How to upgrade Healing Potions in Diablo 4 Learn how to upgrade your Healing Potions and carry more in D4 Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment Want to know how to upgrade your Healing Potions in Diablo 4? Healing Potions are vital if you want to survive the toughest content in Diablo 4 , but you won’t last long with the weak Healing Potions that you have at level 1. If you want to come out of Nightmare Dungeons and Helltides alive, you’ll need to upgrade your Healing Potions....

How to use Hot Springs in Nioh 3 And how to complete A Desecrated Hot Spring Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Koei Tecmo Wondering how to use Hot Springs in Nioh 3? Like its two prequels, Nioh 3 features Hot Springs, lovely spots where you can retreat from the chaos of yokai-slaying and relax with just the steam of nature as your companion. These hot baths are a great respite from the trials of your journey and a good way to heal your character to full health without praying at a shrine, which will reset the world and respawn all enemies that you’ve recently killed in true Soulslike fashion....

Huge Palworld update adds Arena multiplayer, a new island, oil rigs and a new Pal from outer space Also more skills, buildings, items and open world diversions Image credit:Pocketpair Popular monster-enslaving sim Palworld has a big new update, which introduces the game’s long-promised PvP multiplayer Arena together with a new island, new Pals, new Pal skills, a new Raid, new buildings and construction options, new open world activities and items - new everything, basically....

Hyper Light Breaker’s 3D reworking of Drifter’s combat is promising but a little raw A dimension too far? Image credit:Gearbox Publishing I didn’t have any particular expectations for Heart Machine’s open world roguelike Hyper Light Breaker , but I wasn’t expecting it to feel so… broken-up, I guess. In this sequel to 2016’s alternately wistful and frenzied action- RPG , you are a debonair-looking sod with a hoverboard, paraglider, blades and guns, sent out into the procedurally generated realms of the Overgrowth to kill Abyss Kings, eat stat boosts and extract with loot....

I Just Want To Be Single!! is an aromantic dating sim that’s rewriting the rulebook “You are playing as an unnoticeable side-character, and everyone around you is a protagonist” Image credit:Tsundere Studio It begins as every Japan-set dating sim worth its salt does — with a transfer student. It’s Aya’s first day at the ominously-named ‘Love-Love All-Girls High School’, and they’re (understandably) a little nervous. Shy and socially anxious, they hope they’ll manage to make a friend or two....

In bullet hell mining game Astro Prospector the real enemy is sleep I watched C-beans glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate Image credit:Incrementalist / SpaceJazz I’m writing up Astro Prospector for a couple of reasons: firstly, it reminds me of two childhood favourites, Atari’s Asteroids and the less-known Crystal Quest for the Macintosh. And secondly, there’s something appealingly perverse about a bullet hell of all gametypes that is always simulating the player nodding off at the keyboard....

Iris Of Occultation locations in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree All Iris Of Occultation locations and how to use the item Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for an Iris Of Occultation in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? The Iris Of Occultation is one of two important Iris items in Shadow Of The Erdtree , the other being the somewhat rarer Iris Of Grace . You can use the Iris Of Occultation in a couple of NPC quests to gain valuable rewards, but first you need to get your hands on one....

Just 66 titles saw 80 percent of all playtime in 2023, most older games like Fortnite or GTA 5 Over half of playtime was spent in games at least six years old, says new report Image credit:Epic Games The PC and console market grew by 2.6% to $93.5 billion in revenue last year, according to a new report by video games date company Newzoo (cheers, Kotaku !) That’s good, right? Growth is universally a good thing, otherwise all those nice, dead-eyed men in suits wouldn’t keep saying it was....

Just Cause developers Avalanche have unionised, covering over 500 employees Agreement will take effect from this time next year Image credit:Avalanche Just Cause developers Avalanche have become home to the latest union in the games industry, with over 500 staff at the Swedish studio set to be covered by a new agreement formed with local labour unions. The move sees Avalanche enter a collective bargaining agreement with Swedish organisations Unionen and Engineers of Sweden for all employees based in the Scandinavian country....

Katharine is leaving RPS, come say goodbye And thank you for all the words Image credit:Old Book Illustrations We hired Katharine back in 2017 as our first full-time hardware writer , having been impressed by her rare talent for writing about tech in an approachable way. It quickly became obvious that Katharine’s skills stretched beyond just hardware and in 2021 she became editor-in-chief , responsible for running the entire site....

