Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Welp, all of you RuneScape folks who hate Reignited have gotten your wish, as the controversial MMO rejig has been cancelled
Welp, that was short lived. Earlier this month, Jagex made some big RuneScape announcements, namely that they're making a fourth version of the M...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 9:51 pm
Ahead of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's launch next week, unionised Activision testers have voted to authorise a strike
Call of Duty testers have voted to authorise a union strike. The union, formed back in March of 2024, is made up of almost 600 quality assurance ...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 8:27 pm
Urine Trouble: PEE V PEE, a multiplayer game about hiding from the cops while you take a whizz on public property, takes the trophy for punniest title of the year
I've been doing this whole games journalism for over five years now, and I've seen a lot of different kinds of games in that time. I've written a...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 6:59 pm
After almost three years of early access, Enshrouded has hit 1.0 with a complete story, bigger map, and way too much more to mention
The increasing number of early access games always throws me off, because one day you're seeing an announcement of a game releasing, and then a w...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 5:01 pm
Monumentally expansive roguelike Caves of Qud is getting even bigger in December with an early access expansion that lets you play as messed up dogs and trees
Caves of Qud is a game well liked over here at RPS; Brendan gave it the coveted Bestest Bests badge back when it launched into 1.0 a couple of ye...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 4:30 pm
4X strategy sequel Humankind 2 gets its first extended in-game footage, rich in era-spanning, culture-shaping, history-rewriting action
Not counting the slivers of footage tacked onto that baby's-eve-view reveal trailer, Humankind 2 devs Amplitude Studios have unveiled their first ...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 3:45 pm
"Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition has fallen short of both your expectations and our own standards", Sega say as they pull it from stores and restore the original
Total War: Shogun 2's Complete Edition is set to be pulled from stores by publishers Sega and developers Creative Assembly, who've admitted that i...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 2:27 pm
"I lost the concept of home, until my grandmother took me into these forests" - Trollheim: Gnomes is a survival game from ex-DICE and Paradox devs that channels childhood fairytales
Swedish studio Off-leash Interactive and Denshattack publishers Fireshine Games have announced Trollheim: Gnomes, a survival-crafting fairytale i...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 1:00 pm
The rumoured Steam Frame OLED would fix one of the Frame's minor weaknesses and do nothing for its major ones
Good catch by SteamFrameHub here: snippets of the recently released Steam Frame kernel source code contain references to a possible variant of Val...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 12:30 pm
"Some people like it, some people are annoyed by it": Substructure may look like Factorio, but it changes the automation game in some fundamental ways
In many respects, as someone who has played a lot of automation games, Substructure is very familiar. It begins with you landing on the surface of...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 12:00 pm
League of Legends Classic will become a thing of the past in January 2027, though it may one day be resurrected as a limited-time event
The classic mode rolled out in League of Legends earlier this year will cease to be a permanent addition once the calendar flips over into 2027, e...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 11:01 am
Big Walk devs House House announce support for BDS Microsoft boycott, say the co-op puzzler isn't coming to Xbox
House House, creators of breezy co-op puzzle adventure Big Walk, have become the latest high-profile game developers to express support for the BD...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 10:27 am
Ubisoft reportedly look to cut 100 more jobs by proposing voluntary redundancies at studios including lead Anno devs Ubisoft Mainz
Ubisoft have initiated talks over voluntary redundancies at three German studios under their banner, reportedly seeking to cut around 100 workers ...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 9:51 am
Living world, god-mind or "something far more terrifying": Etre is an eye-melting, Control-inspired action game about reshaping a cosmic brain
If I ever go looking for my significant other and find myself inside a planet-sized megamind that's on the verge of gaining consciousness, I will ...
Posted on 14 October 2026 | 5:00 pm
Fortnite is finally coming to Linux thanks to Epic rebuilding Easy Anti-Cheat, though Steam Deck support is still in the wind
Epic have announced that they're rebuilding their Easy Anti-Cheat software in order to get their flagship battle royale Fortnite running on Linux...
Posted on 14 October 2026 | 4:30 pm
Over the Hill's off-roading simulation winches you in with a more laid-back take than SnowRunner's, but it'll still bite careless drivers
Over the Hill, a rather chillaxed take on brutal Saber Interactive off-roading sims like SnowRunner, is the latest game from vibesy driving enthus...
Posted on 14 October 2026 | 4:00 pm
"We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" because "programming is hard", announce company we're somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitor
Days after a report emerged about them imposing an "AI-first" production model on the devs of a new Disney shooter, Epic Games have released a new...
Posted on 14 October 2026 | 3:32 pm
Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs project to "explore new technology," which sure sounds like tinkering with old games through AI
As part of Microsoft's ongoing, physics-ignoring push to do more business with thousands fewer staff, games chief Asha Sharma has announced Xbox L...
