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Rocksteady gift early Suicide Squad players in-game cash to apologise for game finishing itself Developers hard at work on early access bugs Like many an online-required live service game before, Suicide Squad’s premium access release has been marred by technical bugs and glitches, the most severe of which saw players logging in to discover the main storyline already completed. I guess Rocksteady were serious about not wanting people to treat it like a “life commitment” ....

RTX 5090 vs RTX 5080 vs RTX 5070 Ti: Which laptop GPU best deserves to top your lap? Battle of the Blackwells Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Every couple of years, I remember gaming laptops exist , repressing the shame and horror at my own coverage failures deep enough to focus on the flat-folding PCs that are out there. And, more importantly, which amongst them is worth buying. This time, let us consider the three most frame-abundant laptop GPUs in Nvidia’s current stable: the GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 Ti, all namesakes of their variably desirable desktop counterparts, and very likely the graphics chips du jour if you’re looking at the speedier end of the notebook market....

Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Getting about with rope arrows, public transport, and a Mary Poppins umbrella I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:@Vivarium_Game Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by multiple rope arrows, some markedly different public transport experiences, a casual bit of Mary Poppsining, and more!...

Should you keep the pearl in Star Wars Outlaws? Here are all outcomes for the pearl in Star Wars Outlaws Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Wondering if you should keep the pearl in Star Wars Outlaws? Choosing who to give the pearl to in Star Wars Outlaws is a choice you’ll face after completing the main Safecracker quest on Kijimi and the subsequent ‘Broker’ questline for Danka. Essentially, Danka will ask Kay to help her fulfil a contract for the Ashiga Clan....

Shout out to Red Dead Redemption’s PC requirements for allowing me to finally meet the recommended specs for something That was my grandpappy’s RTX 2070 Image credit:Rockstar It’s always vaguely reassuring to see your own card mentioned by name in the recommended specs for a new release - even if that new release is just a slightly pomaded-up version of 14-year-old open world console game Red Dead Redemption . I could write a laborious metaphor about someone coming looking for me in a saloon using whatever that literary technique that Irvine Welsh does is called where you spell out the accents, but I won’t bother....

Silent Hill 1 remake announced with the briefest of teaser trailers Bloober and Konami collaborate on another horror game Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Konami Well well well, Silent Hill 2 remake developers Bloober Team are working on a remake of the very first Silent Hill in collaboration with publishers Konami. Please give me a few seconds to pat myself furiously on the back for asking Bloober about the prospects of an original Silent Hill remake, way back in August last year....

Someone finally beat the hardest racetrack ever made in Trackmania, and it only took them 220 hours to finish Winner winner, chicken dipper Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Ubisoft It took over a month of racing and 220 hours of playtime but a Trackmania player has finally beaten the racing game’s most horrendously difficult map. For those of you only now noticing that tens of thousands of Twitch viewers have been religiously watching video game Hot Wheels, let me elucidate....

Sorry, I only drink wine that was aged listening to the Nier Automata soundtrack now The ‘S’ in 9S stands for ‘sommelier’ Image credit:ONKYO DIRECT Well, it’s been a long hard road, but since I vowed to only consume alcohol matured while having game soundtracks forcibly blasted into its molecules, giving up drinking has been a lot easier. Now, to take the final gulp of my Snake Eater-theme-reared IPA, and open up my web browser…....

Steam isn’t the only place having a summer sale, as Itch.io launches its own sunny deals Itching to spend Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Graffiti Games You might have seen that £10 will go a long way in the Steam summer sale , but let me do you one better. Indie game store Itch.io has begun its own summer sale , and for those willing to delve into its rainbow-coloured heap of throwaway toys and fun experiments, plenty of deals await....

Streets of Fortuna is a chaotic The Sims-like in an ambitious open-world city sandbox, made with the help of Dwarf Fortress creators Steal, cook, trade, assassinate - or just romance everyone you meet Image credit:Kitfox Games For me, sandbox games are never better when there’s an inherent chaos about to erupt at any given second. In a literal sandbox that might be anything from a kid burying a freshly-laid turd like a mischievous cat ready to be stepped on by an unsuspecting trespasser, gathering handfuls of grit to lob in a another kids’ eyes or swallowing a bunch of sand (hopefully turd-free) in pursuit of alchemising diamonds in their stomach....

