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DuneCrawl’s on-foot fighting is no match for its crab walker warfare Shock and claw Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Alientrap A question, readers. What sounds more fun: doddering about on your own two feet – like an idiot – or storming through deserts on a cannon-packing megacrab? I only make such a clearly self-answering inquiry because for some reason DuneCrawl, or at least the Steam Next Fest demo that shows off its isometric action, seems to think both sides have valid points....

Elden Ring Sellen quest walkthrough How to complete Sorceress Sellen’s questline in Elden Ring Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Need some help with the Elden Ring Sellen quest? Unfortunately, Sorceress Sellen’s questline is very long and often confusing. If you’re looking for Sellen’s location, the entrance to the Sellia Hideaway, or Primeval Sorcerer Azur’s hiding spot, we’ll gladly give you a hand. From the Waypoint Ruins Cellar to the ‘final choice’ at Raya Lucaria’s library, here’s a full Elden Ring Sellen quest walkthrough....

Elden Ring: How to get the Erudition Gesture How to get the Erudition Gesture to unlock the two Converted Towers Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for the Erudition Gesture in Elden Ring? While Gestures in Elden Ring are usually purely cosmetic, certain areas and quests in the game contain puzzles that can only be completed by performing a specific Gesture at a specific time and place. One such Gesture is Erudition, which is obtained in Liurnia and can be used to open two Converted Towers on the ourskirts of the region....

Elden Ring: Nightreign - All boss weaknesses Full weakness charts for every Nightreign boss Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco What are the key weaknesses of all the bosses in Elden Ring: Nightreign? To survive an Expedition in Nightreign and defeat the Nightlord at the end of your run, it takes the kind of grit and stubbornness that, well, any From Software fan probably has in buckets already. But it’s by no means an easy task, and certain Nightreign bosses are likely to give you heaps of trouble unless you counter them with the right types of damage....

Even with some annoyances, game streaming can feel like a Steam Deck cheat code How services like GeForce Now let you dance around the Deck’s limitations Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Steam Deck Academy brings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. The Steam Deck ’s competitors, whether they’re the old guard Ayaneo family, the luxe Asus ROG Ally X , or the shapeshifting Lenovo Legion Go , usually share the same attack line: they can play more of your games....

Fallout 1 and 2 (and Tactics) are currently free-to-keep from the Epic Games Store Alongside Wild Card Football Image credit:Bethesda Todd Howard recently said that he wanted people to experience Fallout 1 and 2 as they were , rather than remake them. Well, this’ll make things easier: both games are currently free to keep as part of the Fallout Classic Collection over on the Epic Games Store. Fallout Tactics is free, too, but I don’t know whether Todd’s cruel enough to want people to experience that one as it was....

Fallout 4’s script extender has already gotten its anniversary update, as Bethesda battle creation issues Sor far, over 60 other mods have also received rapid updates to work with the new version of the RPG Image credit:Bethesda Well, it could have been worse. Fallout 4 ’s all-important script extender modding tool has taken less than 24 hours to be updated to work with the RPG ’s freshly released anniversary update ....

Fly a nuclear corvette in this Cold War-era Star Trek homage from one of my favourite space game devs Hardcore a starboard Image credit:MicroProse Games I was ready to skip MicroProse’s just-announced Deck & Conn , on the grounds of it being far too early in the week for games that consist entirely of dials and rangefinders, but then a scrambled communique from Sin Vega alerted me to the fact that it’s the work of Elissa Black, one of the peeps behind Objects In Space , which I think is one of my top five space games ....

Free Lovecraft horror game developers Bit Golem raise $50,000 for humanitarian aid in Ukraine Whoo!(thulhu) Image credit:Bit Golem Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft developers Bit Golem announced this week that they’ve raised 200,000 złoty (around $50,000) towards humanitarian aid charities aiding Ukranians, including the Polish Red Cross, Save the Children, and Voices Of Children. Dagon itself is a free game , but has several pieces of paid DLC, all of which are currently on sale ....

Freyja questline guide - Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Here is the full Redmane Freyja quest walkthrough in Shadow Of The Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for a full walkthrough of the Freyja quest in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? The Redmane Freyja quest is one of many new NPC questlines you can complete to get unique items and lore tidbits in Shadow Of The Erdtree ....

