Balatro gets a second set of free card cosmetics inspired by Cyberpunk 2077, Stardew Valley and others Good deal Image credit:LocalThunk I played Balatro for an hour, had a pleasant time, then uninstalled it. I know a trap when I see one. Perhaps you are made of stronger stuff than I am, however. Perhaps you like that monkey on your back. For you, there’s a new free update, which adds a second set of themed card art to the game inspired by the games Binding Of Isaac, Cyberpunk 2077 , Stardew Valley and Slay The Spire....

Battlefield 6 drops bots from verified mode playlist as EA continues fight against those dastardly XP farmers No bot backfill for you Image credit:EA Battlefield 6 ’s battle against the bot farmers continues with a series of backend updates from EA. Amongst other things, the developers have reversed some “unintended” changes to XP progression and balance, and removed bots from “verified” modes available through the Portal editor. Last week, the developers announced that they were taking action against players who’d created matches simply to murder computer-controlled soldiers en masse for easy XP....

Last chance to bag yourself some Prime-exclusive hardware savings Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun It’s the second and final day of Prime Day 2024 , and while there are still plenty of PC gaming deals to be basketed, let’s state the obvious: once they’re gone, they’re gone. Come midnight, these hardware savings will disappear faster than the free pastries at an RPS staff meetup, so now’s the time if one of them takes your fancy....

Best Call of Duty Black Ops 6 LR 7.62 loadout and class setup Here’s how to put together a stellar LR 7.62 loadout in Black Ops 6 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Activision Looking to build the best LR 7.62 loadout in Black Ops 6? The LR 7.62 is one of three Sniper Rifles in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6. All of these guns are powerful weapons in the hands of a trained operator, though the LR 7....

Best Content Warning mods: More players, colors and more Here are the best Content Warning mods available Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Landfall Publishing Looking for the best Content Warning mods? Whether you’re looking to add more Content Warning players, face colours or an extra character limit for faces, there are already a host of mods available for this new horror co-op game. Content Warning is currently available on PC via Steam, as such, these mods are all for PC....

Best Lances in Monster Hunter Wilds These are the best endgame Lances in MH Wilds right now Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom What is the best Lance in Monster Hunter Wilds? The Lance must be a very frustrating weapon for monsters in Monster Hunter Wilds to face up against, eh? Top-of-the-line defence in the form of a ridiculously large tower shield means the hunter can effectively stay safe while charging up thrusts and strikes all the live-long day....

Best Path of Exile 2 class: Rankings and tier list All classes in PoE 2 ranked Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Grinding Gear Games Wondering what the best class is in Path of Exile 2? Path of Exile 2 features six character classes in Early Access, and each boasts a wide array of builds that are sure to test the mettle of any ARPG enthusiast. Whether you want to tank enemy mobs as the warrior, shoot bombs as the Mercenary or practise necromancy as the Witch, each class is customisable to an extreme extent thanks to Path of Exile 2’s immense skill tree....

Black Myth Wukong compatibility mode explained How to use compatibility mode and wave the black screens goodbye Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Do you need to use compatibility mode in Black Myth Wukong? The answer to that question largely depends on the device you’re playing on; if you don’t have the latest and greatest rig, the Monkey King’s hefty adventure may cause your system to crash or lag. In that case, compatibility mode may provide a much smoother playthrough....

Bungie and PlayStation are working on a MOBA inspired by Nintendo’s Smash Bros, claims report Does a Gummy Bear leak in the woods Image credit:Nintendo Destiny creators Bungie are reportedly making a team-based MOBA that takes hefty inspiration from Nintendo’s Smash Bros series. Or rather, they were. Codenamed Gummy Bears, the project is now apparently in the hands of another, newly founded PlayStation studio, with 40 Bungie developers sticking around to work on it....

Call of Duty co-creator, Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment co-founder, and Battlefield head Vince Zampella dies aged 55 The developer was killed in a single-car collision Image credit:EA / Respawn Entertainment Vince Zampella, the co-creator of Call of Duty, founder of Respawn Entertainment, and head of EA’s Battlefield franchise died in a car crash on December 22nd. He was 55 years old. “We’re heartbroken by the passing of our founder and dear friend Vince Zampella,” Respawn Entertainment said in a statement on Twitter....

