Best Electric Pals In Palworld

Best Electric Pals in Palworld Here’s the best Electric Pals to have in your team in Palworld Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Looking for the best Electric Pals in Palworld? Electric Pals are particularly strong against Water-types in Palworld , which means they are well worth having in your team when approaching any water-based boss fights . With a Pal list that is ever-expanding and has over 130 as of writing, it can be hard knowing which to prioritise....

February 4, 2026 · 17 min · 3551 words · Deloris Brock

Boots Quest Dx Is The Anti

Boots Quest DX is the anti-RPG I’ve been waiting for No swords, just boots Most RPGs set you off on some kind of grand quest, a hero’s journey filled with danger and peril as you track down some legendary sword to defeat a world-ending evil. Boots Quest DX , however, has much humbler aspirations. You are a mere boot enthusiast on an adventure to find the very bestest best boots known to man (or blobs, I genuinely can’t tell what provenance these rotund creatures hail from), and nothing else will deter you from achieving your lifelong goal....

February 4, 2026 · 18 min · 3702 words · Peggy Ocasio

Break Open A Dead Mmo And Find What Goofs And Horrors Await In Gorgon's Garden

Break open a dead MMO and find what goofs and horrors await in Gorgon’s Garden It’s free too! Image credit:Feverdream Johnny, Squp For Gorgon’s Garden, we go back to the year 2008, weirdly, personally, probably the last year I spent regular amounts of my time playing an MMO. It’s a random summer day, and you are trawling through Hypogeum.net, a resuscitated version of it anyway, a fictitious forum all about an MMO called Gorgon’s Garden, now defunct due to a majority of the game being sealed away by a digital currency that no longer exists....

February 4, 2026 · 16 min · 3408 words · Catherine Howe

Bug

Bug-hunting RTS Starship Troopers: Terran Command gets a free Territory Mode update that has you defending three planets at once But you’ll need all the DLC to get the most from it Image credit:Slitherine Publishers Slitherine and developers The Artistocrats have launched one of those high-fadoodling “2.0” updates for Starship Troopers - Terran Command , their violently arachnophobic real-time strategy game from 2022. It introduces Territory Mode, which sees you defending three planets featured in the base game and two expansions, and brags of “a level of personalization and replayability never before seen in Terran Command”....

February 4, 2026 · 17 min · 3531 words · Mary Saunders

Capcom's Pragmata Is A Clean And Pleasant Lunar Shooter With A Touch Of God Of War

Capcom’s Pragmata is a clean and pleasant lunar shooter with a touch of God Of War Bot me no bots Image credit:Capcom In Capcom’s sci-fi third-person shooter Pragmata , you are a gruff and gun-toting astronaut called Hugh Williams who is exploring an AI-operated moon base with the help of a juvenile android, Diana. She rides on your back like a sinister blue-eyed goblin, her enormous mop of blonde hair flapping in the wind as Hugh jets around on his suit thrusters....

February 4, 2026 · 18 min · 3710 words · Shirley Diggs

Climb A Dark Fantasy Tower And Find The Sweepstakes Code In The Pocketpair Published Looter

Climb a dark fantasy tower and find the sweepstakes code in the Pocketpair published looter-shooter Vision Quench It’s not slop, but you do play it with friends Image credit:WizMUD Games Look, I have my fair share of problems with Palworld , but to give credit where credit is due, after announcing their foray into publishing earlier this year, they’ve lined up a suite of games. Dead Take, a psychological horror complete with Baldur’s Gate 3 ’s Neil Newbon and Final Fantasy 16’s Ben Starr, launched earlier this year , Truckful just looks like a delight , and now there’s Vision Quench, a game for freaks like me who like it when fantasy gets a bit techy....

February 4, 2026 · 17 min · 3436 words · Dee Hoover

Connections Hints And Answers For Sun, October 20th

Connections hints and answers for Sun, October 20th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #496. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 20th October? If today’s assortment of words has you in a tizzy we have just the thing to help....

