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If Amnesia: The Dark Descent were actually Amnesia: The Dark Ascent, it would be White Knuckle Alternative framing: Jusant, but you’re being chased by a fleshwall Image credit:Dark Machine Games Many are the horror games that involve you going down. Down is where much of the Badness in the world is traditionally located, after all, whether you’re talking about geology or psychology or theology. White Knuckle reverses the flow. You are already Down; by extrapolation, you must now go Up....

If you like Bioshock’s city, Dishonored’s powers and Lies Of P’s robots, check out Welcome To Brightville An imsim in which robots sing Image credit:Contrast Games Some video games aim to pull originality from the ether, and some video games try to accomplish it by theatrically amassing a bunch of rad parallels and sort of crushing them together until the molecular boundaries give way, and a new Element is produced. This is the vibe I get from Welcome To Brightville , a new “emergent immersive sim” that reminds me instantly of Thief , Dishonored , Bioshock and recent soulslike Lies Of P ....

In rare show of hacking for joy, Blue Archive player fills the world with clones of their favourite character Begun, the “Koyukification” has Image credit:Jambo971 / Nexon / Rock Paper Shotgun Late last month, players of Nexon’s tactical schoolgirl gacha fest Blue Archive were horrified to discover that their universe had undergone Koyukification. For context, Kurosaki Koyuki is one of Blue Archive’s recruitable characters, a twin-tailed pinkhead known for her immense natural code-breaking skills, her passion for gambling, and her mischievous persona....

Konami blame Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater crash bugs on cranky crocs Do not wear them, do not eat in their presence Image credit:Konami Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is out now, and while it’s a lot prettier or at least, more Unreal than the original Metal Gear Solid 3, it’s got its fair share of technical problems. Curiously, two of the major crashing issues involve crocodiles. If you want a smooth opening bout of Snake Eater, I would avoid either pretending to be a crocodile or having lunch in the presence of a hungry one....

Leading Total War: Warhammer 3’s peasants to freedom from their equine oppressors The Peasantide cometh Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Creative Assembly The Peasantide is Nic’s quest to lead Bretonnia’s serfs to victory against the horses that have trampled them into the mud of poverty and servitude for too long. As a faction, the strength of Total War: Warhammer 3 ’s Bretonnia lies in their knightly calvary. The peasant infantry is basically just there to squishily hold the enemy in place for charges....

Leading Total War: Warhammer 3’s peasants to victory with an irresponsible number of trebuchets (French for ‘very bucket’) The Peasantide returneth Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Creative Assembly The Peasantide is Nic’s quest to lead Bretonnia’s serfs to victory against the horses that have trampled them into the mud of poverty and servitude for too long. We were in a bad way. Rats to the south. Goblins to the east. A dwindling stockpile of gold reserves....

Lo-Fi Games know you’ve spent a billion hours with Kenshi, so they’re working on making the sequel’s discoveries even less predictable Plus they’re not fond of fondue, apparently Image credit:Lo-Fi Games I’m a month late on this, but since we don’t appear to have written about Kenshi for about six years, I figured this was worth highlighting. Chris Hunt and Natalie Mikkelson of Lo-Fi Games recently put out a video chatting about Kenshi 2, their approach to design and, uh, their shared hatred for fondue....

Lo-fi roguelite city-builder Tranquil Isle is a peaceful island getaway I can’t wait to take Isle love the look of this Image credit:Tom Daly/Future Friends Games In these turbulent times, we could all do with a little more lo-fi in our lives. Delivering said remedy to the tickling of gentle piano and soft sunset palette hues is Tranquil Isle , a lovely-looking combination of city-builder and resource-management roguelite drifting in on the waves later this year....

Mechanised Stardew-like Lightyear Frontier hits early access on March 19th It’s also coming to Game Pass the same day Image credit:Frame Break/Amplifier Games You know what game I’ve been secretly hankering for after playing so much Palworld recently? It’s Lightyear Frontier , the upcoming farming/crafting mech adventure game from Frame Break and Amplifier Studios, and happily, we now know when it’s finally coming out. Lightyear Frontier will be launching into early access on both Steam and Game Pass on March 19th, and you can go and play a demo of it right now, too....

