How to improve your Stylist Rank in Infinity Nikki How to upgrade the Stylist Rank and avoid a quest soft-lock Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Papergames Want to improve your Stylist Rank in Infinity Nikki? If you want to become one of Miraland’s Legendary Stylists, you’ll have to upgrade the Stylist Rank in the Courses application. In return, you will receive valuable rewards such as Energy Crystals and Resonite Crystals . Besides claiming rewards, obtaining new Stylist Ranks will also help you advance the main quests....

I have rarely hated a bad guy as much as I hate Voss in Indiana Jones And The Great Circle Voss ist das? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Bethesda It’s not just because he’s a Nazi. It’s because he’s a smartass Nazi. As the main antagonist in Indiana Jones And The Great Circle , Emmerich Voss vacates the archetypal armchair usually reserved for secondary fascist goons, so that he can goosestep straight into the big boy seat himself....

I hope you’ve got a spare 190GB kicking about for God Of War Ragnarok on PC At least two Mimirs worth of SSD space Image credit:Sony Santa Monica The new God Of War duology has my favourite snow in gaming. I can take or leave about 60% of everything else in them, but lawdy, that snow! In God Of War Ragnarok , the action kicks off a during the apocalyptic fimbulwinter, which is probably bad for some characters I don’t care about, but it is good for me personally, because there’s a lot of snow to play with....

I met a money-eating axe murderer in Sorry We’re Closed and now so can you Delicious profit Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Akupara Games In Sorry We’re Closed , an axe-murdering entrepreneur called Jenny is described in newspaper clippings as both a serial embezzler and as the city’s “wealthiest bachelorette”. Aside from being a dry reflection of tabloid reporting on women who commit crimes (bad woman! sexy, bad woman!) this is also the kind of incidental character-building you can expect in this perky, retro-styled survival horror....

Indie champions Day of the Devs are now a non-profit Launch their first fundraising campaign Image credit:Day of the Devs Day of the Devs , the folks behind the yearly showcases spotlighting indie games and creators, have officially become a non-profit organisation. Alongside the news, the group have launched their first fundraising campaign and detailed dates for multiple events this year. The first Day of the Devs was held just over a decade ago in 2012 as part of a team-up between Psychonauts studio Double Fine and merch makers iam8bit....

Islanders: New Shores is the follow-up to 2019’s gentlest town-builder Out summer 2025 Image credit:Coatsink Coatsink have announced a sequel to Islanders , their pastelcore seaside town-arranger, which was the last game Alec Meer ever reviewed for RPS . Until he reviewed Kentucky Route Zero: Act V , a year or so later. If I didn’t know better, I’d say Alec had planned that deliberately to screw me up. But I’ll forgive him because the KRZ review is very good and thoughtful, and also because the first trailer for Islanders: New Shores is extremely calming....

KOTOR remake and Space Marine 2 developers Saber are tipped to become a private company again Debt-ridden Embracer will sell them off for up to $500 million, according to report Image credit:Embracer Group Embracer Group are reportedly selling off Saber Interactive, the company behind the Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic remake and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 among many other things. Apparently, Saber are being flogged to a group of private investors for “up to” $500 million....

Leaked Star Wars Eclipse images reveal Rodians, Gungans and other aliens coming in new Quantic Dream game Press X to Jotraaaz Kammzzzek A long time ago in, well, this galaxy, actually, Quantic Dream announced that they were making Star Wars Eclipse , a cinematic adventure from the High Jedi era in which everybody can die . Alice Bee (RPS in peace) poured soothing oil over the flames of hype by saying it was probably going to be rubbish , citing reports of abusive working conditions ....

Letalis is Pokémon for GameBoy except you’re battling with Roman gladiators My name is Ashimus Ketchumus Palletemus… Image credit:Monkiato The allure of the sea-green GameBoy screen is difficult to resist. Picking up from where Pokémon left off two decades ago, Letalis is a bleepy-bloopy retro RPG about wandering from town to town and doing battle with dodgy local leaders to prove your worth. But you won’t be doing the fighting yourself, God no....

Lethal Company gets worse as you get better Why being dumb is good, actually Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Zeekerss So far, my main problem with Lethal Company – this month’s RPS Game Club game – is that I’m getting better at it. I’m more efficient at clearing up scrap, less prone to fear-spasming inside out when a monster attacks, and have become wise to most of the haunted houses’ deadliest tricks. All of these, it turns out, make Lethal Company a worse game....

