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Take-Two sues GTA 5 account boosters for pressuring “innocent” players into buying unauthorized goods There are no innocent gamers, Take-Two Image credit:Rockstar “While GTA lets players experience a fictional underworld of lawless enterprise, the entities behind PlayerAuctions own and operate a real one". So claims a lawyer for GTA 6 and Borderlands publisher Take-Two Interactive in a complaint filed on Tuesday against third-party asset marketplace PlayerAuctions. They accuse PlayerAuctions - who have already faced similar accusations from Roblox - of selling modified player accounts obtained by hacking, via Polygon ....

Team Fortress 2 Classified is good, clean, hatless fun, despite its cruel Horace ban Bad news, bear Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Valve/Eminoma Team Fortress 2 Classified is out now on Steam , the mod having finally earned Valve’s blessing after a bit of a tizzy with its former name of Team Fortress 2 Classic . That makes it an easy one-click job to install, assuming you have the original TF2 installed, and it’s a fine piece of modding work in general: inspired by the shooter’s past without being beholden to nostalgia , while expanding itself with restored modes and weapons that Valve left on the cutting room floor....

The Alters gets an update that includes a “gamer’s den” and a photo mode so you can take pics of you, yourself, and yours I do not wish to enter the gamer’s den Image credit:11 bit studios The Alters update! Get your The Alters update! Fresh, hot and ready to download, it’s got some quality of life bits, some new features and base things like a “gamer’s den”, distressingly, a photo mode, and a number of other things....

The best weapons in Helldivers 2 These are the best primary and secondary weapons in Helldivers 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PlayStation What are the best weapons in Helldivers 2? On your ship, you’ll find the armory in the corridor before you reach the bridge, which is where you can equip your various primary and secondary weapons, along with your grenade of choice. For each mission, you can equip one primary, one secondary, and one grenade type, and to begin with, your options are limited....

The creator of a game about eternal punishment and frustration is tired of playtesting it Boulder’s gate Image credit:Bashir “ManliestDev” Kashalo The thing everybody forgets about Sisyphus is that he was an absolutely awful bastard who deserved everything he got. Prior to being the guy who has to push a boulder up a hill for all eternity, Sisyphus was a crafty Ephyran tyrant who used to murder his guests for kicks, and who once fathered children with his own niece in a bid to depose his own brother....

The Electronic Wireless Show podcast: a patch of patches Think it’s over at launch? Oh no. This is never over. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Over the past while a few games have had post-launch patches, the exemplars being Starfield and Stardew valley, which have post-launch patches of different kinds and for different reasons. We take some time on the Electronic Wireless Show podcast to talk about this patch of patches, and what it was like in the good ol’ days, where a broken game came out and stayed broken, gosh darn it!...

The final free Arc Raiders open playtest is rolling out now, showing off quests, progression and crafting Come try out the latest from The Finals devs across 17th-19th October Image credit:Nexon / Rock Paper Shotgun As I wrote in our King of Meat preview , I’ve long since fallen out of love with looting games. After thousands of hours rinsing RPG dungeons, I gaze upon even the shiniest and most temptingly crenelated of treasure chests with frigid contempt....

The Finals’ 1.5 update introduces the multiplayer shooter’s first time-limited mode, a solo free-for-all Balance tweaks, bug fixes and improved cheat detection also live now Image credit:Embark Studios Destructive game-show shooter The Finals has received its biggest update yet. Patch 1.5 arrives with a litany of bug fixes, balance changes and more, along with the introduction of a brand new mode - the game’s first time-limited variant, as well as its first mode for solo players....

The legendarily terrible Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is now available on Steam 18 Wheels Of Thunder! Image credit:Stellar Stone ‘18 Wheels Of Thunder’ boasts Big Rigs: Over the Road Racin g’s original box art , in a font forged from guitar pedals, light beer, and divorce papers. Flames jet from the snout of the marauding ‘rig like snorted breakfast tequila following an especially piquant ex-wifely punchline. A rammed police car flails uselessly against the sheer girth of but one of those 18 thunderous wheels....

The RPS Selection Box: Ed’s bonus games of the year 2024 Double trouble Image credit:RPS Unlike a lot of the team I’d imagine, my opinion is this: I thought the year was quite middling for games. Or at least, it was middling for my own personal taste, which is quite unsavoury at the best of times. Most of my best picks made it into the calendar proper, but a couple didn’t....

