The best Steam Deck cases Protect your precious Steam Deck with a hardened sleeve or carry case upgrade Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun You could say that the best Steam Deck case is the one you get for free, and to be sure, I have no qualms with Valve’s bundled carrier. Especially not the one you get with the 1TB Steam Deck OLED , which adds a neat mini-case in the form of a removable liner....

The Blood of Dawnwalker has no main quest, apparently, and now I’m a lot more interested in playing it “We want to bring video games closer to pen-and-paper RPGs” Image credit:Microsoft I’ll be honest with you folks, as aware as I have been about The Blood of Dawnwalker , i.e. Not The Witcher 3 from some of the folks who helped make The Witcher 3, I have felt very disinterested in it....

The Forever Winter’s water will no longer drain away while you’re offline Mechs sense Image credit:Fun Dog Studios Mechy and messy extraction shooter The Forever Winter sees a big update today that addresses the biggest player complaint the game had on launch - the precious water that drained away in real-time, even while you weren’t playing the game. The patch to the early access shooter reworks water so it becomes a currency that you use to infiltrate the game’s brutal maps at different entry points, instead of dripping away and threatening to leave you thirsty and destitute....

The Maw - 8th-13th April Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s freshest videogame releases Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images Time for another sorry week of heaving news-fuel into the Maw’s thousand-and-one gullets and urgh, what’s that brooding stench? It reeks of embargoes in here. The air is foul with it. This week is the week of the inaugural Triple-I Initiative showcase , aka the IIIIs, aka a 45-minute dollop of trailers and announcements from such studios as Slay The Spire creators MegaCrit and Darkest Dungeon developers Red Hook....

The NYT Mini Crossword answers for Sunday, September 14th 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 Sunday, 14th September? Because we have them! Each and every NYT Mini Crossword riddle for the 14th of September is covered here....

The RPS Selection Box: Nic’s bonus games of the year 2024 Games in a box? What is this, 1997?! Image credit:RPS If pushed, I’d describe my 2024 gaming habits as eclectic, but that would actually be a lie. All my favourite games for the year are actually very similar: they are all the best. Unfortunately, the realities of sharing website space with several less-correctos means they didn’t all make this year’s advent calender....

The Sims 4’s next expansion looks perfect for all your reality TV show fantasies Keeping Up With The Goths Image credit:EA You know, I’m surprised that EA has never made a Sims reality show where contestants have to act out odd, Simish challenges on a Truman Show-esque production lot, given how much the games themselves feel like simulators for the trashiest (said lovingly) TV show genre. In the meantime, while it isn’t at all themed reality shows, The Sims 4’s next expansion, Royalty & Legacy, seems like a perfect fit for a fictitious one of your own making....

The Steam Machine is still “on track” for its original release window, according to Valve’s chosen chipmakers When is “early” 2026, anyway Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Update : I am never writing a news post again. Valve’s upcoming Steam Machine reboot might not be as troubled by ongoing memory shortages as previously feared. Or, at least, not as delayed. As spotted by VideoCardz , AMD – who provide the custom processor nestled within the Steam Machine’s matte black walls – recently held a quarterly earnings call, in which CEO Dr....

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 nursing a sore throat into nearly its third week of activity. I wish I wasn’t such a tiny widdle baby, but I strongly feel that no person has ever suffered as I now suffer. Let’s do some links. And then it has these beautiful, quietly strange moments when your little low-poly cyclist makes a certain turn and finds themselves on a rock edge overlooking a lake or a canyon, and they get off the bike and just sit....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are, at least in part, for you reading this column. You cannot disprove this. Tremble before my omniscience. That, or just read this week’s best writing about games (and game related things!) For Aftermath , Luke Plunkett gave a platform to several Kotaku Australia staff to write about their time with the site. The actual staff were locked out of the CMS before they even had a chance to write goodbye posts....

There are almost 20,000 Palworld breeding combos, and now players want to breed Pals with humans Splice splice baby Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Palworld isn’t just about capturing non-copyright-infringing Poke-fied wildlife, slaughtering the poor creatures and/or setting them to work in terrible gun factories. There’s also the frightful question of Pal breeding . Every Pal in the game can be bred with every other Pal to produce a Pal subspecies with a chance of inheriting traits from its parents....

