PSA: There’s a free Fallout 4 mod for that Fallout Show NCR power armour Bethesda are charging $30 for as DLC Unless you’re desperate for the opportunity to drop a sick emote next to an NCR flag while dressed as Legate Lanius Image credit:Bethesda / PrincessAries Said mod is the Ranger Power Armor by PrincessAries that we covered back when it came out in November last year, before the first episode of the show’s second season had even aired....

Retro RPG Beyond Galaxyland has vibrant pixel art and Pokémon’s creature collecting (In space) Image credit:Sam Enright The debate on whether sticking the word ‘space’ in front of something instantly makes it better rages eternal with the heat of a thousand space-air fryers, but the yaysayers are at least victorious in the case of retro-futuristic RPG Beyond Galaxyland , in which turn-based combat is aided by your pal Boom Boom, who is a space guinea pig with a gun and a little waistcoat....

Sega are delisting over 60 ‘classic’ games from Steam, including Crazy Taxi and Streets Of Rage You’ve got until December 6th to buy them Sega are delisting several bundles of ‘classic’ games from digital stores, along with “select individual” games. On Steam specifically, this adds up to over 60 games in total, including several actual classics including the original Streets Of Rage trilogy, Crazy Taxi , and Jet Set Radio ....

Shadow Of The Erdtree’s Dancing Lion boss is genuinely just two dudes in a lion suit Modders reveal all Image credit:Bandai Namco Among Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree ’s more fearsome bosses is the Dancing Lion, a festive prancing terror inspired by Chinese Lion dances. Looking at it, you might expect this costumed nuisance to be another grafted abomination, its layers of papier-mache, binbags and repurposed carpets hiding a rippling quilt of flesh and bone, perhaps a real lion that has been shaved and stitched to its theatrical double....

Shadowrun devs’ survival body horror Graft gets a gameplay trailer filled with fleshy delights Aren’t all modern video games essentially a Ship of Theseus metaphor? Image credit:Harebrained If this is a single flavour of genre that, if you put a gun to my head and forced me to pick a favourite, I would say is my favourite, it’s probably body horror . There are a seemingly infinite amount of ways to project images of devolving flesh and altered bodies into your eyeballs, many of which I find strangely relatable, occasionally comforting....

Shapez 2’s Next Fest demo is the purest catnip for factory game lovers Join me in drooling over endless lines of conveyor belts Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Gamera Games According to Steam, I’ve spent about 2000 hours playing factory games. Terms like throughput, modularity, and automation are like dog-whistles to me, so when I heard that Shapez 2 was getting a demo for Steam Next Fest this month, I knew my weekend plans were instantly sorted....

Should You Bother With… AMD Fluid Motion Frames? Putting discount frame gen to the test in a new RPS feature Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Welcome to Should You Bother With , a new, hopefully somewhat regular RPS column where I’ll investigate the quirkier niches that PC gaming hardware has to offer. Through trial and testing, together we’ll find out which of these products and features are technological red herrings – and which are the genuine innovations that deserve your attention....

Silent Hill f modder removes the fog a day before release, beginning game’s logical transformation into a wholesome life sim No, YOU’RE overreacting Image credit:FellowDemo Silent Hill f hasn’t even fully released yet on Steam but some bright spark has already taken advantage of pre-order early access to mod away the fog. In my youth, I’d have called this vandalism. “Why stop at the weather?” I’d have yelled at the screen, throwing my hands up....

Sons Of The Forest Golden Armor: How to get and exit the cave Learn how to get the Golden Armor in Sons Of The Forest Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games Want to know the Golden Armor location in Sons Of the Forest? To beat Sons Of The Forest , you’ll need to find the Golden Armor. Originally located on the South-East side of the map, the Golden Armor location changed with Patch 02, which launched before Sons Of The Forest came out of early access....

Sony announce 900 layoffs across Naughty Dog, Guerilla, Insomniac and PlayStation studios worldwide It’s proposed that Sony London be closed Image credit:Sony Another day, another videogame company jettisoning a large number of people “who have contributed to our success” so as to position themselves for growth in the face of “challenging times”. Today it’s Sony’s turn with the axe: the PlayStation publisher have announced plans to reduce their global workforce by about 8% or 900 people, so as “to future ready ourselves to set the business up for what lies ahead”, in the words of outgoing president and CEO Jim Ryan....

