Doom: The Dark Ages - All The Holy City Of Aratum secrets (Chapter 5) Track down all 9 secret locations from atop your dragon in Chapter 5 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Looking for all 9 secrets in Chapter 5 of Doom: The Dark Ages? The fifth chapter of Doom: The Dark Ages - The Holy City Of Aratum - is structured rather differently from the chapters that came before it. Most of this chapter is played atop a massive Serrat Dragon, and is more open and less linear than previous areas - which makes it even easier to miss the carefully hidden secrets strewn about the city....

Dragon Age Veilguard tips and tricks for beginners Here’s everything I wish I knew before starting Dragon Age Veilguard Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Electronic Arts Looking for a list of Dragon Age Veilguard top tips? Dragon Age Veilguard is the fourth instalment of the franchise and diversifies quite a few gameplay mechanics. Whether you’re a seasoned player or coming in fresh to the franchise, we have a list of top tips to help save you some time, headache and heartache in the opening sections of the game....

Dune Awakening: How to get a Ornithopter How to get a Scout Ornithopter via crafting or faction reputation Image credit:Funcom Wondering how to get an Ornithopter in Dune Awakening? If you want to unlock the equivalent of fast travel in Dune Awakening, the ultimate way to do so is to take to the skies via Ornithopter. These cool copters are iconic in the world of Dune, and they sure make navigating the windswept deserts of Arrakis easier....

Elden Ring Nightreign’s Deep of Night is nigh, so here’s a big patch with more balancing tweaks than a tightrope walker Featuring a lot of nightfarer ability buffs Image credit:FromSoftware Have you brought batteries for your torch? Good. Elden Ring Nightreign ’s Deep of the Night update’s primed to arrive in the wee hours of tomorrow, September 11th , and there’s a pretty hefty balancing patch to dissect before it arrives....

Elden Ring: Ranni The Witch questline walkthrough Overexplaining the entirety of Ranni’s questline, including all optional steps and dialogue Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Want to complete Ranni’s questline in Elden Ring without missing out a single step or section of dialogue? Even among the dozens of Elden Ring quests on offer, Ranni’s quest - like Ranni herself - is special. It’s by far the longest and most fleshed out side quest in Elden Ring ; it ties together a number of other characters’ questlines (if you do it right), has enormous ramifications for the lore of Elden Ring , and gives you some fantastic boss fights and legendary rewards; and completing Ranni’s entire questline even unlocks a unique ending for the base game....

Even Tactical Breach Wizards’ developer commentary can be used to knock people out of windows Defenestration trilogy indeed Image credit:Suspicious Developments I’m still a little giddy over how much I enjoyed lucarne-lobbing puzzler Tactical Breach Wizards . So much so that I mentioned in my review how I’m well up for another run of its fifteen hour campaign. I’d already got a few missions into hard mode. There’s no more starting mana points!...

Every Gamescom Announcement from Opening Night Live 2025 All the trailers, news, and reveals from Gamescom’s Opening Night Live, all in one place Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Another of 2025’s gaming milestones has passed: Gamescom’s Opening Night Live has now run its course. Contained within its two-and-a-bit-hour breadth was a predictably massive array of trailers, reveals, and announcements. Far too much to keep track of, even if you stayed up like us to watch the whole event yourself....

Fallout: London modders still have no plans to port it to next-gen Fallout 4, unless a console version becomes possible “We have the skill to put it on the next-gen [version], we just do not want to” Image credit:Team FOLON / Rock Paper Shotgun Fresh off of releasing the massive mod’s first DLC earlier this week, the team behind Fallout: London have confirmed that they’ve still got no plans to port it to the next-gen update version of Fallout 4 ....

Final Factory is Factorio in space, with exploration and fleet combat A demo is available now Image credit:Never Games Final Factory seems expansive as far as factory builders go, given that it features not just the sprawling bases you expect but also spaceship construction, interstellar exploration and fleet combat. On the other hand, as far as 2D, topdown space games go, it seems much more approachable than most. There’s a demo available right now....

Final Fantasy’s legendary composer Nobuo Uematsu doesn’t have the ‘strength’ to score a full video game again Leaving his last complete soundtrack as iOS exclusive RPG Fantasian Image credit:Nobuo Uematsu Nobuo Uematsu, the celebrated composer behind the iconic soundtracks for much of the Final Fantasy series , has said he probably won’t score a full video game again. While Uematsu didn’t rule out creating the main themes for future games, he said that his days of scoring an entire game are likely over - leaving his last complete soundtrack as the OST for mobile-exclusive RPG Fantasian ....

