The Forge: How to reroll your Race Whether you want to be a Minotaur, a Demon or an Undead, here’s how to change your race in The Forge Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / The Forge Community Need help rerolling your Race in The Forge? Upon starting your journey into this Roblox RPG’s fantasy world of deep rock mining and ultimate weapon crafting, you’ll be asked to roll a Race. Chances are you’ll land yourself a bit of a naff one....

The Last Of Us Part II will require a PSN account to play on PC, making it unplayable in over 100 countries Sony does it again Image credit:Sony One or two lumps of annoyance in your morning coffee? Okay, here’s one. You’ll need to link to a PlayStation Network account to play The Last Of Us Part II on PC, say Sony. The requirement was reported by Video Games Chronicle , and sure enough, the Steam page for the “Remastered” version of the third-person fungus fighter includes a footnote in the game description that confirms it in plain language - “Account for PlayStation Network required”....

The Maw - 28th May-1st June 2024 This week’s least discouraging game releases, plus our weekly newsblog Image credit:Joseph Jacobs John Dickson Batten / Wikimedia Commons At intervals in our relentless battles with the Maw, we lose people. Sometimes, it’s because those people have succeeded in levelling up out of games journalism, or found their way into another echelon of the craft. Other times, the losses are more abrupt and arbitrary....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Festive wind-down edition Image credit:Library of Congress / S. Merinsky / Rock Paper Shotgun There’s not Much Ado this week, the final RPS working week of 2024, but I have a few last yuletide PC game bonbons for the banqueting table. On Monday 16th December, it’s time to march up and down the streets of Neko Odyssey , photographing cats. Alternatively, get your teeth into Idle Colony , a powerfully sinister fruit-picking simulator....

The next Dragon Age game might be another “reinvention”, say BioWare, drawing parallels with Final Fantasy Veilguard’s creative director hints at story directions Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Electronic Arts Dragon Age: The Veilguard won’t receive any major story DLC. It also ends pretty decisively, save for a few hints about the future of Thedas in a secret post-credits scene. How final is that air of finality? Is Dragon Age going back on the shelf for the forseeable?...

The Outer Worlds 2: A Healthy Improvement quest walkthrough How to find four Advanced Decryption Keys to upgrade Val Image credit:Obsidian Wondering how to complete A Healthy Improvement in The Outer Worlds 2 and upgrade Val? Your handy robot friend Valerie, AKA Val, is one of the first companions you’ll come across in The Outer Worlds 2 . With good healing capabilities, she’s very useful in a pinch to support your Commander in combat....

The Pathologic devs are making Darkwood 2 with Acid Wizard’s blessing in a frankly outrageous piece of horror synergy Also, Hooded Horse are publishing it Image credit:Hooded Horse " ICE quoting Halo is surely as close as I’ll get to hell this week", I said to myself earlier. “Hold my beer,” interjected Manor Lords publishers Hooded Horse, before diving into a flyblown burlap sack and fishing out the press release for Darkwood 2 ....

The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 2nd Day two and already on the booze 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 window has an entire cult inside of it. Also, an alcoholic knight speaking in plummy prose between mouthfuls of booze and porridge....

The RPS Selection Box: James’ bonus games of the year 2024 Best of the rest Image credit:RPS I’m actually quite happy with how many of my voted games made it into this year’s Advent Calendar , not least because it proves I am acutely in-touch, and definitely didn’t dedicate at least fifty percent of my 2024 playing time to a late-onset Elden Ring obsession. Point being, I can present to you my almost-made-it picks without malice nor bitterness, unlike my loser colleagues who didn’t get as many in the main list....

The Sims 4 now lets you set how jealous Sims will get when they catch their partner flirting Stop kissing the pool boy please, Sally Image credit:Electronic Arts The latest free update to The Sims 4 will let you “define the conditions under which your Sims become jealous”. That’s handy. The new feature, called “Romantic Boundaries”, will give you some settings to tweak that determine whether a Sim will be bothered when they see their partner flirting with the neighbour, or kissing the neighbour, or getting into bed with the neighbour, or becoming a blur of obscene pixels with the neighb- okay Cindy, stop!...

