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One of the few Nintendo DS horror games is making its seasonally appropriate debut on PC later this month Albeit on only one screen Image credit:Atooi The Nintendo Dual Screen! Or Nintendo DS, as it was actually known. There’s a console that has practically no relevance to this site, except for right now, because of a game called Dementium: The Ward . For those that haven’t heard of it, this is one of the incredibly few horror games available on the handheld console, nowadays a bit of a cult classic because who on earth thought it would be a good idea to do that....

Over 450 Diablo developers vote to unionise, because “passion can’t protect us from job instability” “This is just the first step for us joining a movement spreading across an industry that is tired of living in fear” Image credit:Blizzard A group of more than 450 Diablo developers have voted to form a union at Blizzard, under the banner of the Communications Workers of America (CWA). According to a CWA press release, the new union is made up of game developers, artists, designers, engineers, and support staff across the Diablo series, and has already been formally recognised by Blizzard parent company Microsoft....

Palworld: Can you move your base in Palworld? Here’s how to move your base in Palworld Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Wondering if you can move your base in Palworld? A few hours into Palworld and your base is bound to be a bustling hive of activity, with Pals running to and fro and a whole lot of resource harvesting going on. But if you’ve built your base near the starting area on the Plateau of Beginnings, things might get a little crowded before long....

Palworld’s newest patch stops you from gliding with your Pals, and yes, it is because of Nintendo’s lawsuit The lawsuit is the reason you can’t throw your Pals out either Image credit:Pocketpair We all know that Palworld developer Pocketpair are currently dealing with a lawsuit from Mario maker Nintendo . Specifically, it’s over patent rights , rather than something like copyright infringement which everyone was expecting given the liberties that Palword takes with its Pal designs....

Path of Exile 2: PoE 2 Skill Tree guide All the details on the Passive Skill Tree, including weapon specialisation and how to respec Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Grinding Gear Games Overwhelmed by the Passive Skill Tree in Path of Exile 2? Path of Exile 2 features a gigantic Passive Skill Tree that looks more like a series of constellations than anything else. Newcomers to the franchise will be struck speechless by the many skill nodes available for customisation, and they might also be confused by the weapon specialisation and respec systems....

Pathologic 3 devs defend choice to cut the plague town’s open world to bits Making an incision Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / HypeTrain Digital Surreal first-person medical sim Pathologic 3 will be different from its plague-ridden predecessor in a lot of ways. In Pathologic 2 you played a roaming surgeon rooting around in bins for sustenance, and this time you play as the Bachelor, a well-fed doctor who diagnoses patients by inspecting their bodies and investigating their homes for signs of disease....

Pick up the elegant Asus AP201 Micro ATX case for just $65 This case gets exceptional reviews for temperatures, looks and ease of use. Image credit:Asus The AP201 offers excellent compatibility with a wide range of cooling hardware and graphics cards, plus excellent thermals and easy buildability. It even has a classy, understated look that’s the polar opposite of Asus’ ROG designs. That’s pretty much the full set when it comes to small form factor PC cases, so consider jumping on this one while you can!...

Possessor(s), the sort of Metroidvania from the devs behind Hyper Light Drifter, gets a November release date I like search action better anyway Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry Heart Machine have had a busy year. It was only in January that they launched Hyper Light Breaker into early access, a surprise follow-up to their beloved indie action RPG Hyper Light Drifter . That launch didn’t go amazingly due to a myriad of reasons, and even now the game hasn’t completely managed to find its footing yet....

Prison Architect 2 is coming up for release, but it’s hard to rehabilitate from years of 2D A hard cell Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Paradox Interactive There are management games and there are micro-management games. Prison Architect 2 is the latter. I don’t mean this as an annoying thing, like when Harold from corporate starts commenting all over your document at 4.30pm on a Friday. I mean it as a distinction between those games that let you plop down a house, and others that need you to stack the bricks, install the plumbing, fit the lights, and select the wallpaper....

Riot’s League Of Legends MMO has been “reset” and likely “going dark for several years” “No news is good news” Image credit:Riot Games If you’re an MMORPG fan who’s been waiting patiently for news of Riot Game’s swing at the genre, then I’m afraid you’ll probably have to wait quite a while longer. Riot co-founder Marc Merrill announced that the project has been “reset” and won’t appear for “likely several years”, with one of the main reasons being a “need to do something that truly feels like a significant evolution of the genre”....

