Rock, Paper, Shotgun
"You can never see outside of yourself": The House Before is a body horror game in which you are a house tunnelling through its own soul
It's a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible house. Wait, let's start that again. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dr...
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 11:30 am
FromSoftware's first experiment with, of all things, horse armor DLC runs awry, as Elden Ring players manage to spawn free duplicate items in multiplayer
From Software and Bandai Namco have released a hasty new Elden Ring patch to stop people getting their hands on items from the game's Tarnished Pa...
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 11:00 am
"Most people" at Bethesda wanted to make Elder Scrolls 6 before Starfield, claims Skyrim co-lead, but Todd Howard dragged them aboard his rocketship
What came first, the chicken or the egg? I know, it's a tough one. I'll put it another way. What came first, Todd Howard's lone desire to make a s...
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 10:30 am
Steam achievements for Persona 6, Fable, Stranger Than Heaven and a host of other upcoming PC games appear to have leaked
Uh oh. Steam achievement lists for a smorgasbord of unreleased and unannounced PC games appear to have leaked via trophy tracking site Exophase. A...
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 10:00 am
ROLLA is evil, fleshy, monstrous, B-movie-esque Katamari Damacy, and is out this month
Is Katamari Damacy an evil game? I realised as soon as I wrote the heading for this one that calling one game an evil version of Katamari might n...
Posted on 8 September 2026 | 5:45 pm
Humanity's best friend is coming to Old School RuneScape, and seeing a low-poly shiba has me temporally disoriented
"Low-poly dogs!" I hear you chant in the distance. "Low-poly dogs!" The war cry gets louder. "Low-poly dogs!" It's inescapable now, the low-poly ...
Posted on 8 September 2026 | 5:00 pm
PowerWash Simulator devs FuturLab laid off staff and cancelled an unrevealed project earlier this year, but certainly kept quiet about it
It's another one of those layoff days, unfortunately. This time the studio in question is PowerWash Simulator developer FuturLab, who have laid o...
Posted on 8 September 2026 | 4:17 pm
NBA 2K27 gives DLSS 5 a more faithful-looking game debut than feared, provided it’s running on the LeBron of GPUs
Bit of an anticlimax, really. After months of (justified) revulsion and anti-anticipation over Nvidia DLSS 5’s AI rendering, it’s now available in...
Posted on 8 September 2026 | 3:37 pm
"Justice at last feels within reach": Final hearing in Rockstar and fired GTA devs' legal battle will kick off with a union rally
The final hearing in the legal battle between a group of former Rockstar workers and the GTA 6 studio over the latter's decision to fire the forme...
Posted on 8 September 2026 | 3:06 pm
Trump regime's Tetris ripoff yanked from White House website after Tetris Company declare they "take copyright infringement very seriously"
Goodbye, Build the Wall. The Tetris-style game that the US government had stuck on the White House website as a way of promoting the Trump adminis...
Posted on 8 September 2026 | 12:45 pm
"Material uncertainty" hangs over the future of Life is Strange developers Don't Nod beyond January 2027, as negotiations over potential layoffs begin
Life is Strange developers Don't Nod have acknowledged that there's "material uncertainty regarding the company's ability to continue as a going c...
Posted on 8 September 2026 | 11:31 am
"20 players is the sweet spot": Guild Wars 3's action game combat is a first for MMOs, but it doesn't work at traditional raid scale
Arenanet are keeping a lot of Guild Wars 3 hidden away. Throughout the short presentation of their new fantasy MMO, the refrain is 'We're not talk...
Posted on 8 September 2026 | 11:09 am
It's still very much possible to make good Skyrim mods "without any use of AI" in 2026, declares the maker of a new DLC-sized Black Marsh expansion
The latest beefy expansion mod to hit Skyrim is an adventure to the Argonian homeland of Black Marsh, complete with hist trees and humid swamps. T...
Posted on 8 September 2026 | 10:25 am
New horror game The Well Is Not Empty combines photophobic monsters with timer light switches and a lot of frenzied digging
"Never show the monster," horror film-makers, game-makers and other creepozoids have chanted, over the decades. The Well Is Not Empty wastes no ti...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 4:06 pm
Combat and socially agonised teens impress in Persona 4 Revival, the RPG that series director Kazuhisa Wada feels a "duty" to make
Look, before you say it, I know. Persona 4 Golden is held up by some as one of the best and most important RPGs ever. After all, it was the series...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 1:30 pm
This week in PC games: Wardogs, Shroom and Gloom, a heist game from the King of Dragon Pass creators, and a bullet time FPS inspired by F.E.A.R.
Hello there, loyal regulars and filthy, fickle drop-ins! A merry New Week to you, wherever you are. Thanks for feeding the Maw while we were away ...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 12:33 pm
"We believe in the power of connection": Donald Trump Tetris parody game rouses the mildly worded wrath of the Tetris Company
Update: Annnnnnnnnnnnnndddd it's gone.
