All Bell Bearing locations in Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree Find a total of 10 Bell Bearing locations in the Elden Ring DLC Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for Bell Bearing locations in Shadow Of The Erdtree? There are 10 Bell Bearings in the Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC. Some are found in hanging pots while others are dropped by NPCs, but regardless of how you’ve obtained them, offering a Bell Bearing to the Twin Maiden Husks at the Roundtable Hold will expand their shop inventory with the Bell Bearing’s items....

All Mask Shard locations in Hollow Knight Silksong How to find all 20 Mask Shards Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry Hoping to gather Mask Shards to increase your health in Hollow Knight Silksong? Smart move, that, as most enemies in the game can chunk your health in seconds if you’re not careful. More Masks means you can take more of a beating before being sent back to the nearest Bench, and the longer you can survive a fight, the more you learn....

All today’s Xbox Developer Direct 2024 streams in one place Avowed! Hellblade 2! Ara! Diablo 4! Elder Scrolls! Indiana Jones! Image credit:Microsoft Today’s the day of Xbox Developer Direct 2024 , a select showcase of forthcoming Microsoft-published games, from sorcerous RPGs to intricate strategy games, which begins at 12pm PT, 3pm ET and 8pm UK . Wait, stop! Come back here, you silly goose. You don’t need to go anywhere. I’ve embedded the livestream below, together with the key things you need to know about the games in question....

AMD’s FSR Redstone upgrades are a match for DLSS, even if they slay a sacred cow to do it A test drive of these Radeon RX 9000-exclusive performance tools Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Today, AMD are prodding the launch button for FSR Redstone: a suite of upscaling, frame generation, and ray tracing upgrades that, just maybe, might stop Nvidia DLSS 4 ’s campaign of strutting across the canteen and slapping FSR’s lunch tray over in front of all the other graphics card technologies....

Angeline Era is all about the joy of hidden worlds and the looping frenzy of combat Dodgems Post-release bump Image credit:Analgesic Productions As a kid playing RPGs in the 90s, I’d roam backdrops spamming the pick-up button in hopes of secret treasure. I’d do this especially in PS1 Final Fantasies, with their deceptively inert hand-drawn environments, and their greasy invisible walls. You’d smoosh Squall Leonhart’s galloping form up against the level border as though bashing a skirting board with a hoover nozzle, and every now and then, you’d be rewarded with the hitch of a searching animation....

Arc Raiders is out now, and the best thing about it so far is bumsliding through a buried desert city Singing a different dune Image credit:Nexon I’m not that keen on extraction games like Arc Raiders . The last two I played at length were Tom Clancy’s The Division (specifically its Survival mode), which features possibly my favourite videogame piles of trash, and Hunt: Showdown , which features possibly my favourite (i....

Arc Raiders review The art of extraction Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios A deliciously tense extraction shooter that’s surprisingly social and feels different every round. Developer: Embark Studios Publisher: Embark Studios Release: October 30th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam , Epic Games Store Price: £31/$40/€40 Reviewed on: Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti (laptop), Windows 11 Ten hours into Arc Raiders , I felt betrayal’s sharp sting for the first time....

Arcane’s second season will be its last, says its first trailer Arriving on Netflix this November I’ve never played League Of Legends and I have no interest in doing so, but Arcane was superb. Set within the world of Riot’s MOBA and starring several of its playable characters, Netflix’s mini series was better animated and better written than any of its peers. A second season is on the way and due to arrive this November....

Ark 2 will “hopefully” release in early access by 2027, once Studio Wildcard crack the dark art of soulslike combat Currently, they have their hands full with Survival Ascended Image credit:Studio Wildcard Ark 2 , the troubled sequel to dino husbandry survival game Ark: Survival Evolved , will “hopefully” launch into early access by 2027, according to Studio Wildcard co-founder Jeremy Stieglitz. The key question appears to be when to shift the focus away from Ark: Survival Ascended , the original Ark’s Unreal Engine 5 revamp, which launched in early access in 2023....

Assetto Corsa Rally aims to fill a Colin McRae-shaped void, and it’s out in early access next month Sim racing stalwarts Kunos Simulazioni and Supernova Games Studios are firing up the Quattro Image credit:505 Games Attention, folks who like the idea of flinging a fire-breathing Group B monster down some dirt tracks. Assetto Corsa devs Kunos are bringing out a rally sim . It’s called Assetto Corsa Rally, therefore instantly winning the inventive video game name award for this year....