Saltsea Chronicles and Mutazione studio Die Gute Fabrik is closing its doors due to lack of funding The team will be looking for new roles from mid-March Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Die Gute Fabrik 2024 continues its efforts to be the worst year in my memory, as delightful indie development studio Die Gute Fabrik have halted work. The studio, notable for its lovely story-driven games about forging personal connections in strange or difficult worlds - e....

Save $1,000 off this decked out Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 4090 gaming PC for Black Friday That’s a lot of power. The Alienware Black Friday sale is well underway, and you can get your hands on some very tasty gaming PCs for a huge discount this year. Our top pick from this sale is the Aurora R16 RTX 4090 Gaming PC for $2,999.99 . That’s a gigantic $1,000 saving on a powerful out-of-the-box gaming PC....

Save $250 on the Lenovo Legion Go S with SteamOS this Black Friday weekend Save 33% today. Image credit:Lenovo Black Friday weekend may not offer the same deals it once did, but that’s not to say there aren’t savings to be had. Fresh off of Walmart knocking $500 off of an RTX 5070 prebuild , Best Buy has lopped $250 off of the price of Lenovo’s SteamOS-packing Legion GO S , bringing the $900 handheld PC down to $649....

Save $400 on the best value Alienware Aurora RTX 5080 gaming rig Get premium power where it counts. Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / Dell If you’re looking to jump into high-end PC gaming without torching your wallet, the Alienware Aurora Gaming Desktop (Model ACT1250) is an easy pick right now. Dell just knocked $400 off the top-spec build, bringing it down to $2,499.99 from its original $2,899.99. At that price, this is hands-down the most balanced and performance-packed version of the Aurora lineup....

Shadow Labyrinth is a twisted bloodthirsty take on Pac-Man, out in 2025 Pity the ghosts in this one Image credit:Bandai Namco Pac-Man is doing a Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within, everybody. That’s to say, the Bandai Namco series is doing one of those dark, edgy iterations. It’s called Shadow Labyrinth, it’s out in 2025, and it’s a 2D hack-and-slash with gruesome monster designs. But none so gruesome as Pac-Man, who can transform into a huge champing black hole....

So, it turns out The Outer Worlds 2 spent 95% of its runtime mocking me for a purchase I didn’t make Live by the metagiggles, die by the metagiggles Image credit:Obsidian / Rock Paper Shotgun My review of The Outer Worlds 2 begins with a retelling of the first unexpected curveball the RPG threw my way. Barely out of the intro and having made exactly two vending machine purchases, I was offered the consumerism flaw....

SpeedRunners 2 announced, triggering painful Sonic 2 flashbacks even if it’s actually “2D Mario Kart” Flashbacks, ha! I didn’t even mean that one Image credit:tinyBuild Back in the 90s, there were essentially two kinds of Sonic The Hedgehog 2 player. Firstly, the juvenile Mussolinis who monopolised the Blue Blur himself in the callously-defined “single player” mode, and secondly, the absolute saints and/or craven appeasers who consented to be Sonic’s sidekick Tails, and had to spend the whole run struggling to keep pace with the Sonic player’s camera....

Square Enix if that Nier Reincarnation thing you’re teasing isn’t a port I won’t be your friend any more Seriously, I mean it this time Image credit:Square Enix I’m sure like me, some of you would really like another Nier game. A Nier 3, if you will, except I won’t, because it already came out and it was called Nier Reincarnation . Unfortunately it was also a free-to-play mobile game, and as most mobile games are destined for, it shut down last year rendering it completely unplayable....

Star Wars arrives in Fall Guys this week, alongside major changes to bean physics Less ragdolling, more air control Image credit:Mediatonic I need to take all the opportunities to write about Fall Guys that I can get, given how much time I spend playing it with my son. This is a pretty good opportunity, too: a set of Star Wars skins are coming to the bean battle royale, as announced yesterday on May 4th, and they coincide with some major changes to Fall Guys’ platforming physics....

Steam’s 2025 summer sale is live and ready to drain your wallet for games you swear you’ll get round to eventually Cross your heart and hope to die! Image credit:Valve Do you… do you hear that? Can you feel it? That disgusting, gnawing feeling, a shiver down your spine because you know it’s coming for you… the Steam summer sale… Friends, Romans, country(insert pronoun here), it is unfortunately that time of year again, that time where you look at all of those games in your wishlist as you try to figure out which deal is the best, and which to leave for the next inevitable sale....