I am enthralled by Dune: Awakening’s in-game radio drama and bad sitcoms Tune Messiah Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Funcom We’ve already reported on the hidden radio stations you can listen to as you traipse about cutting up rocks in survival MMO Dune: Awakening . They play chiptuney classics from the original, 1992 Dune games that will drive you slightly mad even without huffing spice. But they also include full-blown radios drama based on various backstory events which unfolded before you arrived on-planet....

I really hope turn-based horror RPG Lurks Within Walls gets combat worthy of its lovely claustrophobia Try the demo, beware the ball Image credit:2 Wedges My default movement mode in horror games that actually scare me is: meandering. I seek to approach without approaching, scooting back and forth across the path like a stray hamster, worrying at the corners and avoiding clear perspectives of the route ahead, while keeping the route behind me in my peripheral vision....

If you need a horror game to tide you over till the Silent Hill 2 remake, you can do a lot worse than Becrowned’s demo A wife guy amuse-bouche, if you will Image credit:13th Street Studio/Rock Paper Shotgun While I’m all for building dread through a lingering introduction, it’s always a treat to play a horror game that wastes no time tearing the moorings of familiarity right out from underneath you, as is the case with 13th Street Studios’ Becrowned ....

IGF 2024 finalists are yet again more proof that RPS is right about everything Venba leads the nomination pack, with A Highland Song, Cocoon and more in hot pursuit Image credit:Visai Games The Independent Games Festival awards - aka: the only awards that are actually worth paying attention to - have announced the finalists for their 2024 cohort, and wouldn’t you know it, there are lots of RPS-endorsed games in there, lemme tell ya....

Innersloth announce Among Us 3D by kicking Among Us VR into a crusher Steam Next Fest demo on the way Image credit:Innersloth Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the Airship library, Innersloth and Schell Games have announced a 3D version of popular social stealth sim Among Us . Or at least, they have taken the existing VR version and made it non-VR. It’s a stab in the back for the Meta Questers, perhaps, but it’s great news for me, a person who has only ever owned the launch model of the PS4’s VR headset, and is currently using its box as a draught excluder....

Intel Arc B580 review: Late arriving, still welcome It’s CPU-reliant and launches deep into a GPU generation, but this can still outpace the RTX 4060 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun It’s not being spelt out overtly, but there is a whiff of Intel’s new Battlemage GPUs being pitched as what the Alchemist generation should have been. Those eventually grew into their PCIe shoes , but only after months of dial-shifting driver updates – whereas the flagship B580 promises Nvidia-besting games performance from the off....

Intel bets on efficiency with the power-sipping Core Ultra 200S series Watt’s all this then Image credit:Intel Intel have announced their latest batch of desktop CPUs, the Core Ultra 200S series, and it’s got the component giants singing quite a different tune. Instead of trying to stuff in ever more threads, and ever more PC-incinerating clock speeds, the Core Ultra 200S family – spearheaded by the Core Ultra 9 285K when it launches later this year – will dial back certain specs compared the 14th Gen range....

Intel’s Core i3 12100F is a value champion CPU for gaming - and it’s down to £88 Golden Cove cores and PCIe 5.0/DDR5 support are impressive at this price. Intel’s Core i3 12100F is a surprisingly viable gaming CPU, with four Golden Cove P-cores and eight threads with DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 support, all for under £100. Don’t be put off by ‘Core i3’ either - this model is similar in speed to the last-gen Core i5 11600K and not too far behind the Core i7 10700K, such is the leap forward Intel made with its 12th-gen CPU architecture....

Judas has reactive difficulty, evil dentist chairs, and a giant robot dog for fast travel It’s also “definitely not Bioshock in space" Image credit:Take Two/SkillUp Following up yesterday’s news on Ghost Story Games’ upcoming Judas , courtesy of the Ian Games Network , another interview with the Friends Per Second podcast , via SkillUp on YouTube, has shed light aplenty on the upcoming Bioshock-ian FPS game . The hosts played the game for 5 hours at Ghost Story Games in Boston, then interviewed director Ken Levine....

Julian’s most anticipated games for 2026 In which I barely hide my machine heart Image credit:Noio / lauflauf / Bandai Namco Aces / Creative Assembly As we cross out the final days of 2025 on our Treehouse calendar, we’ve allowed ourselves to look out at the encroaching mists of 2026. These are the games we hope will emerge from the fog . While the old saying goes ‘A game in the basket is worth two in Steam Wishlist’, as we teeter into a new year it’s good to highlight a couple of the games shuffling our way....