Original story below:
Those terrible firebrands at the Tetris Company have publicly rebuked the US governme...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 11:23 am
"You'll be able to engage in these high stakes arms races": Civilization 7's Arc of Tomorrow update aims to be a proper Cold War simulator
Civilization 7 is getting a new free update that takes the 4X strategy game into the atomic age, while trying to make nuclear era conflict a litt...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 9:38 am
The Sunday Papers
Sundays are for luxuriating in the chill of the September air and hoping for more of the drenching rain that's ended the summer heat. Though, it'...
Posted on 6 September 2026 | 9:00 am
Deliver packages in foresty mountains and avoid thieving boars in the Death Stranding-adjacent and quite calm-looking Pinetrail
I can take or leave a majority of Death Stranding's story (BB forever, though), but I gotta give it to Kojima: delivering stuff is fun. There's a...
Posted on 5 September 2026 | 9:53 pm
Laser Guy is a twin-stick "anti-shooter" about a stressed out game developer who can't stop shooting laser beams from his eye
Do I need to explain how Cyclops from the X-Men's powers work? I'm going to anyway just in case. He shoots beams from his eyes! More or less, I t...
Posted on 5 September 2026 | 8:33 pm
The ESRB wouldn't let Valve release the cinematic trailer for Left 4 Dead 2, so what did they do? They "leaked" it, obviously
My only experience of Left 4 Dead 2 is a handful of sessions in my youth where a friend handed me a controller (me, a person whose shooter experi...
Posted on 5 September 2026 | 6:08 pm
Double Fine's first game post-Xbox split is a goofy bus driving sim all about slapping passengers who don't follow the rules and doing a good job
It's been a couple of months since Double Fine parted ways from Xbox, and they've been busy getting to work since that split. There's that game j...
Posted on 5 September 2026 | 5:01 pm
Mortal Shell 2's latest update adds in an experimental new mode that adjusts the challenge based on how much you do or don't die
Another week, another Mortal Shell 2 update! The first proper one arrived a week ago, and smoothed down some of the game's rough edges to make fo...
Posted on 5 September 2026 | 4:12 pm
What are we all playing this weekend?
This is the first Saturday in a month I've woken up without a blocked nose or a mucus-hurling cough. Trips to Spain, Sweden, and Germany in quick ...
Posted on 5 September 2026 | 7:00 am
"Top-down Zelda meets Bloodborne": action RPG Withering Realms is out now in early access, should you fancy riding the shoulders of a horrible doll
Withering Rooms was an unexpectedly devious and absorbing slice of dollhouse action-RPG horror. As such, I've been looking forward to Withering R...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 4:39 pm
Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault review – a pleasant bout of number go up that’s most remarkable for how much of an improvement it is
The Moonlighter games cast you as Will, a dungeoneer-merchant hybrid, delving into randomly shifting combat arenas by night and selling the treas...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 4:00 pm
Playing Mass Effect-inspired RPG Exodus was an uncomfortably familiar space trip, despite some brilliant zero-G fights
Full disclosure: I did not get to play Exodus with the grumpy mecha octopus sniper. "Where’s the octopus sniper?", I whispered, confusion melting ...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 3:02 pm
Former PlayStation indie boss Shuhei Yoshida and the founder of TIGSource are throwing a Game Poem jam that "challenges traditional boundaries between art forms"
What are you doing across Monday 7th to Tuesday 8th September? If your answer isn't "weaving sick rhymes for PlayStation's former indie gaming bos...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 1:00 pm
Lego Skylines' devs want your city's problems to be visible without digging into a stats screen, which means finding a "family friendly" version of showing homelessness
As pretty as Cities: Skylines is, getting a read on your city's problems can take some digging. While traffic jams are immediately visible, prompt...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 12:00 pm
I’m an ethical muncher in The Blood of Dawnwalker, which means I’ve forced poor Coen to slurp up nine million rats
Coen, the half-man and half-vampire protagonist of The Blood of Dawnwalker, doesn’t like chomping down on rats.
