Dark mode comes to Rock Paper Shotgun Hello darkness my new friend. At long last, dark mode is finally available on RPS. We’ve wanted to bring a dark mode to the site for ages, and many of you have been politely, passionately, and persistently asking for it for quite a while. Thank you for your patience while we reconfigured our stylesheets. You’ll find a new toggle in the site’s footer which allows you to switch between light and dark modes at your leisure....

Dead Cells 2 doesn’t exist because its devs would rather make what they want than listen to external pressures “We are a collective of individuals that are creative and want to create stuff.” Sequels! More often than not, they’re completely unnecessary, but until we’re at a point where we don’t have to bow to the whims of the free market, studios of all sizes will likely continue to push them out....

Dead Island 3 is aiming to unleash the hordes in 2028, with early production of key bits “moving at pace” Assuming a real zombie apocalypse hasn’t arrived by then Image credit:Deep Silver Dambuster Studios are planning to keep their next truckload of undead penned in for a few more years, before opening the big zombie door in early 2028. That’s according to some financial docs from the Dead Island developers, in which their plans for Dead Island 3 as of the end of March this year are laid bare....

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster gets a Steam release date. Also confirmed: graphics Graphics! Image credit:Capcom Last week, those teases at Capcom dangled a remastered version of 2006 zombie action gem Dead Rising before the darting, entranced eyes of me specifically. The Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster , presumably named so to differentiate it from the 2016 HD Remaster, now looks to be shambling ever closer to full remake territory if the new footage Capcom shared as part of yesterday’s NEXT showcase is anything to go by....

Defect is a very loud cyberpunk “immersive shooter” from ex-Call Of Duty, Doom and Naughty Dog devs With Mick Gordon doing the soundtrack Image credit:emptyvessel If you relished the splashier gunfights of Cyberpunk 2077 , like the sound of Doom meets Blade Runner , or wish you could jam your nose right into the neon trenches of Ruiner , you will likely enjoy the announcement trailer for Defect. It’s a new “cyberpunk, squad-based, Immersive Objective Shooter” from emptyvessel, a team of erstwhile id Software, Call Of Duty and Naughty Dog folks....

Demon Soul Simulator codes February 2026 Redeem these codes for free boosts and souls! Image credit:Diligent Farmer Looking for the latest Demon Soul Simulator codes for free souls, boosts, and more? Games inspired by the Demon Slayer anime are absolutely huge on Roblox at the moment, and Demon Soul Simulator is yet another popular entry into what is basically its own subgenre at this point. If this fighting game is your jam, then you’ll no doubt be eager to check out the latest codes than can nab you some in-game freebies at the push of a button!...

Despite it all, Disco Elysium’s original studio have revealed espionage-filled new game, C4 “This is not Disco Elysium 2, this is C4.” Image credit:Studio ZA/UM With several Disco Elysium spiritual successors in the works from former staff, controversy regarding the exits of key team members behind the beloved RPG, and an in-development expansion cancelled , you might have been wondering what Studio ZA/UM will do next. Well, that answer is here....

Digested is a bodycam horror game about being ssssstuck on an island with a giant snake Guess what happens when it catches you Image credit:DigiGhost Studios I’m pretty sure I’ve written about this somewhere already - I may have expressed it to a therapist - but when I was a lad, I had a recurring nightmare about a place called Snake World. It was a fizzing neon labyrinth that was both home to various evil snakes and sort of made of snakes in probably-Freudian ways....

Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2 get re-released on PC via GOG, but that probably won’t sate fans dying for a remake To raptor-ous applause Image credit:Capcom Are those ripples in your morning cappuccino? Must be the stomping feet of an ancient lizard messing up that nice whippy heart your barista made in the froth. And when I say “ancient” I mean from 1999. Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2 have appeared on GOG, making the classic survival horror games easily (and legally) playable on the PC once again....

Disco Samurai is a brutally difficult and brilliant Sekiro-like rhythm slasher Disco stu-dent of the blade Image credit:Pixel Fiber This week, we’re highlighting the best demos you can play during Steam Next Fest , which starts June 10th. We’re calling this Wishlisted , in partnership with Eurogamer and VG247. Disco Samurai is a game that’s so difficult I’d have given up playing sooner if it didn’t contain so many of my absolute favourite action game things....

