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Dragon’s Dogma 2: The Caged Magistrate quest walkthrough The fastest way to find and release Waldhar the Magistrate Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Stuck on The Caged Magistrate quest in Dragon’s Dogma 2? It’s an unusual one, for sure. Not least because you’re tasked with springing a man from jail who, it turns out, doesn’t want to leave his cell. Not unless you can tempt him back to society with a recently unearthed collection of ancient history books, anyway....

Dragons Dogma 2 has 392 developer credits next to Starfield’s 3,902, but credits don’t tell the whole story Master workers, all Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Based on credit listings at videogame documentation site MobyGames, action RPG Dragon’s Dogma 2 may have had around a quarter of the headcount compared to other AAA Capcom releases in recent years. MobyGames list just 392 people with 402 roles as having worked on the popular RPG game ....

Dwarf Legacy turns Tolkien’s sturdy miners into bullet hell mountaineers - don’t mythril the demo Shmup and stone Image credit:Wulo Games Remember in The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers when Gandalf falls down the big chasm with the Balrog, smacking the sawdust out of it while plummeting towards the waters of the underworld? Well, give Gandalf a gun, play that sequence in reverse, and swap the Balrog for a flock of Space Invaders, and you are playing something like the demo for Dwarf Legacy – a “bullet-hell precision platformer” from Wulo Games about a dwarf clambering up the inside of a mountain....

Elden Ring: All Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone locations Find all 35 Ancient and Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones across both Elden Ring and Shadow Of The Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/FromSoftware Need more Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones in Elden Ring? Smithing Stones will only take you so far when upgrading your weapons. To truly get the best weapons in Elden Ring , you need to use Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones - and their even rarer cousins, Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones....

Expelled! review Tell tales out of school (in school) Image credit:RPS / Inkle Developer: Inkle Publisher: Inkle Release: March 12th, 2025 On: Windows, MacOS From: Steam Price: TBA Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti, Windows 10 Verity Amersham’s pockets are overflowing. Her school uniform hides a paperclip, a safety pin, two school badges, two books, a bottle of wine, a bottle of chloroform, a handwritten note, and more....

Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox Like Aesop’s tortoise Image credit:Xbox Game Studios The upcoming reboot for Fable , the fantasy role-playing game of British chortles ’n’ chuckles, has been delayed until next year, says head of Xbox Game Studios Craig Duncan. Developers Playground Games need “more time” to create the world of Albion, it turns out, but Xbox has offered a sparse sprinking of of game footage as compensation for the delay....

Fallout 4’s “next gen” update is out today and might break your mods - here’s how to stop it Avert the dreaded autoupdate Image credit:Microsoft Fallout 4 ’s “next generation” update goes live today. Timed to capitalise on the Fallout TV show’s mad popularity , it’ll encumber the 2015-released open world wasteland RPG with widescreen and ultra-widescreen support, Creation Kit fixes, and a “variety of quest updates” across Steam, Microsoft Store and GOG....

Fallout 76 Power Armor locations and where to find them How to get all the different Power Armor frames Want to find all the Power Armor locations in Fallout 76? Power Armor is a heavy-plated combat suit that makes you look like a Warhammer 40K space marine, and can be found lying around specific locations in the online, multiplayer RPG. While most Power Armor has a standardised design, there are some unique designs out there....

Fallout: London’s next DLC, Last Orders, will be served up early this year if current pint-pulling plans hold “No promises though, not after last time,” warn developers Team FOLON Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Team FOLON It’s a new year, and Fallout: London developers Team FOLON have kicked it off by revealing that the massive Fallout 4 mod’s second DLC is currently planned to rock up in the irradiated tube station of our lives pretty soon....

Final Fantasy 17 needs “a younger generation” of lead developers, suggests FF16 producer Naoki Yoshida also wants Square Enix to “continue challenging ourselves in the action genre” Image credit:Square Enix The latest IAS Game Maker’s Notebook Podcast (embedded in the full article below) is a chat between Sony’s head of independent development Shuhei Yoshida and Square Enix producer, designer and director Naoki Yoshida, one of the big fish behind Final Fantasy 14 and Final Fantasy 16 ....

