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9 Kings is a roguelike city builder that’s actually just an excuse to launch rocks at people Stratapult Image credit:Sad Socket I very much recommend the Steam demo for strategy game 9 Kings , so it’s with no shade I say that I’m using ‘strategy’ here the same way a tube passenger might use a hardback of Ulysses to envelop their novelisation of 2 Fast 2 Furious. Griddy placement and tower defence tactics are involved, but this is primarily a game about launching rocks at dickheads....

99 Nights In The Forest: How to help the Deer Want the Deer as an ally in 99 Nights In The Forest? Here’s how to save him and gain his trust Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Grandma’s Favourite Games Need a few pointers on saving the Deer in 99 Nights In The Forest? The latest update to this Roblox survival sim adds a ton of new wrinkles to its creepy world, but while we may all be celebrating the sight of its impressive meteor showers, our good old friend the deer monster most certainly isn’t....

Abiotic Factor is all set to launch into version 1.0 next month More updates are planned for the future too Image credit:Playstack Remember back in April when I told you about Abiotic Factor’s next update, Cold Fusion ? No? What do you mean you can’t remember every single news post I’ve ever written? Fine, whatever, point is, it turns out that said update turned into the full on 1.0 release of the game ....

All Materium items and locations in Hollow Knight: Silksong Here’s where to find every item in Silksong’s Materium Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry Having trouble finding all the items you need to complete the Materium index in Hollow Knight Silksong? It’s a long list, and you’ll be canvassing the entirety of Pharloom to find everything, from the depths of the world to its highest peaks. Some of the items you need you’ll find naturally as you play, while others you’ll need to specifically seek out....

All Scadutree Fragment locations for Elden Ring Use our map to find all 50 Scadutree Fragments in the Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for all 50 Scadutree Fragments in Elden Ring’s Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC? Scadutree Fragments are extremely important if you want to get through the Elden Ring DLC in one piece. These collectibles are used to permanently increase your character’s damage and defence stats within the Land Of Shadow....

Alleged leaked Spider-Man: The Great Web trailer shows off Insomniac’s cancelled co-op spin-off Five spiderpersons go up against the Sinister Six in multiplayer footage Image credit:Insomniac Games/Sony An alleged trailer for Spider-Man: The Great Web has leaked online - Spider-Man: The Great Web being a cancelled Insomniac Games comicbook adaptation with a focus on co-op multiplayer. I am not going to embed the footage because I’m not sure if doing so would cause screaming Spider-Lawyers to crash through my window – best of luck finding tall objects to swing from in darkest West Yorkshire, webheads!...

“Women, especially in tech, often seem to disappear when the story gets told.” Image credit:Valve Monica Harrington isn’t one of Valve’s official co-founders, but she was heavily involved in its formation and initial success - working by day as a marketing manager at Microsoft with responsibility for the games division, while helping her partner, Mike Harrington, and Gabe Newell get the Half-Life studio off the ground. In a lengthy post on Medium - which Nic has already covered in the most recent Sunday Papers , but which I think deserves a piece of its own - Harrington takes us through those heady early days....

Welcome savings to our top-rated 1440p graphics card Image credit:MSI UK deals: MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Ventus 3X OC - £375 (was £419) US deals: Galax GeForce RTX 4060 Ti - $370 (was $400) PNY GeForce RTX 4060 Ti XLR8 Gaming Verto - $390 (was $450) Besides being a strong 1440p card, the RTX 4060 Ti can also do rip-roaring 1080p, though it makes most sense as at QHD where DLSS is more effective and useful for boosting framerates....

Amnesia creators Frictional are teasing what could be Soma 2 through a sinister luxury hotel website “[Virus Error] You’ve Ea%ned it” Image credit:Frictional / Rock Paper Shotgun Amnesia: Rebirth developers Frictional are teasing what appears to be a new sci-fi game by way of a sneaky update to their deep sea horror venture Soma . Whatever it is, it involves some godforsaken luxury hotel steeped in a sheeny corporate appropriation of sacred ideas about cyclical change - a hotel that promises “an out of this world experience”....

An Elder Scrolls voice actor is teaming up with top Fallout 4 modders to livestream a 48-hour modding jam for charity Raising cash to fight Alzheimer’s Image credit:Kinggath and co on Nexus Mods. A group of prominent Fallout 4 modders will be livestreaming the creation of a big mod over a single weekend later this month. It’s part of a charity drive led by voice actor Wes Johnson, probably most famous for providing the dulcet tones of mad Daedric prince Sheogorath in Oblivion and Skyrim ....

