Dragon’s Dogma 2: Gaoled Awakening quest walkthrough How to begin your journey in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom How do you complete the Gaoled Awakening quest in Dragon’s Dogma 2? Though the prologue quest of Capcom’s massive RPG is fairly linear, it’s still worth a guide to help those who are struggling to get started in Dragon’s Dogma 2 . In this walkthrough, we’ll go over each step of the Gaoled Awakening quest in order, so that you’re never in doubt about where to go and what to do next....

EGX and MCM Comic Con are sharing a London venue this year A word from uncle Reedpop, who hasn’t sold us off just yet Image credit:Reedpop Stand by for a missive from RPS corporate parent ReedPop. Transmission begins! Ah, it’s about gaming events. So, Reedpop’s EGX expo and MCM Comic Con are joining forces. They’ll both take place side-by-side in the ExCel London this year, on 25th-27th October. EGX, of course, will feature a bunch of classic and upcoming games, while Comic Con is laser-targeted at our respected allies in the world of on-paper image-based storytelling with speech bubbles....

Elden Ring stats explained, once and for all The ultimate guide to understanding all the different Elden Ring stats Image credit:Bandai Namco Need some help understanding what the different Elden Ring stats actually do? As with most RPGs , there’s a wealth of different stats that govern the strengths and weaknesses of your character in Elden Ring . But understanding what those stats actually do is harder in Elden Ring than most games....

Everything announced and featured at Day Of The Devs 2024 in one place Seven exclusive announcements and a load more exciting indies! Image credit:Day Of The Devs This year’s Day Of The Devs boasted an entire seven exclusives, plus a load of other nifty features and previews for exciting indies we already knew about, but are no less excited to be reminded of. It’s been over ten years now since Tim Schafer and the folks at Double Fine kicked off the non-profit initiative to help shine a spotlight on games what they thought were nice....

F.E.A.R.-inspired retro shooter Selaco comes out blastin’, covered in early access dust “She’s behind that desk” Image credit:Altered Orbit Studios There is a time for perfect clarity in a shooter, for clean walls and clear-cut character silhouettes. But this is not it. Retro first-person gunwaltzer Selaco is a messy machine gun dash through an office exploding with glass, concrete, splinters, and sparks. The glock-toting wreckage ’em up first hit our radar when it was announced as a modern combination of F....

Final Fantasy 14’s long-awaited graphics update in 7.0 will look better than the Dawntrail benchmark, Yoshi-P promises Lifeless eyes, odd facial lighting and gloss issues caused by outdated character creation system Image credit:Square Enix Ahead of Final Fantasy 14 ’s next massive expansion, Dawntrail , arriving this summer, Square Enix recently put out a graphical benchmarking tool. Dawntrail’s benchmark is especially noteworthy as it’s the first time we’ve really been able to put the MMO ’s much-anticipated graphical update arriving with 7....

First big Marvel Rivals patch makes Doctor Strange less of a monster No more ult gain from terrain KOs Image credit:NetEase Marvel Rivals , the free-to-play hero shooter from NetEase, launched late last week and is exceedingly popular. It’s currently fourth on the Steam daily most played, right between Path Of Exile 2 and the evergreen Grand Theft Auto 5 . I think there are three reasons for this enthusiasm: 1) it’s free-to-play with the usual comet’s tail of microtransactables 2) it’s third-person Overwatch with Marvel characters, a straightforwardly enticing licensing sandwich, and 3) people want to have sex with a larger-than-usual proportion of the cast and especially awful tongue-monster Venom, who has a good butt in this one....

Football Manager 2024 won’t get a seasonal data update, because SI don’t want to take resources from FM2025 SI “simply cannot compromise on” the delayed sequel Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Sega Football Manager 2025 has been delayed until March 2025 . This means football fans don’t have a new iteration of the series to play alongside the real-world football season, and many players have been wondering whether Sports Interactive could instead release a data update for Football Manager 2024 ....

Game Pass’s new games for June include Octopath Traveler 2 and the return of the original Alongside the new Chinese Room joint It’s a new month, which means Microsoft have detailed a new batch of games arriving on Game Pass. Not all of the games themselves are new, mind you: they include Octopath Traveler , the HD-2D RPG released in 2018, and its sequel. Octopath Traveler - Available now Octopath Traveler 2 - Available now Depersonalization – June 12th Isonzo – June 13th The Callisto Protocol - June 13th Still Wakes The Deep – June 18th The original Octopath Traveler came to Game Pass back in 2021 and left in March last year, and it returns now to coincide with its release on PS4 and PS5....

Garden Tower Defense codes (February 2026) If you’re low on seeds in Garden Tower Defense, check out these codes Image credit:Garden Defenders In the market for some useful Garden Tower Defense codes? You’ve come to the right place. In this tactical tower defence game, you take up the serene hobby of gardening, except instead of spraying a little pesticide to keep the snails from snacking on your prized cabbage patch, you plant angry carrots that sprout from the ground and home in on them like heat-seeking missiles....

