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Overwatch 2 may get 6v6 again as Blizzard try to bring back the “chaotic, over-the-top” variety of the first game But headcounts are only part of the picture Image credit:Microsoft / esportsedition Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller has posted a lengthy blog on Steam about the transition from 6v6 player matches in the first Overwatch to 5v5 in the poorly received free-to-play sequel. It’s a juicy read for armchair designers and lapsed Overwatchers like myself, packing in analysis of class roles and the shift from the free choice of heroes to single hero picks and enforced team compositions....

Palworld battles multiplayer cheaters with a new update, but admits it’s “difficult” to solve straight away Pocketpair confirms reports of cheaters on their official servers Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair They might not have an enemy in Nintendo’s legal team just yet , but Palworld developers Pocketpair have a different battle to fight in the meantime: online cheaters in the immensely popular ‘Pokémon with guns’ survival game . The studio confirmed reports of cheaters causing grief for those playing online in the game’s official servers....

Palworld: All admin server commands Here’s all the server commands in Palworld Image credit:Pocketpair Want to know all the admin commands in Palworld? Playing Palworld with friends is one of the best ways to capture all of the Pals in the game and truly lay claim to the Palpagos Islands, and one of the best ways to do this is on a private server. If you’re the admin of a dedicated Palworld server , you might be wondering about the commands at your disposal....

Paradox are “making adjustments” to Bloodlines 2’s day-one vampire clan DLC plans, following backlash Folks’ Lasombra and Toreador feedback has been heard Image credit:Paradox / The Chinese Room Well, there you go. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 publisher Paradox look like they might be sticking a stake in their rather unpopular plans to sell two of the game’s vampire clans as paid day-one DLC. I say “might be” because nothing specific’s been committed to yet, beyond some nebulous making of “adjustments ahead of launch” in response to fan feedback on the gating-off of Lasombra and Toreador bloodsuckers....

Pass Man: My doomed attempt to play Rematch as a support class Sharing is caring, but not always scoring Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Sloclap/Kepler Interactive Fantastical football sim Rematch has, we’re told, a passing problem . Specifically, no-one is doing it. While I suspect this dearth of teamplay is exaggerated in the darkness of upset Steam forum posts, I definitely remember a lot of ballhogging going on in the third person booter’s open beta ....

PlayerUnknown wants to listen to your Prologue: Go Wayback feedback, just not all of it You should listen to mine though, Brendan Image credit:PlayerUnknown Productions There are two Brendan Greene’s (or PlayerUnknown’s, however you prefer to refer to the game dev). There is the Brendan Greene who wants to listen to the feedback offered up by those partaking in the early access period of his current game, Prologue: Go Wayback ....

Post-apocalyptic shooter Misery’s Steam page pulled following alleged takedown by Stalker devs GSC Game World Misery’s developer claims it’s an “an abuse of power” and that they’ll fight to have their game reinstated Image credit:GSC Game World As of writing, I can verify that Misery’s Steam page has gone missing, but it appears that all of the public info currently available about this apparent claim comes entirely from the Steam post in which Platypus share that email....

Prince Of Persia’s creator has seen the series “struggle to find its identity” at Ubisoft, but thinks they’ve finally found an elegant solution Jordan Mechner on the sands of time, and making games based in history In the mind of Jordan Mechner, the sands of time flow both ways. It happens even when he doesn’t mean it to. When making the Myst -like adventure game The Last Express , he set his story on a train crossing Europe in 1914 - the same year Mechner’s own grandfather became a teenage refugee, his life in a Jewish enclave on the Austro-Hungarian border shattered....

Promise Mascot Agency has a solution for the open world genre’s most heinous crime One of them, anyway Image credit:Kaizen Game Works The demo for Kaizen’s Promise Mascot Agency throws a lot of ideas you, but at its heart, it’s just a game about being a good boss. Stripped back, it’s part open world driving game, part business management. You pull up in the cursed town of Kaso-Machi, a broke yakuza with a sentient severed digit hanging out in the back of your grimy pickup truck....

PUBG owner Krafton have acquired Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi Rush IP The move is the company’s “first significant investment in the Japanese video game market” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Softworks Tango Gameworks are back from the dead. The Hi-Fi Rush studio have been acquired - alongside the IP for future games in the rhythm action series - by South Korean company Krafton, who also own PUBG Studios and Striking Distance, among others....