Sunderfolk is a gripping co-op strategy game from former Blizzard talent that wants to “bring back game night” - using your phone Jackbox meets Gloomhaven meets Xbox SmartGlass Image credit:Dreamhaven I will not lie to you, gentle reader. When I first laid eyes on Secret Door’s Sunderfolk , while lurking to the rear of a gaggle of journomancers at a preview event last week, I let out an ostentatious sigh. Fortunately, I still mask up to preview events, and am thus free to adopt all kinds of snotty facial expressions without being set upon by burly PRs and shoved into the minifridge for later disposal....

That Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag sea shanty deluge was just down to “technical issues”, Ubisoft say It just happened that a bunch of tracks from the game with a remake reportedly imminent needed sticking back up Image credit:Ubisoft I be a poor journo. Newly come from the official Ubisoft music YouTube channel. I spend my life in jeopardy. Of a publisher suddenly turning around and saying that a sudden mass reupload of Black Flag ’s sea shanties was in fact just a case of behind-the-scenes issues, rather than another harbinger of a remake announcement....

The Elder Scrolls 6 is “progressing really well”, Bethesda shout from the kitchen as they baste a GTA-shaped turkey “The time pressure that players put on us, we don’t put on ourselves” Image credit:Bethesda “As the internet likes to tell us, it’s been a while.” Please keep waiting, there are some magazines over there if you need them. “It’s a process.” Shouting won’t increase the speed at which it happens. Do you “want the turkey that is in the oven for long enough to be delicious when it finally comes out of the oven”?...

The Last of Us season 2’s latest trailer once again skirts around that Big Narrative Event Swing and a miss Image credit:HBO/ Naughty Dog We all know what’s coming up in The Last of Us season 2, right? I mean, everyone knows what happens quite early on in the game, because it was a pretty controversial narrative choice so everyone and their mum has spoiled it. I haven’t played it myself and I know what happens, but it seems like streaming service Max is happy to pretend that everything is peaches and cream (more or less) in their adaptation....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Wanderstop, Midnight Murder Club, new Inkle game and a spooky warehouse Image credit:Oro Interactive/Drillhounds New week, new PC games, new Maw liveblog, hungering for our headlines! But first, the obligatory paragraph of twaddle: lately I’ve been wondering whether we should put the Maw on a diet. The creature may be indiscriminate, but we news sentinels have noticed that stuffing the Gorging Chutes with certain story flavours can produce… eruptions....

The Sims 4’s Lovestruck expansion adds a dating app and outdoor woohoo True romance Image credit:EA Maxis The Sims 4 is continuing its efforts to represent all the worst parts of modern living. The last expansion added predatory landlords and mould-soaked apartments . The next expansion will add the ability to create dating app profiles for your sims. It’s called Lovestruck and it’ll launch on July 25th. The Sims 4 Lovestruck expansion trailer....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sunday’s are for being mildly optimistic about the future for a few short hours. Before something bad happens, let’s read this week’s best writing about games (and game related things!) For The Baffler, Noah Caldwell-Gervais wrote about games that employ repetition, both cynically and transformatively. This is just the era we live in, our own stagnant age in the Lands Between. With Disney and its subsidiaries sucking all of the air out of the room to repackage the same concept over and over, Hollywood has reached the stale conclusion that the same story can be told repetitively....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for cat. I’m currently in the process of acquiring a gorgeous white and ginger kitten for the local shelter. I have seen four seconds of footage and I’m already smitten, kitten. Before I spend the weekend getting very excited about big stretches, let’s read this week’s best writing about games (and game related things!) Jessica Conditt of Engagdet spoke to the Outlast folks about the CIA brainwashing experiments that influenced their games....

The Tea Ceremony walkthrough - Assassin’s Creed Shadows All correct answers, and whether to confront Otama or Wakasa Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Should you confront Otama or Wakasa in “The Tea Ceremony” quest in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? Naoe’s overarching objective in Assassin’s Creed Shadows is to assassinate all of the Onryo - the group of masked evildoers at large in Sengoku-era Japan. One of the earliest Onryo assassination missions targets the Golden Teppo - the masked woman who shot Naoe during that fateful night outside Katano Castle....

There’s no plans for cross progression in Helldivers 2 right now, but don’t lose all hope just yet Don’t get too cross, now Image credit:Arrowhead Game Studios Anyone that’s spent any amount of time playing Helldivers 2 recently will already know that the thing the game needs right now isn’t new features, its fixes. A massive patch dropped last month bringing in over 200 bug fixes (you know, the technological kind of bugs), as part of the dev team’s promise to get the game in running order again....