Starfield’s biggest patch yet, focused on bug fixes and visual upgrades, is out now Better eyes, they say <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/image-(1)_RPpOtnt.png?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“Katharine Castle’s Starfield Dad with “uwu” emojis where his eyes should be. - 1”> Image credit:Bethesda/RockPaperShotgun/lucypurrrr Starfield ’s “largest update to date” is out now. It includes dozens of bug fixes across the game alongside “lighting improvements”. The update had previously been available on PC via a beta branch on Steam for a couple of weeks....

Tencent and Guillemot family considering buyout of Ubisoft, report says I’m considering buying out a pizza Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Ubisoft has had a rough year or more, losing almost half its share value in 2024 due to the underwhelming performance of Star Wars Outlaws and the delay of Assassin’s Creed Shadows , among other issues. Now Tencent and Ubisoft’s founders, the Guillemots, are considering buying out the publisher, reports say....

The Beastmaster of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, part two: the Zone bites back Even in a no-guns run, Chornobyl’s mutants aren’t keen to cooperate Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World When last we left myself , on a mission to survive S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 by weaponising its monsters instead of shooting its guns, my one-with-nature experiment was yielding mixed results. At best. I’d successfully lured some bandits into the deadly lair of a bucket-tossing Poltergeist, but several attempts at more actively siccing mutated pigs on the Zone’s human baddies had all failed, even when I’d seemed to actually tame one....

The creator of Dread Delusion is making a turn-based JRPG set in another Morrowindy fantasy world Lead your acting troupe against muck-faced demons Image credit:DreadXP Dread Delusion developers Lovely Hellplace and their sinister backers at DreadXP have announced Entropy - a turn-based party RPG inspired by classic Japanese RPGs, which retains Dread Delusion’s fungal pixel aesthetics. Like Final Fantasy 9 , it starts with a theatre show. You play a rank thespian initially equipped with a simple prop sword....

The First Descendant brings Warframe style looter shooting this July I’m not that GaaSed about it Image credit:Nexon Warframe -like “Next-gen looter shooter” The First Descendant releases this Summer, July 2nd 2024. The ‘next-gen’ part probably refers to Unreal Engine 5, and fair’s fair, it’s a real looker this one. The below trailer is mainly scripted or edited bits, but having played a chunk of the last technical test, there’s some genuinely impressive sci-fi vistas to behold, as well as some absolutely massive bosses....

An Elseworlds version of the Batman baddie kicks off Rocksteady’s first character-centric season of post-launch extras Image credit:Rocksteady Kill the Justice League marks Rocksteady’s return to the DC universe after their trilogy of single-player Batman Arkham games: Asylum, City and Knight. It’s technically set five years later in the same universe, in fact, which will raise some questions for those who finished Arkham City. Rocksteady is getting out ahead of those questions in its reveal of the Joker’s return as a playable character in Suicide Squad, though....

The Lenovo Legion Go has dropped to its lowest-ever UK price on Prime Day 2024 Just £569 for the 512GB version of Lenovo’s shapeshifting handheld Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Not to mention the Legion Go’s party trick: the controllers detach, Nintendo Switch-style, with the right one able to turn into an improvised upright-style mouse. You’ll need a stable, flat surface to use this properly, a requirement that isn’t always forthcoming when you’re out and about, but I’ve found that with some practice it makes for a very workable combination of gamepad and classic mouse controllin’....

The Long Dark is getting a Cheat Death system, but don’t worry, it’s also getting a Misery Mode and cougars All coming in part five of the Tales From The Far Territory series Image credit:Hinterland Studio I’ve played little of legendary survival sim The Long Dark , or The Short Dark, as I guess it has proven for me. I fell off the game after succumbing to my first wolf. But I’ve sampled enough to know that adding a “Misery Mode” to the game is sort of like upending a bucket of water over a drowning person....

The Long Dark: Wintermute’s final episode catches a delay but nabs a concrete release date to make up for it The Soon To Be Over Dark, more like Image credit:Hinterland Studio Inc. Crikey, it’s been a long time coming, but it looks like The Long Dark is finally coming to a close… next year. Up until earlier this week, the fifth and final episode of The Long Dark’s Wintermute DLC was due to be released by the end of the year....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Speed Freeks, Crush Houses and Degenerate Gamblers, that’s what Image credit:Pierre Denys de Montfort/Wikimedia Commons I write this week’s list of new PC games in a spirit of terror, for a strange man is at my window with a ladder. Has Santa Claus come early? Have Sony’s goons found me at last, after swearing vengeance for that 8/10 I handed God Of War 3 as a cub reporter?...