The Hearth and Harbour is a restaurant management RPG about finding community and avoiding war Who wants seconds? Image credit:Saltstone Studios Cooking is a thing I think about almost on a daily basis, not because of the usual pesky reason that is my mortal coil demanding sustenance, but because I love to do it! Having a family background in hospitality will do that to you. Of course, doing this whole writing about games thingy is a bit of a different beast, but cooking does still often crop up in games....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Dynasty Warriors, Tales Of Graces, Hyper Light Breaker, and maw Image credit:PLAYISM / WSS playground / Rock Paper Shotgun Happy mid-January all! The year is picking up pace in terms of new PC game releases, and the symptoms of the Maw’s hunger are everywhere. For example, my fridge has started bleeding an iridescent fluid. Peering into the oily green depths, I see a much older, cyborg version of myself dressed in spiked leather against a background of burning oceans....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Atelier Yumia, Kaiserpunk and maw Image credit:Overseer Games / Elda Entertainment Good day to ye, reader! I’m not sure what the weather’s like in other regions, but here in London we’re approaching the unhallowed time of year when grown men are overtaken by the urge to wear shorts. I saw a few unclothed kneecaps abroad last week, but thankfully the boreal winds returned and snuffed them out like premature daffodils....

The NYT Crossword answers for Wednesday, September 17th 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 Wednesday, 17th September? Well, we have some good news for you. We have them!...

The Outer Worlds 2’s latest patch wrangles disappearing eyebrows and sideburns, stops nerds shouting at each other from miles away Meannwhile, companions have been made tougher, especially on harder difficulties Image credit:Obsidian / Rock Paper Shotgun Gah! I’ve lost them again. My precious brows and burns, they’ve gone walkabouts! Luckily, The Outer Worlds 2 latest patch aims to take care of instances of misbehaving hair. That’s far from the only fix in what’s a very beefy list, with companion buffs, crash corrections, and instances of weird NPC antics also having been tended to....

The RPS 101rd best game on PC The games we wish had made the top 100 if it wasn’t horribly rigged Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Daedalic Entertainment That there are more than 100 entire PC games is a revelation as shocking as it is disturbing, but despite recently spending days translating Horace’s sonorous yawps into the list that eventually became our RPS 100 , a chill silence recently befell the treehouse when we realised that some of our personal favourites had somehow been excluded....

The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 21st 2024’s other great expansion Image credit:RPS The RPS Advent Calender 2024 is underway! Each day reveals one of our favourite games from this year, leading up to our Game Of The Year on the 24th. Check the main calendar post to see the full list. There’s a slight breeze and a comforting glow coming from the crack’s in today’s calendar door, the sound of merriment and many accents from all over the world....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for sleeping off your fourth 10-hour flight in two weeks, assuming you in fact can sleep, and have not exacerbated your physical disintegration by staying up late on Saturday putting together a list of interesting games and not-games writing. Why not do it earlier, you ask? Daft question....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for waking up alongside a hilariously beautiful partner. They turn over and whisper softly in your ear that the pair of you should rob a bank. You agree, if only because of the heavenly way in which they roll the R in rob on their tongue as they say it....

There’s a future where you and this bucket that fits over your head decide what a game meant to say, not the useless idiots that made it Pails by comparison Image credit:Wikimedia/S.J. de Waard It’s not far away, you know. The promised land of never having to experience a game the way it was intended again. That long sought after holy grail of sticking your fingers in your ears and going wahwahwah....

This $595 bundle includes AMD’s stellar Ryzen 7800X3D CPU, 32GB DDR5 and an Asus B650 motherboard A strong starting point for a performant PC - just add GPU, PSU, storage, case and cooler. Image credit:AMD/Asus/G.Skill/Rock Paper Shotgun Want to build a high-end gaming PC in the US? We’ve got you covered - or rather, Newegg has. They’re bundling an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor, one of the fastest gaming CPUs of all time, with an Asus ROG Strix B650-A Gaming WiFi motherboard and G....

