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How to get all Festival Tokens in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Trying to get every Festival reward in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s prologue? Here’s how to get all 3 Festival Tokens. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Sandfall Interactive Want to get all the Festival Tokens in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s prologue? After Gustav watches the Gommage turn his loved ones into smoke, he’ll be whisked away to the Expedition Festival and begin saying his heartfelt goodbyes....

How to get Essence in Infinity Nikki Here’s how to get Essence items in Infinity Nikki Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Papergames Looking for a way to get Essence in Infinity Nikki? A large portion of your time in Infinity Nikki will be spent collecting crafting materials and items across Miraland using your special Ability Outfits . But after a time, you’ll encounter tasks that require Essence variants of certain items. How do you get Essence?...

How to get Shroud Wood in Enshrouded Here’s how to get your hands on Shroud Wood in Enshrouded Image credit:Keen Games Looking for Shroud Wood in Enshrouded? As an open-world survival crafting game, it should come as no surprise that Enshrouded has a great many materials and resources to discover. Shroud Wood is one such material, and you’ll need to gather it fairly early on in your journey. If you’re wondering where to find Shroud Wood in Enshrouded , the answer may be simpler than you expect....

How to get through The Mist in Hollow Knight Silksong Here’s how to follow the flies through the Silksong Mist Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry Trying to get through The Mist in Hollow Knight: Silksong? On the edge of Bilewater lies The Mist, a region clad in fog that’s full of randomised rooms. If you venture into this maze without knowing what to do, you’ll become needlessly lost, and if Hornet takes a wrong turn, she’ll be sent back to the beginning of the maze....

How to heal in Sons Of The Forest Here’s how to restore health in Sons Of The Forest Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games How do you heal in Sons Of The Forest? If you’ve played or watched any of Endnight’s massive and unsettling game Sons Of The Forest , you’ll likely already know just how easy it is to get damaged. Many new players will spend their first day low on health after their first encounter with the dangerous and agile mutants that accost you as you explore the Peninsula....

How to revive Virginia and Kelvin in Sons Of The Forest Learn how to revive Virginia and Kelvin in Sons Of The Forest Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games Want to know how to revive Virginia and Kelvin in Sons Of The Forest? Virginia and Kelvin are the two companions that can join you on the island in Sons Of The Forest , but they aren’t invincible. A few cannibal attacks (or swings from your own weapons) can easily knock them down, and if you fail to revive them before they take another swing, then they’ll die....

Hyper Light Breaker early access review: a flashy but hollow roguelike with few of Drifter’s charms Needs some hyper light fixing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Arc Games Developer: Heart Machine Publisher: Arc Games Release: January 14th, 2024 On: Windows From: Steam , Game Pass Price: £22/$27/€26 Reviewed on: Intel Core i9-10900K, Nvidia RTX 3090, 32GB RAM, Windows 10 There’s a lot you can do with a third dimension. Texture. Nativity dioramas. Spheres....

I missed that Black Ops 6 single player is always-online, but fortunately, it’s not too late to throw a wobbly Early players on reddit hit by disconnects Image credit:Microsoft Rock Paper Shotgun has a fuzzy conception of “news”, in that we regard the “new” element of news as overrated, more of a guideline than an obligation. The trick to selling this mindset is to overclock your obnoxious narcissism until it levels up into stylish solipsism....

I spent two hours getting beaten up in Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance Needed a welcome mat Image credit:Sega Recently, I spent around two hours with Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance , the Persona 5 : Royal-fied version of the original SMT V. Vengeance promises many new things: a revised battle system, a new story branch, new areas, and more. What I found when I played, was several punches to my metaphorical ribs....

In Among Us-style romp Frankenstein’s Monster, four Frankensteins fight over body parts for their creations IOU 1 kidney Image credit:Tea Dunk Games My understanding of 19th century medicine is roughly equivalent to my ability to describe the smell of the clouds on Jupiter. It’s essentially 21st century medicine but minus painkillers and handsoap, right? All the surgeons looked like Clive Owen and were addicted to bath salts. Still, I do recall reading that there was a lot of competition for access to corpses....

