legally distinct” fan made mech shooter Diesel Knights is a 6v6 “mech/movement shooter” Image credit:Xavier B. Johnson The recent round of layoffs at Respawn parent company EA reportedly lead to around 300 to 400 job losses, plus cancellations of two incubation projects. It’s since come out that one of those projects was likely an extraction FPS set in the Titanfall universe, codenamed ‘R7’. This joins an unannounced single player Titanfall game cancelled in 2023 , alongside the perpetually rumoured but yet-to-materialise Titanfall 3....