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Steam Deck beta client update explains what its performance settings actually do Just to clarify Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun The latest Steam Deck beta client update is out , and it’s made a pretty neat addition to the quick-access performance menu. A tap of the Y button now brings up a brief explainer for whichever individual setting is currently highlighted, a handy lil’ reference for anyone who wants to customise how their Deck (or Steam Deck OLED ) runs without knowing exactly how things like TDP limits and half-rate shading affect performance....

Suikoden 1 and 2 HD Remaster are maybe hopefully possibly finally coming out next March Perhaps Image credit:Konami Nintendo Direct brings us a gift, and one in the form of exciting news about history’s most squirrel stuffed RPG s. Can you really claim 108 characters when five of them are flying squirrels with different colour capes? Never mind all that. Suikoden 1 & 2 HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars has a new release date: March 6, 2025....

Supermassive’s Little Nightmares 3 is out this October, Reanimal still looks much better Ghosts and doppelgangers Image credit:Bandai Namco I’m sure Supermassive are going to do a perfectly respectable job with horror puzzler Little Nightmares 3 . But, when there’s two games coming out, one of which looks like a pitch-perfect spiritual sequel by Little Nightmares ’ creators in the form of Reaminal , and the other is an eh -looking numbered affair by a different, talented but wildly inconsistent studio, it’s hard not to pick favourites....

Sure, why not: here’s a Monster Hunter Wilds mod to make your Palico very large Biggest stretch Image credit:Ridog8 There comes a time in every cat owner’s life where they must ask themselves: how large would this creature need to be before it attempted to bat me around like a catnip mouse? I suspect the answer is “only as large as it needed to be”, so it’s fortunate that Monster Hunter Wilds ’ Palicoes are apparently bred for helpfulness....

Surprise, Elden Ring Nightreign’s first enhanced boss has arrived, kicking off weekly big baddie visits And leaving jaws agape Image credit:FromSoftware Well, there you go. Elden Ring Nightreign ’s great enhanced bossening has begun, with the first of the toughened up terrors FromSoft had previously teased having just rocked up. It’s the Gaping Jaw boss, and it’ll be followed by other Everdark Sovereigns in a time-limited weekly rotation of advanced adversaries for folks to test their mettle and friendships against....

Thanks to a massive community vote, Jagex are removing RuneScape’s notorious Treasure Hunter microtransactions People over profits Image credit:Jagex Oh I do love a win! Today’s is quite a surprising one, coming in the form of Jagex willingly removing some microtransactions from RuneScape after more than 120,000 people voted in favour of having them permanently removed from the game. To be frank, I am genuinely unsure if I have… well, ever seen a company do this simply because everyone hated them so much....

The Beastmaster of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, part four: the last bite The life and death of Bohdan Beastmaster Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World They say hope is the first step on the road to disappointment, and reader, I’ve made a pretty damn big step. Previously, on my mission to survive S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 : Heart of Chornobyl with only wild mutants as my weapons, I’d discovered clues that someone else was attempting to tame the Zone’s beastly inhabitants....

The bruisers who develop Guilty Gear are making a Marvel fighting game Capcom are not invited Image credit:Marvel The developers who create Guilty Gear, the punishing 2D fighters with slick anime visuals, are working on a Marvel fighting game in partnership with the comics giant. Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is a flashy over-the-top wreck sesh, at least judging by the trailer shown off during last night’s State of Play, the showcase of new games by Playstation....

The Crew 2 is getting an offline mode play test and it, unsurprisingly, won’t have all of its online features Who could have guessed! Image credit:Ubisoft Last year, Ubisoft announced that both The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest would be getting offline modes , something quite likely driven (pun intended) by how upset people were by the original The Crew being shut down completely. There’s an ongoing lawsuit over the first game and all!...

The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 18: everyone’s loving Hades 2! There’ll be hell to pay Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games In the grand tradition established by one (1) prior release, Supergiant dropped Hades 2 over the weekend and we at the Electronic Wireless show podcast have all been playing and enjoying it bunches! So we wanted to talk about the game, why we’re enjoying it, some of the new aspects over Hades the first, and just generally go ‘Ooh, this game is fun, innit?...

