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Despite fakery concerns, Stop Destroying Videogames campaign claim “around 97%” of their signatures are valid so far Verification process is still ongoing, but organisers say things are looking promising Image credit:Ubisoft There’s a fresh update from the organisers of the Stop Destroying Videogames citizens’ initiative , that being the petition asking EU lawmakers to look into the issue of publishers rendering online games unplayable when servers are switched off . Despite some concerns on their part a few months ago, the group claim that while the signatures they amassed are still being verified, “early reports from several countries” suggest “around 97%” of these are valid....

Diablo 4 respec cost and how to reassign skill points in D4 The Diablo 4 respec process is simple, but it’ll cost ya How does the Diablo 4 respec process work? Outside of the game’s pure bloodlust, one of the most amazing things about Diablo 4 is how easily you can develop and create interesting character builds by assigning skill points to various traits. While game developer Blizzard designed these skills to work in tandem with one another, there are doubtlessly some skill point combos better suited for your character than others....

Dinoblade has you duke it out as dinos with buster swords clamped between your gnashers PVP dinosouls Image credit:Jean Nguyen The in thing when it comes to dinosaur conversations now is this: “Yeah but did you know that they weren’t all like, lizardy, but covered in feathers”. You might want to chuck in that chickens are basically dinosaurs, because their feet have a “Triassic Flange”, a (made-up) term that will make you sound authoritative....

Doom’s 32nd birthday has birthed a site which lets you rip and tear through fan-made levels in your browser Update: A bunch more context to doomscroll through Image credit:id Software / Bethesda Update: RPS have spoken to both James Baicoianu and Major Arlene to get a bit more context as to how DoomScroll works, the concerns the latter had outlined, and how the site’s creators are planning to approach adding to/tweaking their browser bucket of fan-made levels going forwards....

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is headed to PC in November DQI and DQII remakes coming in 2025 Image credit:Square Enix Classic RPG Dragon Quest 3 is getting a remake in Square Enix’s now familiar HD-2D style, which blends high-resolution 2D sprites together with 3D worlds. It’ll land on November 14th. " Waitaminute ," you might be saying, “Shouldn’t they remake the first two games beforehand?” No, you numpty, you nyaff, you roaster; within the internal chronology of Dragon Quest, 3 comes first....

Dragon’s Dogma 2: An Unsettling Encounter quest walkthrough How to complete An Unsettling Encounter without any issues Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Looking for a walkthrough on An Unsettling Encounter in Dragon’s Dogma 2? If you’ve reached this point in Dragon’s Dogma 2 , you’re soon to leave the main questline of Vermund and Vernworth behind, and embark on a journey to a more perilous country. But first, it’s time to do some more sneaking and spying in - yes, you guessed it - Vernworth-bloody-Castle....

Dune: Awakening’s first major patch has entered public testing, so you can give some Deep Desert PvE a go And possibly get attacked by a lingering sandworm Image credit:Funcom A work-in-progress version of Dune: Awakening ’s first big post-release patch is now testable on Steam, so you can hop in and check out the changes Funcom’s making early doors before it rolls out for everyone in a few weeks. A bunch of the changes the game’s devs teased or confirmed during their recent AMA and letter to players haven’t found their way into the patch, or at least this early version....

Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree system requirements Here are the system requirements for Shadow Of The Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for the Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree system requirements? Elden Ring ’s DLC Shadow Of The Erdtree is an utterly massive beast capable of adding another 100 hours to your playtime, and if you’re curious about the system requirements to enter the Land of Shadow, you’re in the right place....

Elden Ring: Nightreign has a solution to stale strategies, says director Also, a word on buff wizards Image credit:FromSoftware “Attacking is the most consistent element of Elden Ring Nightreign ’s gameplay,” says director Junya Ishizaki in a new PlayStation blog , explaining the choice to have players revive each other by hitting wounded mates with swords - a famously crucial tenet of the hippocratic oath. “We tested to see if it would work for resuscitation, and we discovered a wide variety of tactics depending on range, frequency, and probability, so we formally implemented it....

Elder Scrolls and Fallout devs Bethesda want to release games more often, but making them last is more important Also, Todd Howard ain’t retiring anytime soon Image credit:Microsoft Bethesda Games Studios are thinking about how they can release games more frequently while still ensuring that they have a healthy audience for years, the Elder Scrolls company’s king wizard Todd Howard has remarked in an interview with Kinda Funny, from which Alice B has already scientifically extracted some titbits about forthcoming Starfield expansion Shattered Space ....

