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Ara: History Untold review: a pretty, almost great resource management game chafing under a 4X suit Delegation of a nation Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Xbox Game Studios Developer: Oxide Games Publisher: Xbox Game Studios Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam , Microsoft Price: £60/$60/€60 Reviewed on: AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 3400G, Radeon RX 590, 24GB RAM, Windows 10 I am puzzled by Ara Colon History Untold’s priorities. At its heart are a couple of interesting ideas undermined by its own determination to put the wrong thing on centre stage....

Arc Raiders, extraction shooter from The Finals’ devs, is no longer free-to-play and coming 2025 Originally announced in 2021 Image credit:Embark Studio Arc Raiders was announced back in 2021 as a free-to-play co-op third-person shooter, and has been delayed several times since. That’s partly because Embark Studios’ other in-development game, The Finals , progressed faster than planned and stole its momentum. It’s also because it was re-tooled at some point as a PvPvE extraction shooter....

Arc Raiders’ latest update nerfs an overperforming pistol, rebalances boom damage and also has ducks Duck denasty Image credit:Embark Studios Show me your quacking war face. Well, show the swarm of rubber ducks Arc Raiders devs Embark have seemingly unleashed upon your character’s living quarters your quacking war face. Otherwise you’d better be careful where you put your feet, lest you upset them and loose avian anarchy on the world. Also, a gun which might have been your favourite for decimating squads of poor shootery fools with other loadouts has been nerfed....

Assemble a manga page to beat up thugs in this flashy roguelike based on a hit Japanese series Also, cook fish and get wasted Image credit:Kodansha The bar for getting me to write up a new roguelike has never been higher. I don’t care how many twists you throw into the formula, developers. I don’t care how imaginatively you have reinvented the wheel of permadeath and unlocks. I am tired of this genre/wantonly adhesive cultural phenomenon....

Best Ice Pals in Palworld Here’s the best Ice Pals to have in your team in Palworld Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Looking for the best Ice Pals in Palworld? Ice Pals are strongest against Dragon Pals . As some of the hardest bosses in Palworld are Dragon-types, it’s important to have the best Ice Pals in your team in advance. We’ve organised a list of the top Ice Pals in the game below, based on their effectiveness in combat and unique Partner Skill....

Bethesda release Oblivion Remastered for £50 The Elder Scrolls told of its return Image credit:Bethesda Years after it was first leaked, and following weeks of increasingly loud rumours, Bethesda have finally shown off a trailer for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remaster. It looks very shiny, and has a few new cogs under the hood. More importantly, it’s out now . First of all, here’s the trailer. It’s £50 / $50 on Steam , or fans can grab a discount by picking up a Steam key from Fanatical for £41....

Bethesda update Fallout 4 for your “next-generation PC” Is widescreen support “next gen”, then? How about Creation Kit and quest updates? Image credit:Bethesda Likely to capitalise on the hype generated by BezosTech’s (by many accounts, pretty entertaining) Fallout TV show, Bethesda are spiffing up Fallout 4 with a new update , including widescreen and ultra-widescreen support, fixes to Creation Kit, and a “variety of quest updates.” The update is slated for this month, April 25th....

Black Myth Wukong: How to unlock more curio slots Here’s how to equip more curios in Black Myth: Wukong Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Looking to unlock additional curio slots in Black Myth: Wukong? Curios are artefacts in Black Myth: Wukong that confer essential buffs to the Destined One. At the start of the game, you’re confined to only two slots in your inventory for these powerful tools, which might feel limiting....

Black Myth Wukong: Secret Ending explained Here’s the road to Black Myth Wukong’s Secret Ending, a.k.a. the True Ending Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Are you hoping to get the Secret Ending in Black Myth Wukong? There are two endings in Black Myth Wukong: the “Default Ending”; and the “Secret Ending”, also known as the “True Ending”. Reaching the first is relatively simple (just finish the game), but unlocking the Secret Ending is very difficult, as you’ll need to discover and complete several well-hidden sections within each of Black Myth Wukong’s chapters....

Borderlands 4 SHiFT Codes for free Golden Keys (February 2026) How to redeem SHiFT Codes in BL4 and get free Golden Keys Image credit:2K / Rock Paper Shotgun Looking for Borderlands 4 SHiFT Codes so you can claim free Golden Keys? Like with Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands and Borderlands 3 before it, Gearbox’s latest looter shooter features plenty of Golden Keys that unlock Golden Chests across Kairos. Each chest contains extremely rare gear, including Legendary Weapons , so it’s well worth your time to open them all....