The Fallout TV show already has a second season in the works, it seems Could it focus on the New California Republic? Image credit:Amazon That’s going by news from Variety , who report that the California Film Commission has handed over $150 million in tax incentives to a dozen television shows set to film in the sunny state. Among the shows is Fallout’s second season, which apparently has the biggest budget of the lot at $153 million - earning it a sweet $25m tax break....

The first Red Dead Redemption could finally be coming to PC - and soon - according to a fresh datamine Including Undead Nightmare Image credit:Rockstar Almost 14 years to the day after Rockstar’s cowboy epic Red Dead Redemption released on consoles, and coming up on five years after its sequel beat it to PC , it looks like the original Red Dead might finally get a PC release. That’s going by a recent datamine from Dead-Eyed TwiXXer user and prolific Rockstar tracker TezFunz2, who spotted a new update to the backend of Rockstar’s launcher site released earlier today, May 13th....

The Forever Winter is a co-op shooter about scavenging among the wreckage of a never-ending mech war Hellsurvivors Image credit:Fun Dog Games If I was writing What’s Better , it would be a short series. The first entry would declare that the best thing in video games, obviously, was watching NPCs fight among themselves. It’s this which most interests me about The Forever Winter , which takes place in a “PvEvE conflict” in which enemy factions - including enormous, stomping robots - are constantly fighting one another while you and your squad try to scavenge and survive in their shadow....

The Maw - 2nd April-6th April Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s gamiest videogame releases Image credit:Wikimedia Commons/José Guadalupe Posada New week, new PC games! It’s another mercifully brief four day week in the UK due to reasons of religion, so let’s roll with an appropriately snappy intro that avoids any extended digressionary preambles about, oh, I don’t know, magpies fighting outside my flat this morning. Did you know that European magpies are great mimics?...

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? From Delta Force to Diesel Legacy, Marvel to Mythwrecked Image credit:Summitsphere To your stations, colleagues! December has ambushed us like a hideous hairy man in a red bobble hat, and time is of the essence. In just a handful of weeks, Horace the Endless Bear shall strike the brazen gong labelled “Happy holidays” and atomise the world, that it may be born anew in 2025....

The Precinct review Turns out “good cop” and “bad cop” are the same cop Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Kwalee Developer: Fallen Tree Games Publisher: Kwalee Release: May 13th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam , Epic Games Price: £25/$30/€30 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 I’ve arrested someone who did not deserve it. The chump was carrying counterfeit jewellry and I lazily slapped on the cuffs without reading my police handbook....

The Rally Point: Humble turn-based wargame The Troop is top of its WW2 class Betting your hedges Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PLA Studios For someone so skeptical of taxonomy, I sure love a good subgenre dive. That’s partly because it’s so easy to find a healthy one now, and there’s a joy in shearing down multiple times and still finding material. You can start from “strategy games are in a good state” and go all the way down to “Turn-based strategy wargames that balance detailed simulation with accessibility and are set in World War 2” and still find several strong entries from the last few years....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for… oh, god, there’s more of it, isn’t there? I thought it was just a regular cave, not a cave to literally a million new things. Before I go left and spend the next three hours stressed about the stuff I missed by not going right, let’s read this week’s best writing about games (and game related things!) Kastel wrote about ‘Large and “Large” games’ via Cohost , or games that are traditionally, insistently massive and games that are a little more sparing and thoughtful with their expansiveness....

This week in PC games: warriors, painters, roguelikes, sailors, shotguns, subs and metroidvanias What we’re feeding the Maw Image credit:Silver Lining Interactive / Rock Paper Shotgun November is… merry! As the great grim centipede of people and property that is Videogaming continues its progress of the midnight wood, a dozen auteur designers from theatre backgrounds don coxcomb hats and sequined codpieces. They climb onto carts and stage a chariot race, beating each other with bladders decorated to look like Roger Ebert....

Trombone Champ: Unflattened is out now, letting you toot your own trombone in VR Put your lips together and blow Image credit:Flat2VR / Holy Wow Studios I greatly enjoyed tooting with my mouse in Trombone Champ on a flat monitor, but in retrospect it’s the perfect candidate for conversion to virtual reality. It’s small in scope, for one, but also VR would let you see through the eyes of the tooter and slide your trombone note up and down by holding the motion controllers up to your face....