Junxions is a traffic engineering sim where you can finally fix that junction near your house I sure hope this post gets some traffic Image credit:CyberStorm Do I like citybuilders such as Cities: Skylines and SimCity 4 , or do I simply like roadbuilders? I spend most of my time in both those games tweaking the network of roads and junctions that form the veins of my cities, after all, and attempting to solve traffic jams via public transport and simulation-expanding mods....

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2: All Blacksmith locations Find every Blacksmith in Trosky and Kuttenberg Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Deep Silver Looking for the Blacksmith in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2? Blacksmithing, in this humble Henry’s opinion, is one of the purest joys in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 . More than that, it’s incredibly useful, allowing you to craft powerful new weapons and repair broken gear. It’s well worth seeking out a Blacksmith as soon as you’re unleashed into the open world of Trosky....

Knock knock. Who’s there? The first proper OD trailer from Hideo Kojima. The first proper OD trailer from Hideo Kojima who? The first proper OD trailer from Hideo Kojima who now appears terrified of doors Also eyes and babies Image credit:Kojima Productions / Rock Paper Shotgun Kojima Productions have shared a new trailer for OD, their forthcoming horror game . Unlike last night’s melancholy breadcrumb of Physint coverage, this reveal actually has substance....

Lili is a retelling of Macbeth set in a “neo-noir” Iran that re-casts the three witches as hackers eye_of_newt.exe Image credit:Ellie Smith / Royal Shakespeare Company In a dramatic turn of events, the Royal Shakespeare Company have finally acknowledged that video games are cool and theatre simply does not have enough buttons. They are partnering with a game studio to create a playable adaptation of Macbeth from the point of view of someone examining Lady Macbeth’s computer for dirt....

Look at that, Highguard is coming out next week after all, with a gameplay overview coming, oh, that’s odd, launch day Many choices have been made Image credit:Wildlight Entertainment, Inc. Highguard was never a game that was going to win me over, as I generally only like single-player shooters if any, but it isn’t helped by the fact that since its announcement there hasn’t been a lick of actual marketing to help it prove itself....

Major payment firm behind Itch adult game cull say they themselves face “restrictions” from another banking firm Itch re-index free NSFW games, still looking for new partner <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Wellthisisawkward.png?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“A big red filled condom with “Well This Is Awkward” written on it. - 1”> Image credit:Emma Kidwell / Rock Paper Shotgun It’s time for another bulletin from the exciting world of desexindexification. Itch.io have re-listed a bunch of free adult-themed games that were taken down as part of a recent massive cull of supposedly licentious materials under pressure from payment processors....

MapleStory publisher Nexon fined record $8.9 million for misleading loot box mechanics South Korean commission says company have been rigging the odds in secret Image credit:Nexon Korean publisher Nexon have been fined 11.6 billion won - around $8.9 million - for secretly altering the drop rates of coveted items in free-to-play MMO gacha game MapleStory . The fine, issued by the Korea Fair Trade Commission, is the largest penalty ever doled out for violation of South Korea’s Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce....

Mass Effect-like Exodus’s first gameplay video features duels with space bears and chats with thankful frogs The bear necessities Image credit:Archetype Entertainment/Blur Studio First revealed all the way back in December 2023, Archetype Entertainment and Blur Studio’s sci-fi action adventure Exodus hit us with a few things: Matthew McConaughey is involved, it looks a bit like Mass Effect , it’s being developed by BioWare veterans, and it loves a bit of time dilation....

MindsEye director reportedly says the studio will relaunch the game, as around 300 staff are at risk of being laid off Leslie Benzies also allegedly yelled at some saboteur clouds Image credit:Build A Rocket Boy/Rock Paper Shotgun Things continue to sound not very ok at MindsEye developers Build A Rocket Boy. Around the same time as an ongoing redundancy process has reportedly seen all 300 of the studio’s UK staff sent emails informing them they’re at risk of losing their jobs, game director Leslie Benzies has allegedly told them BARB will somehow relaunch the troubled game....

Minecraft’s Tricky Trials chambers are just the right amount of tricky Fight me Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Minecraft is, very often, just a nice place to potter about in . But its call to adventure rings loudly in my square ears, and now that the Tricky Trials update has dotted the underground with action-heavy, loot-filled Trial Chambers, I’m simply powerless to resist. I love almost everything about these, including how much of a fit they are conceptually....