The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Golden Idol, Tetris, a Half-Life 2 fangame and more, yes, more Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images Good news, everyone: I’m off work all this week. I know, I know - a whole seven days with zero Edwin bullshit. What a prospect. Allow yourself a moment to savour the idea. I’m so thrilled for you! The Maw, sadly, does not understand the concept of “time off”....

The mutants in Stalker 2 will finally drop loot, making them less of a bullet sink Pulling teeth Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World The developers of post-apocalyptic shooter Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl have shared a roadmap for future updates, promising new guns, smarter foes, and a helpful development kit for modders. Among the changes is good news for anyone frustrated after pumping their entire backpack of bullets into 30 to 50 feral hogs....

The NYT Crossword answers for Saturday, October 4th 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 Saturday, 4th October? You’re not alone! The NYT Crossword can get pretty challenging, but we are here to help....

The NYT Crossword answers for Thursday, September 25th 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, 25th September? Well, just know, you are not alone. Every single day, without fail, the NYT dishes out yet another collection of puzzles that can be so perplexing you might not know where to turn....

The NYT Crossword answers for Tuesday, September 16th 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 Tuesday, 16th September? If so, you’re in the right place! This is Rock Paper Shotgun’s Crossword Companion, designed to help you tackle the massive daily quest that is the NYT Crossword....

The NYT Mini Crossword answers for Thursday, September 4th 2025 Your perfect companion guide to understanding and solving The Mini Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Mini Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Mini Crossword answers for Monday, September 15th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s Mini Crossword on Thursday, 4th September? You wouldn’t be alone! Every day without fail, the NYT serves us with a whole Mini Crossword worth of tricky riddles to solve....

The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 18th Today’s door casts a long shadow Image credit:RPS The RPS Advent Calender 2024 is underway! Each day reveals one of our favourite games from this year, leading up to our Game Of The Year on the 24th. Check the main calendar post to see the full list. Today’s Advent Calendar might take you quite some time to polish off. It’s ridiculously dense, darkly majestic, and popular among masochists....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for celebrating the fact that my washing machine now drains correctly. Before I deliberately spill beans down all my white tees just so I have an excuse to spin from dawn to dusk, popping caps off non-bio liquid like F1 champagne, let’s read this week’s best writing about games (and game related things!) For Video Games.si, Kirk McKeand shared a free chapter of his book - The History Of The Stealth Game - with a foreword from Harvey Smith, in tribute to Arkane Austin....

The Trombone Champ championships are a wellspring of community creativity whether or not you bone the ’trom Honk your way to greatness Brass-blasting rhythm game Trombone Champ honked its way into our hearts when it released in 2022. Since then, it’s garnered a dedicated fanbase that have kept its spit-valve full to bursting with creations like this Final Fantasy 7 mod . Trombone Champ mods are special among rhythm games for consisting of two elements: the button-tapping composition of the song itself, and the background visuals....

Tokyo nice Exactly what the plot of the show will be remains to be seen. But it will follow “the life, childhood friends and the repercussions of the decisions of a fearsome and peerless Yakuza warrior with a strong sense of justice, duty, and humanity,” according to Variety . That sounds like our boy Kiryu for sure. Work on the TV show was first announced back in 2020 . And word later came out about the actors and directors involved....

This web game lets you drag words around a communal fridge door to create poetry Come back and see what’s changed Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/playhtml I’ve never been a poetry guy, not because I don’t like it, I’ve just never gone out of my way to read them over books or whatnot. The poems I’ve engaged with the most are those read out during wedding ceremonies, those that pop-up before the start of a horror game, or The Tiger by 6-year old Nael that occasionally pops up as I’m doomscrolling....

Throw pool, dice and stickers into a blender and you get STICKER/BALL, a roguelike that relishes in chaos A game that forces you to use that sticker collection you’ve been hoarding Image credit:bilge I’ll be truthful with you for a moment: I do, from time to time, enjoy a game where I do not have to be supremely strategic, and get to watch different lights and colours light up on my screen....