Posted on 14 October 2026 | 3:17 pm
Rockstar 'union busting' tribunal extended to November 18th, meaning it will close just days before GTA 6's release date
The employment tribunal between the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) and GTA 6 maker Rockstar games was due to conclude this Fri...
Posted on 14 October 2026 | 2:45 pm
"We are here to give you something to believe in": the former Disco Elysium devs of Summer Eternal reveal new RPG Red Rooster, a game of fire, water and alternate selves
Earlier this month, the former Disco Elysium developers of worker co-operative studio Summer Eternal sent me a 500-page anthology describing their...
Posted on 14 October 2026 | 2:15 pm
Rockstar are "confident" that GTA 7 won't take another eight years, despite similar promises of greater efficiency seemingly having come with Red Dead Redemption 2
Future Rockstar games won't take as long to make as GTA 6 has, the studio leadership currently behind the series have asserted, saying they're "co...
Posted on 14 October 2026 | 12:05 pm
With the Steam Frame becoming Valve's new favourite VR child, they're selling off their last Index headset stock
Valve have officially discontinued the Valve Index VR kit, launching a 20%-off sale on its headset and controllers to get rid of any lingering sto...
Posted on 14 October 2026 | 11:20 am
Ubisoft are making layoffs at Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced studio Ubisoft Singapore while closing Trials creators Redlynx
Update: Following a request for comment, Ubisoft have confirmed that they are proposing to close Redlynx, affecting "up to 52 positions", subject ...
Posted on 14 October 2026 | 10:43 am
"My idea of a Netflix for games doesn’t work": Garry's Mod creator says struggling spiritual successor S&box will go free to play as part of major rethink
Earlier this year, Garry's Mod and Rust developers Facepunch Studios released S&box, a mix of open source game development platform/spiritual ...
Posted on 14 October 2026 | 10:00 am
If you've sworn off genAI Crazy Taxi and dislike all the twerking in GTA 6, consider Shifu: Traffic Masters, a jolly open world driving game set in 1990s China
I'm not your guy for computerised automobile magic picture shows, or "car videogames" as they are popularly known – for that, we turn fearfully t...
Posted on 14 October 2026 | 9:28 am
Send in the Clown is a turn-based RPG comedy about fighting one annoying child at a birthday party where there's only one fight in the whole game
I generally find it quite frustrating how limited the medium of games insists on being when it comes to engaging in a wide breadth of genres. One...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 9:54 pm
Escher's Dream is a Portal 2 mod inspired by the non-euclidean works of the classic artist that will leave you feeling only a little bit nauseated
You know, given the ubiquity of his work, I'm surprised there aren't more M. C. Escher inspired games in this world There are a few, like Monumen...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 8:29 pm
Echoes of Delicious in Dungeon ring out in Deep Dish Dungeon, a co-op dungeon crawler about making meals with whatever you can scrounge up that's out now
I would really like it if someone made a Delicious in Dungeon game. It doesn't have to be official, it can be legally distinct! I've been asking ...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 6:30 pm
Coming soon to Invincible VS, it's your copyright-friendly neighbourhood Agent Spider
Spider-Man might be one of the most parodied characters of all time, simply due to also being one of the most well-known characters of anything, w...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 6:00 pm
Ratocalypse might sound like a low-budget horror flick, but it's actually a neat looking Fire Emblem adjacent strategy auto battler
What do you think when you hear the name "Ratocalypse"? To me it sounds like one of those so bad they're good horror flicks like Sharknado, and n...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 5:30 pm
"They thought Callisto was a complete failure": Glen Schofield blames publishers Krafton for The Callisto Protocol's crash landing
Four years after the release of Dead Space spiritual successor The Callisto Protocol, the co-creator of both, Glen Schofield (no relation), has no...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 5:00 pm
Going Medieval's new diplomacy update is all about calling your neighbouring settlements for favours, which yes, may mean delivering a cow or two in return
Going Medieval may have been in early access for almost five years, but even after it arrived in 1.0 back in March developer Foxy Voxel have cont...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 4:28 pm
No, I am not evil for wanting to turn space whale city-builder Beyond These Stars into a Moby Dick simulator
I think I'm a pretty decent Space Whale Mayor, all told. A caring and responsible fellow traveler for Kewa, the astral cetacean on whose craggy, ...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 4:00 pm
GTA 6 PC release planned for early 2027, report claims, which could mean we're playing in time for GTA Online 2: Vice City 4 U or whatever they call it
Well, that's happening quicker than I'd anticipated. This is both what the actress said to the bishop and my immediate reaction to a report which ...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 3:30 pm
Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams is as tired of genAI in the industry as anyone else, and is pretty set on never using it
Another day of news, another day in which I find something genAI-related to write about while sighing. But, lo and behold, for once, it isn't a ca...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 1:42 pm
Tekken 8 finally gives a first look at upcoming guest Yujiro Hanma from Baki, and he looks just as grotesque as you'd expect
The main selling point of Tekken 8's Season 3 DLC pass, alongside veterans Kunimitsu, Bob and Roger Jr, is Yujiro Hanma, the main antagonist of fi...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 11:58 am
Cut Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced epilogue scene, that could hint at fresh 18th century stabby hijinks, allegedly taken down by Ubisoft following datamine
Ubisoft appear to have copyright struck a YouTube video showing off an unused epilogue cutscene datamined from Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynce...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 11:20 am
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls to add Jane Foster's Thor, Venom and Jubilee - following Phoenix Cyclops - in its Year One DLC pass
Following the announcement of Phoenix Cyclops as the game's first DLC character back in July (who'll finally be joining the roster on November 2nd...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 10:47 am
Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse review - a fantastic action game, a less than stellar Metroidvania
Rose Belmont is not her father. Rose is something new: the next generation of the legendary vampire hunters spending her life trying to step out ...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 10:03 am
RimWorld switches engine from Unity to the devs' own, faster Waylith Engine, all apparently without breaking mods somehow
Ludeon Studios, developers of sci-fi colony construction sim RimWorld, have announced in a Steam update that the game will be moving over from Uni...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 8:51 am
"No more hand-written code": Epic reportedly impose "AI-first" model on creators of new Disney shooter with Marvel and Star Wars characters
The happy-go-lucky bigwigs at Epic Games have instructed the creators of an unannounced shooter that features Marvel and Star Wars characters to c...
Posted on 12 October 2026 | 10:29 pm
Valor Mortis' system requirements appear to have been drastically cut, just before the FPSoulslike launches
Pretty good first-person Soulsliker Valor Mortis seems to have sliced its PC system requirements down, dropping its minimum CPU and graphics cards...
Posted on 12 October 2026 | 6:08 pm
Burn With Me is a hand-drawn demon card game featuring the artist's own hand - and also, a refreshingly finite alternative to yer Balatro-likes
Burn With Me is a hand-drawn game in which the most prominent non-hand-drawn bit is artist Eva Manuilovich's own right hand. Excellent, no notes. ...
Posted on 12 October 2026 | 4:49 pm
Valve have released the Steam Frame's CAD files, but there’s already a cottage industry of DIY wrist straps and lifesize skull stands
Last week, Valve chose their absolute most favourite announcement time – Friday evening, after we all go home – to release the Steam Frame’s CAD f...
Posted on 12 October 2026 | 4:47 pm
Nvidia are abandoning their RTX 5090 graphics cards in order to focus on AI dev friendly RTX Pro ones, leaker claims
Nvidia, AI-obsessives to the point of yassifying basketballers, are shifting production away from their top of the range RTX 5090 consumer graphic...
Posted on 12 October 2026 | 4:06 pm
You need not hunger for that Zelda Ocarina of Time remake when we already have Indigo, a colossal N64 romhack featuring mushroom forests and bearded Link
The Legend of Zelda series is fond of stories about the inexorable and obliviating passage of time. Somebody should make one about growing so old,...
Posted on 12 October 2026 | 3:04 pm
Gears of War: E-Day DDoS attacks are to blame for "intermittent disconnects" and "login issues", The Coalition confirm
DDoS attacks suffered by Gears of War: E-Day over the weekend were to blame for players being suddenly disconnected from servers and having troubl...
Posted on 12 October 2026 | 2:31 pm
You don't just paint the map your colour in new WW2 RTS Battleplan, you redraw the frontline with a pencil and hope your troops do the rest
You may have heard that the pen is mightier than the sword, but did you know that the pencil is mightier than the 7th Panzer Division? Here is Bat...
Posted on 12 October 2026 | 1:30 pm
Valor Mortis review - this Napoleonic first-person swordfighter is one of the freshest Soulslikes in years
Well, I say "freshest." In its ickily up-close vision of Napoleonic battlefields, swapping the boring old bubonic plague for a fleshy, pustulatin...
Posted on 12 October 2026 | 1:00 pm
This week in PC games: play a human-eating Katamari from outer space, take over a nature reserve in Planet Zoo 2, and battle Napoleonic body horror in Valor Mortis
Edwin came up the ladder to my office last week to remind me that my quarterly Maw Safety Certification was up for renewal. Without an in date hea...
Posted on 12 October 2026 | 12:31 pm