Metal Slug Tactics review: the crunchy arcade run ’n’ gun pauses to have a tactical think Once more Into The Breach? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Dotemu / Gamera Games Developer: Leikir Studio Publisher: Dotemu, Gamera Games Release: Nov 5th On: Windows From: Steam Price: £21/$25/€25 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 I am a very casual enjoyer of Metal Slug games. I’ve never actually paid for one of these side-scrolling shoot ’em ups, except for all the countless coins I happily pumped into arcade machines as a child....

Minecraft Bundles Of Bravery update Here is everything we know about the Minecraft Bundles Of Bravery update Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios Wondering what’s included in the Minecraft Bundles Of Bravery update? Thanks to the annual Minecraft showcase , we know of a new Minecraft game mode due within the “next few months”. This update is called the Bundles Of Bravery and will offer a new hardcore mode to Bedrock editions of the game as well as Bundles....

Monster Hunter needs a full-scale rebirth, but its contradictions are fascinating Taking the Scoutflies for a walk Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Monster Hunter Wilds is the fastest-selling game in Capcom’s history. It continues to lord over the Steam charts, with peaks that might cause Counter-Strike 2 to glance momentarily down from its Olympus of user-created hats, and while people are still booting the dung out of the PC version’s performance , verdicts upon the beast-punching as a whole are glowing....

Muscle Legends codes: Every active code you can currently redeem Get free gems and strength boosts with these freebie codes Image credit:Scriptbloxian Studios Looking for the latest Muscle Legends codes? Muscle Legends is a Roblox experience with a simple premise: get unbelievably hench, and fight other unbelievably hench players in tournaments. Of course, because this is a Roblox game, you’ll also be collecting pets, unlocking new home bases (or gyms) to retreat to outside of tournament time, and hoovering up in-game currencies to pay for it all....

New Helldivers 2 patch fixes Super Credit bugs plus “Riddler” glitch that allowed infinite orbital lasers Microtransaction purchases will now appear as they should Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PlayStation Hell(o), bellowing caped stooges of Super Earth! It’s time for another Helldivers 2 patch. This one makes some heroic adjustments to the shooter ’s generally inoffensive microtransaction system, targetting a technical issue whereby Super Credits and Premium Warbonds would not show up after purchase....

News Tower lets you manage a newspaper in 1930s New York, and there’s a demo Early Access launch later this month Image credit:Sparrow Night If you pay attention to industry layoffs, you’ll know the news media - media in general, really - is in a bad spot right now. I can’t remember the last time it wasn’t in a bad spot. Perhaps in the 1930’s, which is the setting for News Tower , a newspaper management sim in which you attempt to construct your empire in New York from 1929 onwards....

Nightingale’s Realms Rebuilt update arrives tomorrow and aims to revive the game with a handcrafted campaign And cats in hats Image credit:Inflexion Games Tomorrow will see the release of Nightingale ’s Realms Rebuilt update, which hopes to revive the ailing Early Access gaslamp survival craft ’em up. It’s aiming to do that with a new handcrafted campaign, which now sits alongside the procedural worlds already present, along with new weapons, spells, boss battles, dungeons and much more, as the developers outlined yesterday in a new blog post....

No Man’s Sky’s Voyagers update adds in big custom ships crewed by you and your mates I give it five parsecs before someone’s accidentally flushed out of an airlock Image credit:Hello Games Have you ever wanted to swim out of a spaceship’s backside while it sits in orbit, the sound of two dear friends arguing over whether it really needs a fifth teleporter room not seeping with you into the inky blackness?...

No More Heroes and Resident Evil devs’ cult shooter Shadows of the Damned finally gets a PC release this year Blast demons with a gun who is also a motorcycle who is also a demon while shouting “Taste my Big Boner!” Image credit:Grasshopper Manufacture Shadows of the Damned , the unexpected collaboration between No More Heroes , Killer7 and Lollipop Chainsaw creator Goichi ‘Suda51’ Suda and Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, will finally see a PC release with a new remake later this year - over a decade after it first hit consoles....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Friday, April 26) Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #320 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 ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Thursday, June 27) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #382 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 ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....