Arknights Endfield: How to get Citrome Looking for Citrome in Arknights Endfield? Here’s how to find and farm it. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Gryphline Trying to track down Citrome in Arknights Endfield? You’ll inevitably come to a point in this gacha RPG where you’re forced to ponder life’s most important conundrum: how do I farm space lemons? It’s truly a humdinger, but a very important one in the early hours of Endfield’s factory gameplay loop, as it lets you trade Canned Citrome to earn Outpost Prosperity and Valley Stock Bills....

Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Which character is better, Yasuke or Naoe? Here’s our breakdown of Naoe vs Yasuke in Assassin’s Creed Shadows Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Should you play as Yasuke or Naoe in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? Assassin’s Creed Shadows offers two protagonists with very different skills - Yasuke the samurai and Naoe the shinobi. Once you unlock the ability to play as both about ten or so hours into the game, you can freely alternate between the duo....

Battlefield 6’s crumbling warzones are teased in a promo vid calling for playtesters Rubble rousing Image credit:Electronic Arts Watch out for that falling breezeblock! It’s about to– ah, too late, you’ve been donked. A clip of loud wreckage, gunfire, and bazooka’d buildings has fallen dustily into our lap via a promotional video for Battlefield 6 (or whatever the developers plan to call the next of these large-scale first-person shooters). Mostly, it’s a lot of producers talking a big game about “levelling up” the “core experience”, which seems to remain blasting a building you don’t like with a rocket-propelled grenade....

Best Anti-Prime Day 2024 PC gaming deals - Day 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun You can still stay tuned to this page in the meantime; I’ll be updating it with fresh deals as I find them, provided they’re both a) for hardware you’d actually enjoy using and b) sufficiently heavy on the price cuts. The best Anti-Prime Day 2024 PC gaming deals WD Blue SN580 2TB - £97 from Ebuyer (was £127) WD Blue SN580 2TB - $120 from B&H Photo Video (was $150) SanDisk Ultra 1....

Big cool weirdo Yoko Taro may or may not be working on something that may or may not be Nier (Laughs.) Image credit:Square Enix Fans of odd games with multiple endings and themes of identity and oppression, rejoice! Or, maybe, not rejoice. Time will tell. In the latest issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, Yosuke Saito, the series producer for Nier , teased that he might be working on something new with Yoko Taro and Keiichi Okabe, the director and composer for the Nier series, respectively....

BioWare’s Mark Darrah thinks Veilguard is the first Dragon Age where “the combat’s actually fun” “What I see in Veilguard is a game that finally bridges the gap.” Image credit:EA Former Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah left BioWare in 2020 , commenting that “I know that Dragon Age won’t just survive without me, it will thrive”. We’ll never quite learn the truth of that claim, for Darrah has now rejoined BioWare to work as a consultant on the recently revealed Dragon Age: The Veilguard ....

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s lead writer had apparently never played a video game before writing it Though she can trophy hunt like the best of ’em now Image credit:Kepler Interactive There is a belief that appears to crop up within the games industry that to work in it, you must be wholly aware of everything in it. You must live, breathe and die by games! That doesn’t always result in interesting games though, sometimes it’s actually quite useful to have outsiders come in to bring other perspectives....

Cobalt Core isn’t just a great game, its soundtrack is also an all-timer A musical appreciation post Image credit:Brace Yourself Games Every year, there are a couple of game soundtracks I become properly obsessed with. In 2022, I more or less had the music of Tunic and Citizen Sleeper on repeat whenever I left the house. In 2021, it was Chicory. In 2020, it was Coffee Talk and Signs Of The Sojourner , and in 2019, it was all Mutazione , all the time....

Confirmed: EA are being sold to investment group led by Saudi Arabia, Silver Lake and Jared Kushner for estimated $55 billion Battlefield and Apex publisher announce deal after a swirl of rumours Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry Update : Well, that escalated quickly. Following rumours over the weekend, EA have confirmed that an investor consortium consisting of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, equity firm Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners have acquired the Battlefield 6 publisher in an all-cash transaction that values EA at around $55 billion....

Decrepit is a solo-developed soulslike about escaping a castle by dying in it Also: rollerzombies Image credit:Three Friends 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 . Why give two hoots about yet another difficult, dark fantasy ghoulbasher?...