Botany Manor review: peaceful and beautiful best-in-show plant puzzles Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Whitethorn Games Developer: Balloon Studios Publisher: Whitethorn Games Release: April 9th 2024 On: Windows From: Steam , Game Pass Price: £21/€25/$25 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-11340F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3060, Windows 11 Botany Manor is a game that seems calculated to make me sit up on alert like a meerkat, or crash through a wall yelling like that sentient jug mascot (I am not from America, I just know he exists)....

CD Projekt Red still ‘don’t see a place for microtransactions’ in singleplayer games If only other developers agreed Dragon’s Dogma 2 is seemingly a superb game, when it’s not buggy or surprising its players with microtransactions . CD Projekt Red are no stranger to releasing buggy games, but they’re less keen on microtransactions - at least for singleplayer games. In an interview with a Polish investor site, CDPR’s chief financial officer Piotr Nielubowicz said that they “do not see a place for microtransactions in the case of singleplayer games”, but they wouldn’t rule it out for multiplayer....

Connections hints and answers for Fri, October 11th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #487. 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 ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 11th October? Luckily for you we have several. Below is a list of clues to help you figure out the Connection groups for today along with the answers themselves if you get really stuck....

Connections hints and answers for Mon, August 19th Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #434. 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 ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 19th August? We’ve rustled up some clues to help you solve today’s Connections along with the answers to double-check....

Could The Witcher 4’s Kelpie be the best video game horse yet? We asked an expert “They knew what they were doing. They were like, here’s our horse.” Image credit:CD Projekt/Rock Paper Shotgun If you caught The Witcher 4 ’s tech demo at yesterday’s Unreal showcase , you likely spent an above-average amount of time for a Tuesday being impressed by horse muscles. Still, however excited you were about that horse, I’d wager you weren’t quite as happy as Alice Ruppert - consultant on the upcoming Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori , and owner of the very best website about video game horses on the internet ....

Dandy’s World codes (February 2026) Trying to buy a new toon license in Dandy’s World? Use these codes for free ichor Image credit:BlushCrunch Studio On the lookout for fresh codes in Dandy’s World? This multiplayer survival horror game is best described as a colourful blend of Poppy Playtime, Dead by Daylight and Doors , with players teaming up with friends to find and activate ichor extraction machines across several floors. However, as you’d expect from any modern horror game that has a deceptively cute and cuddly exterior, you won’t be alone....

Darktide’s melee combat is a rhythm game in disguise Stab, slash, it’s all in the mind Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Fatshark I know that “Made one guy admit he was wrong about a subgenre” isn’t the kind of achievement they put in accolade trailers, but I must credit Warhammer 40,000: Darktide with tearing apart my blanket dislike of first-person melee fighters. Having spent months of stubbornly maining Veteran and sticking as closely as possible to FPS convention, I’ve since found peace in the simple act of swinging knives/swords/giant electrified hammers into and through people....

Diablo 4 Gems: Crafting, tier levels and how to unlock the Jeweler Our Diablo 4 Gems guide explains everything you need to know to get the best gems Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Blizzard Entertainment What do Diablo 4 Gems do? In Diablo 4 , Gems can provide excellent bonuses to your gear. But first you have to find them, and once you do, you might want to combine them with more Gems to earn better buffs....

Does the bird warrior of Elden Ring Nightreign have a human face beneath his beak? I’m glad you asked Facing the facts Image credit:FromSoftware Does Elden Ring Nightreign ’s bird-bodied Guardian have a human face hidden somewhere on his feathery body? It’s a question people have been thinking about, and by “people” I mean a small subset of Elden Ring obsessives who like to watch the game being picked apart 3D model by 3D model....

Dragon’s Dogma 2: Disa’s Plot quest walkthrough How to infiltrate Vernworth Castle in Disa’s Plot Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Want to know how to complete the Dragon’s Dogma 2 quest, Disa’s Plot? If you’ve reached this quest, it likely means you’ve already spent a fair bit of time in Vernworth, one of the largest of the settlements in Dragon’s Dogma 2 . But to infiltrate Vernworth Castle’s Guardhouse, you’ll need to be a fair bit sneakier than you’ve been so far in the goblin-slaughtering escapades it took to get you here....