Formless Star is a charming creature cataloguing game set on an ever-changing planet Gotta find ’em all Image credit:splendidland These days, when there’s so many games coming out that I feel like an overwhelmed dog with free reign in a butcher’s, there’s no sweeter sentence to me than “this game will take you no longer than two hours.” I know for some people length is everything (don’t), but personally I love a short, good time (seriously, leave it out)....

Get AMD’s former fastest graphics card for $500 at Newegg when you buy an open box model The ASRock RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D is one of the fastest variants too. Image credit:ASRock/Rock Paper Shotgun AMD’s flagship RDNA 2 graphics card, the RX 6900 XT, continues to drop in price over in the US. Right now you can pick this once-fastest-ever Radeon GPU for just $500 when you buy an open box model from Newegg....

Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut brings PlayStation trophies and friends to PC for the first time Cross-play multiplayer support’s here, but not platform-level chat (yet, anyway) Image credit:Sony Interactive Entertainment Former PS4 hit Ghost of Tsushima is the next big PlayStation exclusive to make the leap to PC, and it’s bringing some extra PS-shaped features with it. The game’s Director’s Cut - representing the fact this re-release will include its Iki Island expansion and co-op mode - will be the first game that lets you earn PlayStation trophies from your PC, if you so wish....

Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines is out now, adding a shooty new character to the original’s tricky platforming Grappling still included Image credit:Medallion Games There’s no greater tool in video games than a grappling hook. 2022’s Grapple Dog knew that, making it the core ability of its platforming. The ability returns in sequel Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines , out today, although there’s now a second character to play as for those fools who favour shooting over hooking....

Greedfall 2 developers call a strike over working conditions, lack of gender equality and parity, and “global mismanagement” “Spiders feels like a ship sailing with no one at the helm.” Image credit:Spiders Update: This evening, we received the following “communication from the Spiders studio”: Spiders’ management is committed to open and constructive social dialogue. After unsuccessful attempts over the last few days to meet with a delegation of employees, they have proposed a meeting again by the end of the week....

GTA 5’s free Enhanced PC update spoiled by missing in-game text chat, but it may only be temporary Optional upgrade also raises system specs, adds kernel anti-cheat Image credit:Take-Two Interactive Grand Theft Auto 5 on PC has been updated with a new Enhanced version, bundling in a range of tune-ups such as ray-traced graphics and support for AMD FSR and NVIDIA DLSS, new features for GTA Online, and a heaping helping of swankmobiles for your fleet of GTA cars....

Helldivers 2 hotfix tackling some Into the Unjust update crashes out now, and Arrowhead are looking into PC freezing Also, extraction shuttles will now “land in a more safe and sound manner” Image credit:Arrowhead After rapidly declaring that they were looking into action the other day, Helldivers 2 developers Arrowhead have released a hotfix aiming to rectify some of the crashing that’s affected players diving Into the Unjust. Unlike the giant worms I’ve still seen hide nor mandible of, it didn’t take the studio long to address reports of an uptick in technical issues for the shooter following the update’s arrival on Tuesday....

Hit city-builder Manor Lords has been updated with two new maps and a heap of changes Bridging the gap to 1.0 Image credit:Hooded Horse Slavic Magic and Hooded Horse have released a new Manor Lords update, adding a couple of maps, the ability to construct bridges, and a bevy of smaller features to an already quite robust medieval city builder. The update rolls together two beta patches into one, gargantuan changelog....

Homeworld 3’s new Steam demo has atmosphere, but I’m not sure about the controls Try out War Games mode, transfer your progress to the full game Image credit:Gearbox Publishing Good news, star admirals with decent CPM! Gearbox and Blackbird Interactive’s strategy escapade Homeworld 3 has a demo on Steam. It’s been live for a few days, actually, but whether due to the bombardment of other Steam Fest goodies or my being led astray by the similar-but-nerdier Nebulous: Fleet Command , I didn’t try it till last night....

Hooded Horse’s latest strategy RPG looks like some Final Fantasy mercs invaded the world of Battle Brothers Say hello to Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades from 6 Eye Studios Image credit:Hooded Horse I’ve been savouring the modest upsurge in turn-based strategy games about savage and malodorous bands of mercenaries, not least because it accompanies wordlarking as fine as this . Here to join the screaming pile of gushing throats and grazed elbows is Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades , the latest from Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark developers 6 Eyes Studio....