Romeo is a Dead Man review – an offbeat action game that finds its groovy, gory rhythm What fight through yonder Windows breaks? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Grasshopper Manufacture Romeo is a Dead Man begins as a chaotic mishmash of visual styles and storytelling ideas, and ends as an assured hack ’n’ slash whose oddness works in its favour. Developer: Grasshopper Manufacture Publisher: Grasshopper Manufacture Release: February 11th 2026 On: Windows From: Steam Price: $50/£42/€44 Reviewed on: Intel Core i9-10900K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3090, Windows 10 Like the summonable, energy-shooting ghoul I cultivated on my spaceship’s zombie farm, Romeo is a Dead Man is a bit of a grower....

Saudi government-backed firm and “giga project” now co-owns fighting game tournament Evo Public Investment Fund company Qiddiya buy stake in long-running event series Image credit:Bandai Namco A company backed by the Saudi Arabian government’s Public Investment Fund have become the co-owner of the Evolution Championship Series (Evo) fighting game tournament. Following Sony’s sale of their stake in Evo , with India-based esports company Nodwin gaming buying it up, the event’s co-owners have been Nodwin and talent management company RTS....

Silksong may release before September, given that it’ll be publicly playable by then Team Cherry game to appear in museum exhibition Image credit:IGN / ACMI / Rock Paper Shotgun Hollow Knight: Silksong ’s release date remains a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a shitpost , beyond that it’ll fall in 2025 , but we do at least now know that you’ll be able to play it in September, as long as you go to one particular museum in Melbourne, Australia....

Sons of the Forest multiplayer: How to play with friends in Sons of the Forest Learn how to team up with friends in Sons of the Forest Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games Limited Want to know how to play multiplayer in Sons of the Forest? Sons Of The Forest has finally released out of early access, and there’s no better time to dive into its unsettling mutant-infested shores. But you need not go alone....

Sony are suing Tencent to “prevent irreparable harm” inflicted by Horizon knockoff Light of Motiram Aloy Aloy Aloy, what’s all this then Image credit:Polaris Quest Horizon Zero Dawn / Forbidden West publishers Sony have called in the lawyers over Tencent’s upcoming Light of Motiram , arguing in a lawsuit filing (spotted by Reuters ) that the post-apocalyptic action adventure looks a little too much like their post-apocalyptic action adventure. The case alleges that Light of Motiram, currently in development at Tencent subsidiary Polaris Quest, is a “slavish clone” of Guerrilla Games’ original series, and seeks to block its release on copyright infringement grounds....

State Of Decay 3’s latest trailer goes for the emotions with a big makeshift cleaver Zombies still a thorn in the side of wily survivors Image credit:Microsoft Those undead just keep on coming back from the grave as Microsoft screen a new trailer for State Of Decay 3, your latest helping of sorrowful yet bloodthirsty zombie-bopping survivalism. I reviewed State Of Decay the first and thought it was a cool scrappy underdog next to larger zombie-botherers such as Left 4 Dead or DayZ ....

Steam’s latest Fest offers discounts on games you can play over and over forever Infinity on the cheap Video games must be three hours-long or infinite and nothing in between. The latest Steam event is designed to celebnrate the latter. The Endless Replayability Fest runs from now until May 20th, “celebrating games and demos you can play over and over again.” The trailer for Steam’s Endless Replayability Fest.Watch on YouTube...

Stormgate early access review: this StarCraft wannabe brims with potential, but makes a poor first impression Drizzled veteran Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Frost Giant Studios Developer: Frost Giant Studios Publisher: Frost Giant Studios Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam Price: Free Reviewed on: AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Nvidia RTX 2080 Super, 32GB RAM, Windows 10 Stormgate is a confusing proposition. It’s an RTS directed by former Blizzard developers that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike StarCraft ....

Suicide Squad devs say login and server issues are “not an easy nut to crack” But are top priority to fix Rocksteady say addressing these is their top priority, although they ask for patience as the problems are “not an easy nut to crack.” “For our upcoming patches we are looking to address login issues & server issues. And while we might not be able to fix all of those issues right away, I want to assure everyone: This is the top priority for us ,” reads a developer update from February 16th (emphasis theirs)....

Take a shot at Wizard Pool, a fun twist on the cue sport filled with magical balls and shapeshifting tables Strike! Wait Image credit:Grouch, SuitNtie, Negative Karma Wizard Pool! It is, probably, exactly what you think it is. You are a wizard, and you play pool. Well, admittedly there is a smidge more to it than that, alongside a healthy amount of charm. Styled in a way that looks like an N64 game in the kind of way you remember that era looking rather than how it actually looked, you play as Kue, a budding young wizard tasked by his uncle to complete a trial in the form of a tower filled with magical, illogical pool tables....