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Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Cutting through the crypto spam I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:Daniel Villagran Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye was caught by dozens upon dozens of spam accounts hijacking the tag to promote cryptocurrency garbage. Twitter’s journey to uselessness continues. But after reporting dozens of accounts in the vain hope that Twitter might at least knock these particular bots offline (knowing it’ll never actually address the wider problem), I was delighted to admire a great many attractive and interesting indie games....

Sea Of Thieves has gone all Lock Stock in Season 12 with double-barreled guns and, er, skeleton summons Plus tightrope walking and owls! Classic London gangster stuff! Image credit:Xbox Game Studios Remember that bit in that Guy Ritchie film where Dexter Fletcher shoot a guy and then throws a glowing jar over his soldier that summons a bunch of skeletons to help him out? Me too! Must have been the direct influence for Sea Of Thieves ’ new Season 12, which launched earlier this week with a bang - from two smoking barrels!...

Shadow Of The Erdtree’s mixed Steam reviews paint a different picture to the critical reception The ‘highest rated’ DLC ever isn’t for everyone it seems Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Despite an overwhelmingly strong reception with critics, Shadow Of The Erdtree is currently sitting at a ‘mixed’ review rating on Steam, with nay-sayers citing performance issues and overbearing enemy design. The Elden Ring DLC is currently metacritic’s highest rated expansion of all time at 95, beating out the The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ’s Blood And Wine ’s 92....

Sixty Four is a very elegant abstract factory sim with sinister depths Out today Image credit:Playsaurus It starts, much as when writing articles for videogame websites, with a blank page. More accurately, a white space of indefinite extent. In the middle of the white space there is a curious little yellow machine, a kind of motorised plunger akin to an oil derrick. In the story of Sixty Four , you’re late to some kind of social engagement, somewhere beyond that beaming expanse of whiteness....

Smart but flawed 4X strategy Civ-like Millennia gets final update as Paradox declare “the end of an age” Patching out a few last millennium bugs Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Paradox Interactive “A Civ-like with neat ideas, but half-formed fundamentals and messy execution make your decisions feel less than impactful,” wrote contributor Ian Boudreau in our Millennia review from March 2024. Sounds like the kind of thing updates might fix, but alack, there shall be no more....

Spiders release fantasy RPG GreedFall 2 in early access, as its frustrated workers are offered concessions Teer’d release Image credit:Nacon Look out, it’s Spiders. It’s fun to write about Spiders, because you get to frighten people for a moment, before they realise you’re talking about the game development studio, Spiders. They have just released GreedFall 2: The Dying Land into early access. For those who don’t remember the first GreedFall , it was a colonial-styled RPG about landing on the magical shores of another continent and getting into scrapes with monsters and frontiersfolk....

Spray Paint Simulator announced, as PowerWash Simulator seethes Alliance or Horde Image credit:Whitethorn Games After PowerWash Simulator’s jet to success, it was inevitable, really. Whitethorn Games and North Star Video Games have only come out with a rival: Spray Paint Simulator . In it, you get out your spray painter and “shshshshshs” different colours of paint onto various surfaces. For whatever reason, the universe this takes place in doesn’t seem to value brushes or those rolly mops....

Storeroom Key location in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree How to get and where to use the Storeroom Key in Shadow Of The Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Wondering where to use the Storeroom Key in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? As you explore the Land of Shadow in Shadow Of The Erdtree , you’ll discover many secret dungeons , Spiritsprings and rooms within the various regions of the map ....

Straftat resurrects a Counter-Strike map you either love or hate, cannibalising FPS history in the best way possible It’s one of 30 free new maps Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Isn’t Straftat a pleasing word to say? Straftat . It almost demands an angry bark, an accusatory finger. Straftat! The bite-sized two-player shooter was one of our favourite games of last year , summoning the fast-paced killthrills of ancient Quake servers as much as the quickfire 1v1 scraps of the gulag in Call of Duty: Warzone ....

