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Command a massive walking gun in Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator Decipher your orders, and decide whether to obey them Image credit:Nick Nieuwoudt / Dominik Latos / Rock Paper Shotgun Of steel is my spirit, of thunder my bones. I am the hawk’s justice, the quadrupedal crucible of oil and atrocity in which the future is forged. BEHOLD, ye strategy simulation enthusiasts. Behold my unabashed phallic symbolism menacing the gates of heaven, while my hissing hydraulics uncipher the coordinates of my prey....

Critically acclaimed Dragon’s Dogma 2 hits “mostly negative” on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions It’s also struggling performance-wise Image credit:Capcom Dragon’s Dogma 2 arrives on PC and consoles today, but despite high critical acclaim when reviews hit earlier this week, players on Steam have begun review-bombing Capcom’s high fantasy RPG after the appearance of some sudden and confusing microtransactions. These weren’t present in the press build of the game, and players are so up in arms about them that the game is currently sitting on a fat red “Mostly Negative” Steam rating based on over 11,000 reviews and counting....

Dark Souls 3 overhaul mod inspired by Demon Souls gets demo release date Five new worlds to get stuck into Image credit:Archthrones Team After almost four years in development, Dark Souls 3 mod Archthrones is set to release a demo on March 15th. If you were unaware of said mod, it’s a Patron-funded expansion that puts Dark Souls 3 on an alternate storyline in a way akin to Demon Souls, with a hub area home to five gateways that’ll transport you to five worlds....

Dead As Disco is a stylish Batman Arkham beat ’em to the beat ’em up You can import your own tunes, too Image credit:Brain Jar Games We might rightly judge Batman Arkham-style combat by how cool the counters make you feel, what with the core of it melting into second-nature rhythmic meditation that renders you basically unkillable after a few minutes of practice. You will win the fight. This is guaranteed....

Dead By Daylight codes for February 2026 All the DBD codes you can redeem right now Image credit:Behaviour Interactive Inc Looking for all the latest Dead By Daylight codes to redeem? Dead By Daylight is a classic wish fulfilment video game, assuming your wish is to be eviscerated by your favourite horror movie monster. However, if you want to avoid said evisceration, then redeeming Dead By Daylight codes is a great way to give yourself a bit of extra help....

Dead By Daylight developers Behaviour acquire Darkest Dungeon developers Red Hook Ruin has come to our family? Image credit:Red Hook Dead By Daylight developers Behaviour Interactive have announced that they’re acquiring Red Hook, the creators of Darkest Dungeon . This is the same Behaviour Interactive who recently laid off a bunch of people , cancelled a game and closed a studio, Midwinter Entertainment, after bagging themselves a bunch of developers (the others are SockMonkey, Codeglue and Fly Studio) over the past two years....

Destiny 2 is crossing over with Ghostbusters next week, complete with a Slimer Ghost and Ecto-1 And a horny Sparrow Image credit:Bungie It seems only fitting that Ghostbusters has become the movie franchise that refuses to die, returning for a smattering of so-so (at best) reboots and sequels on screen and elsewhere being relegated to another rich vein of nostalgia to be mined for cash. Speaking of, Destiny 2 is getting Ghostbusters cosmetics next week!...

Destiny 2 The Final Shape’s “game-breaking” subclass detailed in new Bungie video Transcend Light and Dark in the form of a swanky grenade Image credit:Bungie/Sony Bungie have released a big overview video of Destiny 2 ’s Final Shape expansion, introducing a new, openly overpowered Prismatic subclass, fresh Exotic items and the new Dread enemy faction. As detailed on Bungie.net , the new subclass lets you combine certain class abilities and damage types....

Don’t worry about The Division, Ubisoft say as series executive producer jumps to Battlefield amid layoffs “Our teams who built this world with Julian are still here” Image credit:Ubisoft Julian Gerighty, a long-time key cog at Massive Entertainment, has announced that he’s departing the Ubisoft-owned studio after 12 years to go and work on Battlefield at EA. His departure swiftly follows Ubisoft revealing earlier this week that they’re planning to lay off staff at Massive, with a voluntary redundancy process late last year reportedly having not resulted in enough departures to stave off this bloodletting....

Don’t expect Fallout 1 and 2 remakes from Bethesda any time soon - Todd wouldn’t want to “paste over” their charm “I think I’d like people to experience it the way it was” Image credit:Bethesda Softworks Like many I’m sure, I have extremely fond memories of the original Fallout games, 2 especially. I bought my first laptop for uni, barely suitable for much except typing long literature essays in which I’d complete assignments using my favorite university trick of writing “ah, but to answer this question, we must first explore (whatever I actually wanted to write an essay about....

