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Gar-Type is a free pixelart shooter based on a cosmic horror meme about a lazy, ravenous housecat Garfield also rhymes with Starfield, now that I think of it Image credit:LumpyTouch / Rock Paper Shotgun I think the last time I read an actual, original Garfield comic was in 1998. Since then, my experience of the character has been one long litany of Gar-memes and in particular, Gorefield memes . For those blissfully unaware, Gorefield is a version of Jim Davis’s otiose, lasagna-loving housecat who has broken his comic strip shackles and become a cosmic abomination....

Gigantic: Rampage Edition revives and expands the shuttered MOBA hero shooter Six years later Image credit:Abstraction Games/Gearbox Gigantic , the free-to-play team brawler from a former StarCraft and Guild Wars designer, which launched (fully) in 2017 and closed the following year , is returning as Gigantic: Rampage Edition . It’s no longer free-to-play, but a “premium and definitive release” of the original, and it’s due on April 9th. A Gigantic: Rampage Edition trailer....

Gone Home and Tacoma devs’ mother-daughter road trip game Open Roads misses its exit, gets a one-month delay Annapurna say March release date will “ensure the most polished experience for players” Image credit:Annapurna Interactive Open Roads , the story-driven game about a mother and daughter embarking on a road trip to learn about their family’s past, has seen its release date delayed by a month. Open Roads was announced at the end of 2020 with Booksmart star Kaitlyn Dever and The Americans’ Keri Russell revealed as voicing teenager Tess and her mother Opal....

GTA 6 developers buy L.A. Noire director’s studio, rename it Rockstar Australia Back from the Beyondi Image credit:Take-Two Interactive GTA 6 developers Rockstar Games have announced the acquisition of Video Games Deluxe, the Sydney-based team who collaborated with them on the 2017 re-release of L.A. Noire , virtual reality spin-off L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files and, most recently, post-launch updates for Grove Street’s Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition ....

GTA 6 publishers Take-Two cancel games and lay off hundreds to “rationalize” their pipeline Five percent of workforce to be let go Image credit:Take-Two Interactive GTA 6 publishers Take-Two Interactive have announced that they’re “rationalizing” their “pipeline” and positioning/restructuring/streamlining for growth by, you guessed it, laying off a load of people and cancelling a bunch of games. As detailed in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Take-Two are doing away with five per cent of the approximately 11,000 people who work for them, and have cancelled several in-development projects worth tens of millions of dollars....

GTA Online’s next update will let you pull off a classic, if slightly dull, type of crime: money laundering Laundry everyone can get behind Image credit:Rockstar I feel like money laundering is one of those concepts you see in a lot of crime TV shows but it’s not really something that seems to come up much in games. I certainly can’t think of any games that feature money laundering as an actual mechanic, but I’ll be able to add one to the list next week: GTA Online ....

Here are the new Game Pass library additions for May 2024 Five games arrive, eight games leave Image credit:Double Dagger Studio A new batch of games have been announced for Game Pass in May, including five that are playable on PC. There are siblings, felines, reapers, and a Croft. I’m struggling to identify a theme. Here are the first batch of games coming to Game Pass on PC in May 2024:...

Hollow Knight Silksong: All Silver Bells locations Here’s where to go to complete this Bellhart quest Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry Looking for Silver Bells in Hollow Knight: Silksong? One of the quests available on the Wish board in Bellhart tasks Hornet to find a series of Silver Bells. There’s not much info on where to go - only that “when searching the bellveins carefully, you can sometimes find rare, silver bells....

Hollow Knight: Silksong finally gets a release date, and you’ve only got to wait a little bit skonger Can you all shut up now? Image credit:Team Cherry Congratulations, you did it. Yes, you, with all your annoying memes and your endless Reddit posts, you finally made Team Cherry announce a release date for Hollow Knight: Silksong . It was all down to you - YOU - and your valiant efforts. Thank you....

How Baldur’s Gate 3 might have brought back Candlekeep, the library fortress where Baldur’s Gate began Keeping it lit with Adam Smith Image credit:Beamdog Videogames and especially role-playing games are chock-full of sheltered upbringings that go tits up. Innocent times and places like the prologue for Baldur’s Gate , which unfolds in the vast, fortified monastery of Candlekeep (beware spoilers from this point on). BioWare’s first ever RPG opens with your unsuspecting Chosen One learning the ropes from the old sage Gorion....