Team Fortress 2’s Mann vs Machine mode is getting its first major update in years, and Valve want your input Steam owners call on players to submit missions and maps before August release Image credit:Valve Team Fortress 2 ’s Mann vs Machine mode will soon receive a “much-needed update”, developers Valve have announced in a whimsical blog post . Both the blog post and the venerable bot-fighting mode itself are a throwback to a kinder age, before genAI started eating everybody’s lunch together with imagery, sounds and written descriptions of everybody eating their lunch....

The Crush House is a saucy 90s reality TV show simulator from the developers of Reigns Big Bother Image credit:Devolver I’m not much of a reality TV watcher. Genuinely, I’ve been humiliated on this count in RPS morning meetings, with certain “colleagues” whose names rhyme with “Malice Knell” making references I don’t understand and laughing at my expression of hurt and confusion. My grasp of reality TV basically ends with the finale of the very first season of Big Brother, feat....

The devs behind Bradley the Badger want it to be the video game industry’s satire moment A guy called Stanley might have something to say about that Image credit:Day 4 Night Satire is a genre that you find often enough in mediums like film and television, but there is an argument to be made that it doesn’t happen as often in games, and that maybe, this is due for a reckoning....

The fastest mounts in Palworld ranked Here are the fastest ground, swimming, gliding and flying mounts in Palworld Image credit:Pocketpair Want to know which are Palworld’s fastest mounts? Travelling across the extensive map in Palworld is much easier once you get yourself one of the fastest mounts in the game. Mounts fall into the following categories: flying, swimming, ground and gliding. Each is equipped to shepherd you across the continents and allow you to find new farming, exploration and base locations ....

The first Minecraft movie trailer looks expensively naff Block-busted Image credit:Warner Bros Pictures / Rock Paper Shotgun Warner Bros have released the first trailer for Vertigo and Legendary’s Minecraft movie, the long-awaited or possibly, long-dreaded adaptation of Mojang’s industry-straddling block-builder. Quick disclosure: I worked with Mojang and Microsoft on a book about Minecraft’s first 15 years, shortly before joining Rock Paper Shotgun. As such, I am now obliged by the eternal laws of journalistic accountability to state that anything Minecraft-related is rubbish....

The future of MechWarrior looks uncertain amid Piranha Games layoffs and Toadman Interactive closure Layoffs follow the underperformance of MechWarrior 5: Clans Image credit:Piranha MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries support studio Toadman Interactive have been shuttered by parent company Enad Global 7 as part of " cost-saving measures “. This follows the studio closing down offices in Stockholm, Visby, and Oslo last November, as well as a number of redundancies at their Berlin studio....

The NYT Crossword answers for Saturday, October 11th 2025 Get a bit of help with the NYT Crossword puzzle Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Crossword answers for Sunday, October 19th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s NYT Crossword on Saturday, 11th October? Well, you have come to the right place! This is Rock Paper Shotgun’s NYT Crossword Companion — a one-stop shop for all of your crossword needs....

The NYT Crossword answers for Tuesday, October 14th 2025 Get a bit of help with the NYT Crossword puzzle Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Crossword answers for Sunday, October 19th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s NYT Crossword on Tuesday, 14th October? Because we have them! All of them, in fact! The NYT Crossword is a pretty tough challenge, so getting stuck is basically a built-in part of the experience....

The NYT Mini Crossword answers for Saturday, September 6th 2025 Your perfect companion guide to understanding and solving The Mini Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Mini Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Mini Crossword answers for Monday, September 15th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s Mini Crossword on Saturday, 6th September? Well you have come to the right place!...

The Rogue Prince of Persia parkours around Hades in its own roguelite lane I miss the purple skin Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Ubisoft / Evil Empire The RPS Advent Calendar 2025 has begun! We’re revealing one of our favourite games of the year every day, and our favourite of favourites on December 24th. Check the main Calendar post to see a full list of our choices so far. In a year where Hades II dominated the roguelite headlines, Evil Empire’s The Rogue Prince of Persia slipped by largely unnoticed....

The second RPS Christmas Cracker 2025 Yikes Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun We eight scribes from RPS are, Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past, Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered, After twelve months of graft. But first, time to enjoy your lovely joke! Q: In what game does Hornet become addicted to South African cured meat snacks? A: Hollow Knight : Biltong Rock Paper Shotgun is better when you sign in...