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for looking at your frost-crusted window and sacking off all plans of leaving the house. After all, the central heating has been broken for a week and there is no hope of a repair for another three. There is nothing outside of the confines of your duvet that’s not cold....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for asking for forgiveness, since I missed Sunday Papers entirely last weekend. Alas, I was stricken by a deep malaise, but I return now with renewed vigour and another roundup of links to good writing from across the web. Some of the good writing is even about games this time....

This indie RTS looks like a neat blend of anime Total War and collectible card game Valiant Tactics EX comes to Steam on March 29th Image credit:ThinkGames Inc Launching as a free-to-play fusion of real-time strategy and collectible game card, Valiant Tactics EX will pit you against other players online in top-down, 1v1 battles. You’ll begin each match by arranging up to ten of your card-based troops at the bottom of the grid map, before deploying them into battle....

This sweet life sim is Stardew meets Star Trek, and you can try the demo now To boldly grow Image credit:Carbon & Kay There aren’t many ways left to put a twist on Stardew Valley , but suffixing it with “in space!” oughta do it. Little-Known Galaxy is out in a week, and currently has a demo on Steam , where you can sample many of the delights that you’re used to from a Stardewlike when you’re new in town: meeting the locals, growing potatoes, and tidying up the place....

This week in PC games: Borderlands 4, celestial empire building and the first big Dune: Awakening DLC What we’re feeding the Maw Image credit:President Studio Alright, sweethearts. What are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day feeding the Maw. A day feeding the Maw is like a day on the farm - every update’s a banquet, every DLC a fortune, every quarterly earnings call a parade. I LOVE the Maw!...

Tim Cain has taken his Fallout and The Outer Worlds dev stories to YouTube - and he’s having a great time The semi-retired Cain tells us that “there is so much about being a game director that is not fun” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Private Division Tim Cain wrote what is perhaps gaming’s most famous and influential monologue: the introduction to Fallout . “War never changes,” he says. “People loved it....

Time is your biggest enemy in 2025’s best mystery game. Well, time and ghosts… Agatha Christie eat your heart out Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Raw Fury / Spooky Doorway The RPS Advent Calendar 2025 has begun! We’re revealing one of our favourite games of the year every day, and our favourite of favourites on December 24th. Check the main Calendar post to see a full list of our choices so far....

Tiny Tires picks up the legacy of the classic Micro Machines racing series Something I played when I was young and am therefore fond of if blissfully ignorant of their actual quality Image credit:Jon Kristinsson The legally distinct Cheerios in Tiny Tires , the upcoming miniature racing game that looks to be a loving homage to Micro Machines , have their own physics. This delights me. So does the milk, actually, leaving trails on the checked linoleum tablecloth as the infinitely minute driver tries to compensate for its skidding effect on those titular Tiny Tires ....

Turn 10 to substantially update Forza Motorsport after game spends three months getting arse kicked on Steam Car progression, driver AI and race regulations are the “top three areas of feedback” We didn’t review Turn 10 and Microsoft’s latest Forza Motorsport and well, thank goodness, because I’ve just taken a look at the Steam page and it’s a regular six-mile pile-up in there. The game’s user reviews are Mostly Negative, three months after release, with complaints covering a wide gamut: the online being full of cheaters, the single player being boring, and the game being poorly optimised for PC....

Ware ye this Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 crash bug that cost me hours of progress Though really, the save system is to blame Image credit:Deep Silver / Rock Paper Shotgun Warhorse’s medieval muck-o-rama Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 launches today. It’s an engrossing RPG, despite developer co-founder Dan Vávra’s tendency to throw his weight behind alt-right harassment campaigns . Also, a relatively bug-free one . In the course of my 51 hours as reviewer , I’ve encountered only a smattering of more significant technical issues....