FACEMINER is a dystopian management sim where you’ll take great pleasure in harvesting mugshots for money Welcome to the retro-future Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Wristworks Ltd AI nowadays is big business and it’s pretty terrifying, honestly. FACEMINER captures both of these things well, as it sees you build a biometric data processing empire from scratch. And most scary of all, is you’ll relish upscaling your organisation as you mine mugshots. I mean, I went from, “Hmmm, this is dubious”, to a sicko excited by the fact I didn’t have to click much to harvest strangers’ portraits....

Fallout London’s developers working on “huge” patch to come after its hotfixes Massive mod has many mugs… Er, bugs Image credit:Team Folon Fallout London launched late last month, but the huge, long in-development mod is so buggy Nic had to abandon his attempts to play it . Its developers have already promised hotfixes, and now say a “huge” update is also on the way. “We have some big plans for the future, starting with a hotfix,” says the message shasred on the Team FOLON Discord server ....

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Apple Arcade-only RPG Fantasian is coming to PC You can put monsters in a bag! Image credit:Mistwalker There is very little in this world that would get between me and playing an RPG made by Final Fantasy dad Hironobu Sakaguchi, double for one with a soundtrack composed by Nobuo Uematsu. Unless, of course, that game was exclusive to Apple Arcade, which Fantasian has been since its 2021 release....

Final Fantasy XIV won’t be the next video game TV series, as The Witcher producers’ live-action project “dead” The live-action FF14 series was announced back in 2019 as a collaboration between Sony Pictures Television and production company Hivemind, known for working on series including Netflix’s The Witcher and The Expanse. It would’ve been the first time that the world of Final Fantasy had been seen in live-action, following CG feature films such as Spirits Within and Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children....

First Europa Universalis 5 patch makes 350 fixes and stops you earning free Steam achievements Please explain “Autocephalous Patriarchate”, historians Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Paradox Interactive Europa Universalis 5 has its first public patch, which encompasses over 350 fixes. Among the bigger things it smacks with the heal-o-spanner (an actual game development tool, traditionally carved from the base of a Taito arcade machine) is the Steams achievements system, which will no longer shower players in plaudits they haven’t earned....

Football Manager 26 subs in a big beta patch with over 300 fixes and improvements, following polarising launch You should now be able to slide some wrinkles onto your manager’s face, and other things Image credit:Sports Interactive Oi, gaffer! I know you’re busy trying to work out the exact moment at which we should park the bus and start unleashing the long throw-ins, but you’ll probably want to know about the chunky patch Football Manager 26 devs Sports Interactive have released into Steam beta....

Free bad dating sim Don’t Stare makes me want to play an Elder Scroll where NPCs object to your gaze Giving them evils Image credit:gabemcarvalho / Sporozowen The self-explanatory Don’t Stare is both a gamejam creation I enjoy for itself and also, an idea I’d love to be incorporated into any number of first-person RPGs. Here is how the latter possibility might work: you are bandying insults with the Demon King ahead of the final battle....

Frostpunk 2’s closed beta kicks off April 15th for those willing to pre-order It’ll run for a week Image credit:11 bit Studios Chilly survival citybuilder Frostpunk 2 is due to release on July 25th, but you technically don’t have to wait that long to get your fingers cold. There’s a beta coming later this month, playable between April 15th and the 22nd, if only you’re willing to pre-order the digital deluxe edition....

Get one of the best wireless gaming mice for less when you buy it with this mouse mat Save over £50 with this sneaky bundle Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun If you’re after a lightweight wireless mouse to help you win more games of Counter-Strike 2 or Valorant , then the Logitech G Pro X Superlight Wireless 2 is definitely one to consider. It is fairly expensive, with an RRP of £149, but right now at Currys there’s an interesting deal that lets you get the Superlight 2 for just over £105 if you buy it with an ADX Lava mouse mat....

Gothic Remake gameplay overview reveals an eccentric open world RPG that still feels like the future Alkimia build on the fine work of now-shuttered Piranha Bytes Image credit:THQ Nordic It’s a hell of a thing to showcase a remake weeks after kiboshing the developers of the original game. In early July, Gothic creators Piranha Bytes were reportedly shuttered as part of Embracer Group’s mad race to trim costs, following their decade-long acquisition binge....