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Best Mining Pals in Palworld Here are the best Palworld Mining Pals to catch Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Want a list of the best Palworld Mining Pals? Mining Ore is an important aspect of Palworld life and as such, requires a healthy workforce of Pals proficient in the Mining skill to work at your bustling Stone Pits. Below, we’ve listed all Pals with Mining levels and also cherry-picked the best of the bunch that you should prioritise catching for both early and late game levels....

Bethesda would “probably say no” to an Elder Scrolls show or movie Todd Howard says “there’s nothing in the works” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Softworks With the Fallout live-action show now out and honestly far better than I was expecting, are Bethesda also brewing an adaptation of their other big RPG series, The Elder Scrolls? Not at present, according to Bethesda executive producer Todd Howard, and he says he’d “probably say no” if approached....

Black Myth Wukong Chapter 4 map Make your way through the Webbed Ridge with our Chapter 4 map for Black Myth! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Looking for a Chapter 4 map of the Webbed Ridge in Black Myth: Wukong? Chapter 4 somewhat bridges the gap between the linear (but long) nature of Chapter 3 and the criss-crossing pathways of Chapter 2. In particular, it’s quite easy to feel lost and overwhelmed while you’re inside the massive underground Webbed Hollow region which dominates the fourth Chapter of Wukong’s journey....

Bloodlines 2 is losing a drinking buddy as spinoff Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt plans server shutdown Hunted to extinction Image credit:Sharkmob In further evidence that the Vampire game series is as cursed as its toothy goreguzzlers, the developers of troubled battle royale offshoot Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt have announced that it’s shutting down for good – mere days after Bloodlines 2 , the long-delayed (yet apparently still okay-ish ) mainline sequel finally released....

Borderlands 2 is temporarily free to grab on Steam, as it continues to be review bombed for non-Randy Pitchford tweet reasons Tales from the Bombderlands Image credit:2K/Gearbox This follows an earlier upset among Borderlands likers because of Gearbox exec and unstoppable poster of words Randy Pitchford, who recently said a rather inconsiderate thing about Borderlands 4 ’s pricing and then said some slightly less inconsiderate things about Borderlands 4’s pricing....

Call of Duty QA staff secure union contract with Microsoft to stop them being treated like cannon fodder Includes measures for the “elimination of crunch time” Image credit:Microsoft A group of QA workers at Call Of Duty studio Raven Software have officially signed off on their first union contract with parent company Microsoft and COD publisher Activision-Blizzard, in the run-up to the launch of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 ....

Call Of Duty’s generative AI disclosure reveals a glaring issue with Steam’s policies Valve need to make their policy more granular if they want it to be useful Image credit:Activision A few weeks back, a new AI generated content disclosure appeared on the Call Of Duty Steam page , reading “our team uses generative AI tools to help develop some in game assets”. This followed several months of community speculation over whether the FPS was using such tools to fever-dream up cosmetics, and a Wired report (paywalled) in which an anonymous artist alleged that the ‘Yokai’s Wrath’ premium pack used genAI assets, via PC Gamer ....

CD Projekt latest: next Cyberpunk game might have multiplayer, Witcher 4 enters “production phase” Orion and Polaris projects move ahead Image credit:CD Projekt The next Cyberpunk game from CD Projekt - currently codenamed “Orion” - might have multiplayer in it, according to co-CEO Michal Nowakowski. Please let it be some kind of deckhead ‘passenger-seat-driver’ mode, where you get to play a crusty celeb uploaded to another character’s brain implants, who strolls around the landscape as a hologram, offering passive-aggressive commentary....

Cheap gaming mouse needers: may I suggest the Logitech G305 Lightspeed, down to £28 / $28 on Prime Day Wireless quality at wired prices Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Just for a change, I’ve decided to go through a whole deal day without mentioning the Logitech G502 Hero . Bollocks. Okay, how about this: I go through one without actively recommending the Logitech G502 Hero, and will instead scratch the mouse advice itch by noting how its wireless cousin, the Logitech G305 Lightspeed, is down a mere £28 / $28 as part of Prime Day 2025 ....

