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Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign review: a military shooter that comes disguised as other, better games Agent 47? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Activision Developer: Treyarch et al Publisher: Activision Release: Oct 25th On: Windows From: Steam Price: £70/$70/€80 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 As a yearly blockbuster, Call of Duty, through sheer expense and effort, would like you to think it is the Die Hard of video games....

CD Projekt Red won’t give up their independence anytime soon - but might be “open” to buying others “We are not interested in purchases that would only aim to include the acquired companies in our group and consolidate their financial results” Image credit:CD Projekt Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt makers CD Projekt Red have said in no uncertain terms that they “are not interested” in being acquired by another company, while still leaving the door open for the studio to potentially acquire others in the future....

Charming action-RPG Cat Quest 3 releases this August and there’s a Steam Next Fest demo now Raining demos like cats and dogs Image credit:The Gentlebros I’m a little sheepish about how much I’m looking forward to Cat Quest 3. It’s neither big budget and mainstream, nor a conceptually thrilling indie. If the first two games are anything to go by, it’ll be a paint-by-numbers action-RPG with simple combat, lots of grind, and endless cat and dog puns....

Come shout down dystopia in the demo for Amanita’s fancy cardboard mind control puzzler Phonopolis Vox populi Image credit:Amanita Design Czech indie developers Amanita Design – creators of Samorost , Creaks and Machinarium , among other marvels – have released a demo for Phonopolis , their 3D cardboard adventure about a young man called Felix who is trying to save a city brainwashed by massive loudspeakers. Protected by his headphones, Felix is on a mission to stop the authoritarian Leader from issuing the Absolute Tone, which will “strip every citizen of their humanity forever”....

Connections hints and answers for Fri, August 23rd Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #438. 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 23rd August? Well, that’s exactly what we have. Below is a range of clues to help you find the easiest to hardest Connections group answers....

Conscript review: sturdily crafted and gruelling WW1 survival horror Do green herbs work for trench foot? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team17 Developer: Jordan Mochi, Catchweight Studio Publisher: Team17 Release: July 23rd 2024 On: Windows From: Steam / GOG / Epic Games Store Price: £20/€20/$20 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-8600K, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 2070, Windows 10 Take me back to the soft blue light, Conscript . It’s safe there, in the save room....

Corpus Edax is a Deus Ex-style immersive sim with a frankly irresponsible number of violence-based verbs One of the verbs is ‘punch’! Image credit:Luis G. Bento A good immersive sim, by its very nature, offers myriad varied approaches to solving problems. And yet, I find myself wanting to get hyper-specific when writing about the action of Corpus Edax , because it has an incredibly gratifying metal pipe sound, whether you’re stealthy wrapping it around the back of a blissfully unaware fool’s noggin, or lobbing it directly at their knee caps....

Counter-Strike creator correctly holds the opinion that cs_siege is one of its best maps I have a siege mentality Image credit:Valve Everybody knows that Counter-Strike’s asymmetric levels are its best. If only someone had told its millions of players. Counter-Strike creator Minh Le seems to agree with me at least, naming cs_siege as one of his favourites in a recent interview. “CS_Siege, cs_facility, were some of my favourite maps,” Le told Spillhistorie....

Cult Of The Lamb’s so-called sex update will launch January 16th It adds an egg Image credit:Massive Monster Cult Of The Lamb ’s Sins Of The Flesh update promised to allow your followers to breed, in a way, by finding an egg that would hatch and produce new potential cult members. Players of the action-RPG/management hybrid on social media quickly did what people on social media do: demanded that they add sex ....

Dandelion Void is a plant bastard survival horror from Project Zomboid modders Project Zephyrlily yes I looked up plants beginning with Z Image credit:Manzanita Interactive A sci-fi horror trope I quite enjoy is arboretums that provide oxygen to ships or structures, both because it’s a nifty ( if spurious? ) idea, and because I like the concept of people who’ve only seen iron bulkheads for months staring wistfully at small trees....

