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As Le Mans Ultimate emerges from early access, it’s still got work ahead to catch the top hardcore sims Mulsannnddd, here we go… Image credit:Studio 397 I’ve had Le Mans Ultimate on my radar of things that let you drive around in realistic circles for the past couple of years, but I’d never dived into its early access. Part of that was being utterly spoilt for choice in terms of existing options when it came to getting my GT racing on, with the likes of Automobilista 2 , Assetto Corsa Competizione , and even slightly older sims like Raceroom competing for pole position in the racing bit of my Steam library....

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced rated by PEGI, as the siren song of remake sea shanties grows deafening Weigh-hay and up she rises? Image credit:Ubisoft Look lively, me hearties. There, cast your eyes starboard. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced PEGI rating ahoy. The fair winds have seemed to be blowing our sails towards Ubisoft’s long-rumoured remake or remaster of the fourth mainline Assassin’s Creed, the one that’s all piratey, for years at this point....

Last chance to bag yourself some Prime-exclusive hardware savings Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun It’s the second and final day of Prime Day 2024 , and while there are still plenty of PC gaming deals to be basketed, let’s state the obvious: once they’re gone, they’re gone. Come midnight, these hardware savings will disappear faster than the free pastries at an RPS staff meetup, so now’s the time if one of them takes your fancy....

Best armor in Assassin’s Creed Shadows The best armor sets and trinkets for both Naoe and Yasuke in AC Shadows Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Wondering which is the best armor in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? There’s no shortage of awesome outfits in Assassin’s Creed Shadows , and even the relatively humble shinobi and samurai outfits that Naoe and Yasuke start the game with are supremely stylish. As you progress through your mission of revenge, you’ll unlock lots more armor pieces and trinkets, but while all of them look cool, a select few stand out as the cream of the crop....

Best skills to get first in Enshrouded There are some real game-changers in the Enshrouded skill tree Image credit:Keen Games What are the best skills in the Enshrouded skill tree? Enshrouded , like many open-world survival crafting games, implements a number of RPG progression systems. Chief among them is a skill tree, in which you start at the centre and branch off towards many powerful important skill nodes. If you’re wondering which areas of the skill tree to prioritise, then you’ve come to the right place....

Bitten by the hardware bug, Hollow Knight: Silksong gets ultrawide support Broadly speaking Image credit:Team Cherry Good news for the ultrawide monitor -owning Nic Reubens of the world: Hollow Knight: Silksong will, unlike its narrow-eyed predecessor, natively support stretchy displays up to the 21:9 format when it finally releases tomorrow. Silksong marketing-man-at-large Matthew Griffin shared some demonstrative screenshots on Xitter , confirming that it won’t require any of the weird bodging that Hollow Knight did to fill out those bigger screens....

Black State is a glossy Metal Gear Solid-style shooter that’s thinking with Portals Door snakes won’t keep out the bullets Image credit:IGN / Black State From Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart through the original Prey to the obvious touchpoint Portal , gaming hath no greater love than that for an unassuming door which stitches together two places that are notionally far apart. This rampant enthusiasm for teledoors might seem strange, given that video games are make-believe worlds held together by arbitrary squiggles of magic language....

Boomer shooter dev discovers his dogs have been barking on an “unbearable” loop for years Shaddup pup Image credit:Spytihněv Sometimes dogs are hard to shut up. Over a year and half after releasing Hrot from early access, the developer of the Quake -inspired shooter has fixed the dogs after discovering that a few of the canines have been, for some players, barking in a hideous and endless loop. “A lot of people have complained about some barking,” said developer Spytihněv in an update post ....

Bully Online sees modders have another go at schoolyard multiplayer mayhem, arrives in paid early access this year Recess roleplay returns Image credit:Rockstar Games Bully, Rockstar’s classic boarding school Bart Simpson simulator, is about to have another massive multiplayer mod fired at it from a slingshot. The mod’s dubbed Bully Online, stands atop the battered blazer of a previous attempt to let a bunch of folks play Bully together, and is set to arrive in paid early access this December....

Call Of Duty Black Ops 6 best quickscope loadout and class setup Here’s how to kill enemies instantly with the best quickscope loadout in Black Ops 6 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Activision Looking to build the best quickscope loadout in Black Ops 6? Quickscoping’s a different beast when compared to regular sniping. Instead of setting up shop in a far corner of the map and taking a well-timed shot, you’re going to be aiming at close-range, shooting directly after switching to your scope, and hopefully dealing big sniper damage without having to be patient....

