Stellaris turns Twister with new Cosmic Storms you can bend to your will Latest space 4X DLC also adds Storm Chaser origin Image credit:Paradox Interactive Space 4X strategy game Stellaris launched in 2016, but Paradox can’t stop adding to the universe . Last time I checked in, it was school trips to other dimensions . Now, it’s Cosmic Storms. Due for release alongside the Stellaris 3.13 Vela update on September 10th, these are a paid “mechanical expansion” (priced at a rather chunky £11, $13 or €13, and available as part of the current season pass) that builds upon the game’s existing Space Storms, “providing a deeper experience with strategically meaningful gameplay and beautiful upgraded visuals”....

Strategy RPG Songs Of Conquest will hit 1.0 with a final campaign next month Paying HOMMage Songs Of Conquest is a strategy-RPG with some of the most handsome pixel art around. Steam tells me I’ve played its Early Access release for 0.7 hours, which was long enough to know that I wanted to play more and would wait for version 1.0. I won’t have to wait much longer. It’s now got a May 20th release date....

Styx: Blades of Greed isn’t releasing in 2025 after all, but that’s okay, because it’s got a firm release date now You’ll be goblin this one up soon enough Image credit:Cyanide Studio “Where the hell did that goblin go?” asks a mean knight of some sort whose English accent is of questionable authenticity at the beginning of the latest trailer for Styx: Blades of Greed . This is a reasonable question!...

The best 1v1 shooter you keep hearing whispers about now has an obscene 226 maps Concrete rumble in the concrete jungle Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Lemaitre Bros As behemoth live service shooters struggle to retain audiences with seasonal events and “classic” modes that sometimes just channel nostalgia , one small PvP shooter is simply plugging away adding map after map after map after map. Straftat , the 1v1 online FPS that sees you duke it out with a friendfoe in cramped concrete arenas, has just added another 35 deathpits to its rotating menu of shooty locales....

The creator of retro FPS Fortune’s Run is going to prison for three years “I was a very violent person and I hurt a lot of people in my life.” Image credit:Team Fortune The current sole creator of immersive sim-shooter Fortune’s Run has abruptly announced that the project will be going on hiatus, because they are going to jail. Team Fortune’s lead developer, Dizzie, has been handed a three year sentence for a “violent crime”, following around five years of legal proceedings....

The dazzling and desirable RPS Advent Calendar 2024 Our favourite games of the year, revealed one a day through December Image credit:RPS December is here! It has snuck up on us once again, hidden as it always is behind November’s back. It’s arrival heralds the beginning of the RPS Advent Calendar 2024 , the yearly list of our favourite games of the year. Step inside, open the doors, and celebrate another year’s gaming survived....

The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 8: does Elden Ring still have a hidden secret to find? Secret secrets are no fun As with all headlines that are phrased as a question, the answer is “probably not”, but in any case, Miyazaki has mysteriously hinted at there being at least one secret thing in Elden Ring that players haven’t found yet. On this week’s Electronic Wireless Show podcast we discuss this, as well as some of our favourite and least favourite deployments of the video game Easter egg....

The Factorio dev’s next game may take inspiration from World Of Warcraft An MMOFB, then? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Wube Software A little teaser story to end the week, care of Maw reader MiniMatt. Factorio devs Wube Software have dropped the vaguest of hints about their next game project, or at least, shared one of their current inspirations: World Of Warcraft. The news comes in the shape of a wrap-up article about the Factorio Space Age expansion, which we think is pretty decent ....

The latest Elden Ring Nightreign enhanced boss is plenty tough enough without the Everdark treatment Fulminate over Fulghor from June 26th Image credit:Bandai Namco Elden Ring Nightreign ’s next Enhanced boss is Fulghor, Champion of Nightglow, developers From Software have confirmed. You’ll be able to get your teeth into him from June 26th at 4pm Central European Summer Time, 7am Pacific Daylight Time, or 11pm Japan Standard Time. These timezone distinctions are meaningless, of course, because there is only one timezone in which Fulghor operates, and that timezone is Butt Kicking Time....

