All Elden Ring Site of Grace map locations Here’s every single Site of Grace location in Elden Ring Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for every Site of Grace location in Elden Ring? Sites of Grace act as a checkpoint in Elden Ring, a vital resource where you can level up stats, fast travel to other Sites of Grace, choose Spirit Ashes , replenish flasks and allocate charges. As such, these crucial spots on the map act in a very similar way to Bonfires in Dark Souls , offering a slight reprieve from hunting down bosses ....

All Kindled Inspiration solutions in Infinity Nikki Here’s how to complete every Kindled Inspiration quest Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Papergames Stuck on one of Infinity Nikki’s confusing Kindled Inspiration side-quests? The world of Miraland in Infinity Nikki is jam-packed with side quests and activities, and one of the most baffling for new players is the recurring “Kindled Inspiration” series of quests. In these quests, you must wear a specific clothing item in front of the quest-giver at the right time of day in order to solve the quest and gain the reward....

All new weapon types in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Here are all the new weapon types in Shadow Of The Erdtree and where to get them Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for the Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree new weapon types? Shadow Of The Erdtree has introduced a huge amount of new content, arguably the largest amount in any FromSoftware DLC, which includes 8 new weapon types and over 100 new weapons ....

All Relic locations in Hollow Knight Silksong Learn where to find all the collectible Relic items in Hollow Knight Silksong Image credit:IGN/Team Cherry Looking for all the Relics to turn into Relic Seeker Scrounge in Hollow Knight Silksong? Collecting Relics is a worthy pursuit that will not only lead towards 100% completion of Silksong , but you’ll also get a small fortune of Rosaries for your efforts. Finding Relics is tough however - they’re scattered all across Pharloom, from the earliest locations in Act 1 to deep into those places you can only reach late into Act 2....

Alright fine, Neva makes me want to pet the dog Happy now? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Devolver Digital I’m not someone who’s ever been on board with the “Can You Pet The Dog?” craze that swept and/or still sweeps video games. As a heartless individual, I am more concerned with whatever the dog’s capable of: general savagery, a howl that replenishes my HP bar, letting me climb atop its glorious mane as it strides across the barren wastes....

Annapurna’s Mixtape is a coming-of-age teen summer adventure with skating, romance and a banging soundtrack From The Artful Escape developers Image credit:Beethoven & Dinosaur The Artful Escape developers Beethoven & Dinosaur are following up their musical platformer with another soundtrack-driven narrative game. Mixtape draws on the classic tropes of coming-of-age teen flicks, adds striking stop motion-style visuals and completes the package with a soundtrack that would feel right at home in a John Hughes movie....

Avowed director Carrie Patel has left Obsidian, and joined Oxenfree dev Night School as a game director It’s unclear why Patel left the studio Image credit:Obsidian Whether or not we’ll be getting any more Avowed somewhere along the line is still very much up in the air. But if we do, it seems it won’t be under the leadership of Carrie Patel. In a quick post Patel shared on LinkedIn , the game developer shared that she’s “starting a new position as game director” at the team behind Oxenfree , Night School Studio ....

Battlefield 6’s latest campaign trailer boulderly teases a fight for “the most strategic rock in the history of warfare” I didn’t have a ranking of most strategic warfare rocks before, but I sort of have one now Image credit:EA After claiming they’ve invented “the most dangerous ring in gaming” earlier this month, EA and DICE have released a fresh Battlefield 6 campaign trailer that sees a soldier bloke deploy yet another ’the most something in something’ line....

Best Faction to choose in Dragon Age Veilguard Here are the pros and cons of each major Faction in Dragon Age Veilguard Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Electronic Arts Looking for the best Faction in Dragon Age Veilguard? Dragon Age Veilguard offers an in-depth character creation system that allows players to not only pick their starting Class (which will determine combat abilities) but also their character’s Faction. There is a total of 6 Factions to choose from in Dragon Age Veilguard, which can be picked regardless of race or Class, that essentially function as background stories for your character and their origins in Thedas....

Best Kindling Pals in Palworld Including Pals with level 4 and level 3 Kindling Work Suitability. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Want to know which Pals in Palworld are best at Kindling? Kindling is an important Work Suitability skill in Palworld for creating Ingots, which are necessary for crafting many of the more powerful items in the game. It’s worth prioritising Kindling as soon as you build either a Campfire (at Level 2) or an Electric Furnace (at Level 10), and chances are this is when most Palworld players will notice the “requires Kindling” message hovering above their unlit structures....

