An overdue note on the Maw Drums in the deep Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images The mouths app[ear] in wake[ful]ness and slumber, the creature’s encroachments are countless, the floor will not cease stirring. We have barred the gates but doubt if they can hold them long. If there is no escape it will be a horrible fate to suffer – but I shall hold We cannot get out: we can[not] get out...
Anime Fighters Simulator codes (February 2026) - Roblox Nab yourself a variety of boosts and other rewards with these AFS codes Image credit:[B:S] Anime Fighters Looking for the latest Anime Fighters Simulator codes? If I had a penny for every anime-themed fighting sim on Roblox , I’d have a very heavy wallet. Rather than cribbing from a single source, though, Anime Fighters Simulator draws inspiration from the likes of Naruto, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, and others....
Apex Legends shelves plans to only charge real money for battle passes, following backlash “We recognise that we could have handled the Battle Pass changes better” Image credit:EA Apex Legends developers Respawn Entertainment have announced that poorly-received plans to overhaul the battle royale ’s Premium Battle Pass will be partially walked back. Most crucially, the new passes – set to launch alongside the upcoming Season 22 in August – will no longer be sold exclusively for real-world cash ; as with previous BPs, players will still be able to buy them with accumulated in-game currency....
Assassin’s Creed Shadows delay due to Ubisoft finally listening to developers “pushing for a delay for some time”, says report “It’s a complicated question without a single answer” Image credit:Ubisoft Last week, Ubisoft announced they’d be delaying open world Tsushima-like Assassin’s Creed Shadows until 2025, citing concerns over a “softer than expected launch for Star Wars Outlaws " in a financial targets update . A new report by Insider Gaming ’s Tom Henderson has shed a little more light on the situation after talking to several developers on the project, who say they’ve been pushing for a delay “for some time”, only for higher-ups at Ubi to just now take heed....
Battle Prose: The finale, for-now-le “Any showing, even that which ends in demise, is a good showing” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Overhype Battle Prose is a diary of Nic’s exploits in emergent turn-based tactics game Battle Brothers. Thilmann had always sneered at apocalyptic portents. Comfort blankets, he thought. The warming wool of fire and brimstone and an end to all that is and will ever be, pulled up over arrogant fools, shivering from just having come to terms with their own mortality, afeared they’d miss out on the important parts....
Become an aging court jester trapped in a cyclical hell at the whims of a fickle audience in Conan Throwbrien It’s basically blackjack for jokes Image credit:spelafort Conan Throwbrien welcomes its host to the stage with discordant jazz and uncanny colour bars glitches. It feels eerie. Desperate. A crushing inevitability. Four joke topics appear at the bottom of the screen. Ridiculous celebrity kids names. Action figures for news anchors. Diet water sales boom....
Becoming Saint is a real-time strategy cult-builder in which you pitch Jesters against the Pope Management sin Image credit:Firesquid / 2P Games I was 20 minutes into the demo before I realised that Becoming Saint is that most terrible of things, another roguelike , but that’s OK, because by then I’d been burned at the stake for heresy after failing to convert the homely town of Spoleto. The presiding Inquisitor very kindly let me off 100 years of purgatory because I’d mostly rebelled against the Emperor, not the Pope....
Company Of Heroes devs Relic bounce back with plans for big RTS games, smaller experiments and spiritual revivals Dawn of more Last March, Sega sold off Company Of Heroes and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War developers Relic Entertainment in the course of wider “restructuring”, “realigning” and lay-offening at the house of Sonic. Relic’s new corporate partners are a holding company established by the UK investment firm Emona Capital LLP - an arrangement that apparently lets them operate like an independent studio, though I’m fuzzy on the moving parts....
Connections hints and answers for Fri, September 6th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #452. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 6th September? It’s no problem if you need some aid to figure out the solution to these Connections conundrums - half of the time I need a helping hand myself!...
Connections hints and answers for Tue, September 10th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #456. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 10th September? Figuring out the relationship between all of those pesky words can be tricky, and you’re in the right place if you want to make things easy on yourself....
