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Elden Ring Nightreign DLC’s first new class looks great for book nerds and grubby old men lovers Scholarly behaviour Image credit:FromSoftware I don’t know if I’m allowed to write “dad I’d like to” you know what, even as an acronym, so I won’t, but my current prediction for Scholar, the first of two new Nightfarers coming to Elden Ring Nightreign as part of its Forsaken Hollows DLC, is that this is what an alarmingly large number of people will refer to him as....

Elden Ring Nightreign’s The Forsaken Hollows DLC drops next month, brings back a beloved Dark Souls bumkicker Someone’s put a big hole in Limveld Image credit:FromSoftware Yep, Elden Ring Nightreign developers FromSoftware are definitely planning to release some DLC for the action RPG by March 2026 . A DLC dubbed The Forsaken Hollows was revealed at last night’s PlayStation State of Play, and is set to drop on December 4th....

Elden Ring: All 7 Painting locations and solutions Here’s where to go to find every Painting in Elden Ring, and their solutions Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking to track down all the Paintings in Elden Ring? These mysterious collectibles are among the rarest in Elden Ring : 7 gorgeous in-game paintings, each to be found in a different place, and each one portraying a unique landscape. Once you’ve interacted with a painting, you must then track down the exact vista that the painting portrays in order to gain a valuable reward....

Elite Dangerous and Planet Zoo devs Frontier kick off their own monthly showcase with a game reveal next week Plus plans for Elite in 2024 Image credit:Frontier Developments Frontier Developments, the British developer-publishers behind Elite Dangerous , Planet Zoo and Warhammer games including Warhammer 40,000 XCOM-a-like Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters and last year’s Age of Sigmar RTS Realms of Ruin , will host a new monthly developer showcase starting next week....

ESA lawyer frets about some sort of terrifying ‘online arcade’ if preservation is made easier ESA oppose allowing libraries to offer scholars remote access in recent hearing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Team17 Last week, a government hearing took place between representatives of the Video Game History Foundation , the Rhizome project, and the Software Preservation Network among others, with legal representation for the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and the AACS among those in opposition....

Eternal Strands review An ambitious, colourful mystery to unravel Image credit:Yellow Brick Games Developer: Yellow Brick Games Publisher: Yellow Brick Games Release: Jan 28th On: Windows From: Epic Games , Steam Price: £34/$40/€40 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i5-12600K, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 When I’ve had enough of fighting the dogs in a respectable, straightforward manner, I pick them up with my mind and - with a casualness that has to be extremely insulting if you’re a dog - drop them directly off a cliff....

Everything we know about Avowed Avowed: story, gameplay, and more Image credit:Obsidian Entertainment Want to know more about Avowed, the upcoming action RPG set in the Pillars of Eternity world? Avowed is Obsidian Entertainment’s newest project and serves as a spinoff game in the realm of Eora, the expansive fantasy world first detailed in Pillars of Eternity and Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire . Instead of a topdown CRPG experience with tabletop-inspired mechanics and real-time-with-pause tactical combat, Avowed puts the player up close and personal via a first person view with fast-paced gameplay more reminiscent of Obsidian’s 2019 effort, The Outer Worlds ....

Finishing Skyblivion is a new dev diary series about the last leg of the Oblivion remake mod’s run to release By Talos, it’s Patrick Stewart’s bodyless head Image credit:The Skyblivion team. With unofficial Oblivion remake Skyblivion aiming to arrive this year , one of its developers has kicked off a new dev diary series documenting the work they’ve been doing to get the massive Skyrim mod ready to emerge through the release gates....

Glittering cyberpunk life sim Nivalis has been delayed until 2025 Look to the future Image credit:505 Games When the makers of Cloudpunk revealed their next game would be set in the same cyberpunk city as their sci-fi delivery sim, my ears were pricked. When they showed you’d be running a noodle bar and fishing in the slums instead of flying a hovercar around, I went into full wishlisty mode. Nivalis (named for the cyberpunk city in question) was due to come to PC some time this year....

Hades 2 is our favourite game of 2025 or: why we didn’t give Supergiant’s roguelike a bestest best review Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Supergiant Games The RPS Advent Calendar 2025 has begun! We’re revealing one of our favourite games of the year every day, and our favourite of favourites on December 24th. Check the main Calendar post to see a full list of our choices so far. For the past month we have been shouting about the games we consider to be the best games of 2025....