February 4, 2026 · 19 min · 4036 words · Carol Lorenzo

Dark Souls Meets Ocarina Of Time In Mouseward, A Back-to

Dark Souls meets Ocarina of Time in Mouseward, a back-to-basics “soulslike collectathon” with sweet N64 visuals Be wary of pre-alpha demo, out now Image credit:Finite Reflection Studios If you miss the original Dark Souls as much as you do the mottled grass textures of Hyrule Field, you will perhaps enjoy Mouseward, which is available now in pre-alpha form. It’s a “soulslike collectathon” from the people behind Void Sols , which Katharine (RPS in peace) found to be “an atmospheric and highly customisable Soulslike for people who are rubbish at Soulslikes”....

February 4, 2026 · 16 min · 3384 words · Pamela Timko

Dead Cells To Receive Its Final Update As Devs Move On To New "secret Projects"

Dead Cells to receive its final update as devs move on to new “secret projects” It’s “time for something shiny and new” Image credit:Motion Twin Dead Cells developers Motion Twin have announced their roguelike Metroidvania will receive its final update with the launch of the appropriately titled Update 35: ‘The End Is Near’. It’s been a pretty great run as these things go: over the course of seven years, Dead Cells has received four major DLC expanions, a mobile release and, of course, 35 of those big title updates....

February 4, 2026 · 17 min · 3532 words · Kristy Poreda

Destiny Creators Bungie Lay Off 220 People And Form New Studio Within Sony To Stave Off Financial Ruin

Destiny creators Bungie lay off 220 people and form new studio within Sony to stave off financial ruin “We were overly ambitious,” says CEO Image credit:Bungie Destiny and Marathon developers Bungie are laying off 220 people - around 17% of their total workforce - as studio heads try to offset a financial crisis brought on by “overly ambitious” expansion, individual project “misfires”, and a wider economic downturn in 2023. Bungie are also transferring a further 155 roles to parent company Sony Interactive Entertainment, and are spinning out an untitled incubation project - an “action game set in a brand-new science-fantasy universe” - to form a new PlayStation studio....

February 4, 2026 · 17 min · 3590 words · Richard Wood

Diablo 4 Director's Plan For Gears Of War 6 Was To Blast The Beefcakes To Another Planet

Diablo 4 director’s plan for Gears Of War 6 was to blast the beefcakes to another planet Bringing the curbstomp to Mercury Image credit:Xbox Game Studios While we’re getting a Gears Of War prequel in Gears Of War: E-Day , this does mean that Gears Of War 6 is yet to be a thing. In a recent episode of IGN’s Podcast Unlocked, former Gears Of War director and current Diablo 4 lead Rod Fergusson revealed what his plans were for Gears 6 when he left....

February 4, 2026 · 17 min · 3446 words · Adam Schleck

Diablo 4 Season 8 Is All About Becoming A Boss And Cosplaying Characters From Berserk

Diablo 4 season 8 is all about becoming a boss and cosplaying characters from Berserk I do wish they hadn’t put in Lord Schnoz, though Image credit:Blizzard Righto, Diablo 4 season 8 is starting next week, and today Blizzard have dropped a whole bunch of details on it ahead of its release on April 29th, so let’s see what they are! First up, there’s that Belial guy who the season is named after....

February 4, 2026 · 17 min · 3470 words · Demetrius Mermis

Diablo 4 Uniques: All Unique Items And What They Do

Diablo 4 Uniques: All Unique items and what they do Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Blizzard Entertainment Want to know more about Diablo 4 Unique items? Unique items are some of the best pieces of Gear in Diablo 4 . They have powers that are far stronger than any Legendary Aspects , and will significantly enhance any build. There are two types of Unique: normal ones, which are a big power boost, and Uber Uniques, which are far rarer and game-changing if used....

