Screenshot Saturday Mondays: This game will let you parry dialogue by shooting it with your gun I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:Gil Lawson Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, I’m wondering what we’re going to do with RPS once the games industry realises there’s no point making or releasing any other games after seeing the ability to parry-counter dialogue by shooting that....

Silent Hill f has a big combat focus with weapon degradation and you know what, I’m sure it’ll be fine I’m too tired to argue any more Image credit:Konami A brace of Silent Hill f reporting has treated us to the first details of the game’s combat system. Here are the headlines: counter attacks, weapon degradation and an energy bar that lets you perform power moves and dodge in slow motion....

Sims 4 devs assemble team to focus on fixing bugs and upping performance, updates to now land every two months Starting with fixes for summoning a cheese toastie, among others, later this month Image credit:EA The Sims 4 is fast approaching its 10th birthday this September, a fact that genuinely instilled me with the crushing sense of time marching relentlessly on when I checked its release date a moment ago. That near-decade has brought a whole heap of additions, expansions, packs and updates to the enduring life sim game, to the degree that the underlying tech serving as the foundation for dozens of later mechanical and visual elements can sometimes look a bit wobbly these days....

Skyblivion devs used their Bethesda visit to fight the good fight, asking Todd and co to bring back Skyrim-style official modding tutorials It’s nice having someone who made the thing tell you how to avoid totally mucking up your navmeshing Image credit:Skyblivion While the prospect The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered turning out to be a real thing had folks wondering what that might mean for Oblivion remake mod Skyblivion ’s release , Bethesda were quick quell fears of a shutdown....

Soma devs Frictional release video of “something new”, aka their nice hotel game in which nothing awful will happen “No sense” Image credit:Frictional Shortly after updating their ocean horror story Soma with an in-game teaser - an old-school marketing ARG! By gar, it’s been a while - Amnesia developers Frictional have put out a brief untitled video of “something new”. It’s a series of perspectives of what I assume is their new game’s science fiction setting....

Sons of the Forest Hang Glider: All 12 Hang Glider locations Discover all 12 Hang Glider locations in Sons of the Forest Looking for Hang Glider locations in Sons of the Forest? Early on in its early access journey, Sons Of The Forest received Hang Gliders, which you can use to fly around the map. These Hang Gliders cannot be crafted, and are instead scattered around the map in high places, so you can immediately hop off the nearest ledge and take to the skies....

Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic remake release left in limbo by Saber Interactive sale “Previously announced AAA game based on a major license” needs “deep love and respect” Image credit:Embracer Group This week’s announcement that Embracer are selling off Saber Interactive to new company Beacon Interactive has cast further doubt over the future of one of Embracer’s bigger projects, the much-delayed Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic remake....

Steam has made it easier to find, download and even review game demos In the Great Steam Demo Update, 2024 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Akupara Games Demos were once a cornerstone of PC gaming and they arguably will be again thanks to events like Steam Next Fest. The latest update to Steam seeks to make those free slices of potential delight easier to find for players, and easier to promote for developers....

Subnautica 2 and InZoi publishers announce voluntary layoff program “amid the era of AI transformation” Krafton also freezing hires for anything save original IP and AI-related roles Image credit:Krafton / Rock Paper Shotgun Subnautica 2 and InZoi publishers Krafton have launched a voluntary redundancy program in what appears to be a bid to shed ballast and winnow out unbelievers as they reorganise around the usage of generative AI. As reported by Business Korea and passed along by Automation Media , the redundancy program follows a quarter of record profits....

Telltale and The Boys make mostly beautiful love in Dispatch, a slick and surprisingly tactical superhero comedy First two episodes out now Image credit:AdHoc Games / Rock Paper Shotgun It’s been so long since I played a Telltale-style game that all the Telltale quirks feel novel again. Timed dialogue choices and action QTEs. X will remember that. Hashtag 4 Clementine. Created by a team co-founded by former Walking Dead and Wolf Among Us developers, Dispatch brings all of that charming, movie-night energy to bear on a superhero comedy premise you might broadly recognise from The Boys and Invincible, except that it’s more laidback and banter-driven than either of those....