Civilization 7 update 1.3.1 drops today, rolling out a new island-filled map and knocking Egypt off the top of the pyramid Plus some other civ balancing tweaks and biome improvements Image credit:Firaxis This month’s Civ 7 update, 1.3.1, will rock up today, December 9th. Following on from the beefy 1.3.0 update , which added in a bunch of new navally-themed bits and revamped battling at sea, this update’s comparatively compact, but still packs a new map type and some civ balancing tweaks which are well worth being aware of if you’re gonna be Civving over the holidays....

Co-op horror comedy Murky Divers smashes Lethal Company into Subnautica Another bottom-up homage to last year’s dingy multiplayer hit Image credit:Oro Interactive I fear we may have swum the Rubicon of diminishing returns where multiplayer horror games inspired by Lethal Company are concerned. The recent Content Warning has sucked up all the remaining oxygen in the room, and oxygen is pretty important in Murky Divers , for reasons that are hopefully self-evident....

Connections hints and answers for Mon, October 07th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #483. 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 07th October? Today’s words are a real doozy - if you’ve been working hard to maintain a perfect Connections score and don’t want any slipups, read on for all the tips you could ever need....

Connections hints and answers for Sat, September 14th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #460. 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 14th September? If today’s Connections is getting you puzzled, you’re not alone. Check out our hint section if you need a clue or scroll on to see the answers if your curiosity outweighs your pride....

Connections hints and answers for Tue, September 17th Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #463. 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 17th September? If you’re feeling frustrated over today’s Connections we have you covered with a set of hints and clues below....

Cosmic Express collides with Sokobond in new game puzzle Sokobond Express Last night was the night when two became one Image credit:Draknek & Friends What happens when you combine two great puzzle games? You get one puzzle game which makes me, an accredited professional fool, feel dizzy with noncomprehension. That game is Sokobond Express , which launched yesterday and combines the atom-shoving chemistry of Sokobond with the route-planning puzzling of Cosmic Express ....

Delayed Baldur’s Gate 3 patch notes reckon you’ve all been eating too much delicious, irresistible soap Plus roughly 100% more evil Image credit:Larian Studios / Rock Paper Shotgun Baldur’s Gate 3 ’s latest patch was due to launch in closed beta yesterday, but Larian have decided to give it a bit more time in the oven due to bugs. Namely, a bug that caused passive rolls - like those that detect traps - to stop working....

Destiny 3 may yet happen, but Destiny’s unannounced “Payback” spin-off won’t, according to reports Senior Destiny 2 devs behind mystery project leave as part of massive reductions Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bungie Bungie have reportedly cancelled Payback, an unannounced project in the Destiny universe from former Destiny 2 game director Luke Smith and project lead Mark Noseworthy. Both Noseworthy and Smith appear to have lost their jobs in the course of Bungie’s brutal cost-cutting this week, but Payback’s cancellation pre-dates the layoffs....

Devil’s Hideout review: scattershot horror through a surreal urban hell Like a Stephen King story in its best moments Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Cosmic Void Developer: Cosmic Void Publisher: Cosmic Void Release: Sept 10 2024 On: Windows From: Steam Price: TBA Reviewed on: Intel Core-i9-10850K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 11 There’s something about mostly empty urban centers in the US that depresses me and disturbs my soul. Whenever I visit family in the States and find myself in a derelict shopping plaza or some other place affected by America’s depressing sense of architectural planning and overreliance on cars, I can’t help but feel a sense of dread....

Diablo 4: Vessel Of Hatred review: mildly pleasant clicking in very pretty jungles They’re all passive skills, Terry Image credit:Blizzard/Rock Paper Shotgun Developer: Blizzard Entertainment Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment Release: Out now On: Windows, Linux From: Steam / Battle.net Price: £35/€40/$40 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 2070, Windows 10 Write travel journalism to imaginary places, my spaghetti once spelled out . Do package holidays count? In Nahantu’s jungles, I linger to take shots of vines spilling from verdigris-kissed cages, of footfall-slicked stone paths and mesoamerican mosaics....

Don’t like how often map conditions rotate in Arc Raiders? Sorry, but the devs say “that most likely won’t change” Can’t win ’em all Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios For all of their faults (the list may be endless), the interesting thing about live service games, when done well anyway, is the way they can change from day to day. There’s an actual living quality to them that, even if I’ll always prefer them, a singleplayer game can’t capture as well....