Do you know gun fu? Show me Image credit:Warner Bros Do you not know gun fu? Briefly and baldly, it’s the cinematic practice of making a gunfight look like something out of a martial arts film, with participants using firearms in ways that are borderline unbelievable - punting themselves backward along the floor with the recoil from two pistols, like Chow Yun Fat in The Killer , or slide-walking down a bannister while firing, like Chow Yun Fat in Hardboiled ....

Don’t call it a God of War killer, but Flintlock feels like a classic summer blockbuster Napoleon Dynamite Image credit:Kepler Interactive Swashbuckling third-person action- RPG Flintlock: The Siege Of Dawn is, amongst other things, a gentle homage to New Zealand, developer A44 Games’s country of origin. You do have to look for it, mind you. The game’s art direction at large is an elegant hodgepodge of inspirations that deserves to be unpicked carefully after release....

Doom modders fall into civil war as devs launch new engine in protest at GZDoom creator’s leadership and use of ChatGPT UZDoom fork to offer “a more stable development structure with healthy collaboration” Image credit:Wine_Toilet The future of GZDoom, the community-updated engine behind many thousands of brilliant Doom mods, is in doubt following a bust-up over the lead developer’s use of generative AI to create code. The fracas has seen a number of GZDoom developers announce plans to splinter off and maintain their own engine, UZDoom....

Dune Awakening will get a big update in early July, and Funcom have a three-pronged plan to improve deep desert PvP They also plan to “add new contracts across the board” at some point Image credit:Funcom Dune: Awakening developers Funcom have revealed in a post-launch Reddit AMA that they’re currently aiming to release a fresh update full of quality of life-related tweaks in early July, as well as adding “new contracts across the board” down the line....

Dungeons & Dragons survive-o-life sim coming from Disney Dreamlight Valley studio Drizzt Dreamlight Valley Image credit:Gameloft The studio behind unexpectedly decent Mickey Mouse life sim Disney Dreamlight Valley are venturing into another fantasy land where anthropomorphic animals adventure with human chums, the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons & Dungeons. Today Gameloft announced they’re making a D&D game offering a “hybrid of survival, life simulation and action RPG”. They don’t have much more to share about the game, not even a name, so presumably it won’t be out for some time....

Dying Light: The Beast review Cut down Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Techland Despite releasing as a standalone game, Dying Light: The Beast feels more like a distillation of Dying Light 2’s core loops, neither for better or worse. Developer: Techland Publisher: Techland Release: September 18th 2025 On: Windows From: Steam , Epic Games Store Price: $60/£50/€60 Reviewed on: Intel Core i9-13900K, 64GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4090, Windows 11 It’s hard to talk about Dying Light: The Beast —the latest in Techland’s open-world zombie parkour action series—without talking about its origins....

Dying Light: The Beast wants to make you afraid of the dark again A new open world in which the nights bite harder Image credit:Techland Dying Light: The Beast is billed as a return to horror for the undead freerunning series, which took a tumble into Ubisoft icon-farming territory with Dying Light 2: Stay Human . I can’t remember enough about either previous game to make forensic comparisons, but I can say that I spent 15 minutes of my Beast hands-on being chased by what felt like a zombie decathlon team, and it was, on the whole, quite jolly....

Elden Ring DLC: Should you tell Thiollier “I’m weary of life?” Here’s what the “I’m weary of life” dialogue option does in Shadow of the Erdtree <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/i'm-weary-of-life-header.jpg?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=“An image showing the “I’m weary of life” option, which appears when you interact with Thiollier in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. - 1”> Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Should you tell Thiollier “I’m weary of life” in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree?...

Elden Ring Nightreign’s pre-Forsaken Hollows DLC patch is out now, boosting melee attacks and fixing misbehaving churches It’s also now easier to keep track of your relics and flasks Image credit:FromSoftware Elden Ring Nightreign ’s Forsaken Hollows expansion arrives tomorrow, December 4th. Ahead of letting folks dive into Limveld’s big hole and try out the new nightfarer classes , FromSoft have lobbed out the customary big patch. This patch, 1.03, is out now and decently beefy....

Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree hollows out everything you loved about Elden Ring, and it’s brilliant Three hours with Elden Ring’s upcoming expansion reveal a jarful of horrible secrets Image credit:Bandai Namco If you’re SPOILER sensitive, please do not read this article. Just don’t do it. I’ll be talking about a bunch of stuff that’s SPOILERY . But I’ll obviously try and not be too spoilery for those who’ve decided to keep reading this, and hence, probably aren’t as SPOILER sensitive....