Crusader Kings 3 has joined the big fleet of Paradox strategy games offering a paid DLC subscription service Aimed at “players who’d prefer to play for a limited time or in a more budget-conscious manner” Image credit:Paradox Interactive Crusader Kings 3 developers Paradox have decided now’s the time for the medieval strategy game to take a leaf out of its predecessor’s book - as well as fellow strategians Hearts of Iron IV and Europa Universalis 4 - by getting its own DLC subscription service....
Deep Rock Galactic Season 5 tunnels through time itself and lets you replay old seasons Ghost Ship explain the new season reactivation feature Image credit:Coffee Stain Publishing Deep Rock Galactic ’s Season 5 update - which launches in June 2024 - will allow you to reactivate and replay old seasons of Ghost Ship’s celebrated dwarven asteroid mining sim. Here’s how that works, direct from the bellowing bearded faces of the developers themselves....
Diablo 4’s first big collab is Berserk? Yeah, ok, that one’s pretty good I guess Death to collabs all the same, though Image credit:Blizzard Earlier this month Blizzard outlined their plans for Diablo 4 across 2025 that, notably, teased the action game would be getting a few collabs. They didn’t mention what said collabs would be, just that they exist, to which I said “ugh”, because, well, ugh, why does everything have to have collabs these days?...
Dirt bike through the nature-encrusted ruins of post-apocalyptic 80s Germany in youthful adventure Verdant A “bittersweet journey of discovery” as to how everything ended some flowery and skeletony awaits Image credit:Tiny Roar The world’s ended, but doesn’t it look pretty? That seems to be the central premise of Verdant, a game in which a young bloke dirt bikes around the plant-filled remains of post-apocalyptic 1980s Germany, figuring out the conundrums all young dirt bikers face....
Dragon Age Veilguard release time Here are the release and preload times for Dragon Age Veilguard Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Electronic Arts Looking for the Dragon Age Veilguard release time? Dragon Age Veilguard is set to release on October 31 as a special Halloween treat for those of us who have anticipated this release with bated breath for years now. If you wish to get ahead of the curve and play the game as soon as possible, we have all release times and preload times listed below....
Dragon’s Dogma 2: Best Warfarer skills and augments Best Warfarer skills and augments in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Interested in the best Warfarer skills and augments in Dragon’s Dogma 2? Jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none! That’s the Warfarer of Dragon’s Dogma 2 in a nutshell. This late game vocation, which uses the weapons, armour, and skills of all other vocations, is best suited to Dragon’s Dogma 2 veterans who have ranked up all other classes or at least dabbled in them enough to get a sense of how they want to mix and match....
Elder Scrolls Online is switching from chapters to “bite-sized” updates in the wake of Microsoft’s “awful” layoffs ZeniMax Online still hope to make brand new games after Blackbird’s cancellation Image credit:Zenimax Online Studios Earlier this year, Microsoft laid off a lot of people and cancelled projects at various subsidiary game studios, as part of what company CEO Satya Nadella has whimsically called the “enigma of success”. Elder Scrolls Online developers ZeniMax Online Studios were among those making cuts - they buried an unannounced project codenamed Blackbird, which was reportedly a nimble MMO shooter of some kind ....
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream breaks cover to reveal a release date What was that noise? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Nordcurrent Labs Nordic stealth game Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream crept out from behind some barrels during last night’s Future Games Show and hit audiences over the back of the head with a release date. Some of the developers also showed up to share their enthusiasm for the game’s lighting effects, which to be fair are quite nice....
Europa is out now, offering a Ghibli-inspired world in which to fly and solve puzzles [rubs thighs] Europa-pa-pa-pa Image credit:Helder Pinto “Studio Ghibli” is a genre of game, in the same way “Aliens” and " Blade Runner " are genres of game. Blue skies, wind rustling grass that’s a just-so shade of green, a preoccupation with flight? Welcome to Ghibli town, friend. You’ll find all of the above and several other familiar pieces of iconography in Europa , a puzzle and story-led adventure that’s out now....
FBC: Firebreak’s first big update is its literal breaking point, bringing lots of system overhauls next week Let’s see what happens Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry It’s been no secret that Remedy’s FBC: Firebreak landed like a piece of haddock at the fishmongers. This shouldn’t necessarily be a complete surprise, after all this is their first attempt at a live service game that’s all them (they also helped to make CrossfireX, and that didn’t go very well either)....
