Total War: Warhammer 3’s Upcoming Thrones Of Decay Expansion Gets Huge Pricing Change

Total War: Warhammer 3’s upcoming Thrones of Decay expansion gets huge pricing change Don’t like Dawi? That’s obviously a grudgin’, but you now have options. Image credit:Creative Assembly/Sega Thrones of Decay, the upcoming expansion for strategy game Total War: Warhammer 3 , will now be available to purchase as either three separate faction packs, or as a bundle at a discount. So, if you don’t fancy shelling out the full £19....

February 5, 2026 · 17 min · 3572 words · Anthony Miller

Turn Your Desk Into A Standing Desk For Under $200 Right Now At Amazon

Desk goes up, price goes down Image credit:TOPSKY We covered a great deal on a gaming chair the other day , but you might not have considered that your desk could be optimised for extra comfort for long periods. Turn your desk into a sit/stand option right now Image credit: TOPSKY Dual Motor Standing Desk Frame $169.99 (15% off) See here This TOPSKY adjustable standing desk setup includes a dual-motor setup for smooth raising and lowering, as well as a 225lb weight capacity and a handy control panel....

February 5, 2026 · 16 min · 3233 words · Jennifer Sparks

Ubisoft's Deal With Saudi Arabia Over Free Assassin's Creed Mirage Dlc Has Reportedly Seen Staff Pushback

Ubisoft’s deal with Saudi Arabia over free Assassin’s Creed Mirage DLC has reportedly seen staff pushback As questions about its funding remain without conclusive answers Image credit:Ubisoft Ubisoft workers have raised concerns with company management about a deal with Saudi Arabia to create a free DLC for Assassin’s Creed Mirage set in the country, according to a new report. Announced with little fanfare - at least, as far as add-ons for pretty prominent games are concerned - on a Saturday morning last month, the free DLC is set to add a new story chapter set in 9th century AlUla later this year....

February 5, 2026 · 17 min · 3488 words · Gale Matthews

War Thunder Player Once Again Leaks Classified Military Documents To Win An Argument

War Thunder player once again leaks classified military documents to win an argument Nerds. Nerds never change Image credit:Hunter / Gaijin Entertainment I know War Thunder only as 1) the vehicular combat sim Emily Gera somehow penned erotic poetry about - “O succulent tank porn and its lusty armour”… Emily! What r u doing. STAHP - and 2) an unofficial information arm for the world’s militaries, fuelled by the power of pedantry....

February 5, 2026 · 16 min · 3355 words · Edward Bentz

Warren Spector's Thick As Thieves Shows Off Sneaking In Emergent Thunderstorms And Grappling Hooks

Warren Spector’s Thick As Thieves shows off sneaking in emergent thunderstorms and grappling hooks Warren let me borrow Dark Future please Image credit:OtherSide Entertainment Nothing makes me feel like a sneakers-for-sneaking wearing master thief in video games more than discovering a window on a roof that the developers left in a very obvious spot precisely so I’d feel clever for using it, and in this at least, Otherside’s PvP stealth game Thick As Thieves looks to have me covered....

February 5, 2026 · 16 min · 3401 words · Alana Fuller

We May Never Get A Dead Space 2 Remake, But This Huge Community Patch Fixes A Lot Of The Pc Version's Problems

We may never get a Dead Space 2 remake, but this huge community patch fixes a lot of the PC version’s problems Physics issues, crashing, texture filters and more Image credit:EA I don’t massively feel the need for a new version of Dead Space 2 , even following EA’s posh remake of the first, but if you’ve been dreaming of another visit to the game’s sprawling interstellar necropolis, you could do worse than to check out the community-brewed Marker Patch....

February 5, 2026 · 18 min · 3662 words · Stella Martin

What Are We All Playing This Weekend?

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895 It’s a balmy Friday while I write this, and I’m thirsty. For every so-called RPS staff member who doesn’t respond to my increasingly angry messages, I will punish them by likening them to a particular alcoholic beverage. It’s a punishment because I know nothing about alcohol, and so my reasoning will be entirely askew, I’m sure....

February 5, 2026 · 17 min · 3498 words · Kenneth Turner

What's Better: Left

What’s better: left-handed FPS options or a little hand for a cursor? Vote now as we continue trying to decide the single best thing in games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Valve Last time, you decided that removing a card from your deck is better than enemies stopping respawning after you kill them loads . The result wasn’t close but was closer than I expected, which shows why it’s important to ask. We’re doing important work here, you and I....

February 5, 2026 · 17 min · 3540 words · Jerry Masson

What's Different In Black Myth Wukong's New Game Plus?

What’s different in Black Myth Wukong’s New Game Plus? How to start a new journey with Black Myth Wukong’s NG+ mode Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Wondering if Black Myth Wukong has a New Game Plus mode? The short answer is yes, you can start a ‘New Game+’ after finishing your first playthrough. Keeping your best gear, you’ll be able to replay the full game but with a greater challenge awaiting you in return....