Deadlock cheaters are being turned into frogs as players get chance to vote on their fate Long sticky tongue in cheek Image credit:Poggu / Valve Valve instituted a fairytale punishment for cheaters in its unreleased laney shooter Deadlock yesterday. Cheaters will now be turned into frogs, provided the other players in the match vote for it. A Counter-Strike 2 modder proved the effect in a post on Xitter after the change was mentioned in some out-of-the-way patch notes by a Valve developer....

Death Stranding 2 is as much a rebuttal of Death Stranding’s theme of connection as a sequel Kojima explains how his thinking evolved during the pandemic Image credit:Kojima Productions Earlier today there was a mighty eruption of Death Stranding 2 : On The Beach previews, featuring commentary on the new game’s themes and social relevance from erstwhile Metal Gear Solidifier and Kojima Productions boss Hideo Kojima. Themes and social relevance, eh!...

Discord aiming to make more games playable inside the client with new dev tools Chat software hopes to develop a sort of social browser game portal Image credit:Discord Discord is making a play to not simply be the software you use to talk while playing games with your pals, but the software you use to play them too. The ubiquitous chat client already lets you play a handful of approved games inside itself without dowloading or launching anything seperate, along with other ‘Activities’ like watching YouTube together, and next week it will open up to a whole lot more....

Dragon Age: Dreadwolf set to arrive by next March, according to report Over a decade since Dragon Age: Inquisition Image credit:EA Dragon Age: Dreadwolf , the next entry in the series of beloved dating sims with rpg s crudely affixed with Blu Tack to their walls, is set to arrive by the end of March next year. That’s according to an updated product slate released as part of a recent quarterly earnings report, as spotted by VGC and given the Jeff Grubb seal of approval ....

Dungeons Of Hinterberg’s latest trailer shows off Alpine mountains, glaciers and, yes, a swamp (poison not yet confirmed) We also see more of its après-slay Persona-style socalising Image credit:Curve Games Austrian developers Microbird released a new trailer for their upcoming Alpine dungeon-crawler Dungeons Of Hinterberg over the weekend, giving us a closer look at some of the eponymous dungeon environments we’ll be biffing monsters in come its release later this summer....

Dying Light: The Beast is out, dark, Steam Deck Verified Nighty night Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Techland Parkoury zombie bludgeoner Dying Light: The Beast has, literally just this minute, gone on sale, which means the review embargo curtain has lifted on RPS to reveal… an empty chair with an IOU stuck to it. This one is my bad, rather than because of any cheeky code withholding . I’d simply underestimated how many trillions of PC games were also out this week, and had to abandon my charge through The Beast to help keep the undermanned Treehouse on top of things elsewhere....

Elden Ring might have one little secret left, Miyazaki says, and I hope we never discover it I like a little mystery left in a world While players have scoured and stained every inch of the Lands Between in the two years since Elden Ring launched, they might not have uncovered every secret just yet. With a June release now confirmed for Shadow Of The Erdtree , the long-awaited expansion, director Hidetaka Miyazaki has now hinted that we Tarnished may have missed something....

Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree pre-download time and date Here’s the date and time to start downloading Shadow Of The Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for the Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree pre-download time? With the expansive Elden Ring DLC just around the corner, you’ll want to make sure you can play it immediately upon release. Shadow Of The Erdtree is scheduled to release globally on June 21 , but you’ll be able to pre-download the DLC much earlier if you have it pre-ordered....

Elden Ring Smithing Stones: Where to farm and buy Smithing Stones Learn where to farm and buy Smithing Stones in Elden Ring Looking for Smithing Stones in Elden Ring? Smithing Stones are one of the most important items in Elden Ring , as they allow you to upgrade your weapons. Weapon upgrades will massively improve your weapon and are much more important than simply levelling up in the early stages, so you’ll rely on Smithing Stones to beat bosses across the Lands Between....

Elden Ring: How to get to Mohgwyn Palace Here are both ways of reaching Mohgwyn Palace, home of Mohg Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for how to get to Mohgwyn Palace in Elden Ring? There are dozens of smaller sub-regions and hidden areas in the massive Elden Ring map, and one of the most remote and challenging areas of all is Mohgwyn Palace. Home to Mohg, Lord Of Blood , Mohgwyn Palace technically forms part of Siofra River deep underground, but it cannot be reached via Siofra River itself....