There’s a new Platinum game hidden in the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake that’s actually a remake of a rework of a Zone of the Enders 3 prototype Crossing alternate timelines Image credit:Konami / Platinum Did you know that the original Metal Gear Solid 3 on PS2 had a reworked Zone of the Enders 3 prototype hidden in it? I didn’t. The secret minigame in question is “Guy Savage”, a barebones hack-and-slasher featuring hook swords, bestial transformations and zombie coppers....

What’s in a name? Image credit:Logitech We’re always on the lookout for the best gaming mice , but it’d be fair to say the name conventions are a bit of a mess. The Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 is a great example of this: Fantastic mouse, terrible name. Get this fantastic gaming mouse for $99.99 ‘renewed’ Image credit: Logitech Logitech G Pro x Superlight 2 $139.99 ( $99.99 renewed ) See here While the white version will set you back an extra ten bucks renewed, the black model is down to $99....

Through modding wizardry, a seemingly cut Ashley opening level has been found in Resident Evil 4 Remake What could have been The funny thing about games is that while making them, if you put something in them, it’s quite hard to take that thing back out again. Who knows what that might break! Which can of course lead to people finding things that were never meant to be seen, like cut parts of a game, which is pretty much exactly what has happened to Resident Evil 4 Remake through the discovery of a level all about Ashley....

Total War: Warhammer 3 might finally be giving its cowardly AI some oomph Actually I never got off my bullshit Image credit:Creative Assembly I tend to play Total War: Warhammer 3 closer to an RPG than a strategy game . Balance? Leave me alone, for I am immersed in the stinky fantasy of being a sniveling Skaven bin-licker, commanding my slaves to mine useless gold purely because it irritates my dwarfish enemies....

Valve point to Mastercard restrictions as the payment firm deny influencing adult game removals No delisting for the blame game Image credit:Valve Financial service giants Mastercard have denied accusations that they sought to influence the recent removal of adult/NSFW games from Steam and Itch.io , claiming that they have “not evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms,” and that they allow all lawful transactions....

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is free to keep forever on Steam, as long as you’re quick about it Can’t argue with free It’s been 10 years since Fatshark’s Warhammer Tide years kicked off, starting with Warhammer: End times - Vermintide , and to celebrate that anniversary the developer has been offering up various in-game events and updates in both Vermintide 2 and Darktide. Earlier this week Vermintide 2 received a free new level, a point we’ll come back to, but the big thing you should know first is that you can pick up the co-op dark fantasy game for free on Steam right now, and keep it forever....

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Image credit:Old Book Illustrations / Karl Fröhlich All aboard 2024, my dudes! Let me tell you, I have started off the new year anxious as heck, and despite insisting I wouldn’t watch the Hootenanny (never the Hootenanny) I once again watched the Hootenanny. Jools loves his boogie woogie. I can’t say for sure the two things - the angs and the boogie woogie - are related, but I wouldn’t rule it out....

What’s the point of no return in Wuchang Fallen Feathers? Where is the point of no return, and what changes in-game? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/505 Games Wondering what the point of no return is in Wuchang Fallen Feathers? There’s only one save slot in Wuchang Fallen Feathers, and like most Soulslikes , the game regularly auto-saves, locking you into certain decisions. This plus the cryptic nature of NPC questlines can make getting all 4 endings difficult, and this difficulty is doubled by the fact that a point of no return exists about two thirds into the campaign....

When does Elden Ring: Nightreign release? Everything we know on Elden Ring: Nightreign’s release times in all regions Image credit:Bandai Namco Wondering when Elden Ring: Nightreign releases? The first Elden Ring spinoff, Nightreign offers players the chance to visit Limveld, a pocket realm somewhere in the Lands Between, and fight deadly Nightlords in intense co-op matches. If you like the traditional hard-as-nails challenge of FromSoftware games but also enjoy a dash of roguelike mechanics, you’ll feel right at home....