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s launch day patch notes are basically gun speed dating, and its endgame is a big fight in map soup Nice to meet you, Echo 12, what do you like to get up to at the weekend? Image credit:Activision Oh shit, Call of Duty Black Ops 7 comes out tomorrow, November 14th. As you’d expect, Activision have been busy yelling about it amid the deafening din of about 10,000 other games whizzing past per minute....

Chains of Lukomoyre is a Slavic folklore, post-WW1 take on the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice Quite the concoction Image credit:Forge Ahead I know this is a PC games focused outlet, but I’d like to present to you the most PS3 coded game I’ve seen in a long while: Chains of Lukomoyre . Now, to be clear I mean this in the most loving of ways possible. That era of video games obviously set the foundations for the rinse and repeat we see in a lot of triple-A games these days, but there was still the occasional oddity out there that just had the right vibe....

Citizen Sleeper and Dishonored meet in the grimey, steampunk, dice-driven RPG Duskpunk, which is out today Nat 20! Image credit:Clockwork Bird, James Patton Here’s a sentence I am very glad to write: the first Citizen Sleeper -like is here! Or at least the first one I’m aware of (and the actual genre is dice-driven RPG , no more something-likes, ok?). It’s called Dusk Punk, which mixes the narrative and mechanical framework established by Citizen Sleeper with the aesthetics and world of games like Dishonored , and it’s out today....

Deadlock, Valve’s new multiplayer shooter, now has a barebones Steam page Playtesters can now talk about it Image credit:Valve Tens of thousands of people have been playing Deadlock , a new multiplayer shooter from Valve, for the past several months, but in that time there’s been no official announcement or acknowledgement of the game’s existence by its creators. Until now. Valve have posted an extremely barebones Steam store page for Deadlock , describing it as a “multiplayer game in early development....

Deck-building space sim Breachway re-emerges from warp with an August early access release date Once more unto the ‘Ways Image credit:Hooded Horse In theory I’m down to review Breachway , a roguelike deck-building space sim which is sort of FTL but 3D and with cards. The second I wrested this privilege from Ed Thorn’s resentful fingers, however, developers Edgeflow Studio and publishers Hooded Horse delayed the early access release. Perhaps this reflects Hooded Horse’s atypically forgiving, when-it’s-ready approach to game publishing....

Demon Tides is a Mario 64 meets Wind Waker throwback of devilish combinatory extent Triple-jump > triple-A Image credit:Fabraz It’s rare that a video game pumps actual joy into my shrunken, leathery heart, but I definitely felt a certain springtime stirring when I first jumped in 3D platformer Demon Tides. Hit the button again exactly when you land and you’ll be rewarded with a higher, twirlier jump. Hit it a third time and you’ll be treated to a triumphant, arcing somersault....

Don’t expect a SteamOS phone after the Steam Machine, Valve engineer says Though the Steam Frame’s compatibility tech is helping smooth out Windows-to-Android emulation Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Valve’s quiet bankrolling of open-source emulation tools could make it heaps easier to play your PC games library on a humble smartphone, though it sounds like Gabe-made SteamOS phones are unlikely to be joining the company’s growing hardware catalogue . In an interview with The Verge , Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed that they’ve been funding the development of Fex – a free compatibility tool that gets Windows apps functioning on mobile ARM processors – since well before revealing the ARM-based Steam Frame standalone VR headset....

Dragon Age writer teases a new arcane deckbuilder from his Stray Gods studio A game called Malys, hoooo yeahhhh Image credit:Summerfall Studios The folks who made roleplaying musical Stray Gods have announced they’re working on a new arcane deckbuilder in which you play a “former priest turned exorcist and demon hunter”. The game is called Malys and (as with the studio’s previous game) it’s being led by former Dragon Age writer David Gaider, which probably means a bunch of magical sarcasm and harrowing deaths....

Dragon’s Dogma 2 review: an action RPG anecdote generator It’s like the first one, but better Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Release: March 22nd 2024 On: Windows From: Steam Price: £54/€65/$70 Reviewed on: Intel Core i7-12700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3080, Windows 11 You know when you remember a game really fondly and instead of ageing alongside you, it becomes more modern in memory? The Dragon’s Dogma 2 experience is, essentially, how I remember its predecessor Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen ....

Dragon’s Dogma 2: How to unlock Mystic Spearhand How to unlock the Mystic Spearhand vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Looking for how to unlock the Mystic Spearhand vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2? As one of the advanced vocations in Dragon’s Dogma 2 , the Mystic Spearhand isn’t available from the game’s beginning. You’ll need to trek off the beaten path to the village of Melve and involve yourself in an important sidequest if you want to wield a Duospear and obtain one of the niftiest vocations in Dragon’s Dogma 2 ....