February 4, 2026 · 24 min · 5003 words · Paul Baker

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Releases Today, And Players Are Celebrating The Famous ‘bioware Turn’

Dragon Age: The Veilguard releases today, and players are celebrating the famous ‘Bioware Turn’ Along with some other classic Bioware animation quirks Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Electronic Arts Almost ten years after Inquistion offered up a thrilling herb-harvesting adventure, today sees the release of Dragon Age: Veilguard . I’ve popped the release times below. The internet’s Aged Dragons are naturally quite excited, and there’s been some lovely interactions over on Le Epic Musk Zone, where veteran Bioheads are celebrating the RPG studio’s history of animation quirks, specifically the ‘Bioware Turn’ ....

February 4, 2026 · 16 min · 3351 words · Walter Moore

Dread Dawn Review: Dawn’t Bother

Dread Dawn review: dawn’t bother Is this the end of zombie Shakespeare?! Image credit:Kioop/Rock Paper Shotgun Developer: Kioop Publisher: Kioop Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam Price: £15/€18/$18 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 2070, Windows 10 There’s a genre of lesser fun that only makes itself known to me once I’ve completely given up on enjoying a game in any traditional sense, lurking under the surface like a silly icon on a losing scratchcard....

February 4, 2026 · 22 min · 4578 words · Janine Mata

Dune: Awakening Players Kept Getting Squashed By Ornithopters, So An Update Has Made Everyone Invulnerable To Vehicle Bashing

Dune: Awakening players kept getting squashed by ornithopters, so an update has made everyone invulnerable to vehicle bashing Buzz off Image credit:Funcom The developers of Dune: Awakening have just released a patch in response to player complaints about the game’s PvP zones. Folks were annoyed because they kept getting crushed to death by other players piloting an ornithopter (Dune’s big flying bug vehicle). It was irksome because it’s difficult to damage said vehicle or fight back in any meaningful way....

February 4, 2026 · 17 min · 3489 words · Candace Herbert

Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree Patch Makes Blessings Stronger And The Game Easier

Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree patch makes Blessings stronger and the game easier FromSoftens Image credit:Bandai Namco When I finished my review for Soulslike Lies Of P, the devs released a patch not long after that nerfed bosses and made things for ol’ Pinnochio easier overall. Sod’s Law struck that day… and it’s returned with a smirk. Shadow Of The Erdtree has just been patched, making its Shadow Realm Blessings stronger from the off, and in turn, things a little easier for everybody....

February 4, 2026 · 17 min · 3526 words · Raymond Collazo

Elden Ring Walkthrough: How To Beat The Game

Elden Ring walkthrough: How to beat the game This walkthrough will guide you through each major region and boss in Elden Ring Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Need a complete Elden Ring walkthrough with all regions and bosses? With the Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC adding additional bosses , new weapons and more, now is the perfect time to get stuck into the beautifully haunting Lands Between, and find out how to beat the base game for Elden Ring ....

February 4, 2026 · 43 min · 9125 words · Pauline Evans

Elden Ring: Nightreign

Elden Ring: Nightreign - Revenant tips and tricks Become a master of the undead with these tips for playing Revenant in Nightreign Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Want to learn to dominate the forces of Night as the Revenant in Elden Ring: Nightreign? She’s a more technical character and asks you to carefully micromanage her summons and resources for maximum DPS. With a bit of practice, however, the Revenant can add incredible value to your team and turn a difficult Expedition into something much more comfortable....

February 4, 2026 · 19 min · 3874 words · Laura Calvert

Embark Dishes On All The Goodies You'll Get In Arc Raiders If You Choose To Prestige Later This Month

Embark dishes on all the goodies you’ll get in Arc Raiders if you choose to prestige later this month Totally up to you, though Image credit:Embark Studios The eternal problem with online shooters of any flavour that has some variation on a levelling system, is that eventually you run out of room, and can’t progress any more. That’s why so many of them essentially allow you to reset your levels, or to prestige as it’s often colloquially known....

February 4, 2026 · 17 min · 3459 words · Leslie Morey