Generative AI plays “zero part” in GTA 6, Take-Two boss confirms, but the company do have “hundreds” of AI “pilots and implementations” on the go “We’re already seeing instances where generative AI tools are driving costs and time efficiencies” Image credit:Rockstar Games Generative AI has played “zero part” in Rockstar Games’ creation of GTA 6, Take-Two CEOman Strauss Zelnick has said at the company’s latest financial numbers get-together, where he also indicated the game’s still on to initially release this November....

Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut comes to PC in May With new graphics features and controller options Image credit:Sony Interactive Entertainment Fans of curly wind FX and striking from a sheathed stance rejoice - open world samurai action game Ghost of Tsushima is coming to PC on May 16th via Steam and Epic Games Store . This is the Director’s Cut edition of the game, which includes the Iki Island story expansion and the co-op multiplayer Legends mode....

Gold Teeth is a tabletop RPG about “piracy and occult horror” from RPS pals Jim Rossignol and Marsh Davies Dock, Paper, Cannon <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/gold-teeth-header.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“A skull and bones symbol in gold against a rich red background with the words “Gold Teeth” on their side to its right. - 1”> Image credit:Marsh Davies & Jim Rossignol We don’t write much about board and paper games around these parts, not since Cardboard Children was sent to the dissolving pits....

Gris dev’s next gorgeous platformer Neva has all the emotional jumping you expect, plus the combat you don’t Watch your cub pal grow into a wolf later this year Image credit:Devolver Digital Neva is immediately recognisable as the next puzzle platformer from the developers behind Gris thanks to its sweeping, overlapping planes and effortlessly natural watercolour art, which were both on show again in tonight’s Geoffest Summer Game Fest show. I was expecting more eye candy from Neva after its announcement last summer , but what caught me by surprise was all the hacking and slashing that ensues in its second trailer....

Grounded 2 modding kicks off with cockroaches dressed as clowns, which is good for bugphobes, so long as they aren’t also circusphobes Also, a Pip-Boy Image credit:Obsidian / Sir_galahad172 Some people don’t like cockroaches. I’ve always found them to be reliable mounts for the tiny gnome army via which I’ll one day conquer the world. Anyway, forget I wrote that. Grounded 2 ’s come out this week , and as such folks have fired up their modding machines and got to work tweaking the garden survival extravaganza to their liking....

Grow A Garden: How to get Dinosaur Egg and Primal Egg Here’s how to get the new Prehistoric update Eggs Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Roblox Corporation Wondering how to get the Dinosaur Egg and Primal Egg in Grow A Garden? Dinosaurs have been introduced to Grow A Garden in the Prehistoric update, which features both Dinosaur Eggs and Primal Eggs. Both of these new egg types are elusive, and require you to use the DNA Machine in the centre of Grow A Garden’s land plot, donating pets for dinosaur mutation (wow!...

GTA 6 may not yet be “content complete” and another release delay is possible, claims Jason Schreier Update: Schreier calls this article “a complete misunderstanding” Image credit:Rockstar Games Update 8th January 2026 : Posting on Bluesky , Jason Schreier has called this article “a complete misunderstanding of what I said, which is that I wouldn’t be shocked if GTA6 does come out this fall, following the same delay pattern as RDR2”....

Helldivers 2 patch fixes crashes, disconnects and matchmaking bugs as devs aim to “beef up our content plans” It also lays the groundwork for future server improvements Image credit:Arrowhead Studios Helldivers 2 might be a co-op shooter mixed with comedy genius , but its launch has been blighted by bugs and crashes. Over the past week the devs have deployed server hotfixes and matchmaking tweaks, although one server and rewards patch had to be rolled back to fix “significant” performance issues ....

Here’s a free god sim from the Shotgun King devs in which you Build The Sun Made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 56 Image credit:Punkcake Délicieux / Rock Paper Shotgun Shotgun King developers Punkcake Délicieux have quietly rolled out another ticklish oddity in the shape of Build The Sun , a work-in-progress 2D god sim. In Build The Sun you preside over a tribe of alarming yet cute inkblot creatures, who sometimes remind me of Pikmin and sometimes, of that awful ‘roided-up panther monster from the opening stretch of Another World....

Here’s a taste of what Arc Raiders would look like in first-person, though you’re too late to try it yourself A missed shot, if you will Image credit:Embark Studios There is a strange deliciousness in experiencing a game from a perspective that it does not otherwise allow. Sure, things don’t always look right, there’s just this opportunity to rethink how you view a particular world. Recently, it appears that someone playing Arc Raiders got to do just that, by switching it into a first-person shooting mode as opposed to its usual third-person camera, all thanks to an accident....