Tekken 8’s first DLC character will be series regular Eddy Gordo, kicking off its season pass this spring Three more characters will follow throughout this year Image credit:Bandai Namco Tekken 8 ’s first DLC character will be a familiar face: Eddy Gordo, the capoeira pro who has previously appeared in the mainline roster of the fighting game series since 1997’s Tekken 3. Publishers Bandai Namco announced that Eddy will be Tekken 8’s first DLC addition alongside a look at the game’s opening movie, which shows the likes of Jin Kazama, Kazuya Mishima and the rest of the game’s roster preparing to fight and trading blows while thumping EDM plays in the background....

The 10 best games like Dark Souls In honour of His Souliness Sorry, definition nerds. ‘Soulslike’ is a word now. Disgusting, I know, but this is how genres are made. Along comes a giant like Dark Souls that everybody won’t stop bleating about and soon it has copycats. Before you know it, a swarm of games like Dark Souls with sparse checkpoints and lethal attacks are scuttling around, leaving slime trails and biting your ankles for surprisingly massive damage....

The 88-year-old “Skyrim Grandma” isn’t doing any more gaming videos (but will keep you updated on a quilt she’s making) “I’m old and I’m tired” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Shirley Curry Shirley Curry, aka the “Skyrim Grandma”, is no longer posting gaming videos, she’s told her viewers. An upcoming eye surgery is going to leave her recovering for some weeks and (more importantly to her) she is simply tired of playing games for an audience....

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 series prices look good, assuming they hold “Assuming” may be doing a lot of work there Image credit:AMD AMD have finally confirmed pricing, dating, and specs-ing for their first RDNA 4 graphics cards. The Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT will be out on March 6th, and start from $549 and $599 respectively. While these are still relatively fat stacks o’ cash, AMD say they’ll compete with Nvidia’s RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti – and considering the latter is supposed to start at $749, with most models currently going for above $800, that could make for a tasty undercutting....

The Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag remake sea shanty siren song grows even more deafening, as Ubisoft reupload a bunch of sailing tunes Weigh, hey and up she rises Image credit:Ubisoft We’ll heave him up an away we’ll go. ‘Way, me Assassin’s Creeda! We’ll heave him up an away we’ll go. We’re all bound over to Ubisoft’s official music YouTube channel! We’ll heave him up from down below. ‘Way, me Assassin’s Creeda!...

The best Nirnroot locations in Oblivion Remastered Find the best Nirnroot farming spots in Cyrodiil Image credit:Bethesda/Virtuos Looking for Nirnroot locations in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered? These mysterious blue-green plants don’t respawn and are therefore very rare, which wouldn’t be a problem if you didn’t need a whopping total of 100 Nirnroots to complete a quest called Seeking Your Roots. If you give 10 Nirnroots to an alchemist named Sinderion, who resides in Skingrad’s West Weald Inn, he’ll make the Elixir of Exploration for you, which fortifies various stats....

The kissable frogs and sparky combat of Hades 2 looks set to bewitch fans Impressions of the “technical test” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games Were we to pluck up a passing stoat, or wandering pigeon, and inspect their entrails for omens as regards the quality of mythical roguelike Hades 2 , we would find ourselves covered in blood and perhaps a little wiser. But I have been given strict editorial directions not to kill any more small creatures for gambling purposes....

The NYT Crossword answers for Thursday, September 18th 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 Thursday, 18th September? Well, you have come to the right place! Because we have them....

The NYT Crossword answers for Tuesday, September 2nd 2025 Get a bit of help with today’s 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, 2nd September? You’re not alone! The NYT Crossword is chock full of tough riddles that will have you scratching your head....

The Outer Worlds 2: Best Skills The best Skills to focus on when creating your Commander Image credit:Obsidian Wondering what the best Skills are in The Outer Worlds 2? As is the case with most RPGs , at the start of The Outer Worlds 2 you’ll allocate points into a selection of Skills in order to customise your Commander. These 12 Skills range from the self-explanatory “Guns” and “Explosives” to more nebulous descriptors like “Leadership”....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for trying to get into yoga again, since alongside inheriting Edder’s column, I’ve also somehow inherited his dodgy back. Before trying to track down the warlock Edders no doubt lavished several trinkets and a plump goat upon to gleefully transfer his ailment to me, let’s read this week’s best writing about games (and game related things!) Over at The White Pube , Gabrielle de la Puente wrote about Pippin Barr’s experimental browser game It is as if you were doing work....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for walking the dog, cleaning the flat, and playing Dune Imperium - always. I might also try to self-host a Minecraft Java server, though. Let’s first roundup some of the week’s best writing about video games. Alice Bell, with whom you may be familiar, asked on Eurogamer: can a Steam profile be a real memorial for a lost life?...