This Cyberpunk 2077 mod literally called “Weeee” lets you leave your flat via a big slide like a trash Batman It’s every bit as fun as it looks Image credit:CD Projekt/Rock Paper Shotgun Right, so, you’ve read the headline. There’s now a Cyberpunk 2077 mod that adds a rubbish chute to Megabuilding H10 with full animations and everything, so that you can exit V’s default flat via a big slide down to ground level....

This roguelike deckbuilder is software development meets Inscryption Work for a fairytale startup, lose your soul! Image credit:Unhinged Studios Hey! How would you like to contribute to the downfall of society? I do so by regularly tuning into Love Island and/or Married At First Sight. For those of you who’d like to do your part in videogame form, dev_hell looks to be the answer. It’s a first-person deckbuilding roguelike where you play as a software developer employed by a shady corporation to “reshape the future”, and it’s giving off strong whiffs of Inscryption ....

Total Chaos is a grimy horror FPS from the Turbo Overkill devs Originally conceived as an overhaul mod for Doom 2 Image credit:Apogee Entertainment I think It’s safe to say that Trigger Happy Interactive’s upcoming survival horror Total Chaos is a bit of a palette change from their last offering - the frenetic, neon-drenched, chainsaw-legged Turbo Overkill . Still, it’s not often we see psychological horror combined with ultraviolence, and anything that gives off even a whiff of Condemned: Criminal Origins has my attention....

Total War anniversary event showing off “new games” this December My dream car park-based Total War: Yakuza is likely not among them Image credit:Creative Assembly Shogun: Total War is 25 years old this year, and Creative Assembly are holding a multi-month long celebration kicking off in August with livestreams, interviews, sales, and multiplayer tournaments, all culminating with a showcase in early December. This will be the first showcase of its type they’ve done, and it’s billed to feature announcements for “new games” in the strategy series....

Towers of Aghasba looks like Monster Hunter with less monster hunting, more gliding and more village building New gameplay trailer accompanies November release date Image credit:Dreamlit inc. Developers Dreamlit have piped over fresh footage of their open world ecotribal extravaganza Towers Of Aghasba . It’s an abbreviated but generous display of equatorial exotica and vaguely prehistoric wildlife, home to such key verbs as “exploration”, “village-building”, “gardening”, “creature-nurturing” and “murdering megasloths with a lump of wood”....

Two of the best skating games are back on Steam after being mysteriously pulled from sale months ago 180 corpoflip Two very good skating games are back up for sale on Steam after disappearing for four months. Bright ’n’ cheery skateboarding game OlliOlli World and dystopian rollerskate shooter Rollerdrome both vanished in a cloud of toxic corporate smoke in February this year, some time after the closure of the games’ developers Roll7....

Upgrade your rig with a massive 420mm AiO for just £79 The Arctic Liquid Freezer II is well-reviewed too. Image credit:Arctic Get the Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 420mm AiO for £79 (was £122) I actually covered the 280mm version of this cooler getting a discount just last week , so let’s let past Will take it away once more: [This cooler] generally gets strong reviews for its radiator, which offers highly effective cooling....

V Rising best weapon tier list: What are the best weapons and weapon skills in V Rising? Which is the overall best weapon in V Rising? Want to know which is the best weapon in V Rising? Stunlock’s new vampiric survival game takes a slightly unusual approach to weapon classes. In V Rising , every weapon gives you as much extra attack damage as every other weapon, which makes for a very level playing field that allows you to take whichever weapon best suits your playstyle into battle....

V Rising Cotton Yarn: How to get Cotton and craft Cotton Yarn in V Rising Learn how to get Cotton and make Cotton Yarn in V Rising Want to know how to get Cotton Yarn in V Rising? If you are trying to raise your Gear Score in V Rising , you’ll want to craft better armor. One of the best armor sets for the mid-game is the Hollowfang Battlegear, but you’ll need Cotton Yarn to craft it....