Half Lifey survival game Abiotic Factor is out now in early access Freemanagement sim Image credit:Playstack On the one hand, you’ve got to deal with interdimensional horrors of various flavours, such as multiple-storey cryptids and squishy skinless wolves; on the other, invading squads of Combiney soldiers. Fortunately, you’ve got a big fat Ivy League brain stuffed with knowledge of killer gadgets, base construction, subterranean farming and battlefield medicine. My increasing phobia for survival games notwithstanding, I think this looks and sounds like a hoot - and it’s out now in early access....

HBO’s The Last Of Us season two now has a release date in the US and UK On HBO and Sky, respectively We’ve known that HBO’s Last Of Us adaptation was getting a second season since 2023 , but now it has a release date. The first episode will air in the US on April 13th. Season two is set five years after the first series, and is due to partially cover the events of the second game, The Last Of Us: Part Two....

Helldivers 2 devs look ahead to future “improvements” after finally conquering multiplayer server issues Last weekend was a smooth one for Arrowhead Image credit:PlayStation PC LLC Helldivers 2 developers Arrowhead have said they will be able to get back to working on future “improvements” for the superb bug-stomping, bot-blasting shooter after finally resolving the weeks-long server struggles caused by the game’s immense popularity. Helldivers 2 released on February 8th and quickly rocketed to incredible player counts, overtaking the likes of God of War and Spider-Man to become the biggest PlayStation game released on PC to date - and bringing hundreds of thousands of concurrent players crashing into its multiplayer servers....

Helldivers 2 drops PSN account linking requirement for Steam players after widespread backlash “We’re still learning what is best for PC players and your feedback has been invaluable,” say PlayStation Image credit:Arrowhead It’s been a tumultuous few days for Helldivers 2 , as one of this year’s most beloved runaway hits managed to seemingly undo all of its goodwill and earn the ire of thousands of players in the blink of an eye....

Helldivers 2 update targeting key performance issues arrives next month, Arrowhead reckon it’ll be a “noticeable improvement” Wider plans to tackle “larger concerns” are also being worked on, the studio say Image credit:Arrowhead Helldivers 2 developers Arrowhead have once again addressed the range of performance issues that’ve come to afflict the shooter, teasing a mid-October update that they reckon should deliver a “noticeable improvement” and outlining that wider plans are in the works in terms of dealing with some larger problems....

Helldivers 2’s latest patch adds blizzards and sandstorms, rebalances bunker and personnel missions Arrowhead think you’ve been having too much nice weather recently Image credit:PlayStation So, how was everyone’s long weekend? I don’t want to alarm anyone, but I think I may have even sensed the fading ghost of an immeasurably whisper-thin ray of sunshine at one point. Enough! Says a new patch for co-op shooter Helldivers 2 . You know who else enjoys basking in the pleasant glow of mildly enjoyable weather when there’s freedoms that need fighting for?...

Herdling review Flock-watching Image credit:Panic / Rock Paper Shotgun Developer: Okomotive Publisher: Panic Release: August 8th 2025 On: Windows From: Steam , Epic Games Store Price: $20/£16/€19 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7 12700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3060, Windows 11 Switzerland-based Okomotive are here to escape from dystopia once again. In their previous Far: Lone Sails and its sequel , you played a child operating a cutaway landship that often resembled a rampaging beast - the last surviving specimen of a race of monstrous engines, carrying you rightward through empty cities and petrified industry towards some kind of new beginning....

Here’s every spear I spotted in the new Elden Ring DLC trailer, rated for their predicted plot relevance A spear-ited investigation Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco We just got a new Shadow Of The Erdtree story trailer yesterday. As is their druthers, FromSoft have at once made the events it depicts feel of earth-shattering importance while providing basically no concrete information. A lot of people will be putting out gargantuan theory posts right now, rambling on about Miquella, the Crucible, the Golden Order blah blah....

How to be the worst wizard in Dragon’s Dogma 2 - Third Impact Our Dragon’s Dogma 2 preview diary concludes with a prison break and an endless Golem brawl Image credit:Capcom Welcome to the third and final part of my Dragon’s Dogma 2 hands-on diary, in which I heroically try to make headway in Capcom’s outsized fantasy RPG with a party of pure magic-users. I am Dragonkin Skywalker - telekinetic Mystic Spearhand, oxcart patron and an extremely bad thief....

How to get a Red Soldier Ant Egg in Grounded 2 Found deep within an ant-filled dungeon Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Xbox Game Studios Working out how to get the Red Soldier Ant Egg in Grounded 2? The Red Soldier Ant Egg is required to get your first Buggy mount , the Red Soldier Ant, which is an efficient way to get around the map quickly. If you haven’t already, progress the Grounded 2 story until you get the Hatchery, something that’s required for hatching eggs in the first place....