February 5, 2026 · 17 min · 3600 words · Tiffaney Reisman

What's On Your Bookshelf?: Director's Cuttlefish Edition

What’s on your bookshelf?: Director’s cuttlefish edition read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! Except, as reader’s of last week’s edition will know, this is a lie. There are no industry folks, cool or otherwise, in this week’s column. It is simply a placeholder - as voted for by you ravenous spine-fiends - while I take a break for the rest of July....

February 5, 2026 · 15 min · 3178 words · Darren Whipple

What's On Your Bookshelf?: Dragon Age Veteran Mark Darrah

What’s on your bookshelf?: Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! Most of us know about the novel, the novella, and the rare novito, but did you know that Penguin briefly tried to market the ‘big nov’ - single sentences of much larger works, bizarrely serialised into hardbacks weighty enough to club the equally rare giga-seal?...

February 5, 2026 · 17 min · 3483 words · James Beamon

Where To Get The Imbued Sword Key In Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree

Where to get the Imbued Sword Key in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Here’s where to get the Imbued Sword Key in Castle Ensis, and where to use it! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Wondering where to get the Imbued Sword Key in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? Just like the base Elden Ring game, Shadow Of The Erdtree features an Imbued Sword Key, which you can collect and use to unlock a secret portal in the Land of Shadow....

February 5, 2026 · 19 min · 3896 words · Roy Patterson

Where Winds Meet: How To Play Gift Of Gab

Where Winds Meet: How to play Gift of Gab How to win the Gift of Gab card minigame Image credit:IGN/NetEase Trying to figure out Gift of Gab in Where Winds Meet? As you travel the roads of the Jianghu in Where Winds Meet, you’ll encounter some opponents who cannot be beaten by the art of the blade. Instead, these vagrants must be destroyed via cunning words and dramatic exposition in what is essentially the equivalent of a freestyle rap battle....

February 5, 2026 · 19 min · 3940 words · Lisa Mccormack

Whether You Love Stealth Games Or Hate Them, Eriksholm Isn't Worth Your Time

Whether you love stealth games or hate them, Eriksholm isn’t worth your time A pox on everything but your houses Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Nordcurrent Labs Great stealth games are basically forever games. Whether or not they’re boosted with regular live service jabs like a Hitman, it always feels like it’s worth returning to a Dishonored , or a Metal Gear , or a Desperados 3 . Always ways to finesse or experiment or utterly style on encounters you’ve slipped your way through dozens of times before....

February 5, 2026 · 20 min · 4089 words · Sarah Bell

Whopping New Crimson Desert Video Sharpens Suspicion That It's A Really Shonky Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom

Whopping new Crimson Desert video sharpens suspicion that it’s a really shonky Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom We have Klifft off Image credit:Pearl Abyss When I first played Crimson Desert I had trouble working out what it wanted to be – Spider-Man? The Witcher? Dynasty Warriors ? Dragon’s Dogma? Jedi Academy? The first of three new talkthrough videos from developers Pearl Abyss has helped concentrate the game in my mind. This is a grittier medieval fantasy take on The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom, isn’t it!...

February 5, 2026 · 16 min · 3347 words · Eunice Stanley

Will Nightingale's Crafting Card Menus Be Its Downfall?

Will Nightingale’s crafting card menus be its downfall? The RPS Treehouse goes head to head Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Inflexion Games By now you’ll probably have read quite a bit about our preview adventures in Inflexion Games’ upcoming fantasy survival adventure Nightingale - including our slightly raucous attempts to interview CEO Aaryn Flynn while instant KO-ing tree monsters and abusing our supplies of ice bullets. But outside this guided co-op session, several members of the RPS Treehouse were playing it on their lonesome last week, too, getting to grips with Nightingale ’s particular flavour of sticks-and-stones crafting, cooking up meat and berry wraps to keep ourselves fed, and generally being cajoled and maybe even lightly seduced by our fae Shakespearean guide, Puck....

February 5, 2026 · 27 min · 5607 words · Joseph Reddy

Wordle Hint And Answer #1219 (october 20 2024)

Wordle hint and answer #1219 (October 20 2024) Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 20? 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? Wordle is a tough test of word acumen, but luckily we’re here to provide you with the tips you need....

February 5, 2026 · 22 min · 4533 words · Brian Saavedra

Wordle Hints And Answer (#1103): How To Solve The Wednesday June 26 Wordle

Wordle hints and answer (#1103): How to solve the Wednesday June 26 Wordle Stuck on the Wordle word for June 26? 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? If you’re on your last guess, don’t worry!...

February 5, 2026 · 22 min · 4569 words · Craig Jenks

Wordle Hints And Answer (#1136): How To Solve The Monday July 29 Wordle

Wordle hints and answer (#1136): How to solve the Monday July 29 Wordle Stuck on the Wordle word for July 29? 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 group of clues followed by the word if you need it, to help keep your streak firmly in place....

February 5, 2026 · 22 min · 4571 words · Lena Mcdonough

Wordle Hints And Answer (#1302): How To Solve The Saturday January 11 Wordle

Wordle hints and answer (#1302): How to solve the Saturday January 11 Wordle Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 11? 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? If today’s letters just don’t make sense to you, allow us to lend a helping hand....

February 5, 2026 · 22 min · 4569 words · Vada Bennett