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Pathologic 3 is the rare game about healing that knows healing can be cruel Butchering “Butchering Pathologic” - Part 2: The Care Image credit:Ice-Pick Lodge / Rock Paper Shotgun Butchering “Butchering Pathologic” is a series of articles on Pathologic 3, inspired by Quintin Smith’s peerless retrospective for the original game . Last time, we butchered the Clock . Today, we’re thinking about bodies, disease and discipline. Videogames have given us many fascinating healing mechanics and ideas about healing, from the motley support playstyles of Overwatch to the musical cooldown management of Wild Growth , but one thing developers rarely capture is that healing is an expression of power over somebody....

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds: Battlegrounds has added destructible terrain Though only on one map right now, and quite limited Image credit:Krafton The multiplayer FPS which fools would tell you is named PUBG: Battlegrounds has added destructible terrain in an update today, letting you dig your own hole or punch through to enemies. Some might tell you this is inspired by Fortnite or Minecraft, especially considering you can dig with a pickaxe, but in my heart it’s further confirmation that Plunkbat is a stag & hen weekend simulator....

Potential BIOS dive aside, Battlefield 6 goes surprisingly easy on PC hardware GPUs and settings tested in DICE’s hoo-rahhing shooter Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/EA Battlefield 6 marks the first time, in all my years of hardwaring, that I have been summoned to someone’s house in order to make a PC game work. I can’t offer this Jim’ll Fix It service to everyone, not least because IGN’s lawyers have issues with the name, so I’ll just say this: Enabling Secure Boot and TPM 2....

Puzzle masterpiece Threes! is back to eat every moment of your spare time, this time on Steam Deck Numbers up! Image credit:Asher Vollmer Wave goodbye to every moment of spare time - and probably quite a bit of time you probably intended to spend doing other things - next week, as modern-day puzzle masterpiece Threes! comes to Steam. It’ll have Steam Deck support too, so there’s truly no escaping its irresistible charms....

Risk Of Rain creators wind down work on unannounced project and take jobs at Valve Hopoout Image credit:Gearbox Publishing Hopoo Games, the studio who made chewy roguelike Risk Of Rain and its moreish 3D sequel Risk Of Rain 2 , are shutting up shop and taking jobs at Valve. They’re no longer working on a previously unannounced game called “Snail”, say the developers on Xitter . Instead, the studio co-founders Paul Morse and Duncan Drummond (plus “many other talented members”) are taking up game development roles with the Steam owners....

Ro-Ghoul codes list [February 2026] A list of Ro-Ghoul codes for free Yen, RC Cells, and cosmetics. Image credit:@SushiWalrus Looking for the latest Ro-Ghoul codes? Based on the anime/manga series Tokyo Ghoul, Ro-Ghoul is one of many unofficial fighting game adaptations that’s grown massively popular on Roblox . This game allows you to pick your faction: you can either terrorise the night as one of the titular Ghouls, or attempt to defend humanity by hunting the monsters as a member of the CCG....

Rockstar finally reveal Red Dead Redemption PC port for October 2024 release, together with Undead Nightmare They’ve remarstoned it at last Image credit:Take-Two Interactive One of the games industry’s worst-kept secrets, the PC version of Red Dead Redemption , is a worst-kept secret no longer. After an unconscionable period of leakage , Rockstar have at last confirmed the open world port, together with a PC version of its Undead Nightmare expansion - they’re coming to Rockstar Store, Steam and the Epic Games Store on October 29th 2024....

RPS Asks: what are you favourite games for the winter malaise? Snow day Image credit:ConcernedApe I am a Winter baby. My birthday is very close to Christmas, and so you’d think this might make me immune to the serotonin-sapping effects of the greyest season in a “I was born of the cold. Moulded by it” kind of way. No such luck, I’m afraid. So, since there’s only so many Vitamin D supplements and delightfully festive lunchtime Gin and Tonics one can consume, I figured I’d ask: what are your favourite comfort games for the bleaker months?...

Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Teleporting cigarettes I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:World Ø 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 hugging pocket monsters, schoolyard violence, a “weirdass, janky imsim… thing” with teleporting cigarettes, and more. Check out all these attractive and interesting indie games!...

Sega sell Company of Heroes developer Relic and lays off more staff at Creative Assembly and Hardlight It’s the second round of layoffs at the Total War Studio in the last six months Image credit:Sega Sonic Dream Team developer Hardlight and Total War studio Creative Assembly have been hit with a round of layoffs by publisher SEGA Europe, affecting around 240 roles across Creative Assembly, SEGA Europe, and Hardlight, via IGN ....