LXD Red Honey is an astonishingly good free metroidvania that owes something to psychedelic bees My pick of Metroidvania Month 24 Image credit:sarn / OvergrownRobot Sometimes I have proper critical thoughts about games and sometimes I am Marge Simpson giving her opinion on a potato. Take LXD Red Honey , a free 2D metroidvania created in just 18 days for the Metroidvania Month 24 jam by sarn and OvergrownRobot, with playtesting by Oroshibu....

Manor Lords VR mod suggests that it would make a terrific god sim Cower, my loyal subjects! Image credit:Hooded Horse I don’t have a lot of interest in VR these days, but I do have an interest in the beautifully realised miniature doings of your villagers in Manor Lords , the city builder that is currently rather popular on noted purveyor of ye finest interactive entertainments Steam - and which now has unofficial VR support care of Flat2VR and Praydog’s UEVR....

Marvel Rivals plan to reset ranks mid-season hastily abandoned in the face of player revolt “We received a wealth of feedback from the community,” say NetEase Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NetEase Games Comicbook mulchfest Marvel Rivals once planned to reset player ranks twice per season, but these recently-hatched plots are no more, for the gamers have descended upon NetEase like rogue Iron Man suits, and the developers have acquiesced to their verbal kicks and punches....

Marvel Rivals Season 2 will add more Team-Up skills, plus the usual new heroes “Everything is progressing smoothly,” says game director Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NetEase Games What’s going on in the world of Marvel Rivals , the NetEase hero shooter that is forecast to get two new heroes every three month season , and thus stands to double its starting roster of 33 heroes providing it stays afloat for at least four years?...

Mesopotamia is coming to Total War: Pharaoh alongside over 80 new units Receive regular substantial updates like an Egyptian Image credit:Sega For someone who’s spent an embarrassing amount of my life staring at virtual maps, I am a downright directionless dunce when it comes to geography. Not ‘the country of Africa’ bad, but certainly not good enough that you’d want me on your pub quiz team. Also, I still do the Shredded Wheat rhyme internally when I have to follow directions....

Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders has been shut down as part of Funcom’s recent layoffs Layoffs at the Dune: Awakening studio started last week Image credit:Funcom Oh boy. Unfortunately, it’s one of those days. You might remember that last week, Dune: Awakening developer Funcom laid off an unspecified number of staff. Yep, that same Dune: Awakening that appeared to be doing pretty well for itself. Go figure! Today, there’s more bad news, as it turns out that Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders will be shutting down completely as part of said layoffs at parent company Funcom....

Metaphor: ReFantazio has over 40 persona-like archetypes to evolve and combine, still looks a lot like Persona (complimentary) The RPG’s latest gameplay trailer gives a taste of the job-like combinations possible Image credit:Atlus It’s easy to draw comparisons between Metaphor: ReFantazio and Persona, given that the upcoming RPG is in the works over at Persona makers Atlus and is built around a similar ‘transform into an awesome-looking robot/creature and do battle’ concept, but so far all those comparisons only serve to highlight just how damn good Metaphor: ReFantazio looks....

Mina the Hollower catches a delay nebulously beyond its previously seasonally appropriate release date Left me feeling empty Image credit:Yacht Club Games Mina the Hollower is quite clearly a Halloween game. The thing about Halloween is that there should always be a little bit silliness amongst the horrific and the scary, and Yacht Club Games’ next retro throwback seemed quite well fitted for the season. It was so appropriate that it was even planned to be released on October 31st!...

Minecraft: How to make a Saddle Here’s how to craft a Saddle in Minecraft Image credit:Mojang Studios Wondering how to make a Saddle in Minecraft? Finally, you can stop opening all of the chests you come across in the Overworld in a hurried attempt to get your hands on a Saddle. As of Minecraft’s Chase the Skies 1.21.6 update, Saddles are now craftable, and it’s easier than ever to make one, place it on your steed, and ride away....

Modern military medieval sandbox Kingmakers gets a release date this October Bringing an RPG to a pike fight Image credit:Redemption Road Games “The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne," wrote Chaucer. But you’d trained hard with that crossbow, and let any man in bolting distance try to claim you hadn’t mastered it. You never wanted to go to war, but the crops were failing, you’d just lost your seventeenth child to medium-pox, and dark portents swirled on the horizon like curdled goat’s milk....