Doodle World codes [February 2026]: Free cash, Doodles, and more Redeem these Doodle World codes for a variety of in-game freebies! Image credit:Doodle World Studios Looking for the latest Doodle World codes? Doodle World belongs to that popular sub-genre of Roblox experiences best described as “pet collecting adventure games”. If you need a hand collecting more of the game’s cute Pokemon-style creatures, you can always turn to Doodle World codes for handy freebies....

Downhill is a fourth wall breaking action RPG whose protagonist knows you exist, and might not agree with your actions It’s an uphill battle Image credit:Sisterhood Games Probably one of the most appealing parts of an RPG is bonding with other characters, right? Building up your player character’s relationships with various companions, like in games like the Persona series for example. What I wouldn’t say is particularly common is you, the player, having a direct relationship with the character you’re playing as....

Dragon’s Dogma 2: When Wills Collide quest walkthrough The time has come to finally complete Dragon’s Dogma 2, in When Wills Collide Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Looking for a walkthrough for the main quest When Wills Collide in Dragon’s Dogma 2? It’s been a long, winding road from waking up in a labour camp at the start of Dragon’s Dogma 2 to defying fate and bringing forth the Unmoored World. If you’ve been following our walkthroughs from the start, that road is finally about to come to an end in this quest, which is the last major mission you’ll complete in the secret endgame of Dragon’s Dogma 2 ....

Dreams On A Pillow is a game about the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the creator of Liyla And The Shadows Of War Now seeking crowd-funding Image credit:Rasheed Abu-Eideh Palestinian developer Rasheed Abueideh has announced Dreams On A Pillow, a mixture of stealth-adventure and interactive documentary set during the Nakba - Israel’s violent displacement and dispossession of Palestinian Arabs in 1948, shortly after Israel’s founding. Created by “a global team of veteran game developers”, it’s the story of a Palestinian woman grappling with the loss of her baby after fleeing a bloody assault on her town....

Dune: Awakening devs apologise for misleading Lost Harvest DLC buyers about the expansion’s scale: “our communication… has not been clear enough” Funcom commit to making 15 more building pieces, following a backlash Image credit:Funcom Tis the season for publishers apologising for screwing up their DLC rollouts, apparently. Even as Paradox Interactive appear crown in hand before Crusader Kings 3 players to say sorry for the buggy Coronations DLC , Funcom are weathering a backlash of their own over communication problems with Dune: Awakening’s new paid Lost Harvest expansion ....

Ex-Zenimax devs say their Sackbird was drawn by a human, but bits of their website are AI-generated “It’s not a replacement for artists, just another brush in the box” Image credit:Sackbird Studios Earlier this week, a group of former ZeniMax developers revealed that they’d formed a new worker-owned studio in the aftermath of Microsoft’s mass layoffs . It’s called Sackbird Studios, and the logo’s a bird with a sack. Following accusations that this bird looked like it could be AI-generated , the studio have responded that it isn’t, but some of the images on their website were....

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth review: imperfect, uneven, unfocused, unmissable No gettin’ off of this train we’re on Image credit:Square Enix/Rock Paper Shotgun Developer: Square Enix Publisher: Square Enix Release: January 23rd 2025 On: Windows From: Steam / Epic Games Store Price: £65/€70/$70 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti, Windows 10 I argued with myself for several weeks in university about whether to go to a seminar discussing T....

Floating island survival game Lost Skies hits 1.0 today, with a few caveats Fly like a bird Image credit:Bossa Studios Lost Skies has left its early access release today, entering into its 1.0 version of the game. If you feel slightly surprised by that news, so do I, because it only launched into early access in April of this year , pretty much exactly five months ago. Every game will do early access differently of course, but it seems like Lost Skies could have done with a bit more time in the oven....

Football Manager 2026 will be coming home soon enough with a November release date The digital beautiful game Image credit:Sports Interactive/ Sega It’s that time of year, where the weather starts to get a bit chillier, cafes start to reintroduce seasonally appropriate hot beverages, and of course, the arrival of a new Football Manager is in sight. Sports Interactive announced the release date for this year’s iteration, Football Manager 2026 , earlier today, which you may be pleased to hear is only a couple of months away: November 4th....

Further testing seems to confirm Monster Hunter Wilds DLC performance improvement theory, to an extent Probably not worth the £460 in cosmetic packs Image credit:Capcom I think we all want it to be true that the Monster Hunter Wilds ’ infamously limp PC performance can be blamed upon, as was reported yesterday, an overzealous DLC checking process gumming up what might overwise be a perfectly fine-running beastfight game. Partly because it just sounds funny....