TopSpin 2K25 announced, 2K Sports series returning after 13 years Smashing Image credit:2K Sports Top Spin is returning. The 2K Sports tennis series last received an entry back in 2011, which didn’t come to PC, but while there’s no confirmed platforms for Top Spin 2K25, I choose to live in hope. You’ll find a teaser trailer below. The announcement trailer for Top Spin 2k25.Watch on YouTube TopSpin 2K25 is being developed by Hangar 13, the 2K subsidiary previously known for Mafia 3 and Mafia: Definitive Edition ....

Try the demo for top-down undead slayer Moon Watch, in which time is movement and movement is garlic grenades Draculag Image credit:The Jaspel A week ago, while belabouring the nuances of Arco , I expressed a wish to play more bullet hell games with time freeze mechanics, the better to savour the intricacy of their projectile patterning. Now here’s Moon Watch , a Vampire Survivors -ish pixelart shooter in which you have a watch that stops time when you stand still....

Ubisoft announce new back-to-roots Heroes of Might & Magic game with the Iratus devs in charge You’re only as olden as you feel Image credit:Ubisoft Ubisoft have announced Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era, a fresh instalment in the exceedingly olden turn-based strategy RPG series, which began life under New World Computing in 1995. The new game will “return to the world of Enroth and the origins of the legendary saga”, inviting “both veterans and new players” to go on a quest to Jadame, “a mysterious continent in turmoil”....

Ubisoft warn staff not to celebrate Assassin’s Creed Shadows launch as part of “anti-harassment plan” Harassment will be “closely monitored by a dedicated unit” Image credit:Ubisoft To avoid harassment, staff at Assassin’s Creed Shadows studio Ubisoft Quebec have been “advised” not to celebrate or otherwise post on social media about the game’s launch this week, as reported by French outlet BFM TV and spotted by Kotaku . This follows months of online anger directed at the open world game , much of it from charming sods with handles like ‘Da Phrenology Gamer’ doing everything they can to avoid actually playing videogames, presumably before logging off for dinner and complaining that they don’t want to eat any more woke broccoli, mum....

Upgrade your keyboard’s looks with these $12 pudding caps from HyperX Getting awesome-looking keycaps for 50% off is a huge win in my book. Listen up: this is one of the simplest and most effective upgrades you can give your mechanical keyboard, and right now it’s 50% off, just $12. I’m talking about a full set of 104 double-shot PBT pudding keycaps from HyperX, which combine the excellent legibility of a black backlit keycap tops with frosted semi-transparent sides....

V Rising best base locations: Where to build your Castle in V Rising The best place to build your first Castle in V Rising Trying to find the best location for your new base in V Rising? A large part of survival and progression in V Rising involves building and expanding your very own gothic castle, where you can rest, craft, drink blood, and survey the passing of the poisonous sun across the sky before the time comes to start your next hunt....

Wants DLSS 3 for as little money as possible? Try these Black Friday deals on the RTX 4060 Down to £255 / $285 for tried-and-tested models Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun To be clear, I still think the best graphics card deal of Black Friday week is that RTX 4070 Super offer and oh no wait that one’s gone now. But even if hadn’t been ecommerced to death, there’d still be a way to get the upgraded ray tracing and DLSS 3 frame gen tools of the RTX 40 series for less cash still: plucky 1080p contender, the RTX 4060 , whose deals are still very much available and kicking....

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 announces global release times, won’t use DRM software such as Denuvo Just as planned (bird noises) Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Focus Entertainment We’re a week out from Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 ’s release date, and Saber have put out a final roundup of details in a Steam blog. Alongside a global release time map (or two maps, technically, since they’re pulling that pay-more-to-play-early nonsense), there’s a big Q&A covering all your burning questions about burning ’nids....