Call of Duty launcher put on a space-saving diet, as Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3 go back to standalone downloads Your install drive’s prayers have been answered Image credit:Activision If you’ve installed a Call of Duty game at any point in the past few years, odds are you know the pain. You want to stick one thing, the thing you want to play, on your drive, but thanks to the series’ launcher, end up accidentally sticking somewhere in the region of 200 to 300MB of various Call of Duty stuff onto your PC....

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 campaign review All sillied up Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Activision / Treyarch A morass of jumped-up dream sequences, a repurposed multiplayer map, and poorly implemented coop, Black Ops 7’s campaign is a contender for the worst Call of Duty adventure yet. Developer: Treyarch Publisher: Activision Release: November 14th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam , Xbox Store , Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price: £69.99/$69.99/€79.99 Reviewed on: AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Nvidia RTX 2080 Super, 32GB RAM, Windows 10 It is strange to imagine – I thought as I battled a giant vomit-spewing plant monster in a hallucination induced by a biological weapon – that Call of Duty was once, at least notionally, about the human cost of war....

Chaotic hoarders beware, Minecraft is about to get an invasion of copper golem housekeepers Out now for testing on Bedrock, with Java to follow Image credit:Microsoft / Rock Paper Shotgun Copper golems and new types of copper equipment are coming in the next big Minecraft update, which is available to test now in Minecraft Bedrock and available shortly as a Snapshot for the Java edition. The golems actually date back to Minecraft’s 2021 Mob Vote - players cruelly snubbed them in favour of the musical, item-fetching Allay....

Cities: Skylines 2’s UI is getting an “extreme makeover”, as new developers Iceflake take the reins Plus, snow that settles Image credit:Paradox The new custodians of Cities: Skylines 2 have announced that they’re giving the city builder’s UI an “extreme makeover” in the game’s next patch, while tuning up the day/night lighting, and ensuring that snow actually sticks to the ground. I had an “extreme makeover” once and ended up with ginger hair for several months....

Co-op blunder sim Chained Together now lets you make your own hellish maps No, after you, I insist Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Anegar Games Abandon all hope, ye who are shackled to your workmates in Chained Together . The “co-op” game about escaping hell now has a map editor that’ll let you make your own infuriating obstacle courses for condemned souls to throw themselves upon. Finally, you can make the endless mountain of perdition you have dreamed about since being emotionally scarred by Getting Over It ....

Connections hints and answers for Sat, September 7th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #453. 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 7th September? We’ve got you covered with all the steps to maintaining your perfect Connections score....

Connections hints and answers for Sun, September 29th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #475. 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 29th September? Read on for a handy selection of hints that’ll help you solve these tricky word groups immediately....

Cowboy soulslike Tombwater gets a release date, and its cursed town ain’t big enough for both you and some horrific hombres Featuring unsettling eldritch beasts, and I don’t mean John Wayne Image credit:Midwest Games Yee-haw. Excuse me, I meant to say that wild west soulslike metroidvania Tombwater has walked into the saloon and ordered a release date. ‘I’ll have November 12th, 2025’, it growled, while flashing its big iron at everyone in the watering hole to show it meant business....

Dawnwalker is the “revolutionary” dark fantasy RPG from former Witcher devs Rebel Wolves Sure looks like a vampire game Image credit:Rebel Wolves Rebel Wolves, the studio founded by a few of the CD Projekt folk behind The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 , have officially titled their forthcoming dark fantasy RPG . That title is… Dawnwalker. They’ve also shared a new teaser image, which I think could depict one of two things: a) a vampiric or otherwise supernaturally-inclined hero flying through the air care of a Dishonored -style Blink teleport, sword raised and clawed fingers stretched towards an unseen foe against a blood-red backdrop....

Dispatch Season 2 can’t take “GTA 6 amounts of time”, fret Adhoc, as they decide whether or not to make it It’s the “second album problem” Image credit:AdHoc Studio Adhoc Studios still aren’t sure whether they’ll make a second season of Dispatch, their startlingly popular Telltale-style superhero comedy adventure, but they’re thinking about it very “seriously”. In brief, they’re not confident they can bottle the lightning twice, especially if they want to release another season before 2032....