At long last, the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series on PC gets classic font and music options Finally, console parity has been achieved Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Square Enix When Square Enix announced the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster collection for Final Fantasies 1 through 6 back in 2021 , I was overjoyed. For too long had PC folks had to ‘make do’ with the quite nasty mobile ports of these games, and the Pixel Remasters looked set to finally rectify that with proper versions replete with their original artwork....

Avenge yourself on the icebergs that sunk you in Titanic Re-Christened: Maiden Vengeance Draw me like one of your asset packs Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Loyal Mussy Pro tip: if you send RPS an email of your game with the hook “I know you like goofy stuff…” then, yes, there’s a decent chance I’ll take the bait, mirth-parched wanderer in the endless dessert left by a goofphagic modernity as I am. Titanic Re-Christened: Maiden Vengeance is almost unplayable in my browser - it can’t seem to decide whether I’m clicking on the game on the itch....

Avowed’s combat wasn’t ready to show at reveal, Obsidian admit, but they’ve made it “feel more juicy” since “Sometimes you can lose sight on the importance of the prioritization of some things,” Image credit:Obsidian Entertainment Obsidian have spent a lot of time tuning up Avowed ’s combat in response to negative reactions to the new action-RPG’s initial reveal footage at an Xbox developer direct , with gameplay director Gabe Paramo conceding that the team could have oiled the hinges and buffed the contacts a little more before showing the game off....

Balatro ‘95 perfects procrastination by modding the roguelike deckbuilder into classic Windows Solitaire Wave goodbye to every free moment you have Image credit:Playstack/Duncan Molloy If you somehow haven’t fallen down the Balatro hole just yet, that slope is about to get a whole lot slippier. The mesmerising roguelike spin on poker is easy enough to lose an entire afternoon to by itself, but now it’s been combined with the granddaddy of all computer-related procrastination: classic Windows Solitaire....

Best Battlefield 6 AK-205 Carbine loadout and build guide The AK-205 Carbine is an absolute laser beam in Battlefield 6 - here’s how to make it even better Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/EA Want the best AK-205 loadout in Battlefield 6? This fast-firing Carbine has minimal recoil and is one of the most precise automatic weapons in the game, even if its damage per bullet is lower than other guns. In this guide we’ll explain the best AK-205 build and loadout in Battlefield 6....

Best Heavy Bowgun in Monster Hunter Wilds These are the best endgame Heavy Bowguns in Wilds right now Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom What is the best Heavy Bowgun in Monster Hunter Wilds? The Heavy Bowgun is what you get when you take a nippy little Light Bowgun, add a whole load more firepower, and then give it a Lance’s shield. HBGs can unleash a colossal amount of damage in a short space of time once you know what you’re doing with them, and if you really want to max out your damage then you should know which final-form upgrades to work towards in the Heavy Bowgun weapon tree ....

Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil introduces you to Anvil via a quest about child labour, a shirtless chase, and quick maths Also, a vaguely Hugh Hefner-inspired fishing magate called Franny Image credit:The Beyond Skyrim team The modders behind Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil , the massive modding project aiming to add a post-Oblivion-crisis version of the Imperial province to the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ’s map, have given a lengthy tour of the latest city they’ve whipped into shape....

Black Ops 6 Zombies Liberty Falls easter egg walkthrough Here’s how to complete the main quest easter egg on the Black Ops 6 Liberty Falls map Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Activision Want to complete the Liberty Falls easter egg in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies? Black Ops 6 continues the exciting tradition of featuring a tonne of easter eggs within its Zombies maps, both of which have a main quest that requires a number of steps to complete....

Borderlands 4 review Betterlands Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/2K With improved movement, devastating Action Skills that can be adjusted to suit your playstyle, and very limited Claptrap appearances, Borderlands 4 is easily the best Borderlands game yet. Developer: Gearbox Software Publisher: 2K Release: September 12th 2025 On: Windows From: Steam , Epic Games Store Price: $69.99/€79.99/£59.99 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-13600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080, Windows 10 While everyone complains about the technical state that Borderlands 4 released in, whether it’s choppy performance or the lack of an FOV slider on consoles, I found myself on the much happier end of the spectrum....

Call of Duty follows Fortnite in adding Fallout skins, out this week Who wore it better? Image credit:Activision Look, who knows when we’ll see Fallout 5 - there’s an increasingly less-than-zero chance we’ll all be living in a real post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland by the time Bethesda get around to revealing anything, if their deliberately slow approach to The Elder Scrolls 6 (it’s been nearly THIRTEEN years since Skyrim ) is much to go by....