Fortnite will let you hide “confrontational” emotes, including the game’s most popular Don’t laugh Royale-battler Fortnite will soon allow players to hide a handful of emotes the developers concede are “sometimes used in confrontational ways”. This includes the emote reported as the most-used in Fortnite’s seven-year history. That’s either a worrying indictment of the game’s players, or a (more?) worrying indictment of universal human psychology. What is the offending animation? Well, turns out people don’t like being laughed at....

French Lara Croft actor starts lawsuit over alleged AI-generated voice lines in Aspyr’s Tomb Raider remasters Brazilian Portuguese version of Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered appears to have suffered something similar Image credit:Aspyr Françoise Cadol, the long-time French voice actor for Lara Croft, has reportedly launched legal action against Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered publishers Aspyr over alleged use of generative AI to replicate her voice for lines in the game. Cadol claims Aspyr didn’t contact her to ask for permission, and it appears the voice of Croft in at least one other dub of the remasters may have been put in a similar position....

Greedfall 2 gets a big new city in its first proper update called Olima that I’m assuming has nothing to do with Pikmin Every game would benefit from having Pikmin in it if you ask me Image credit:Spiders A few months on from releasing into early access, Greedfall 2: The Dying World has received its first major update, and it certainly seems like a fairly big one. First up, there’s a whole new region to explore called “Olima, City of Stars”, and I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that it has nothing to do with that guy from Pikmin....

Halo’s battle royale mode “could have been a game changer”, says former Infinite dev, and you know what, I’ll buy it Former Certain Affinity design director confirms ancient rumour Image credit:Microsoft Back in 2021, that dark epoch known as the Pre-Edwin Age, there was but one Ed at Rock Paper Shotgun - the venerable Ed Thorn, aka Edders. Edders had a dream, the dream of Halo Infinite getting a battle royale mode ....

Hell Clock review Time well spent Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Rogue Snail Pulpy, fiercely animated and grimly righteous, Hell Clock does not want to take over your life, calling time on the avaricious ARPG grind in favour of a snacky, techy roguelite. Developer: Rogue Snail Publisher: Mad Mushroom Release: July 22nd, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam Price: TBC Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti, Windows 11 There are lots of games in the same way there are lots of crisps....

How to get Honey in Palworld Here’s how to get Honey in Palworld Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Want to know how to get Honey in Palworld? Honey is an important material in Palworld for making Cake , which is a necessity for breeding Pals. If you want to ensure that your Pals are happy, well-fed, and ready to hatch eggs, you’ll need lots of Cake, which means lots of Honey!...

I’m extremely here for the rise of the Golden Idol-like Little Problems is a new, more relaxed kind of detective game about everyday mysteries Image credit:Playstack Graham remarked the other day about how strange it can be to see which indie megahits spawn waves of homages and which ones don’t, noting that Lucas Pope’s Papers, Please has surprisingly few immitators. His post reminded me of Pope’s other hit, Return Of The Obra Dinn ....

Infinity Nikki Whimstar locations: How to find all 366 Whimstars Find all 366 Whimstars across every region in Miraland! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Papergames Looking to collect all 366 Whimstars in Infinity Nikki? There’s a great deal of activities to busy yourself with in the land of Infinity Nikki , from the expansive main storyline to tonnes of side quests, activities, and a vast supply of collectibles. Chief among those collectibles are Whimstars , which you must collect in order to unlock new skills in the Heart Of Infinity....

Kaizen: A Factory Story review Ex-Zachly the way I like it Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Astra Logical A happy return to free-form automation puzzles from the makers of Opus Magnum, with a pleasing and gentle story about finding satisfaction and balance in your work. Developer: Coincidence Games Publisher: Astra Logical Release: July 14th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam Price: £16.75/$20/€20 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 “Fine” is a funny word....

Keep Driving made me nostalgic for road trips I’ve never been on and places I’ve never seen (Deftones reference) Image credit:YCJY Games So maybe it’s just me, but there’s a sense of intense freedom and adventure to Keep Driving ’s Steam demo that belies its prosaic, tractor-tailing subject matter. The opening minutes are oddly silent, until Westkust’s Swirl blasts out from your radio as soon as you drive off toward your first destination - your mate’s house, to hang out and play console games....