The Lenovo Legion Go S runs SteamOS, beats the Steam Deck, and it’s discounted right now — so I had to try it Let off some Steam with this great deal on the Lenovo Legion Go S. Image credit:Lenovo As you’ll know if you’ve been around RPS for a while, we love the Steam Deck . Valve’s system blends the library and options of a PC with the portability and ease of use of a console, and a big part of that is Steam OS....

The next Call Of Duty will launch on Game Pass on day one, reports say No one would be surprised Image credit:Activision The next Call Of Duty will arrive on Game Pass on day one, according to anonymous sources. Microsoft’s strategy has long involved releasing all their first-party games on Game Pass, but there had been doubt over whether the same would be true of the first Call Of Duty to be released since Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of publishers Activision....

The ninth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025 Because it…it’s like if… Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun We eight scribes from RPS are, Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past, Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered, After twelve months of graft. But first, time to enjoy your lovely joke! Q: What do you say when conquering marshland politely? A: Is This Peat Taken? Rock Paper Shotgun is better when you sign in Sign in and join us on our journey to discover strange and compelling PC games....

The NYT Crossword answers for Tuesday, August 26th 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 Tuesday, 26th August? That’s right, it’s time for another NYT Crossword to dig your teeth into!...

The Outer Worlds 2 pre-launch hotfix makes you less likely to fall through the world or have to fight a closet Also, an early potential addition to your crew’s been made less easy to miss Image credit:Obsidian / Rock Paper Shotgun The Outer Worlds 2 arrives in full today, October 29th. Ahead of the gates to Arcadia finally being flung open to those who didn’t fancy paying extra for early access, Obsidian have taken a stab at fixing some key issues and pesky bugs which’ve reared their heads so far....

The Outer Worlds 2 sounds like it’s not getting a follow-up any time soon, but Obsidian plan to give Avowed some wacky cousins Despite the marketing bluster, the studio are admit releasing three games in 2025 was “the result of things going wrong” Image credit:Obsidian / Rock Paper Shotgun Despite any PR babble you might have heard about 2025 being the " Year of Obsidian “, the studio have admitted that putting out three games in the course of 12 months isn’t something they’re keen to do again....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for doing a little dance in the kitchen. Go on. No-one’s watching. Raise that tin opener to the roof. Before you get carried away and fling errant globules of mushy pea all over your freshly sponged worktops, let’s read this week’s best writing about games (and game related things!) For Paste, Perry Gottschalk wrote about the “folkloric distortions” of Indika . Indika needs you to understand it as a folk story, because the tradition of folk is pivotal to understanding Indika’s crisis of faith....

There’s no new FIFA game, so of course they’re hosting a World Cup in Rocket League instead 16 nations will compete in the global tournament later this year Image credit:Psyonix The end of EA’s decades-long FIFA deal in 2022 means there’s currently a FIFA-shaped hole in the world of video games that isn’t quite filled by EA’s not-FIFA replacement EA Sports FC 24 and is yet to measure up the efforts of whoever the footballing organisation gets to make the next officially licensed FIFA game....

This 45-inch Lenovo Legion gaming monitor is down to £699 at Very A dual 1440p 165Hz display. Image credit:Lenovo Today’s my last day writing deals at RPS! That’s a shame, but I have still have two to four articles to share with you, and I’m going to start with this ultrawide monitor from Lenovo, the Legion R45W-30. This is a huge 45-incher, offering what is essentially two 1440p 165Hz screens side-by-side....

Today’s NYT Connections hint and answers (Monday, April 8) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #302 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 ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

Today’s Wordle hints and answer (#950): How to solve the Thursday January 25 Wordle Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 25? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Wordle hint and answer for Wednesday 11th February ! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer? We have you covered with a list of hints followed by today’s word to help you keep track of your daily streak....