The Axis Unseen channels years of Skyrim design experience into a spooky, open world hunting game We play ex-Bethesda developer Nate Purkeypile’s first indie game Image credit:Just Purkey Games A heaving expo floor is not a great place to sample a first-person open world hunting game that wants you to monitor your own heartbeat, but The Axis Unseen manages to be pretty atmospheric regardless. It helps that I’m hunting Bigfoot. Hefting my magical bow, I peer around a tree trunk at the creature as he wanders down a slope of vivid orange grass sprinkled with pale blue rock....

The Beastmaster of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, part three: the stalker becomes the stalkered Not the kind of follower I was hoping for Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World After a failure-riddled start, my attempt to turn S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 ’s mutants into beasts of war is finally bearing fruit. I’ve engineered a Bloodsucker attack that wiped out the worst of villains – someone who was mean to me – and I’ve progressed far enough to really open up the map, and with it, access to more of the Zone’s fiercest fleshwarps....

The best low-profile TKL keyboard now has a mercifully more affordable cousin Fingers-on with the Logitech G515 Lightspeed TKL Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Read enough of our hardware articles and you’ll eventually come across someone, probably me or Katharine (RPS in peace), banging on about the Logitech G915 Lightspeed Wireless . After half a decade on shelves, it’s still the best low-profile mechanical gaming keyboard going, and quite possibly the best wireless keyboard to boot – while the tenkeyless version, the G915 TKL Lightspeed, is just as lovely to use....

The latest Steam client beta tunes up Game Recording with ultrawide support and unlimited capture length Let the good times roll, and roll, and roll Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Yesterday, Valve dropped a Steam client beta update focused largely on Game Recording – the beta version’s recently added clip-capturing utility . It’s a pretty wide-spanning array of improvements, adding support for ultrawide monitor resolutions up to 32:9, the high-quality H.265 (HEVC) video codec – on Windows only for now, apologies to the Steam Deck – and the option to “record a specified game indefinitely with no specified time limit....

The Marvel Rivals devs might ban you for using a mouse-and-keyboard adapter “We will take measures to vanquish this nefarious behavior” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NetEase Games Superheroes often conceal their identities behind masks, capes and in my case, a pungent snood-and-hoodtop combo that makes me look like I’ve crawled out of a drain. No, don’t ask what my real superhero identity is. After all, knowing my secrets might expose you to the wrath of my enemies....

The Maw - 17th-22nd June 2024 This week’s least pestiferous PC game releases, plus our weekly news blog Image credit:Thomas Rowlandson / Rock Paper Shotgun Beloved friends, hated enemies - last week, we let the side down. Due to a shortage of hands at the pump and persistent clouds of Geoff Keighley activity , there was no weekly Maw liveblog, and this has bred disaster. Shaken, stirred and finally ignited for want of two-sentence updates about Dragon Age , the Maw emitted a full 13% of its cosmo-puissance into Mundus and took a grievous bite out of the ailing and fearful lasagne of reality itself....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Keep Driving, and Rift Of The Necrodancer Image credit:Deep Silver Get ye to the walls, pikefolk of PC gaming. We’ve had a languid and fattening winter with a quiet game arriving here and there to peddle its wares. But the calm times are coming to an end. The big releases now march towards us in droves. But they do not know what lies waiting for them in the moat....

The Shadow Syndicate mixes a bit of LA Noire, a touch of Max Payne, and furries to make a game you should keep your eye on A wolf in human’s clothing Image credit:KillaSoft Do you ever think to yourself, “gee, I wish that LA Noire actually looked like a noir film and also everyone is a furry”? Then boy howdy do I have the game for you: The Shadow Syndicate. It just got announced yesterday at the Gamescom Latam showcase, and I should say it’s not exactly like LA Noire in that you don’t have to try and read the faces of motion capture actors overperforming their hearts out....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for coming back from Christmas and New Year in a stupor. Let’s wake up with the week’s best writing about games and game-related things. For PC Gamer, Robin Valentine wrote about a TikToker who’s deliberately trying to make the worst videogame of all time and now they’re trapped in a hell of their own making. Apparently it’s a 2D platformer about a rat with a boomerang and a grenade launcher, with plenty of infuriating rules and unskippable bits of dialogue....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS For cheery RPS fanzine PC Gamer, Kerry Brunskill wrote a fantastic piece titled “Graph paper mapping my way through a 37-year-old RPG reminded me how rarely I give games 100% of my attention, and how much more fun I have when I do.” It’s part of their Pasokon Retro series of looks at early Japanese PC games, which I’ve just discovered, and will now devour....