Best Lumbering Pals in Palworld The best Pals for cutting wood. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Want to know which Pals in Palworld are best at Lumbering? As soon as you get started base building in Palworld , wood becomes a vital resource. You’ll need it for everything, and since it’s hard work to chop down all those trees yourself, why not enlist some Pals for the job? Any Pal with Lumbering Work Suitability will serve you well at bringing down trees and ensuring that you’re never lacking in carpentry materials, but some Pals are hardier wood-gatherers than others....

Best Sniper Rifle in Call Of Duty Black Ops 6 Here’s a tier list of all Sniper Rifles in Black Ops 6 Image credit:Activision What’s the best Sniper Rifle in Black Ops 6? Sniper Rifles are always a popular choice for players who enjoy aiming steady from across a map, getting a target in their scope, and popping off for a solid headshot. Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 makes sniping fairly tricky, however, with all three Sniper Rifles offering up noticable vertical recoil, lots of flinch, and off-centre aiming, just to throw a wrench in the plans of everyone out there who loves quickscoping....

Bioshock was “basically a corridor”, says Ken Levine - Judas won’t be, and characters will have long memories No “random number generator” quests, hopefully Image credit:Ghost Story Games I come and go with the work of Ken Levine, celebrated auteurman and reported burnout-inducing manager , but I’m interested to see more of Judas , his current project at Ghost Story Games. The concept for Judas is that you’re trapped in a computer-run society housed aboard a colony ship, the Mayflower....

Borderlands 3 FL4K build guide: Best Beastmaster builds The top-tier Jabber, Skag, and Spiderant builds Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / 2K FL4K the Beastmaster has always been one of the most versatile Borderlands 3 characters, with his ability to match his three powerful Action Skills with a unique and loyal companion creature. In this Borderlands 3 FL4K build guide , we’ve laid out the top-tier builds that you can use in the base game to get the most out of this powerful Beastmaster: one for Jabber & Fade Away , one for Skag & Gamma Burst , and one for Spiderant & Rakk Attack ....

Breath Of The Wild meets Banjo-Kazooie golem adventure Tall Trails is just plain nice It’s nice! Image credit:Brady Soglin If you don’t have anything else on this morning, perhaps you’d like to fill the life of a small clay golem up with purpose. I cannot be certain, but at present I believe that the easiest way to do this is with the demo for Tall Trails . It reminds me of playing old N64 3D platformers round my mate Liam’s house between watching VHS recordings of Keenan and Kel, which is a nice place to be....

Campaign asking EU to stop publishers “destroying” online games hit by anonymous transparency complaint Revolving around the nature of Stop Killing Games YouTuber Ross Scott’s involvement Image credit:Ubisoft The Stop Destroying Videogames citizens’ initiative, the EU petition that’s part of the Stop Killing Games campaign, has had an anonymous transparency complaint filed against it. That’s according to Ross Scott, the YouTuber who’s become the figurehead of Stop Killing Games , which in case you’re out of the loop aims to stop publishers rendering online games unplayable when official support ends....

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s writer doesn’t want to follow audience expectations despite being “a bit of a people pleaser” “I’ve seen too many TV shows and books be swayed trying to please a lot of people” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kepler Interactive When a game like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 rocks up, rakes in a bunch of success and critical acclaim, alongside the top game of the year prize at Geoffie’s Lil Night of Ads, there will be certain expectations of what’s next....

CloverPit is a fun not-gambling roguelite satire of capitalism, but I would quite like us to stop cashing in on our own despair Endlessly non-addictive Image credit:Future Friends Games Is a slot machine still a slot machine when you surround it with gunky visual metaphors for indentured servitude? Is a slot machine still a slot machine when you balance all the medulla-massaging twinkles and jingles against some gloating indications that the apparatus means you harm - drawerfuls of pink, polygonal flesh; shivery text that seems to crawl away from your eyes; a first-person camera that appears to be constantly hyperventilating; a trapdoor right beneath your feet?...

Cry Havoc for this open world cyberpunk dog-fighter inspired by G-Police Somebody make a weeping emoji of the Psygnosis owl Image credit:Senatis That psychic shockwave you just felt was my brain registering the words “Yes, G-Police was definitely an inspiration” in the Steam forums for G-Rebels, an upcoming cyberpunk flight combat simulator. You’ve never heard of G-Police? Oh my god. Get in here, you prancing summer child, you daughter of chaos, you strawman son of a gun....

Cult of the Lamb buys into the cult of farming sims with a new trailer for its next expansion Woolhaven Unspecified animal for the slaughter Image credit:Massive Monster Cult of the Lamb is honestly not a game I expected to still be going for as long as and as strongly as it has. It came out in 2022! That was practically a decade ago, at least in games industry years, and yet here is developer Massive Monster showing off the roguelike’s next big expansion, Woolhaven....