How to get a Slicing Kit in Star Wars Outlaws Here is how to get a Slicing Kit and unlock most terminals in Star Wars Outlaws Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Looking for a Slicing Kit in Star Wars Outlaws? Slicing is Star Wars Outlaws ’s version of hacking and is usually helpful for getting past energy barriers and sampling rare loot. Although you start the game with the ability to Slice, you may notice that some barriers have the ‘requires Slicing Kit’ message....

How to get Resonite Crystals in Infinity Nikki Stack up on free Resonite Crystals and get more Outfits for Nikki Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Papergames Need more Infinity Nikki Resonite Crystals? If you’d like to obtain more Outfits for Nikki, spending Resonite Crystals on the game’s gacha banners is a great way to get them. With a nice stack of Resonite Crystals in your pocket, you’ll certainly get a glamorous fit to flaunt in Miraland....

How to get the Great Katana in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Here’s how to find the Great Katana at the start of Shadow of the Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for the Great Katana in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? From the moment you step out into the Shadow Realm of Elden Ring ’s massive new expansion, you’ll be confronted with a host of new foes who will put your tried and true weapons to the test....

How to get water in Sons Of The Forest Learn how to easily get water to slake your thirst in Sons Of The Forest How do you get water in Sons Of The Forest? Endnight’s survival series tends to put you in charge of rather more responsibilities than just not getting clubbed to death. In Sons Of The Forest you also have to constantly keep track of your strength, tiredness, hunger, and thirst - and just as in real life, the best way to deal with the latter responsibility is to drink lots of water....

How to increase your carry weight limit in Stalker 2 There are a few different ways to increase your carrying capacity in Stalker 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Wondering how to increase your carry weight limit in Stalker 2? Inventory management is an important part of the Stalker series. You can see your current inventory weight in the coloured bar below your inventory in Stalker 2 , and if you hit any of the coloured thresholds, you’ll begin to get overencumbered by the weight of all your gear....

How to play Game Pass games on the Steam Deck It’s possible, with Xbox Cloud Gaming Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Learning how to play Game Pass games on your Steam Deck will both demonstrate the handheld’s compatibility limits, and show you how flexible it can be in bending them. See, while it’s not actually possible to install PC Game Pass games onto your Steam Deck’s SSD , Xbox Cloud Gaming – a streaming service included with Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions – can be unlocked on the Deck, making the all-you-can-eat library available to play....

I am deeply enamoured by Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s intricate and ridiculous fashion design I still do not like the helmets Image credit:Bioware/Rock Paper Shotgun Some extremely fresh vintage workwear that I bought for entirely practical reasons aside, I’m not exactly a fashion person. I have nobody to impress most days but my cat, and the only item of clothing she appears to have an opinion on is my Oodie, which is very comfortable for both of us and also smells like a chicken shop, which I imagine is more pleasant for her than me....

I strongly feel this AI-powered demo of Quake 2 is an insult to life itself Please, stop Image credit:Bethesda Softworks Microsoft have developed a playable version of Quake 2 that runs on generative AI. The “game” cannot currently run for longer than two minutes, has a very low frame rate, unresponsive controls, and is full of blurry textures. But Microsoft’s artificial intelligensia are proud enough of the prototype that they have made it playable online....

If you’re in the mood for a shapeshifting open world labyrinth, NaissanceE follow-up SenS has a new update Find the Unique Places within the Unstable Zones Image credit:Limasse Five NaissancE developers Limasse Five have released a big update for SenS, their early access open world spelunking game in which you search an enveloping Structure for Unique Places, tools and artefacts. The ExistencE of SenS is news to me, despite it being very much my cup of ImpossiblE ArchitecturE....

Indika, the darkly comic story of a young nun in a surreal world, is out now Nun Simulator XIX Image credit:Odd Meter You might assume that Indika will be dour, given that it’s a story-driven game about a nun in a grey, cold, alternative Russia. Then you watch its trailers and find surrealist imagery, genre-hopping, and a bleak sense of humour are part of its arsenal, and suddenly it seems, to me, irresistible....