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Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure review: a unique puzzle game that keeps things moving M People would really approve Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Furniture & Mattress LLC Developer: Furniture & Mattress LLC Publisher: Furniture & Mattress LLC Release: July 25th 2024 On: Windows, MacOS From: Steam , Epic Games Store Price: TBC Reviewed on: Steam Deck Arranger is a puzzle game about moving, in both metaphorical and literal senses. Movement is the entire basis for the puzzles in Arranger, and is hard to explain without showing you (if you’re able to watch the trailer that will be helpful)....

Artificer’s Tower is a magical tower defence game with just one, really big, tower A drizzle of Orcs Must Die and a dash of Fallout Shelter mixed in a wizard’s cauldron Image credit:RodentGames Mix the side-on colony management of Fallout Shelter with the trap-laying tower defence of Orcs Must Die , stir both together in a wizard’s cauldron, and you’ll end up with something not far from Artificer’s Tower ....

Avowed’s summer update revamps fighter and ranger skills so those pesky wizards aren’t having all the fun Plus, more unique weapons and the game’s now Steam Deck verified Image credit:Obsidian I liked Avowed , and having read through the notes for its summer update, patch 1.5, I reckon I’ll like it even more whenever I next decide to don the persona of a trickshotting Envoy . This patch is the second of three seasonal updates Obsidian outlined that the game’d be getting over the course of this year ....

Backhand Blade locations in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree How to find all 3 Backhand Blade locations in Shadow Of The Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for all Backhand Blade locations in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? As one of the new weapon types to arrive with Shadow Of The Erdtree , Backhand Blades are a great focus for any Dexterity build . There are a total of 3 Backhand Blades in Elden Ring (of a possible 103 new weapons )....

Banjo-Kazooie gets an unofficial PC port thanks to modders, with handy technical tweaks and Steam Deck support Banjo: Recompiled also boasts built-in mod support Image credit:Wiseguy / Rare A group of modders wearing the finest reverse-engineering goggles has managed to port birdly and beary platformer Banjo-Kazooie to PC, with a bunch of extra bells and whistles to make sure it won’t make for a disappointing dip back into your childhood or adulthood....

Best Battlefield 6 L110 LMG loadout and build guide The L110 LMG has a huge 100-round magazine: here’s how to make the best use of it Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/EA Want the best L110 loadout in Battlefield 6? LMGs, designed for suppressive fire, aren’t the sexiest weapons, but their big magazines and solid damage can be a nightmare to compete against. The L110 is the first LMG in the game and you could make an argument for it being the best, too, especially when you unlock attachments to control its recoil....

Best Minecraft Texture Packs: the best stylised, realistic, and PvP texture packs The best texture packs for 2025 and how to install them Want to know where to download the best Minecraft texture packs? Minecraft has a very familiar and distinctive default look. Every single face of every single block in the game is made up of 256 pixels of varying colours, and over 10 years of mining and exploring, we players can get very used to those textures....

Black Friday brings the first big discount on the 1TB Samsung Pro Plus, the Steam Deck microSD card to beat Big storage, little investment The Samsung Pro Plus is, alongside the Logitech G502 Hero , one of those hardware products that rocks up at literally every single sales event in the calendar. Just an endless cycle of microSD cards , mice, microSD cards, mice. At least it’s a good’un, though - the best Steam Deck -compatible microSD of them all, in fact....

Black Myth: Wukong walkthrough Here’s our walkthrough hub, featuring a guide for every Chapter in Black Myth: Wukong Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Looking for a Black Myth: Wukong walkthrough? Game Science’s Black Myth: Wukong is a experience of epic porportions, featuring a tale influenced by the Chinese classic Journey to the West. You’ll guide the Destined One across a lengthy quest as he uncovers six relics, each containing a fragment of the legendary Sun Wukong....

Bloated game installs stuffing your SSD? The 4TB Crucial P3 Plus is up to 42% off for Prime Big Deal Days That’s, like, 22 God of War Ragnaröks That’s not an exaggeration about file sizes, by the way. 150GB for Horizon Forbidden West . Nearly 200GB for God of War Ragnarök . Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and all its Warzone trimmings are something like 235GB, and adding all the DLC maps to Ark: Survival Ascended blows it up to over 400GB....