Sega’s beautiful singing boy Ecco the Dolphin is getting a new game from the original creator, with a countdown underway Not just a handsome seaswine, but a “bridge between worlds” Image credit:Sega / Screenhub There are two blue wolves inside you. One is actually a hedgehog, prone to loop-the-loops and drowning in caves. The other one is actually a dolphin, who is also prone to loop-the-loops and drowning in caves. Clarification: when I said you I meant me....

Shapez 2 gets an Early Access release date and a new trailer to explain how it’ll consume all your free time August 15th is factory day Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Gamera Games I like a good factory game, but there’s a fine line between “I enjoy this” and “I am uninstalling this before it ruins my year.” I can’t tell on which side of the divide Shapez 2 will fall, but I’m planning on finding out when it launches in Early Access next month on August 15th....

Sharkmob launch public playtest for Exoborne, their open world shoot-O-mecha-looter It’s running till 17th Feb Image credit:Sharkmob AB Sharkmob have punched the green light, cracked open the hangar doors and launched a public playtest for their windblown open world extraction shooter Exoborne , which I would gingerly summarise as Anthem meets Just Cause with a touch of PUBG. From today till 17th February at 1pm GMT, 2pm CET, or 5am PST, you’ll be able to get your fill of mech-o-looting via Steam ....

Should you choose Eleera or Gorak in Star Wars Outlaws? Here are all outcomes for sharing the news of the Pyke traitor Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Wondering if you should choose Eleera or Gorak in Star Wars Outlaws? After infiltrating Gorak’s base in Star Wars Outlaws , you’ll receive information that there is an informant working to overthrow Gorak. As part of the ‘Underworld’ main quest you’ll also meet Eleera, an agent for the rival gang, Crimson Dawn....

Silent Hill 2 remake studio Bloober are working on another Konami game and it’s “truly special” “Our collaboration with Konami has been incredibly fruitful,” says Blooberboss Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Konami Silent Hill 2 remake wranglers Bloober Team have emerged from the newly high-resolution, volumetric fog to threaten us with the prospect of another “game based on Konami’s IP”. Thank heavens, I was beginning to think we’d never get a new Frogger....

Splitgate 2 devs 1047 Games lay off more staff as the shooter heads “back to beta”, eyeing a 2026 rerelease Servers for the original Splitgate being shut down in a month’s time Image credit:1047 Games Splitgate 2 is being taken “back to beta” by developers 1047 Games, who say it “launched too early” and are now planning to rerelease it next year. The move has reportedly seen the studio lay off 45 workers, and they’ve confirmed that the original Splitgate ’s servers will be shutting down in a month’s time....

Star Citizen is free for the next few days, please don’t accidentally buy a $300 spaceship Cloud Imperium’s Foundation Festival is underway with myriad discounts Image credit:Cloud Imperium My love of the chilly, lightless heavens is equalled only by my love of free things, and right now, Star Citizen ticks both boxes. Cloud Imperium are offering free access to the long-in-the-making space game until July 19th, as part of the latest Foundation Festival ....

Star Wars Outlaws feels about as Han Solo-ish as, well, an Ubisoft open world game 60 minutes with Massive Entertainment’s grand yet bland spin-off story Image credit:Ubisoft I’ve been trying to figure out what “scoundrelly” means in a videogame context. Whatever it means, Han Solo homage Star Wars Outlaws ain’t it. Here are some basically non-scoundrelly, very Ubisofty things I did during my 60 minutes with Massive Entertainment’s open world adaptation at Summer Game Fest this week: climbed around rectangular arrangements of yellow handholds....

Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are “not properly valuing” developers, says former Bethesda exec They are “hurting a lot of people”, observes Hines Image credit:Microsoft Former Bethesda marketing chief Pete Hines has been chatting about the ups and downs of videogame subscription platforms, such as Microsoft’s Game Pass, PlayStation Plus and whatever the hell Ubisoft are calling theirs at the minute. Subisoftscription? UbiPassPlus? Answers on a postcard. In his time at Bethesda under Microsoft, Hines helped Bethesda bring Redfall , Hi-Fi Rush and Starfield to Xbox Game Pass....

Sumerian Six is Shadow Tactics but you’re hitting Nazis in the back of the skull with a hammer It’s got a demo too Image credit:Devolver Digital I would not be at all surprised to learn that the voice actors in stealthy Mimimi-style cone’em up Sumerian Six are Americans doing impressions of British accents. The opening radio chat between starting squad member Sid and a pal has that telltale charming tinge of overeager cockney....