I know this because he’s told me m...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 11:00 am
Blood of Dawnwalker's first patch offers relief from buggy tutorials and tight-lipped NPCs, but Rebel Wolves are still working on fixes for the stuttering and shader crash problems
Witcher-flavoured vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker has received its first post-launch patch, with developers Rebel Wolves dipping their fangs i...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 10:09 am
Miami-Dade police outraged by proposals to turn parts of Miami into GTA 6, saying that Rockstar's game embodies what they "work every single day to prevent"
The mayor of Miami-Dade, Florida has been pitching Rockstar Games about transforming parts of the county into recreations of areas from Grand Thef...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 8:55 am
Constantly reshape the world beneath your feet in the reality-bending "puzzle-first" Uncanyon, the next game from the devs behind the trippy Maquette
A problem that games have, I find, is that it's quite hard for them to inspire a sense of wonder. The kind of thing that old movies, before CGI, ...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 9:50 pm
Mousey city-builder Whiskerwood gets a bit wetter today with a hefty nautical update that lets your rodent kingdom venture out on the open seas
You like putting a bunch of mice on a boat, don't you? Of course you do, it's always enjoyable seeing semi-anthropomorphic mice do human things! ...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 8:39 pm
While us lot in the West might like Dragon's Dogma 2's friction, Japan doesn't quite agree, and its producers say balancing that has been a real challenge
Both the original and Dragon's Dogma 2 are not games for everyone. Not in the Dark Souls, uber challenging sort of way necessarily, just in that ...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 7:03 pm
Experiencing some day one Blood of Dawnwalker issues? Its devs know, and have some temporary solutions to help get you bloodsucking
It's The Blood of Dawnwalker release day! The debut game of Rebel Wolves and the first new game from director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz since The Witc...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 5:05 pm
Onimusha: Way of the Sword is best when it's silly, and despite some gloomy open world slogging, sometimes even remembers it
The opening minutes of Onimusha: Way of the Sword are glorious, in the sense that they’re utterly shambolic. Wandering ronin Musashi wakes up unde...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 5:00 pm
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's release date puts an end to the remake trilogy in sight, and then pushes that end a bit further away with Sephiroth and Vincent DLC
I'm pretty sure that by this point, Square Enix have shown up to every major gaming showcase this summer with something Final Fantasy 7 Revelatio...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 4:28 pm
The first big Crimson Desert DLC arrives in October, seems to be set in a crimson desert beyond Crimson Desert's existing crimson desert
Crimson Desert's first proper expansion, not be confused with any of the ten million things Pearl Abyss have added to their vast expanse of stuff ...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 3:30 pm
Deck & Conn is a cat-and-mouse MicroProse homage to a 55-year-old Star Trek game that might not be chunky enough for today's simulation sickos
Space! The final frontier. These are the voyages of the USS Rock Paper Enterprise. Or they will be, once I've worked through my launch checklist....
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 3:05 pm
"I'm a massive fan of Aliens, but it is a very different beast": Why Creative Assembly are still ignoring every movie but the original in Alien Isolation 2, despite heading planetside
Creative Assembly have themselves a particular constraint when making Alien: Isolation 2. The sequel to their 2014 horror title would only referen...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 1:28 pm
Planet Coaster and Jurassic World devs Frontier have teamed up with Disney to make what is probably a Disneyland tycoon game
Planet Zoo and Jurassic World Evolution creators Frontier Developments have signed a deal with Disney to make a game based on one of Disney's many...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 12:45 pm
The mishap-strewn warfare of Worms: Galactic Tactics gives hope it’s not just a comedy XCOM
Gawd, everyone’s doing an XCOM these days. Star Wars is doing an XCOM. Rainbow Six is doing an XCOM. Warhammer 40K has done, like, four XCOMs. Tho...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 12:00 pm
The Witcher Remake is currently on the back burner because progress on it depends on The Witcher 4's development, CD Projekt Red confirm
CD Projekt Red and Fool's Theory might have used Gamescom to make clear that they've got a Witcher thing in the pipeline for this year and the nex...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 10:54 am
"A game for everyone is a game for no one": Don't expect an easy ride in Carcass Clad, the co-op tank horror game from the makers of Mouthwashing
On my final day of Gamescom, strolling (running) around the indie area to make sure I don't miss anything good, I stumble upon Wrong Organ’s upcom...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 10:15 am
There's already a The Blood of Dawnwalker mod which triples the length of its main quest timer, ensuring saving your family from vampires isn't stressful
Why the rush, The Blood of Dawnwalker? Your protagonist Coen's family have only been kidnapped by a vampiric dictator who's slowly draining them o...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 9:43 am
You can't pet the talking rat wall in Ontos, the new space horror game from Soma's creators, but surely it can run Doom
When Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Soma developers Frictional announced Ontos, their philosophical horror game set in a mad science hotel on the m...
Posted on 2 September 2026 | 4:30 pm
Rockstar unveil the "next evolution" of modded GTA 5 roleplaying, while staying totally mum on when PC pretenders might be able to migrate to their next game
Yep. I know. GTA 6 is still on the list of storied crime games without a PC release date. GTA 5, though, is out on PC and has long been the place ...
Posted on 2 September 2026 | 3:30 pm
"I just want to go back inside": How Creative Assembly use weather to make you crave claustrophobic interiors in Alien Isolation 2
As I stand on the lee side of the wrecked haz lab, all I can hear is the rain pelt its metal roof and the feral wind howl about me. Planet LV-921 ...
Posted on 2 September 2026 | 2:24 pm