In first-person dungeon-crawler Blue Wyrm you brave mazes of rancid gemlike colours to rescue your lover Gawain, give it a go Image credit:SaintPesticide / Rock Paper Shotgun I can never remember the technical term for that wibbly effect you get in PS1 games when you sidle up to surfaces and look askance at the textures. I thought it was “dithering”, but Brendy says that’s not what dithering is you sap, you absolute dunce....

Indiana Jones And The Great Circle’s recommended PC specs require some deep pockets I don’t think I could Harrison Afford ray tracing Image credit:Microsoft Indiana Jones And The Great Circle arrives soon, which will be exciting to many of you who like the guy who runs from large boulders and occasionally cracks a whip. It may be worth holding back that excitement, though, until you’ve had a glance at the just-released PC requirements....

Indiana Jones doesn’t “endorse” Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them Image credit:Microsoft The line between escapist entertainment and Problematic fantasy can be thin , but I think Indiana Jones’s dislike for the German National Socialist Party of the 1930s and 1940s is fairly clearcut. “Nazis - I hate these guys!” he says in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Let’s play Devil’s Advocate and try to Lionel Hutz that quote: “Nazis?...

Inferni: Hope And Fear is an online co-op deckbuilding battle royale, if you were after such a thing A curious combination Image credit:Village Studio As genre mash-ups go, I didn’t see this coming. But maybe I should have, knowing how once things like battle royales pop off, they will always spawn curious mutations. Inferni: Hope And Fear is one of these curiosities, being an online co-op , deckbuilding, battle royale , with a 90s theme....

It’s you versus yourself in the demo for roguelite clone-hunter DoubleWe This town ain’t big enough for the both of me Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NightByte Games I adore the premise of DoubleWe: you’re given a randomised appearance, dumped in a cramped sci-fi shithole full of dodgy-looking NPCs, and forced to find kill your identical clone before he can emerge from the crowd and shank you first. There’s a demo for Steam Next Fest , and it’s provoked in me some of the most pulse-quickening paranoia since the days of DayZ ....

Kickback is a cross between Doom: Eternal and the bouncing DVD logo Dude we’ve been watching this thing for four hours I think it’s working Image credit:Dot blood Readers, I appear to have locked myself in self-referential language matrix trying to describe the feeling of playing top-down action shooter Kickback . You can only move through the recoil from shooting, you see, which means facing the opposite way to where you want to go....

Kill Knight’s flowing twin stick carnage hides layers of thoughtful complexity Does a Kill Knight get his meals cooked by a Food Chef? Image credit:PlaySide Kill Knight , the silly-named twin stick action game you may have caught at similarly silly-named event The Triple-I Initiative in April, is joining this year’s Steam next fest with a demo ahead of its expected release date later this year. I’ve played it, and I feel must apologise, Mr....

Koei Tecmo surprise-release Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, “definitive” Unreal remaster of the 2008 hack-and-slash Out on Steam and Game Pass right now Image credit:Koei Tecmo Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo have surprise-released Ninja Gaiden 2: Black, an Unreal Engine 5 version of Xbox 360 hack-and-slasher Ninja Gaiden 2. It’s out right now on Steam and Microsoft’s Game Pass service . I’d say it has materialised from the darkness like a ninja, but there are a lot of ninjas in circulation at the minute , and my analogy-jitsu gauge is running dry....

Larian reveal a new Divinity RPG that boasts “greater breadth & depth than ever before” Let’s all celebrate by burning a guy Image credit:Larian / Rock Paper Shotgun If you’re staying up all night to watch The Game Awards 2025, follow along with our live coverage . If you want an early night, you can catch up on all the news with our Everything Announced at The Game Awards 2025 roundup ....

Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver I & II remasters on horizon, if a Comic-Con plaque is to be believed Don’t Kain on my parade Image credit:Crystal Dynamics It looks like the Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver games could be getting the remaster treatment. An attendee at San Diego Comic-Con was looking at a set of figures based on characters from the series when they saw that the plaque accompanying the figures was labelled with the words “Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered” alongside the logo for Crystal Dynamics....