GTA copycat Paradise is an alleged crypto scam, yet continues to gain Steam wishlists More red flags than a ski slope Image credit:Ultra Games An upcoming life sim which claims to be a competitor to Grand Theft Auto VI is continuing to amass followers and wishlists on Steam, despite the game being unmasked as a vehicle for a dodgy cryptocurrency. Paradise is marketed as a third-person game set in a sunny modern city, where you can speak to any NPC via microphone on the street and get stilted responses powered by artificial intelligence....

Half Sword’s demo is a chivalric edition of Gang Beasts in which people are disemboweled for hats Rags-to-riches by means of blood-and-guts Image credit:Half Sword Games Stare into an abyss for long enough and, as Nietzsche wrote, a mostly naked man will wobble out of the abyss and try to murder you with a mattock. Inasmuch as can be told in the absence of dialogue or a text preamble, the naked man wants to murder you because you, and not he, are in possession of a hat....

How Nightingale will change during early access, including UI fixes, combat updates and new biomes Inflexion’s Aaryn Flynn explains his “conservative” approach to evolving the fantasy survival sim Image credit:Inflexion Games/Rock Paper Shotgun Inflexion’s fantasy survival sim Nightingale releases into Steam early access today. Our pre-launch impressions? Well, the procedurally generated landscapes are engrossing , a blend of British fairytale influences with many a hushed forest, spidery swamp and tempting ruin....

How psychedelic gardenvania Ultros would have you “talk” to the aliens A quick chat with artist El Huervo about influences, from Cthulhu to Spielberg Image credit:Hadoque When playing any character-driven videogame I sometimes experience a sensation akin to my eyes unfocussing, and remember that I’m not, strictly speaking, controlling a body in a world, but interacting with a simulation that includes representations of a body and a world. The character is just an interfacial node in a vast tangle of visible and invisible elements; by moving the character, I cause objects, surfaces, creatures to load or unload, spring into motion or change colour and a million things besides....

How to defeat Lampylumen Myriad in Wuthering Waves Here’s how to take down Lampylumen and gather your rewards Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kuro Games Want to defeat Lampylumen Myriad in Wuthering Waves? In Wuthering Waves , there’s nine World Bosses dotted around open world RPG. Every single time you defeat one, you get an abundance of rewards, especially when it’s your first time. You’ll also be able to absorb their Echo and take advantage of their Echo Abilities....

How to find and farm Minecraft Diamonds in 1.21.11 Here are the best levels for farming Diamonds in Minecraft. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Want to know how to find Minecraft Diamonds in 1.21.11? Playing Minecraft for the first time in prep for the movie, or just need a few more for your Diamond Armor? Getting Diamonds in Minecraft can be slow, but you can quite easily farm Diamonds, and develop Minecraft Diamond levels by following the techniques listed below....

How to get every Light Greatsword in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Here’s how to get all Light Greatswords in Shadow of the Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for Light Greatswords in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? There are several new weapon types in Elden Ring ’s new DLC expansion Shadow Of The Erdtree , and Light Greatswords represent an infinitely useful class of blade. You can expect the mighty range of a greatsword when wielding these weapons, but instead of suffering a huge drop in speed, the blade will feel relatively light and swift, not too dissimilar from what you might expect with a rapier....

How to upgrade Summons in Elden Ring Here’s how to upgrade your Spirit Ash Summons in Elden Ring Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Want to know how to upgrade your Summons in Elden Ring? Summons, or to use the game’s official term - Spirit Ashes - are a very powerful tool when it comes to defeating even the toughest enemies in Elden Ring . But perhaps even more important than choosing the best Spirit Ashes is upgrading your Summons so they can hit as hard as possible....

Hytale’s original co-founder wastes no time showing off the game “as it is” after buying the rights from Riot “Raw and broken, but still beautiful” Image credit:Hypixel Studios On Monday, Hypixel co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme revealed the good news that he’d followed through on saying he’d chat to Riot Games about buying the rights to the Minecraft y sandbox game Hytale by buying the rights to said game. Now, with an independent team back working on the game following the closure of its original studio , Collins-Laflamme and co have shared a 16 minute look at what Hytale’s currently like to play....

I adore the Scavenger’s Reign-style underworld of Cleanfall, in which you build airships out of bugs I think they’re bugs. Anyway, it’s out 8th August Image credit:Humanyoyo Studios I recently took on a garden allotment tenancy for what I now consider the tellingly low rent of £60 a year. Arming myself with some shiny new shears, I visited my little slice of heaven and found it to be a resentful thicket of Guinness cans, sacks of worrying discarded clothing, nettles sturdier than barbed wire, and insects of a kind I have never seen before and never care to again....