Keep Driving is a sumptuous and sleepy RPG roadtrip, inspired by Jalopy and FTL Created by the Post Void devs Image credit:YCJY Games " Post Void is a masterpiece of compulsive motion and hypnotic, irresistible sounds," wrote Sin of YCJY Games’s “orgiastic” shooter. “It does something to my brain that I’ve never experienced before.” The developer’s just-announced Keep Driving seems a lot less inclined to scramble your grey matter, though it’s partial to the old rose-tinted goggles....

Keep Driving review A road trip to remember <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/keep-driving-review-bestest-best.jpg?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=“A white sedan drives along the road with a truck behind it and red houses in the background. The game has been awarded a “RPS Bestest Best” sticker. - 1”> Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / YCJY Games Developer: YCJY Games Publisher: YCJY Games Release: Feb 6th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam Price: £15/$18/€18 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 It’s not the destination, they say, it’s the pickled eggs we slurped along the way....

Leery first-person reality show The Crush House steps into the limelight in August “Thirst person shooter” Image credit:Devolver Digital The news panamax has come in and all the shipping containers are spilling off the deck in an uncontrollable catastrophe of trailers. Here’s another: you may remember The Crush House , the colourful 90s reality show where you film the cast by day, trying to please the audience, and creep around by night, trying to investigate the unsettling true nature of the show....

Mandatory ray tracing makes Indiana Jones and the Great Circle pretty yet brutal, like Indy himself It’s not the years, honey, it’s the RT cores Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda If you’d told me last year that face of all-out, GPU venerating, fully ray-traced PC game visual excess would be that of a de-aged Harrison Ford, I’d have asked which exact colour of paint you’d been eating. And yet here we are, with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle loving its ray tracing so much that the effects can’t ever be fully switched off....

Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra release date pushed to early 2026 for polishing Typical yanks, showing up late for every war Image credit:Marvel/Skydance New Media Earlier this year the Black Panther (‘s voice actor) suggested that Skydance New Media’s Marvel 1943: Rise Of Hydra would release in Christmas 2025 . We all slept a little easier that night, knowing that King T’Chanda himself had all but rubber-stamped the WW2 action game ’s launch window....

Microsoft equipped Israel’s “indiscriminate” Palestinian surveillance operation with Azure cloud tech, claims report “Incredibly powerful brand moment” sparks renewed calls for Microsoft and Xbox boycotts Image credit:Microsoft A new joint investigation between the Guardian , Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine , and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has claimed that Microsoft have worked with the Israeli military to store surveillance data on Palestinian civilians in Azure servers overseas, with some of that data allegedly being used to research and identify bombing targets....

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024’s launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews Microsoft smoothly launch a videogame challenge 2024 I’ve been looking forward to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 since it was announced, but I might wait a while longer before trying to play it. It launched yesterday and currently sits at “overwhelmingly negative” Steam reviews due to long loading times caused by server issues....

Microsoft Flight Simulator’s aviation career-focused sequel arrives this November With more than a dozen jobs to perform I love me a Flight Simulator, but never more when there’s some dramatic structure to my flight. That’s why I’ve long been looking forward to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 . It takes the staggeringly detailed world and flight model of Asobo’s Flight Sim revival, and adds a job system on top. And now it has a release date: November 19th....

Monster Hunter Wilds joins GeForce Now, providing a sneaky Steam Deck performance workaround Stream work makes the dream work, mostly Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Steam Deck Academy brings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. Trying to run Monster Hunter Wilds on the Steam Deck is a futile endeavour, as is trying to run it on any other PC hardware that might variously be called cheap, old, or otherwise low-end....

Monster Hunter Wilds: Long Sword weapon tree The full list of all Long Swords in Monster Hunter Wilds Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Want to inspect the entire Monster Hunter Wilds Long Sword weapon tree? Long Swords are among my favourite weapon type in Monster Hunter Wilds . Swifter than a Great Sword and still packing quite a punch, it’s a far more versatile weapon than you might think. With the addition of the Zoh Shia and Mizutsune trees in Title Update 1, The Long Sword weapon tree is now divided into a whopping 22 sub-trees, each with a different material focus....