The thing that’s sold me most on Silent Hill f so far is its slightly outdated UI Just hear me out for a second Image credit:Konami Okay, now, I know you’ve probably read that headline and thought to yourself “why on earth would outdated UI in Silent Hill f be a good thing?” Allow me to explain! To be a contrarian for a moment, I think that a large amount of triple-A games have incredibly boring UI....

There should be a Callisto Protocol 2, says Dead Space creator Glen Schofield: “we had to cut two and a half bosses” Former Striking Distance CEO shares details of cut material, disagreements with Krafton and Covid losses Image credit:Krafton Dead Space developer and Striking Distance co-founder Glen Schofield left Striking Distance last September, following lower-than-hoped sales and mixed reviews for the studio’s debut project The Callisto Protocol . Now, he’s back to share a little about the horror game’s difficult development, offering details of cut materials, a complicated relationship with parent company Krafton, the impact of Covid, and abandoned plans for a sequel....

This RX 7800 XT is going for just $480 in the US with a free copy of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora A great price for the overclocked Gigabyte Gaming OC 16GB model. Image credit:Gigabyte/Rock Paper Shotgun AMD’s best value graphics card is the RX 7800 XT - stop me if you’ve heard this one before . Today American customers have a great chance to pick up a powerful Gigabyte Gaming OC model of this card for just $480 thanks to a discount code at Newegg....

This week in PC games: FBC Firebreak, alt-history XCOM and the chance to date your toilet What we’re feeding the Maw Image credit:Team17 Such has been the onslaught of livestreams, showcases, reveals, re-reveals, trailers and assorted Keighleybollocks this month that we skipped the new game round-up last week. The Maw, thankfully, was too stuffed with Capcom previews to express much discontent, but it could have been disastrous. The last time we forgot to lay out a Monday feeding schedule, the creature ate a bunch of double-A publishers....

This week in PC games: Hobbits, gigahorses, internet fixers, ninjas, hellships, junkbots and window cleaners What we’re feeding the Maw Image credit:Private Division This week’s big news is that Graham is leaving RPS . Graham, the rock upon which all of our bullshit is built. Graham, the last link to Treehouses gone by. We shall not see his like again. Expect supernatural calamities in keeping with such a terrible loss: rains of frogs, Atari reinventing Pong as a 100 hour gacha RPG, mass hysteria....

Thysiastery is an anime Legend Of Grimrock, and you can attack the dinosaur merchants if you’re a complete monster How does one break the femur of a slime? Image credit:DIRGA One of my lesser quality tests for an RPG is whether the shopkeepers complain at you for not buying anything. Grumpy shopkeepers, good RPG. This most specific of litmus tests has served me well, although I must admit that I’d happily upgrade it to ‘shopkeepers you can attack’, would that not disqualify 99% of games....

Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics lay off more staff, say the series’ future is “unaffected” Following Perfect Dark reboot’s cancellation Image credit:Crystal Dynamics Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics have laid off an unspecified number of staff, their second round of jobs cuts this year. The studio say that the future of the Tomb Raider series won’t be affected by this latest taking away of folks’ livelihoods. The news comes not too long after the Perfect Dark reboot Crystal Dynamics were working alongside The Initiative was cancelled amid Microsoft’s mass cuts in July ....

Tony Hawk personally made changes to Pro Skater 3+4 soundtracks because he wants you to discover new music “Discovery is half the fun” Image credit:Activision “Alien Ant Farm or we boycott,” reads the top comment on Activision’s recent reveal of the next wave of tracks for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 - a response to the revelation that the upcoming remasters have both been hit and struck by some soundtrack changes, which hasn’t gone down completely smoothly with fans....