Borderlands 4: All 9 Vault Key Fragment locations All Vault Key Fragments in the Fadefields, Terminus Range, and Carcadia Burn Image credit:IGN/2K Trying to locate all Vault Key Fragments in Borderlands 4? Before you can delve into the deep Vaults beneath Kairos, you must first locate 9 Vault Key Fragments scattered throughout the various zones of Borderlands 4 . These are often hidden in places far off-the-beaten path, but luckily, we’re here to spill all the beans....

Broken Roads review: this Fallout-style RPG is Vegemite and (some) magic Dollarydoo or dollarydon’t? Image credit:Drop Bear Bytes Developer: Drop Bear Bytes Publisher: Versus Evil, tinyBuild Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam , GOG , Epic Games Store Price: TBC Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-8600K, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 2070, Windows 10 Drop Bear Bytes, the studio behind post-apocalyptic RPG Broken Roads , are named after Australia’s deadliest creature. The Drop Bear might look like a normal koala, but they’re actually dangerous predators, fond of jumping from trees to maul unsuspecting chumps who forget to take adequate precautions, like urinating on themselves....

Build island factory towns for fat cats in Whiskerwood, the latest sooty strategy sim from Hooded Horse and the Railgrade devs Demo on Steam - mouse and keyboard required Image credit:Hooded Horse Whenever possible, I like to sucker-punch everybody’s weekend plans by blogging the release of a huge 4X strategy game, factory sim or other managerial timesink last thing on Friday. In this case, I’m ambushing you with the avid rodent carpentry of Whiskerwood , the new city builder from Railgrade developers Minakata Dynamics and Manor Lords publishers Hooded Horse....

Come Nerevar, Morrowind mod Tamriel Rebuilt’s next expansion will finally let you join House Indoril Only “a matter of months” to wait for it to arrive, Moon-and-Star, assuming things go to plan Image credit:Tamriel Rebuilt / Cicero and Pralec The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind has lots of houses. Some of those houses house houses. House Indoril is one of those housed houses, more specifically the one to which Indoril Nevevar, the bloke Morrowind’s protagonist is a reincarnation of, belonged....

Come say goodbye to Ed, our departing reviews editor The one and only Reviews Edders Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Friends, another soul is departing the RPS treehouse today. Ed has decided to lay down the mantle of reviews editor and rejoin polite society. Come join me in saying goodbye. Ed started at RPS back in 2020. He had been working on Metabomb, another site operated by RPS’s then-owners which was closing down....

Connections hints and answers for Mon, August 26th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #441. 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 26th August? If today’s assortment of words has you in a tizzy we have just the thing to help....

Connections hints and answers for Sun, September 22nd Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #468. 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 22nd September? We’re here to lend a helping hand. Below we have a range of clues to help you get to today’s Connections answers....

Dead Space remake devs had ideas for a brand new Dead Space game before EA shelved the series, claims report A “new entry”, not a Dead Space 2 remake Image credit:EA Developers at Dead Space remake creators EA Motive were pushing to make a “new entry” in the sci-fi horror series before EA shelved it last year, according to the latest in a recent outbreak of Dead Spacey rumours and revelations that have spread through the bulkheads of the internet, coating everybody’s devices with necrotic slime....

Deals for today: The best of Alienware’s Black Friday in July sale Laptops and desktops included Image credit:Dell Alienware is running Black Friday in July, dropping a bunch of desktops and laptops down to some of the lowest prices I’ve seen all summer. Doesn’t matter if you’re after a decked-out Area‑51 tower with an RTX 5090 or just looking for a leaner Aurora machine for everyday gaming, there’s something on offer....

Death Stranding 2 On The Beach gets a trailer and 2025 release window, still absolutely bonkers Why does George Miller have a pet dragon? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kojima Productions Sony and Hideo Kojima have released a new Death Stranding 2 trailer alongside the game’s full title - Death Stranding 2 On The Beach. It’s out in 2025 on PS5, with a PC release date still to be revealed, and appears to be as free-wheeling and self-serious yet whimsical as you’d expect from a Kojima joint....