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It’s a good day for an RPS Game Club live chat, and we’re talking Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands Join us for some call and response at 4pm BST Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Five Houses LLC So ends another month of the RPS Game Club , which means another chance to gather together and swap video game opinions like scary stories ‘round the campfire. The topic, comedy rock RPG /door-kicking sim Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands , was picked by a sadly absent Alice B, but you know what they say when beloved colleagues become ensnared in the kind of Kafkaesque employment limbo that only a corporate acquisition can engineer: the show must go on....

Jump Space devs outline a bevy of early access roadmap updates and an easy-on-your-wallet price point Might as well jump Image credit:Keepsake Games Jump Space ! It’s a game with a name that’ll have you thinking, “wait, that’s not what it was called, was it?” And you’d be right about that, as due to some trademark problems, the game was rebranded from Jump Ship to its new name Jump Space back in August....

Killing Floor 3’s next stress test launches today, and won’t share the last one’s five-year NDA Yes, it’s still meant to be out next week Image credit:Tripwire Interactive What happens when an unenforceable force meets an un-shut-uppable object? Cooperative monsterman shooter Killing Floor 3 found out this past Sunday, as players of its closed online stress test were asked to agree to a nondisclosure agreement ( shared on Reddit ) that would stay in effect for five years ....

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2: How does lockpicking work? Learn how to lockpick any door or chest in KCD2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Deep Silver How does lockpicking work in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2? Players returning to Henry’s story from the first game will be very familiar with the art of lockpicking, but if you’re just starting at Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 , then lockpicking can be a bit of a mystery the first time you try it....

Last Epoch: Best Acolyte builds and skills Learn the best builds and skills for the Acolyte class in Last Epoch Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Eleventh Hour Games Wondering what the best Acolyte skills and builds are in Last Epoch? The Acolyte class in Last Epoch is for those who aren’t afraid to challenge the powers of life and death - or rather undeath. If you’ve ever played an undead summoner in any other ARPG, you have some idea of what to expect here....

Lorelei And The Laser Eyes doesn’t let its surreal creativity strip its puzzles of logic Simogo on then Image credit:Simogo It’s 1963. Renzo Nero, the aforementioned artist and director, has called you to his Italian hotel to witness a transcendental cosmic event via his ‘magnum opus’. If you’ve ever gotten drunk with fine art students, you’ll know this usually just means ‘my latest ketamine doodle’, but there’s an immediate splash of the otherworldly about the place....

Medieval strategy sim Manor Lords is getting proper AI village-building, an upkeep system and fancier castles Copious revamp plans unveiled for first birthday Image credit:Hooded Horse Classic RPG remasters drop from the shadows, surprise GOTY contenders spring from the cracks , but life goes on in the sleepy oxen-powered villages of Manor Lords , the medieval strategy city builder from Slavic Magic and Hooded Horse. Well, not entirely. Change is afoot in oxen country, as detailed in a round-up of update plans for the game’s first birthday....

MGS Delta gameplay trailer gives a first eyeful of The Boss and earful of David Hayter in Snake Eater remake Still no release date in sight Image credit:Konami The Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater remake - aka Metal Gear Solid Delta - resurfaced during tonight’s Xbox Games Showcase. We still don’t have a release date, despite signs we might see the remake of the 2004 game this year, but we did get a pretty good look at a bunch of key moments from the original remade in the shiny Unreal Engine 5 do-over - including a look at The Boss and the familiar gravelly tones of Snake actor David Hayter....

Minecraft now has cold and warm cow variants to join the pigs in beta Also ten million fireflies, probably Image credit:Mojang Minecraft recently dropped pig variants into beta, giving porkly variants in cold and warm climates. The other barnyard animals were presumably breighing and neighing from the neglect, but here comes a solution: cows are getting cold cow and warm cow variants, too. The cold climate bovine seems clearly modelled to resemble the highland cow - which I am nation-bound to call the best cow, because it is....

Minecraft Potions: All recipes and how to make The definitive guide on how to make Minecraft Potions Want to learn how to make Minecraft Potions? Learning how to make Potions in Minecraft will instantly elevate your playthrough and increase your chances of survival. There are many worthwhile Potions to learn first, such as the Potion of Healing and Fire Resistance, which will help you on your journeys through the Overworld and Nether ....

Monster Hunter Wilds second title update is adding in Lagiacrus from Monster Hunter 3 when it arrives next week Plus just a whole bunch more than that is coming, as always Image credit:Capcom You’d think that with Summer Game Fest technically being all wrapped up by now we’d all be done with showcases, and yet here Capcom are with a Spotlight of their own. One little game that got a look-in was, of course, Monster Hunter Wilds ....

Monster Hunter Wilds’ ghastly spider monster is actually key to the game’s more approachable design My arachnid teacher Image credit:Capcom Monster Hunter Wilds features an absolutely dreadful spider monster - a spider that, going by preview encounters and trailers, strives for the point on the Venn diagram between Malenia in Elden Ring and the demon arachnid from Hunt: Showdown . The spider monster is called the Lala Barina . If I saw “Lala Barina” out of context I would assume I was reading about a successor to Suzuki’s subcompact automobile the Holden Barina, whose brave and sturdy outline once graced the roads of Oceania....

New Elden Shadow Of The Erdtree patch aims to fix the final boss’s eyeball searing strobe light migraine festival (New york accent) plus noifs Image credit:Bandai Namco Sometimes, FromSoft craft the most masterfully tense boss duels you’ve ever seen, and sometimes, they aim laser pointers at both your eyes, cut off your feet, and expect you to dodge invisible leopards spitting lighting from the cockpit of a fighter jet made of other, more invisible leopards - as was the case with Shadow Of The Erdtree ’s final boss’s final phase....

No Assassin’s Creed sequel has ever matched the weird poetry of the first game’s towers Resynchronising with 2007 Image credit:Ubisoft Maybe five or ten years ago, everybody was absolutely sick of climbing towers in Ubisoft games. Are we still? I’m not sure. If you’ve never scaled one of these landmarks, possibly because you have recently arrived from Mars, let me start you off on the ground floor. The open world tower mechanic dates back to the original Assassin’s Creed in 2007, and is a simple, perennially gratifying narrative loop....

No, Deus Ex Remastered, I simply do not believe you need an RTX 2080 to run at recommended settings That’s terror Image credit:Aspyr We’ve done a lot of eye-widening on this website about the lofty requests of certain games’ system requirements , but it’s the recommended specs of Deus Ex Remastered that might just send my brow surging through the ceiling and into the fuselage of a passing Airbus, killing everyone on board....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Friday, March 29) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #292 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Monday, February 5) Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #239 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Tuesday, August 13) Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #429 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Tuesday, March 12) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #275 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

NYT Connections hints and answers for today, Wednesday Feb 11 Need a Connections hint for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #975. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Looking for some Connections hints to help with today’s puzzle on Wednesday, 11th February? If only we got unlimited guesses in our Connections puzzles… But that wouldn’t be much fun, would it? If you’re currently running out of guesses, don’t panic; a bit of guidance from this guide will surely improve your odds....