The RPS Selection Box: Ollie’s bonus games of the year 2024 Imagine if you combined all three… Image credit:RPS I’m quite proud of the delights that we packed behind each door of the Advent Calendar this year, to be honest. All my major choices are in there, plus a few more that I haven’t played but I’d watched other people play, and had a swell time doing so. Still, there are always a handful that don’t quite make the cut, but still deserve a heaped Christmas plateful of praise at year’s end....

The sequel to Robocop: Rogue City sounds more like Dredd Urban warfare Image credit:Nacon RoboCop will be climbing an apartment tower full of slimebags in a standalone follow-up to his trudging but faithful 2023 shooter. Robocop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business is so over-named it looks like DLC, but is actually an independent sequel from the same developers, and directly follows the events of the recent criminal justice ’em up. It’ll see metal man Murphy going floor to floor as he and other Detroit city policefolk ascend a residential tower after “a group of highly trained mercenaries armed with cutting-edge weapons takes control of the building and turns it into their deadly fortress....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Over at our sister site Dicebreaker, Alicia Haddick wrote about the recent Yu-Gi-Oh tournament exclusions. It’s a complex look at the organisational complexities of a complex game that I’ve never played, and I still found it an interesting bit of reporting. “Card games like Yu-Gi-Oh! are all about community. They’re a way to meet new people, find things in common with strangers and feel less alone....

This weekend I grew a fungus daughter in eerie narrative RPG Mushroom Musume, which has a demo The morel the merrier Image credit:Mortally Moonstruck Games I don’t plan on having kids, but in the event that I change my mind, commissioning a forest Witch to grow one from a mushroom seems a lot easier than the usual human procreative process, though possibly just as abundant in screaming. I’ve been playing the demo for “cute-creepy” RPG and life sim Mushroom Musume , in which you - an unnamed “Recluse” - cultivate and play as a series of mushroom daughters....

Tiny Garden plants a charming, cozy farming sim inside virtual Polly Pocket toys Sow your crops and turn the clamshell’s handle to make them grow Image credit:Ao Norte Tiny Garden is bringing back the spirit of Polly Pocket with a cutesy farming sim game set inside a virtual plastic clamshell inspired by the nineties toy phenomenon. Spanish developers Ao Norte’s adorable game imagines a world in which the iconic hinged mini-dioramas are ecosystems of their own able to grow crops, as players sow seeds before turning the handle on the side of the clasped toy to help carrots, lettuces and all other manner of plants and vegetables spring up....

Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is real and features Orks, Space Marines, the Aeldari and for some reason, David Harbour Yep, it’s the big one Creative Assembly teased the other week Image credit:Sega If you’re staying up all night to watch The Game Awards 2025, follow along with our live coverage . If you want an early night, you can catch up on all the news with our Everything Announced at The Game Awards 2025 roundup ....

Tribes 3: Rivals already in trouble as developers shift focus elsewhere “Neither game had enough success yet to support the studio” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Prophecy Games Development on slip-slidey FPS Tribes 3: Rivals is set to slow, just months after its early access launch , as developers Prophecy Games say it’s not proving successful enough to “support the studio.” In a post ominously titled " Tribes 3 Player Update “, Prophecy first announced that anyone who’d paid up microtransaction money in Rivals – as well as their previous game, extraction shooter Starsiege: Deadzone – would receive an equal amount of credit to spend in their upcoming “sports shooter” Ultra Strikers ....

Troubled fairytale sim Nightingale is getting a Realms Rebuilt update that trades procgen for “handcrafted” story worlds Will still have procgen, but also a more “structured” campaign Image credit:Inflexion Games Baroque wilderness-builder Nightingale has not been doing brilliantly since Ed Thorn described the launch early access version as “a numbers grind disguised as a gaslamp survival game”. We had moderately high hopes for it before the early access release - I personally enjoy the fairytale setting, with its pop-up Pucks and magic umbrellas, but I also think I’ve raised enough hovels on procedurally generated maps for one lifetime....

Two Point Museum announced with trailer full of breakable dinosaurs and reheated cavemen Archive heard of this series before Image credit:Sega The Bullfroggy connected universe that is Two Point County continues to expand with the announcement of Two Point Museum , another irreverent management sim from developers Two Point Studios. This one’s about museums, would you believe, with exhibition themes including the world of prehistory. Find a trailer propped below this paragraph like a freshly brushed-down Tugowaurus skeleton....

UK government responds to petition asking them to regulate publishers into keeping games “in a working state” Prompted by the closure of The Crew Image credit:Ubisoft The UK government has responded to a petition asking for “government intervention” to force the industry to keep video games “in a reasonably working state when support ends”, rather than allowing them to become unplayable such as when online servers are shut down. The petition was prompted by the closure in March of ten-year-old Ubisoft racing game The Crew ....